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Mastery of Self for Wealth Power Success
by Frank Channing Haddock, M. S., Ph. D.
PART 21
POWER FOR SUCCESS
WHAT THIS BOOK TEACHES
This book brings to a close that portion of MASTERY OF SELF, which
deals with the art of Success-Magnetism.
Acquiring magnetism is a constructive effort. It is a building
process. You are rearing a structure. You rise, from the
foundation, through successive stories to the culminating peak.
The most pleasing, notable structures men build from granite and
steel and wood, tower like a Woolworth Building or a Rheims
Cathedral--higher and higher, until they finally reach a gold-
tipped crown or spire, high in the sunlit sky.
And so, in rearing your invisible shrine of personal Success-
magnetism, we now come to the topmost peak of the structure. This
book gives you the crowning inspirations, tipped and topped with
the final "Golden Laws of Magnetism in all Applied Life."
Master these lessons in the magnetism of success, and you will go
forth upon the highways and by-ways of life, endowed with a kingly
confidence in your ability to win a measure of success achieved by
few.
But remember--(should discouragement seek to dog your steps)--
every great structure requires the process of time. "The giant
trees of California were once puny saplings. The slow lapse of
time has drawn nature into their mighty hearts." Just as surely as
the absorption of natural forces built the giant redwoods, just as
surely can you draw upon nature for GIANT POWERS.
The Fire.
In ancient myth, Prometheus
Filched fire from the altars of the gods
To warm the world,
Incurring Jove's dread wrath
And endless torment.
Lo, mind,--inflamed by the vision:
Of victim and the torturing bird,
Of black vindictiveness and suffering Will,
Rived forever, yet for aye supreme,--
Heroizes the deed and soul
And wreaks on canvas and in drama high
Its passionate admiration.
Now, too, in palace and hut confronted,
In battleship and iron steed defying space,
In flaring furnace of the smelted ore,
In haunts of coal and steam below the whirling wheels,
Life laughs and sings and thunders
An oratorio merging all the powers of harmony,
And hails the high-born Thief,
As giver of ethereal fire.
The atomic thrill waits also the clear call
To lift dull bodies till the joy of flesh
Becomes a common luxury;--
To vibrate rhythmically swift
Through all the responsive cells of thought
Till a man might solemnly hold
All things are possible on the bursting earth;--
To energize the mystic self
With consciousness of life deific
Till the whole world, jubilant, should flame
With its glory, actual, concrete, the one sure Truth
Of a rock-girt globe, or a sun-filled space.
--THE AUTHOR.
THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LESSON--The Four Pyramids.
This equation's writ
In every scene:
The end shall fit--
As extremes to mean--
Whatever's forerunner to it.
--THE AUTHOR.
PRINCIPLE--The best use of self demands that it be understood.
Our ideal specimen of human nature is the whole man at his best.
The etheric life demands (a) the vibrations native to the body in
health--(Physical Magnetism)--(b) the vibrations induced by the
active mind, (c) the vibrations intensified by controlled
emotional states, (d) the regulative vibrations of psychic
righteousness or honor--(Psychic Magnetism). In this scheme
nothing is inferior, but all elements are appointed to be
subordinate to the last. These vibrations should run through the
whole etheric activity a binding thread of force.
We are now to study the four pyramids of the etheric life. The
purpose is four-fold. If you will put yourself into this lesson as
you have, presumably, put yourself into the preceding twenty-six
lessons, you will discover--
Firstly--Magnetic CONCENTRATION;
Secondly--The RELATION of the DIVISIONS of self to the WHOLE self;
Thirdly--A better UNDERSTANDING of your personality;
Fourthly--The supreme importance of PSYCHIC RIGHTEOUSNESS.
It is altogether probable that the majority of people live almost
wholly in the physical pyramids of existence.
Properly speaking, the illustration on page 422 is a single
pyramid rather than four pyramids. It is composed of four
triangular walls, each of which is called a pyramid for
convenience and represents a certain phase of your nature. The
great pyramidal I AM is complete only as all sides of your
selfhood are fully built up. You are LOOKING DOWN from the "I AM."
A CURIOUS ILLUSTRATION.
A point has neither length, breadth, nor thickness. Move it in
thought any distance in one direction, and you have the line. Move
the line FROM its direction any distance, you have the surface.
Move the surface OUT of its plane any distance, you have the
solid. Thus you have obtained length, breadth, thickness, line,
surface, solid, motion, space, time, number, structure, body, and,
in the attention, mind,--and scores of other factors (study out a
long list),--by means of that which has no length, no breadth, no
thickness.
The real YOU is that point. YOU move and describe a line of life.
This line, repeated, becomes habit, which moved through time,
makes conduct, and right conduct, projected through life, yields
magnetism.
