The PATHWAY TO PERSONAL POWER (series one); TRANSFORMED BY RENEWING YOUR MIND

TRANSFORMED BY RENEWING YOUR MIND

Because you deeply desire to transform sickness into abounding health, or to transform a life of poverty, sorrow and frustration into real Happiness and Success, or to trade destitution and limitations for Abundance and Freedom you have become a student of the American Bible Institute, and you are now studying this first lesson of the Secret Instruction in Attainment. Earnestly seek to understand this marvelous instruction and follow each exercise and each simple but secret ceremonial and TRUST Implicitly AND YOU WILL ATTAIN TO YOUR HEART’S DESIRE in due time, “if ye faint not”.

Please know and understand that there are no “trifles” and no idle statements in these occult lessons in attainment to your own God-given DIVINITY. Mentally repeat each sentence in your own words until each thought becomes YOUR thought. What to you may seem, trifle: will, prove tremendous in your attainment.

“And be not conformed (made like) to-this world; but BE YE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR .MIND,” says Paul, in Romans 12:2. There in simple words is the first, the Great Secret of the Healing, the Riches and the Happiness you so greatly desire, given so long ago by Paul, that inspired Master Psychologists.

A SLAVE TO CIRCUMSTANCE

You have simply. been the unconscious slave “of circumstance.” Perhaps, unknowingly you have :become the servant of your surroundings or self-seeking persons who have become but human parasites, vampires sucking your life blood day-by-day, and diverting your efforts from accomplishments and success.

We shall train you to USE your hidden powers of Divine THOUGHT to develop and to express a radiant, a superior and a positive personality “by the renewing of your mind” and then in that glorious freedom you will never again be the slave of circumstance nor the servant of self-seekers.

Playing at “religion” or yielding yourself servant to the personal opinions, whims or ideas of others is now NOT for YOU—for now you are learning that LIFE is in the present tense and first person—THE HERE AND NOW OF DIVINE SELF-EXPRESSION.

The great and Divine Law of thought is that thought is like a magnet. Thought attracts to the thinker its own exact likeness, good or bad. positive or negative, health or sickness, poverty or riches, happiness or misery. Thought creates that likeness into material existence in all the things which make up the life of the thinker. Therefore, as is YOUR MIND, so IS your life, so are you.

YOUR MIRROR PICTURES YOUR THINKING

Here in is our first exercise—perhaps a startling object lesson. Just pause. in your study and go and stand before a mirror, a full length mirror if possible. Now, with seeing eyes, study the picture that is reflected back to you from that mirror.

Be perfectly frank and be perfectly fair with yourself in viewing that picture. Judge that picture as you would judge another person—a stranger, perhaps. Try to be impartial. You will realize that this is the picture which everyone else must see who looks at you.

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. Your whole being today shows forth in material form the thinking which You have done.

THE SHADOW OF THE UNSEEN

All material things are but the shadows of the unseen. The garments which clothe that form in your mirror are the garments which you thought into your—possession you selected those garments.

Each line upon your face, the smile or the frown, the smiling or the drooping lips, the magnetic gaze or that uncertain look in your eyes all reveal your own real habit-patterns of mind—your secret thoughts made visi­ble.

Each month, as you follow this priceless instruction, we shall ask you to give yourself the mirror test, and just as this system of Attainment of. Supreme Power is every day recreating the past failures of numberless men and women into solid and lasting Healing. Success and Abundance, so you, too, will be positively amazed as month by month, before your very eyes, you will see. your own life being transformed into the Health, the Happiness and the Success which you so greatly desire.

BEHOLD—THE CATERPILLAR  GROWS WINGS

Even the humble CATERPILLAR-fulfills God’s eternal law of the ever recurrent new birth. When the CATERPILLAR has finished his incarnation as an humble worm, the Voice of his destiny whispers to his mind, “Let me enter into the path of Darkness: peradventure there shall I find the Light.”

Then in the deep Darkness of the cocoon, in The Secret Place, IN THE SILENCE presently the new con­sciousness and the new and beautiful body-is conceived and burst’ forth into manifestation upon shimmering, silken wings. Remember, the caterpillar is not destroyed, he is absorbed, transformed into the glory and the beauty of the new body incarnate.

Neither will you be destroyed, but when you are attuned to the Creative LAW of God, you, too, will be absorbed, transformed into the glory and the beauty of the GOD-LIFE INCARNATE. We do mean HERE AND NOW—not in some nebulous “Heaven” after physical death.

“For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face; now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also am known” (I Cor. 13:12) says Apostle Paul, and each “then” in that quotation refers to THE ETERNAL NOW.

This same thought of Paul’s was well expressed by Annie Besant, when she wrote these words about mani­festing the Light Within: “All you have to do is to take the marble of the lower half and with the chisel of will and the hammer of thought, cut away the matter that prevents the beautiful within you from being seen; to let the God within you shine. out in glory and lighten the world in which you live.

DON’T ADVERTISE YOUR HEART’S DESIRE

Never divulge your Heart’s desire to any person outside the American Bible Institute. Of course, you may tell others that you are a member of this Fellow-ship, and you are at liberty to advise any of your friends who need help to con-tact us, but beyond that—NO discussion—Please!

Remember, your Heart’s Desire-will speak for itself when it clothes itself with material reality. Achievement needs no advertising. Accomplishments never lack press-agents.

