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FREEDOM

THROUGH CREATIVE THINKING By

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Part One — The Process Lesson Lesson Lesson Lesson Lesson Lesson Lesson

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I—The Start II—Your Body

11

14

III—The Force "Works

18

IV—Conditions

21

V—The Presence VI —Practice

VII —The Power of An Idea Lesson VIII — Giving a Treatment

25

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32 35

Part Two — The Principle Applied Lesson Lesson Lesson Lesson Lesson

I—Mental Attitude II—Believing III — Inner Thinking

IV— Active Thinking V—The

Idea of Giving

43

46 48 50 53

Lesson VI— The Silence Lesson VII — Universal Laws Lesson VIII —Looking Forward

60

Results

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PART I

THE PROCESS

THOUGHT IS A FORCE. THINKING IS THE PROCESS OF THOUGHTFORCE

A DYNAMO

IS

A GENERATOR OF FORCE.

IT MUST BEFORE

IN ACTION. BE STARTED

IT CAN SEND OUT ITS FORCE,

CURRENT OR STREAM. THOUGHT IS YOUR DYNAMO. START IT.

LESSON

I

THE START "Father we come into Thy Presence." You

As you find truth, practice that truth; live with that truth; carry that truth into all your experience; carry that truth through all your day; make that truth live with you; live it all. You have an equipment within you with which you can create what you will. You are divine in your nature. Realize that. Think of it! You can create what you will. As part of your equipment you have a mind. And more wonderful still, you have the free use of a universal force to carry on and bring to a are seeking truth.

complete finish that which the mind pictures, images, thinks, decrees, and lives with. You are by nature and by inheritance a free soul, not bound but free. Withdraw into the chamber of your mind (Lesson 6) . Close the doors for the time being by closing the eyes, ears, touch, taste, smell. Be relaxed in body. Now think, think, think, think— 1

I

am a creative being.

create by thinking an idea, at the same time am connected with a universal force ing that am thinking. carries out to fulfillment the idea

I

That makes me free for think.

I

I

can think what

I

know which

wish to

It

pays to think the good. It pays to think plenty instead of lack. It pays to think health instead of 11

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It

pays to think happiness instead of misery for1 the thought one thinks must react upon the thinker. Keep the life, the mind, the being open, to the highest ideas; then only the highest can come to you. You need not be poor if you can entertain a higher idea than poverty. You need not be deaf if you can entertain a higher idea than deafness. It is difficult to raise the thinking to a higher idea, you say. Yes, it is. If, however, you will deliberately and persistently come back again and again to the higher idea, you will find the thinking being raised to the higher idea and you will find that idea taking its place in your life. You are truly a free soul for you can have anything you want if you want it hard enough to think it; you want it hard enough to frequently come back to that idea, to live that idea, think that idea, keep the isicknest.

if

picture of that idea in your mind. You work hard over things you do not want. Why not put as much energy into the idea you do want, always remember ing to want the good. Experiment for a few days. Think "there is a force for me to use." Think it often. Think it until it gets to be a habit of thinking with you. You are in trouble perhaps, suffering physically, mentally, or both. Try thinking yourself out. Think — universal force for me to use. This force can create for me what I desire. take my thought from the idea of the trouble am in. There

I I

is a

I

go within my chamber of mind. close the doors of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell the time being. for

I

The Start I think as a decree. I order it, but order it lovingly with a feeling of good will. The Force then obeys my

decree.

I

am using my equipment, my creative equip

ment.

Nothing can bind me. I am a free creative being. I am divine in my nature. I am living close to my God who is present with me as a universal force in my life. I need no longer be bound to lack. I am living with the idea of plenty. The force of God is present every where now. It brings forth my idea into form, into my world. God the Good is all there is. I am like Him. I am like Him in essence and in attributes, in qualities. The more I look upon Him, the more I think upon Him, the more I grow like Him, the more I call upon

Him,

the more response response unless there be

I

There can be no the call. first I am thinking my idea — success, health, in crease, position —while calling or looking toward the universal God-force within and about me. receive.

of this unity with the Force I am bringing idea into its outer, concrete form. my forth I am careful. I must watch the trend of my think ing, for the trend of my thinking makes a great differ ence in the results. The trend of my thinking is the setting for my idea. Just as the setting of a precious stone influences the whole, so my general trend of thinking influences the outcome of my idea which I would create. Because

1

am a free soul

think.

in God.