If you live only on surface I, you are mere animal. If you
project, that surface through to III, you are a fine moral person.
If you project surface II through to surface IV, you are magnetic.
If you combine these solids, YOU are the Ideal Pyramid, "_I_ AM
POWER."
Let us add the following:
"Culture is not measured by the greatness of the field which is
covered by our knowledge, but by the nicety with which we can
perceive relations in that field, whether great or small."
This book desires that you become acquainted with the unused
portions of your nature.
In order to this, you are now invited to make a long regime of
mining out the magnetic significance of--
THE FOUR PYRAMIDS.
I
Harmony--
Exercise--Recreation
--Air--Sleep--Water
--Food--Regularity--Digestion
--Cleanliness--Economy--
Scientific Body-Building and Using.
I. Pyramid of Physical Health
II
Will--Muscular
Development
--Nervous Condition
--Inner Energy--
Responsiveness--Self Control--Staying
Power--Health--Body-Tone--
Personal Qualities--Physical Characteristics.
II. Pyramid of Physical Magnetism.
III
Peace--Will
--Righteousness--
Love--Knowledge
Faith--Hope--Courage--
Body-Health--Right Heredity--
Right Environment--Right Training.
III. Pyramid of Moral Health.
IV
Will--Alertness
--Fidelity--
Hope--Courage--
Confidence--Honor--Thought--
Faith in System--Physical
Basis: Health--Body-Magnetism.
IV. Pyramid of Personal Magnetism.
You are now invited to write out all the possible TRUE
combinations of these four pyramids, and particularly to observe
the following
RIGHT PYRAMIDAL COMBINATIONS.
We see that--
1. Physical Health makes for Physical Magnetism;
2. Physical Magnetism bases Psychic Magnetism;
3. Physical Health neighbors Moral Health;
4. Moral Health conduces to Physical Magnetism;
5. Moral Health is indispensable to Psychic Magnetism;
6. Psychic health bases Physical Magnetism.
We also observe that--
7. Physical Magnetism assists Physical Health;
8. Psychic Magnetism assists Physical Health;
9. Moral Health assists Physical Health.
It now appears that--
10. Physical Magnetism is indifferent to TRUE Moral Health;
11. Psychic Magnetism assists Moral Health;
12. Psychic Magnetism assists Physical Magnetism.
We therefore conclude that the following are
INCOMPLETE PYRAMIDAL COMBINATIONS.
1. Physical Health--[Physical Magnetism + Psychic Magnetism +
Moral Health].
2. Physical Health + Physical Magnetism--[Psychic Magnetism +
Moral Health].
3. Physical Health + Physical Magnetism + Psychic Magnetism--
[Moral Health].
4. Physical Magnetism--[Psychic Magnetism + Moral Health].
5. Physical Magnetism + Psychic Magnetism--[Moral Health].
Impossible.
6. Psychic Magnetism--[Physical Health + Physical Magnetism].
7. Psychic Magnetism + Physical Health--[Physical Magnetism +
Moral Health]. Impossible in part.
8. Moral Health--[Physical Health + Physical Magnetism].
9. Moral Health + Physical Health--[Physical Magnetism + Psychic
Magnetism]. Impossible in part.
You may thus possess physical health without physical magnetism.
But if you seek physical magnetism, you must go by the way of
physical health.
You may possess moral health without full psychic magnetism, but
if you seek the highest form of psychic magnetism, you must go by
the way of moral health.
It is now evident that the following are
IDEAL COMBINATIONS.
FIRST--FROM THE STANDPOINT OF MORALS.
1. First:--Moral Health. Next:
2. Moral Health + Psychic Magnetism + Physical Magnetism +
Physical Health. Next:
3. Moral Health + Psychic Magnetism + Physical Magnetism. Next:
4. Moral Health + Psychic Magnetism + Physical Health. Next:
5. Moral Health + Psychic Magnetism. Next:
6. Moral Health + Physical Magnetism. Next:
7. Moral Health + Physical Health. Next:
8. Psychic Magnetism. Impossible alone.
9. Physical Magnetism. Impossible alone.
10. Physical Health. Mere animal life.
SECOND--FROM THE STANDPOINT OF MAGNETISM.
1. First:--Psychic Magnetism. Next:
2. Psychic Magnetism + Moral Health + Physical Magnetism +
Physical Health. Next:
3. Psychic Magnetism + Moral Health + Physical Magnetism. Next:
4. Psychic Magnetism + Moral Health + Physical Health. Next:
5. Psychic Magnetism + Moral Health. Next:
6. Psychic Magnetism + Physical Magnetism. Next:
7. Psychic Magnetism + Physical Health. Next:
8. Moral Health. Next:
9. Physical Magnetism. Impossible alone. Next:
10. Physical Health. Valueless alone.
CONCLUSIONS.