IN THE SILENCE

IN THE SILENCE The Inner Circle opens wide the door of hope to every sincere man and woman who earnestly seek help in harmonizing the discords of of disease and sickness, of frustration and failure, of human frailty and mal adjustments.

“But, thou, when thou prayest enter into the closet, (alone) and when thou hast shut the door, pray to thy Father, WHICH IS IN SECRET; ( in the invisible in the Silence); and thy Father, which seet'h in secret, SHALL REWARD THEE OPENLY” (Matt. 6:8).

Your next lesson will take you, step by step, in easy, simple words, still deeper into an understanding of the Power behind the, Throne of your Destiny and win show you how to use another of the great and hidden forces that are all around you.

And now we bid you Godspeed with this closing thought. “Why no, should we fall asleep regretting this day or dreading the morrow, when we have AN ETERNALLY ABIDING SELF, quiescent, still instinct with exec­utiveness, easily waiting our firm insistence on its action in our behalf? (Lessons in High Mysticism)

Interpretation of the Ancient Wisdom of the Great Work of the Academy of Philosophical Operational and Future Science.

“O MAN: KNOW THYSELF; FOR IN THEE IS HIDDEN THE TREASURE OF TREASURES.”

“Out of the Night that cover s me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever Gods may be,
For my unconquerable Soul.

“It matters not how straight the gate

Nor. charged with punishment the scroll, I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE,I am the Captain of my Soul.”

“Invictus, “ (Henley)

MASTERING YOUR FATE

Good Friend and Fellow Student:
Herewith is your Lesson No. Two, in The Pathway to Personal Power. In this course$ there are twenty-four lessons, and you will receive one Lesson every week. Thus, your progress will be steady, sure-and as rapid as possible.

Your first Lesson opened to you the tremendous possibilities of YOUR CREATIVE MIND POWER and led you to the startling discovery that, in conscious, positive thought-vibration, YOU ATTAIN TO UNION WITH GOD.

Already, as you have carefully studied and deeply meditated upon the transforming TRUTH in your first Lesson, you will perceive that a change for the better is coming into your Life. Good health, real Prosperity and much happiness are coming very, very near to you HERE AND NOW—This Day.

In this powerful Lesson, we teach you mastery of your fate through THE ETERNAL SPIRITUAL LAW that is God. Study with great care, read each sentence over and over. Thus you will invoke the Eternal Creative Powers of God.

REBUILDING YOUR DESTINY

In following these powerful Lessons, you are following the Pathway which will enable you to say with Henley, “I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE.”ESSON NO.2THE PATHWAY TO PERSOLNAL POWER

The Secret Instruction in the

First, then, in rebuilding your destiny, you must change your thought about yourself. Occult science teaches that your Thoughts make your character, and character is the REAL YOU.” For as much as he thinketh in his

heart (mind) so is he.”, (Proverbs 23:7). Picture yourself, then, as the Ideal You, which you really desire to be, and your mental picture will reflect itself in material Reality.

Second, INTENSE DESIRE BRINGS OPPORTUNITIES TO YOU. “For whosoever hath, to him shall be given. and whosoever hath not, from hint shall be taken even that he- seemeth to have.” Luke 8:18). Change your thinking about yourself today; this minute. Possession is first mental. Picture constantly the Opportunities you need, the Prosperity you want and the Abundance you Desire.

Third, ACTION MAKES ENVIRONMENT. Thinking without action, is merely wishful day-dreaming. Action makes environment. You are forever affecting someone else, You bless people, or you make them worse. Your home is either happy or miserable because of you... or because of someone else. Behind action is Mind. Within Mind is Desire.

“Who toiled a Slave may come anew a Prince.

For gentle worthiness and merit won.
Who ruled a King may wander the earth in rags,

For things done and undone.”

Yes, change your thinking about Yourself TODAY. If you truly want to be a success, then “Think Success and Abundance, TODAY and every ‘day until it is a regular habit with you.

CHANGE YOUR THINKING ABOUT GOD

Change your thinking about God and you will change your whole world. Simple isn’t it? Know that God— The Creative Law of God—is the God of Happiness and of Success, and these things you think about God will by yours HERE AND NOW, not in some distant future. This harmony with ETERNAL LAW is master­ing your FATE TODAY.

Let us turn again to the Bible, now, and therein we find that the prophets of the Ancient Wisdom certainly proclaimed God as the God of Riches, and by “riches” we DO mean money, money that means earthly Comfort, Leisure and Security.

“The Lord maketh poor, AND MAKETH RICHES: He bringeth Low and LIFTETH UP.” Every Man also to whom God hath given RICHES AND EASY WEALTH and hath given him Power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor, THIS IS THE GIFT OF GOD. (Eccl. 5:19)

“BOTH RICHES AND HONOR COME OF THEE. and thou rei nest over all; and in thine hand is Power and Might; and in thine hand IT IS TO MAKE GREAT, and to give strength unto all.” (l Chron. 29:12)

THOUGHTS OF POVERTY ATTRACT POVERTY

Sickness, Poverty, debt, troubles, misfortunes and unlovely environment are unreal and destructive. Thought is Energy and Power, and when a man spends time thinking about these unreal and negative conditions his very thinking and his FEAR gives reality, energy and power to these dark enemies.

No wonder the world is filled with sickness and poverty, because for count-less ages Man has thought real­ity into these great negations by his constant FEAR-THOUGHTS. Jobs began to understand the awful cost of FEAR when he cried out. “The thing I greatly feared hath come upon me.”