I

create as high as

I

can

LESSON

II

YOUR BODY WE

ARE THINKING BEINGS ! 7 AM A THINKING BEING! YOU ARE A THINKING BEING !

Through your thinking you create for there is a force, a mighty universal force, wise and loving, everywhere present, within and without. This uni versal force runs according to your thinking and produces the outer visible forms of your thinking.

If

is

is

good health. 14

is

is

is

is

it,

it,

This force flows toward good or evil as you think. you reverse your thinking, you reverse the flow of the force. You are creative then, for as you think so you become. You are permitted to think anything you will. You, of all created beings, have the power of choice. You need only think what you allow yourself to think. If you object to an idea, you can refuse to think that idea. Then that idea and that thing can not be created in your world. The body is a part of your wonderful equipment. The body is the temple, the Holy Temple. The think ing being lives in this Holy Temple — the body. Every intelligent, every cell of function of shaped, ruled, repaired, controlled by the mind living in it. what we call good, or nor When the functioning mal, or natural, when the tissue good, or normal, healthy, enjoying or natural, we say the body

Your Body

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If the

thinker within the body, within the temple, nas through ignorance, fear, hate, criticism, condem nation, discouragement or resentment perverted the :>rder of things; if the thinker through ignorance or destructive emotion has impeded, chilled, frozen, burned, numbed or tensed the delicate structure or functioning so that the nerve-energy is hindered or cut off, or the blood flow or gland secretions have been interfered with, then we have what we call a sick body. But a sick body or temple is made so by its tenant as truly as a house on the street takes on the atmosphere of its owner and tenant. A sick body is

made

by destructive thoughts and emotions.

so

Think in I,

this manner

the free, divine



thinker that

I

am —

I, looking at

my body and seeing the damage that has been done, can repair, remake, rebuild if I refuse to indulge in the thoughts and emotions which have caused the damage and reverse the order of my thinking and feeling.

I

am creative in my power to think for always I can draw into my thinking the force which is about and in and through me.

Have faith in this truth, trust in it, practice it. Suc upon using this creative law. "The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him." (Hab. 2:20.) Now create the perfect body idea. Forget the criti cess depends

cisms,

fears, resentments,

discouragements and heart

aches.

Forget them. Loose them! Let them go! They are not worth the price you pay for them. Forget the condemnation of yourself and others. Let go of dis trust, hate and fear. Let go for now. Let go for just today. Then tomorrow you can try another day

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of it. Let it all

go. Shake your head at the destructiv

Say "no" to them order of thinking. If you need help of the thinking, and so of the body, is help for you everywhere. There and there is help in books. ideas and habits.

It

Thinking and build a ne> in this rebuilds the temple, the is help in peop'

does not matter what is your religion.

Ever

religion has records of healing. It is a matter of trust ing to a higher force, a more supreme being than tl self, looking toward perfection, life and health, an looking away from imperfection, death and disease. First, determine "What am I willing to think? Do not argue about it. Too much time is lost i arguing. Rather, make up your mind to experimem You may have very little faith at first. There may h more the element of testing out than believing. Bu the results, the works, give you faith for the ner time.

Let us think together now for our bodies. Let u go within the chamber of mind. Let us close our eye and let us think—

I

I

am creative through my thinking, attract.

for what

I

think

am turning to the force of God for my help. I, looking toward this presence of Force, am thinking PERFECT BODY. 1

As

I think perfect body, I speak Our Force that

is

lovingly to the Force:

within us, holy and sacred is Thy

nature. Come forth now in my body PERFECT BODY. Come forth

as

perfection.

as

I

am

thinking

Your Body Give to me now all that

I

need

stration.

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for this demon

Give to me -wisdom in place of my ignorance. Keep me from thinking the wrong thoughts. Deliver me from my present condition.

You

are the power.

To you

I

give the thanks always.

