THE GREAT WITHIN
By
CHRISTIAN D. LARSON
THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY New York
Publishers
Copyright 1907 by C D. LARSON
Printed in the United States or America
The Great Within
THE mind of man is conscious
and subconscious, objective
and subjective, external and
internal.
The conscious mind acts,
the subconscious reacts; the conscious
mind produces the impression, the sub-
conscious produces the expression; the
conscious mind determines what is to be
done, the subconscious supplies the mental
material and the necessary power.
The subconscious mind is the great
within, an inner mental world from which
all things proceed that appear in the being
of man.
The conscious mind is the mind of action,
the subconscious mind is the mind of re-
action, but every subconscious reaction
is invariably the direct result of a cor-
responding conscious action.
Every conscious action produces an
impression upon the subconscious and
every subconscious reaction produces an
expression in the personality.
Everything that is expressed through
the personality was first impressed upon
the subconscious, and since the conscious
mind may impress anything upon the sub-
conscious, any desired expression may be
secured, because the subconscious will
invariably do what it is directed and im-
pressed to do.
The subconscious mind is a rich mental
field; every conscious impression is a seed
sown in this field, and will bear fruit after
its kind, be the seed good or otherwise.
All thoughts of conviction and all deeply
felt desires will impress themselves upon
the subconscious and will reproduce then-
kind, to be later expressed in the personal
being of man.
Every desire for power, ability, wisdom,
harmony, joy, health, purity, life, great-
ness, will impress itself upon the subcon-
scious, and will cause the thing desired to
be produced in the great within, the quality
and the quantity depending upon the
depth of the desire and the conscious reali-
zation of the true idea conveyed by the
desire.
What is produced in the within will
invariably come forth into expression in
the personality; therefore, by knowing how
to impress the subconscious, man may give
his personal self any quality desired, and
in any quantity desired.
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Personal power, physical health, mental
brilliancy, remarkable ability, extraordin-
ary talent, rare genius, these are attain-
ments that the subconscious of every mind
can readily produce and bring forth when
properly directed and impressed.
The subconscious mind obeys absolutely
the desires of the conscious mind, and since
the subconscious is limitless, it can do fof
man whatever he may desire to have done.
What man may desire to become, that
he can become, and the art of directing
and impressing the subconscious is the
secret.
Unlimited possibilities do exist in the
subconscious of every mind, and since
these possibilities can all be developed,
there is no end to the attainments and
achievements of man.
Nothing is impossible; the great within
is limitless, the inexhaustible source of
everything that may be required for the
highest development and the greatest ac-
complishments in human life, and what-
ever we may direct the within to produce,
the same will invariably be produced.
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T0 properly direct and impress
the subconscious, the first es-
sential is to realize that the
subconscious mind is a finer
mentality that permeates every
fibre of the entire personality. Though the
subconscious can be impressed most di-
rectly through the brain-center, the vol-
ume of subconscious expression will in-
crease in proportion to our conscious
realization of subconscious life in every
part of mind and body.
To concentrate attention frequently upon
the subconscious side of the entire person-
ality will steadily awaken the great within;
this will cause one to feel that a new and
superior being is beginning to unfold, and
with that feeling comes the conviction that
unbounded power does exist in the deeper
life of man.
When the awakening of the subcon-
scious is felt in every part of mind and
body, one knows that anything may be
attained and achieved; doubts disappear
absolutely, because to feel the limitless is
to believe in the limitless.
While impressing the subconscious, at-
tention should be directed upon the inside
of mind, and this is readily done while
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one thinks that the subconscious mentality
permeates the personality, as water per-
meates a sponge.
Think of the interior essence that per-
meates the exterior substance, and cause
all mental actions to move toward the
finer mental life that lives and moves and
has its being within the interior mind.
This will cause the conscious action to
impress itself directly upon the subcon-
scious, and a corresponding reaction or
expression will invariably follow.
While directing attention upon the sub-
conscious, the idea that is to be impressed
should be clearly discerned in mind and an
effort should be made to feel the soul of
that idea.
To mentally feel the soul of the idea will
completely eliminate the mechanical ten-
dency of mental action, and this is extreme-
ly important because no mechanical action
of mind can impress the subconscious.
Perfect faith in the process is indispensa-
ble, and to inwardly know that results will
be secured is to cause failure to become
impossible.
The deeper and higher the attitude of
faith while the subconscious is being
impressed, the more deeply will the impres-
sion be made, and the deep impression not
only enters the richest states of the sub-
conscious, but always produces results.
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The attitude of faith takes the mind into
the superior, the limitless, the soul of
things, and this is precisely what is wanted.
When the mind transcends the objective
it enters into the subjective, and to enter
into the subjective is to impress one's
ideas and desires directly, deeply and com-
pletely upon the great within. Such
impressions will invariably produce re-
markable expressions, not only because
they have entered more deeply into the
subconscious, but also because every im-
pression that is made in the attitude of
faith is given superior quality, greater
power and higher worth.
The subconscious should never be ap-
proached in the attitude of command or
demand, but always in the attitude of
faith and desire. Never command the
subconscious to do thus or so, but desire
with a deep, strong desire, that the sub-
conscious do what you desire to have
done, and animate that desire with the
faith that it positively will be done.
To combine a high faith with a strong
desire while impressing the subconscious
is the secret through which results may
invariably be secured.
The subconscious should never be force-
fully aroused, but should be gradually
awakened and developed through such
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actions of mind as are deep and strong
while perfectly serene.
Deep thoughts on all important subjects,
lofty aspirations on all occasions, and a
constantly expanding consciousness will
aid remarkably in awakening the great
within.
Whenever attention is directed upon the
subconscious, an effort should be made to
expand consciousness by picturing upon
mind the expanding process while the
deeper feeling of thought is placing itself
in touch with the universal; a strong, deep
desire for greater things should be impressed
upon the inner mentality, and a deep still-
ness should animate every action of mind.
The inner side of mind should always
be acted upon peacefully, though not with
that peacefulness that has a tendency to
produce inaction, but with that peaceful-
ness that produces a high, strong action
that continues to act in serenity and poise.
To concentrate a strong, deeply felt,
well poised mental action upon the entire
subconscious mentality a number of times
every day will, in a remarkably short time,
develop the great within to such an extent
that the mind will inwardly know that
unlimited power and innumerable possibil-
ities have been placed at its command,
and when this realization comes the mind
may go on to any attainment and any
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achievement; failure will be simply impos-
sible.
When the development of the subcon-
scious has been promoted to a degree the
conscious mind will instinctively feel that
failure is impossible, and will, consequently,
leave results to the law. There will be no
anxiety about results because to feel the
presence of subconscious action is to know
that results must follow when the subcon-
scious is properly directed and impressed.
Perfect faith in the law that the subcon-
scious will invariably do whatever it is
impressed to do will eliminate anxiety
completely, and this is extremely important,
because the subconscious mind cannot
proceed to do what it has been impressed
to do so long as there is anxiety in the
conscious mind.
Provide the proper conditions and the
law will positively produce the desired
results, and to inwardly know this is the
first essential in providing the proper con-
ditions.
The subconscious mind is somewhat
similar to the phonograph; under certain
conditions it can record anything, and
under certain other conditions it can
reproduce everything that has been recorded.
There is this difference, however: The sub-
conscious not only reproduces exactly
what has been recorded, but will also form,
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create, develop and express what mind
may desire when the impression is being
made; that is, the subconscious not only
reproduces the seed itself, but as many
more seeds as the original seed desired to
reproduce, and also the exact degree of
improvement in quality that was latent in
the desire of the original seed or impres-
sion.
The subconscious not only reproduces
the mental idea contained in the impres-
sion, but also every essential that may be
required to fulfill the desire of that im-
pression.
Through this law the subconscious can
find the answer to any question or work
out any problem when properly impressed
with an exact idea of what is wanted.
THE subconscious provides the
essentials, but the conscious
mind must apply those essen-
tials before practical results
may be secured.
When the subconscious is directed to
produce health, those mental actions will
be expressed that can produce health in
the body when combined with normal
physical actions, and it is the conscious
mind that must produce the normal phys-
ical actions; that is, common sense living.
When the subconscious is directed to
produce success, those elements, qualities
and powers will be expressed in mind and
body that can, if consciously applied, pro-
duce success.
That the subconscious can do anything
is absolutely tine, but it is true in this
sense, that it can supply the power, the
capacity and the understanding to do any-
thing, but the conscious mind must prac-
tically apply what the subconscious has
brought forth into expression.
The subconscious supplies the power
and the mental elements, but these must
be used by the conscious mind if the
desired results are to be secured. Nothing
comes ready-made from the subconscious,
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but it can give us the material from which
we can make anything.
The subconscious can give you the
powers and qualities of genius, and if you
apply, practically and constantly, those
powers and qualities, you will become a
genius.
The subconscious can give you the life
and the power that is necessary to remark-
able talents, and if you use that life and
power in the daily cultivation of your
talents, those talents will become remarka-
ble.
The law is that the conscious mind must
impress its desires upon the subconscious
in order to secure the mental essentials
that may be required to fulfill those desires,
but the conscious mind must use those
essentials before results can be secured.
It is the conscious mind that does things,
but it is the subconscious that supplies the
power with which those things are done,
and by learning to draw upon the subcon-
scious the conscious mind can do anything,
because unbounded power and innumer-
able possibilities are latent in the great
within.
The proper conditions for recording an
impression upon the subconscious are deep
feeling, strong desires, conscious interest
and a living faith. When these are
blended harmoniously in the conscious
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actions of mind the subconscious will be
directed and impressed properly and the
desired response will invariably appear.
The principal essential, however, is deep
feeling; no idea or desire can enter the
subconscious unless it is deeply felt, and
every idea or desire that is deeply felt will
enter the subconscious of itself, whether
or not we desire to have it do so.
It is through this law that man is affected
by his environments, surroundings and
external conditions, because whenever he
permits himself to be deeply impressed
by that with which he may come in contact
those impressions will enter the subcon-
scious.
What enters the subconscious of any
mind will become a part of that mind, and
will, to a degree, affect the nature, the
character, the quality, the thoughts and
the actions of that mind.
