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Lesson no.8.1 In the Pathway to Personal Power

Of course, its accomplishment of your Desire—these are governed by the WA.Y you broadcast from your Mental Radio Station.

THE MAGIC KEY OF LIFE
The dynamic power of your thought coupled to emotion is your magic key to life. When you learn to mag¬nify courage instead o-f fear, how to direct your thought-vibrations, when you. truly, realize the power of The Silence., then you have the magic key that unlocks all doors.
We are teaching you concentration in The Silence—we have taught you how to create your mental pattern, your mind-picture of your Heart’s Desire, and as you practice these two things, you will find that you are acquiring thought vibrations that are almost irresistible as you direct them over your mental Radio.
MENTAL ATTRACTION IS THE LAW OF SUCCESS
Let us here unfold for you the Law of Thought. Images (mental vision)Then you will understand fully how to use that great law, of success, Mental Attraction.
Back of every thought image. is emotion. As we have told you before all things exist in constant vibration. Each emotion has its own different type of vibration. Love, Desire, Joy, Health, Happiness, or Hate, Defeat, Disease and Unhappiness, each exists as a different rate of mental. vibration.
Thus, love-vibrations, Desire-vibrations, joy-vibrations, health-vibrations, happiness-vibrations, etc., each of.these separate vibrations produces its corresponding thought image, (visions. and these thought images orig¬inate: in the inner brain centers and are projected, forth by the electric vibrations of thought-waves to form external images (visions) in your thinking mind.
Great inventors, Sir William Crookes, Marconi, Watts, Bell, Franklin, Edison and a host of others created thought images of their inventions first and afterwards produced them in material form from these mental visions..
In this way, mental vibration born of emotion directs man in his progress through the ages and exactly so will your thought images lead you in the path-way of unfoldment, of success, of health and of happiness when you learn through this secret wisdom which we are imparting to you lesson by lesson how to master and how to direct these subtle thought-vibrations to attract to yourself your Heart’s Desire in reality.
MENTAL ATTRACTION YOUR POWERFUL MAGNET
Previously we have instructed you to mentally picture yourself as a magnet.
Each emotional vibration in your mental world with its accompanying thought images (vision) is a powerful magnet attracting to itself from the outer world every material thing needed to build reality into that particu¬lar thought image of yours.
But no vibratory thought image (vision) exerts the slightest effect upon any material thing, condition or outer circumstances which is itself not vibrating in perfect unity with the vibrations of that thought image. In this case, like attracts like only.
Let’s use a very simple illustration of this psychic law. Imagine that we have in our hand one of those old-fashioned “horse shoe” magnets, strongly magnetized, such as used to delight school-boys of another gener¬ation. Perhaps we are in a carpenter shop. Here are piles of shavings, pieces of brass and copper and zinc and iron slivers and steel screws are scattered here and there in confusion.

We move our horse-shoe magnet here and there among the shavings—nothing happens. We push the pieces of brass, the pieces of copper and brass and zinc we stir here and the re with our magnet—nothing happens. Next we hold our magnet close to the scattered nails and the steel screws and there is instant response—each nail or screw of iron or steel leaps to cling to the magnet, when it reaches it field of receptivity, obeying the immutable law here that like vibrations attracts like vibrations!
Just as Universal Divine Mind, acting through the magnetic power of affinity is ceaselessly working to bring the pure Ray of Light that vibrates within you and within every man and woman in the world into perfect har¬mony with The Infinite Self.
Divine design, divine life and divine power vibrate all around us through-out the entire universe of manifest¬ed Being and now that you are beginning to be-come thoroughly awakened mentally and now that you begin to obey these higher laws you can feel this Divine Power flowing into your body and your mind and renewing every cell within you.
Truly, mental attraction-makes of you a powerful magnet!
USE THIS DIVINE MAGNETISM
Use this Divine Magnetism which is all around you this very moment—that’s what its for! Complete mas¬tery will be yours and your Heart’s Desire will rapidly materialize into reality when you consciously absorb, assimilate and USE this divine magnetism or vital power which pervades all the atmosphere which surrounds this earth! Use this Infinite God-Power!
First, then——Health. By consciously using this vital power, which is gust as near to you as the air you breathe, you will become able to recreate the tissues of your body and to so fortify yourself against disease that you will live in abounding health and that sickness will pass you by untouched.
Then, of a truth—“Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.”
Next, then, Happiness becomes yours to command. Now that you are living the higher life now that you— begin to consciously-attract this magnetic power of The Infinite, each day will bring you a new happiness as you realize your ideal—Your Heart’s Desire—in your material world.
Then the love and the gratitude which will fill your heart will, in turn, act as a magnet to draw new and worth-while friends”within your charmed circle—a circle charmed by the bonds of your new powers to command health, to draw happiness to yourself and to attract money and prosperity.
“FROM THINGS INVISIBLE”
“By faith was the world formed b the word of God, that, FROM THINGS INVISIBLE, visible things might be made.” (Hebrews 11:3)
In each of these dynamic Lessons, in every occult exercise we give you, in each and every antrim, prayer and affirmation that we give to you—in all of these, step by step, we are helping you to develop that Mental Attraction—that One necessary sameness—that Attunement of vibration with this all-pervading Infinite Power of the Invisible that shall transform your vision, your Heart’s Desire, into VISIBLE REALITY here and now.!
While this God-Power which creates “from things invisible, visible things’’ is truly mystical, we:ar.e proving to you that this power of the invisible can and does operate for you in your own life without any of the mys

tifying mental gymnastic:s on your part which the ignorant mistakenly associate with it.
It is simply a matter of using your good common sense and following our easily understood methods exact¬ly—and then with perfect, child-like faith leaving the results entirely to your Infinite Source of Supply— Creative God-Power. That is all!
THREE LAWS OF CONCENTRATION
True, effective concentration surely is an intense form of prayer. In true concentration one “seeks and prays”. Concentration for material wealth (money, property, etc.). for physical health, or for material happiness will inevitably bring to you these exact, real and tangible results in your external world if your motive is to enable yourself to serve humanity better or to improve, even develop and evolve your own creative self, but beware any motive that is purely selfish of reason or for self elevation and vanity only. Such motives will sure¬ly defeat your Psychic powers of attraction.
The three great laws which govern successful concentration for physical health, for personal happiness or for financial ease and wealth are these:

ONE—PHYSICAL RELAXATION
TWO—MENTAL PASSIVITY
THREE—ATTENTION FOCUSED UPON YOUR ONE GREAT DESIRE.
Simple as they seem to you, we want to impress these great basic laws of concentration upon your attention. Now you can understand more fully the occult reasons—for your regular evening concentration periods and for the methods we have given you for observing these periods.
This definite period each night for your “inner contemplation”—if you have observed these periods faith¬fully—is already doubtless beginning to work wonders in your visible world.
What is the power that has created a million spheres and that keeps these spheres (worlds) endlessly whirling in space?
We declare to you that this Power is Universal Divine Mind, this is the psychic, invisible Power in all exis¬tence which can create matter in the thinking of the brain or the twinkling of the eye, out of the Invisible and then set that matter into ageless motion either as a world or as a pebble. This is the intelligent, creative Cosmic God-Mind which you draw unto yourself in each of your concentration periods. Also, this power is available at any hour and in any I place-wherever and whenever you follow these three simple but great Laws of Concentration.
THIS IS THE LIGHT THAT HEALS
If you are sick, there is abundant healing for you in the teachings of these lessons. Of a truth, you can be so well!. And now we impart to you in these lessons the tremendous secret of focusing this all-powerful mys¬tic light to heal your body just as the sublime sunshine dissolves the darkness of night!
In attracting to yourself perfect health from your Infinite Source of Health, never let your mind dwell on the afflicted condition of any part of your body. Vision that part of your body just as you want it to be. See your body glowing with health, life and color. As you visualize this, you will feel a general toning up in your entire bodily system. Try it! Do it!