Come back to this thinking often through the day and night. Think again and again, over and over, perfect body. Think "I give my idea of perfect body to you God-force. Bring it forth. Bring it forth." Always and ever guard your temple. Keep out thoughts and feelings which destroy. Think perfect body through the Force everywhere present, the force of God. Love as much as you can, more than you can. Make an effort at more. You carry the image. The force does the work. *

*

*

LESSON

III

THE FORCE WORKS Truth You

are creative

must be practiced.

in your nature. You

are made that

way. And you are permitted great freedom in your creating, great freedom in that you can create any thing you can think. You, yourself, are the only limitation to your creating. Think of that! Free to create anything you can think. It sounds easy, but it is really very difficult to think the thing you want to think for we are such creatures of habit that we sink only too easily into the thoughts we have been think ing. For instance, you do not have to be poor if you can think riches. That is a truth. But try to think riches if you are poor. It is difficult. It takes a big effort. But you have the energy within you to think riches, and you have power within you to produce riches if you can rouse the energy to think riches. Live with the whole being. Live fully. Use the Force. Think riches. Do what must be done today gladly, bravely, lovingly, with good will toward all. You are sure to reap riches. Give yourself, body, mind and spirit, to the Force to be acted upon by it. It will bring to you what you are thinking. Much of the time we hold ourselves tense and tight. We are afraid or ignorant, sometimes unwill ing to give ourselves to the Force, universal, ever18

The Force Works esent, divine, all

19

We must give, open up our inds, in order to bring forth the image or set of lages we carry. The promise, "As ye give, so shall i receive," must be taken literally. We must give xrselves to the force of God. The more reverently id lovingly we give ourselves, with our mental wise.

nages, the more we receive according to our images.

I

give myself and my image I can expect the response, the return, the reward for my thinking.

As

It

is remarkable and true that the thought or idea rhich you permit to live in you increases and, if persted in, determines the trend of thinking and acts > a great attracting or repelling power which brings

orth from within you your possibilities for producng the thing. At the same time it attracts to you all hat can aid in producing and repels all contrary to it. Now think, think, think—plenty, opulence. Say the words; close the eyes; look and listen into nind. Plenty, opulence, richness, abundance, plenty.

Say them over and over again. Say them until they ire no longer just words. Say them until they grow nto ideas in the mind. Keep thinking the ideas until :hey stay in the mind. Keep thinking them until they produce on the outer. You serve this God-force when jrou open to it. Give yourself to it and give to it an idea to work out. The more understandingly you do this, the more lovingly you do this, knowing that when you ask for riches the force of God all about, within, everywhere is the supply and is producing. Know this —

I

within me unlimited and unused resources of energy and power which I may use if 1 will try living with my whole being, loving, thinking and acting. have

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try to express more fulness,

I will

express

more

fulness.

I

give myself to the Force, as 1 know more and more, as 1 act according to my highest knowledge, as learn trust in the divine answering of the Force, so my law of success.

As

I

I

I

I

am a creative being.

by thinking ideas and at the same time knowing that there is a Force at my disposal which is universal, wise, and loving in its nature. I choose my ideas and think them. create

The Force brings them forth.

I

can create

as

much

as

I

can think.

This thinking being that 1 am, creating with the Force, lives in a wonderful temple of body. My body is built and rebuilt by the thinking going on within it. 1 can create a perfect body if J will think thoughts which tend that way. With the Force, this creative and thinking being that I am, living in the wonderful body, may have rich conditions about me, if 1 will think thoughts which tend to richness.

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*

LESSON IV

CONDITIONS In

This Lesson we are to Consider Conditions.

You

create any and every condition in your life by thinking that way. As you continually, persistently, determinedly come back, again and again, to an idea and think it there is a Force which is in and about that takes the idea and brings it forth. It pays to think good ideas; it pays to think healthy ideas; it pays to think happy ideas; it pays to think

rich that

There is a Force which brings forth all is involved in the idea. Increase is a principle, a law of action. If you can think increase, if you can ask of the Force for in crease, then increase of all you have is created for you because there is a Force which takes the principle of the increase idea and brings it forth. Ideas, many ideas, are continually running through the mind. It must be evident that each person is going outwardly according to the general trend of his thinking. The sad part of it all is that so few seem to comprehend this stupendous fact. Those who do realize it and make the effort to change the trend of thinking by getting in new big leading ideas do grad ually change the trend of thinking and so get results ideas.

on the outer. For instance,

if

your general trend of thinking is toward deafness, start now to think perfect hearing. Really think it. Think it and give the idea of perfect 21

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hearing to the force of God, moving within you ar about you. Forces are set moving which will attra; to you perfect hearing. You become a center fc attracting that. How perfect hearing will come not the question. That is involved in the trend c thinking. If there is little hope in your trend I thinking, then the way will be more difficult tha if there is great faith. Faith and hope seem to spee things up and make them come more easily. Thesl may be some small thing which is back of the troubl Perhaps it is a very complicated thing. But, big c little, the hearing will come. You may loosen up some where and relieve a tension. You may learn to lo* more, have good will, and so thaw out some num. area. You may need the help of some wise scientifi. mind and so will be attracted to The One. But sureh whatever or whoever is needed will come and you will be led out of your trouble into perfect hearing. Yotf must think the idea of perfect hearing to and witis the Force. Refuse to entertain the idea of deafnes? and so change the trend that has caused the deafness.