When the subconscious is impressed by
external conditions the impressions will be
like those conditions and, as like produces
like, conditions will be produced in the
subconscious that are exactly like those
external conditions from which the impres-
sions came*
The individual, therefore, who permits
his subconscious to be indiscriminately
impressed by external conditions will think
and act, more or less, as his environments
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may suggest. In many respects his life
will be controlled completely by those
persons and things with which he may
come in contact, while in nearly all other
respects his life will be greatly modified
by the presence of those persons and
things.
The mind that does not control its feel-
ings may be subconsciously impressed by
any external action, be that action good or
otherwise, while the mind that can give
deep feeling to any idea can impress any
idea upon the subconscious, and as the
whole of the individual life is determined
by what the subconscious is directed or
impressed to do, the former will become,
more or less, like his environment, having
control neither of himself nor his destiny;
the latter, however, may become what he
wants to become and will master both
himself and his destiny.
No undesirable feeling should ever be
permitted ; no wrong idea should ever be
given in thought; nor should one ever
think seriously, feelingly or sympathetic-
ally about wrong or evil in any shape or
form.
To think feelingly about wrong is to im-
press wrong upon the subconscious ; it is to
sow undesirable seeds in the garden of the
mind, and a harvest of weeds, sickness,
trouble and want, will be the result.
Good thoughts, deeply felt, will bring
health, happiness, harmony, peace, power,
ability and character. Wrong thoughts,
deeply felt, will bring discord, depression,
fear, sickness, weakness and failure.
To properly impress the subconscious
at all times, it is therefore necessary to
train the mind to think only of those
things that one desires to realize and
express in tangible life; and what one does
not wish to meet in personal experience
should never be given a single moment of
thought.
What we mentally feel we invariably
impress upon the subconscious, and there
is a tendency to mentally feel every thought
that is given prolonged or serious atten-
tion.
To think about that which we do not
want, is to impress upon the subconscious
what we do not wish to impress; and as
every impression produces a corresponding
expression, we will thereby receive the
very things we desire to avoid.
It is through this law that what we fear
always comes upon us, because what we
fear will impress itself upon the subcon-
scious without fail.
To fear disease, failure or trouble is to
sow seeds in the subconscious field that
will bring forth a harvest of diseased con-
ditions, troubled thoughts, confused mental
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states and misdirected actions in mind and
body.
The more intense the fear the deeper the
subconscious impression, and the more we
shall receive of that which we feared we
should receive.
Through the same law we always re-
ceive what we continue to expect in the
desire of the deep, strong faith. The more
faith we have in the realization and attain-
ment of that which has quality, superiority
and worth, the more deeply we impress the
subconscious with those mental seeds that
can and will bring forth the greater good
that we desire.
To have faith in the attainment of
peace, harmony, health, power, ability,
talent and genius, while directing the sub-
conscious to produce those things, is to
cause those very things to be created
within us in greater and greater measure.
THE purpose of consciously and
intelligently directing the sub-
conscious is first, to correct
every wrong, every flaw, every
defect, every perversion, and
every imperfect condition that may exist
in the personality of man; and, second, to
bring out into fuller expression the limit-
less possibilities that exist in the great
within.
Everything that is wrong in the personal
life of the individual comes from a cor-
responding wrong impression in the sub-
conscious; the wrong subconscious im-
pression is the cause, the wrong external
condition is the effect; it is therefore
evident that to remove all wrong impres-
sions from the subconscious is to establish
complete emancipation throughout the en-
tire personal being of man.
To remove any wrong impression from
the subconscious, the opposite correct
impression must be made in its place. A
wrong impression cannot be removed by
mental force, resistance or denial; produce
the right impression and the wrong impres-
sion will cease to exist.
By training the mind to think only of
that which is desired in actual realization
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and experience, and by deeply impressing
all those thoughts and desires upon the
subconscious, every undesirable impression
will be removed; the cause of every flaw,
defect or perversion in the personal man
will be removed, and in consequence, the
flaws, defects, and perversions themselves
will cease to exist.
The entire subconscious field can be
changed absolutely by constantly causing
new and superior impressions to be formed
in the great within; and every change that
is brought about in the subconscious will
produce a corresponding change in mind
and body.
There is nothing adverse in the men-
tality or the personality of man that cannot
be corrected by causing the correct impres-
sion to be formed in the subconscious.
All wrongs, flaws or defects, whether they
be hereditary, or personally produced, can
be removed completely through the intel-
ligent direction of the subconscious.
Every impression that is properly made
in the subconscious mind will produce a
corresponding expression in the personality;
that is the law, and it cannot fail; but the
impression must be properly made.
The subconscious does not respond to
mere commands, because it neither rea-
sons nor discriminates; it does not obey
what it is told to do, but what it is im-
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pressed to do. It is the idea that enters
into the subconscious that determines
subconscious action; but the idea must
not simply be given to the subconscious,
it must enter into the subconscious.
The idea that predominates in mind
while the subconscious is being directed,
is the idea that will be impressed; there-
fore, negative desires will impress the sub-
conscious to do the very opposite to what
is desired by the desire.
To direct the subconscious to remove
sickness is to impress the idea of sickness,
because the mind thinks principally of
sickness at the time; in consequence,
more sickness will be produced.
It is not what the subconscious is di-
rected to do, but the predominant thought
that is conveyed through that direction
that determines results; therefore, the pre-
dominant thought must be identical with
the final results desired.
When health is desired, no thought
whatever should be given to sickness; the
subconscious should not be directed to
remove sickness, but should be directed to
produce health.
The subconscious should always be
directed to produce those qualities and
conditions that are desired, but those con-
ditions that are to be removed should never
be mentioned in mind. Adverse condi-
tions will disappear of themselves When
true conditions are established; but the
mind cannot impress, create and establish
the true while attention is being concen-
trated upon the adverse.
To direct the subconscious not to do
thus or so, is to impress the subconscious
to do that very thing. When you try to
impress the subconscious with the idea
that you do not wish to get sick any
more you have sickness in mind, and it
is the idea that you have in mind that
you impress upon the subconscious.
To remove sickness forget sickness abso-
lutely, and impress upon the subconscious
the idea of health, and that idea alone.
Desire health with all the power of mind,
and fill both sides of mentality, conscious
and subconscious, so completely with that
desire that every thought of sickness is
forgotten.
A denial will impress upon the subcon-
scious the nature and the power of the
very thing that is denied; therefore, to
deny evil or resist evil is to produce causes
in mind that will, in the coming days,
produce more evil.
To try to deny away adverse conditions
is to continue in perpetual mental warfare
with those very things that mind is trying
to destroy. Temporary states of seeming
freedom in some parts of the system will
be followed regularly with outbreaks of
adversity in other parts; while the sub-
conscious cause of undesirable conditions
in mind or body will not be removed.
So long as we continue to resist or deny
evil, we will think about evil, and so long
as we think about evil, evil will be im-
pressed upon the subconscious; and what-
ever we impress upon the subconscious,
that the subconscious will reproduce and
bring forth into the personal life.
When we have a great undertaking that
we wish to promote, and desire to secure
as much added power, ability and capacity
as possible from the great within, the sub-
conscious should not be directed to prevent
failure. To think of failure is to impress
the subconscious with the idea of failure,
and detrimental conditions, conditions
that will confuse the mind and produce
failure will be expressed.
All thought of failure should be elimi-
nated, and the subconscious should be
deeply impressed to produce success. The
subconscious will respond by bringing
forth the power, the capacity, the ability,
the understanding and the determination
that can and will produce success.
WHEN properly directed, the sub-
conscious mind can inspire
the conscious mind to do the
right thing at the right time,
to take advantage of oppor-
tunities during the psychological moment,
and to so deal with circumstances that all
things will work together to promote the
object in view. It is, therefore, evident
that when the subconscious is trained to
work in harmony with the objects and
desires of the conscious mind, failure
becomes impossible, and success in greater
and greater measures may be secured by
anyone.
When trying to remove undesirable
habits, tendencies or desires, the mind
should never think, "I shall not do this
any more," because through such a thought
or statement, the habit in mind will be
reimpressed upon the subconscious and
will gain a deeper foothold in the system
than it had before.
The proper course to pursue is to forget
completely what you desire to remove;
refuse to think of it; when tempted to think
of the matter turn attention upon the
opposite qualities, desires or tendencies.
Should you fail to become sufficiently
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interested in those opposite desires to forget
what you want to forget, look for the most
interesting points of view connected with
those desires. The mental effort em-
ployed in trying to find the most interesting
point of view connected with those desires
will cause the mind to become thoroughly
interested in those desires, and will, con-
sequently, forget those things that should
be forgotten.
While the mind is being interested in
those desires that you wish to cultivate,
they should be impressed upon the sub-
conscious with all the depth of feeling that
can possibly be aroused. These impres-
sions should be repeated a number of times
every day, and the new desires will soon
take root in the subconscious.
Every desire or tendency that takes root
in the subconscious will begin to develop
and express itself in the personal self, and
will be felt throughout the personality.
When the new desire is fully expressed, it
will be thoroughly felt; and since no two
desires of opposite nature can exist in the
person at the same time, the old desires
will disappear; the old tendencies and the
old habits will have vanished completely.
To impress upon the subconscious a
strong desire for the better, the purer and
the superior, is to cause the system to crave
something better; the force of desire will
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be refined; the entire organism will be
purified, and the wants of the personal self
will become normal on a higher plane.
All kinds of undesirable habits may be
removed by constantly impressing upon
the subconscious the idea of pure desire;
and all tendencies to anger, hatred and
similar states, may be removed by causing
the qualities of love, kindness, justice and
sympathy to be more fully developed in the
great within.
To remove fear and worry, impress the
subconscious, as frequently as possible,
with the deep feeling of faith, gratitude
and mental sunshine.
To have faith is to know that man has
the power to perpetually increase the good,
and that he may constantly press on to
better things and greater things. To have
faith is to be guided by superior mental
lucidity, and thereby know how to select
what is sale 'and secure ; and he who knows
that he is on the safe path, the ascending
path, the endless path to better things and
greater things, has eliminated fear abso-
lutely.
To live constantly in the spirit of grati-
tude is not only to remove worry, but the
cause of worry. To be grateful for the
good that is now coming into life is to open
the way for the coming of greater good.
This is the law; and he who is daily receiv-
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ing the greater good, has no cause for
worry; he will even forget that worry ever
had a place in his mind.