Summarizing possible conclusions, we have the following:
1. Physical health is indispensable to physical magnetism;
2. Psychic righteousness (health) is indispensable to psychic
magnetism;
3. Psychic magnetism is indispensable to best physical magnetism;
4. Physical magnetism is not wholly indispensable to psychic
magnetism.
5. PERFECT PSYCHIC MAGNETISM INVOLVES HEALTH, PHYSICAL MAGNETISM
AND PSYCHIC RIGHTEOUSNESS.
The ALL-IMPORTANT departments of your personality are those of
PSYCHIC RIGHTEOUSNESS and PSYCHIC MAGNETISM.
But the IDEAL MAN of success is the WHOLE MAN always AT HIS BEST.
The whole man is more than psychic development; he is a PRODUCT
AND A CREATOR OF PRACTICAL AFFAIRS.
MAGNETISM A GROWTH.
Let us understand. You cannot reasonably hope to succeed by merely
DREAMING about success.
You surely cannot achieve success if you PLUNGE BLINDLY through
your career.
You cannot really succeed without possessing some degree of
PERSONAL MAGNETISM.
When you began the present study, you certainly possessed a
measure of magnetic capacity, either physical or psychic,
otherwise you would not have purchased this book. If you have
energetically observed its directions, you have developed both
varieties; but, above that, you have also combined them into one
living whole, the magnetic personality.
This result has required at least a year of persistent effort. If
you have arrived at this point in less time, you should go back
and begin where haste first retarded your progress.
MAGNETISM IS A NATURAL GROWTH.
No matter how great may be your ability to read and understand
books, that growth, that law, require time as well as intelligent
effort. No matter how poor may be your ability in such respect,
that growth is absolutely certain if you put reasonable time and
genuine effort into its acquisition.
The giant trees of California were once puny saplings. The slow
lapse of time has drawn nature into their mighty hearts. Magnetism
can no more be acquired by the mere reading of a book, or by
hurried practice of its directions, than can these giants of the
West be produced in the hot-house culture of a northern summer.
MAGNETIC GROWTH IS NATURALLY SLOW. Its principles, its methods,
and the results of its study, have to be deeply sunk into and
absorbed and assimilated by the subjective self before the
reaction of magnetism in the objective life can obtain. This book
has promised no miracle. If you have read it correctly, you have
learned that magnetic growth cannot be hurried. These statements
are placed here because, had they appeared at the beginning of our
work, the outlook would have seemed, perhaps, discouraging, but
more especially because they would not have been understood. You
now understand them because you have toiled, and you can afford to
smile at such possible discouragement. You have paid an easy price
for magnetic power, for the gains discount the pains.
MAGNETISM AND PRACTICAL LIFE.
The faithful observance of the suggestions of this volume has
developed many surprises during the time occupied. It is possible
that the lessons have unduly cultivated your subjective life. In a
work of this kind, such a danger is unavoidable. The growth of
magnetism involves intense and continuous concentration of thought
upon the psychic field, and it is very likely that you may find it
necessary to guard against that danger. The method of so guarding
is briefly indicated below.
The sole value of magnetism consists in its practical application
to everyday affairs. Success-Magnetism is not an accomplishment
merely; it is a practical power. When rightly developed and used,
it controls the subjective self in the concrete work of the
objective. The definition of the goal you have been seeking now
appears:
SUCCESS-MAGNETISM IS PERSONAL MAGNETISM INTELLIGENTLY MULTIPLIED
INTO ACTUAL LIFE.
The first duty of man is practical sanity.
AVOID MERE OCCULTISM.
It is possible that you have now discovered in yourself certain
occult talents, such as telepathy, hypnotism, mediumship,
clairaudience, clairvoyance, psychometry, psychic healing, and the
like.
It would be evidence of ignorance to call in question these
"faculties" of the human ego. The author's personal experience
forbids. Nevertheless, it is now freely stated:
NO SO-CALLED OCCULT SCIENCE FORMS ANY INTEGRAL PART OF PERSONAL
MAGNETISM.
Hypnotism and magnetism are widely separated.
Psychic healing occupies another field.
Clairaudience and clairvoyance are not utilizable by magnetism.
Telepathy and psychometry are related to its etheric explanation
alone.
Mediumship is totally independent of it.
In other words, personal magnetism in operation requires NONE of
these talents, except, perhaps, telepathy and genuine palmistry--
the study of hands as indicative physiologically (not occultly) of
present character (not past or future events).
It is a noble characteristic of personal magnetism that, while
issuing in and from the subconscious self, its real instruments
are the everyday body, the everyday mind, the everyday self, as
its real field is the everyday, objective world, big with
opportunity, adequate to the splendid development of any human
being.