If

you are lonely, sick in any part of your body] or miserable in your environment, there is one princi ple. It must be applied. It can be applied to any and to all cases. Change the trend by putting trust, more

love, more good will, more understanding,

more per

fection into your thinking, into your ideas. The Force creates for you as you think. The more trust you have in the power of the Force to take you out of your past trend of thinking and take you toward the fulfillment of the new idea, the faster you go that way. But, whether you have faith or not, the law is there —"As a man thinketh in his heart, so

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us wake up to this law. Let us think things as we want them to be, not as they are.

is he."

Let

of

now to do your own thinking. Be the divine thinker of your own thoughts. No one else must do your thinking for you. No one else must splash his ideas all over you, all over your mind, for you to work out. If someone is making you unhappy, start a different trend (your own trend) of thinking. Go within your chamber of mind as frequently as necessary and know that no one has the power to make you unhappy unless you accept the idea and permit it to take root in you. "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord." (Isa. 54:17.) Think happiness and happiness will come to you. You are the way to your own happi ness. You can think the happy idea and soon you will find happiness about you. The Force is the Great Servant. It works out the ideas we give to it. You need no longer be bound to lack if you will live with the idea of plenty. You need no longer be deaf if you will live with the idea of hearing. Take the Lord's Prayer, write it down, study it. Then think over this translation: Resolve

"Our Force that

Thy

is

within

us, holy and sacred is

nature.

Come forth and do for us on the outer

as

we are

thinking. Give to us now all that we need for this demonstra tion. Give for our ignorance thy bright wisdom.

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Thinking

As we give for the lack we find in others. Let us not be led into the temptation of wrongly using You. Deliver us from imperfection. Thine is the power and to Thee be the thanks for

ever.

Amen." Withdraw into the closet of mind;

close out the

I

I

it,

outer; speak to the Force, the Father, the Source, the Principle, the Cause of all things. Study a subject if you would understand it. Prac tice what you have studied that you may use the knowledge you have acquired. Reading about the automobile will not make you an automobile expert. Study the automobile, and then if you do not use the knowledge it can do you no good. "As I give, so do I receive" is a universal law. Give the idea to the Force. Make knowledge yours by telling by giving it. "As give, so shall receive."

LESSON V

THE PRESENCE You have within you a mighty kingdom (area, state) of mind. You have it within you and by moving into this kingdom, into mind, you find it filled

is

it,

with tremendous force which seems to work with your idea and bring it into manifestation. To put it in another way, there is a great divine activity within you which runs according to your thinking, according to your ideas. You are a part of this activ unified with it. ity, this force. You are one with This activity or force the creator of all things, the father of all things, the source of all things, the very life of all things. It acts according to the prin ciple involved in the thinking.

If

is a

is

a

we set ourselves to judge others we get boom — erang we are judged. So we must judge with love and wisdom. We must be just in our judgments, see all things in their right relations. We find that love — love in the highest sense —love or good will, the ideal emotion in which to indulge, good will for our neighbor, good will for our friend, good will for our principle. foe. Good will Endeavor to feel good will, forgiveness, justice and faith. Use your equipment of mind with its force. Do your best today in outer activities. Make the effort to work over the ideas you desire to be creative. You will surely get results. 21

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As you study this creative method and study your results, you will see that after all the big thing in life

For this more know

is to improve the ideas and the equipment.

improvement you must have more and ledge.

The Universal Force in which we live and move and have our being is in its nature all love, life, truth, wisdom and joy. When you realize that you, physically and men tally, are one with the Force, one with the Universal, is,

with all the love there one with all the truth there one with all the peace there one with all the health there one with all the plenty there one with all the activity there one with all the force there you can turn to that wonderful formula, The Lord's Prayer, and think from different point of view. a

it

is,

is,

is,

is,

is,

is,

one

God-force in the midst my body, in the midst

a

it

is

it

it

it

it

Practice this prayer. Practice in your everyday living. Practice with the old words we all love so well. .Then practice as given in Lesson 4. Then go back to the old wording slowly and thoughtfully. It grows in meaning. It grows as you use with goal in mind. You get your response according to your earnestness. Think this thought through the busy day —

me

is

my eyes, in the midst

of

of

is

of of

of

mighty, in the midst my brain, in the midst ears, heart, purse, work or play. God-force me

mighty.

