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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.
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.”
“