part n

THE PRINCIPLE APPLIED

 INTRODUCTION
THE TRUTHS SET FORTH IN PART I ARE
HERE PRESENTED IN PRACTICE FORM
FOR CREATING FULLNESS, PLENTY, SUB
STANCE, SUPPLY.
READING A BOOK OR LISTENING TO A
LECTURE MAY GIVE YOU AN INTEL
LECTUAL THRILL, A MENTAL JOY, BUT
TO BE CHANGED BY A BOOK OR LEC
TURE INVOLVES A PRACTICING OF THE
PRINCIPLES SET FORTH BY THAT BOOK
OR LECTURE.
 LESSON I

MENTAL ATTITUDE
Our personal mental attitude is continually influenc
ing our environment. The life of each individual is
determined on the outer by his inner thinking. If you
are dissatisfied with conditions as they are in your
living, and surely there is room for improvement in
all our lives, be willing to search for underlying causes.
And as a truth presents itself for solving the problem,
be willing to practice that truth, be willing to use it.
Think—
I want to be all that I can become.
I have within me the possibilities of all that I may
be.
So far I have accomplished certain things, have
attained certain goals.
I must look ahead, always look forward.
I can become all that I am able to think.
I want to become all 1 can become.
I can become as much as I can think.
I want — / desire —7 think. I
want to be all that I
can be, not what someone else can be, not what some
one else wants me to be, but what I can be.
I want it so much that I am willing to think. I stop
now and go into my chamber of mind and think, create
through my thinking.
I now set myself to take the day as it comes. do I
all that comes with it the best that 1 can do it with
the best feeling I can summon, all the while thinking
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quietly about my goal, what I should like to be. I
trust in the goal I ant thinking and trust in myself to
accomplish that which I desire. I am moving steadily
forward toward that goal. I
must move that way.
Nothing can stop me. Everything works with me.
I can become as much as I can think. I want my
thinking to grow, to expand. I want to become all that
I can be. I want it hard enough to think. And as I
think I am willing to do what the day brings forth the
best that I can. While doing it I am always thinking
toward that which I desire to be.

Persist in creative thinking and you will have an

increasing faith in the presence of a mighty God-
force which acts according to your thinking. You
will have faith in the idea you are thinking, faith in
your power to create by thinking, faith in the re
sponse to your thinking, faith founded upon works.
At first this faith may not be strong, never having
been tested to any extent. But as you go along, watch
ing the effects of the thinking, faith grows. And as
faith grows, the effects from the thinking increase in
number and grow in strength.
Be determined to be all that you can be. A luke
warm attitude gets you nowhere. Be determined and
be persistent. Think and do. Think the best you can
and do the best you can with what you have today.
Take the image of supply, substance, plenty, riches;
to think this image you must think of all that it im
plies, all that is involved in the image. Picture your
self in this way:

Unfolding in talent and in culture.

Able to buy things, to possess things.
Able to pay for new things, able to pay old debts.
Rich, with much, with plenty.
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Contributing to the richness of life about you.

Living fully with good food, good clothing, good
surroundings.
With plenty of rest and recreation.
With beautiful books, time to travel, study and
observe.
With time for companionship.
With love in your living.
With plenty of money, able to give to those you love.

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 LESSON II

BELIEVING
"There is a Force upon which I depend."
If you desire to become as much as you can become,
then you must realize this truth: You can only be
come as much as you can think.
If you truly desire to become as much as you can,
you must play the game fair and square and follow
the rules. Here are the rules —
1. Do what the day brings forth, and do it the best
it can be done.
2. While doing what needs to be done, think the
thing you want.
3. Have faith in the presence of the mighty God-
force; have faith in the thinking; have faith in yourself.

The image you are to think in this section of lessons

is plenty.