Disease breeds in darkness, either of the mind or of the surroundings Light displaces darkness; Light destroys disease! Light disperses darkness—reality disperses unreality. Light is a high rate of vibration; disease, a very low rate.
Do this during your concentration periods. Picture God in the White Light of His Spirit focused upon the afflicted part of your body. With your eyes closed mentally vision and radiate this part of your body with this DIVINE LIGHT for your entire fifteen minute period, if you are afflicted. By conscious attraction, you cen¬ter this Divine Light upon your affliction. You can practice this three, possibly four times a day, until you have evidence of healing. The good results will—be surprisingly rapid. Just what you believe when you visualize it, the White Light of the Spirit does I This is the answer of The Supreme Light to your intense Faith. It works!
Be exact and be intensely earnest when you use this method, which is one of the rarest secrets of the Ancient Wisdom.
“BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW”
That is the title of your.next lesson, number nine, a series of revealing truths that will astound you and which will show you that you are a cumulative being, and therefore you are capable of unlimited development, and that you are even now drawing to yourself unlimited abundance and unlimited happiness.
We teach you how your vital forces can be altered, modified or intensified beyond belief, according to the desires of your own active, reasoning will.
OUR ABIDING WISH FOR YOU
Here we must regretfully say Goodbye until your next lesson. Our abiding wish for you is that we shall be able to awaken within you a knowledge of your rightful heritage and that we. may help to endow you with those priceless possess-ions which fire cannot consume and which do not vanish away from time, Health, Happiness,_ and Financial Abundance.` All of_these are simply evolved from the changeless principles of Truth, the Creative God-Power which we are teaching you. Good-bye for now, Good Friend.

LESSON NO.9

Lesson No. 8 in The Pathway to Personal Power.

LESSON NO.8
THE PATHWAY TO PERSONAL POWER

“I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision... (Paul, Acts 26:19) BUILDING YOUR VISION INTO REALITY
This is your most impressive and unforgettable lesson, number eight, in which you are led many, many steps upward along the Pathway.
The purpose of this very deep and powerful lesson is to bring to you more fully the startling truth that not only are you endowed with latent (sleeping) talents, faculties and forces that know no bounds of possibility, but that working with you and at your conscious command is Universal Divine Mind. This Universal, Divine Mind is that invisible ocean of cosmic energy that touches your life on every hand, once you admit this truth into your conscious thinking, and from which you can draw personal power that will build reality into your vision (or picture) of your Heart’s Desire.
BRIEF REVIEW OF LESSONS SIX AND SEVEN
The central concepts of lesson six, you will remember, taught you how to realize and how to demonstrate in your own life, day by day, the ever increasing power of that Secret of the Ages which dwells within you, only awaiting development through your conscious recognition to bring your Heart’s Desire from the invisible.
Briefly, the high concept of lesson seven was to awaken you to a conscious awareness and realization that you have at your command an invisible dynamic force, sleeping talents and powers that will thoroughly trans-form your life into health, happiness and success once they are tuned into harmony with that Great Power-Station, Universal Divine Mind.
BUILDING YOUR VISION
Of course, the “vision” we refer to in the use of this word is your mental picture of your Heart’s Desire, that picture which reflects that, for which you most greatly long, which you most deeply desire and which to you represents Life’s highest attainment.
Within your reach and within the reach of every other man and woman is this vast reservoir of power await¬ing only their conscious demand to transform each life of suffering, failure and unhappiness into abounding health, abundant success and very real joyousness. As you recognize this tremendous truth and as your men¬tal awareness of the thought-vision of your Heart’s Desire draws Creative Power from Universal Divine Mind even now—this moment—which is surging through your mind, through your body and through the depths of your soul, to establish in your daily life the reality of your mental picture—your cherished vision
Pitiful and desolute indeed is the poverty and the hopeless lot of people who live without vision! People without even one mental picture of health, of happiness or of good fortune into which to build reality. How truly Solomon exclaimed in Holy Writ so long ago, “Where there is no vision (no mental picture), the people perish...” (Proverbs 29:18).

THE SUPREME BUILDS IN SILENCE
Throughout this course of lessons we shall continue to impress upon you the extreme importance of Silence in all your metaphysical exercises, your mental picturing and your progress along the secret Pathway to attain¬ment.
You will share the common experience of all our students, which is that the further you travel along this Pathway to inner enfoldment, the less talkative you will become.
Perhaps you will remember that in your early days, when you were very young, when you encountered a new truth, or some vision of endeavor that seemed great to you, came before your untrained eyes, your new-found enthusiasm made you feel that you just had to rush out and tell everybody you met all about it! Youth gives forth plenty of sure cures for all the ills of earth and is always prone to paint glowing pictures of future achievements and tells in many words of glorious conquests—to be. And then, by and by, Youth, staggering under the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, “ learns perhaps to be a bit less talkative!
Hence, the philosophy of these lessons teaches you the merits and the power of well-chosen silence. You have a great goal of achievement ahead, a self-chosen goal, your Great Desire, so you will find the greatest benefit in Silence, because the Supreme Intelligence builds in the Silence.
Let us explain that when you say; for instance, “I’m going to try to tell others, who are probably either unsympathetic or envious, all about your proposed plans, you are only releasing and scattering into thin air those precious energies which should be used in your metaphysical “work” and your concentration periods in The Silence.”
ESCAPE FROM REALITY SCATTERS ENERGY
Within every man and every, woman there are two very definite and very distinct urges or mental trends. First there is what we shall call the “regressive” urge, which is strong and also very subtle, usually so hidden that we are perhaps totally unconscious of this regressive urge, which always works to pull us back from true effort and from action.
This is, in reality, -a covert desire to escape from reality. Regression mentally recedes toward childhood’s dream-world of protection.,
The other and more conscious urge you will very readily recognize within yourself in your daily life—that is the urge to action, to self-expression, to meet and master your world and to enjoy your own wort while Destiny!
For example, the “confessional” of some religions is based entirely upon a thorough understanding of this hidden but almost universal longing to escape from reality. Technically this process, as illustrated by the “con¬fessional, is called the “catharsis,” which literally means, “throwing off.” In the confessional suppressed ener¬gies and emotions connected with thought-images of guilt, remorse, shame, defeat, failure, anxiety and fear are thrown off through words. The energies, freed from direct action by Ideas or Emotions in this process of “talking it out, “ EVAPORATE INTO THIN AIR! And in passing, it makes not the slightest difference to whom this “throw-off’” is made!
In this illustration there is a very great lesson for you, My Friend. The same law which applies to these dark and unpleasant wishes, images-and memories “thrown off ” in the confessional, applies equally to the attrac
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tive, the positive, the constructive powers of the Mind. Your Great Desire, your Great Destiny, your Life Plan—all , carry unexpressed energies and powerful drives which will be scattered to the four winds of heav¬en if you go about telling others all about your ambitions and your occult work, a complete “throwing off!
AVOIDING NEGATIVE VIBRATIONS
By keeping your own counsel, by keeping silent about your work, your plans and your progress you will eas¬ily avoid negative vibrations from others. These negative vibrations might-very possibly come from friends or even really close relatives, because the common mistake your daily associates usually make is in judging your future capacity by your past lack of success.
Remember, when none around you know anything about what you are working for or how you are bringing these miracles to pass in your life, you do not have to overcome their belief that “It can’t be done!”
Cherish your-vision in the Silence——conserve your energies for your attunement, for your mental exercis¬es and for your receptive periods of aloneness with Infinite Divine Mind.
A TIME FOR WORDS AND A TIME FOR SILENCE
There are times for words and there are times for silence. You will truly learn these times for yourself.
Let us consider this matter from another angle. You now have a great, a definite purpose in life, You have chosen to build reality into your Heart’s Desire. To this end, and under our direction, you are constantly, con¬tinuously visualizing. In doing this, you are painting a picture upon the inner planes of your own conscious¬ness AND upon the sublime, the invisible, the inmost plane, of Universal God - Mind. Sooner or later this inner picture will be reflected in outer, material FORM! Now, until you have this inner picture of yours sharply drawn, clearly defined and fully developed, any discussion of this picture or of this occult process with others will only tend to scatter and dissolve the results of your visualizing.
Only describe or discuss your inner picture with members whom you know will join wholeheartedly with you to help you materialize your vision.
“THOUGHTSARETHINGS...”
This is literally true. Thoughts are things. Each thought you think is a force, an energy, a power that is sent out from your brain in the form of waves of vibrations. These thought-vibrations have the power of awaken¬ing and attracting similar vibrations in that clearly vast storehouse of Infinite Supply that surrounds us every-where.
This Game condition is true of PEOPLE everywhere. All are either affected or controlled by these thought-waves, depending upon the power of the mental-vibrations you send out. You are a Mental Radio Station— but remember, so is every other man and woman in the world. All are SENDING and RECEIVING con¬stantly, rarely consciously but almost always without realizing that they are “on the air ”
So, you can readily see that the POSITIVE THINKER (the dynamic powerful mental radio) wins his or her Heart’s Desire, whereas people with negative minds liken themselves to failure because theirs is only wishful thinking sent out idly, fearfully and doubtingly.
For this reason we are teaching you-plainly, in these deeply instructive lessons, a complete knowledge of the basic, the fundamental laws of that phenomenon we call your Mental Radio and how to project your Desire-Thoughts by your trained Will and thus materialize your desire.

