read it write down what you learn from it Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the
treasure house of infinity within you. There is a gold mine within you from which you can
extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly.
Many are sound asleep because they do not know about this gold mine of infinite
intelligence and boundless love within themselves. Whatever you want, you can draw forth.
A magnetized piece of steel will lift about twelve times its own weight, and if you
demagnetize this same piece of steel, it will not even lift a feather. Similarly, there are two
types of men. There is the magnetized man who is full of confidence and faith. He knows
that he is born to win and to succeed. Then, there is the type of man who is demagnetized.
He is full of fears and doubts. Opportunities come, and he says, "I might fail; I might lose
my money; people will laugh at me." This type of man will not get very far in life because, if
he is afraid to go forward, he will simply stay where he is. Become a magnetized man and
discover the master secret of the ages.
The Master Secret of the Ages
What, in your opinion, is the master secret of the ages? The secret of atomic energy?
Thermonuclear energy? The neutron bomb? Interplanetary travel? No--not any of these.
Then, what is this master secret? Where can one find it, and how can it be contacted and
brought into action? The answer is extraordinarily simple. This secret is the marvelous,
miracle-working power found in your own subconscious mind, the last place that most
people would seek it.
The Marvelous Power of Your Subconscious
You can bring into your life more power, more wealth, more health, more happiness, and
more joy by learning to contact and release the hidden power of your subconscious mind.
You need not acquire this power; you already possess it. But, you want to learn how to
use it; you want to understand it so that you can apply it in all departments of your life.
As you follow the simple techniques and processes set forth in this book, you can gain
the necessary knowledge and understanding. A new light can inspire you, and you can
generate a new force enabling you to realize your hopes and make all your dreams come
true. Decide now to make your life grander, greater, richer, and nobler than ever before.
Within your subconscious depths lie infinite wisdom, infinite power, and infinite supply of
all that is necessary, which is waiting for development and expression. Begin now to
recognize these potentialities of your deeper mind, and they will take form in the world
without.
The infinite intelligence within your subconscious mind can reveal to you everything you
need to know at every moment of time and point of space provided you are open minded
and receptive. You can receive new thoughts and ideas enabling you to bring forth new
inventions, make new discoveries, or write books and plays. Moreover, the infinite
intelligence in your subconscious can impart to you wonderful kinds of knowledge of an
original nature. It can reveal to you and open the way for perfect expression and true place
in your life.
Through the wisdom of your subconscious mind you can attract the ideal companion, as
well as the right business associate or partner. It can find the right buyer for your home,
and provide you with all the money you need, and the financial freedom to be, to do, and
to go, as your heart desires.
It is your right to discover this inner world of thought, feeling, and power, of light, love,
and beauty. Though invisible, its forces are mighty. Within your subconscious mind you will
find the solution for every problem, and the cause for every effect. Because you can draw
out the hidden powers, you come into actual possession of the power and wisdom
necessary to move forward in abundance, security, joy, and dominion.
I have seen the power of the subconscious lift people up out of crippled states, making
them whole, vital, and strong once more, and free to go out into the world to experience
happiness, health, and joyous expression. There is a miraculous healing power in your
subconscious that can heal the troubled mind and the broken heart. It can open the prison
door of the mind and liberate you. It can free you from all kinds of material and physical
bondage.
Necessity of a Working Basis
Substantial progress in any field of endeavor is impossible in the absence of a working
basis, which is universal in its application. You can become skilled in the operation of your
subconscious mind. You can practice its powers with a certainty of results in exact
proportion to your knowledge of its principles and to your application of them for definite
specific purposes and goals you wish to achieve.
Being a former chemist, I would like to point out that if you combine hydrogen and
oxygen in the proportions of two atoms of the former to one of the latter, water would be
the result. You are very familiar with the fact that one atom of oxygen and one atom of
carbon will produce carbon monoxide, a poisonous gas. But, if you add another atom of
oxygen, you will get carbon dioxide, a harmless gas, and so on throughout the vast realm
of chemical compounds.
You must not think that the principles of chemistry, physics, and mathematics differ from
the principles of your subconscious mind. Let us consider a generally accepted principle:
"Water seeks its own level." This is a universal principle, which is applicable to water
everywhere.
Consider another principle: "Matter expands when heated.
This is true anywhere, at any time, and under all circumstances. You can heat a piece of
steel, and it will expand regardless whether the steel is found in China, England, or India. It
is a universal truth that matter expands when heated. It is also a universal truth that
whatever you impress on your subconscious mind is expressed on the screen of space as
condition, experience, and event.
Your prayer is answered because your subconscious mind is principle, and by principle I
mean the way a thing works. For example, the principle of electricity is that it works from a
higher to a lower potential. You do not change the principle of electricity when you use it,
but by cooperating with nature, you can bring forth marvelous inventions and discoveries,
which bless humanity in countless ways.