Belief in a thing makes that thing so for you; there

fore, the more you can believe in your thinking, in
your power to create by thinking, the more your
thinking will do for you.
And the more you believe there is a great, living
presence of Force everywhere, on the inside and on
the outside of things and of people, the more that
Presence will respond to your thinking.
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The more you believe you can do, the more you
will be able to do.
Remember that the creative power in you is un
limited. You can create as high as you can think.
Expect the outer to come as a result of creative think
ing because as you think the image, plenty, there is a
Force, a God-force, within the image which is push
ing and pressing forward. It is an inner moving power
.which is building and rebuilding, creating, preserving,
destroying as you think. If you will you can picture
in your mind this process going on.
As you get into the practice of it all you attain a
certain knack of thinking. Learn how to think and
how to do; study the facts; see your problems in
their real proportion. Begin (that is such a big item)
and all will change and move toward your goal.
/ have within me all I need of power.
If I seek the Force within me and think, the things
related to my thinking will be added to me.

If 1 image myself moving into the place I want, I

will soon find myself moving into that place.
I let
go of the idea of limitation while I am thinking
my image and, as I let go of the idea of limitation,
& limitation dissolves, disappears.

Use your idea to bring about conditions. You are

creating with your thinking and your thinking is
freeing you from your difficulties. It gives you what
J you desire.
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"So shall my word be that goeth forth out my

of
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mouth: shall not return unto me void, but shall

it
it

shall prosper in
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accomplish that which please, and

it
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the thing whereto sent it." (ha. 55:11.)

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 lesson m

INNER THINKING
There are laws which will better our conditions if we
conform to them, live with them, practice them.
They will bring to us financial freedom and success.
Our outer living is determined by our inner thinking.
Think that you may create new conditions. Want to
become much; desire it; think it; make the effort.
Want, desire to think, desire to become much.
Do all that you can do today; do it so well that you
will feel you are doing it well; feel that you are doing
it the best it can be done today. Persist in this effort
of doing and thinking no matter how difficult it may
be. Keep the image of plenty, plenty of all you need,
plenty of all you desire, as given in Lesson I constantly
before you, constantly in your mind.
Have faith in the mighty God-force, in its presence
everywhere — within you, within your mind. Have
faith in your thinking. Have faith in yourself. You
must believe. Study facts and begin.
The movement will start toward your goal of
plenty. In an orderly way the parts will be assembled,
the conditions brought about.
The Force within you and within your idea is
thinking and loving its way through to completeness.
Quicken this movement with the idea by applying
attention to the Force-activity there within the idea
and within yourself. The more you get into the prac-
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tice of putting your attention upon the idea and upon

the Force within the idea, the more intriguing you
will find the practice. As you practice this more and
more doubt, worry and fear, all counter-ideas, jeal
ousies and enmities will slip into the background.
The big effort must be to hold the good thought,
the idea, in mind with Force active in it. Thought is
the power which propels for the Force moves accord
ing to the thought or idea.
You must make the most of yourself. Do this
deliberately. It is a good selfishness, a divine selfishness,
for as you lift yourself you are able to lift others, thus
your selfishness becomes generosity.
Develop this idea of plenty in such a way, with such
an attitude, with such good will, with such desire,
that while you are progressing others may move up
also, may even be benefited by your steps as you take
them. Possibly the idea for your goal may include the
many or the happiness of the many. They will be
benefited then as you are benefited.
Let us open up our viewpoint and give others about
us a chance, too, to grow. They have the same right
to all this plenty.
 LESSON IV

ACTIVE THINKING
It is with thinking. You
necessary to connect activity
must continually think and have faith in the Force.
It is also necessary to connect action with it. The
better you live today, the better you do all you have
to do today the further you are propelled toward your
goal.
Live today. Do each thing the best it can be done.
Think high goals with all the faith at your command.
Accompany this by a feeling of determination and
persistence. Perpetually come back again and again
to the goal.
Back of your activity of thinking, doing and feel
ing is the great universal mighty Force which is in
all and through all ever pushing forward to visible
forms according to the thinking.
I begin now looking forward toward plenty.
I begin now looking to the Force moving surely,
knowingly, powerfully.
I look to the Force that I may unfold talent and
culture.
I look to the Force that I may be able to bvy all I
need for my becoming. »
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I look to the Force that I may contribute to the
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richness and beauty of life.
I look to the Force that I may live fully with g tod
food, clothing, environment.
I look to the Force that I may have plenty of re.

to
and recreation.
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 Active Thinking
I look to the Force that I may have time for love in
my living, love with my family, friends and companions.
I look to the force that I may be able to give to
those I love.
I am willing to be directed by the Force. I seek its
wisdom.
Peace.