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Lesson No. 7 in the Pathway to Personal Power

LESSON NO. 7
THE PATHWAY TO PERSONAL POWER

“ O MAN! KNOW THYSELF, FOR IN THEE IS HIDDEN THE TREASURE OF TREASURES.” (From an Egyptian’ Tablet)
YOUR KINGDOM OF CREATIVE POWER
“In the interplay of the planetary influences we perceive the formative impulses of the CREATIVE MIND carrying on the work of creation. Since observation establishes the fact that the planets are continually radiat¬ing influences which effect all life we see the organs of THE CREATIVE MIND forming thought; thoughts which are the directive forces which carry on the work of creation. And because of these things we are forced to the conclusion that the creation bodies are the brain organs of THE CREATIVE MIND, and in their motions we perceive that Mind.thinking,”—(The Christian Esoteric)
CREATIVE MIND VAST STOREHOUSE OF TREASURE
Creative (God) Mind is your vast storehouse of Treasure I Thus begins one of your remarkable lessons, Number Seven, which brings to you in plain and simple language this unforgettable Truth. That when you pur¬posely and consciously realize that your Directed Desire-Thought is a great MAGNET with the power to draw from Creative Universal Mind unlimited material treasure and personal achievement and success beyond your fondest dreams, through these lessons, then you are Master of your Kingdom of Creative Power.
Following our custom, let us pause here for a few moments and glance very briefly at our last two lessons, five and six.
In that superb lesson Number Five on “Attractive Personality,” you will remember that you learned that your per¬sonality is the impression you make upon others and that, because of this, Personality and Success are partners.
In Lesson Six, “The Secret of The ages we learned about the law of mental attraction; ancient and modern mysteries were explained to you and you were also given the secret of the Lost Word.
“HEMADE THE STARSALSO” (GEN 1:16)
Just how great is Creative (God) Mind and just how immense is your storehouse of treasure? Answering these questions, please read once more and very carefully the above quotation from the Christian Esoteric, with which this lesson begins. Please pay particular attention to the words of the last clause of that quotation: “... the heavenly bodies are the brain organs of THE CREATIVE MIND, and in their motions we perceive that Mind thinking.”
What a supreme—what a staggering truth! This concept is so sublime that in the presence of such blinding light upon the Pathway, narrow. minds slam shut their doors, pull down their windows shade and hide in their darkest closet!
But you are a searcher after truth Sublime truths are your heritage. But. so that we can know something of the vastness of CREATIVE GOD MIND let us—you and I—walk together amid the joyous beauty of a star¬ry night and, looking upward, SEE GOD THINKING!

With the naked eye, if we have ordinarily good eyesight, it is possible for us to see only about seven thou-sand stars—but the powerful telescope of today has enabled astronomers to discover and to chart the correct position of more than one hundred million of these starry thoughts of God.

HOW IMMENSE IS YOUR STOREHOUSE OF TREASURE?
The, star Arcturus has been traveling across just one corner of your infinite storehouse of treasure for more than two thousand years. Now, there is nothing really slow about Arcturus, for he travels through space at the AMAZING RATE OF OVER THREE HUNDRED MILES EVERY SECOND!
Now, Arcturus never rests, he does nothing but TRAVEL. Now, get this, in the year 130 B.C., Hipparchus made a star catalog and located Arcturus at that time. But so immense is the distance between this star and our earth that up to the very present day Arcturus has seemingly moved just a fraction over one degree. This would be only twice the diameter of the moon. This, of course, is a relative comparison.
“TOHIM WILL I GIVEPOWER...” (REV. 2:26)
This promise is directed straight to you, my fellow student, and this means you.Send you will find this prom¬ise fulfilled in abundance the very day that you consciously harmonize (tune in your vibrations with the high¬er and majestic vibrations of Eternal God-Mind.
YOU CAN ATTRACT AND DIRECT THIS POWER
Mastering your kingdom of Creative Power is simply something that depends As upon your learning the art of controlling and directing this power which, as we have—told—you-before,is -hidden from the-world, but hidden in plain sight.
Just as you might enter a strange room where there is an excellent electric chandelier controlled by a push-button on the wall. Now let us suppose that you know nothing about push-buttons being used to turn on and off electric lights— you would be Unable to control the contact with light through the button, because you have not learned how or where to look for it...nor even what to look for. If so, if it happened to be night, that room would remain in darkness FOR YOU. ONLY ONE POWER IN THE UNIVERSE
“THE LORD IS ONE” proclaims Moses, the Initiate, in Deut. 6:4. Today modern scientists agree that their investigations prove the oneness of all power in the universe: Our chemical and physical laboratories now claim that all forms of matter are in reality only different forms of a single power.
WHAT is this tremendous Power? That one power is Eternal Creative Mind—Eternal Law—God!
AN EXPANDING SOUL
No matter what your position in life has been, no matter what your age may be, no matter what sickness has been yours, no matter whether you are wealthy or whether you have known poverty, just. as surely as you fol¬low these trans-.forming dynamic Spiritual Laws, you are an expanding soul. Just as with your material radio, - where there is one control knob by which you can almost instantly TUNE IN to any broadcasting- station, so with your MIND-RADIO there is ONE tuning-in control by which you can almost as instantly contact and “tune-in” this tremendous power of the Eternal-God-Law—and that “tuning-in” control is CONSCIOUS¬NESS—AWARENESS—mental acceptance.