To constantly impress the subconscious
with mental sunshine, is to establish the
tendency to live on the bright side, the
sunny side; and to live on the bright side
is to increase your own brightness; your
mind will become more brilliant, your
thinking will have more lucidity and clear-
ness, your nature will have more sweetness,
your personality will be in more perfect
harmony with everything, your life will
be better, your work will be better, every-
thing will be better; therefore, by living
on the bright side, ail things will steadily
become better and brighter for you.
When all is dark, and everything seems
to go wrong, arouse all your energies for
the purpose of impressing and directing
the subconscious to produce the change
you desire. Give the deepest possible feel-
ing to those impressions, and have stronger
faith than you ever had before.
Continue persistently until the great
within begins to respond; you will then
feel from within how to act, and you will
be given the power to do what you feel
you should do. Ere long, things will take
a turn; the threatened calamity will be
avoided by the coming forth of that power
within that is greater than all adversities,
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all troubles, all wrongs; and instead, this
power, having been awakened, will proceed
to create a better future than you ever
knew before.
WHILE the subconscious is being
impressed, no thought what-
ever should be given to lim-
itation, and no comparisons
should be made with other
persons or previous attainments.
To think that you wish to do better
to-day than you did yesterday, is to give
the subconscious two unrelated ideas upon
which to act, the idea of the lesser achieve-
ment of the past and the idea of the greater
achievement of the future. The subcon-
scious will try to reproduce them both, but
as they are antagonistic, they will neu-
tralize each other, and there will be no
results. The greater and the lesser cannot
be produced by the same force at the same
time.
To impress the desire that you may
become greater than anyone else, will also
present to the subconscious two conflicting
ideas; and the results again will be neu-
tralized.
The course to pursue is to forget the
lesser achievements of yesterday; think
only of the greater achievements that you
wish to promote to-day; then direct the
subconscious to do to-day what you wish to
have done to-day. This will cause the great
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within to give all its power and attention
to the one idea, the greater achievement
of to-day; and the greater achievement
will positively follow.
Know what you desire to become;
resolve to become what you desire to
become, whether others have reached those
heights or not; forget the lesser heights
that others have reached and give your
whole mind and soul to the greater heights
that you have resolved to reach.
You can become what you desire to
become; the great within is limitless, and
can give you all the wisdom and all the
power that you may require. Knowing
this, direct the great within to bring forth
what you may need to reach your lofty
goal, and the same will be done. The sub-
conscious never fails to do what it is prop-
erly directed to do.
While impressing the subconscious, think
of the perfect in regard to quality, and the
limitless in regard to quantity. Never
specify any exact amount, nor any special
degree; always desire the limitless and the
perfect; desire nothing less; and animate
consciousness with a strong desire to
expand constantly during the process, so
that the highest quality and the greatest
quantity possible may be realized.
Desire the fullest possible expression in
the great eternal now; realize that your
own inherent powers and capabilities are
limitless, and impress that idea upon the
subconscious.
Give no thought whatever to the lesser
attainments in your own life or in the lives
of others, but keep your mental eye single
upon what you wish to become, knowing
that you can become what you wish to
become because there are no limitations in
the great within.
When the subconscious begins to re-
spond, a distinct sensation is frequently felt
of some interior power working through
you; this means that greater power from
within is being awakened, and the outer
mind should give full right of way so that
a complete expression may be secured;
that is, the conscious mind should become
quiet, serene and thoroughly receptive, and
should forget the personal self, for the time.
When the personal self is forgotten and
the greater interior self is given full pos-
session of both the mentality and the
personality, it is then that one's greatest
work is done. It is then that real ability,
real talent and real genius can appear in
tangible life and action.
When the musician forgets herself, there
is something in her music that awakens
the very depths of the soul, and you are
lifted to a fairer world than you ever knew
before.
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When the artist forgets himself, his pic-
tures are given immortal life and every
touch reveals a universe of indescribable
beauty.
V/hen the orator forgets himself, he
speaks as one having authority, and you
inwardly feel that every word is true.
When the practical man of affairs for-
gets himself, he is given a power that is
irresistible, and the obstacles that are
encountered in the way, disappear as if
they never had the slightest existence.
It is such people that do great things in
the world; it is such people who live in
the human heart after ages have passed
away; and their secret is this, the great-
ness within them was awakened, and was
permitted to give full expression to its rare
and superior power.
When you feel this higher power mys-
teriously moving within the greater depths
of mind and soul, you know what is taking
place; be calm, and give the superior self
the right of way.
At first this power may feel as if it were
distinct from yourself; but it is not, it is
your own superior power; the coming
forth of your own limitless power; the very
power that you have for some time been
directing the subconscious to produce; and
when you feel that it is your own it is
placed in your full conscious possession,
and will do whatever you may desire or
direct.
To inwardly feel that the entire within
is your own is extremely important, be-
cause the more completely the conscious
mind is united with the power of the sub-
conscious, the more perfectly can the con-
scious mind impress the subconscious, and
the more thoroughly can the greater power
of the subconscious express itself in exter-
nal, tangible action.
When you are about to do something
that demands the best that is within you,
impress the subconscious for higher power;
then wait a few moments for this power to
appear; and when it does appear, let the
outer self obey. The great within has
come forth to do your work, and no power
in existence can do it better.
To enter into full conscious possession
of the higher power from within, and to
give full right of way to this power, is to
give your objective talents and faculties
the greatest power and the best power at
your command.
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impress the subconscious for
more power it is necessary to
give to that impression all the
power that mind is conscious
of now; in other words, the
seed that is already at hand should be
placed in rich soil; the power that is now
active in the conscious mind should be
caused to act upon the subconscious; there
will be increase; and by reimpressing the
added power upon the subconscious every
time added power is gained, this increase
will become perpetual.
To proceed, concentrate attention upon
the subconscious side of the entire person-
ality, and desire gently, but with deep feel-
ing, to draw all the present active energies
of the system into the subconscious.
The more energy that is drawn into the
subconscious during this process, the more
power will be impressed upon the subcon-
scious, and the more power that is im-
pressed upon the subconscious the more
power will be expressed from the subcon-
scious.
The law is that whatever power is im-
pressed upon the subconscious will return
to the outer personality with added power,
just as every seed sown in rich soil will
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reproduce itself, ten, twenty, sixty and evea
a hundredfold.
Therefore, to daily arouse all the power
that we personally possess, and to impress
all of that power upon the subconscious,
is to increase perpetually the quantity of
personal power; and the quality of that
power can be steadily improved by trans-
muting and refining all the present forces
of the system before they are impressed
upon the subconscious.
Before the conscious mind begins to act
upon the subconscious all thought and all
feeling should be elevated into the highest
states of quality, worth and superiority that
can possibly be realized. This will cause
the impression to be superior, and a su-
perior impression will produce a superior
expression.
That which is common, ordinary or
inferior should never be held in mind, nor
deeply felt for a moment, because to feel
the ordinary is to impress the ordinary
upon the subconscious ; it is sowing inferior
seed, and the harvest will be cheap, com-
mon, worthless.
No person should ever think of himself
as inferior, or permit himself to recognize
the imperfect in his nature. To recognize
or feel the imperfect is to sow more seeds
of imperfection, and reap another harvest
that is not worth while.
There is a superior nature within man;
this nature alone should be recognized and
felt ; only those thoughts and ideas that are
formed in the exact likeness of the superior
should be impressed upon the subconscious,
and the subconscious will respond by giv-
ing superiority to the entire mentality and
the entire personality.
The average person fails to improve
because he lives mainly in the conscious-
ness of his imperfections; he feels that he
is ordinary and constantly impresses the
subconscious with this feeling of the ordi-
nary; the subconscious naturally responds
by producing the ordinary, both in mind
and body.
That person, however, who lives in the
ideal, who thinks constantly of the greater
worth that is within him, and who tries to
feel and realize his superior nature, will
give quality to every impression that may
enter the subconscious; and according to
the law of action and reaction, will steadily
develop greater quality and worth through-
out his entire nature.
The quality of the impression that is
given to the subconscious always corre-
sponds with the degree of quality of which
we are conscious at the time the impression
is made. To refine, elevate and enrich all
thought and feeling before the conscious
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mind begins to act upon the subconscious,
is therefore of the highest importance.
The more quality that is given to the
power that is being developed, the greater
the results that may be secured through the
application of that power.
It is quality and quantity combined that
produces greatness, and greatness — greater
and greater greatness, is the purpose we all
have in view.
To constantly feel the greatness of the
great within, is to constantly impress upon
the subconscious the idea of greatness;
this will cause the subconscious to develop
greatness and express greatness through
every part of the personal man.
As greatness develops, the feeling of
greatness will become deeper, stronger and
more intense; this will cause larger and
finer ideas of greatness to be impressed
upon the subconscious; and the result of
these later impressions will be larger and
greater expressions; a larger measure of
greatness will be developed perpetually
through the law of much gathering more,
or "to him that hath shall be given."
All development comes from the sub-
conscious, and since the possibilities of the
great within are limitless, anyone can,
through the proper direction of the sub-
conscious, develop remarkable ability, ex*
traordinary talent and rare genius.
All genius is the result of a large subcon-
scious mentality; therefore, any one can
become a genius by awakening a larger and
a larger measure of the great within.
That a genius is asleep in the subcon-
scious of every mind is literally true, but
to awaken this genius is not the only
essential; the conscious mind must be
cultivated scientifically, so that the su-
perior ability from within may find free
and full expression.
The conscious mind should be cultivated,
the subconscious should be developed; the
;onscious mind should be trained to do
things, while the subconscious should be
directed to give more and more power for
the doing of greater and greater things.
The subconscious has the capacity to
produce genius in any mind — the greatest
genius imaginable, but the conscious mind
must be highly cultivated so as to become
a fit instrument through which great
genius may find expression for its superior
work.
When quality and worth are received
from the subconscious, the conscious mind
should use those things in practical action,
so that the outer elements and forces of
mind may be trained to appreciate quality
and appropriate worth in all their tangible
expressions.
The conscious and the subconscious sides
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of mind should be placed in the most per-
fect harmonious relations, so that every im-
pression of the conscious mind may enter
deeply into the subconscious and every
expression from the subconscious may
work through the conscious mind without
any restriction or interference whatever.
The entire mind develops through the
attainment of deeper and higher states of
consciousness of the great within; and as
this interior realm is boundless, there is no
end to the possibilities of mental develop-
ment.