The moment you are willing to be directed by the

Force you are being directed by the Force. It responds
immediately.
Love is a necessary influence and power in life, in
your life, in my life. Love the Force. Love people.
Love all things. Love involves forgiveness. We must
forgive people and experiences. We must forgive
ourselves.
Love and forgiveness open doors for us through
which we pass as we unfold. If you are not capable
of forgiveness, then you are not capable of becoming
all

that you might otherwise become.

We stunt our growth when we do not forgive. We
stunt our growth through criticism and condemna
tion. Thought the power that produces. Thought
is

filled or colored with love and forgiveness of

is

different nature than thought colored with lack of

forgiveness, criticism, or condemnation. Think this
over. Look at people as they think. It easy to watch
is

your neighbor think. Look at the ones who are hating.

Then turn your attention toward one who gener
is

ous, loving, forgiving. Look at the one who con

is

tinually criticising or condemning. Which one do

you evade? Which one do you enjoy being near?
Think about in connection with this lesson.
it

All that produced comes first from thought

is

seed. The Force within the seed moves according to

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the pattern or idea. We are creators because we can
produce these thought seeds. Having produced the
seed, we feed and stimulate growth through thinking.
If you are lazy in your thinking you can stimulate
thinking through attention upon the image or
through reading and studying. Reading is a capital
way to stimulate thinking when one feels he just
cannot think.
You can stimulatethe activity of the Force by
by praise of

it,
attention upon it, by recognition of

it,
by loving it.
You must make the effort of directing your atten
tion. You must make greater effort when appear
a

ances are against you.

There mighty universal Force living in all
is
a

forms, living in you. This Force consciously living,

is
has the natural desire for increase of itself, for en

by
largement of its life. Every living thing just
living becomes more. Your idea has this living Force
living in it. The Force consciously living in your
is

idea. It filled with desire to live more and more.

is

You make your idea more alive, you help the growth
by attention and by the warmth of your love.
Livingness principle. The more you can add to
is
a

the livingness of others the more you tune in with the

nature of the Force for the Force seems to desire liv
ingness for all. The Force universal and co-operates
is

with you as you become universal. The Force will not

take from another to give to you. The Force has the
same desire for livingness in each one.
You can have without taking from anyone. When
you receive you must receive in such way that
a

others can live more.

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 LESSON V

THE IDEA OF GIVING

In order to become all you can be it is necessary to
have plenty to do with, so take the idea of opulent
plenty.
The Universal Divine Force within you takes the

it,
opulent plenty idea and moves in and through
pushes itself out into the forms which mean plenty
about you.
Money will surely come, probably first along estab
lished channels, but there are no established chan
if

nels open new doors will open. Everything you need

for your unfoldment, advancement, becoming will
come to you in an orderly, natural way you keep
if

holding to your image with all the faith you can

muster, all the love you can feel, all the efficiency you
can put into your day.
"Ask, and shall be given you; seek, and ye shall
it

find; knock, and shall be opened unto you:

it

"For everyone that asketh receieveth; and he that

seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh shall be
it

opened." (Matt. 7: 7-8.)

The first principle to deal fairly with all men.
is

This means to give service, give to those about you

that which they need, give of yourself, put yourself
into the thing you are doing, give freely and deliber
ately more than that for which you are given credit.
Give to those who come to you what will benefit them
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and they will give to you what you need. If you get
the idea of giving the best of yourself to the Force, to
the Universal, then the Universal gives the best to
you. Consider this and test it out. It will bear testing.
As you give so you receive. Others receive what
you give and are boosted up, giving to you increase
for your advancement.
" and prove me now herewith, saitb the Lord of
Hosts, I
if will not open you the windows of heaven,
and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be
room enough to receive it." (Mai. 3:10.)

