THE POWER OF THOUGHTS

 

                            HOW OUR THOUGHTS WORKS

                           ALL STUDENTS OF MENTAL INFLUENCE HAVE NOTICED THE CLOSE RESEMBLANCE THAT IS MANIFESTED BETWEEN TEH PHENOMENA ELECTRICAL AND MAGNETIC ENERGY ON THE ONE HAND AND THE PHENOMENA OF MENTAL ENERGY ON THE OTHER. SO CLOSE IS THE ANALOGY THAT OE MAY TAKE THE PROVEN FACTS OF SCIENCE RELATING TO ELECTRICAL AND MAGNETIC PHENOMENA AND CONFIDENTLY PROCEED WITH THE CERTAINLY OF FINDING A STRIKINGLY CLOSE CORRESPONDENCE IN  THE FIELD OF MENTAL PHENOMENA. AND THE RECOGNITION OF THIS FACT IS HELPING THE WORKERS IN THE MENTAL FIELD GROUP TOGETHER THE VARIED PHENOMENA THAT COME UNDER THEIR NOTICE, AND TO WORK OUT THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MENTAL INFLUENCE.

                           IN THE FIRST PLACE, IT IS NOW A FACT WELL KNOWN AND ACCEPTED BY INVESTIGATORS THAT THE GENERATION OF THOUGHT AND THE MANIFESTATION OF MENTAL STATES OCCASIONS A "BURNING UP" OF BRAIN MATTER, AND THE CONSEQUENT PRODUCTION OF A FORM OF ENERGY OF HIGH VIBRATORY POWER. PHYSIOLOGISTS RECOGNIZE THIS FACT, AND THE TEXTBOOKS MAME REFERENCE  TO IT. EXPERIMENTS HAVE SHOWN THAT THE TEMPERATURE OF THE BRAIN IS INCREASED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTENSITY OF FEELING AND THOUGHT, AND THAT THERE IS UNDOUBTEDLY A GENERATION OF ENERGY AND A CONSUMPTION OF BRAIN MATTER WHICH BEARS A VERY CLOSE RESEMBLANCE TO THE PROCESS OF THE GENERATION OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY. AND THIS BEING CONCEDED, IT FOLLOWS THAT THIS ENERGY ONCE RELEASED MUST BE EMANATED OR SENT FORTH FROM THE BRAIN IN THE MANNER AKIN TO THE EMANATIO OF OTHER KNOWN FORMS OF ENERGY, I.E IN THE FORM OF "WAVES" OF VIBRATORY FORCE. LIGHT AND HEAT TRAVEL IN THIS WAY - SO DO ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM - SO DO THE FORCES OF RADIOACTIVITY. AND THE INVESTIGATORS THAT THERE IS SUCH A THING AS THOUGHT-INDUCTION, AND MANY OTHER PHASES OF MANIFESTATION SIMILAR TO THAT EXHIBITED BY ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM.

                      YOU WILL READILY UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS A GREAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOUGHT-WAVES SENT FORTH IDLY AND UNCONSCIOUSLY, AND WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNDERLYING LAWS OF MENTAL INFLUENCE, AND THOSE PROJECTED  WITH A FULL KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAWS GOVERNING THE PHENOMENA AND URGED ON AND DIRECTED BY A POWERFUL WILL OF THE SENDER. THE FORCE IS THE SAME, BUT THE DEGREE OF ITS POWER, AND THE MEASURE OF ITS EFFECTS ARE DETERMINED BY THE CONDITIONS OF ITS SENDING FORCE.