To gain this interior consciousness,
objective consciousness should be constantly
deepened toward the unfathomable within,
and this is accomplished by training all the
mental tendencies to move toward the
within.
The mental tendencies will move toward
those states of being to which we give the
greatest amount of attention; therefore,
by constantly thinking with deep feeling
of the great within, all the mental tenden-
cies will move toward, and into, the great
within; and will carry into the subcon-
scious every idea, thought or desire that
the conscious mind may wish to realize
and fulfill.
When all the mental tendencies move
into the subconscious, and all thought is
given feeling, worth and quality, the sub-
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conscious will constantly be impressed with
superior ideas, which means a constant
expression of superior life, superior ability
and superior power.
^The more deeply the tendencies of mind
enter the subconscious, the more of the
great within will be awakened; and what-
ever is awakened in the within will invari-
ably come forth into the personal man.
It is therefore evident that when we
cease to live on the surface of personal life
we shall constantly improve that surface;
by mentally living in the within we shall
strengthen, enrich and perfect the without ;
that is, we improve external effects by
going more deeply into the subconscious
and increasing the quality and the power
of internal causes.
The person who actually enters the
deeper life to live will not ignore the body;
those who simply dream of inner states of
life may neglect the body, but those who
thoroughly develop the greater, inner life
will become able to give the body the best
that can be secured; and they will enjoy
physical existence infinitely more than
those who simply live on the surface.
It is the truth that whatever we awaken
and develop in the great within will in-
variably come forth into tangible, personal
expression.
EACH person is, no more and
no less, than what has been
given to him by his subcon-
scious mind; and as the sub-
conscious is prepared to give
as much as any one may desire, the state-
ment that we all may become whatsoever
we may wish to become, is therefore abso-
lutely true; but what the subconscious is
to give to any person depends largely upon
the movement of his mental tendencies.
All the creative energies of the system
follow the tendencies of the mind; there-
fore, when all the mental tendencies move
toward the subconscious, all the surplus
energy that is generated in the system w r ill
enter the subconscious ; and the more energy
that enters the subconscious the more of
the subconscious will be awakened and
developed.
The larger the field that is placed under
cultivation the greater the harvest.
Every mental tendency that is trained
to enter the subconscious will cause a cor-
responding tendency to be permanently
expressed; therefore, by causing all the
worthy tendencies to move toward the
subconscious, the subconscious will respond
by expressing through the personality the
tendencies to be just, true, honest, vir-
tuous, kind, sympathetic, sweet-tempered,
cheerful, fearless, faithful, persevering, in-
dustrious in brief, everything that goes to
make a strong and worthy personality.
By a simple system of subconscious
training, any one can build up the strongest
and most beautiful character imaginable,
and in a reasonable time make it a perma-
nent part of himself.
A lack of character is due wholly to the
fact that the subconscious has been im-
properly impressed; misleading tendencies
have been formed, and let it be remem-
bered that nothing can tempt man to go
wrong except the perverse tendencies that
are expressed from his own subconscious
mind.
Every weak place in mind or character
is caused by a subconscious tendency that
is going wrong; such tendencies may have
been inherited, many of them are, but
they can all be corrected by daily directing
the subconscious to produce the opposite
quality.
To think, with conviction, that human
nature is weak, is to impress upon the sub-
conscious the idea of weakness, and the
subconscious will respond by producing a
tendency to weakness. Therefore, he who
thinks he is weak will cause his nature to
continue to be weak. We are weak or
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strong according to what we direct the
subconscious to produce in us.
To realize that the great within contains
the power to make the personality as strong
as we may wish it to be, and to impress
upon the subconscious a strong desire for
that power, is to direct the subconscious
to make us strong ; and whatever we direct
the subconscious to do, the same will
invariably be done.
There is no reason whatever why any
person should continue to have a weak
body, a weak character or a weak mind;
anything in the being of man can be made
strong if the subconscious is properly
directed to bring forth the greater life and
the;greater power.
When the great within is awakened we
have the powerful personality, the giant
mind, the irresistible character and the
great soul. The natural result is a great
life, a life that is too strong to be tempted,
too strong to be swayed or disturbed by
adversity, too strong to be turned from
the path to its lofty goal. Such a life will
not only live a life that is life, but will be
an endless inspiration to the race; and
such a life is waiting in the great within of
every soul.
IE great within is the source of
all inspirations, all real music,
all permanent art, all poetry
with soul, all rich thought, all
ideas of genuine worth, all
invention, all discovery, all science, and
the truth that is absolute.
Everything that has worth, be it in a
small degree, or in a very great degree,
comes directly from the richness of the
subconscious; therefore, to do the greater,
the mind should enter into the closest
touch with the great within, and should
expect the very best that the limitless
within can produce.
When in need of ideas, plans, methods,
ways and means, call upon the subcon-
scious; the call will not be in vain; the
subconscious can supply every need, and
will invariably do so when properly di-
rected.
While directing the subconscious, how-
ever, all conscious action must be in abso-
lute poise; it is not only necessary to
impress what we desire but to impress that
desire in such a way that it will actually
produce an impression.
When in the presence of the great fact
that the within is limitless, the mind will
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naturally become enthusiastic; feeling will
run high and is very liable to become over-
wrought; but such a feeling has no depth,
it is simply superficial emotionalism; it
will waste any amount of energy, but will
never produce a single impression upon
the subconscious.
To impress the subconscious, the mind
must be calm, the entire personality must
be in poise, and this feeling of poise must
have that great depth that touches the
very soul of life itself.
Not the slightest trace of emotional
enthusiasm must be permitted, nor must
feeling run toward the surface at any time ;
the actions of mind, especially those of
feeling, must move toward the great
within if the subconscious is to be reached.
There must be no anxiety connected
with the desire to impress the subcon-
scious, and every form of doubt must be
eliminated completely.
To properly impress the subconscious >
faithful application is necessary; also con-
stant practice, and a perseverance that will
not give up; but the prize is worthy of the
effort.
To realize that the subconscious can,
and will, do anything when properly im-
pressed, is to persevere until the proper
impression has been made; and it is those
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tffio work in this realization that secure
the marvelous results.
To eliminate the tendency to feel emo-
tional while acting upon the subconscious,
cultivate the substantial feeling; train
yourself to feel substantial at all times,
and wild, empty, overwrought feelings will ^
entirely disappear.
It is the proper feeling that determines
the proper impression; the attainment of
the deep, substantial feeling is therefore
extremely important, though it is equally
important to be able to feel the vibrations
of the finer forces of the system.
It is the finer forces that impress the
subconscious and the subconscious is in-
variably impressed whenever these forces
are felt.
To develop the consciousness of the
finer forces, attention should be frequently
concentrated upon that life that permeates
the tangible elements in every part of
being; and during this concentration the
feeling of consciousness should be deep-
ened and expanded as much as possible.
Every conscious action should be trained
to penetrate to the very depth of life, and
during this process the mind should act in
the realization that the more deeply it
penetrates any element in the personality,
the finer will be the forces into which
consciousness will enter.
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To awaken or arouse any force or ele-
ment, attention should be concentrated
upon that state in which the desired force
or element is known to exist, and the
mind should think of the nature of that
force or element according to the best
possible understanding that can be formed
of that nature.
The same method may be employed in
the development of the subconscious side
of any desired faculty or talent.
The creative energies of the system
always build up those qualities of which
the mind may be thinking; therefore, to
actually and continually think of the real
nature of a great talent is to develop that
talent into the same degree of greatness
that is discerned in mind.
The power of this method in the devel-
opment of ability, talent and genius is
practically unlimited, because the mind is
capable of discerning higher and higher
degrees of greatness, and the subconscious
is capable of providing creative energies
of as high a state of fineness and power as
may be required.
To secure the best results from any
method through which the great within
is to be unfolded and expressed, it is
extremely important to use properly the
conscious and the subconscious factors of
mind at the various stages of the process.
While impressing the subconscious, the
conscious mind should be strong, firm,
positive and highly active, but should be-
come perfectly quiet and receptive while
expecting a response from the subcon-
scious.
Harmony, serenity and poise are indis-
pensable states both when the impression
is being made and when the expression is
expected.
The right use of the will is of extraor-
dinary importance; and neither time nor
effort should be spared in establishing this
right use, because where the will is misap-
plied the subconscious expressions are
interfered with to such an extent that
results are completely neutralized.:
While the subconscious is being im-
pressed, the will should act firmly and
directly upon that consciousness that is
felt in the subconscious, but when the sub-
conscious is expected to respond the will
should be relaxed into a state of complete
inaction.
It is not the purpose of the will to control
the outer person by acting directly upon
the outer person; the will controls the outer
person by causing the subconscious to
produce in the outer person whatever may
be desired; but when the subconscious
begins to express what the will has desired
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and directed, the will must, for the time
being, cease to act.
The true function of the will is to act
upon the finer states of consciousness; that
is, the subconscious states, those states
that are felt in the deeper life of the per-
sonality or the mentality; and while in
such action, to impress upon the subcon-
scious those causes that can produce the
desired effects.
When these causes have been impressed,
and the time has come for the expected
results, the will must withdraw so that the
personality may become sufficiently recep-
tive to give the subconscious response the
fullest and freest possible expression.
The subconscious expression will come
of itself, at the time designated, if the
impression has been properly made; but
every attempt of the will to help draw
forth that expression will interfere with
results.
When the desired subconscious expres-
sion fails to appear at the time designated,
the impression has either not been prop-
erly made, or the subconscious response is
being prevented by too much active will
force, anxiety or objective commotion.
The subconscious cannot express itself,
or do what it is directed to do unless the
outer mentality and personality are in
poise; but perfect poise is not possible so
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long as will power is applied upon the
external side of mind or body.
Train the will to act upon the subcon-
scious, and the subconscious only, and this
is readily accomplished by always turning
attention upon the subconscious whenever
the will is being employed.
. When acting upon the objective, the will
only interferes with normal functions, and
can accomplish absolutely nothing. To
move a muscle the will must act upon the
subconscious life that permeates that mus-
cle; should it act upon the muscle itself,
the muscle would become rigid, and mus-
cular motion be made impossible.
No one can do anything by objectively
willing to do it; he can do what he wants
to do only by causing the will to act upon
that part of the subconscious that can do
what he wants to have done.
This law is absolute in all human ac-
tions, be they physical or metaphysical, in-
tellectual or emotional, mental or spiritual.
