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Florence Scovel Shinn (1871-1940)

With her classic bestseller, The Game of Life and How to Play It, Florence Scovel Shinn
established herself as one of the most down-to-earth, practical, and helpful prosperity
writers of her era, and was widely known as an artist, illustrator, metaphysician and lec-
turer. Conveying, in an entertaining style, a timeless message that demonstrates how
success principles work, her writings are still considered the leaders in prosperity litera-
ture today. By sharing true stories she explains how positive attitudes and affirmations
invariably succeed so that we are able to control life’s conditions and attract abundance
through the knowledge of spiritual law. For generations, The Game of Life and How to
Play It has been an immensely popular manual of easy-to-use ideas and techniques that
teach how we can create the happiness we want by aligning our thoughts and words with
the perfect good that resides divinely within us.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I The Game
CHAPTER II The Law of Prosperity
CHAPTER III The Power of the Word
CHAPTER IV The Law of Nonresistance
CHAPTER V The Law of Karma and the Law of Forgiveness
CHAPTER VI Casting the Burden (Impressing the Subconscious)
CHAPTER VII Love
CHAPTER VIII Intuition or Guidance
CHAPTER IX Perfect Self-Expression or the Divine Design
CHAPTER X Denials and Affirmations
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The Game of Life and How to Play It

Chapter I - The Game
Most people consider life a battle -- but it is not a battle, it is a game.
It is a game, however, which cannot be played successfully without the knowledge of

spiritual law, and the Old and the New Testaments give the rules of the game with wonder-
ful clearness. Jesus Christ taught that it was a great game of Giving and Receiving.
"Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." This means that whatever man sends
out in word or deed, will return to him; what he gives, he will receive.
If he gives hate, he will receive hate; if he gives love, he will receive love; if he gives criti-
cism, he will receive criticism; if he lies he will be lied to; if he cheats he will be cheated.
We are taught also, that the imaging faculty plays a leading part in the game of life.
"Keep thy heart (or imagination) with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life."
(Prov. 4:23.)
This means that what man images, sooner or later externalizes in his affairs. I know of a
man who feared a certain disease. It was a very rare disease and difficult to get, but he
pictured it continually and read about it until it manifested in his body, and he died, the
victim of distorted imagination.
So we see, to play successfully the game of life, we must train the imaging faculty. A per-
son with an imaging faculty trained to image only good, brings into his life "every right-
eous desire of his heart" -- health, wealth, love, friends, perfect self-expression, his
highest ideals.
The imagination has been called, "The Scissors of The Mind," and it is ever cutting, cut-
ting, day by day, the pictures man sees there, and sooner or later he meets his own crea-
tions in his outer world. To train the imagination successfully, man must understand the
workings of his mind. The Greeks said: "Know Thyself."
There are three departments of the mind, the subconscious, conscious and supercon-
scious. The subconscious, is simply power, without direction. It is like steam or electricity,
and it does what it is directed to do; it has no power of induction.
Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind,
and carried out in minutest detail.
For example: a woman I know, when a child, always "made believe" she was a widow. She
"dressed up" in black clothes and wore a long black veil, and people thought she was very
clever and amusing. She grew up and married a man with whom she was deeply in love. In
a short time he died and she wore black and a sweeping veil for many years. The picture
of herself as a widow was impressed upon the subconscious mind, and in due time
worked itself out, regardless of the havoc created.
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The conscious mind has been called mortal or carnal mind.
It is the human mind and sees life as it appears to be. It sees death, disaster, sickness,
poverty and limitation of every kind, and it impresses the subconscious.
The superconscious mind is the God Mind within each man, and is the realm of perfect
ideas. In it, is the "perfect pattern" spoken of by Plato, The Divine Design; for there is a
Divine Design for each person.
"There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do,
which no one else can do."
There is a perfect picture of this in the superconscious mind. It usually flashes across the
conscious as an unattainable ideal -- "something too good to be true."
In reality it is man's true destiny (or destination) flashed to him from the Infinite Intelli-
gence which is within himself.
Many people, however, are in ignorance of their true destinies and are striving for things
and situations which do not belong to them, and would only bring failure and dissatisfac-
tion if attained.
For example: A woman came to me and asked me to "speak the word" that she would
marry a certain man with whom she was very much in love. (She called him A. B.)
I replied that this would be a violation of spiritual law, but that I would speak the word for
the right man, the "divine selection," the man who belonged to her by divine right.
I added, "If A. B. is the right man you can't lose him, and if he isn't, you will receive his
equivalent." She saw A. B. frequently but no headway was made in their friendship. One
evening she called, and said, "Do you know, for the last week, A. B. hasn't seemed so
wonderful to me." I replied, "Maybe he is not the divine selection -- another man my be the
right one." Soon after that, she met another man who fell in love with her at once, and who
said she was his ideal. In fact, he said all the things that she had always wished A. B.
would say to her.
She remarked, "It was quite uncanny."
She soon returned his love, and lost all interest in A. B.
This shows the law of substitution. A right idea was substituted for a wrong one, therefore
there was no loss or sacrifice involved.
Jesus Christ said, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these
things shall be added unto you," and he said the Kingdom was within man.
The Kingdom is the realm of right ideas, or the divine pattern.
Jesus Christ taught that man's words played a leading part in the game of life. "By your
words ye are justified and by your words ye are condemned."
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Many people have brought disaster into their lives through idle words.
For example: A woman once asked me why her life was now one of poverty of limitation.
Formerly she had a home, was surrounded by beautiful things and had plenty of money.
We found she had often tired of the management of her home, and had said repeatedly,
"I'm sick and tired of things -- I wish I lived in a trunk," and she added: "Today I am living
in that trunk." She had spoken herself into a trunk. The subconscious mind has no sense
of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.
For example: A woman who had a great deal of money, joked continually about "getting
ready for the poor house."
In a few years she was almost destitute, having impressed the subconscious mind with a
picture of lack and limitation.
Fortunately the law works both ways, and a situation of lack may be changed to one of
plenty.
For example: A woman came to me one hot summer's day for a "treatment" for prosperity.
She was worn out, dejected and discouraged. She said she possessed just eight dollars in
the world. I said, "Good, we'll bless the eight dollars and multiply them as Jesus Christ
multiplied the loaves and fishes," for He taught that every man had the power to bless and
to multiply, to heal and to prosper.
She said, "What shall I do next."
I replied, "Follow intuition. Have you a 'hunch' to do anything, or to go anywhere?" Intui-

tion means, intuition, or to be taught from within. It is man's unerring guide, and I will deal
more fully with its laws in a following chapter.
The woman replied: "I don't know -- I seem to have a 'hunch' to go home; I've just enough
money for carfare." Her home was in a distant city and was one of lack and limitation, and
the reasoning mind (or intellect) would have said: "Stay in New York and get work and
make some money." I replied, "Then go home -- never violate a hunch." I spoke the follow-
ing words for her: Infinite Spirit open the way for great abundance for ___. She is an irre-
sistible magnet for all that belongs to her by divine right." I told her to repeat it continually
also. She left for home immediately. In calling on a woman one day, she linked up with an
old friend of her family.
Through this friend, she received thousands of dollars in a most miraculous way. She has
said to me often, "Tell people about the woman who came to you with eight dollars and a
hunch."
There is always plenty on man's pathway; but it can only be brought into manifestation
through desire, faith or the spoken word. Jesus Christ brought out clearly that man must
make the first move. "Ask, and it shall be given you, seek, and ye shall find, knock, and it
shall be opened unto you." (Mat. 7:7).
In the scriptures we read: "Concerning the works of my hands, command ye me. "Infinite
Intelligence, God, is ever ready to carry out man's smallest or greatest demands.
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Every desire, uttered or unexpressed, is a demand. We are often startled by having a wish
suddenly fulfilled.
For example: One Easter, having seen many beautiful rose-trees in the florists' windows, I
wished I would receive one, and for an instant saw it mentally being carried in the door.
Easter came, and with it a beautiful rose-tree. I thanked my friend the following day, and
told her it was just what I had wanted.
She replied, "I didn't send you a rose-tree, I sent you lilies!" The man had mixed the order,
and sent me a rose-tree simply because I had started the law in action, and I had to have a
rose-tree.
Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart, but
doubt and fear. When man can "wish without worrying," every desire will be instantly ful-
filled.
I will explain more fully in a following chapter the scientific reason for this and how fear
must be erased from the consciousness. It is man's only enemy -- fear of lack, fear of fail-
ure, fear of sickness, fear of loss and a feeling of insecurity on some plane. Jesus Christ
said: "Why are ye fearful, oh ye of little faith?" (Mat. 8:26.) So we can see we must substi-
tute faith for fear, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.
The object of the game of life is to see clearly one's good and to obliterate all mental pic-
tures of evil. This must be done by impressing the subconscious mind with a realization of
good. A very brilliant man, who has attained great success, told me he had suddenly
erased all fear from his consciousness by reading a sign which hung in a room. He saw
printed, in large letters this statement – "Why worry, it will probably never happen." These
words were stamped indelibly upon his subconscious mind, and he has now a firm con-
viction that only good can come into his life, therefore only good can manifest.
In the following chapter I will deal with the different methods of impressing the subcon-
scious mind. It is man's faithful servant but one must be careful to give it the right orders.
Man has ever a silent listener at his side -- his subconscious mind.
Every thought, every word is impressed upon it and carried out in amazing detail. It is like
a singer making a record on the sensitive disc of the phonographic plate. Every note and
tone of the singer's voice is registered. If he coughs or hesitates, it is registered also. So
let us break all the old bad records in the subconscious mind, the records of our lives
which we do not wish to keep, and make new and beautiful ones.
Speak these words aloud, with power and conviction: "I now smash and demolish (by my
spoken word) every untrue record in my subconscious mind. They shall return to the dust-
heap of their native nothingness, for they came from my own vain imaginings. I now make
my perfect records through the Christ within -- The records of Health, Wealth, Love and
perfect self-expression." This is the square of life, The Game completed.
In the following chapters, I will show how man can change his conditions by changing his
words. Any man who does not know the power of the word, is behind the times.
"Death and Life are in the power of the tongue."