                        THE VIBRATORY FORCE OF THESE THOUGHT-WAVES DOES NOT CEASE WITH THE SENDING FORTH OF THE WAVE, BUT PERSISTS FOR A LONG TIME AFTERWARD. JUST AS HEAT IN A ROOM PERSISTS LONG AFTER THE FIRE IN THE STOVE HAS BEEN EXTINGUISHED - JUST AS THE PERFUME OF THE FLOWER EXISTS IN A ROOM LONG AFTER THE FLOWER HAS BEEN REMOVED - JUST AS A RAY OF LIGHT TRAVELS THROUGH SPACE FOR MILLIONS OF MILES, AND FOR CENTURIES AFTER THE STAR ITSELF HAS BEEN BLOTTED OUT OF EXISTENCE - JUST AS ANY AND ALL FORMS OF VIBRATORY ENERGY PERSIST IN MANIFESTING AFTER THE INITIAL IMPULSE HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN - SO DO THE VIBRATIONS OF THOUGHT CONTINUE LONG AFTER THE THOUGHT, LONG AFTER THE BRAIN WHICH SENT THEM FORTH HAS PASSED INTO DUST.

                     THERE ARE MANY PLACES TODAY FILLED WITH THE THOUGHT-VIBRATIONS OF MINDS LONG SINCE PASSED OUTSIDE OF THE BODY. THERE ARE MANY PLACES FILLED WITH THE STRONG VIBRATION OF TRAGEDIES LONG SINCE ENACTED THERE. EVERY PLACE HAS AN ATMOSPHERE OF ITS OWN, ARISING FROM THE THOUGHT VIBRATIONS SET IN MOTION BY THE VARIOUS PERSONS WHO HAVE INHABITED OR OCCUPIED THEM. EVERY CITY HAS ITS OWN MENTAL ATMOSPHERE, WHICH HAS AN EFFECT UPON PERSONS MOVING INTO THEM. SOME ARE LIVELY, SOME DULL, SOME PROGRESSIVE, SOME OLD-FOGEYISH, SOME MORAL, SOME IMMORAL - THE RESULT OF THE CHARACTER OF THE EARLY SETTLERS AND LEADING SPIRITS OF THE PLACES. THE ATMOSPHERE AFFECTS PERSONS MOVING INTO THESE TOWNS, AND EITHER SINKS TO THE GENERAL LEVEL, OR ELSE, IF STRONG ENOUGH HELPS TO CHANGE THE MENTAL TONE OF THE PLACE. SOMETIMES A CHANGE IN CONDITIONS BRINGS A LARGE INFLUX OF NEW PEOPLE TO THE TOWN,  AND THE MENTAL WAVES OF THE NEWCOMERS TEND TO BRING ABOUT A MARKED CHANGE IN THE LOCAL MENTAL ATMOSPHERE. THESE FACTS  HAVE BEEN NOTED BY MANY OBSERVING PEOPLE WHO WERE, PERHAPS, NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE LAWS AND PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING THE PHENOMENA.

                       THE LOW QUARTERS OF OUR CITIES, THE DENS OF VICE AND HAUNTS OF DISSIPATION VIBRATE WITH THE CHARACTER OF THOUGHT AND FEELING OF THOSE INHABITING THEM. AND THE WEAK-WILLED VISITORS IS THUS TEMPTED. AND, IN THE SAME WAY, CERTAIN PLACES ARE FILLED WITH STRONG, HELPFUL, ELEVATING VIBRATIONS, WHICH TEND TO LIFT UP AND ELEVATE THOSE COMING WITHIN THEIR CIRCLE OF INFLENCE. THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS ARE CONTAGIOUS, BY REASON OF THE LAW OF VIBRATION AND MENTAL INDUCTION. WHEN THIS LAW IS UNDERSTOOD THE INDIVIDUALS IS ENABLED TO PROTECT AND IMPROVE HIMSELF. SUCH KNOWLEDGE BRINGS STRENGTH.

                              KEY POINTS

                      THE MIND, IN ITS MANIFESTATION OF THOUGHT IN THE BRAIN, GENERATES A FORM OF ENERGY OF INTENSIVELY HIGH VIBRATION, WHICH ENERGY IS PROFJECTED IN VIBRATORY WAVES FROM TEH BRAINS OF OTHER PERSONS WITHIN ITS FIELD OF INFLUENCE, WHETHER THAT PERSON IS NEARBY OR AT A DISTANCE.