To train the will to act only upon the
subconscious, will increase the power of
the conscious mind to impress the sub-
conscious; the conscious action will not be
divided, acting partly upon the objective
and partly upon the subjective, but will
give its power and attention absolutely to
the idea that is being subconsciously
impressed*
When the will acts only upon the sub-
conscious, there will be no will force in the
outer mind or body to disturb the normal
functions of the systems; and when the
entire system is normal the subconscious
can readily do whatever it may be directed
to do.
The conscious mind should employ the
will solely for the purpose of impressing
and directing the subconscious, but should
give the subconscious unrestricted freedom
to take full possession of the personality
when expressions from within are expected
to appear.
Those who hesitate to give the subcon-
scious expressions full right of way, should
remember that to move a muscle, the sub-
conscious must take full possession of that
muscle; and to think, the subconscious
must exercise complete control of the
mental faculty, and also, that the subcon-
scious will only do what it is directed to do.
Though the personality must be con-
trolled completely by the subconscious,
the subconscious must be directed, in all
its actions, by the conscious mind; there-
fore, the wide-awake self continues to be
the master.
THE subconscious has the power
to work out any problem, and
find the exact answer to any
question, at the time desig-
nated by the conscious mind;
in fact, nc problem is ever worked out by
the conscious mind alone; the subcon-
scious gives the real secret in every in-
stance, though it is the conscious mind
that makes the practical application.
To secure the direct and the fullest
assistance from the subconscious when
there are problems to solve, form a clear,
distinct idea of what you wish to know,
and impress that idea upon the subcon-
scious with a deep, strong desire for the
information required. Have perfect faith
in the faith that you will receive the
answer, and you will.
When you have something special to do
at some near future time, that requires
more power and mental brilliancy than
you usually possess, direct the subcon-
scious to give you the added power and
intelligence at the exact time. The sub-
conscious is exact as to time, and will
produce, at the time desired, as much
power and intelligence as you felt you
needed for the special work when the
impression was made.
To simply impress upon the subcon-
scious a desire for more power is not
sufficient; the impression must contain a
clear idea of how much power is required
and what the added power is expected to
do.
While the subconscious is being im-
pressed for more power, the mind must try
to discern and feel the life of more power;
and the amount of power that is discerned
while the impression is being made, the
subconscious will express at the time fixed
for the expression.
Whenever an impression is made upon
the subconscious, the conscious mind
should try to gain the very highest and the
very largest conception possible of the idea
that is being impressed; and the more
clearly the conscious mind discerns the
largeness, the worth and the superiority
of that idea, the larger, the worthier and
the more superior will be the corresponding
expression brought forth from the within.
When the conscious mind can see
clearly the amount of power and mental
brilliancy required for the special future
action, and impresses that idea upon the
subconscious with the deepest and the
strongest desire for its realization, the
impression thus made will call for the exact
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amount of power and intelligence required ;
and whatever the impression calls for the
subconscious will supply.
The law is this, that the subconscious
will respond with the exact quality and the
exact quantity that you were conscious of,
or that you can mentally discern and feel
at the time the impression is being made.
It is, therefore, extremely important to
elevate the conscious mind into the largest
and the most superior states of thought
and feeling possible before an effort is
made to impress the subconscious. In
fact, this is the real secret in directing the
subconscious to express a larger quantity
and a higher quality than we ever received
in tangible life before.
To live constantly in the deep, interior
feeling of greater power, greater intelli-
gence, greater personal worth and greater
mental brilliancy, is to constantly call
upon the subconscious to produce these
things in larger and larger measure; and
the subconscious will invariably do what-
ever it is called upon to do.
Though we should not live in the future
in the sense that the mind dwells wholly
in the thought of the future, nevertheless,
we should always plan ahead.
Place your future plans in the hands of
the subconscious; impress upon the sub-
conscious what you wish to have done
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to-morrow, next week, next month, or
even next year; then direct the great
within to work out the best plans and the
best methods possible, and to give your
faculties the understanding and the power
to carry out those plans to the most suc-
cessful termination.
When there is something upon which
you cannot decide, inform the subcon-
scious that a definite decision is desired at
such and such a time; impress clearly and
deeply the facts on all sides concerned,
and know that the great within can give
the desired decision at the time stated.
When this time comes you will receive
your answer through the feeling of a
strong, irresistible desire to take one par-
ticular course, and that alone.
While the answer is being expected, no
anxiety should be felt, even though the
last minute should arrive before anything
definite appears; the mind that continues
in serenity and faith will receive the right
answer before it is too late ; but the anxious
mind will, through the confusion produced
by the anxiety, prevent the subconscious
from giving expression to the desired
information.
When two antagonistic decisions appear
at the time fixed, the subconscious expres-
tion has not been given full right of way.
One of these decisions will be of the con-
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scious mind who judges according to
appearances; the other will be of the sub-
conscious who judges according to facts,
but which is which may seem difficult to
discern.
The decision of the conscious mind may
sometimes be the stronger, but at other
times the weaker; one's strongest feelings,
therefore, at such times will not prove to
be safe guidance.
To reimpress the subconscious for an
immediate and a definite decision is the
proper course to pursue under such cir-
cumstances, and if the conscious mind is
kept quiet, in faith, the true answer will
shortly appear. You will then feel a
strong desire to take but one course, and
will lose all desire to even think about the
other, because when the subconscious
action is given full and free expression,
everything that is antagonistic to that
expression will cease to exist.
It is therefore evident that we may
completely eliminate the wrong by directing
the subconscious to express the right, and
by giving the subconscious absolute free-
dom to do what it has been directed to do.
THE subconscious should be called
upon to give direct assistance
in everything, even in the most
insignificant of everyday affairs ;
this practice will not only
cause all things to be done better and better
constantly, but the conscious mind will be
more thoroughly trained to impress the
subconscious for anything desired, and the
subconscious mentality will be perpetually
enlarged along all lines.
To enlarge the subconscious mentality
in every phase of interior action is to
awaken a larger measure of the great
within, and the more of the within that is
awakened the greater will man become.
For these reasons the subconscious
should be called upon for superior aid
before anything, even the least, is under-
taken. Everything that is worth doing
should be done better than before, and the
subconscious can provide the power.
Impressions of this nature should be
made a few hours in advance, or, when
possible, a few days in advance; though
the subconscious can respond upon a mo-
ment's notice; its superior power should
therefore be sought upon every occasion.
In the commercial world no one should
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ever attempt to decide upon important
transactions before directing the subcon-
scious to inspire the mind with the highest
insight, the keenest judgment, and the
broadest understanding; and no great
enterprise should be undertaken before
directing the subconscious to work out the
best possible plans and methods.
The subconscious can do these things,
and when all practical men will go to the
greater mind for their plans and ideas,
instead of depending upon the limited
intelligence of the lesser mind, failures will
be reduced to a minimum, while great
achievements will steadily increase, both
in numbers and in greatness.
Those who are engaged in literary work
will find the subconscious indispensable,
because any idea desired may be gained
from the great within.
Orators and public speakers should never
attempt to prepare or deliver a discourse
before going to this great source of ideas
for their thought; and the same is true
of musical composers, creative artists,
inventors, and all others who require ideas
that have originality and worth.
Every person who is engaged in study,
or in any line of improvement, may in-
crease results from ten to two hundred per
cent by securing the direct assistance of
the subconscious; and as all advancement
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and promotion in life comes directly from
the improvement of self, the fact that the
subconscious can supply any amount of
ability, capacity and power, becomes ex-
tremely important. ,
All memory is subconscious, therefore,
whatever one desires to remember should
be deeply impressed upon the subconscious
at the time the fact or idea is received ; and
the subconscious may be directed to bring
back to mind these facts and ideas when-
ever their recollection is desired.
Through this simple process memory
can be developed and cultivated to a
remarkable degree, and the power to recall
anything at any time will become prac-
tically perfect.
The subconscious can be trained to keep
the conscious mind clear and active, and all
sluggishness or obtuseness can be com-
pletely eliminated from every faculty. This
will enable the student to learn with far
greater rapidity, and every mental effort
will be conducive to growth.
To produce these results the subcon-
scious should, several times every day, be
directed to express continuous clearness,
mental lucidity, and a high, well-poised
mental activity. While producing that
impression* picture in the conscious mind
the same clearness and action that you
desire the subconscious to express.
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To picture perfect lucidity, and to feel
high activity in the conscious mind for
a few moments while the subconscious is
being impressed, will cause the subcon-
scious to express that same clearness and
activity for several hours; and when the
impression contains a deep desire for
greater clearness and activity than the
conscious mind can discern, the greater
clearness and activity will be expressed.
It is a well-known fact that nearly all
great minds, and also most minds that
are trying to develop greatness, have
moods when they can do most excellent
work, but when they are not in those
moods little or nothing cf worth can be
accomplished. To such minds the ability
to create the right moods, or mental states,
whenever desired, would be of exceptional
value, and by properly directing the sub-
conscious it may readily be accomplished.
Form in the conscious mind a very clear
idea of the mood or mental state in which
you can do your best work, and impress
that idea upon the subconscious with a
strong desire for ths continuous realiza-
tion of the desired state. Repeat the
impression several times every day, and
every evening before going to sleep. Per-
severance will produce the most remark-
able results.
While engaged in any particular study,
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impress frequently upon the subconscious
the real nature of that study, and direct
the subconscious to express all the essen-
tials that may be necessary to thoroughly
understand and master that study.
Expect superior intelligence from within,
and make the best possible use of that
intelligence as it is being received. Thus
the conscious mind and the subconscious
will work together for the promotion of
the highest conceivable attainments.
To promote advancement in one's voca-
tion, better plans and methods will con-
stantly be in demand; and by directing
the subconscious to work them out these
may be secured as required; in addition,
the necessary power and ability to prac-
tically apply those methods may also be
secured if the subconscious is called upon
to supply them.
It is the truth that whatever the sub-
conscious is properly impressed and di*
rected to do, it positively will do.
To promote the highest devel-
opment of mind and soul, a
sunny disposition is indis-
pensable; the brighter, the
happier and the sweeter the
disposition, the more easily and the more
rapidly will any talent develop; and it is a
literal truth that a sunny disposition is to
the talents of the mind what a sunny day
is to the flowers of the field.