So, my friend, when you realize this staggering Truth you will turn right about-face mentally and walk with us, your brother and sister students, straight into the path of light. No longer will you stumble uncertainly here and there because the way is dark, but you will walk with confidence in the bright light of noon-day, with wide-open eyes, with head erect and shoulders square.

MILLION LEAGUE BOOTS
Let us for a few minutes explore mentally something of the immensity, something of the vastness and something of the grandeur of our universal store-house of treasure—a treasure that is ours to draw upon at will.
First, do you remember the fairy story of “The Seven League Boots?” Now, as a league is three miles, the man with the seven-league boots was supposedly taking twenty-one mile steps.’ Measured by geographical stan¬dards, those were quite some steps. But, as we are going to take an imaginary trip amidst the vast expenses of that storehouse which is the universe, we shall need, not seven league boots BUT MILLION LEAGUE BOOTS. Later, you may be amazed to find that even such apparently, stupendous steps are but as the tiny steps of a toddling infant in the God - Realm which we are entering mentally.
Here we are traveling, let us imagine that we at this time are moving with the speed of light, traveling thru realms where the human mind cannot grasp either the magnitude or the `majesty of the stars which are the materialized thoughts of the Eternal, the Great One God-Mind.
COSMIC TIME AND DISTANCE
Everything in this cosmic realm amid which we are now traveling is regulated by the ceaseless tick of the cosmic clock. Astronomers call this clock the Law of Interdependent Cycles. Nothing is left to chance.
In this realm universal, man measures distance by a standard which he calls a “LIGHT YEAR.” In reckon¬ing star distance, then a light year is the primary space, or distance, traveled by a beam of light IN ONE YEAR, moving at the speed of 186,270 MILES PER SECOND.
According to this standard of astronomic measurement the Moon is about one and one-fourth seconds from the Earth and the Sun only five or six minutes away. Now astronomers observe distances of individual stars accurately more than 100, 000 light years away.
POWER STATIONS OF OUR UNIVERSE
Astronomers tell us that the main power station of our universe they have located in a region only about one million five hundred thousand light years way from us on Earth.
Supposedly then, lets you and I, take a little imaginary stroll over to this main power station of ours. When we have reached this power station of ours, the astronomers tell us, we would find a constant and terrific cur-rent of Power, both creative and destructive, radiating from that center in a blinding stream, to every sun, every star and planet in the universe. They explain that friction generated by the creating of new worlds and by the destruction of those worlds which have reached the end of one existence, maintains, this irresistible life and death stream of Power. And we should see God’s thinking made manifest.

FROM THE EMERALD TABLE
However, ages and ages ago the magnificence of this ineffable cosmic pageant and the existence of The One Power, The Single Energy, THE CREATIVE GOD MIND was revealed in the Ancient Wisdom.
Read carefully these words, quaint though they may seem, coming to us from “The Emerald Table of Hermes, “ a rare and most ancient text. “As all things are from one, by the mediation of one, so all things arose from this one I, by adaptation. This is the father of all perfection, or consummation of the whole world. This is the strong fortitu de (power) of all fortitudes (powers), overcoming every subtlety and penetrating every solid thing.”
ALL RELIGIONS BASED ON MYSTERY OF THE HEAVENS
As we continue our imaginary journey in the tremendous space which is the home of the stars, let us remember that man, from his comparatively tiny earth, has studied the stars and he has gained knowledge from them since the beginning of time. ALL human religions were founded upon and built around the mys¬teries of the heavens; These mysteries we see in symbols in the worship of ancient Babylon, ‘Assyria, Chaldea and Egypt.
But we are on our way, remember, to the central station of the universe, and now we will vision our journey as taking us through that immense and nebulous cloud which winds like a twisted veil of shadow amid the constellations of the Milky Way. The center of this cloud is a mass of black darkness estimated as; measur¬ing more than one hundred thousand cubic light-years. No human mind can comprehend such vastness as this in space.
GRAVEYARD OF THE STARS THAT HAVE BEEN
This huge central cloud of blackness is nothing more or less than the grave-yard of the stars that have been. The, impenetrable darkness here is dense with star dust. This dense and dead stardust is the material from which Creative God-Mind -the Supreme sculptor—creates and shapes perhaps a thousand NEW Milky Ways, ten thousand NEW worlds, or a million NEW stars.
As we travel onward, we find that this nebulous darkness surrounds and penetrates the entire universe, infi¬nite in extent yet eternally obeying The Law of Re-Creation. We find centers of black darkness in our travels across part of the. universe, as well as centers of light. Mentally visiting them, astronomers point out to us more than a thousand centers where this black darkness-is loaded heavily enough with star dust and ‘with parts and great fragments of worlds that have been to supply the building material for NEW WORLDS, NEW stars and NEW solar systems. Some of this building material whirls toward our earth every eleven years in the form of a stream of meteors.

LAND OF BEGINNING AGAIN
Each of these immense centers of black darkness is truly the mystical land of beginning again. For this is where worlds are born and suns are thought into being. When new stars are born, astronomers on our earth can see the radiant glow of the new creation.

We see that Supreme Eternal Law is two-fold in its Power. That its Power is both positive—and negative, that this Power is both creative and destructive, eternally creating new, worlds from the worlds of a mil lion years ago. God’s cosmic clock marks the hours in this forever-never land—the hours of birth, of rebirth, of transformation and of re-incarnation.
In our magnificent mental journey across one corner, as it were, of the universe, we learn with amazement how worlds are born, how stars are re-created and how suns are reincarnated. We perceive that when worlds, huge galaxies of stars or suns, traveling as they do with unthinkable speed, pass into one of these dense, dust-laden centers of black darkness, their terrific friction generates flaming whirlpools of electrified energy which astronomers call SPIRAL NEBULAE.
In these Spiral Nebulae again we SEE the materialized thinking of God. For in these Nebulae Etern al Law combines POWER, SPIRIT, and MATERIAL FORM to create new life, new worlds and whole new solar sys¬tems from the thick dust of the things that were.
In that sky-realm which astronomers ca ll Pegasus they have located one hundred sixty-two Nebulae which they tell us—range from one hundred to one thousand light years from our earth, and each of these Nebulae is a constellation blazing with the birth-flames of creation.
As we started on our imaginary journey, consulting the “road maps” given us by our friends, the astronomers, we found that somewhat closer to us by earth we could visit what they ca ll the PLANETARY Nebulae. We find that these are different in shape from the Spiral Nebulae being shaped like huge bunches of globes, instead of spiral shaped.
We see that these globes whirl around a flaming center of dazzling brightness amid lesser clouds of star dust and these-Planetary Nebulae are smaller world systems and sun-systems in the mystic al process’ of creation.
“GOD IS LIGHT” (1JOHN 1:5)
Our mythical journey through measureless space is taking us through a wonderland of enthralling interest. We are beginning to realize something of this universal kingdom of Creative Power, from which, once we con¬sciously contact it, we can draw such creative forces of He alth, Happiness and Financial Wealth that their pos¬sibilities in your life and in my life are boundless.
After this sublime realization you will no longer be content with any sma ll, meaningless part in this tremen¬dous drama of the Universe because, remember the Universe is your world also.
So, it is the purpose of this lesson and of our-breath-taking trip into the surrounding universe to enable you to see yourself as an active man or woman of Power with every abi lity to play your part splendidly on the stage of an inside existence so endless and a destiny so rich in possibilities as to stagger the imagination. Yours is to live radiantly and gloriously , now that you walk in the light.
In our mental journey to the stars we learned that the creative force, the food and the life of the universe is LIGHT. Those stars that we see glowing brilliantly anywhere and everywhere are living power centers. The stars that emit rays.
Our earth receives all life from the sun—from the moon, mostly rays of decay. although either sun or the moon can both destroy and create. As we hurried past the sun—only ninety-three million little miles away— in our imaginary journey, we saw what maces it possible for our sun to forever send out its light and its life without draining itself. We saw that the endless activity of our sun is drawn from four great light-houses (power