Your subconscious mind is principle and works according to the law of belief. You must
know what belief is, why it works, and how it works. Your Bible says in a simple, clear, and
beautiful way: Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast
into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he
saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. MARK 11:23.
The law of your mind is the law of belief. This means to believe in the way your mind
works, to believe in belief itself. The belief of your mind is the thought of your mind--that is
simple--just that and nothing else.
All your experiences, events, conditions, and acts are the reactions of your subconscious
mind to your thoughts. Remember, it is not the thing believed in, but the belief in your own
mind, which brings about the result. Cease believing in the false beliefs, opinions,
superstitions, and fears of mankind. Begin to believe in the eternal verities and truths of
life, which never change. Then, you will move onward, upward, and Godward.
Whoever reads this book and applies the principles of the subconscious mind herein set
forth; will be able to pray scientifically and effectively for himself and for others. Your prayer
is answered according to the universal law of action and reaction. Thought is incipient
action. The reaction is the response from your subconscious mind which corresponds with
the nature of your thought. Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace,
and good will, and wonders will happen in your life.
The Duality of Mind
You have only one mind, but your mind possesses two distinctive characteristics. The
line of demarcation between the two is well known to all thinking men and women today.
The two functions of your mind are essentially unlike. Each is endowed with separate and
distinct attributes and powers. The nomenclature generally used to distinguish the two
functions of your mind is as follows: The objective and subjective mind, the conscious and
subconscious mind, the waking and sleeping mind, the surface self and the deep self, the
voluntary mind and the involuntary mind, the male and the female, and many other terms.
You will find the terms "conscious" and "subconscious" used to represent the dual nature of
your mind throughout this book.
The Conscious and Subconscious Minds
An excellent way to get acquainted with the two functions of your mind is to look upon
your own mind as a garden. You are a gardener, and you are planting seeds (thoughts) in
your subconscious mind all day long, based on your habitual thinking. As you sow in your
subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment.
Begin now to sow thoughts of peace, happiness, right action, good will, and prosperity.
Think quietly and with interest on these qualities and accept them fully in your conscious
reasoning mind. Continue to plant these wonderful seeds (thoughts) in the garden of your
mind, and you will reap a glorious harvest. Your subconscious mind may be likened to the
soil, which will grow all kinds of seeds, good or bad. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or
figs of thistles? Every thought is, therefore, a cause, and every condition is an effect. For
this reason, it is essential that you take charge of your thoughts so as to bring forth only
desirable conditions.
When your mind thinks correctly, when you understand the truth, when the thoughts
deposited in your subconscious mind are constructive, harmonious, and peaceful, the magic
working power of your subconscious will respond and bring about harmonious conditions,
agreeable surroundings, and the best of everything. When you begin to control your
thought processes, you can apply the powers of your subconscious to any problem or
difficulty. In other words, you will actually be consciously cooperating with the infinite
power and omnipotent law, which governs all things.
Look around you wherever you live and you will notice that the vast majority of mankind
lives in the world without; the more enlightened men are intensely interested in the world
within. Remember, it is the world within, namely, your thoughts, feelings, and imagery that
makes your world without. It is, therefore, the only creative power, and everything, which
you find in your world of expression, has been created by you in the inner world of your
mind consciously or unconsciously.
Knowledge of the interaction of your conscious and subconscious minds will enable you
to transform your whole life. In order to change external conditions, you must change the
cause. Most men try to change conditions and circumstances by working with conditions
and circumstances. To remove discord, confusion, lack, and limitation, you must remove the
cause, and the cause is the way you are using your conscious mind. In other words, the
way you are thinking and picturing in your mind.
You are living in a fathomless sea of infinite riches. Your subconscious is very sensitive to
your thoughts. Your thoughts form the mold or matrix through which the infinite
intelligence, wisdom, vital forces, and energies of your subconscious flow. The practical
application of the laws of your mind as illustrated in each chapter of this book will cause
you to experience abundance for poverty, wisdom for superstition and ignorance, peace for
pain, joy for sadness, light for darkness, harmony for discord, faith and confidence for fear,
success for failure, and freedom from the law of averages. Certainly, there can be no more
wonderful blessing than these from a mental, emotional, and material standpoint.
Most of the great scientists, artists, poets, singers, writers, and inventors have a deep
understanding of the workings of the conscious and subconscious minds.
One time Caruso, the great operatic tenor, was struck with stage fright. He said his
throat was paralyzed due to spasms caused by intense fear, which constricted the muscles
of his throat. Perspiration poured copiously down his face. He was ashamed because in a
few minutes he had to go out on the stage, yet he was shaking with fear and trepidation.
He said, "They will laugh at me. I can't sing." Then he shouted in the presence of those
behind the stage, "The Little Me wants to strangle the Big Me within."
He said to the Little Me, "Get out of here, the Big Me wants to sing through me."
By the Big Me, he meant the limitless power and wisdom of his subconscious mind, and
he began to shout, "Get out, get out, the Big Me is going to sing!"