                         WHEN A THOUGHT OF FEELING IS GENERATED IN THE MIND OR BRAIN OF A PERSON, THE ENERGY GENERATED FLOWS FORTH FROM THE BRAIN OF THE PERSON IN THE FORM OF WAVES OF MENTAL ENERGY, SPREADING FROM THE IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE THINKER TO A DISTANCE PROPORTIONED TO THE STRENGTH OF THE THOUGHT OR FEELING. THESE THOUGHT-WAVES HAVE THE PROPERTY OF AWAKENING SIMILAR VIBRATIONS IN THE MINDS OF OTHER PERSONS COMING WITHIN THEIR FIELD OF FORCE, ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF MENTAL INFLUENCE.

                           THOUGHT-WAVES ARE MANIFESTED IN A VARIETY OF FORMS AND PHASES. SOME ARE THE WAVES EMANATED FROM THE MINDS OF ALL THINKERS, UNCONSCIOUSLY AND WITHOUT PURPOSE, AND USUALLY WITHOUT MUCH FORCE. OTHERS ARE SENT FORTH WITH GREAT FORCE, AND TRAVEL FAR, MANIFESTING A DEGREE OF INFLUENCE COMMENSURATE WITH THE FORCE WITH WHICH THEY ARE PROJECTED . OTHERS ARE DIRECTED PURPOSELY TOWARD CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS OR PLACES, AND TRAVEL ALONG RAPIDLY IN A STRAIGHT LINE TO THE POINT THAT THEY HAVE BEEN DIRECTED OR AIMED. OTHERS ARE SENT FORTH WITH GREAT STRENGTH AND POWER, BUT INSTEAD OF BEING DIRECTED TOWARD ANY PARTICULAR PERSON OR PLACE, ARE DESIGNED TO SWEEP AROUND IN GREAT WHIRLPOOLS OF ENERGY AFFECTING ALL WHO HAPPEN TO FALL WITHIN FIELD FORCE.

THE MEANING OF VIBRATION

 

                               THE LAW OF VIBRATION

                            STUDENTS OF HISTORY FIND A CONTINUOUS CHAIN OF REFERENCE TO THE MYSTERIOUS INFLUENCE OF ONE HUMA OVER THAT OF OTHERS. IN THE EARLIEST RECORDS, TRADITIONS AND LEGENDS MAY BE FOUND GIVING REFERENCE TO THE GENERAL BELIEF THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL TO EXERT SOME WEIRD UNCANNY POWER OVER THE MINDS OF OTHER PERSONS, WHICH WOULD INFLUENCE THE LATTER FOR GOOD OR EVIL. AND MORE THAN THIS, THE STUDENT WILL FIND AN ACCOMPANYING BELIEF THAT CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS ARE POSSESSED OF SOME MENTAL POWER WHICH BENDS EVEN "THINGS" AND CIRCUMSTANCES TO ITS MIGHT.

                      WAY BACK IN THE DIM PAST OF HUMAN HISTORY ON THIS PLANET, THIS BELIEF EXISTED, AND IT HAS STEADILY PERSISTED IN SPITE OF THE STRENUOUS OPPOSITION OF MATERIAL SCIENCE, EVEN UNTO THE PRESENT DAY. THE YEARS HAVE NOT AFFECTED THE BELIEF, AND IN THESE DAWNING DAYS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY IT HAS TAKEN ON A NEW STRENGTH AND VITALITY, FOR ITS ADHERENTS HAVE BOLDLY STEPPED TO THE FRONT, AND CONFRONTING THE DOUBTING MATERIALISTIC THINKERS, HAVE CLAIMED THED NAME OF "SCIENCE" FOR THIS TRUTH AND HAVE INSISTED THAT IT BE TAKEN, ONCE AND FOR ALL, THE CATEGORY OF SUPERSTITION, CREDULITY AND IGNORANT PLANTASM.