stations); the astronomers have named these four celestial light-houses Alpha Centauri, Altair, Sirius, and Procyon. - and ANTARES.
They also inform us that twenty-two—her brilliant stars also send our sun their combined quota of light-energy, which altogether is only about one-fifth of the electro-magnetic energy which the sun draws from Sirius alone.
So, we see that the entire brotherhood of stars combine their radiant electro-magnetic energy borne on thy wings of Light, to keep the power currents of our sun streaming forth bundles of life and light.
YOU CAN CONTROL AND DIRECT
THIS LIGHT
Our founder made an amazing discovery when he found the Truth that the essential quality of this all-per¬vading LIGHT is its intelligence, its consciousness, and its impressibility. Times without, number this stagger¬ing discovery has been demonstrated in the lives’ of those who have learned how to use and how to control this hidden power of the Mystical Light, with its radio-like currents of electro magnetic-Power.
In other words, this unseen Power which we call Eternal Law or Universal God Mind, is intelligent and has that mental quality or that mental potency which expresses itself in the creation of happier worlds for you, when you consciously draw from this ocean of Power which everywhere surrounds you.
OPEN YOUR MIND AND ATTRACT ABUNDANCE
Just open the door of your mind to the receptive attitudes which we are teaching you in these wondrous Lessons.
Then, this very day, you will begin to realize for yourself that deep within your inner mind new chords are beginning to beat in harmony with the ceaseless symphony of Universal God Mind. Now, you are “tuned in” to (in harmony with) your Infinite Source of Supply.
You have unlocked that vast storehouse of treasure and conscious, receptive Faith is the key!
DOOR TO THE KINGDOM SUBLIME
The door to this Sublime Kingdom-—your kingdom of Creative Power—is CONSCIOUSNESS, Only through mental awareness does this kingdom exist FOR YOU. But when, you attune your inner mental world consciously to harmony with Universal God-Mind, then you will begin to receive your true heritage of the bet-ter things of life and your share of the treasures of that vast storehouse, which is limited only by your own consciousness.
Remember, all that is -required of you is that you have that conscious expectancy, that faith to know that the power of Eternal Creative Law—God—is working day and night throughout the universe (your vast store-house) to transform all things into ABUNDANCE for You.
MEDITATION IN THE SILENCE
Here is another secret in the way that is eternal. You will find meditation in The Silence of the greatest help in your higher development. This simply means reflection without effort. Passive positive picturing.
First, you must be alone, and quiet. Any time will do. You must not be amid confusing or disturbing sur¬roundings. Your body must be relaxed. Then simply settle down to silent meditation. Meditate upon One Great

Desire. In this silent meditation you are drawing very close to the fountain of universal knowledge. Now it becomes simple and easy to work out the details of your. One Great Desire by just letting them come to you from this universal fountain.

GOOD THINGS COMING YOUR WAY
When you tune in your inner mind you can triumph over all obstacles a.nd over all persons who would try to take this glorious heritage away from you.
In your every-day life, better things and encouraging events should come to you°within the next two weeks. The finer things of life are coming your way, hand in hand, right now!
CONCENTRATE AND MEDITATE
Continue your usual concentration period at the same time of the clock as always.
We should also like you to enjoy the added benefits and the material blessings which will come to you through an additional period devoted to meditation in the silence—perhaps 15 to 20 minutes added to your concentration period. Try it—you’ll find it really works wonders!
GOODBYE FOR ONE WEEK
And now—a goodbye for one week. Your next lesson, number eight, will_ lead you still farther upward upon she Pathway of Light. That great lesson will be to you indeed a revelation which will open your eyes to a won¬derland of Happiness and Abundance HERE AND NOW. We teach you how to stake the richest claim of your life in this boundless wonderland by taking just three simple Steps; (1) Physical Relaxation, (2) Mental Passivity, and (3) Focused Attention Upon your One Great Desire.

Lesson No. 6 in The Pathway to Personal Power

LESSON 6
THE PATHWAY TO PERSONAL POWER

“O MAN! KNOW THYSELF; FOR IN THEE IS HIDDEN THE TREASURE OF TREASURES.” (From an Egyptian Tablet)

THE SECRET OF THE AGES
SINCERITY
“Every being has a definite vocation and his vocation is the, light which illuminates his life. The man who disregards his certain vocation is a lamp unlit.
“He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that purpose a light begins to clear his confusion ...call it a revelation, call it inspiration, call it what you will. “It is mistrust that misleads. Sincerity leads straight to the goal. (Herald of Light).
THAT INFINITE CURRENT OF POWER
This is your deep, significant and important Lesson Number Six. This Lesson, written in plain and simple words, is another Magic Key to understanding the use of that—sublime that—infinite Creative Power which silently endows you with glowing health, with supreme happiness and with abundant financial wealth, just in proportion as you open your consciousness to receive these good gifts from the Spiritual God Law.
The secrets of the Ancient Wisdom, which are revealed to you in this lesson, just as with every other les¬son in this forceful system of confidential instruction, will unlock for you those hitherto closely guarded doors to your rightful kingdom of plenty, of success and of the-possession of all good things necessary to your complete happiness, simply and easily through mental attraction. We can picture your gladness and your rejoicing because this marvelous system of METAPHYSICAL Lessons is coming to you just now to help you by showing you how to draw into your personal world the things you need most at this time. No wonder you are gladdened by such wonderful revelations as you are receiving now and we are happy indeed with you and for you!
HIGH-LIGHTS OF LESSONS FOUR AND FIVE
Just here let us pause as usual and review together a few of the high-lights of those two previous lessons, four and five.
You will remember that in “The Imaging Power Lesson,” (number four), you learned the three-fold secret by which you can attract every material blessing and by which you can draw from that Abundance all things which you earnestly desire: IMAGING, CREATING, BEING.
In that wonderful lesson on “Attractive Personality”, (number five), you learned that your personality is the impression you make upon others. Further, you learned why, attractive personality is so vitally important—and that is because-Personality and Success are partners!