This image living in you moves you toward your

goal. As you move toward your goal you will need
many people and many things. The more you can give
to those who come to you with things and money,
the more of all these things shall you attract to your
self. And the more you can attract, the more you
can give. The more you can give, the more the Force
can give to you all that you need for the fulfillment
of your idea.
 LESSON VI

THE SILENCE
There is a way to reach this goal of plenty, of opu
lence. There is a way of contacting this Force which
is scientific. It is a way of worshiping, thinking and
doing all at once.
There is this universal God-force. We must wor
it,

ship it, love praise it.

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean
not unto thine own understanding.
"In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall
direct thy paths." (Prov. 3: 5-6.)

This means to continually have the reverent atti

tude. As we worship, love, praise and thank the Force
something happens to us. Consciously or uncon
sciously we generate it. We need to generate if
it

we would have flow in and through us to accom

it

plish for us.

We of two worlds — spiritual and
are creatures
physical. We bring the two worlds together with our
thinking, and by bringing them together the Force
flows and creates what we are thinking.
Let us take time for this. We can generate this
transforming, transfiguring Force enough to lift our
selves up into opulence, riches, plenty but we must
be still to do it.
It necessary to go apart from the noises, go apart
is

from the many outer images, go apart from the prob-

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lem itself pressing about you. It is necessary to go
apart and think of the Force until you can get a con
sciousness of the Force. Go apart and get a broader
view of things, a more inclusive view of the whole
situation. But most important of all, you must be in
tune with this Force, and to be in harmony with it
you must go quietly apart and meditate upon it.
This relationship that you may have with the Force
is a natural relationship; is is like going to the Father.
It should be a natural turning to the One in whom
there is complete confidence.
Go apart and quietly throw off all the depressing
ideas, shut out things and people, become quiet, think
of the Force, think of what and who you are, think of
opulence as you wish it to be.
This going apart is like going into a closet. It is
retiring to a secret place, a hidden place, a private
place, "The secret place of the most high." Here you
get a perspective. Here it is easier to think of great
things, of good things, of completed things; it is easier
to get to the center of things.
Then there is a meeting as it were, a meeting of the
Force and you, and lo! you are generating it. Do not
ask just for plenty. Give yourself to the Force; give
your mind; give your attention; give your love; give
your image; give your co-operation. The Force then
gives to you, fills you and your thinking and doing.
Get the habit of thinking of the Force, of talking
to the Force silently and alone, deeply, gratefully,
persistently, calmly impelling. You have within you
all the power you need, so quietly think your way
through to plenty, health and happiness.
Move from the shadow to the sunshine; move to
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ward the light; move mentally toward the place you

want to be, letting go of the ideas of limitation, non-
support, no money, hard times. The ideas will then
slip away into nothingness and the conditions slip
away too with the ideas, for you are holding the ideas
of opulence, riches, plenty and you bring them into
being and the conditions come too.
Mentally write the picture. The picture has Spirit,
Force, Happiness, Peace and Life. It impregnates
mind stuff. Make this mental picture and the process
begins.
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 LESSON VII

UNIVERSAL LAWS
There is a Force everywhere present, all-powerful and
intelligent, which is working out a universal program
according to law. The more we can conform our
behavior as individuals to this universal program, the
more we better our conditions.
There are universal laws which must be recognized:
1. The outer living is determined by the inner
thinking.
2. We are free to choose what the thinking is to be.
Having chosen, we must take the consequences of the
thinking. We want to become all we can become. We
can become as much as we can think.
3. Thought and action are related while thinking
toward the Force, the Father, with our idea of per
fection. Washing dishes, cleaning a car or writing a
letter may have nothing to do with the idea being
created, but if these acts represent the activity of the
moment each one must be performed as perfectly as is
possible. Every activity in which we indulge, no matter
how apparently trivial or unconnected, is in reality a
part of the drive toward the goal of perfection.
4. Faith, determination, persistence, confidence and
courage play their parts in attaining the goal. Faith in
the Force, faith in our ability to think, faith in the
idea we are thinking, faith in the result of our thinking,
determination to think and to become, persistence in
the thinking and the becoming are all steps toward our
ultimate aim.
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J.Where there is intelligence there is response.