YOU ARE NOW URGED TO PERMIT NO OCCULT STUDY OR TALENT TO INTERRUPT
OR BEFOG YOUR PRACTICAL LIFE. All things are his who steadfastly
remembers that "life is real, life is earnest." Magnetism is
sanity at work. It is unalterably opposed to runaway fads,
chimerical visions, unstrung nerves, mental aberration, psychic
gourmandism. Magnetism is practical cooperation with level-headed
people who are bent on making the best of self and the world
through created opportunity.
For these reasons, you cannot study magnetism too deeply nor
practise it too faithfully. Its legitimate culture will harm none,
will benefit all.
To him who possesses any occult power and uses it nobly, this book
extends congratulations.
How May Contentment Dull My Zeal
If one small fact my mind could know
Of matter or of spirit,--
Within, without, above, below,
And never neighbor near it,--
This tiny thing a Universe would be,
Clear as Arabian caves to Sesame.
Then should I scan the littlest laws
Their mightier kin unfolding,
Detect the essence of all Cause
And see the Cosmos molding;
Then should I run, a new-born god, the race
Begun with thought, complete in planet-space.
How might one stay the perfect quest
In surfeit of succeeding?
This were a weak and venal rest--
Vast yonder-wealth unheeding.
This were to make of Knowing that high goal
Which truth declares is Culturing a Soul.
How may contentment dull my zeal,
With range on range uprising,
While growing power to know and feel
Adds to the soul's sure prizing?
Let me, one god, like Him, the Infinite All,
In each achievement hear the Higher Call.
--THE AUTHOR
THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LESSON--Higher Magnetic Laws.
Relays of races, rugged and long,
Up the peaks rising and blending!
Wine for the daring, meat for the strong,
Power with toil contending!
"Higher! Yet higher!" the man's full song--
"Never a last ascending!"
--THE AUTHOR.
Scattered here and there through the preceding pages, various laws
of magnetism have appeared. We now proceed to formulate certain
other laws that have been involved in our discussion, but not, for
the most part, expressed as such. These laws are of an advanced
order, and should be exhaustively studied in the interest of the
highest magnetic intelligence and power. Necessarily this work
must be purely individual and cannot be specifically directed. We
begin with
I. LAWS OF MAGNETIC DEVELOPMENT.
FIRST LAW: DISCOVERY OF ENDOWMENT. The limits of magnetic
endowment latent in every normal person emerge only through
prolonged effort in the culture of magnetism.
SECOND LAW: DIFFICULT ENVIRONMENT. Magnetism develops in direct
proportion to the difficulty of environment.
THIRD LAW: MAGNETIC INTENTION. Magnetism evolves solely through
multiplication of endowment into environment by the persistent
magnetic intention.
FOURTH LAW: FREE ADJUSTMENT. The culture of magnetism imperatively
demands that central adjustment of the self to all powers which
realizes in absolute psychic freedom.
FIFTH LAW: CONCENTRATION. The magnetic multiplication of endowment
into environment is only possible to intense, persistent and
unified concentration to the methods of Success-Magnetism.
SIXTH LAW: PURPOSE-IDEALS. Growth of noblest magnetism depends, in
the larger sense, upon general adherence to a single, preeminent,
ideal life-purpose, and, in the particular sense, upon
specialization of the individual in studied magnetic conduct
related to that end.
SEVENTH LAW: RECEPTIVITY. The highest magnetism realizes through
magnetic laws in proportion as the inner self maintains alert
receptivity to the Universal Forces.
EIGHTH LAW: DEMAND. The silent, persistent demand of the self upon
the Universal Magnetism makes it a center toward which the Forces
naturally gravitate.
NINTH LAW: AFFIRMATION. Continuous, intense affirmation of actual
possessed magnetic power stimulates the success-elements,
maintains receptivity, emphasizes demand, harmonizes and
intensifies inner etheric vibrations, and induces a positive
movement of the universal ether and its forces inward toward the
central self.
TENTH LAW: PSYCHIC ENERGY. All personal magnetism involves psychic
energy developed and directed by magnetic intention.
ELEVENTH LAW: SELF-CONTROL. Magnetic energy concentrates through
psychic control of its tendencies.
TWELFTH LAW: MAGNETIC QUALITY. The inner psychic attitude--the
character of magnetic intention--determines the quality and
effectiveness of the effort to multiply endowment into
environment, and, therefore, the kind and degree of magnetism
attained.
THIRTEENTH LAW: SELF-VALUATION. Other things being equal,
magnetism unfolds as gratifying, but unostentatious, self-
valuation develops.
FOURTEENTH LAW: USE OF SELF. Under conformity to other magnetic
laws, the highest magnetism issues only from the constant best use
of self at its best to the best advantage.
