Speaker 1: Idealization. You are a thinking center in original substance, and
the thoughts of original substance have creative power. Whatever is
formed in its thought and held as a thought form
must come into existence as a visible and so called
material form. And a thought form held in thinking substance
is a reality. It is a real thing, whether it
has yet become visible to mortal lize or not. This
is a fact that you should impress upon your understanding,
that a thought held in thinking substance is a real thing,
a form, and has actual existence, although it is not
visible to you. You internally take the form in which
you think of yourself, and you surround yourself with the
invisible forms of those things with which you associate in
your thoughts. If you desire a thing, picture it clearly,
and hold the picture steadily in mind until it becomes
a definite thought form. And if your practices are not
such as to separate you from God, the thing you
want will come to you in material form. It must
do so in obedience to the law by which the
universe was created. Make no thought form of yourself in
connection with disease or sickness, but form a conception of health.
Make a thought form of yourself as strong and hearty
and perfectly well. Impress this thought form on creative intelligence,
and if your practices are not in violation of the
laws by which the physical body is built, your thought
form will become manifest in your flesh. This also is certain.
It comes by obedience to law. Make a thought form
of yourself as your desire to be, and set your
ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable
of forming the conception. Let me illustrate if a young
law student wishes to become great. Let him picture himself,
while attending to the viewpoint consecration and identification, as previously directed,
as a great lawyer, pleading his case with mtchless eloquence
and power before the judge and jury, as having an
unlimited command of truth, of knowledge, and of wisdom. Lets
him picture himself as the great lawyer in every possible
situation and contingency, while he is still only the student
in all circumstances. Let him never forget or fail to
be the great lawyer in his thought form of himself.
As the thought form grows more definite and habitual in
his mind, the creative energies both within and without are
set at work. He begins to manifest the form from within,
and all the essentials without which go into the picture
begin to be impelled toward him. He makes himself into
the image, and God works with him. Nothing can prevent
him from becoming what he wishes to be. In the
same general way, the musical student pictures himself as performing
perfect harmonies, and as the lighting vast audiences. The actor
forms the highest conception he is capable of in regard
to his art, and applies this casception to himself. The
farmer and the mechanic do exactly the same thing. Fix
upon your ideal of what you wish to make of yourself,
Consider well, and be sure that you make the right choice,
that is the one that will be the most satisfactory
to you. In a general way, do not pay too
much attention to the advice and suggestions of those around you.
Do not believe that any one can know better than
yourself what is right for you. Listen to what others
have to say, but always form your own conclusions. Do
not let other people decide what you are to be.
Be what you feel that you want to be. Do
not be misled by a false notion of obligation or duty.
You can owe no possible obligation or duty to others
that should prevent you from making the most of yourself.
Be true to yourself, and you cannot then be false
to any man. When you have fully decided what thing
you want to be, form the highest conception of that
thing that you are capable of imagining, and make that
conception a thought form. Hold that thought form as a fact,
as the real truth about yourself, and believe in it.
Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if
people call you a fool or a dreamer. Dream on.
Remember that Bonaparte, the half starred lieutenant, always saw himself
as the general of armies and the master of France,
and he became in out or realization what he held
himself to be in mind. So likewise will you attend
carefully to all that has been said in the preceding chapters,
and act as directed in the following ones, and you
will become what you want to be,