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.