FIFTEENTH LAW: MAGNETIC HEROISM. Self-pity, complaint, and all
kindred states, confuse, weaken and waste every variety of
magnetic power, while heroic acceptance of conditions for their
betterment, and courageous assertion of self as master, conserve
and enormously develop the noblest magnetism in proportion to the
sway of the magnetic intention.
SIXTEENTH LAW: ACTION AND REACTION. Highest magnetism involves not
only studied cultivation, but, as well, the magnetic utilization
of stimulating reactions induced by intelligent employment.
SEVENTEENTH LAW: RECOVERY. Whoever, on occasion of any psychic
(magnetic) failure or defeat, dedicates the whole of aroused
desperation to recovery of ground, infallibly induces a stress in
the etheric life around him which ultimately draws to his aid,
with the onsweep of worlds, the Universal Forces.
EIGHTEENTH LAW: REPRODUCTION. "Everything is transmitted,
everything is transformed, everything is reproduced" (Ochorowicz);
in physical and psychic health alone, therefore, are the Universal
Forces transmitted through perfect etheric vibrations, transformed
through effective etheric conduction, and reproduced in magnetism
by adequate and harmonious psychic control of etheric
capabilities.
NINETEENTH LAW: SUPERIORITY OF CULTURE. The crude values of
natural magnetism, the automatic functions of unconscious
magnetism, demonstrate at their best solely as they climax in full
conscious magnetic culture.
II. LAWS OF MAGNETIC ACTION.
FIRST LAW: Relation of Power to "Tone." The effectiveness of
magnetism in action depends upon harmony of "tone" between its
possessor and any other person, and in securing such "tone"-
harmony, on any magnetic plane, in any particular psychic state,
at any given time, psychic and physical magnetism mutually
cooperate.
SECOND LAW: Magnetic Intention. The magnetic intention ("I INTEND
MAGNETICALLY") intensifies otherwise unconscious magnetism, and
runs through all the mass of general etheric vibrations like a
theme in complicated music, imparting to them unity, character,
intelligence, and definite and enormous effectiveness in practical
employment.
THIRD LAW: Influence of Purpose. In the employment of magnetism,
long-run purpose establishes etheric character, and specialized
purpose confirms that character if it concentrates the general
purpose, but confuses that character, perhaps destroys it, if it
antagonizes the general purpose.
FOURTH LAW: Force of the Ideal. Idealism of motive determines the
character of etheric vibrations, and idealism of magnetic
activities determines the quality of magnetism achieved.
FIFTH LAW: Sway of Other-Interest. The general sway of other-
interest in life, and the particular influence of other-interest
on special occasions, impart to uses of magnetism enormous
effectiveness, and not least in relation to self.
SIXTH LAW: Reaction of Admiration. The consciousness of admiration
for others, recognized by them, reacts with tremendous power to
stimulate magnetic action.
SEVENTH LAW: Measure of the Intake. In the magnetic life, intake
of power is correctly measured by output of power: inversely in
waste, directly in intelligent expenditure.
EIGHTH LAW: Adjustment. Magnetic effectiveness is proportioned to
accuracy and fulness of adjustment,--to things, to laws, to
forces, to times, to situations, to qualities, to facts, to
truths, to persons,--and only studied experience can discover and
establish such adjustment.
The problems of adjustment to persons are these:
With inferiors, to put self magnetically, without appearance of
condescension, on their levels for the end in view,--applying then
the general principles of magnetism.
With EQUALS, to apply the general principles.
With SUPERIORS, to assume their level while magnetically
deferring, without adulation or humility, to such superiority,
regardless of its reality or unreality, for the end in view,
applying the general principles of magnetism.
NINTH LAW: THE MAGNETISM OF IDENTITY. The magnetic value of
adjustment expresses the force and completeness with which the
individual can identify himself with another person, suggesting
oneness through attitude, gesture, act, eye, tone, language, and
telepathic sympathy.
TENTH LAW: THE USE OF REACTIONS. Magnetic skill exhibits in the
manner in which beneficial reactions are received and utilized,
negative or indifferent reactions are ostensibly ignored, yet
constituted stimulation for further persistent magnetic action,
and hostile reactions are refused, without ostentation, but with
determination (if worth while) to "win out" through better
adjustment and increased magnetic endeavor.
ELEVENTH LAW: MAGNETIC ATTACK. Magnetic success demands the direct
attack when etheric harmony of "tone" is assured, but the indirect
method otherwise; that is, such attack-methods as will secure that
harmony.
TWELFTH LAW: THE CONQUEST OF ANTAGONISM Magnetism ostensibly
ognores, and refrains from, exciting antagonism; but, when
antagonism is evident, rejects it and proceeds on the indirect
attack, or openly accepts it and adopts the direct or the indirect
method as the one or the other promises speediest and most perfect
harmony of "tone."
THIRTEENTH LAW: MORTAL ANTIPATHIES. Success-Magnetism conquers the
influence of deep-seated natural antipathies only by avoiding
their causes.