Every form of disposition comes from
the subconscious, be it sweet or otherwise;
but the undesirable may be removed com-
pletely, and the sweetest and brightest
disposition imaginable be permanently es-
tablished, by daily impressing upon the
subconscious your most perfect idea of
a sweet and wholesome nature.
As the sweetness of human nature
develops, all undesirable feelings and dis-
positions will disappear; no thought, there-
fore, should be given to the elimination of
perverse characteristics, but the whole of
attention should be concentrated upon the
development of the wholesome, the sweet
and the beautiful.
When there is a tendency to feel out of
sorts, turn attention upon the finer side of
your nature — the subconscious — and think
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deeply, strongly and feelingly of joy,
brightness, kindness, amiableness, cheer-
fulness, sweetness and loveliness; try to
enter into the very life of those states and
feel that your entire nature is being recre-
ated in the image and likeness of all that
is sweet and beautiful.
To permit yourself to feel surly whenever
there is a tendency to feel that way is to
impress the subconscious with such a state
of mind, and the subconscious will respond
by giving your nature a stronger tendency
to feel surly and out of sorts at the least
provocation.
The first indication of ill-feeling in any
shape or form should be counteracted at
once by immediately directing the subcon-
scious to give expression to the sweet, the
wholesome and the beautiful.
It is not only the privilege of every mind
to attain greatness, but no mind is doing
justice to self that is not doing its utmost
to develop greatness; and since a sunny
disposition is absolutely necessary to the
steady development of ability, talent and
genius, neither time nor effort should be
spared in recreating the subconscious so
completely that every part of its vast
domain is permeated through and through
with the highest order of human sweetness
and mental sunshine.
To recreate the subconscious mentality
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in the likeness of higher ideals, every im-
pression given to the subconscious should
have soul. It is the conscious realization
of soul that gives quality, worth and
superiority to everything that appears in
human life; the reason being that the boh!
is superiority, and that everything gains
superiority that comes in conscious touch
with the soul.
To feel soul is to feel the life of real
worth, and to impress that feeling upon
the subconscious will cause the subcon-
scious to give real worth to every part of
the personal!
The subconscious should be directed
daily to give worth and superiority to the
entire being of man; and this it positively
can do.
The great within should be directed to
work for greater things, and when every
impression is impressed in the feeling of
soul, every impression will cause the
within to unfold, develop and give expres-
sion to greater things.
All greatness comes from the awakening
of the great within; to awaken the great
within is to feel greatness, and to be filled
with the power that is greatness, the
power that will invariably produce great-
ness.
Ability, talent and genius of the highest
order must inevitably follow the develop-
ment of the great within; likewise, the
strong mind, the invincible character and
the beautiful soul.
Every faculty increases in power, ca-
pacity and quality as its subconscious side
is being developed, and this subconscious
side may be developed by concentrating
attention upon the interior, finer essence
of that faculty while the most perfect idea
or conception of that faculty is held in
mind.
The development of the subconscious
side of the entire personality will increase
the drawing power of the personality, the
power that attracts, both directly and
indirectly, whatever the mind may desire.
This power is the result of subconscious
action, and therefore increases, both in
volume and in natural attraction, as a
greater measure of the within is awakened.
There are many personalities that are
strong, but that do not attract, while there
are many others that lack in power but
that are very attractive in proportion to the
power they do possess. The cause of the
former condition k an awakened subcon-
scious life that .iocs not receive free and
orderly expression ; the cause of the latter
condition is a limited subconscious life
that is not disturbed nor hindered in its
expression.
To steadily increase subconscious action
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and give that action a well-poised expression
will cause the personality to become prac-
tically irresistible in its power of attrac-
tion.
The drawing power of the subconscious
lies in its ability, not only to give extraor-
dinary power to the personality, but also to
produce ideas that draw, plans that draw,
methods that draw and systems that draw.
It is not only ideas, but the way those
ideas are arranged, that determines re-
sults; and it is not only high-class work,
but the way that work is presented, that
determines the measure of success. The
best ideas may be ignored completely by
the world, and the best work may have
to be abandoned through the lack of
appreciation, and the subconscious life that
is expressed through those ideas or efforts
is at fault.
Direct the subconscious not only to give
you the best ideas, the best plans and the
best methods, but also direct the subcon-
scious to give the proper expression to
those ideas and methods. When the proper
expression is made the attention of the
world will be attracted; your ideas will be
understood, the real worth of your work
will be appreciated, and your efforts will
be in constant demand.
The subconscious can work out the best
ideas and create the best expression of
those ideas; it can give the power and the
ability to do greater things, and can give
your work that mysterious something that
will attract both the attention and the
appreciation of the world.
The subconscious in every mind should
therefore be directed to do these things,
because no person is just to himself who
does not make the best use of everything
that exists in his nature.
The subconscious, when so directed,
will give a natural drawing power to all the
finer thought currents; these in turn will
convey the same qualities to every part of
the mentality and the personality; this will
cause everything that man is, and every-
thing that he does, to be stamped with that
something that attracts attention and com-
mands appreciation; his desires will con-
sequently become irresistible.
The desires of such a mind will have the
power to create their own way to their own
goal, no matter how lofty that goal may
be. The power of the subconscious is
limitless, therefore, nothing becomes im-
possible when we awaken the great within.
All desires should be made subcon-
scious, and when those desires are con-
stantly expressed with the deepest feeling
and the strongest desire that can possibly
be aroused, you will positively receive what
you want. If it fails to come through one
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channel it will come through another; but
come it will, because the subconscious has
the power to do whatever it is directed to
do.
To subconsciously desire something is
to make yourself strong enough and able
enough to command, create or attract that
something.
Make your desires subconscious and the
subconscious will make you worthy of
what you desire; the subconscious desire
will awaken the same quality and worth
in yourself that already exists in that which
you desire, and, as like does attract like,
you will invariably get what you desire
when you become equal to what you desire.
The subconscious desire for abundance
will develop in yourself the power to earn
and create abundance ; it will increase your
earning capacity ml will, both directly
and indirectly, change your personality so
that you will be naturally drawn into
environments and associations where you
can make the best possible use of that
increase of capacity.
The subconscious, being limitless, can
work out ideas and plans that you can use
in your present position in furthering your
desire for the better position; the subcon-
scious, if directed, will find a way; especially
so if the desire is very deep and very strong ;
and you will also receive the power and the
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ability to do whatever that way may
demand.
It is therefore evident that whatever a
person's conditions or circumstances may
be to-day, the subconscious can, and will,
open the door to something better, provid-
ing there is a strong subconscious desire
for something better.
T0 awaken the great within is
to awaken to a universe of
higher attainments, greater
achievements and more far-
reaching possibilities than one
has ever dreamed of before; it is to enter
that world where every desire will be
granted, every aspiration realized and every
ideal fulfilled.
To promote this awakening, direct the
subconscious to give its best to every
thought and every action, and when this
best has been received, direct the subcon-
scious to produce something still better.
It can; the subconscious can do whatever
we may wish to have done.
Every condition that appears in the
body, be it favorable or otherwise, comes
either directly or indirectly from the sub-
conscious; that is, it may be the direct
effect of a corresponding subconscious
cause, or it may be the effect of external
causes that were permitted to act upon the
body because the true subconscious ex-
pression was absent.
No external cause can produce disease
in the body so long as the subconscious is
giving a full expression to perfect health;
and no curative agent from the without
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can restore health in the body so long as
the subconscious is giving expression to
diseased conditions.
The majority of physical ills can ba
cured by nature when the subconscious
ceases to give expression to weakening
and disease-producing conditions, and all
diseases can be permanently removed by
training the subconscious to give a full
and constant expression of healtho
Personal and physical conditions are
effects; they are caused either directly or
indirectly by the subconscious; therefore,
any condition desired in the personality
may be produced through the proper
direction of the subconscious.
To direct the subconscious to produce
perfect health, the first essential is to gain
a clear conscious realization of the state
of perfect health, and the second essential
is to permeate the subconscious with this
realization.
The subconscious mind is a deeper and
a finer state of mental life that exists
within every atom of the human system;
it is another mental world, so to speak,
and is so immense that the ordinary con-
scious mind is mere insignificance In com-
parison. But it obeys perfectly the direc-
tions of the conscious mind, and, having
limitless power in every part of the body,
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can readily banish any disease when prop-
erly directed to do so.
To impress the subconscious, attention
should be concentrated upon this superior
mental world, and all thought should be
gradually refined until one can feel that
the conscious thought has been completely
transformed into the spiritual fineness of
the subconscious thought.
The subconscious may be reached most
directly by concentrating upon the brain
center, though attention must not be fixed
upon the physical brain, but upon that
finer mental life that permeates the phys-
ical brain.
All general directions given to the sub-
conscious should be given through the
brain center, but for the curing of physical
ailments attention should be concentrated
upon the subconscious mentality that per-
meates the organ, muscle or nerve where
the ailment is located.
To impress the conscious realization of
health upon the subconscious life of any
part of the body will cause the subcon-
scious to bring forth into that part of the
body the same condition of health which
the conscious mind realized while the
impression was being made; it is, therefore,
necessary to attain the very highest possible
conscious understanding of the real state
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of perfect health before the subconscious
is directed to produce health.
No thought of disease should form in
mind while the subconscious is being
impressed with perfect health; neither
should one think of the body. To think
of the body is to form mental conceptions
of the way physical conditions now feel,
and if these conditions are undesirable,
undesirable impressions will enter the
subconscious, to be followed by the forma-
tion of more undesirable conditions in the
near future.
The imperfection of physical conditions
should never enter mind at any time,
because such conditions are liable to be
deeply felt, and whatever is deeply felt
will be impressed upon the subconscious,
whether we so wish or no; neither should
there be any desire to remove or overcome
that which may seem undesirable. To
desire to remove the wrong is to deeply
think about the wrong, because all desires
tend to deepen the actions of thought, and
to deeply think about the wrong is to
impress the wrong upon the subconscious.
It is sowing weeds in the fields of the mind,
and the harvest will be accordingly.
All thought should be animated with the
consciousness of that perfection in health
and wholeness that we desire to realize in
expression, and all feeling should be trained
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to feel the health, the life and the harmony
that the subconscious is being directed to
produce.
To consciously live through and through
the finer subconscious mentality for a few
moments, several times every day, and
deeply impress one's most perfect realiza-
tion of health upon the entire subconscious
mentality will cause the subconscious to
give a full and constant expression of
health.