(Proverbs 18:21.)
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Chapter II - The Law of Prosperity
"Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defense and thou shalt have plenty of silver."
One of the greatest messages given to the race through the scriptures is that God is
man's supply and that man can release, through his spoken word, all that belongs to him
by divine right. He must, however, have perfect faith in his spoken word.
Isaiah said, "My word shall not return unto me void, but shall accomplish that where unto
it is sent." We know now, that words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever
molding man's body and affairs.
A woman came to me in great distress and said she was to be sued on the fifteenth of the
month for three thousand dollars. She knew no way of getting the money and was in de-
spair.
I told her God was her supply, and that there is a supply for every demand.
So I spoke the word! I gave thanks that the woman would receive three thousand dollars
at the right time in the right way. I told her she must have perfect faith, and act her perfect
faith. The fifteenth came but no money had materialized.
She called me on the 'phone and asked what she was to do. I replied, "It is Saturday, so
they won't sue you today. Your part is to act rich, thereby showing perfect faith that you
will receive it by Monday." She asked me to lunch with her to keep up her courage. When I
joined her at a restaurant, I said, "This is no time to economize. Order an expensive lunch-
eon, act as if you had already received the three thousand dollars."
"All things whatsoever ye ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." "You must act as if
you had already received." The next morning she called me on the 'phone and asked me
to stay with her during the day, I said "No, you are divinely protected and God is never too
late."
In the evening she 'phoned again, greatly excited and said, "My dear, a miracle has hap-
pened! I was sitting in my room this morning, when the doorbell rang. I said to the maid:
'Don't let anyone in.' The maid however, looked out the window and said, 'It's your cousin
with the long white beard.'
So I said, 'Call him back. I would like to see him.' He was just turning the corner, when he
heard the maid's voice, and he came back.
He talked for about an hour, and just as he was leaving he said, 'Oh, by the way, how are
finances?' I told him I needed the money, and he said, 'Why, my dear, I will give you three
thousand dollars the first of the month.’
I didn't like to tell him I was going to be sued. What shall I do? I won't receive it till the first
of the month, and I must have it tomorrow." I said, "I'll keep on 'treating.'"
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I said, "Spirit is never too late. I give thanks she has received the money on the invisible
plane and that it manifests on time." The next morning her cousin called her up and said,
"Come to my office this morning and I will give you the money." That afternoon, she had
three thousand dollars to her credit in the bank, and wrote checks as rapidly as her excite-
ment would permit.
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared
for. For example: A man came to me asking me to speak the word that a certain debt
would be wiped out.
I found he spent his time planning what he would say to the man when he did not pay his
bill, thereby neutralizing my words. He should have seen himself paying the debt.
We have a wonderful illustration of this in the bible, relating to the three kings who were in
the desert, without water for their men and horses. They consulted the prophet Elisha,
who gave them this astonishing message:
"Thus saith the Lord -- Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain, yet make this valley
full of ditches."
Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for, when there isn't the slightest sign of it in
sight.
For example: A woman found it necessary to look for an apartment during the year when
there was a great shortage of apartments in New York. It was considered almost an impos-
sibility, and her friends were sorry for her and said, "Isn't it too bad, you'll have to store
your furniture and live in a hotel." She replied, "You needn't feel sorry for me, I'm a super-
man, and I'll get an apartment."
She spoke the words: "Infinite Spirit, open the way for the right apartment." She knew
there was a supply for every demand, and that she was "unconditioned," working on the
spiritual plane, and that "one with God is a majority."
She had contemplated buying new blankets, when "the tempter," the adverse thought or
reasoning mind, suggested, "Don't buy the blankets, perhaps, after all, you won't get an
apartment and you will have no use for them." She promptly replied (to herself): "I'll dig
my ditches by buying the blankets!" So she prepared for the apartment -- acted as though
she already had it.
She found one in a miraculous way, and it was given to her although there were over two
hundred other applicants.
The blankets showed active faith.
It is needless to say that the ditches dug by the three kings in the desert were filled to
overflowing. (Read, II Kings)
Getting into the spiritual swing of things is no easy matter for the average person. The ad-
verse thoughts of doubt and fear surge from the subconscious. They are the "army of the
aliens" which must be put to flight. This explains why it is so often, "darkest before the
dawn."
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A big demonstration is usually preceded by tormenting thoughts.
Having made a statement of high spiritual truth one challenges the old beliefs in the sub-
conscious, and "error is exposed" to be put out.
This is the time when one must make his affirmations of truth repeatedly, and rejoice and
give thanks that he has already received. "Before ye call I shall answer." This means that
"every good and perfect gift" is already man's awaiting his recognition.
Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
The children of Israel were told that they could have all the land they could see. This is
true of every man. He has only the land within his own mental vision. Every great work,
every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the
vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discourage-
ment.
The children of Israel when they reached the "Promised Land," were afraid to go in, for
they said it was filled with giants who made them feel like grasshoppers. "And there we
saw the giants and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers." This is almost every
man's experience.
However, the one who knows spiritual law, is undisturbed by appearance, and rejoices
while he is "yet in captivity." That is, he holds to his vision and gives thanks that the end
is accomplished, he has received.
Jesus Christ gave a wonderful example of this. He said to his disciples: "Say not ye, there
are yet four months and then cometh the harvest? Behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes
and look on the fields; for they are ripe already to harvest." His clear vision pierced the
"world of matter" and he saw clearly the fourth dimensional world, things as they really
are, perfect and complete in Divine Mind. So man must ever hold the vision of his jour-
ney's end and demand the manifestation of that which he has already received. It may be
his perfect health, love, supply, self-expression, home or friends.
They are all finished and perfect ideas registered in Divine Mind (man's own supercon-
scious mind) and must come through him, not to him. For example: A man came to me
asking for treatments for success. It was imperative that he raise, within a certain time,
fifty-thousand dollars for his business. The time limit was almost up, when he came to me
in despair. No one wanted to invest in his enterprise, and the bank had flatly refused a
loan. I replied: "I suppose you lost your temper while at the bank, therefore your power.
You can control any situation if you first control yourself."
"Go back to the bank," I added, "and I will treat." My treatment was: "You are identified in
love with the spirit of everyone connected with the bank. Let the divine idea come out of
this situation." He replied, "Woman, you are talking about an impossibility. Tomorrow is
Saturday; the bank closes at twelve, and my train won't get me there until ten, and the time
limit is up tomorrow, and anyway they won't do it. It's too late."
I replied, "God doesn't need any time and is never too late. With Him all things are possi-
ble." I added, "I don't know anything about business, but I know all about God."
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He replied: "It all sounds fine when I sit here listening to you, but when I go out it's terri-
ble." He lived in a distant city, and I did not hear from him for a week, then came a letter. It
read: "You were right. I raised the money, and will never again doubt the truth of all that
you told me."
I saw him a few weeks later, and I said, "What happened? You evidently had plenty of
time, after all." He replied, "My train was late, and I got there just fifteen minutes to twelve.
I walked into the bank quietly and said, 'I have come for the loan,' and they gave it to me
without a question."
It was the last fifteen minutes of the time allotted to him, and Infinite Spirit was not too
late. In this instance the man could never have demonstrated alone. He needed someone
to help him hold to the vision. This is what one man can do for another.
Jesus Christ knew the truth of this when he said: "If two of you shall agree on earth as
touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in
heaven." One gets too close to his own affairs and becomes doubtful and fearful.
The friend or "healer" sees clearly the success, health, or prosperity, and never wavers,
because he is not close to the situation.
It is much easier to "demonstrate" for someone else than for one's self, so a person
should not hesitate to ask for help, if he feels himself wavering.
A keen observer of life once said, "no man can fail, if some one person sees him success-
ful." Such is the power of the vision, and many a great man has owed his success to a
wife, or sister, or a friend who "believed in him" and held without wavering to the perfect
pattern!
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Chapter III - The Power of the Word
"By thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."
A person knowing the power of the word, becomes very careful of his conversation. He
has only to watch the reaction of his words to know that they do "not return void."
Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.
I knew a man who said, "I always miss a car. It invariably pulls out just as I arrive."
His daughter said: "I always catch a car. It's sure to come just as I get there." This oc-
curred for years. Each had made a separate law for himself, one of failure, one of success.
This is the psychology of superstitions.
The horseshoe or rabbit's foot contains no power, but man's spoken word and belief that
it will bring him good luck creates expectancy in the subconscious mind, and attracts a
"lucky situation." I find however, this will not "work" when man has advanced spiritually
and knows a higher law. One cannot turn back, and must put away "graven images."
For example: Two men in my class had had great success in business for several months,
when suddenly everything "went to smash." We tried to analyze the situation, and I found,
instead of making their affirmations and looking to God for success and prosperity, they
had each bought a "lucky monkey." I said: "Oh I see, you have been trusting in the lucky
monkeys instead of God." "Put away the lucky monkeys and call on the law of forgive-
ness," for man has power to forgive or neutralize his mistakes.
They decided to throw the lucky monkeys down a coal-hole, and all went well again. This
does not mean, however, that one should throw away every "lucky" ornament or horse-
shoe about the house, but he must recognize that the power back of it is the one and only
power, God, and that the object simply gives him a feeling of expectancy.
I was with a friend, one day, who was in deep despair. In crossing the street, she picked
up a horseshoe. Immediately, she was filled with joy and hope. She said God had sent her
the horseshoe in order to keep up her courage.
It was indeed, at that moment, about the only thing that could have registered in her con-
sciousness. Her hope became faith, and she ultimately made a wonderful demonstration. I
wish to make the point clear that the men previously mentioned were depending on the
monkeys, alone, while this woman recognized the power back of the horseshoe.
I know, in my own case, it took a long while to get out of a belief that a certain thing
brought disappointment. If the thing happened, disappointment invariably followed. I
found the only way I could make a change in the subconscious, was by asserting, "There
are not two powers, there is only one power, God, therefore, there are no disappoint-
ments, and this thing means a happy surprise." I noticed a change at once, and happy sur-
prises commenced coming my way.
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I have a friend who said nothing could induce her to walk under a ladder. I said, "If you are
afraid, you are giving in to a belief in two powers, Good and Evil, instead of one. As God is
absolute, there can be no opposing power, unless man makes the false law of evil for him-
self. To show you believe in only One Power, God, and that there is no power or reality in
evil, walk under the next ladder you see."
Soon after, she went to her bank. She wished to open her box in the safety-deposit vault,
and there stood a ladder on her pathway. It was impossible to reach the box without pass-
ing under the ladder. She quailed with fear and turned back. She could not face the lion on
her pathway. However, when she reached the street, my words rang in her ears and she
decided to return and walk under it. It was a big moment in her life, for ladders had held
her in bondage for years. She retraced her steps to the vault, and the ladder was no longer
there! This so often happens! If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not
have to.
It is the law of nonresistance, which is so little understood.
Someone has said that courage contains genius and magic. Face a situation fearlessly,
and there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.
The explanation is, that fear attracted the ladder on the woman's pathway, and fearless-
ness removed it.
Thus the invisible forces are ever working for man who is always "pulling the strings"
himself, though he does not know it. Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever
man voices, he begins to attract. People who continually speak of disease, invariably at-
tract it.
After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his words. For example: I have a
friend who often says on the 'phone, "Do come to see me and have a nice old-fashioned
chat." This "old-fashioned chat" means an hour of about five hundred to a thousand de-
structive words, the principal topics being loss, lack, failure and sickness.
I reply: "No, I thank you. I've had enough old-fashioned chats in my life, they are too ex-
pensive, but I will be glad to have a new-fashioned chat, and talk about what we want, not
what we don't want." There is an old saying that man only dares use his words for three
purposes, to "heal, bless or prosper." What man says of others will be said of him, and
what he wishes for another, he is wishing for himself.
"Curses, like chickens, come home to roost."
If a man wishes someone "bad luck," he is sure to attract bad luck himself. If he wishes to
aid someone to success, he is wishing and aiding himself to success.
The body may be renewed and transformed through the spoken word and clear vision,
and disease be completely wiped out of the consciousness. The metaphysician knows
that all disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first
"heal the soul."
The soul is the subconscious mind, and it must be "saved" from wrong thinking.
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In the twenty-third psalm, we read: "He restoreth my soul." This means that the subcon-
scious mind or soul, must be restored with the right ideas, and the "mystical marriage" is
the marriage of the soul and the spirit, or the subconscious and superconscious mind.
They must be one. When the subconscious is flooded with the perfect ideas of the super-
conscious, God and man are one. "I and the Father are one." That is, he is one with the
realm of perfect ideas; he is the man made in God's likeness and image (imagination) and
is given power and dominion over all created things, his mind, body and affairs.
It is safe to say that all sickness and unhappiness come from the violation of the law of
love. A new commandment I give unto you, "Love one another," and in the Game of Life,
love or goodwill takes every trick.
For example: A woman I know, had, for years an appearance of a terrible skin disease. The
doctors told her it was incurable, and she was in despair. She was on the stage, and she
feared she would soon have to give up her profession, and she had no other means of
support. She, however, procured a good engagement, and on the opening night, made a
great "hit." She received flattering notices from the critics, and was joyful and elated. The
next day she received a notice of dismissal. A man in the cast had been jealous of her
success and had caused her to be sent away. She felt hatred and resentment taking com-
plete possession of her, and she cried out, "Oh God don't let me hate that man." That
night she worked for hours "in the silence."
She said, "I soon came into a very deep silence. I seemed to be at peace with myself, with
the man, and with the whole world. I continued this for two following nights, and on the
third day I found I was healed completely of the skin disease!" In asking for love, or good
will, she had fulfilled the law, ("for love is the fulfilling of the law") and the disease (which
came from subsconscious resentment) was wiped out.
Continual criticism produces rheumatism, as critical, inharmonious thoughts cause un-