EACH NEW REALIZATION TAKES TIME
Each lesson is dynamic with wonderful and momentous realizations, many of which will be new to you.:, Your lessons come to you once each week. Now, for every lesson-and for each new realization a certain time must lapse to allow you to absorb each wonderful concept and to unfold beneath its guiding light. We must remember that the true unfoldment is not made up of a rapid series of new realizations nor, of lessons that are only speedily scanned.
You cannot force the growth, unfoldment and the development of your higher powers of mental attraction to come to pass faster than is their natural rate. But at that, by and by, when you look back you will realize that you have made progress.
Let us impress upon you again, study alone is not so important in this field, for you might study and ponder and read endlessly, yet you will progress by degrees, just as ordained by Eternal Spiritual Law.
ANCIENT AND MODERN MYSTERIES
In the instruction you have the most sublime philosophy of all time simply explained; you have the practi¬cal. and direct personal knowledge which enables you to attract every material good fortune to yourself, and in this incomparable wisdom you will find revealed for yourself—the first time—the true secrets.
Please—for your own great good—follow us very closely and very care-fully in this revealing lesson. Don’t miss a single word and each should be weighed carefully. In fact, weigh each sentence and consider each para¬graph with the utmost care. Implicitly follow this amazing Light which shines upon your pathway from the great lighthouse, because this light, if you follow it, will lead you unfailingly into the glad realities of perfect health, of joyous happiness and of abundant financial riches!
We shall lead you from the veils and the symbols of the ancient mysteries into the dazzling light of a full understanding of the Secret of the Ages. This changeless Secret of the Ages is that, through and in your own consciousness, you realize the existence of an actual Spiritual Power which CAN and WILL and DOES bring to you, according to your demand and your need, when you know how to make that effective demand, an over-flowing supply of Health, Happiness and Prosperity.
ALLEGORY AND SYMBOLISM
In the many teachings of the Ancient Wisdom, upon which much of the philosophy of these lessons are founded, great space is given to suitable oriental veilings and parables. Thus the real lesson is deeply hidden in allegory and symbolism.
This has always been true of the deepest wisdom of the ages. Those wise teachers and ancient sages hid their really sublime teachings this way, so that they would be meaningless to the masses and yet ‘simple enough to the true initiate.
Student, with us, you have become a true initiate and so step by step these deeper mysteries shall be revealed to you.
CHRIST SPOKE IN PARABLES
When you for the first time begin to understand the amazing themes and truths that we plainly disclose to you upon every page of these wonderful lessons it is little wonder that these staggering concepts begin to transform your whole life at once.
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This sublime Truth, everywhere hidden within the allegory and the symbol-ism of the ages, is simply that Eternal Law—God—does not act throughout this universe to provide health, happiness and financial plenty in some mystical land beyond the clouds after you are dead, but that Spiritual God-.Law offers you all of these good things Here and Now, if you will only learn to obey the ever present Creative Law of Abundance and accept them!
The word “Mystery” is used in the New Testament twenty-five times, and every-vase-this-word-has the same—meaning, that is, a ritual secret which was to be given only to those students who had been prepared by proper instruction to receive and to understand it. To these ancient students the word “mystery” meant a hidden Truth to be had for the searching. These students were prepared by long ceremonials of “initiation” to receive and to grasp the very same illuminating knowledge which is now placed before you in this wonderful course of lessors.
Many, many of Christ’s words are proof that this was His method of instructing His students (disciples)— “Unto you is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God,” He told them, “but not unto all.” Again he said, “Cast not your pearls before the swine,” and once again, notice the hidden meaning of these words, “Ask and ye shall receive; seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you.”

FELLOWSHIP OF THE ETERNAL CONCEPT
When our founder re-discovered this sublime and Eternal concept of the Creative Law of the God-Realm, as our. universal and never-failing source of Abundant Supply for himself and applied this Creative Spiritual Law in his own Life the results were amazing. It is these same Truths that our Founder consciously`;and orderly used to bring about his-own rescue from the “valley of the shadow,!’ and the same-dynamic principles which he has multiplied the phas¬es of his business, resulted in an income many times over his former income in a short period of a few years.
Our Founder's enthusiasm and his intense desire to pass on to other needy persons the blessings of this star¬tling discovery of THE GREAT TRUTH behind the ancient “mysteries’.’ very naturally resulted in the estab¬lishment of the .The Academy of Philosophical Operational and Future Science Inc. School for the sole pur¬pose of teaching others these Great Truths.
In making these Dynamic Truths available to sincere men and women every-where our Founder has in turn attracted to himself_ and is continuing to enjoy,
day by day, all the material blessings and all the well earned happiness for which most men long hopelessly all their. lives. And -it is just as true that every material blessing for which you long, together with the joyous health and happin¬ess.that are your rightful heritage, all of these things shall be yours, too, just as soon as you understand how to apply this unchanging Creative Spiritual Law and become conscious of your inexhaustible source of abundance; of perfect health; of beautiful love and a happy family; of an elegant home; yes, Good Friend, God’s kingdom of Abundance will furnish you all of these things and much more when you learn to draw from the Kingdom of God through the unfailing Spiritual God-Law.

“THE ‘MYSTERY’ OF THE FELLOWSHIP”
In the New Testament you will remember that the early Christian apostles laid great emphasis upon what they termed “the mystery of the fellowship.”
In so doing they were carrying out the direct instruction of Christ; and, further, by doing this, they informed

us that the gospel (scriptures) contains secrets (‘mysteries’) which can only be understood by those possessing the keys.
After all, isn’t this good common sense? Would it not be foolish to attempt to teach higher mathematics to a child who has not yet learned to add?
So, sentence by sentence, step by step, these lessons explain secret after secret of the ages, and mystery after mystery until this entire, this tremendous concept presents you the true picture of the Supreme God-Intelligence that vibrates throughout this Universe, clear as the morning sunrise. And we teach you very simply that here and now, this Infinite God-Mind provides perfect, overflowing Supply for YOU and for me and for every other man and woman in the world, when they have learned to understand and apply this Dynamic Spiritual Law.
FAITH IN YOUR UNLIMITED SUPPLY

The first practical and easy step is this: expand your thinking about God and have faith in your unlimited supply. Isn’t that simple? Yet that is the same simple and sublime Truth hidden within nearly every parable, allegory and symbol of the ageless story of Christ.
Those students of the occult, versed in all and symbolism, read the Bible in its inner, its spiritual meanings and when one learns the true meaning of the Bible he begins to understand it as a purposely hidden record which, of course, the uninitiated cannot understand. But as you are now one of the true initiates, we shall reveal to you one by one the secrets concealed behind the ancient symbolism, as we shall use them in our instruction.
Keep centering your thoughts on the things you desire. Keep your mind receptive! Constantly EXPECT your Great Desire to come true—Visualize (see) it as an actual fact.
SEE HEALTH, WEALTH AND WISDOM
This “inner contemplation” or Though-Imaging is one of the most priceless secrets that we are imparting to-you in these revealing lessons. So, we want our instructions to be very plain and very easily understood in this most import-ant part of your .occult development.
Once more let us caution you not to discount this unique system of attainment because it. seems wimple to you. All great things in this world are simple—when you understand them!
This mental worm of thought-imaging can be carried on at any time and in any place where you can be alone and where you can relax and be thoroughly comfortable.
How often—Oh, how very, often—your poor, weary, discouraged heart has longed for a full measure of health, for a full, measure of peace and contentment and for a full measure of material riches and happiness, only to be disappointed at every turn you made! But you have never found these full measures of blessing until now and now all of these blessings are becoming yours as you grasp and follow these gloriously transforming concepts which were Rediscovered by our Founder and by him given to a failing, discouraged world through these incomparable lessons.
Remember, your thought-image is the most important thing in the world to you now. Make your mental pic¬ture distinct; make it wonderful to yourself; pour your emotions into that image!
By the depths of your own feeling you will make this thought-image intense, vital, alive!

