Originally published by Thomas Nelson & Sons, New York, 1961. For More Free PDF Books on the Law of Attraction and Metaphysics Visit the Law of Attraction Haven. Contents Foreword ............................................................ 6 Chapter 1: The Hidden Cause of all Things ...... 12 Chapter 2: Discovering the Secret Self............. 80 Chapter 3: The Greatest Magic of All ............. 148 Chapter 4: Self-Mastery .................................. 206 Chapter 5: Mind Over Matter .......................... 265 Chapter 6: Mental Imagery ............................. 323 Chapter 7: The Power of Choice .................... 378 Chapter 8: Overcoming Opposition ................ 430 Chapter 9: Developing Skills .......................... 487 Chapter 10: Creating Your Own Talent .......... 536 Chapter 11: How To Use Your Sixth Sense ... 591 Chapter 12: The Mental Attitude That Never Fails ....................................................................... 631 I give you the end of a golden string: Only wind it into a ball,— It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate, Built in Jerusalem’s wall. WILLIAM BLAKE Foreword This book reveals a mental magic that assures success, that absolutely guarantees increased achievement, whether your profession is in the arts or business, in science or sales, in sports, war, or politics. Here you will learn the secret way in which your mind is tied to the source of all power; you will learn how you are capable of becoming anything and doing anything you can visualize. Every man’s consciousness is constantly changing, is trapped at the knife-edge overlap of past and future, reacts rather than acts, is incomplete and partial, eternally seeks itself, for since the mere state of being throws no light on that state, consciousness learns of itself through reaction to outside stimuli. If a man comes to believe he is unsuccessful, it is because he carries the impression he has been unsuccessful, and this conclusion, once adopted, inescapably molds him into the shape of the thing he believes, locks him in a prison of his own making. The magic by which a man becomes free is imagination. By training himself to cast up mental pictures of the thing he desires, by resisting sensual stimuli, even envisaging the exact opposite, he tends to assume a factual position in accordance with his vision, for his vision then becomes his experience, rather than the sensual stimuli that moved him before. Consciousness always assumes a form to suit its knowledge of itself, and where such knowledge breaks beyond the limits imposed by sensory experience, man begins to grow into the image of the Secret Self. There is only one mind in all creation; that mind is in everyone, is in its true state of being not confined to anyone, not confined to the body. It is a central, knowing consciousness in which everything dwells, which dwells in everything. In a bodily- confined state it assumes the limitations imposed upon it by the knowledge of itself which it receives through the senses, but when bondage to those senses is broken by development of an inner power to perceive and know directly, then slavery to its embodiment is at an end. Perfect action and perfect works stem from an inner conviction of the mental cause behind all things. A man changes the state of his outer world by first changing the state of his inner world. Everything that comes to him from outside is the result of his own consciousness. When he changes that consciousness he alters his perception and thus the world he sees. By coming to a clear understanding of the process and effect of mental imagery he is led irrevocably along the correct path to his goal. By working with this cause of all things—his own consciousness—he achieves infallibility in works, for inasmuch as his mental imagery propels him into action, that action is always true to the picture in his mind and will deliver him its material counterpart certainly. In this book you will find a program for training the image power of the mind, so that a scene or situation cast up in consciousness will arrive in three dimensions, with color and sound, pulsing with life, as real for you as the outside world. Haven’t you ever dreamed such dreams? Haven’t you sometimes in sleep become immersed in a mental and spiritual world with such solidity and dimension that you were certain it was real and the material world a delusion? If ever you have known the overwhelming power of mental imagery to influence your attitude and perception, then you will quickly see that the salvation of each of us is to train his image power to obey him. In this manner it is possible to become free from the promptings and urgings of nature, from death and disease and destruction, from ineffectuality and