natural deposits in the blood, which settle in the joints.
False growths are caused by jealousy, hatred, unforgiveness, fear, etc. Every disease is
caused by a mind not at ease. I said once, in my class, "There is no use asking anyone
'What's the matter with you,' we might just as well say, 'Who's the matter with you?' " Un-
forgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect
the eyesight. In its train are endless ills.
I called on a woman, one day, who said she was ill from having eaten a poisoned oyster. I
replied, "Oh, no, the oyster was harmless, you poisoned the oyster. Who’s the matter with
you?" She answered, "Oh about nineteen people." She had quarreled with nineteen peo-
ple and had become so inharmonious that she attracted the wrong oyster.
Any inharmony on the external, indicates there is mental inharmony. "As the within, so the
without."
Man's only enemies are within himself. "And a man's foes shall be they of his own house-
hold." Personality is one of the last enemies to be overcome, as this planet is taking its
initiation in love. It was Christ's message -- "Peace on Earth, good will towards man." The
enlightened man, therefore, endeavors to perfect himself upon his neighbor. His work is
with himself, to send out goodwill and blessings to every man, and the marvelous thing is,
that if one blesses a man he has no power to harm him.
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For example: A man came to me asking to "treat" for success in business. He was selling
machinery, and a rival appeared on the scene with what he proclaimed, was a better ma-
chine, and my friend feared defeat.
I said, "First of all, we must wipe out all fear, and know that God protects your interests,
and that the divine idea must come out of the situation. That is, the right machine will be
sold, by the right man, to the right man." And I added, "Don't hold one critical thought to-
wards that man. Bless him all day, and be willing not to sell your machine, if it isn't the di-
vine idea."
So he went to the meeting, fearless and nonresistant, and blessing the other man. He said
the outcome was very remarkable. The other man's machine refused to work, and he sold
his without the slightest difficulty. "But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that
curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which spitefully use you and
persecute you."
Goodwill produces a great aura of protection about the one who sends it, and "No weapon
that is formed against him shall prosper." In other words, love and goodwill destroy the
enemies within one's self, therefore, one has no enemies on the external!
"There is peace on earth for him who sends goodwill to man!"
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Chapter IV - The Law of Nonresistance
"Resist not evil. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good."
Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely nonresistant person.
The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresis-
tant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before it.
Jesus Christ said: "Resist not evil," for He knew in reality, there is no evil, therefore noth-
ing to resist. Evil has come of man's "vain imagination," or a belief in two powers, good
and evil.
There is an old legend, that Adam and Eve ate of "Maya the Tree of Illusion," and saw two
powers instead of one power, God.
Therefore, evil is a false law man has made for himself, through psychoma or soul sleep.
Soul sleep means, that man's soul has been hypnotized by the race belief (of sin, sickness
and death, etc.) which is carnal or mortal thought, and his affairs have out-pictured his il-
lusions.
We have read in a preceding chapter, that man's soul is his subconscious mind, and what-
ever he feels deeply, good or bad, is out-pictured by that faithful servant. His body and
affairs show forth what he has been picturing. The sick man has pictured sickness, the
poor man, poverty, the rich man, wealth.
People often say, "why does a little child attract illness, when it is too young even to know
what it means?"
I answer that children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them,
and often out-picture the fears of their parents.
I heard a metaphysician once say, "If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself,
someone else will run it for you."
Mothers often, unconsciously, attract illness and disaster to their children, by continually
holding them in thoughts of fear, and watching for symptoms.
For example: A friend asked a woman if her little girl had had the measles. She replied
promptly, "not yet!" This implied that she was expecting the illness, and, therefore, pre-
paring the way for what she did not want for herself and child.
However, the man who is centered and established in right thinking, the man who sends
out only goodwill to his fellow man, and who is without fear, cannot be touched or influ-
enced by the negative thoughts of others. In fact, he could then receive only good
thoughts, as he himself, sends forth only thoughts.
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Resistance is Hell, for it places man in a "state of torment."
A metaphysician once gave me a wonderful recipe for taking every trick in the game of
life, it is the acme of non resistance. He gave it in this way; "At one time in my life, I bap-
tized children, and of course, they had many names. Now I no longer baptize children, but
I baptize events, but I give every event the same name. If I have a failure I baptize it suc-
cess, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost!"
In this, we see the great law of transmutation, founded on nonresistance. Through his
spoken word, every failure was transmuted into success.
For example: A woman who required money, and who knew the spiritual law of opulence,
was thrown in a business-way continually, with a man who made her feel very poor. He
talked lack and limitation and she commenced to catch his poverty thoughts, so she dis-
liked him, and blamed him for her failure. She knew in order to demonstrate her supply,
she must first feel that she had received -- a feeling of opulence must precede its manifes-
tation.
It dawned on her, one day, that she was resisting the situation, and seeing two powers in-
stead of one. So she blessed the man and baptized the situation "Success"! She affirmed,
"As there is only one power, God, this man is here for my good and my prosperity" (just
what he did not seem to be there for).
Soon after that she met, through this man, a woman who gave her for a service rendered,
several thousand dollars, and the man moved to a distant city, and faded harmoniously
from her life. Make the statement, "Every man is a golden link in the chain of my good," for
all men are God in manifestation, awaiting the opportunity given by man, himself, to serve
the divine plan of his life.
"Bless your enemy, and you rob him of his ammunition." His arrows will be transmuted
into blessings.
This law is true of nations as well as individuals. Bless a nation, send love and goodwill to
every inhabitant, and it is robbed of its power to harm.
Man can only get the right idea of nonresistance, through spiritual understanding. My stu-
dents have often said: "I don't want to be a doormat." I reply "when you use nonresistance
with wisdom, no one will ever be able to walk over you."
Another example: One day I was impatiently awaiting an important telephone call. I re-
sisted every call that came in and made no outgoing calls myself, reasoning that it might
interfere with the one I was awaiting.
Instead of saying, "Divine ideas never conflict, the call will come at the right time," leaving
it to Infinite Intelligence to arrange, I commenced to manage things myself -- I made the
battle mine, not God's and remained tense and anxious. The bell did not ring for about an
hour, and I glanced at the 'phone and found the receiver had been off that length of time,
and the 'phone was disconnected. My anxiety, fear and belief in interference, had brought
on a total eclipse of the telephone. Realizing what I had done, I commenced blessing the
situation at once; I baptized it "success," and affirmed, "I cannot lose any call that be-
longs to me by divine right; I am under grace, and not under law."
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A friend rushed out to the nearest telephone, to notify the Company to reconnect.
She entered a crowded grocery, but the proprietor left his customers and attended to the
call himself. My 'phone was connected at once, and two minutes later, I received a very
important call, and about an hour afterwards, the one I had been awaiting.
One's ships come in over a calm sea.
So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him. If he runs away from it, it will
run after him.
For example: I repeated this to a woman one day, and she replied, "How true that is! I was
unhappy at home, I disliked my mother, who was critical and domineering; so I ran away
and was married -- but I married my mother, for my husband was exactly like my mother,
and I had the same situation to face again." "Agree with thine adversary quickly."
This means, agree that the adverse situation is good, be undisturbed by it, and it falls
away of its own weight. "None of these things move me," is a wonderful affirmation.
The inharmonious situation comes from some inharmony within man himself.
When there is, in him, no emotional response to an inharmonious situation, it fades away
forever, from his pathway.
So we see man's work is ever with himself.
People have said to me, "Give treatments to change my husband, or my brother." I reply,
"No, I will give treatments to change you; when you change, your husband and your
brother will change."
One of my students was in the habit of lying. I told her it was a failure method and if she
lied, she would be lied to. She replied, "I don't care, I can't possibly get along without ly-
ing."
One day she was speaking on the 'phone to a man with whom she was very much in love.
She turned to me and said, "I don't trust him, I know he's lying to me." I replied, "Well, you
lie yourself, so someone has to lie to you, and you may be sure it will be just the person
you want the truth from." Some time after that, I saw her, and she said, "I'm cured of ly-
ing."
I questioned: "What cured you?"
She replied: "I have been living with a woman who lied worse than I did!"
One is often cured of his faults by seeing them in others.
Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves reflected in our associates.
Living in the past is a failure method and a violation of spiritual law.
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Jesus Christ said, "Behold, now is the accepted time." "Now is the day of Salvation."
Lot's wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt.
The robbers of time are the past and the future. Man should bless the past, and forget it, if
it keeps him in bondage, and bless the future, knowing it has in store for him endless joys,
but live fully in the now.
For example: A woman came to me, complaining that she had no money with which to buy
Christmas gifts. She said, "Last year was so different; I had plenty of money and gave
lovely presents, and this year I have scarcely a cent."
I replied, "You will never demonstrate money while you are pathetic and live in the past.
Live fully in the now, and get ready to give Christmas presents. Dig your ditches, and the
money will come."
She exclaimed, "I know what to do! I will buy some tinsel twine, Christmas seals and wrap-
ping paper." I replied, "Do that, and the presents will come and stick themselves to the
Christmas seals."
This too, was showing financial fearlessness and faith in God, as the reasoning mind said,
"Keep every cent you have, as you are not sure you will get any more."
She bought the seals, paper and twine, and a few days before Christmas, received a gift of
several hundred dollars. Buying the seals and twine had impressed the subconscious with
expectancy, and opened the way for the manifestation of the money. She purchased all
the presents in plenty of time.
Man must live suspended in the moment.
"Look well, therefore, to this Day! Such is the salutation of the Dawn."
He must be spiritually alert, ever awaiting his leads, taking advantage of every opportu-
nity.
One day, I said continually (silently), "Infinite Spirit, don't let me miss a trick," and some-
thing very important was told to me that evening. It is most necessary to begin the day
with right words.
Make an affirmation immediately upon waking.
For example:
"Thy will be done this day! Today is a day of completion; I give thanks for this perfect day,
miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease."
Make this a habit, and one will see wonders and miracles come into his life.
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One morning I picked up a book and read, "Look with wonder at that which is before you!"
It seemed to be my message for the day, so I repeated again and again, "Look with wonder
at that which is before you."
At about noon, a large sum of money was given me, which I had been desiring for a cer-
tain purpose.
In a following chapter, I will give affirmations that I have found most effective. However,
one should never use an affirmation unless it is absolutely satisfying and convincing to
his own consciousness, and often an affirmative is changed to suit different people.
For example: The following has brought success to many:
"I have a wonderful work, in a wonderful way, I give wonderful service, for wonderful pay!"
I gave the first two lines to one of my students, and she added the last two.
It made a most powerful statement, as there should always be perfect payment for perfect
service, and a rhyme sinks easily into the subconscious. She went about singing it aloud
and soon did receive wonderful work in a wonderful way, and gave wonderful service for
wonderful pay.
Another student, a business man, took it, and changed the word work to business.
He repeated, "I have a wonderful business, in a wonderful way, and I give wonderful serv-
ice for wonderful pay." That afternoon he made a forty-one thousand dollar deal, though
there had been no activity in his affairs for months.
Every affirmation must be carefully worded and completely "cover the ground."
For example: I knew a woman, who was in great need, and made a demand for work. She
received a great deal of work, but was never paid anything. She now knows to add, "won-
derful service for wonderful pay."
It is man's divine right to have plenty! More than enough!
"His barns should be full, and his cup should flow over!" This is God's idea for man, and
when man breaks down the barriers of lack in his own consciousness, the Golden Age will
be his, and every righteous desire of his heart fulfilled!
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Chapter V - The Law of Karma and the Law of Forgiveness
Man receives only that which he gives.
The Game of Life is a game of boomerangs. Man's thoughts, deeds and words return to
him sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.
This is the law of Karma, which is Sanskrit for "Comeback." "Whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap."
For example: A friend told me this story of herself, illustrating the law. She said, "I make
all my Karma on my aunt, whatever I say to her, some one says to me. I am often irritable
at home, and one day said to my aunt, who was talking to me during dinner. 'No more talk,
I wish to eat in peace.'"
"The following day, I was lunching with a woman with whom I wished to make a great im-
pression. I was talking animatedly, when she said: 'No more talk, I wish to eat in peace!'"
My friend is high in consciousness, so her Karma returns much more quickly than to one
on the mental plane.
The more man knows, the more he is responsible for, and a person with a knowledge of
Spiritual Law, which he does not practice, suffers greatly, in consequence. "The fear of
the Lord (law) is the beginning of wisdom." If we read the word Lord, law, it will make
many passages in the Bible much clearer.
"Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord" (law). It is the law which takes vengeance,
not God. God sees man perfect, "created in his own image," (imagination) and given
"power and dominion."
This is the perfect idea of man, registered in Divine Mind, awaiting man's recognition; for
man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attain-
ing.
"Nothing ever happens without an onlooker" is an ancient saying.
Man sees first his failure or success, his joy or sorrow, before it swings into visibility from
the scenes set in his own imagination. We have observed this in the mother picturing dis-
ease for her child, or a woman seeing success for her husband.
Jesus Christ said, "And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."
So, we see freedom (from all unhappy conditions) comes through knowledge -- a knowl-
edge of Spiritual Law.
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Obedience precedes authority, and the law obeys man when he obeys the law. The law of
electricity must be obeyed before it becomes man's servant. When handled ignorantly, it
becomes man's deadly foe. So with the laws of Mind!
For example: A woman with a strong personal will, wished she owned a house which be-
longed to an acquaintance, and she often made mental pictures of herself living in the
house. In the course of time, the man died and she moved into the house. Several years
afterwards, coming into the knowledge of Spiritual Law, she said to me: "Do you think I
had anything to do with that man's death?"
I replied: "Yes, your desire was so strong, everything made way for it, but you paid your
Karmic debt. Your husband, whom you loved devotedly, died soon after, and the house
was a white elephant on your hands for years."
The original owner, however, could not have been affected by her thoughts had he been
positive in the truth, nor her husband, but they were both under Karmic law. The woman
should have said (feeling the great desire for the house), "Infinite Intelligence, give me the
right house, equally as charming as this, the house which is mine by divine right."
The divine selection would have given perfect satisfaction and brought good to all. The
divine pattern is the only safe pattern to work by.
Desire is a tremendous force, and must be directed in the right channels, or chaos en-
sues.
In demonstrating, the most important step is the first step, to "ask aright."
Man should always demand only that which is his by divine right.
To go back to the illustration: Had the woman taken this attitude: "If this house I desire is
mine, I cannot lose it, if it is not, give me its equivalent," the man might have decided to
move out, harmoniously (had it been the divine selection for her) or another house would
have been substituted. Anything forced into manifestation through personal will is always
"ill-got," and has "ever bad success."
Man is admonished, "My will be done not thine," and the curious thing is, man always gets
just what he desires when he does relinquish personal will, thereby enabling Infinite Intel-
ligence to work through him.
"Stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord" (law).
For example: A woman came to me in great distress. Her daughter had determined to take
a very hazardous trip, and the mother was filled with fear.
She said she had used every argument, had pointed out the dangers to be encountered,
and forbidden her to go, but the daughter became more and more rebellious and deter-
mined. I said to the mother, "You are forcing your personal will upon your daughter, which
you have no right to do, and your fear of the trip is only attracting it, for man attracts what
he fears."
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I added, "Let go, and take your mental hands off. Put it in God's Hands, and use this state-
ment: I put this situation in the hands of Infinite Love and Wisdom; if this trip is the Divine
plan, I bless it and no longer resist, but if it is not divinely planned, I give thanks that it is
now dissolved and dissipated." A day or two after that, her daughter said to her, "Mother, I
have given up the trip," and the situation returned to its "native nothingness."
It is learning to "stand still," which seems so difficult for man. I will deal more fully with
this law in the chapter on nonresistance.
I will give another example of sowing and reaping, which came in the most curious way.
A woman came to me, saying she had received a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, given to her
at the bank. She was much disturbed, for, she said, "The people at the bank will never ac-
knowledge their mistake."
I replied, "Let us analyze the situation and find out why you attracted it." She thought a
few moments and exclaimed: "I know it, I sent a friend a lot of stage-money, just for a
joke." So the law had sent her some stage-money, for it doesn't know anything about
jokes.
I said, "Now we will call on the law of forgiveness, and neutralize the situation."
Christianity is founded upon the law of forgiveness -- Christ has redeemed us from the
curse of the Karmic law, and the Christ within each man is his Redeemer and Salvation
from all inharmonious conditions.
So I said: "Infinite Spirit, we call on the law of forgiveness and give thanks that she is un-
der grace and not under law, and cannot lose this twenty dollars which is hers by divine
right."
"Now," I said, "Go back to the bank and tell them, fearlessly, that it was given you there by
mistake."
She obeyed, and to her surprise, they apologized and gave her another bill, treating her
most courteously.
So knowledge of the Law gives man power to "rub out his mistakes." Man cannot force
the external to be what he is not.
If he desires riches, he must be rich first in consciousness.
For example: A woman came to me asking treatment for prosperity. She did not take much
interest in her household affairs, and her home was in great disorder.
I said to her, "If you wish to be rich, you much be orderly. All men with great wealth are
orderly -- and order is heaven's first law." I added, "You will never become rich with a
burnt match in the pin cushion."
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She had a good sense of humor and commenced immediately, putting her house in order.
She rearranged furniture, straightened out bureau drawers, cleaned rugs, and soon made
a big financial demonstration -- a gift from a relative. The woman, herself, became made
over, and keeps herself keyed-up financially, by being ever watchful of the external and
expecting prosperity, knowing God is her supply.
Many people are in ignorance of the fact that gifts and things are investments, and that
hoarding and saving invariably lead to loss.
"There is that scattereth and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is
meet, but it tendeth to poverty."
For example: I knew a man who wanted to buy a fur-lined overcoat. He and his wife went
to various shops, but there was none he wanted. He said they were all too cheap-looking.
At last, he was shown one, the salesman said was valued at a thousand dollars, but which
the manager would sell him for five-hundred dollars, as it was late in the season.
His financial possessions amounted to about seven hundred dollars. The reasoning mind
would have said, "You can't afford to spend nearly all you have on a coat," but he was
very intuitive and never reasoned.
He turned to his wife and said, "If I get this coat, I'll make a ton of money!" So his wife con-
sented, weakly.
About a month later, he received a ten-thousand-dollar commission. The coat made him
feel so rich, it linked him with success and prosperity; without the coat he would not have
received the commission. It was an investment paying large dividends!
If man ignores these leadings to spend or to give, the same amount of money will go in an
uninteresting or unhappy way.
For example: A woman told me, on Thanksgiving Day, she informed her family that they
could not afford a Thanksgiving dinner. She had the money, but decided to save it.
A few days later, someone entered her room and took from the bureau drawer the exact
amount the dinner would have cost.
The law always stands back of the man who spends fearlessly, with wisdom.
For example: One of my students was shopping with her little nephew. The child clamored
for a toy, which she told him she could not afford to buy.
She realized suddenly that she was seeking lack, and not recognizing God as her supply!
So she bought the toy, and on her way home, picked up, in the street, the exact amount of
money she had paid for it.
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Jesus Christ brought the good news (the gospel) that there was a higher law than the law
of Karma -- and that that law transcends the law of Karma. It is the law of grace, or forgive-
ness. It is the law which frees man from the law of cause and effect -- the law of conse-
quence. "Under grace, and not under law."
We are told that on this plane, man reaps where he has not sown; the gifts of God are sim-
ply poured out upon him. "All that the Kingdom affords is his." This continued state of
bliss awaits the man who has overcome the race (or world) thought.
In the world thought there is tribulation, but Jesus Christ said: "Be of good cheer; I have
overcome the world."
The world thought is that of sin, sickness and death. He saw their absolute unreality and
said sickness and sorrow shall pass away and death itself, the last enemy, be overcome.
We know now, from a scientific standpoint, that death could be overcome by stamping the
subconscious mind with the conviction of eternal youth and eternal life.
The subconscious, being simply power without direction, carries out orders without ques-
tioning.
Working under the direction of the superconscious (the Christ or God within man) the
"resurrection of the body" would be accomplished.
Man would no longer throw off his body in death, it would be transformed into the "body
electric," sung by Walt Whitman, for Christianity is founded upon the forgiveness of sins
and "an empty tomb."
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Chapter VI - Casting the Burden
(Impressing the Subconscious)
When man knows his own powers and the workings of his mind, his great desire is to find
an easy and quick way to impress the subconscious with good, for simply an intellectual
knowledge of the Truth will not bring results.
In my own case, I found the easiest way is in "casting the burden."
A metaphysician once explained it in this manner. He said, "The only thing which gives
anything weight in nature is the law of gravitation, and if a boulder could be taken high
above the planet, there would be no weight in that boulder; and that is what Jesus Christ
meant when he said: ‘My yoke is easy and my burden is light.’"
He had overcome the world vibration, and functioned in the fourth dimensional realm,
where there is only perfection, completion, life and joy.
He said: "Come to me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." "Take
my yoke upon you, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
We are also told in the fifty-fifth Psalm, to "cast thy burden upon the Lord." Many pas-
sages in the Bible state that the battle is God's not man's and that man is always to "stand
still" and see the Salvation of the Lord.
This indicates that the superconscious mind (or Christ within) is the department which
fights man's battle and relieves him of burdens.
We see, therefore, that man violates law if he carries a burden, and a burden is an adverse
thought or condition, and this thought or condition has its root in the subconscious.
It seems almost impossible to make any headway directing the subconscious from the
conscious, or reasoning mind, as the reasoning mind (the intellect) is limited in its con-
ceptions, and filled with doubts and fears.
How scientific it then is, to cast the burden upon the superconscious mind (or Christ
within) where it is "made light," or dissolved into its "native nothingness."
For example: A woman in urgent need of money, made the statement, "I cast this burden
of lack on the Christ (within) and I go free to have plenty!"
The belief in lack was her burden, and as she cast it upon the Christ within, the supercon-
scious flooded the subconscious with its belief of plenty, and an avalanche of supply was
the result.
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We read, "The Christ in you the hope of glory."
Another example: One of my students had been given a new piano, and there was no
room in her studio for it until she had moved out the old one. She was in a state of per-
plexity. She wanted to keep the old piano, but knew of no place to send it. She became
desperate, as the new piano was to be sent immediately; in fact, was on its way, with no
place to put it. She said it came to her to repeat, "I cast this burden on the Christ within,
and I go free."
A few moments later, her 'phone rang, and a woman friend asked if she might rent her old
piano, and it was moved out, a few minutes before the new one arrived.
I knew a woman, whose burden was resentment. She said, "I cast this burden of resent-
ment on the Christ within, and I go free, to be loving, harmonious and happy." The Al-
mighty superconscious flooded the subconscious with love, and her whole life was
changed. For years, resentment had held her in a state of torment and imprisoned her soul
(the subconscious mind).
The statement should be made over and over and over, sometimes for hours at a time, si-
lently or audibly, with quietness but determination.
I have often compared it to winding-up a Victrola. We must wind ourselves up with the
spoken word.
I have noticed, in "casting the burden," after a little while, one seems to see clearly. It is
impossible to have clear vision, while in the throes of carnal mind. Doubts and fear poison
the mind and body and the imagination runs riot, attracting disaster and disease.
In steadily repeating the affirmation, "I cast this burden on the Christ within, and go free,"
the vision clears, and with it a feeling of relief, and sooner or later comes the manifesta-
tion of good, be it health, happiness or supply.
One of my students once asked me to explain the "darkness before the dawn." I referred
in a preceding chapter to the fact that often, before the big demonstration "everything
seems to go wrong," and deep depression clouds the consciousness. It means that out of
the subconscious are rising the doubts and fears of the ages. These old derelicts of the
subconscious rise to the surface, to be put out.
It is then that man should clap his cymbals, like Jehoshaphat, and give thanks that he is
saved, even though he seems surrounded by the enemy (the situation of lack or disease).
The student continued, "How long must one remain in the dark" and I replied, "until one
can see in the dark," and "casting the burden enables one to see in the dark."
In order to impress the subconscious, active faith is always essential.
"Faith without works is dead." In these chapters I have endeavored to bring out this point.
Jesus Christ showed active faith when "He commanded the multitude to sit down on the
ground," before he gave thanks for the loaves and the fishes.
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I will give another example showing how necessary this step is. In fact, active faith is the
bridge, over which man passes to his Promised Land.
Through misunderstanding, a woman had been separated from her husband, whom she
loved deeply. He refused all offers of reconciliation and would not communicate with her
in any way.
Coming into the knowledge of Spiritual law, she denied the appearance of separation. She
made this statement: "There is no separation in Divine Mind, therefore, I cannot be sepa-
rated form the love and companionship which are mine by divine right."
She showed active faith by arranging a place for him at the table every day; thereby im-
pressing the subconscious with a picture of his return. Over a year passed, but she never
wavered, and one day he walked in.
The subconscious is often impressed through music. Music has a fourth dimensional
quality and releases the soul from imprisonment. It makes wonderful things seem possi-
ble, and easy of accomplishment!
I have a friend who uses her Victrola, daily, for this purpose. It puts her in perfect harmony
and releases the imagination.
Another woman often dances while making her affirmations. The rhythm and harmony of
music and motion carry her words forth with tremendous power.
The student must remember also, not to despise the "day of small things."
Invariably, before a demonstration, come "signs of land."
Before Columbus reached America, he saw birds and twigs which showed him land was
near. So it is with a demonstration; but often the student mistakes it for the demonstration
itself, and is disappointed.
For example: A woman had "spoken the word" for a set of dishes. Not long afterwards a
friend gave her a dish which was old and cracked.
She came to me and said, "Well, I asked for a set of dishes, and all I got was a cracked
plate."
I replied, "The plate was only signs of land. It shows your dishes are coming -- look upon
it as birds and seaweed," and not long afterwards the dishes came.
Continually "making-believe," impresses the subconscious. If one makes believe he is