His subconscious mind responded releasing the vital forces within him. When the call
came, he walked out on the stage and sang gloriously and majestically, enthralling the
audience.
It is obvious to you now that Caruso must have understood the two levels of mind--the
conscious or rational, and the subconscious or irrational level. Your subconscious mind is
reactive and responds to the nature of your thoughts. When your conscious mind (the Little
Me) is full of fear, worry, and anxiety, the negative emotions engendered in your
subconscious mind (the Big Me) are released and flood the conscious mind with a sense of
panic, foreboding, and despair. When this happens, you can, like Caruso, speak
affirmatively and with a deep sense of authority to the irrational emotions generated in your
deeper mind as follows: "Be still, be quiet, I am in control, you must obey me, you are
subject to my command, you cannot intrude where you do not belong."
It is fascinating and intensely interesting to observe how you can speak authoritatively
and with conviction to the irrational movement of your deeper self bringing silence,
harmony, and peace to your mind. The subconscious is subject to the conscious mind, and
that is why it is called subconscious or subjective.
Outstanding Differences and Modes of Operation
You will perceive the main differences by the following illustrations: The conscious mind
is like the navigator or captain at the bridge of a ship. He directs the ship and signals orders
to men in the engine room, who in turn control all the boilers, instruments, gauges, etc.
The men in the engine room do not know where they are going; they follow orders. They
would go on the rocks if the man on the bridge issued faulty or wrong instructions based on
his findings with the compass, sextant, or other instruments. The men in the engine room
obey him because he is in charge and issues orders, which are automatically obeyed.
Members of the crew do not talk back to the captain; they simply carry out orders.
The captain is the master of his ship, and his decrees are carried out. Likewise, your
conscious mind is the captain and the master of your ship, which represents your body,
environment, and all your affairs. Your subconscious mind takes the orders you give it
based upon what your conscious mind believes and accepts as true.
When you repeatedly say to people, "I can't afford it," then your subconscious mind
takes you at your word and sees to it that you will not be in a position to purchase what
you want. As long as you persist in saying, "I can't afford that car, that trip to Europe, that
home, that fur coat or ermine wrap," you can rest assured that your subconscious mind will
follow your orders, and you will go through life experiencing the lack of all these things.
Last Christmas Eve a beautiful young university student looked at an attractive and
rather expensive traveling bag in a store window. She was going home to Buffalo, New
York, for the holidays. She was about to say, "I can't afford that bag," when she recalled
something she had heard at one of my lectures which was, "Never finish a negative
statement; reverse it immediately, and wonders will happen in your life."
She said, "That bag is mine. It is for sale. I accept it mentally, and my subconscious sees
to it that I receive it."
At eight o'clock Christmas Eve her fiancé presented her with a bag exactly the same as
the one she had looked at and mentally identified herself with at ten o'clock the same
morning. She had filled her mind with the thought of expectancy and released the whole
thing to her deeper mind, which has the "know how" of accomplishment.
This young girl, a student at the University of Southern California, said to me, "I didn't
have the money to buy that bag, but now I know where to find money and all the things I
need, and that is in the treasure house of eternity within me."
Another simple illustration is this: When you say, "I do not like mushrooms," and the
occasion subsequently comes that you are served mushrooms in sauces or salads, you will
get indigestion because your subconscious mind says to you, "The boss (your conscious
mind) does not like mushrooms." This is an amusing example of the outstanding differences
and modes of operation of your conscious and subconscious minds.
A woman may say, "I wake up at three o'clock, if I drink coffee at night." Whenever she
drinks coffee, her subconscious mind nudges her, as if to say, "The boss wants you to stay
awake tonight."
Your subconscious mind works twenty-four hours a day and makes provisions for your
benefit, pouring all the fruit of your habitual thinking into your lap.
How Her Subconscious Responded
A woman wrote me a few months ago as follows: "I am seventy-five years old, a widow
with a grown family. I was living alone and on a pension. I heard your lectures on the
powers of the subconscious mind wherein you said that ideas could be conveyed to the
subconscious mind by repetition, faith, and expectancy. "I began to repeat frequently with
feeling, 'I am wanted. I am happily married to a kind, loving, and spiritual minded man. I
am secure!'
"I kept on doing this many times a day for about two weeks, and one day at the corner
drugstore, I was introduced to a retired pharmacist. I found him to be kind, understanding,
and very religious. He was a perfect answer to my prayer. Within a week he proposed to
me, and now we are on our honeymoon in Europe. I know that the intelligence within my
subconscious mind brought both of us together in divine order."
This woman discovered that the treasure house was within her. Her prayer was felt as
true in her heart, and her affirmation sank down by osmosis into her subconscious mind,
which is the creative medium. The moment she succeeded in bringing about a subjective
embodiment, her subconscious mind brought about the answer through the law of
attraction. Her deeper mind, full of wisdom and intelligence, brought both of them together
in divine order.
Be sure that you think on whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise,
think on these things. PHIL. 4:8