                                UNDERSTAND QUICKLY

                              UNDERLYING ALL FORMS, DEGREES AND APPARENT DIFFERENCE IN MATTER AND ENERGY, THERE IS TO BE FOUND A MANIFESTATION OF SOME ELEMENTARY ENERGY, WHICH MANIFEST IN WHAT IS KNOWN AS VIBRATION. EVERYTHING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD IS IN VIBRATION - EVER MANIFESTING A HIGH DEGREE OF MOTION. WITHOUT VIBRATION THERE WOULD BE NO SUCH THING AS A MATERIAL UNIVERSE. VIBRATION IS THE BASIC FORCE UNDERLYING OTHER FORCES AND THE VARIOUS FORMS OF MATTER. THE APPARENT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE VARIOUS FORMS OF MATTER, AND ALSO BETWEEN THE VARIOUS FORMS OF ENERGY, ARE CAUSED SIMPLY AND SOLELY BY THE VARYING DEGREES OF VIBRATION MANIFESTED.

                               THERE IS BUT ONE TRUTH, AND IT MANIFESTS ON ALL PLANES - THE SPIRITUAL, THE MENTAL, AND THE PHYSICAL - AND MANIFESTATIONS AGREE AND FOR EACH PLANE WILL BEAR OUT THE FACTS AND PHENOMENA OF THE ONES BELOW OR ABOVE IT - THE THREE ARE BUT VARYING PHASES OF ONE.

POINTS TO GET CONCENTRATION POWER

                               

                                GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

                  HOW TO GET CONCENTRATION POWER

                               POINT  1 : GIVE TO THE THING THAT YOU WISH TO MEMORIZE AS GREAT A DEGREE OF CONCENTRATE ATTENTION AS POSSIBLE.

                            THE DEGREE OF CONCENTRATTED ATTENTION BESTOWED UPON THE OBJECT UNDER CONSIDERATION, DETERMINES THE STRENGTH , CLEARNESS AND DEPTH OF THE IMPRESSION RECEIVED AND STORED AWAY IN THE SUBCONSCIOUSNESS. THE CHARATER OF THESE STORED AWAY IMPRESSIONS DETERMINES THE DEGREE OF EASE IN REMEMBRANCE AND RECOLLECTION.

                            POINT 2 : CONSIDERING AN OBJECT TO BE MEMORIZED, ENDEAVOR TO OBTAIN THE IMPRESSIONS THROUGH AS MANY FACULTIES AND SENSES AS POSSIBLE.

                            AN IMPRESSION RECEIVED THROUGH BOTH SOUND AND SIGHT IS DOUBLY AS STRONG AS ONE RECEIVED THROUGH ONLY ONE OF THESE CHANNELS. YOU MAY REMEMBER A NAME, OR WORLD, EITHER BY HAVING SEEN IT IN WRITING OR PRINT, OR ELSE BY REASON OF HAVING HEARD IT, BUT IF YOU HAVE BOTH SEEN AND HEARD IT YOU HAVE A DOUBLE IMPRESSION, AND POSSESS TWO POSSIBLE WAYS OF REVIVING THE IMPRESSION. YOU ARE ABLE TO REMEMBER AN ORANGE BY REASON OF HAVING GREEN IT, SMELT IT, FELT IT AND TASTED IT, AND HAVING HEARD ITS NAME PRONOUNCED. ENDEAVOR TO KNOW A THING FROM AS MANY SENSE IMPRESSION AS POSSIBLE - USE THE EYE TO ASSIST EAR IMPRESSIONS, AND THE EAR TO ASSIST IN EYE IMPRESSIONS. SEE THE THING FROM AS MANY ANGLES AS POSSIBLE.

                            POINT 3: EXERCISING THE PARTICULAR FACULTY THROUGH WHICH THE WEAK IMPRESSIONS ARE RECEIVED MAY STRENGTHEN SENSE IMPRESSIONS.

                         YOU WILL FIND THAT EITHER YOUR EYE MEMORY IS BETTER THAN YOUR EAR MEMORY, OR VICE VERSA. THE REMEDY LIES IN EXERCISING THE WEAKER FACULTY, SO AS TO BRING IT UP TO THE STANDARD OF THE STRONGER. THE CHAPTERS OF EYE AND EAR TRAINING WILL HELP YOU ALONG THESE LINES. THE SAME RULE APPLIES TO THE SEVERAL ONES WILL TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES. THE ONLY WAY TO DEVELOP A SENSE OF FACULTY IS TO INTELLIGENTLY TRAIN, EXERCISE AND USE IT. USE, EXERCISE AND PRACTICE WILL WORK MIRACLES IN THIS DIRECTION.