FOURTEENTH LAW: RE-ADJUSTMENT. The etheric life is unceasing
reaction, and magnetism, therefore, demonstrates itself by
squaring with every issue and making of every change and every
defeat a new opportunity.
FIFTEENTH LAW: CONTROL OF OUTPUT. It is an important to know when
to open the circuit--that is, to cut off the current of magnetic
force--as it is to know when to close the circuit--to pour forth
magnetic influences.
SIXTEENTH LAW: CONCESSION. Concession becomes magnetic in its
timeliness. If premature or belated, it defeats magnetism.
SEVENTEENTH LAW: HARMONIC CONDITIONS. Magnetism enhances through
beauty of personal surroundings,--in cleanliness, order,
adornment, art, literature, music, and the like.
EIGHTEENTH LAW: SOVEREIGNTY OF WILL. is the director of native and
unconscious magnetism and the creator and director of developed
magnetism. Power of will is indispensable to magnetic power.
NINETEENTH LAW: ENERGY IN MAGNETIC ACTION. The projection of
magnetic influence proportions to inner, conscious intensity of
psychic and nervous states. Exploding powder in the gun calls for
the man behind the weapon, and the soul within the man, and
powerful vibrations within the soul's arena, and magnetic
intention within the vibrations, and psychic energy within the
intention.
TWENTIETH LAW: SELF-CONTROL. Magnetic power becomes effective
precisely as mastery of self, in restraint and in handling,
approaches perfection.
TWENTY-FIRST LAW: MAGNETIC HANDLING OF SELF. The attitude of
magnetism,--the magnetic intention and psychic pose,--"I STAND
POSITIVELY MAGNETIC TOWARD THIS PERSON OR THIS SITUATION,"--
constantly maintained, ultimately instructs in all the arts of
magnetic self-handling through the law of auto-suggestion, and
realizes in practical form its own ideals.
TWENTY-SECOND LAW: THE MAGNETIC MASK. The mask of magnetism
achieves effectiveness when it covers personal states and purposes
in a manner positively to attract, and in that manner alone.
TWENTY-THIRD LAW: MAGNETIC CONSCIOUSNESS. Intense magnetic
consciousness--without thought concerning it--secures, by its
uplifting and stimulating influence, the greatest exaltation of
personal powers when employed.
TWENTY-FOURTH LAW: MAGNETIC FAITH. A deep and vital faith in the
certainty of magnetic success renders all latent and developed
magnetism dynamic, if that faith is thrown into action.
TWENTY-FIFTH LAW: THE DEMAND IN USE. In the application of
magnetism to any task, intense, persistent demand upon the
Universal Forces swings them directly into the effort.
TWENTY-SIXTH LAW: THE AFFIRMATION IN USE. When, in the application
of magnetism, one affirms, mentally, intensely, persistently, "_I_
AM RECEIVING AND EXERTING POWER," he unconsciously calls to aid
all the success-elements and makes himself a center toward which
the Universal Forces inevitably gravitate.
TWENTY-SEVENTH LAW: THE MAGNETIC TELESCOPE. The magnetic
attitudes, faith, demand and affirmation, constitute a magnetic
telescope through which the distant goal of success is magnified
and all nearer obstacles, lures and irritating conditions are
closed out of view.
TWENTY-EIGHTH LAW: MAGNETIC ACCUMULATIONS. Magnetism, through
correct application to life, not only develops in the individual,
but accumulates in his environment, and reacts beneficially
without direct personal supervision.
TWENTY-NINTH LAW: THE PERSONAL ATMOSPHERE. The personal atmosphere
exactly reflects the inner self, and it furnishes a perfect field
for magnetic effectiveness only when the self and the body are
clean and buoyantly healthy. [Footnote: See the small booklet,
"The Personal Atmosphere."]
THIRTIETH LAW: SUBORDINATION OF PHYSICAL MAGNETISM. In the
subordination of physical to psychic magnetism, each finds its
greatest effectiveness--according to the relative development of
both orders.
THIRTY-FIRST LAW: THE FIXED IDEA. Long-continued association with
some fixed, great and attractive idea sets into operation certain
deep, subconscious operations of the soul, which, for a time
unrecognized and unmanifest in life, gradually and surely
coordinate all individual powers thereto, induce a working of the
whole system in harmony therewith, and finally emerge in the
objective life and consciousness as a unified, actual dynamic
force. The idea has swung the individual, has transformed him, has
harmonized and intensified his faculties and his personal ether,
has come to sovereignty in his personal atmosphere, and from there
exerts a dynamic force upon other people and life's conditions.
This book has tried to saturate you with the idea of success
coordinating with its necessary elements, and has thus endeavored
to swing your whole being into mighty belief that large success is
also for YOU.
