Lesson No. 5.1 In the Pathway To Personal Power

LESSON NO.5.1
THE PATHWAY TO PERSONAL POWER

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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.