                          POINT 4 : MAKE YOUR FIRST IMPRESSION STRONG AND FROM ENOUGH TO SERVE AS A BASIS FOR SUBSEQUENT ONES.

                          GET INTO THE HABIT OF FACING A CLEAR, STRONG IMPRESSION OF A THING TO BE CONSIDERED, FROM THE FIRST. OTHERWISE YOU ARE TRYING TO BUILD UP A LARGE STRUCTURE UPON A POOR FOUNDATION. EACH TIME YOU REVIVE AN IMPRESSION YOU DEEPEN IT, BUT IFYOU HAVE ONLY A DIM IMPRESSION TO BEGIN WITH, THE DEEPENED IMPRESSION WILL NOT INCLUDE DETAILS OMITTED IN THE FIRST ONE. IT IS LIKE TAKING A GOOD SHARP NEGATIVE OF A PICTURE THAT YOU INTEND TO ENLARGE AFTERWARD. THE DETAILS LACKING IN THE SMALL PICTURE WILL NOT APPEAR IN THE ENLARGEMENT, BUT THOSE THAT DO APPEAR IN THE SMALL ONE, WILL BE ENLARGED WITH THE PICTURE.

                       POINT 5: REVIVE YOUR IMPRESSIONS FREQUENTLY AND THUS DEEPEN THEM.

                        YOU WILL KNOW MORE OF A PICTURE BY SEEING IT A FEW MINUTES EVERY DAY FOR A WEEK, THAN YOU WOULD BY SPENDING SEVERAL HOURS BEFORE IT AT ONE TIME. SO IT IS WITH THE MEMORY. BY RECALLING AN IMPRESSIONS A NUMBER OF A TIMES, YOU FIX IT INDELIBLY IN YOUR MIND IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT MAY BE READILY FOUND WHEN NEEDED. SUCH IMPRESSIONS ARE LIKE FOVORITE TOOLS THAT YOU NEED EVERY LITTLE WHILE - THEY ARE NOT APT TO BE MISLAID, AS ARE THOSE THAT ARE BUT SELDOM USED. USE YOUR IMAGINATION IN "GOING OVER " A THING THAT YOU WISH TO REMEMBER . IF YOU ARE STUDYING A THING, YOU WILL FIND THAT THIS "GOING OVER " IN YOUR IMAGINATION WILL HELP YOU MATERIALLY IN DISCLOSING THE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE NOT REMEMBERED ABOUT IT. BY THUS RECOGNIZING YOUR WEAK POINTS OF MEMORY, YOU MAY BE ABLE TO PICK UP THE MISSING DETAILS WHEN YOU STUDY THE OBJECT ITSELF THE NEXT TIME.

                            QUERY TABLE : ASK YOURSELF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS REGARDING THE THING UNDER CONSIDERATION. IT WILL DRAW OUT MANY BITS OF INFORMATION AND ASSOCIATED KNOWLEDGE IN YOUR MIND:

   

                          WHAT ?

                        WHERE ?

                         WHEN ?

                            HOW ?

                           WHY ?

                            WHILE THE ABOVE SIX QUERIES ARE GIVEN YOU AS A MEANS OF ACQUIRING CLEAR IMPRESSIONS AND ASSOCIATION, THEY WILL ALSO SERVE AS A MAGIC KEY TO KNOWLEDGE, IF YOU USE THEM INTELLIGENTLY, IF YOU CAN ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS REGARDING ANYTHING, YOU WILL KNOW A GREAT DEAL ABOUT THAT PARTICULAR THING. AND AFTER YOU HAVE ANSWERED THEM FULLY, THERE WILL BE BUT LITTLE UNEXPRESSED KNOWLEDGE REGARDIG THAT THING LEFT IN YOUR MEMORY.