If you have rushed through the lessons, you have failed to give
the above great law its full opportunity. If you have abided with
the book, patiently, confidently, energetically, taking plenty of
time to work over into your practical life its teachings and
directions, you have invoked that law, and, soon or late, you will
find yourself a new soul and successful, provided you do not
nullify the law by dropping out of your career the practical use
of the lessons herein given.
You are now invited to assemble with these laws those that have
been previously stated, and to make them guiding principles for
life.
And you are finally urged to return to the first lesson and to
repeat the work, greatly improved, through which you have passed.
If you cannot do this (or choose not to do so), you should at
least constitute this book a permanent companion. You will find,
as you refer to it from time to time, that many values have
escaped you, that new values are constantly appearing, and that
the volume is becoming more and more a friend and a guide. The
principles and methods herein set forth should not be laid aside,
at least permanently, nor forgotten, but should be worked into the
very fibre of your being. You will then, and by so much, certainly
demonstrate Success-Magnetism.
Many of our most persistent students have declared that this book
GROWS ON THEM WITH EVERY READING. In revising its pages the author
is more than ever satisfied that the volume is a great inspiration
and of incalculable value to those who will make it, as designed,
a Companion For Life. You will never uncover its enormous wealth.
MAGNETISM APPLIED.
Having pursued our work to the present point, little need be said
on the application of the magnetic power. The culture of magnetism
implies all along its address to life. If you have toiled for the
goal you have used the results, and experience, the greatest of
teachers, has instructed you in the art of employing the etheric
talent.
A few suggestions are, nevertheless, now offered as indicators of
the larger possible treatment,--remembering that our field is not
general success alone, nor pure magnetism alone, but is the
condensed subject, Success-Magnetism. You are, therefore, invited
to observe the following considerations:
I. GENERAL LIFE-PRINCIPLES:
1. Magnetism entertains no unnecessary thought of evil concerning
others.
2. It is altogether superior to low-minded revenge.
3. It never reveals personal embarrassment.
4. It permits no show of irritation.
5. It is incapable of losing temper.
6. It refuses to exhibit hostility.
7. It never admits, never discloses, defeat.
8. The magnetic person never shows indifference toward others.
9. Magnetism conceals the feelings of ridicule and contempt.
10. If you are magnetic, you never indulge in violence.
11. You neither look for slights and insults, nor do you feel
them, unless they are persistently thrust upon you.
12. You are invited to resolve upon the increase of your circle of
friends, and never to lose an opportunity of winning a well-
wisher.
13. This means, of course, that you retain every friend secured,
if possible in self-respect--which should not be unduly rigid.
14. The instant recognition of faces and recollection of names is
intensely magnetic.
15. Magnetism ignores all caste distinctions, and is friendly
toward all.
16. If you would be magnetic in personal relations, you must
splendidly believe both in yourself and in other people.
17. The general magnetic attitude is a close compound of the
magnetic thought and the success-thought, buoyant in hope and
courage and bound together by the magnetic will.
18. In the use of this attitude, every obligation should be
regarded as profoundly sacred. The magnetic person cannot be
careless in this respect.
19. This book has all along insisted that magnetic success
imperatively demands the life of highest honor.
20. Above all, you are again urged to banish from the inner self
fear, worry, discouragement, depression, and every such enemy to
peace and power. There is in your mind an UPPER LEVEL; LIVE IN
THAT. When worry and the like appear, you will find them occupying
the lower level and absorbing your attention. You should instantly
force consciousness to the higher ground, expelling these enemies
and holding up to the better mood. This is the one secret of
victory over the king's foes. The author guarantees the remedy in
any case that is not fit for the hospital.
21. In the conduct of life, the magnetic person sets before the
mind a definite goal, either life-long or particular, and adheres
thereto with bulldog pertinacity.
22. And he, therefore, wastes no values, but economizes all.
23. He saves part of his earnings; he carries his money in his
pocket-book, not loosely.
24. But he has the wisdom to recreate, to rest the body, to ease
the mind, to take needed breathing-spells for magnetic increase.
II. DEALING WITH OTHERS:
Let us finally understand. In applied magnetism, you simply
harmonize the etheric states of others with those of yourself, and
convey to them through the ethereal medium the purpose of your
will. The FIRST condition of success here is agreeableness, the
SECOND consists in tact and perseverance, the THIRD is will-power
--not brutal will-force, but magnetic power of will.
In all application of magnetism to persons, you are urged to
remember that your very first goal, always and preeminently, is an
agreeable feeling within their minds. You should never try to
induce a person to act your way until you have thoroughly
established in him a good feeling toward yourself. This is the
prime initial step. When such a condition has been secured, you
are then ready for the magnetic assault--and then only.