rich, and makes believe he is successful, in "due time he will reap."
Children are always "making believe," and "except ye be converted, and become as little
children, ye shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven."
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For example: I know of a woman who was very poor, but no one could make her feel poor.
She earned a small amount of money from rich friends, who constantly reminded her of
her poverty, and to be careful and saving. Regardless of their admonitions, she would
spend all her earnings on a hat, or make some one a gift, and be in a rapturous state of
mind. Her thoughts were always centered on beautiful clothes and "rings and things," but
without envying others.
She lived in the world of the wondrous, and only riches seemed real to her. Before long
she married a rich man, and the rings and things became visible. I do not know whether
the man was the "Divine Selection," but opulence had to manifest in her life, as she had
imaged only opulence.
There is no peace or happiness for man, until he has erased all fear from the subcon-
scious.
Fear is misdirected energy and must be redirected, or transmuted into Faith.
Jesus Christ said, "Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?" "All things are possible to him
that believeth."
I am asked, so often by my students, "How can I get rid of fear?"
I reply, "By walking up to the thing you are afraid of."
"The lion takes its fierceness from your fear."
Walk up to the lion, and he will disappear; run away and he runs after you.
I have shown in previous chapters, how the lion of lack disappeared when the individual
spent money fearlessly, showing faith that God was his supply and therefore, unfailing.
Many of my students have come out of the bondage of poverty, and are now bountifully
supplied, through losing all fear of letting money go out. The subconscious is impressed
with the truth that God is the Giver and Gift; therefore as one is one with the Giver, he is
one with the Gift. A splendid statement is, "I now thank God the Giver for God the Gift."
Man has so long separated himself from his good and his supply, through thoughts of
separation and lack, that sometimes, it takes dynamite to dislodge these false ideas from
the subconscious, and the dynamite is a big situation.
We see in the foregoing illustration, how the individual was freed from his bondage by
showing fearlessness.
Man should watch himself hourly to detect if his motive for action is fear or faith.
"Choose ye this day whom we shall serve," fear or faith.
Perhaps one's fear is of personality. Then do not avoid the people feared; be willing to
meet them cheerfully, and they will either prove "golden links in the chain of one's good,"
or disappear harmoniously from one's pathway.
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Perhaps one's fear is of disease or germs. Then one should be fearless and undisturbed in
a germ laden situation, and he would be immune.
One can only contract germs while vibrating at the same rate as the germ, and fear drags
men down to the level of the germ. Of course, the disease laden germ is the product of
carnal mind, as all thought must objectify. Germs do not exist in the superconscious or
Divine Mind, therefore are the product of man's "vain imagination."
"In the twinkling of an eye," man's release will come when he realizes there is no power in
evil.
The material world will fade away, and the fourth dimensional world, the "World of the
Wondrous," will swing into manifestation.
"And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth -- and there shall be no more death, neither sor-
row nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed
away."
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Chapter VII - Love
Every man on this planet is taking his initiation in love. "A new commandment I give unto
you, that ye love one another." Ouspensky states, in "Tertium Organum," that "love is a
cosmic phenomenon," and opens to man the fourth dimensional world, "The World of the
Wondrous."
Real love is selfless and free from fear. It pours itself out upon the object of its affection,
without demanding any return. Its joy is in the joy of giving. Love is God in manifestation,
and the strongest magnetic force in the universe. Pure, unselfish love draws to itself its
own; it does not need to seek or demand. Scarcely anyone has the faintest conception of
real love. Man is selfish, tyrannical or fearful in his affections, thereby losing the thing he
loves. Jealousy is the worst enemy of love, for the imagination runs riot, seeing the loved
one attracted to another, and invariably these fears objectify if they are not neutralized.
For example: A woman came to me in deep distress. The man she loved had left her for
other women, and said he never intended to marry her. She was torn with jealousy and
resentment and said she hoped he would suffer as he had made her suffer; and added,
"How could he leave me when I loved him so much?"
I replied, "You are not loving that man, you are hating him," and added, "You can never
receive what you have never given. Give a perfect love and you will receive a perfect love.
Perfect yourself on this man. Give him a perfect, unselfish love, demanding nothing in re-
turn. Do not criticize or condemn, and bless him wherever his is."
She replied, "No, I won't bless him unless I know where he is!" she said.
"Well," I said, "that is not real love."
"When you send out real love, real love will return to you, either from this man or his
equivalent, for if this man is not the divine selection, you will not want him. As you are one
with God, you are one with the love which belongs to you by divine right."
Several months passed, and matters remained about the same, but she was working con-
scientiously with herself. I said, "When you are no longer disturbed by his cruelty, he will
cease to be cruel, as you are attracting it through your own emotions."
Then I told her of a brotherhood in India, who never said, "Good Morning" to each other.
They used these words: "I salute the Divinity in you." They saluted the divinity in every
man, and in the wild animals in the jungle, and they were never harmed, for they saw only
God in every living thing. I said, "Salute the divinity in this man, and say, 'I see your divine
self only. I see you as God see you, perfect, made in His image and likeness.'"
She found she was becoming more poised, and gradually losing her resentment. He was a
Captain, and she always called him "The Cap."
One day, she said, suddenly, "God bless the Cap wherever he is."
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I replied: "Now that is real love, and when you have become a 'complete circle,' and are no
longer disturbed by the situation, you will have his love, or attract its equivalent."
I was moving at this time, and did not have a telephone, so was out of touch with her for a
few weeks, when one morning I received a letter saying, "We are married."
At the earliest opportunity, I paid her a call. My first words were, "What happened?"
"Oh," she exclaimed, "a miracle! One day I woke up and all suffering had ceased. I saw
him that evening and he asked me to marry him. We were married in about a week, and I
have never seen a more devoted man."
There is an old saying: "No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your
teacher."
So one should become impersonal and learn what each man has to teach him, and soon
he would learn his lessons and be free.
The woman's lover was teaching her selfless love, which every man, sooner or later, must
learn.
Suffering is not necessary for man's development; it is the result of violation of spiritual
law, but few people seem able to rouse themselves from their "soul sleep" without it.
When people are happy, they usually become selfish, and automatically the law of Karma
is set in action. Man often suffers loss through lack of appreciation.
I knew a woman who had a very nice husband, but she said often, "I don't care anything
about being married, but that is nothing against my husband. I'm simply not interested in
married life."
She had other interests, and scarcely remembered she had a husband. She only thought
of him when she saw him. One day her husband told her he was in love with another
woman, and left. She came to me in distress and resentment.
I replied, "It is exactly what you spoke the word for. You said you didn't care anything
about being married, so the subconscious worked to get you unmarried."
She said, "Oh yes, I see. People get what they want, and then feel very much hurt."
She soon became in perfect harmony with the situation, and knew they were both much
happier apart.
When a woman becomes indifferent or critical, and ceases to be an inspiration to her hus-
band, he misses the stimulus of their early relationship and is restless and unhappy.
A man came to me dejected, miserable and poor. His wife was interested in the "Science
of Numbers," and had had him read. It seems the report was not very favorable, for he
said, "My wife says I'll never amount to anything because I am a two."
I replied, "I don't care what your number is, you are a perfect idea in divine mind, and we
will demand the success and prosperity which are already planned for you by that Infinite
Intelligence."
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Within a few weeks, he had a very fine position, and a year or two later, he achieved a bril-
liant success as a writer. No man is a success in business unless he loves his work. The
picture the artist paints for love (of his art) is his greatest work. The potboiler is always
something to live down.
No man can attract money if he despises it. Many people are kept in poverty by saying:
"Money means nothing to me, and I have a contempt for people who have it."
This is the reason so many artists are poor. Their contempt for money separates them
from it.
I remember hearing one artist say of another, "He's no good as an artist, he has money in
the bank."
This attitude of mind, of course, separates man from his supply; he must be in harmony
with a thing in order to attract it.
Money is God in manifestation, as freedom from want and limitation, but it must be always
kept in circulation and put to right uses. Hoarding and saving react with grim vengeance.
This does not mean that man should not have houses and lots, stocks and bonds, for the
barns of the righteous man shall be full; it means man should not hoard even the princi-
pal, if an occasion arises, when money is necessary. In letting it go out fearlessly and
cheerfully, he opens the way for more to come in, for God is man's unfailing and inex-
haustible supply.
This is the spiritual attitude towards money and the great Bank of the Universal never
fails!
We see an example of hoarding in the film production of "Greed." The woman won five
thousand dollars in a lottery, but would not spend it. She hoarded and saved, let her hus-
band suffer and starve, and eventually she scrubbed floors for a living.
She loved the money itself and put it above everything, and one night she was murdered
and the money taken from her.
This is an example of where "love of money is the root of all evil." Money in itself, is good
and beneficent, but used for destructive purposes, hoarded and saved, or considered
more important than love, brings disease and disaster, and the loss of the money itself.
Follow the path of love, and all things are added, for God is love, and God is supply; fol-
low the path of selfishness and greed, and the supply vanishes, or man is separated from
it.
For example: I knew the case of a very rich woman, who hoarded her income. She rarely
gave anything away, but bought and bought and bought things for herself.
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She was very fond of necklaces, and a friend once asked her how many she possessed.
She replied, "Sixty-seven." She bought them and put them away, carefully wrapped in tis-
sue paper. Had she used the necklaces it would have been quite legitimate, but she was
violating "the law of use." Her closets were filled with clothes she never wore, and jewels
which never saw the light.
The woman's arms were gradually becoming paralyzed from holding on to things, and
eventually she was considered incapable of looking after her affairs and her wealth was
handed over to others to manage.
So man, in ignorance of the law, brings about his own destruction.
All disease, all unhappiness, come from the violation of the law of love. Man's boomer-
angs of hate, resentment and criticism, come back laden with sickness and sorrow. Love
seems almost a lost art, but the man with the knowledge of spiritual law knows it must be
regained, for without it, he has "become as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals."
For example: I had a student who came to me, month after month, to clean her conscious-
ness of resentment. After a while, she arrived at the point where she resented only one
woman, but that one woman kept her busy. Little by little she became poised and harmoni-
ous, and one day, all resentment was wiped out.
She came in radiant, and exclaimed "You can't understand how I feel! The woman said
something to me and instead of being furious I was loving and kind, and she apologized
and was perfectly lovely to me. No one can understand the marvelous lightness I feel
within!"
Love and goodwill are invaluable in business.
For example: A woman came to me, complaining of her employer. She said she was cold
and critical and knew she did not want her in the position.
"Well," I replied, "Salute the Divinity in the woman and send her love."
She said "I can't; she's a marble woman."
I answered, "You remember the story of the sculptor who asked for a certain piece of mar-
ble. He was asked why he wanted it, and he replied, 'because there is an angel in the mar-
ble,' and out it he produced a wonderful work of art."
She said, "Very well, I'll try it." A week later she came back and said, "I did what you told
me to, and now the woman is very kind, and took me out in her car."
People are sometimes filled with remorse for having done someone an unkindness, per-
haps years ago.
If the wrong cannot be righted, its effect can be neutralized by doing some one a kindness
in the present.
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"This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto
those things where are before."
Sorrow, regret and remorse tear down the cells of the body, and poison the atmosphere of
the individual.
A woman said to me in deep sorrow, "Treat me to be happy and joyous, for my sorrow
makes me so irritable with the members of my family that I keep making more Karma."
I was asked to treat a woman who was mourning for her daughter. I denied all belief in
loss and separation, and affirmed that God was the woman's joy, love and peace.
The woman gained her poise at once, but sent word by her son, not to treat any longer,
because she was "so happy, it wasn't respectable."
So "mortal mind" loves to hang on to its griefs and regrets.
I knew a woman who went about bragging of her troubles, so, of course, she always had
something to brag about.
The old idea was if a woman did not worry about her children, she was not a good mother.
Now, we know that mother-fear is responsible for many of the diseases and accidents
which come into the lives of children.
For fear pictures vividly the disease or situation feared, and these pictures objectify, if not
neutralized.
Happy is the mother who can say sincerely, that she puts her child in God's hands, and
knows therefore, that he is divinely protected.
She, in this way throws about him a great aura of protection.
For example: A woman awoke suddenly, in the night, feeling her brother was in great dan-
ger. Instead of giving in to her fears, she commenced making statements of Truth, saying,
"Man is a perfect idea in Divine Mind, and is always in his right place, therefore, my
brother is in his right place, and is divinely protected."
The next day she found that her brother had been in close proximity to an explosion in a
mine, but had miraculously escaped.
So man is his brother's keeper (in thought) and every man should know that the thing he
loves dwells in "the secret place of the most high, and abides under the shadow of the Al-
mighty."
"There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling."
"Perfect love casteth out fear. He that feareth is not made perfect in love," and "Love is
the fulfilling of the Law."
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Chapter VIII - Intuition or Guidance
"In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths."
There is nothing too great of accomplishment for the man who knows the power of his
word, and who follows his intuitive leads. By the word he starts in action unseen forces
and can rebuild his body or remold his affairs.
It is, therefore, of the utmost importance, to choose the right words, and the student care-
fully selects the affirmation he wishes to catapult into the invisible.
He knows that God is his supply, that there is a supply for every demand, and that his
spoken word releases this supply.
"Ask and ye shall receive."
Man must make the first move. "Draw nigh to God and He will draw nigh to you."
I have often been asked just how to make a demonstration.
I reply: "Speak the word and then do not do anything until you get a definite lead." De-
mand the lead, saying, "Infinite spirit, reveal to me the way, let me know if there is any-
thing for me to do."
The answer will come through intuition (or hunch); a chance remark from someone, or a
passage in a book, etc., etc. The answers are sometimes quite startling in their exactness.
For example: A woman desired a large sum of money. She spoke the words: "Infinite
Spirit, open the way for my immediate supply, let all that is mine by divine right now reach
me, in great avalanches of abundance." Then she added: "Give me a definite lead, let me
know if there is anything for me to do."
The thought came quickly, "Give a certain friend" (who had helped her spiritually) "a hun-
dred dollars." She told her friend, who said, "Wait and get another lead, before giving it."
So she waited, and that day met a woman who said to her, "I gave someone a dollar today;
it was just as much for me, as it would be for you to give someone a hundred."
This was indeed an unmistakable lead, so she knew she was right in giving the hundred
dollars. It was a gift which proved a great investment, for shortly after that, a large sum of
money came to her in a remarkable way.
Giving opens the way for receiving. In order to create activity in finances, one should give.
Tithing or giving one-tenth of one's income, is an old Jewish custom, and is sure to bring
increase. Many of the richest men in this country have been tithers, and I have never
known it to fail as an investment.
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The tenth-part goes forth and returns blessed and multiplied. But the gift or tithe must be
given with love and cheerfulness, for "God loveth a cheerful giver." Bills should be paid
cheerfully; all money should be sent forth fearlessly and with a blessing.
This attitude of mind makes man master of money. It is his to obey, and his spoken word
then opens vast reservoirs of wealth.
Man, himself, limits his supply by his limited vision. Sometimes the student has a great
realization of wealth, but is afraid to act.
The vision and action must go hand in hand, as in the case of the man who bought the fur-
lined overcoat.
A woman came to me asking me to "speak the word" for a position. So I demanded: "Infi-
nite Spirit, open the way for this woman's right position." Never ask for just "a position";
ask for the right position, the place already planned in Divine Mind, as it is the only one
that will give satisfaction.
I then gave thanks that she had already received, and that it would manifest quickly. Very
soon, she had three positions offered her, two in New York and one in Palm Beach, and
she did not know which to choose. I said, "Ask for a definite lead."
The time was almost up and was still undecided, when one day, she telephoned, "When I
woke up this morning, I could smell Palm Beach." She had been there before and knew its
balmy fragrance.
I replied: "Well, if you can smell Palm Beach from here, it is certainly your lead." She ac-
cepted the position, and it proved a great success. Often one's lead comes at an unex-
pected time.
One day, I was walking down the street, when I suddenly felt a strong urge to go to a cer-
tain bakery, a block or two away.
The reasoning mind resisted, arguing, "There is nothing there that you want."
However, I had learned not to reason, so I went to the bakery, looked at everything, and
there was, certainly nothing there that I wanted, but coming out I encountered a woman I
had thought of often, and who was in great need of the help which I could give her.
So often, one goes for one thing and finds another.
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
A person often receives a lead during a "treatment." The idea that comes may seem quite
irrelevant, but some of God's leadings are "mysterious."
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In the class, one day, I was treating that each individual would receive a definite lead. A
woman came to me afterwards, and said: "While you were treating, I got the hunch to take
my furniture out of storage and get an apartment." The woman had come to be treated for
health. I told her I knew in getting a home of her own, her health would improve, and I
added, "I believe your trouble, which is a congestion, has come from having things stored
away. Congestion of things causes congestion in the body. You have violated the law of
use, and your body is paying the penalty."
So I gave thanks that "Divine order was established in her mind, body and affairs."
People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspon-
dence for every disease. A person might receive instantaneous healing through the reali-
zation of his body being a perfect idea in Divine Mind, and, therefore, whole and perfect,
but if he continues his destructive thinking, hoarding, hating, fearing, condemning, the
disease will return.
Jesus Christ knew that all sickness came from sin, but admonished the leper after the
healing, to go and sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon him.
So man's soul (or subconscious mind) must be washed whiter than snow, for permanent
healing; and the metaphysician is always delving deep for the "correspondence."
Jesus Christ said, "Condemn not lest ye also be condemned."
"Judge not, that ye be judged."
Many people have attracted disease and unhappiness through condemnation of others.
What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.
For example: A friend came to me in anger and distress, because her husband had de-
serted her for another woman. She condemned the other woman, and said continually,
"She knew he was a married man, and had no right to accept his attentions."
I replied: "Stop condemning the woman, bless her, and be through with the situation, oth-
erwise, you are attracting the same thing to yourself."
She was deaf to my words, and a year or two later, became deeply interested in a married
man, herself.
Man picks up a live-wire whenever he criticizes or condemns, and may expect a shock.
Indecision is a stumbling-block in many a pathway. In order to overcome it, make the