Attention upon an idea brings response from and
through and for that idea.
6. The cultivation of certain attitudes of mind help
in bringing forth into actual form the idea or ideas held
in the mind such as forgiveness, generosity, love, good
will toward conditions and people. Being harmonious
in your environment and showing reverence for the
Supreme also aid in bringing forth the desired results.

If you aspire to the finest, highest and best in posi

tion, honor and goal, you must give your mind high
patterns on which to work. As you aspire, look for
ward, so you become. It is most important to live the
day quietly, thinking to create the goal while per
forming tasks the best they can be done. Be harmoni
ous with the laws, the conditions, and the activity
governing the place in which you find yourself.

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 LESSON VIII

LOOKING FORWARD
There is a Force everywhere about and within you.
This Force is infinite, universal, all-loving and wise,
all-powerful, alive, full of life, life itself. Think to
yourself —
I am. I live and am quite definitely myself.
I can create. 1 do my creating through my thinking.
I am a thinker.
This Force moves according to my thinking, pushes
my idea forth into form.
The more faith, determination, persistence, harmony,
good will, reverence, and gratitude I feel, the better
this Force is able to push my hopes and aspirations
toward fulfillment.
I would be all I can be.
I can be as much as I can think.
must deliberately make the effort to think the best,
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highest, finest, biggest that I can.

My thinking frees me from my difficulties.

If you would get the forward look, you must think

forward. It is important to think to a purpose. There
is a vast difference in ways of thinking. Many do not
realize the distinction between idle daydreaming and
thinking to a purpose. Take a definite idea and deter
mine to create that condition in your living. Then
deliberately set yourself, get your mood ready, get
into the frame of mind to think to create. Then each
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time you think that thought there will be purpose in

your thinking, there will be a reason for the thinking.
In thinking to create there must be more than just
intellectually thinking an idea and then sitting down
and waiting for that idea to materialize. It takes real
work to be a creator. Your attitude must be watched
closely. Is it high? Is it constructive? Does it include
gratitude, forgiveness, good will, faith, hope? The
way one feels about things, people, life, God is im
portant. Are you generous, kind, broadminded, rever
ent? The actions must be watched too. Have you
done the best you could possibly do today where you
are? Do you keep busy doing what has to be done?
And, is your thinking definite?
Each individual is capable of becoming much, but
it is up to the individual how much. He must think
for as much as he can think that much can he become.

I want to be all I am capable of becoming.

RESULTS
 A FEW PROBLEMS WORKED OUT
TO BE STUDIED FOR THE PRINCIPLES INVOLVED

Problem I
Mr. X had been accustomed to a responsible position
with a good income. Having been let out owing to
general business depression, he had been idle for two
years. During this time he made frantic efforts to
contact men in his line of work who might be able to
help him to obtain a position again. He finally became
thoroughly discouraged and completely lost his for
ward look. He also lost confidence in himself.
Many of our men are heartbroken today just as this
man was. His questions were honest, from the heart
— "What can I do? Where can I start? What do you
have to do to create through this thinking? I have
so little faith that I am afraid there is little help for
me."
Method for working out the problem: He must
think differently. He had been thinking failure, no
job, thrown out, depression, salary stopped, no job.
He must think success, good job waiting for me,
active, money coming in, plenty of money, right
place, contacts, successful contacts, contacts for
money, contacts for a good job, right contacts. He
must recognize the presence of the force of God and
give that Force something to do in him and for him.
He must look up and not down.
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He took the of contacts. He gave much time
idea
to going apart into the chamber of his mind and
thinking, and the thinking was directed to the Force.
The thinking was contacts, contacts, right contacts.
He then took the next idea good job, good income,
right place. To stimulate his thinking he read lessons
on thinking to create. Within a month after he
started to think he got his first position. This meant
an income; he could breathe again. He kept on work
ing with the mind. In four months he received a
better salary. He is sure to rise higher and higher for
he has learned how to think to create.
Remember, he had in this time to change from
heaviness to optimism, from despair to hope. He had
to get back and keep his forward look. He had to open
new channels for the old ones were closed. He did it.
Now he is thinking increase, increase.
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Problem II
This problem deals with the mother of a family of
children of school age. Her house burned down so
completely that it was necessary to build an entire
new structure. A new site on the farm land was
chosen. Through a bank complication she was unable
to use any money she had. She sensed the presence of
a Force and directed her prayers to It. She asked for
her house. Someone came forward and built the house
and the furniture for it. The house was nearly com
pleted and her prayer for rain to fill the cistern was
still unanswered. All the cisterns in the community
were dry. Her cistern was not very good and she
prayed for money to dig a well. The house was so
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nearly finished she grew desperate and to the presence