*

it

it,

is

Remember this force universal. The law works for everyone alike. All have the right and privilege to use but must be used by all toward all with love and good will. * *

LESSON VI

PRACTICE This is a lesson on practice. Practice makes per fect. Remember that! Practice looking inward. Withdraw into the closet of mind. Shut the doors of sight, sound, touch, taste, smell. When you enter this closet, when you get in there, know this — "I AM." Think about yourself something like this — First exercise:

I

am a three-fold being. In my nature 1 am physical and I am spiritual. And all through my spiritual and my physical natures I have mind. In my mind are two AM — I AM— I things, consciousness and a Force. AM made in the image and likeness of my Father, the Great Universal Father who is Universal Spirit, sub stance and Mind. He is Universal Mind which is filled with Universal Consciousness. His Universal Spirit pervades His mind and substance and is the Force which is all love, all life, all intelligence. He supplies me with His infinite, limitless force, which reinforces and multiplies the force already within me so that I can keep drawing upon the supply as long as I keep giving AM AM— AM— AM one with the Father. out. — I AM — AM divine creator. AM. create with the force of God.

I

I

I

I

I

I

I

I

To practice any art you must keep coming back again and again to it. Come back constantly, thought

fully, eagerly, deliberately. So you must practice this art of creating. Practice closing the doors to the outer. Practice opening the doors of the mind to the Father 27

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force, the Great Universal Force. Practice knowing I AM. Establish yourself in your mind. Practice look ing for the Force, the creative Force. Speak to it. Practice — practice— practice— practice. "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut the door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." (Matt. 6:6.) "And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee. ..." (2 Kings 4:4.) And again, "He went in therefore and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the Lord." (2 Kings 4:33.)

Second exercise: Practice your image. Hold the image of what you desire, of what you aspire to be,

constantly in your mind. Practice withdrawing into the closet of mind frequently to look upon this image. While busy with the duties of the day practice re membering this image which is being held in mind although you may be too busy to go in and look upon it. Practice remembering that you have this image and that the Force is bringing it out into visibility. Practice remembering that it is being worked out, developed. Third exercise: Practice new ideas. Practice holding the idea of perfect body while the body is sick or weak or afraid. Practice holding the idea of plenty even though the purse be empty. Practice holding the idea of good position if you are out of work. Think good position, good position, good salary. Think it. Practice holding the idea in your mind of adjustment when your affairs are in disorder. Practice holding the idea in your mind of protection when you are in danger or when you are being dominated by another

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mind. Go often into your closet of mind and close the door. Look at the idea you are holding there and quietly talk to the Force about it.

Fourth exercise: Practice the wonderful prayer or formula,

"Our Father who art in Heaven (our wonderful

Force that lies within us) Hallowed be Thy name (holy and sacred is nature)

Thy

.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven (Come forth on the outer as we are

thinking) . Give us this day our daily bread (give to us now all we need for this demonstration) . Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who against us. And lead us not into temptation (let us not be tempted to use you wrongly) . But deliver us from evil (imperfection). For thine is the power and the glory (and to Thee trespass

be the

thanks) ."

exercise: Practice giving to others. Give good will to those who have been unfair to you. Forgive

Fifth

them; get your own mind in order about them. Do not multiply the damage they have done you by your criticism of them or by your grudge. It is not worth the price you pay. Forgive. Practice forgiving. Practice giving your effort into constructive thinking. Give the principle of friendship. Those about you who can will respond. Your principle of friendship will find a place in the hearts where it can grow. The law of growth is involved in principle. If you cannot give friendship, you cannot make it grow for there

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is nothing there

with which to start.

If

you need

Give — give. If you

need courage, then give courage. increase, then give what you have to give with the idea of increase. Practice this.

The truths which we ticed.

Remember



are studying must be

prac

I

am a creative being. There is a mighty and intelli gent Force about and within me which runs for me

I

am according to my thinking. 1 can have anything conditions, new create a new think. 1 can body, able to by changing my ideas, my images, by getting new ideas and images and calling to the Force.