statement, repeatedly, "I am always under direct inspiration; I make right decisions,
quickly."
These words impress the subconscious, and soon one finds himself awake and alert,
making his right moves without hesitation. I have found it destructive to look to the psy-
chic plane for guidance, as it is the plane of many minds and not the "The One Mind."
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As man opens his mind to subjectivity, he becomes a target for destructive forces. The
psychic plane is the result of man's mortal thought, and is on the "plane of opposites." He
may receive either good or bad messages.
The science of numbers and the reading of horoscopes, keep man down on the mental (or
mortal) plane, for they deal only with the Karmic path.
I know of a man who should have been dead, years ago, according to his horoscope, but
he is alive and a leader of one of the biggest movements in this country for the uplift of
humanity.
It takes a very strong mind to neutralize a prophecy of evil. The student should declare,
"Every false prophecy shall come to naught; every plan my Father in heaven has not
planned, shall be dissolved and dissipated, the divine idea now comes to pass."
However, if any good message has ever been given one, of coming happiness, or wealth,
harbor and expect it, and it will manifest sooner or later, through the law of expectancy.
Man's will should be used to back the universal will. "I will that the will of God be done."
It is God's will to give every man, every righteous desire of his heart, and man's will
should be used to hold the perfect vision, without wavering.
The prodigal son said: "I will arise and go to my Father."
It is, indeed, often an effort of the will to leave the husks and swine of mortal thinking. It is
so much easier, for the average person, to have fear than faith; so faith is an effort of the
will.
As man becomes spiritually awakened he recognizes that any external in-harmony is the
correspondence of mental in-harmony. If he stumbles or falls, he may know he is stum-
bling or falling in consciousness.
One day, a student was walking along the street condemning someone in her thoughts.
She was saying, mentally, "That woman is the most disagreeable woman on earth," when
suddenly three boy scouts rushed around the corner and almost knocked her over. She
did not condemn the boy scouts, but immediately called on the law of forgiveness, and
"saluted the divinity" in the woman. Wisdom's way are ways of pleasantness and all her
paths are peace.
When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must be ready for surprises.
Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality, it is going right.
For example: A woman was told that there was no loss in divine mind, therefore, she
could not lose anything which belonged to her; anything lost, would be returned, or she
would receive its equivalent.
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Several years previously, she had lost two thousand dollars. She had loaned the money to
a relative during her lifetime, but the relative had died, leaving no mention of it in her will.
The woman was resentful and angry, and as she had no written statement of the transac-
tion, she never received the money, so she determined to deny the loss, and collect the
two thousand dollars from the Bank of the Universal. She had to begin by forgiving the
woman, as resentment and unforgiveness close the doors of this wonderful bank.
She made this statement, "I deny loss, there is no loss in Divine Mind, therefore, I cannot
lose the two thousand dollars, which belong to me by divine right." As one door shuts an-
other door opens.
She was living in an apartment house which was for sale; and in the lease was a clause,
stating that if the house was sold, the tenants would be required to move out within ninety
days.
Suddenly, the landlord broke the leases and raised the rent. Again, injustice was on her
pathway, but this time she was undisturbed. She blessed the landlord, and said, "As the
rent has been raised, it means that I'll be that much richer, for God is my supply."
New leases were made out for the advanced rent, but by some divine mistake, the ninety
days clause had been forgotten. Soon after, the landlord had an opportunity to sell the
house. On account of the mistake in the new leases, the tenants held possession for an-
other year.
The agent offered each tenant two hundred dollars if he would vacate. Several families
moved; three remained, including the woman. A month or two passed, and the agent again
appeared. This time he said to the woman, "Will you break your lease for the sum of fifteen
hundred dollars?" It flashed upon her, "Here comes the two thousand dollars." She re-
membered having said to friends in the house, "We will all act together if anything more is
said about leaving." So her lead was to consult her friends.
These friends said, "Well, if they have offered you fifteen hundred they will certainly give
two thousand." So she received a check for two thousand dollars for giving up the apart-
ment. It was certainly a remarkable working of the law, and the apparent injustice was
merely opening the way for her demonstration.
It proved that there is no loss, and when man takes his spiritual stand, he collects all that
is his from this great Reservoir of Good.
"I will restore to you the years the locusts have eaten."
The locusts are the doubts, fears, resentments and regrets of mortal thinking.
These adverse thoughts, alone, rob man; for "No man gives to himself but himself, and no
man takes away from himself, but himself."
Man is here to prove God and "to bear witness to the truth," and he can only prove God by
bringing plenty out of lack, and justice out of injustice.
"Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of
heaven, and pour out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it."
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Chapter IX - Perfect Self-Expression or The Divine Design
"No wind can drive my bark astray nor change the tide of destiny."
There is for each man, perfect self-expression. There is a place which he is to fill and no
one else can fill, something which he is to do, which no one else can do; it is his destiny!
This achievement is held, a perfect idea in Divine Mind, awaiting man's recognition. As the
imaging faculty is the creative faculty, it is necessary for man to see the idea, before it can
manifest.
So man's highest demand is for the Divine Design of his life.
He may not have the faintest conception of what it is, for there is, possibly, some marvel-
ous talent, hidden deep within him.
His demand should be: "Infinite Spirit, open the way for the Divine Design of my life to
manifest; let the genius within me now be released; let me see clearly the perfect plan."
The perfect plan includes health, wealth, love and perfect self-expression. This is the
square of life, which brings perfect happiness. When one has made this demand, he may
find great changes taking place in his life, for nearly every man has wandered far from the
Divine Design.
I know, in one woman's case, it was as though a cyclone had struck her affairs, but read-
justments came quickly, and new and wonderful conditions took the place of old ones.
Perfect self-expression will never be labor; but of such absorbing interest that it will seem
almost like play. The student knows, also, as man comes into the world financed by God,
the supply needed for his perfect self-expression will be at hand.
Many a genius has struggled for years with the problem of supply, when his spoken word,
and faith, would have released quickly, the necessary funds.
For example: After the class, one day, a man came to me and handed me a cent.
He said: "I have just seven cents in the world, and I'm going to give you one; for I have
faith in the power of your spoken word. I want you to speak the word for my perfect self-
expression and prosperity."
I "spoke the word," and did not see him again until a year later. He came in one day, suc-
cessful and happy, with a roll of yellow bills in his pocket. He said, "Immediately after you
spoke the word, I had a position offered me in a distant city, and am now demonstrating
health, happiness and supply."
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A woman's perfect self-expression may be in becoming a perfect wife, a perfect mother, a