See Your Great Desire as already Yours in reality. Act just as if it were. Always picture it as real now! This material world is built out of the world of dreams!
“YE ARE GODS” SAID CHRIST
Every mystical religion and every religious mythology that our world has ever known teaches that in essence we are God in power and in spirit, but that we died in the land of our birth in the Garden (of Hesperides) and mys¬tically dying we descended into hell, and, moreover the ancient rituals and mysteries demonstrate that like Christ, Osiris, Mithra and all other types of the God-Man, we, too, may rise from the tomb and soar to the skies of suc¬cess, of supreme happiness and of glorious attainment, here and now, not “over there” (where-ever that may be!)
When you encountered and began to absorb the magnificently clear concepts and teachings of these lessons, that very day you arose from the tomb of small and narrow beliefs and the dark and fearful vagaries of man-made “hells” of misguided “churchianity” because the Truth has made you free.
Because we must use the words of the language of every-day life to express spiritual conceptions there is always difficulty, in avoiding misunderstandings which may at times prevent the true perception on the part of the student of dividing lines between the physical world and the psychic realm or “The God Realm”.
When you have attained to the Advanced Work of the The Academy of Philosophical Operational and Future Science Inc. , then you will never try to describe the occult experiences of your Soul as it ascended through the Hidden Degrees of The Grand Work in the everyday words of the masses.
As you progress from one degree to the next degree in this Great Work, always bear in mind, that no descrip¬tion which is yours, no matter what words you use, can ever picture to the UNINITIATED any part of the mystical Kingdom of the God-Realm which has been entered by you.
We, your teachers, as initiates, will explain and indicate the exercises, and the devotions which you must fol¬low even to the letter. But remember, neither we nor anyone else will tell you in earthly words just what glo¬ries and, await you in those spheres where you can enter in due time—those spheres, (kingdoms) which tran¬scend the tawdry tinsel of this physical world.
Only by decisively accepting and absorbing the sublime Truths that we teach. coupled with following those Truths to the letter, only thus will you learn to live consciously in this Creative Intelligence whom men call God and thus you will enter the mastery of the secret of drawing upon the inexhaustible God-Realm first, for the material supply that shall fulfill your every right desire.
WHY YOU HAVEFAILED
Before you contacted the simple yet dazzling Truth in this teaching about God, .you have doubtless often wondered why you had failed, because you knew full well that your old, narrow orthodox beliefs had never brought you health, happiness or riches.
Here’s why you have failed in the past... before you began to succeed with The Academy of Philosophical Operational and Future Science Inc. Lessons.
Simply because you built, your beliefs about God upon the same false assumption which is the cornerstone of the bigotry, the superstition and the ignorance of the misguided “Religious Leaders” around you. Briefly, that is the false teaching that God is a personal being, suspiciously human in all his attributes, to whom- man owes fear, obedience, gifts, worship, devotion, BUT MOST OF ALL, FEAR!

CREATIVE POWER EVERYWHERE AROUND YOU
We maintain that the Hebrew Scriptures, when rightly understood, contain no authority for the assumption of a personal God.
Our divine mission is to bring to you the scientific Truth that the same creative Intelligence which created this Universe is everywhere around you and vibrates-within-you, everywhere invisible yet everywhere the most Dynamic form of Power in existence.
Rest assured that when you consciously and sincerely open your Mind and receive this invisible Creative Power of the God-Law, then every right desire that you have pictured in your mind, with Faith and Confidence, believing, will materialize into your life in ever increasing abundance.
The abundant riches of your fondest dreams are all around you AND ARE AVAILABLE TO YOU.
Health and Success, Love and Happiness, each awaits your choice. Again we repeat the changeless Law of Attainment decide definitely on THE ONE CHIEF DESIRE you want most in life’s treasure-house. Visualize this ONE GREAT DESIRE, see it mentally, feel it in your grasp, concentrate upon it, thus you imprint this Desire-Picture upon Universal Divine Mind and the you will have.
Here is your most marvelous concept amid the many, many wonderful scientific. Truths of this particular lesson; you can form, you can create, you can attract to yourself WHAT YOU WILL AND WHAT YOU DESIRE MOST STRONGLY from this ocean of Vast Creative Power which vibrates within and around you continually! The process is simple, but so unbelievably effective that we repeat it once more, so that we may impress each simple step upon your memory with indelible clearness. So, again, read carefully and forget ,it not—concentrate upon your heart’s desire see yourself possessing it. KNOW that this Heart’s Desire is in Reality, already yours, not in some indefinite and hazy future time, but that it is YOURS HERE AND NOW.
Then you will give thanks for these miracle-working Lessons which so clearly outline each upward step for you upon your path to Creative Power.
SECRET OF THE LOST WORD
All around us in this world there are sounds which your human ear can never hear and we know that there are radiations in the air everywhere which we cannot see, hear or feel. But when we transform these radiations into sound waves—as with the radio—then we can hear what we cannot see or feel. These radiations (vibra¬tions) while invisible and inaudible, travel through any material...and instantly.
Certain words are radiations of unknowable Power!—and one of these words called the “Lost Word”, man has sought for ages.
Yet Moses, the law-giver of the Hebrew Scripture, an initiate of the secret wisdom of the Egyptians and edu¬cated in their, temples, so long ago gave us a plain and simple statement about GOD in words that gave a deep meaning to the hidden power of “the name of the Lord.”
In Exodus (3:14) we read these words of Moses: “Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.”
The name of the Lord then is I AM.
Again in the words of Deuteronomy 6:4: “Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is ONE.” (This is a

literal translation of the original Hebrew)
So, the I AM is ONE and there so is no second.
This powerful name (emanation from Universal Divine Mind) is the “Lost Word!’ which men sought every-where during the many, many centuries of the Dark Ages.
Here is another significant statement in Deuteronomy which reveals another fact about this word of power to us: “But the word is very nigh (near) unto thee.
Notice that these words “I AM” are constantly in our mouth and in our heart for most people repeat these two words a thousand times a day!
WE CANNOT DIVIDE THE INFINITE,
We have learned that the name of The Infinite Spirit in Life is I AM. We cannot divide the infinite. This Infinite I AM vibrates in you, in me and in every other human being. All manifests THE ONE. Let us then realize that I The ONE I AM—the Infinite is within us, and surrounds us on all sides.
I AM—God—is the one power that does all things. One living Intelligent Power is creating all those things which we call “good”. This Infinite, Intelligent Power is the divine center of your whole life.
You can only realize this infinite I AM through.your personal unfoldment. So these significant lessons seek to easily develop your unfoldment week by week and month by month. Even now—or very soon—you will recognize the ONE I AM Divine Power as your Infinite Source of Supply.
Then you will know that the highest expression of the ONE I AM toward you is Love. “God is Love”. And Infinite Love grants your Greatest Desire, recreates Health, bestows Happiness and blesses with material wealth. This is the Secret of the Ages.

FOUR SECRET AFFIRMATIONS OF ONENESS
I AM ONE -WITH THE ONE I AM!
I AM ONE WITH HEALTH!
I AM ONE WITH HAPPINESS!
I AM ONE WITH ABUNDANT PROSPERITY!
YOUR KINGDOM OF CREATIVE POWER
That is the striking title of your next lesson, number seven, which reveals. to you some of the most remark-able secrets of enfoldment and of personal oneness and power for you to discover, secrets that you will find priceless. Lesson seven will amaze you!
And now, once more, we part company and leave with you this lesson for your fuller development, this les¬son which puts you in direct contact with the . secret of the ages—The Lost Word of Divine Power—the Infinite name, the “ONE I AM!”
So here’s our most friendly farewell for another week and we know that your unfoldment will astonish you before we meet again.