Make these truths — thinking forward, creating new body, creating new environment, appealing to the Force— part of your living. This must be your activity every day, every hour, every minute, awake or asleep.

Give out the influence of your thinking to the few and to the many. We think first in words. Soon we learn to think ideas. Then they become such a part of us that we live them. Remember that the onlooker judges by the fruits, by the results, by the outer manifestations. Start where you are and live the truth you see, the truth that you understand. Gradually more truth will present itself to you. As you realize these truths in the lessons, practice them, live them, and keep looking for more truth. You will find yourself living in a new world. Life will have taken on a new meaning. We live in a universe of thoughts and wrong think ing, death thinking, unhappy thinking, sick thinking

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must be changed to right thinking, life thinking, happy thinking, health thinking. This change of thinking, we find, changes the whole of our living. As we realize our own oneness with the Force of

life

we see that each one is expressing the Force ac cording to his own idea. This indwelling Force in each being gives us a chance for happiness, a chance for heaven here on earth, if we practice thinking ideas which tend to bring happiness. There is a lethargy of mind which seems to settle upon us at times which can be lessened through the practice of these exercises. Keep at them.

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LESSON

VII

THE POWER OF AN IDEA We create through meditation upon an idea. In order to meditate, seek a silent sanctuary where you You find this sanctuary by may be undisturbed. going into the inner chamber of your mind, closing after you the doors of sense. In order that you may meditate upon your idea most efficiently, put out all the disturbing thoughts, ideas, feelings and images by concentrating all your attention upon the idea you desire to create and upon the Force which does the creating. First, concentrate your attention upon this mighty Force everywhere present, penetrating all space, fill ing your chamber of mind where you are to meditate upon your idea. If you will meditate upon the idea of the Force for a few minutes you will find that the disturbing thoughts and feelings will leave without being put out and you will become quiet and steady, drifting easily into the meditation of the idea you wish to create. As you now concentrate your attention upon the idea, determined to make it yours, determined to see it brought forth, the idea increases in strength and intensity. It rises strong, clear and positive. It in creases in size and in dimension. Keep out all ideas which neutralize, disturb or destroy this good idea you would produce. 32

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At

it

it

,

it

is

is

it

it

it,

the heart of the idea is the Force, infinite and universal. Look to the Force in the idea. Speak to it silently as you meditate. Call to it to come forth and produce according to the idea in which it finds itself. As you meditate upon the possibilities, picture the inflow of this Force into the idea, pushing forward through the idea, unfolding the idea, until the idea stands forth in visible form. Every seed has in its heart this same infinite, uni versal Force. The Force pushes forth and unfolds the idea contained within the seed. So it is with your idea. Love your idea enough to go into your closet, close meditate upon it, talk to the the door, look at and Force about it. For as you meditate you feed grows. Look deep within the idea and picture the needs, busy Force busy building, busy attracting all repelling all that might injure the growth. Know that the Force residing in your idea always, giving shape, form, character, quality to the idea, will continue to reside in after the idea has that been brought forth. As you look upon the image there in your mind (with eyes, ears, sense doors closed) picture the Force

within the idea active and producing, glowing You picture

is

is

the Force working for you. Nothing can interfere until the idea com pleted. As you meditate, fill your heart with love. Love the Force which everywhere present about and within you and within the image, the idea. Love the idea or image itself. This love which you feel while meditating upon the idea frees you and the idea and permeates every part of you and of your idea.

through the idea.

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As you quietly come forth from meditating in your closet you keep confidently remembering the living, growing, powerful idea within you. When you find it in visible form before you, silently give thanks to the Force within it which brought it forth. Actually get down to the practice of meditation. Do not just read about it. Do not put it off. Take time out and prove the value of this lesson.

LESSON

VIII

GIVING A TREATMENT The object of these lessons is to enable you to solve your problems. There is a mighty Force ready to bring you security if you will move even part way to meet it. Your own mental attitude of doubt or fear causes all the insecurity you feel. Change that atti tude. How? Think these thoughts — 1

I

am a creative being. create by

My

thinking ideas.

ideas are brought

Force.

I

create as high as

1

forth by the wise and loving

can think.

My

equipment consists of mind-force with my ideas and feeling.

It

is wise

for me to love much while

I

am creating.

Practice makes perfect.