of the God-force she spoke, going out into the silence
of the night, going apart from the work and people.
Leaving the way in which is was to be done to the
Force, she centered her heartfelt thinking until it was
like a cry in her — "Water in my house, God, water in
my house."
Before this her image had been wobbly, obscure, in
that she tried to think how the thing might be done
through money to dig a well rather than thinking the
thing itself which she really needed.
Two days before moving into the new home the
floor of the cellar which was of a thick cement bulged
and cracked in many directions and in the middle of
the cracked area came a spring bubbling forth. A
pump was put over it and she has had pure spring
water ever since. Surveyors made the statement that
it had come from a distance of many miles.
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Problem III
A woman with a sick colon, inflammation and raw
ness, intense pain and severe nervous reaction of many
months' standing was getting steadily worse.
Her thinking had been an attitude of hurry. She
had been under a severe strain trying to serve home
and business at the same time. She had a great sense
of burden sharing for those who seemed to lean so
heavily upon her. Always in a hurry, she kept herself
tense. It was difficult to let go at any time.
The treatment in this case was as follows: She and
her practitioner deliberately, frequently and silently
spoke to the colon, imaging the Infinite Force moving
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in and through them both and particularly through
out the colon. Their thought projected with the Force
was perfect colon, perfect colon, perfect nerves, per
fect functioning. And for the home situation their
thought was peace, adjustment, order, co-operation.
Always they imaged the Infinite Force silently,
surely moving along the nerves in and throughout the
colon, and throughout the home situation.
Giving this image of perfection constantly to the
Force in the colon, the response soon came. Today she
is radiant with health. She has changed her thinking.
Instead of carrying the burdens of those she loves, she
helps them to do the carrying by seeing the problems
in their true proportions and in their right place.
Then she asks the Force to give the needed help. She
gets her response.

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Problem IV
Question: What do you do when you have two or
more problems presenting themselves at once to be
solved? Can you hold in mind more than one problem
at the same time?
Answer: Take each problem separately, studying
the facts. Get each one as straight and clear and true
as you can in your mind. Then take the group of two,
three, four or more and arrange them in your mind
as one image to be worked out by the force of the
Infinite; i.e., think of yourself enjoying perfect
health, happiness, supply. You can create at one time
as many ideas as you are capable of holding in mind.
The interesting thing about this method of grouping
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the problems is that you will find all your problems

very closely related.
Write on paper words suggesting the perfect solu
tion. Carry the paper with you, look at it often, im
press the solution of the problem upon the mind,
knowing all the time that the Force is working
silently, quietly, perfectly.