perfect home-maker and not necessarily in having a public career.
Demand definite leads, and the way will be made easy and successful.
One should not visualize or force a mental picture. When he demands the Divine Design to
come into his conscious mind, he will receive flashes of inspiration, and begin to see him-
self making some great accomplishment. This is the picture, or idea, he must hold without
wavering.
The thing man seeks is seeking him -- the telephone was seeking Bell!
Parents should never force careers and professions upon their children. With a knowledge
of spiritual Truth, the Divine Plan could be spoken for, early in childhood, or prenatally.
A prenatal treatment should be: "Let the God in this child have perfect expression; let the
Divine Design of his mind, body and affairs be made manifest throughout his life, through-
out eternity."
God's will be done, not man's; God's pattern, not man's pattern, is the command we find
running through all the scriptures, and the Bible is a book dealing with the science of the
mind. It is a book telling man how to release his soul (or subconscious mind) from bond-
age.
The battles described are pictures of man waging war against mortal thoughts. "A man's
foes shall be they of his own household." Every man is Jehoshaphat, and every man is
David, who slays Goliath (mortal thinking) with the little white stone, (faith).
So man must be careful that he is not the "wicked and slothful servant" who buried his
talent. There is a terrible penalty to be paid for not using one's ability.
Often fear stands between man and his perfect self-expression. Stage-fright has hampered
many a genius. This may be overcome by the spoken-word, or treatment. The individual
then loses all self-consciousness, and feels simply that he is a channel for Infinite Intelli-
gence to express Itself through.
He is under direct inspiration, fearless, and confident; for he feels that it is the "Father
within" him who does the work.
A young boy came often to my class with his mother. He asked me to "speak the word" for
his coming examinations at school.
I told him to make the statement: "I am one with Infinite Intelligence. I know everything I
should know on this subject." He had an excellent knowledge of history, but was not sure
of his arithmetic. I saw him afterwards, and he said: "I spoke the word for my arithmetic,
and passed with the highest honors; but thought I could depend on myself for history, and
got a very poor mark." Man often receives a setback when he is "too sure of himself,"
which means he is trusting to his personality and not the "Father within."
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Another one of my students gave me an example of this. She took an extended trip abroad
one summer, visiting many countries, where she was ignorant of the languages. She was
calling for guidance and protection every minute, and her affairs went smoothly and mi-
raculously. Her luggage was never delayed nor lost! Accommodations were always ready
for her at the best hotels; and she had perfect service wherever she went. She returned to
New York. Knowing the language, she felt God was no longer necessary, so looked after
her affairs in an ordinary manner.
Everything went wrong, her trunks delayed, amid inharmony and confusion. The student
must form the habit of "practicing the Presence of God" every minute. "In all thy ways ac-
knowledge him;" nothing is too small or too great.
Sometimes an insignificant incident may be the turning point in a man's life.
Robert Fulton, watching some boiling water, simmering in a tea kettle, saw a steamboat!
I have seen a student, often, keep back his demonstration, through resistance, or pointing
the way.
He pins his faith to one channel only, and dictates just the way he desires the manifesta-
tion to come, which brings things to a standstill.
"My way, not your way!" is the command of Infinite Intelligence. Like all Power, be it steam
or electricity, it must have a nonresistant engine or instrument to work through, and man
is that engine or instrument.
Over and over again, man is told to "stand still." "Oh Judah, fear not; but tomorrow go out
against them, for the Lord will be with you. You shall not need to fight this battle; set your-
selves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you."
We see this in the incident of the two thousand dollars coming to the woman through the
landlord when she became nonresistant and undisturbed, and the woman won the man's
love "after all suffering had ceased."
The student's goal is Poise! Poise is Power, for it gives God-Power a chance to rush
through man, to "will and to do Its good pleasure."
Poised, he thinks clearly, and makes "right decisions quickly." "He never misses a trick."
Anger blurs the visions, poisons the blood, is the root of many diseases, and causes
wrong decision leading to failure.
It has been named one of the worst "sins," as its reaction is so harmful. The student
learns that in metaphysics sin has a much broader meaning than in the old teaching.
"Whatsoever is not of faith is sin."
He finds that fear and worry are deadly sins. They are inverted faith, and through distorted
mental pictures, bring to pass the thing he fears. His work is to drive out these enemies
(from the subconscious mind). "When Man is fearless he is finished!" Maeterlinck says,
that "Man is God afraid."
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So, as we read in the previous chapters: man can only vanquish fear by walking up to the
thing he is afraid of. When Jehoshaphat and his army prepared to meet the enemy, sing-
ing "Praise the Lord, for his mercy endureth forever," they found their enemies had de-
stroyed each other, and there was nothing to fight.
For example: A woman asked a friend to deliver a message to another friend. The woman
feared to give the message, as the reasoning mind said, "Don't get mixed-up in this affair,
don't give that message."
She was troubled in spirit, for she had given her promise. At last, she determined to "walk
up to the lion," and call on the law of divine protection. She met the friend to whom she
was to deliver the message. She opened her mouth to speak it, when her friend said, "So-
and-So has left town." This made it unnecessary to give the message, as the situation de-
pended upon the person being in town. As she was willing to do it, she was not obliged to;
as she did not fear, the situation vanished.
The student often delays his demonstration through a belief in incompletion. He should
make this statement:
"In Divine Mind there is only completion, therefore, my demonstration is completed. My