The result will be perpetual health, with-
out a moment of any form of sickness at
any time, and if the conscious mind will
seek to daily impress upon the subconscious
a more and more perfect realization of
absolute health, the subconscious will
steadily improve the quality of the health
that is being expressed.
To eliminate a local ailment the subcon-
scious mentality that permeates that part
of the body should be impressed with the
conscious feeling of the health that is
desired.
Concentrate upon the finer mental life
in that part of the body where the adverse
condition appears and feel the reality of
perfect health. Do not concentrate upon
the physical organ, nor even think of the
physical organ, but enter mentally into the
interior subconscious life of that organ and,
while in that state, feel the spirit of perfect
health with all the depth of mind and soul.
What you feel, while in that state, you
impress upon the subconscious, and the
subconscious will cause perfect health to
be expressed through every atom of that
organ
To eliminate a chronic ailment, impress
perfect health upon the subconscious as a
whole, while concentrating upon the sub-
conscious mentality within the brain cen-
ter Q Also concentrate frequently upon the
subconscious side of the entire personality,
feeling the state of perfect health in the
subconscious life of every part of the sys-
tenio
If certain parts of the body are specially
affected, impress those parts in the same
way as for a local ailment, though local
attention should be given, not so much to
those parts of the body that feel the effects
of the ailment as to those parts where the
adverse condition has its origin,.
Before impressing the subconscious the
entire system should be made as calm and
peaceful as possible, and the principal
directions should be given to the subcon-
scious immediately before going to sleep.
The most important of all, however, is
to live, think and act in the absolute faith
that the subconscious can and will do
whatever it is directed to do
DURING the waking state the
conscious ego acts directly
upon the conscious, or wide-
awake mind, while during
sleep it acts entirely in the
subconsciouse
When we go to sleep all the principal
thoughts, desires, intentions, tendencies,
feelings and ideas that have formed during
the day are taken into the subconscious,
unless we eliminate the undesirable mental
material before we permit sleep to take
place.
Every thought, desire oi idea that is
taken into the subconscious as mind falls
asleep will be impressed upon the sub-
conscious, and will cause corresponding
expressions to be brought forth into the
personality. To eliminate all undesirable
thoughts and feelings from mind before
going to sleep is therefore extremely
important.
Before going to sleep the conscious
mind should be thoroughly cleansed from
everything that one does not care to
reproduce or perpetuate, and the subcon-
scious should be given definite directions
as to what should be developed, reproduced
and expressed.
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The hours of sleep may be employed in
the development of anything we may have
in view, because whatever we impress
upon mind when we go to sleep will enter
the subconscious and will cause the within
to give expression to those effects that we
desire to secure in the without.
Before going to sleep the subconscious
should be given full directions as to what
is to be done in the near future, and the
exact time for each particular action should
be specified as far as possible. In the
meantime the subconscious will work out
the best plans, methods and ideas, and
provide the added understanding, insight
and power required to apply those plans
in the most effective manner.
When the subconscious is properly di-
rected in this way the results from future
actions may be increased to a degree that
will frequently be remarkable, and, as
much produces more, these results will
follow the law of perpetual increase.
During the waking state the mind forms
a definite conception of everything that is
given real, conscious attention; these con-
ceptions individualize themselves into ideas
and as mind goes to sleep all those ideas
are taken into the subconscious.
Therefore, what the subconscious is
given to work out and develop during sleep
will depend upon what we think about
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during the day, and what we give the sub-
conscious to develop and express will
determine what character, mentality and
personality are to be.
The subconscious makes us what we
are, in every respect, but what the subcon-
scious is to make will depend upon what
our thoughts, feelings and desires may
direct.
The more we think during the day,
providing our thought has quality, the
more good seeds we shall place in the
garden of the mind during sleep, and the
greater will be the quality and the quantity
of the coming harvest.
The stronger our desires for wisdom,
power, attainments and achievements dur-
ing the waking state, the more thoroughly
will the subconscious work for those things
during sleep.
The subconscious can provide all the
essentials required for the highest attain-
ments and greatest achievements and will
do so if directed.
The subconscious works during sleep,
and works to develop the ideas and the
desires that the conscious mind brought
into the subconscious while falling asleep,
but the subconscious will give the same
attention to ideas and desires that are
detrimental, just as rich soil will apply the
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same productiveness to the weed as to the
flower.
It is therefore wisdom to sow good
seeds only; to eliminate all undesirable
thought, ideas and feelings before sleep
begins.
The habit of going to sleep every night
with all sorts of thoughts in mind is the
principal cause of the continuous mingling
of good and evil in the life of the average
person. The troubles and the worries of
the day are taken into the subconscious at
night, along with those thoughts and feel-
ings that have better things in view, and
the subconscious, consequently, continues
to work for more good things on the one
hand and for more troubles and worries
on the other.
It is the truth that any person may
emancipate himself completely from all the
ills of perverted life by refusing absolutely
to permit a single undesirable thought,
feeling or desire to enter the subconscious.
To prevent the wrong from entering the
subconscious we must, during the waking
state, never think, with feeling, of that
which is evil, imperfect or wrong, and
before going to sleep the conscious mind
must be cleansed completely from every
undesirable thought or impression that
may have entered unconsciously during the
day.
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The imperfect will not impress itself
upon the subconscious during the waking
state unless we think about it in deep
feeling, but everything that is in the con-
scious mind when we go to sleep will enter
the subconscious and produce fruit after
its kind.
To cleanse the conscious mind before
going to sleep, enter a state of perfect
mental poise; be still in the deepest sense
of the term ; forget what you do not wish to
retain by entering into the very life and
essence of that which you desire to awaken,
unfold and develop. Then concentrate
upon the subconscious with the deepest
possible feeling and the strongest possible
desire.
What you wish to remove from mind
may be removed by directing the subcon-
scious to create and express the opposite,
though no thought should be given to that
which is not to be retained. When you
know what you wish to remove, forget it
by giving your entire subconscious attention
to that which you wish to create and
realize instead.
To carry into the subconscious those
ideas that we wish to develop is not all that
is necessary, however, as we go to sleep;
the subconscious should be given the best
possible conditions in which to worke
The subconscious is in close touch with
ail the functions of the body as well as the
actions of the mind, therefore, the entire
system must be in harmony and order
before sleep begins or subconscious action
will be confused and misdirectedo
Before going to sleep the body should be
in harmony, the mind in peace an d the
entire personality relaxedc The circulation
should be even, and no part should be too
warm nor too cold. Digestion should be
practically finished and there should be
nothing in the system that might disturb
any of the functions during sleep.
When physical functions are disturbed
during sleep the conscious ego is drawn
back to the outer mind, either fully or in
part, and its work in the subconscious is
interrupted. Such interruptions usually
misdirect the subconscious actions to such
an extent that the very opposite results to
what were intended are produced.
This explains why such detrimental
results are frequently secured, even when
our intentions were the best and our plans
carried out with the greatest of care P It
also proves that the entire system must be
kept in order if every action, conscious or
subconscious, is to produce the results
desiredo
WHEN the conscious ego, which
is you, yourself, enters the
subconscious during sleep,
there are two objects in view.
il The first object is to carry into
the subconscious the new ideas that have
formed during the day and the second
object is to recharge the system with life,
power and energy.
The subconscious supplies the life and
the energy that is required to perpetuate
the existence of the mentality and the per-
sonality, but to receive this energy the
conscious ego must enter the subconscious,
and should remain there, uninterruptedly,
for six or seven hours out of every twenty-
four, to secure the full measure of power.
When sleep is interrupted the personality
does not receive as much life as may be
required to keep the system in the fullest
and most perfect action; personal efforts
will, therefore, become inferior.
When all the conditions are provided
for properly recuperating and recharging
the system during sleep, and the subcon-
scious is directed to steadily increase the
supply of power, the personality will become
stronger and more vigorous from year to
year; instead of going down to weakness
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and age the personality will go on to
greater strength, greater capacity, greater
ability and greater power the longer you
live.
To go to sleep properly is to wake up
feeling refreshed, but to go to sleep with
all sorts of impressions in the mind and all
sorts of conditions in the body is to wake
up feeling stupid and depressed.
To enter the subconscious with adverse
impressions is to return to consciousness
with similar conditions. Like causes al-
ways produce like effects.
To aid the mind in purifying itself before
going to sleep, attention should be concen-
trated upon the purest purity and the
highest worth that can possibly be imag-
ined, and to place the entire system in a
state of peace, concentrate the thought of
peace upon the brain center while gently
drawing all the finer forces of mind toward
that center e
To think, with feeling, of the finer forces
of mind during this process will produce
immediate results-
The practice of "sleeping over" difficult
problems before definite decisions are made
is a practice of great value, especially when
the subconscious is properly directed in
the matter, because the subconscious can
'turn things over' 5 more completely during
sleep than during the waking state.
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To secure the best results hold clearly
and serenely in mind the elements involved
in the problem just as you are going to
sleep and desire deeply, but without anxiety,
to receive the correct answer upon awaken-
ingc
The higher and the clearer the concep-
tion that is formed of the problem during
the waking state the more readily can the
subconscious work it out during sleep.
The same is true in the various ideas that
are formed during the day and that are
taken into the great within either at sleep
or during waking states of deep feeling.
It is therefore extremely important to
form the highest possible conception of
everything that we think of during the
day, and whatever attracts our attention
should be considered from the very highest
point of view.
Live in the upper story of mind and give
soul to all your thought; you will thereby
form ideas with real quality and worth,
and as those ideas are taken into the sub-
conscious during sleep they will cause
greater quality and worth to be developed
in youc
No person can afford to take a com-
monplace view of anything, nor to indulge
in cheap thinking at any time; to do so is
to place inferior seeds in the garden of the
mind.
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There are days when the average person
feels as if he amounted to practically
nothing; his personality lacks energy and
his mind is dull, stupid and confused.
Cheap, superficial thinking a day or two
before is the cause.
Give inferior ideas to the subconscious,
and the subconscious will, in the near
future, not only cause you to feel incompe-
tent and inferior, but your mind will tem-
porarily be placed in a state where it ac-
tually becomes incompetent and inferior.
To produce worthy ideas it is not neces-
sary to always continue in profound or
serious states of mind; the thought of
worth is the thought that mind creates
while attention dwells in the life of quality
and soul, and while consciousness is thor-
oughly permeated with the desire to realize
quality and soul in everything.