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Problem V
A man married fifteen years has two children, a boy
and a girl. He was divorced seven years ago and re
married. The second wife brought her two boys into
the home. After a few years this marriage proved a
failure. He is seeking a divorce. His daughter is a
problem; she is hard to control and guide.
This man's problem is one of relationship. Relation
ship involves the law of attraction. In studying mind
it is evident that the trend of thinking, the beliefs
which live deep in you, determine what you are and
what you attract to yourself.
"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." The way
in which a man feels about things while he is thinking
causes him to move in certain directions.
In studying a problem one must first of all be will
ing to be honest, to take the facts as they are and to
go with the facts to solve them. The problem exists
because of the personality of the one who has the
problem. It has been attracted to him; he can solve
it by changing. In order to change he must change
the trend of thinking. The trend of thinking is
changed by putting in new ideas. Here are two
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women who are running away. It is the law of at
traction in reverse — the law of repulsion.
This man must study himself to find out why those
he loves do not understand him and co-operate with
him. If he will take pencil and paper and honestly
study himself, jot down all his points, good, bad, in
different, he is bound to feel rather humble. He will
find that he has some points that are weak and prob
ably many that are good. He wants to attain hap
piness.
If
he is willing to take the principle of happiness
and think toward himself, toward his family, toward
each one of the group with a real feeling of good will,
with a generous feeling, with a warm feeling, with a
forgiving feeling, the force of God will "move in
mysterious ways His wonders to perform." Happi
ness will be brought about.
In
the principle of happiness there must not be a
marring element. The wrong feeling will bring in
the marring element. The feeling must, therefore, be
of the right quality.
To get the right feeling quickly he must immedi
ately forgive, forgive in a wholesale way, forgive
everybody and everything, forgive every situation
and episode. He must not argue about it even with
himself; he must just forgive. Right or wrong, he
must forgive. That is the big point. Forgive on the
spot. He must warm up with love, love more, be
warmer in his attitude, be more generous in his judg
ments, put good will into the experience he is going
through at the time, love the experience. And while
he is loving and forgiving he must do his thinking —
think happiness.
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Happiness thinking toward the daughter does not

mean that she must have every little whim satisfied.
It mean that he desires for her good fortune now and
in the future, a deep-down joyfulness, a feeling of
security, a freedom from fear and danger. It means
right, high, good relations with her God, herself, and
her fellows, that she live in harmony, that she find a
deep happy satisfaction in living.
He must desire this for his present wife and also
for the wife from whom he is divorced. He must
desire it for the boys and for himself.
A principle is a big thing. It involves you and your
environment. It involves you and others. As you
wish happiness you must not only receive it but have
others receive it.
If this man is sincere and honest in the application
of this principle, if he gives his attention to it often,
he will find he is becoming more and more interested
in seeing it work, in seeing the others as well as him
self become happy. He will like the idea more and
more; he will love the idea; he will want them all to
be happy. Then as he speaks his word happiness to the
Force in himself and out to them, he will find the
law of attraction bringing to him and to them real
happiness. Happiness is a thing they all want.
He should not seek a divorce unless compelled to
do so, unless it is a part of the law of attraction for
working out the happiness of all concerned.
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Problem VI
A woman had high blood pressure, bad heart, kidney
trouble. (Study over the section including the case of
the woman with the colon condition. Problem 3.)
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The heart pumps the blood stream; the blood car
ries the life stream. Picture the pure life force, infinite
in its character and nature, involving in itself power,
love, wisdom moving through the body, healing, puri
fying and strengthening each part as it goes.
As this picture is held in mind gratitude fills the
heart that healing is possible. Gratitude brings more
of the God-force into play. There is poison in this
woman's system so there must be poison somewhere in
her mental life, in her mind, in her general trend of
thought.
Forgiveness and love is the dose for her to take
daily, hourly, constantly. Love is the great adjuster
and purifier. Love is the great healer. Love and wis
dom are involved in the Force moving through the
body in the blood stream. She should breathe deeply,
think much, forgive and love; think perfect body and
have faith; let go and give the Force a chance to work.
There is a way and the Force will find it.
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Problem VII
A man and woman had to give up their home and
go to live with relatives. Many are having this prob
lem. If you have to live with your relatives, live
with them. It is hard for them, too. While living
with them, it is imperative that you go often apart
and think. Think right place, good job, money com
ing in, independence, freedom.
Be willing to give to those about you what you
want for yourself. Think each thought as a principle,
remembering that a principle is an impersonal thing
which, dropped into a situation or home, gives to all
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alike. There is no partiality in principle. Think right

