Lesson 4.3 In The Pathway to Personal Power

‘The important thing about any work is beginning. it. Whatever you. accomplish, whether it is much or lit­tle, can be credited to the strength of the DE-SIRE, THE DETERMINATION behind the mental picture of your mind-imaging.-This determination; ‘your WILL-power, has been called “the soul itself exercising self-direction.

DETERMINATION DIRECTS CREATIVE POWER

Speaking: of General Grant, Lincoln once said, “The greatest thing about him is his cool persistency of pur­pose. He has the grip of a bulldog.. When he once gets his teeth in, nothing can. shake him off.”

Let us remind you that neither General Grant nor the bulldog has a corner on this grim tenacity of purpose. You have the same quality. Every normal . man and. woman has. This quality is the Power of your. WILL: Within you, this bulldog determination awaits only the .opportunity to be aroused to acts of courage, to Success and Happiness. But first, you must have willingness for this Power to manifest itself.

You have proved that you have this willingness to show bulldog stick-to-itive-ness when you became a mem­ber of the The Academy of Philosophical Operational and Future Science Inc., and here in this course, and in each lesson, is the opportunity for you to rove that you, have that mystic quality of tenacity of purpose to prove that you can follow each and every direction herein to the letter, and by keeping everlasting at it until you have achieved that success which is your heart’s desire. And you will achieve that success just as certainly as you understand and follow these teachings implicitly.

NEVER DECEIVE YOURSELF

Be very careful that. you never try to deceive yourself, even if it seems to be in the interests of a good cause, And be absolutely honest with yourself . in each step of the Inner Work which we give you in these Lessons in affirmations and more, and!” I tell you why You see, I often “kid” myself saying, ‘I am a success now’ when I really know that I’m an entire failure.”

Of course no affirmation can work as long as you use your mind to image that you are “kidding yourself.” How could it? Just as long as that man holds the mental image that he is “kidding himself ” just that long is he trying to deceive himself—and that cannot be done successfully.

But when you use your mental imaging from the plane of ETERNAL SPIRITUAL LAW and idealize your affirmation, “I am a success now,” and use that as the model which you are reproducing in life, you will soon become conscious that you are materializing your success.

YOU ARE LIKE AN AEOLIAN HARP

The human body is like an Aeolian Harp, a structure that is being constantly played upon by the winds of vibration, whether consciously or unconsciously, whether awake or -asleep. Think of it—that body of yours contains more than five thousand miles of nerve-wires, stretched tightly, which act as antenna to receive the vibrations which contact them, in both long and short waves.

Science has decided that all THOUGHTS really come from The Cosmic Mind, radiations of ETERNAL SPIRITUAL LAW, GOD, and enter into the two great nerve centers of human beings through the antenna of the nervous system.

We must leave this fascinating study just here, but we will return to it in a later lesson. Just now our purpose

is to tell you that through our correct methods of Mental Imaging, you are in reality tuning in your antenna to receive the Power and the Message of the Ever-lasting God. You will not fail.

GOD IS ALL POWER

ETERNAL SPIRITUAL LAW manifests in tremendous Energy. If we could tell you the secret of Energy, we ‘could answer the riddle of the ages. Every second this Cosmic Energy is active everywhere throughout the Universe. Our mortal-minds cannot comprehend such Power, but we can attune these minds of ours to receive just as much of this Power as we can use, through desire directed-affirmations.

AFFIRMATIONS FOR LESSON FOUR

Remember, in your concentration period for the next week, at the close of your period, repeat the following four Master Affirmations at least TEN TIMES. (Memorize them first.)

The unseen Power of the Infinite surrounds you like an ocean, and by your affirmations you are drawing in that Power of Infinite Supply into the very depths of your Being.

ABUNDANCE IS MINE TODAY!

WHAT I WANT TO HAVE IS ALREADY MINE! I AM NOW BEING WHAT I WANT TO BE!

MY INFINITE SOURCE OF SUPPLY IS UNLIMITED!

ATTAINING ATTRACTIVE PERSONALITY

We sincerely believe that there is nothing in the world of hidden or occult knowledge like your next lesson, which is entitled “Attaining Attractive Personality.” This next Lesson, Number Five, will demonstrate in you Powers of which you may have dreamed, but which you never quite believed possible to you.

Lesson Five reveals to you still more of the Ancient Wisdom of the Ages and places in your lands the KEY to Success and to Power forbidden to all but the Initiates of the olden times. This principle, this priceless knowledge is possessed by but few men living today, and is treasured and kept in sacred trust for the members and the students of the American Bible.Institute.

But you need not take our word for this, amazing truth, because you are going to prove it in.your own trans-formed life. Results speak louder than words and Results you shall have.

RELAX, EXPECT AND RECEIVE

We should like you, to follow our particular Method of approach in studying , these lessons. This is NOT the usual method of study at all, but is a method whereby you absorb each lesson so that it becomes unfor­gettable.

First, relax,’ and cultivate a; calm, receptive, expectant frame of mind. We want you to “make haste” slowly and surely, External effort, hurry or strain immediately shuts off your Power to absorb—to receive..

Don’t “think hard” or “hurry,” or even “study,” just try using mental Pictures. After slowly reading the para­graphs under a subheading, just close your eyes and thoughtfully recall the statements under that heading. You will soon find that you have acquired a concentrated mental habit which enables you to read with, normal rapidity and to remember all that you read.

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