Lesson No. 5.1 In the Pathway To Personal Power

LESSON NO.5.1
THE PATHWAY TO PERSONAL POWER

Secret Instruction in the Interpretation of the Ancient Wisdom of the Great Work of the The Academy of Philosophical Operational and Future Science Inc.,
ATTAINING ATTRACTIVE PERSONALITY
In this lesson, number five, we present for your earnest and thoughtful study, proven and time-treated meth¬ods of attaining that attractive personality which will change you whole long life from endless possibilities of failure to the success you most desire...
Let us pause here for a few moments and glance backward along the path-way which we have traveled together and review just a, few of the truths hidden from the World which we have learned in Lessons Three and Four.
In Lesson Three (The Miracle Lesson) we gave you the very advanced teaching that Universal Mind is the SOUL OF GOD Further, we showed you how the Universal God-Mind in you connects you with the mar¬velous Creative Power~ in your own life and we revealed to you the nature of that Unseen Divine Force which is the ever-present Healing Power of the ages.
In Lesson Four (the Imaging-Power Lesson) we explained to you the three-fold’ secret of IMAGING, CRE¬ATING,” and BEING by the use of which you can create or attract to you all, the material Abundance which you really desire.
So. step by step, we have led you from one truth to another logically, and each of these four previous les¬sons has helped, to prepare you for this still deeper lesson, number Five.
AVOID ALL STRAIN WHEN YOU STUDY
In the beginning your study of this most important Lesson, just as with all of your Lessons with us, we want to impress upon you once again that all you will absorb these, Dynamic Lessons best when both your mind and your body are entirely at ease. Relax, and again relax, and thus you will enter your periods of study in a receptive frame of mind.
And from the paragraph following the above in Lesson One, entitled, “The Shadow of The Unseen,” these words:
“All material things are but the shadows of the unseen. The garments which clothe that form in your mir¬ror are the garments which you thought into your possession—you selected those garments.”
FACE REVEALS CHARACTER
Modern character analysts assure us that our face reveals our character. They inform us that everything about us tells the world what we are.
Of course you desire a successful magnetic and active personality. This requires understanding on your por¬tion, so your study must begin with your-self. For purposes of comparison and to analyze the elements of their success, make a careful study of those persons around you who prove in their daily lives that they possess the secret of successful personality.

Right here we do most sincerely assure.you that you can develop and you can cultivate a magnetic and suc¬cessful personality. Of course, like every other worth-while accomplishment in life, you must first learn how. That is exactly what this lesson teaches; the How of Attractive Personality.
The first practical step, then, is to once more closely observe yourself in that full-length mirror, this time with a determined purpose of judging, fairly and impartially, just what the impression is that you make upon others at the present time.

SOUL AND MIND PLUS OUTWARD APPEARANCE
Don’t let yourself become confused by the great number of little things or details, which seem to make up an Ideal or an Attractive Personality. -After all, when we analyze the Ideal Personality for which you long, we find that the primary or most important factors of that attractive personality are really comparatively few. Once these few really important factors are acquired, those other seemingly numerous details become yours also. “Divide and conquer” shall be our motto here, so let us divide this problem of magnetic personality into its few really important parts and work them out one part at a time.
Personality has been defined as “soul and mind plus outward appearance.” This greatly simplifies our prob¬lem. Now we realize that “soul and mind” can really only manifest to the world about us here through our “outward appearance.” While we cannot always control our soul or our mind we can always choose to a large extent what our outward appearance shall be.
PERSONALITY AND SUCCESS ARE PARTNERS
Personality, then, being the impression you make upon others, is most
There is no “mystery” of life, in reality. This word “mystery” is only used to hide Man’s lack of understand¬ing. For instance, let us imagine that here’s a complicated airplane in Now we who do not understand this engine, content ourselves by saying that this engine is a mystery to us. But to one who has learned all about airplane engines and who knows all about this particular engine, there is no mysterious part.
If you never realized until now that this word “mystery” is. only a screen to hide people’s lack of knowledge, perhaps you, too, have been misled and.so have stood in your own light.
To attribute mystery to anything indicates weakness. Knowledge is Power and so that you may be strong, and so that the lamp of sure wisdom may be filled and burning brightly in your life, we place within your hands this price-less instruction.
WHAT IS PERSONALITY
Perhaps you have been confused-by the many and often very confusing ways in which this word Personality is used by different people you have met and by the puzzling and often -senseless ways in which this word is used in print. So, a great amount of mystery has attached itself to this word personality, and of course, “mys¬tery” is only another word for lack of understanding.
First, then, let us find out exactly what the word PERSONALITY means. Let us turn to Webster. Webster defines personality as that which distinguishes a person, or the sum total of one’s characteristics, or a compos¬ite of emotional tendencies, behavior inclinations and the like.” So much for Mr. Webster.

PERSONALITY - THE IMPRESSION YOU MAKE ON OTHERS
Personality is the impression which you make upon other people.
Your personality, then, determines what other people think about you. Their opinion of you is formed by the impression.which your personality makes upon them.
Strictly speaking, humanity presents only two great classes of personality. Let me tell you a little ‘story, just to illustrate these two great divisions of personality.
This happened one day in the dining room of a large hotel. Two women were lingering at their table for a friendly chat.
My attention was suddenly attracted by this remark from one of these two women, “Look l Here comes Mrs. Smith... isn’t she attractive? My but she is a lucky woman. She just seems to get everything she wants without half trying.
Naturally, I turned to look at the woman with the “personality.” She was just coming into -the room with a group of admiring friends.
Her personality really seemed to fill the room with her presence. Even the waiters were unusually attentive to her. Yet she was not a beautiful woman, and her clothes were neither striking nor costly. But the effect of her personality seemed to set her apart from every other woman in the room. Although I never saw her again, I never forgot this woman, because there was a memory of happiness at having beheld such a radiant personality.
George Eliot must have been thinking of some such magnetic personality when she wrote, “It is always good to know if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.”
The world avoids negative personalities. When I looked more closely at the woman whose remarks I”had overheard’, I saw than hers was that opposite, drab, negative personality which everyone avoids instinctively. She belonged to that great mass of people who were doomed to live. unnoticed and frustrated lives, unless they find themselves. Unnoticed and frustrated because of negative and colorless personality.
This little incident illustrates these two great classes of personality into which all men and women are divid¬ed; those who are colorful, interesting and attractive and those who are drab, dull and easily forgotten.
But, you may ask, can anyone possess this attractive personality, or is it a gift presented to a chosen few at birth by a kind Providence.
No Good Friend an attractive personality is not some peculiar gift at birth and it is not limited to the few. Here and now, in this lesson, we shall help you to develop a winning charming, magnetic personality .
FULL LENGTH MIRROR PICTURES OUTER SELF
Now, let us turn to Lesson One and carefully review two paragraphs; first, the paragraph headed 10A Full Length Mirror Pictures Your Thinking, “ from which we quote:
“Here is our first exercise perhaps a startling object lesson. Just pause in your study and go stand before a full length mirror, if possible. If you have no full length mirror in your home, locate one and follow the exer¬cise then. Now, with seeing eyes study the picture that is reflected back to you from that mirror.
Does your mirror reflect the sunshine of Success or the shadows of failure, Happiness or gloom, Health or-sickness? Remember, you are looking at the product of your own thinking up-to-date. Your body first existed as a thought.