place as a principle and the Force will give to them,
as well as to you, the right place.
Love much, love those with whom you are living
for helping you, love just for the sake of loving. Love
while thinking, and think home, perfect home, home
for the relative and home for yourself. Forgive every
body and everything. Forgive and love.
If there is discord, fear, discontent, or other nega
tive principles ruling the house, there is great need for
constructive thinking on the part of the visitors, not
only for themselves but for all in the home. Think
steady income. (Study Problem I.)
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Problem VIII
Here is a case as stated by the woman herself: "My
whole living has been altered. I have had to go away
from friends, church and so much that I value. My
husband has been out of work for a year (the first
time in his life). He gets very despondent. I want
so much to help him. How can I do so through crea
tive thinking?"
Such a problem is often brought to a practitioner.
There is a way out. First, contact the Infinite Force
and then think plenty, God, plenty. (Both husband
and wife received splendid positions.)
It is often well to study a case which has been
worked out successfully, so let us study such a case.
A woman with a family of healthy, active children
had a husband with no income, out of work for sev
eral months, with no prospect of anything as long as
the depression should last. He seemed to ridicule the
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idea of spiritual help, butshe went along quietly with
her thinking, realizing that he was deeply religious
but very shy in confessing it. As she went about her
daily tasks, doing them as efficiently as she could
under the circumstances, she would take time to wor
ship silently, approaching silently the everywhere
present Infinite God-force. She spoke to it, called
upon it so much that it became to her a living pres

it,
ence. Persistently she kept at calling for money
for her husband, cash for him, position for him, God.
She found herself so constantly and deeply engaged
in thinking that time seemed to melt away and with

it
her worries and fears melted away. She became quite
calm, quiet and expectant. In less than week the

a
it,
position came bringing cash, plenty of and she was
not surprised.
That which made her happiest of all was the fact
that her husband had in some way taken different

a
attitude. He seemed to know what had caused the
good fortune and closer bond was between them
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after that, deeper understanding.

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Going apart to talk with your God always causes

you to over-shoot the mark, to go further than you
have planned. "When you go into the closet of mind
where you meet with the presence of the mighty
God-force you find there all the power you need for
solving any problem.
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Problem IX
A lovely young woman has asked us, "Is wrong for
it

me to want my own home? My parents seem to de

pend upon me more and more, and yet my husband
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frets so at having to live with them. He makes so

little money that we almost have to take the financial
help mother and dad can give."
Many of our young people are having to face the
problem today of not having enough of their own
and having to take help from their parents which
usually means going to live with them.
If these young people will think home, think our
own home, our perfect home, home, if they will think
it to the Force, to the universal sacred Spirit, every
where present, they will get results. They must think
it confidently, knowing that there will be a response.
Is it selfish, you ask. Perhaps so, but it is being
divinely selfish.
If the young woman will think perfect happiness,
perfect home for all (for the father and mother must
be happy, too, or the home will not be perfect),
conditions will change and the parents will find their
happiness in some other way.
Every man should have the privilege of being the
head of his own home. Parents must release the young
people and give them a chance to be independent, an
opportunity to make their own homes. If the young
people will go within themselves and seek the Force,
the universal, Infinite Presence within, thinking our
own home, our perfect income, enough and more,
happiness, perfect marriage, they will create as they
think, and they will probably find that mother and
father are only too glad to be together, to do the
many things they have long wanted to do.
It is pitiful to watch people who truly love each
other interfering with one another's happiness because
of some sense of duty which in reality does not exist.
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Think home, home for them and home for yourself.
Think it to God. In our very wonderful book, The
Bible, it is written "God is a Present Help in time of
trouble." In the same book we find, "In all thy ways
acknowledge Him, and he will direct thy paths."
Think about that.
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Problem X
A splendid young woman would like to remarry and
have her own home, including a real companionship.
The principle involved in this problem of loneliness
is mateship. Look up that word mateship. It involves
being a mate as well as getting a mate. To be a mate
means to give love, help, companionship and to re
ceive the same. As the principle is held in mind and
given to the universal Force, remember that the Force
fills the universe. Your heart calling the principle of
mateship sends it everywhere. Somewhere the one
who needs what you are and is willing to give will
hear the call and be attracted to you. It is interesting
to watch people crossing a continent or a sea brought
together by the law of attraction. You will never
fail if you are willing to be a mate and desire mate-
ship. It is a beautiful principle, the mateship prin
ciple. Go apart and talk it out with your God.

You can become as much as you can think.

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