perfect work, my perfect home, my perfect health." Whatever he demands are perfect
ideas registered in Divine Mind, and must manifest, "under grace in a perfect way." He
gives thanks he has already received on the invisible, and makes active preparation for
receiving on the visible.
One of my students was in need of a financial demonstration; she came to me and asked
why it was not completed.
I replied: "Perhaps, you are in the habit of leaving things unfinished, and the subcon-
scious has gotten into the habit of not completing (as the without, so the within)."
She said, "You are right. I often begin things and never finish them. I'll go home and finish
something I commenced weeks ago, and I know it will be symbolic of my demonstration."
So she sewed assiduously, and the article was soon completed. Shortly after, the money
came in a most curious manner.
Her husband was paid his salary twice that month. He told the people of their mistake, and
they sent word to keep it.
When man ask, believing, he must receive, for God creates His own channels!
I have been sometimes asked, "Suppose one has several talents, how is he to know which
one to choose?" Demand to be shown definitely. Say: "Infinite Spirit, give me a definite
lead, reveal to me my perfect self-expression, show me which talent I am to make use of
now."
I have known people to suddenly enter a new line of work, and be fully equipped, with little
or no training. So make the statement: "I am fully equipped for the Divine Plan of my life,"
and be fearless in grasping opportunities.
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Some people are cheerful givers, but bad receivers. They refuse gifts through pride, or
some negative reason, thereby blocking their channels, and invariably find themselves
eventually with little or nothing. For example: A woman who had given away a great deal
of money, had a gift offered her of several thousand dollars. She refused to take it, saying
she did not need it. Shortly after that, her finances were "tied up," and she found herself in
debt for that amount. Man should receive gracefully the bread returning to him upon the
water -- freely ye have given, freely ye shall receive.
There is always the perfect balance of giving and receiving, and though man should give
without thinking of returns, he violates law if he does not accept the returns which come
to him; for all gifts are from God, man being merely the channel.
A thought of lack should never be held over the giver.
For example: When the man gave me the one cent, I did not say: "Poor man, he cannot af-
ford to give me that." I saw him rich and prosperous, with his supply pouring in. It was this
thought which brought it. If one has been a bad receiver, he must become a good one, and
take even a postage stamp if it is given him, and open up his channels for receiving.
The Lord loveth a cheerful receiver, as well as a cheerful giver.
I have often been asked why one man is born rich and healthy, and another poor and sick.
Where there is an effect there is always a cause; there is no such thing as chance.
This question is answered through the law of reincarnation. Man goes through many
births and deaths, until he knows the truth which sets him free.
He is drawn back to the earth plane through unsatisfied desire, to pay his Karmic debts, or
to "fulfill his destiny."
The man born rich and healthy has had pictures in his subconscious mind, in his past life,
of health and riches; and the poor and sick man, of disease and poverty. Man manifests,
on any plane, the sum total of his subconscious beliefs.
However, birth and death are man-made laws, for the "wages of sin is death," the Adamic
fall in consciousness through the belief in two powers. The real man, spiritual man, is
birthless and deathless! He never was born and has never died -- "As he was in the begin-
ning, he is now, and ever shall be!"
So through the truth, man is set free from the law of Karma, sin and death, and manifests
the man made in "His image and likeness." Man's freedom comes through fulfilling his
destiny, bringing into manifestation the Divine Design of his life.
His lord will say unto him: "Well done thou good and faithful servant, thou hast been faith-
ful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things (death itself), enter thou into
in the joy of thy Lord (eternal life)."
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Chapter X - Denials and Affirmations
"Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee."
All the good that is to be made manifest in man's life is already an accomplished fact in
divine mind, and is released through man's recognition, or spoken word, so he must be
careful to decree that only the Divine Idea be made manifest, for often, he decrees,
through his "idle words," failure or misfortune.
It is, therefore, of the utmost importance, to word one's demands correctly, as stated in a
previous chapter.
If one desires a home, friend, position or any other good thing, make the demand for the
"divine selection."
For example: "Infinite Spirit, open the way for my right home, my right friend, my right po-
sition. I give thanks it now manifests under grace in a perfect way."
The latter part of the statement is most important. For example: I knew a woman who de-
manded a thousand dollars. Her daughter was injured and they received a thousand dol-
lars indemnity, so it did not come in a "perfect way." The demand should have been
worded in this way: "Infinite Spirit, I give thanks that the one thousand dollars, which is
mine by divine right, is now released, and reaches me under grace, in a perfect way."
As one grows in a financial consciousness, he should demand that the enormous sums of
money, which are his by divine right, reach him under grace, in perfect ways.
It is impossible for man to release more than he thinks is possible, for one is bound by the
limited expectancies of the subconscious. He must enlarge his expectancies in order to
receive in a larger way.
Man so often limits himself in his demands. For example: A student made the demand for
six hundred dollars, by a certain date. He did receive it, but heard afterwards, that he came
very near receiving a thousand dollars, but he was given just six hundred, as the result of
his spoken word.
"They limited the Holy One of Israel." Wealth is a matter of consciousness. The French
have a legend giving an example of this. A poor man was walking along a road when he
met a traveler, who stopped him and said: "My good friend, I see you are poor; take this
gold nugget, sell it, and you will be rich all your days."
The man was overjoyed at his good fortune, and took the nugget home. He immediately
found work and became so prosperous that he did not sell the nugget. Years passed, and
he became a very rich man. One day he met a poor man on the road. He stopped him and
said: "My good friend, I will give you this gold nugget, which, if you sell, will make you rich
for life." The mendicant took the nugget, had it valued, and found it was only brass. So we
see, the first man became rich through feeling rich, thinking the nugget was gold.
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Every man has within himself a gold nugget; it is his consciousness of gold, of opulence,
which brings riches into his life. In making his demands, man begins at his journey's end,
that is, he declares he has already received. "Before ye call I shall answer."
Continually affirming, establishes the belief in the subconscious.
It would not be necessary to make an affirmation more than once if one had perfect faith!
One should not plead or supplicate, but give thanks, repeatedly that he has received.
"The desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose." This rejoicing while yet in the desert
(state of consciousness) opens the way for release. The Lord's Prayer is in the form of
command and demand. "Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we
forgive our debtors," and ends in praise, "For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the
Glory, forever. Amen." "Concerning the works of my hands, command ye me." So prayer
is command and demand, praise and thanksgiving. The student’s work is in making him-
self believe that "with God all things are possible."
This is easy enough to state in the abstract, but a little more difficult when confronted with
a problem. For example: It was necessary for a woman to demonstrate a large sum of
money within a stated time. She knew she must do something to get a realization (for re-
alization is manifestation), and demanded a "lead."
She was walking through a department store, when she saw a very beautiful pink enamel
paper cutter. She felt the "pull" towards it. The thought came. "I haven't a paper cutter
good enough to open letters containing large cheques."
So she bought the paper-cutter, which the reasoning mind would have called an extrava-
gance. When she held it in her hand, she had a flash of a picture of herself opening an en-
velope containing a large cheque, and in a few weeks, she received the money. The pink
paper cutter was her bridge of active faith.
Many stories are told of the power of the subconscious when directed in faith.
For example: A man was spending the night in a farmhouse. The windows of the room had
been nailed down, and in the middle of the night he felt suffocated and made his way in
the dark to the window. He could not open it, so he smashed the pane with his fist, drew in
draughts of fine fresh air, and had a wonderful night's sleep.
The next morning, he found he had smashed the glass of a book-case and the window had
remained closed during the whole night. He had supplied himself with oxygen, simply by
his thought of oxygen.
When a student starts out to demonstrate, he should never turn back. "Let not that man
who wavers think that he shall receive anything of the Lord."
A colored student once made this wonderful statement, "When I asks the Father for any-
thing, I puts my foot down, and I says: Father, I'll take nothing less than I've asked for, but
more!" So man should never compromise: "Having done all -- Stand." This is sometimes
the most difficult time of demonstrating. The temptation comes to give up, to turn back, to
compromise.
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"He also serves who only stands and waits."
Demonstrations often come at the eleventh hour, because man then lets go, that is, stops
reasoning, and Infinite Intelligence has a chance to work.
"Man's dreary desires are answered drearily, and his impatient desires, long delayed or
violently fulfilled."
For example: A woman asked me why it was she was constantly losing or breaking her
glasses.
We found she often said to herself and others, with vexation, "I wish I could get rid of my
glasses." So her impatient desire was violently fulfilled. What she should have demanded
was perfect eyesight, but what she registered in the subconscious was simply the impa-
tient desire to be rid of her glasses; so they were continually being broken or lost.
Two attitudes of mind cause loss: depreciation, as in the case of the woman who did not
appreciate her husband, or fear of loss, which makes a picture of loss in the subcon-
scious.
When a student is able to let go of his problem (cast his burden) he will have instantane-
ous manifestation.
For example: A woman was out during a very stormy day and her umbrella was blown in-
side-out. She was about to make a call on some people whom she had never met and she
did not wish to make her first appearance with a dilapidated umbrella. She could not throw
it away, as it did not belong to her. So in desperation, she exclaimed: "Oh God, you take
charge of this umbrella, I don't know what to do."
A moment later, a voice behind her said: "Lady, do you want your umbrella mended?"
There stood an umbrella mender.
She replied, "Indeed, I do."
The man mended the umbrella, while she went into the house to pay her call, and when
she returned, she had a good umbrella. So there is always an umbrella mender at hand, on
man's pathway, when one puts the umbrella (or situation) in God's Hands.
One should always follow a denial with an affirmation.
For example: I was called on the 'phone, late one night, to treat a man whom I had never
seen. He was apparently very ill. I made the statement: "I deny this appearance of disease.
It is unreal, therefore cannot register in his consciousness; this man is a perfect idea in
Divine Mind, pure substance expressing perfection."
The next morning he was much better, and the following day our attending to his busi-
ness.
There is no time or space, in Divine Mind, therefore the word reaches instantly its destina-
tion and does not "return void." I have treated patients in Europe and have found that the
result was instantaneous.
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I am asked so often the difference between visualizing and visioning. Visualizing is a men-
tal process governed by the reasoning or conscious mind; visioning is a spiritual process,
governed by intuition, or the superconscious mind. The student should train his mind to
receive these flashes of inspiration, and work out the "divine pictures," through definite
leads. When a man can say, "I desire only that which God desires for me," his false de-
sires fade from the consciousness, and a new set of blueprints are given him, by the Mas-
ter Architect, the God within. God's plan for each man transcends the limitation of the
reasoning mind, and is always the square of life, containing health, wealth, love and per-
fect self-expression. Many a man is building for himself, in imagination, a bungalow, when
he should be building a palace.
If a student tries to force a demonstration (through the reasoning mind), he brings it to a