I

will myself to practice meditation, to

I

wish to bring forth. 1 practice going into my closet the door.

idea

I

practice living with the idea

I

image

the

of mind and closing wish to bring forth.

This lesson is upon the technique of giving a treat ment which may be applied to oneself or to another. The treatment will be applied to the body in this lesson, but the same technique may be used for any environmental condition, any condition or problem

f"hich touches the self or another. a

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Through Creative Thinking

Now, as you sit there, quietly narrow down your vision from the room about you to your own body. Close your eyes and withdraw into your mind. Go into your mind, look inside, go inside as into a room. Go clear in, completely in. Go in with so much interest that you are no longer concerned with the outside sounds, sights, odors, tastes or touches. Go in to do something interesting, something vital. Go into the chamber of mind to create a new condition in your body. "Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all." (I Tim.

4:15.)

It

in this sanctuary that you will find the mighty universal force of God. You are in the presence of the force of God. Think about this Force. Narrow down your vision to just the Force. Think of it Think of it as your source. You came from it. Your life today is kept going by it. You could not live a second of time without it. It is all-loving and allwise in its nature. Think of the Force. Be absorbed with the idea of the Force. Think of nothing else. As you do this, let go of thinking of the imperfection of the body. You cannot keep these opposite ideas is

moving consciously at the same time. Think—

The Force is. Without fear 1 present to it my idea which is perfect body. I now meditate upon a perfect body and that perfect body is to be my perfect body. I trust in this Force that it can produce a perfect body. Perfect body is the order I give to it. I am now medi tating upon my perfect body. (If any opposing ideas, memories, feelings intrude, disregard them for the perfect body, perfect body. (The idea moment.) is growing stronger.) perfect body. (My idea is grow

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ing clearer.) perfect body, perfect nerve system, PERFECT FUNCTIONING OF ORGANS, PERFECT ACTIVITY, PERFECT BODY.

Picture the Force moving in and through the orans, along the nerve fibres, pulsing through the rteries and veins, moving in and through the lungs, imulating the nerve centers, and so forth. At the heart of this idea in your mind is the Force, finite, wise and warmly loving. Speak to it quietly, ustingly, expectantly. Come forth through this idea — perfect body. Produce a perfect

body.

In your

wisdom produce it. Produce all that is involved in the idea of a perfect body. The Force is flowing in and through me and my idea. is pushing forward through the idea and through my substance. It is un

It

folding perfect body from within as I think. It is manifesting in form a perfect body for me. Our Force is coming forth — our Force that is within this idea.

Holy and

I

I

sacred is

love the Force

Its nature.

for bringing forth this perfect body.

love the idea of

perfect body which

is being love the Force and as love the perfect body, more Force is fed in and through idea, the idea and in and through the body being made

brought forth. As

I

I

perfect. Even now as I meditate the Force is busy deep down within my idea, deep down within my body, busy building my body perfect, attracting all that is needed for this perfection, repelling all that might injure or retard the building of that perfection.

I

trust in this Force. 1 know the Force is giving shape, form, character, quality to my idea, my pattern

— perfect

body.

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/ trust in body, and

I

Through Creative Thinking in my idea, perfect know that it will keep right on residing the Force residing

in it after it is finished. The Force within me is busy, is glowing through my idea, through my body, is working for me. Nothing can perfect body interfere. Nothing can hinder until the is

fully accomplished. As

I

meditate my heart is full of love, love for the Force, love for myself, love for all my enemies, love for all my world, love for the Force which is every where present, answering all who call. The love and gratitude that I feel is freeing me and speeding up the activity of my creation of the perfect body.

As you come forth from your

closet quietly,

con

fidently move about remembering the living, growing idea powerful within. And, as you find the idea ex pressing in visible form, silently and reverently give thanks to the Force within which has done the work and to the truth or principle which makes it possible for you to have used the Force. Just as you have given yourself this treatment you

treatment to another, with this difference: When you have narrowed down your vision to your mind chamber, then imagine yourself gathering Force which moving into your mind chamber from the universal and project as in stream of Godforce into the whole body or into any part of it. You can project into purse, bank account, group, situ ation, anywhere to create the perfect body. You can easily treat conditions, environment, nances, work, play, bodies, homes, or any other nee
a

fi

a

it

it

is

the

can give

I

it

I

it

it

of

"So shall my word be that goeth forth out my shall not return unto me void, but mouth: shall shall prosper in accomplish that which please, and the thing whereto sent it." (ha.

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