Such thinking can be taken into all
thought and all life, even into every
pleasure.
To try to enjoy pleasures while mind
skims over the surface of life and thought
is to fail to receive the joy that is joy, or
the satisfaction that does satisfy; but when
pleasures are entered into with the feeling
of quality and finer life, even the simplest
of joys become founts of supreme joy.
Everything that we thoroughly enjoy
we impress upon the subconscious; there-
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tore, to enter into pleasure while mind is
in the attitude of cheapness or inferiority
is a mistake to be avoided under every
circumstance e
However, our pleasures may be used as
channels through which the subconscious
may be impressed and directed along lines
of superior attainment, and pleasures that
are employed in this manner will invariably
give the greatest, the most satisfying and
the most wholesome joy of all joys.
THE entire human personality
is being constantly renewed;
there is nothing about mind
or body that can possibly
become old, except the appear-
ance, and the appearance of age is caused
by a wrong subconscious process.
The process of perpetual renewal is
carried on by the subconscious, but it is
what the conscious mind gives to the sub-
conscious that determines both the quality
and the appearance of the personality.
To constantly give the subconscious
better ideas, better desires, better thoughts
and better mental states is to cause the
improvement of character, mentality and
personality to become perpetual.
To provide better aaterial for the sub-
conscious, the conscious mind, before going
to sleep, should eliminate everything but
those ideas, thoughts and desires that have
quality and worth, and every effort should
be made during the waking state to form
the most superior ideas possible on every
subject with which the mind may come in
contact.
Never go to sleep discouraged, nor with
the thought of failure in mind. To fear
failure while going to sleep is to impress
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the subconscious with the idea of failure,
and the subconscious will respond by
producing conditions in the system that are
failures; the system will, consequently,
fail to be its best, and will lose ground,
more and more, until real failure takes
place.
To go to sleep discouraged, disappointed,
worried or depressed, is to impress the
subconscious with weakening tendencies;
these will cause the subconscious to
express conditions of weakness in every
faculty and in every part of mind or body.
The tendency downward in any career
originates invariably in depressed subcon-
scious states, the majority of which are
taken into the subconscious as the mind
goes to sleep.
Every tendency upward and onward
toward higher attainments and greater
achievements, originates in constructive
subconscious states and it is possible for
anyone to produce such states at will.
By going to sleep with strong, clear ideas
of health, harmony, power, advancement
and success, clearly held in mind, the
causes of those things will be formed in
the subconscious and the effects will
invariably appear in external life. Your
health will at once begin to improve; more
power will appear in mind and body;
capacity will increase; all your talents and
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faculties will be filled with the spirit of
success, and will consequently, do far
better work than ever before.
To continue, for weeks and months, the
practice of giving superior ideas of all
kinds to the subconscious, upon going to
sleep, will cause the character, the men-
tality and the personality to improve to
such an extent that, in comparison with
your former self, you will actually become
a superior being.
When the subconscious is given some-
thing special to do every night sleep will
become more restful; the subconscious
always works during sleep, but will work
more orderly when given something definite
to do.
After the subconscious has been properly
directed no anxiety should be felt as to
results; perfect faith in the law, with that
quiet assurance that knows, will give the
law the proper conditions through which
the desired results can be produced.
When we go to sleep in states of discord
the mental material becomes confused and
incoherent mental formations are pro-
duced; these are sometimes remembered
as disagreeable dreams.
All such formations are produced by
confusion among the subconscious creative
energies and indicate that the true state of
sleep was not entered completely, also that
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the subconscious was not properly im-
pressed the night before.
Orderly and coherent dreams may indi-
cate what tendencies are at work in the
subconscious and whether desirable or
undesirable conditions are being formed,
because a dream is always a partial mem-
ory of what is taking place in the subcon-
scious.
By noting this fact, undesirable condi-
tions may be counteracted and removed
before they advance sufficiently to produce
tangible results.
An undesirable dream should always
be counteracted at once by impressing the
opposite, desirable conditions and qualities
upon the subconscious; tendencies, how-
ever, that are indicated in good dreams,
should be given added power. This can
be done by directing the subconscious to
work more thoroughly for the promotion
of the greater good at hand.
Every good dream is a prophecy; that is,
it indicates what the subconscious can do,
what it is ready to do, or what it is about
to do along certain lines, and this prophecy
can be made to come true by directing the
subconscious to proceed along those lines
with greater power and determination than
ever before.
These directions should be given to the
subconscious as frequently as possible
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during the waking state, as well as before
going to sleep.
Every desirable indication among the
greater, interior life forces, whether it be
discovered through dreams or intuition,
should be taken advantage of at once, and
all the forces of mind should be concen-
trated upon the goal that the vision has
placed within reach; a successful termi-
nation will invariably be the result; the
dream will come true, the prophecy will be
fulfilled, the ideal will be realized.
THE subconscious mind is not
a second mind; to think so is
to place an artificial barrier
between the outer person and
the limitless within. There is
but one mind; the outer phase is the con-
scious or the objective; the inner phase is
the subconscious or the subjective.
The subconscious is within the con-
scious, and, being unlimited, both in power
and in possibilities, is appropriately termed
the great within.
To awaken the great within is to bring
into action the powers and the possibilities
that are latent in the subconscious, and
since the powers of the within are limit-
less, and its possibilities numberless, this
awakening may be promoted indefinitely,
increasing without end the worth and the
greatness of man.
The awakening of the great within is
promoted directly through a perpetual
increase of conscious action upon the sub-
conscious, and the power of the conscious
mind to act upon the subconscious will
increase in proportion to the practical use
that is made of every added expression that
appears from the within.
The fact that the within is limitless, and
the fact that the greatness of the within
can be brought forth into expression in
greater and greater measure through the
proper action of the conscious mind upon
the subconscious proves conclusively that
man may become as great as he may
desire to be, and that his ability, his talent
and his genius may be developed, not only
to a most remarkable degree, but to any
degree.
Personally, each person is only as much
as he has, consciously or unconsciously,
directed the subconscious to produce, and
he will remain what he is so long as he
does not direct the subconscious to produce
more; but he may become more, as much
more as his highest aspiration can picture,
by awakening the great within.
To train the conscious mind to act upon
the subconscious with the greatest efficiency,
a clear idea of how the two phases of
mind are related to each other becomes
necessary, and this idea is readily under-
stood when we realize that mind is an
immense sea of soul forces, all of which
move in circles and spirals.
The circumference of each circle is acted
upon by the conscious ego during the
waking state, therefore, the sum total of
all the circumferences of all the mental
circles may be termed the outer mind, the
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objective mind, the conscious mind, the
wide-awake mind.
During sleep the conscious ego with-
draws from the circumference of the mental
circles and enters the mental field within;
that is, the subconscious.
While the mind is in a state of deep
feeling the conscious ego acts partly upon
the conscious side of mind and partly upon
the subconscious; it is possible, therefore,
while in that state, to impress upon the
subconscious what we think or feel in the
conscious.
To secure the best and the largest re-
sults from every mental action the con-
scious ego should, during the waking state,
act constantly both upon the conscious and
the subconscious. To be in constant
touch with the limitless powers of the
within will add remarkably to the capacity
as well as the quality of the faculties that
may be in use, and every conscious desire
will enter the subconscious at once, so
that an immediate response may be se-
cured, if required.
The strong mind is the mind that is in
such close touch with the great within that
the limitless powers of the within can be
felt at any time.
The capacity of such a mind will be
practically unbounded; weariness will be
absent; mental brilliancy will ever be on
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the increase, and instead of going down
with the years, as the average mind does,
such a mind will steadily advance in
higher attainments and greater achieve-
ments the longer the person may live.
The mind that has presence of mind at
all times, and under all circumstances, is
in perfect touch with the subconscious.
In fact, if the subconscious is impressed
every day, or better still, several times a
day, to guide the outer mind so perfectly
that the right step will always be taken at
the right time, the conscious mind will
intuitively know what to do to secure the
best results from every circumstance, action
or event.
When the powers of the subconscious
are realized one's ideas will become much
higher than before, and there will be a
tendency to form ideals that cannot be
realized with present states of develop-
ment, but since the proper direction of the
subconscious can promote development to
any degree desired, it is not justice to self
to remain content with the lesser while the
greater is in view.
However, no desire should be entertained
that cannot be fulfilled through the com-
plete application of present ability, nor
should present demands go beyond what
present capacity is known to be.
The proper course is to first increase
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the capacity, then desire what the increased
capacity has the power to fulfill.
The small mind must not desire the
realization of ideals that the great mind
alone can possibly make real; such a
course would be a waste of time; it would
be schooling oneself to desire only what
cannot be secured, while doing nothing to
so increase one's power that the object in
view could easily be secured.
The subconscious can make the small
mind great, as great as may be necessary
to realize any ideal, but greatness does not
come from dreaming about the ideal, nor
from concentrating upon that which is
beyond our present capacity to produce.
Develop greatness by awakening the great
within, and that power that can produce
anything and realize anything will be gained.
Development is gradual and does not
simply consist in the unfoldment of added
power and capacity, but also in the full
tangible use of that power and capacity.
To proceed orderly toward greatness
direct the subconscious to express what
may be necessary to take the next step
forward ; concentrate all the forces of mind
upon that step, and do not scatter mind
over realms and spheres that are beyond
that step ; do now what you are doing now,
and be satisfied to realize what can be
realized now.
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Proceed with the second step in the
same way and, likewise, with the in-
numerable steps that are to follow.
This is true progress; it is concentrating
the whole of attention upon the present
advancement, and there is no other ad-
vancement. To move forward we must
advance in the present, and in the present
only.
To move forward now is the purpose,
and he who continues to move forward
now will reach any goal he may have in
view.
The subconscious should, therefore, be
directed to turn all its superior powers
upon the present forward movement and
should be daily impressed to desire, not
the ideals of the distant future, but the
ideals that can be realized to-day.
This forward movement, however, should
not be confined to any one phase of exist-
ence; all things in the physical, the meta-
physical and the spiritual nature of man
should be developed simultaneously and
perpetually.
It is the greatness of everything in man
that gives man the greatness that is great-
ness, and the perpetual awakening of the
great within will produce this greatness,
because to the powers and the possibilities
of the great within there is no limit, neither
is there any end.
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