standstill. "I will hasten it, saith the Lord." He should act only through intuition, or definite
leads. "Rest in the Lord and wait patiently. Trust also in him, and he will bring it to pass."
I have seen the law work in the most astonishing manner. For example: A student stated
that it was necessary for her to have a hundred dollars by the following day. It was a debt
of vital importance which had to be met. I "spoke the word," declaring, Spirit was "never
too late," and that the supply was at hand.
That evening she ‘phoned me of the miracle. She said that the thought came to her to go
to her safety-deposit box at the bank to examine some papers. She looked over the pa-
pers, and at the bottom of the box, was a new one hundred dollar-bill. She was astounded,
and said she knew she had never put it there, for she had gone through the papers many
times. It may have been a materialization, as Jesus Christ materialized the loaves and
fishes. Man will reach the stage where his "word is made flesh," or materialized, instantly.
"The fields, ripe with the harvest," will manifest immediately, as in all of the miracles of
Jesus Christ.
There is a tremendous power alone in the name Jesus Christ. It stands for Truth Made
Manifest. He said, "Whatsoever ye ask the Father, in my name, he will give it to you."
The power of this name raises the student into the fourth dimension, where he is freed
from all astral and psychic influences, and he becomes "unconditioned and absolute, as
God Himself is unconditioned and absolute."
I have seen many healings accomplished by using the words, "In the name of Jesus
Christ."
Christ was both person and principle; and the Christ within each man is his Redeemer and
Salvation.
The Christ within, is his own fourth dimensional self, the man made in God's image and
likeness. This is the self which has never failed, never known sickness or sorrow, was
never born and has never died. It is the "resurrection and the life" of each man! "No man
cometh to the Father save by the Son," means, that God, the Universal, working on the
plane of the particular, becomes the Christ in man; and the Holy Ghost, means God-in-ac-
tion. So daily, man is manifesting the Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
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Man should make an art of thinking. The Master Thinker is an artist, and is careful to paint
only the divine designs upon the canvas of his mind; and he paints these pictures with
masterly strokes of power and decision, having perfect faith that there is no power to mar
their perfection, and that they shall manifest in his life, the ideal made real.
All power is given man (through right thinking) to bring his heaven upon his earth, and
this is the goal of the "Game of Life."
The simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance and love!
May each reader be now freed from that thing which has held him in bondage through the
ages, standing between him and his own, and "know the Truth which makes him free" --
free to fulfill his destiny, to bring into manifestation the "Divine Design of his life, Health,
Wealth, Love and Perfect Self-Expression." "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your
mind."
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Denials and Affirmations:
(For Prosperity)
God is my unfailing supply, and large sums of money come to me quickly, under grace, in
perfect way.
(For Right Conditions)

Every plan my Father in heaven has not planned, shall be dissolved and dissipated, and
the Divine Idea now comes to pass.

Only that which is true of God is true of me, for I and the Father are ONE.
(For Faith)
As I am one with God, I am one with my good, for God is both the Giver and the Gift. I can-
not separate the Giver from the gift.

Divine Love now dissolves and dissipates every wrong condition in my mind, body and
affairs. Divine Love is the most powerful chemical in the universe, and dissolves every-
thing which is not of itself!
(For Health)
Divine Love floods my consciousness with health, and every cell in my body is filled with
light.
(For the Eyesight)

My eyes are God's eyes, I see with the eyes of spirit. I see clearly the open way; there are
no obstacles on my pathway. I see clearly the perfect plan.
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(For Guidance)
I am divinely sensitive to my intuitive leads, and give instant obedience to Thy will.
(For the Hearing)

My ears are God's ears, I hear with the ears of spirit. I am nonresistant and am willing to
be led. I hear glad tidings of great joy.
(For Right Work)

I have a perfect work
In a perfect way;
I give perfect service
For perfect pay.
(For Freedom from all Bondage)

I cast this burden on the Christ within, and I go free!
By Emmet Fox (1886-1951) Influential Spiritual Author & Lecturer:
Florence Scovel Shinn taught metaphysics in New York for many years. Her meetings
were well attended and in that way she was the means of bringing the message to a con-
siderable number of people. Her books have had a wide circulation not only in America
but abroad. They seem to have a knack of finding their way to remote and unexpected
places in Europe and other parts of the world. Now and again we meet someone who
came into Truth through finding a Florence Shinn book in the most improbable location.
One secret of her success was that she was always herself ... colloquial, informal, friendly,
and humorous. She never sought to be literary, conventional, or impressive. For this rea-
son she appealed to thousands who would not have taken the spiritual message through
the more conservative and dignified forms, or have been willing to read -- at least in the
beginning -- the standard metaphysical books. She herself was very spiritual, although
this was usually hidden behind a matter of fact and carefree treatment of her subject.
The technical or academic approach was not for her. She taught by familiar, practical,
and everyday examples .
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CHAPTER I The Game

CHAPTER II The Law of Prosperity

CHAPTER III The Power of the Word

CHAPTER IV The Law of Nonresistance

CHAPTER V The Law of Karma and the Law of Forgiveness

CHAPTER VI Casting the Burden (Impressing the Subconscious)

CHAPTER VII Love

CHAPTER VIII Intuition or Guidance

CHAPTER IX Perfect Self-Expression or the Divine Design

CHAPTER X Denials and Affirmations

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She remarked, "It was quite uncanny."

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Resistance is Hell, for it places man in a "state of torment."

One's ships come in over a calm sea.

So we see man's work is ever with himself.

I questioned: "What cured you?"

One is often cured of his faults by seeing them in others.

Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves reflected in our associates.

Living in the past is a failure method and a violation of spiritual law.

Man must live suspended in the moment.

Make an affirmation immediately upon waking.

For example: The following has brought success to many:

It is man's divine right to have plenty! More than enough!

The Game of Life and How to Play It

Man receives only that which he gives.

"Nothing ever happens without an onlooker" is an ancient saying.

"Stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord" (law).

If he desires riches, he must be rich first in consciousness.

The Game of Life and How to Play It

In my own case, I found the easiest way is in "casting the burden."

We read, "The Christ in you the hope of glory."

In order to impress the subconscious, active faith is always essential.

Invariably, before a demonstration, come "signs of land."

Continually "making-believe," impresses the subconscious. If one makes believe he is