When you are dealing with other people, endeavoring magnetically
to win them to your wish, you should summon the general magnetic
feeling within yourself, will them to do as you desire, and at the
same time think of them as already consenting and acting. Your
inner condition should be perfectly calm, buoyant, hopeful,
whatever the external means employed, your mind should be
concentrated upon the thing desired, and its accomplishment should
be thought of as now secured. The response of the person may be
delayed, but this should not discourage you, for some minds do not
take suggestions (those of your unspoken will are referred to)
quickly, and they do not act instantly upon their own thought. It
is invariably best to induce people to believe that they are
acting on their personal impulse or judgment; they should be made
to feel perfectly free, not at all coerced, and that they are
doing their own will rather than yours--simply because they wish
so to do.
We may summarize all these suggestions in the words of a
distinguished scientific writer:
"Life is not a bully who swaggers out into the open universe,
upsetting the laws of energy in all directions, but rather a
consummate strategist, who, sitting in his secret chamber over his
wires, directs the movements of a great army." This is a good
description of magnetism.
III. THE SUCCESS-MAGNETISM ASSUMPTION:
We are now ready for the great assumption-principle of magnetism
in applied life:
THINK OF EVERY GOAL AS ALREADY REACHED, OF EVERY UNDERTAKING AS
ALREADY ACHIEVED.
TREAT YOURSELF AS A LIVE AND A SURELY SUCCESSFUL PROPOSITION.
So closes this book. The subject before us has been vast and
profound. It is unnecessary to confess that the field has by no
means been exhausted. At every step of study its immensity is
discovered. Even when the general arena of success in life has
been closed out of consideration, as in these pages, Success-
Magnetism defies any single mind to fathom it or to bound it.
With this feeling, yet with the confident belief that you are more
completely furnished for magnetic achievement because you have
read, studied, absorbed and practised the teachings now closed,
the author bids you all good-speed in life and signs himself,
Yours for real success,
A BROTHER COOPERATIVE.
PART 22
CULTURE OF COURAGE
The route by which we approach the pinnacle of MASTERY OF SELF now
takes a new turn. It is neither that of Business and Financial
achievement, as we studied in the First Division of the course,
nor is it that of Success and Magnetism as was taught in the
Second Division. For many students we now come to the real battle-
ground where they must wage the fight for supremacy. The final 14
lessons group under the general title, The CULTURE OF COURAGE.
There is an insidious foe to mastery and freedom, which dooms
millions to self-imposed bondage. Most people know it has them in
its grip; countless others do not know what the hidden power is
which holds them from the richer, freer, happier conditions of
life.
This foe is FEAR. It assumes numerous disguises. It appears in
many phases of our daily lives. It has done more to wreck careers
and ruin happiness than all the wars of history. Hordes of earth
toilers believe themselves beyond its influence--while all the
time it is riding their backs and laughing at them.
One reason for this is the common misunderstanding of what fear
really is. Most people think of it only as fearing to meet certain
people, or fearing some accident may happen to them or their loved
ones. Yet there are fears of the future, fears of one's self,
fears of events, fears of natural phenomena, fears of old age,
fears of poverty. And there are still more hidden, stunting fears
developed by the un-religious teachings of blind, bigoted, crafty
Religion.
Therefore our higher advance to MASTERY OF SELF is up the steps of
the following 14 lessons, in which the underlying note is the
everlasting declaration, "I AM COURAGE! WHATEVER BETIDES, THE TRUE
SELF OF ME DEMANDS COURAGE!"
Dr. Haddock will open new views of individual nature, personal
fears, avenues of self-unfoldment, which are wholesome and
uplifting for you. The following lessons are more than a conquest
of fear; they are A GREAT ADVENTURE into the heart of a courageous
life philosophy. They tear away bond after bond of habit, thought
and action which have smothered your true, inner Self.
Passing the brief "Introductory" matter, you start in lesson one--
"The World's New Dawn," laying the foundation for Courage-power.
Dr. Haddock first makes it clear why man is steadily becoming more
free--why darkening, dreadful, shackling fear is being dispelled
from the world. His second lesson analyzes Fear and Reason. The
third lesson explains why the healthy "tone" of mind and body is
the basis upon which the structure of personal Courage is to be
reared.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
"For all may have,
If they dare choose, a glorious life."
--Herbert.
I have received many letters from people who are distressed by
their fears. To every such an one let me send this assured
message:
You can grow in your soul a perfect courage.
The methods adapted to this ideal are simple, not impossible to
any, and will become less and less difficult as you continue to
make them more and more a real part of your life.
I do not say, "Be courageous."
I do not say, "Destroy your fears."
Such advice is common enough, but it is altogether barren unless
you know how to carry it out. I hope, rather, to present methods
which shall be definite and practical, so that you will be able to
do the very thing needful. These methods, in the large, I now
announce as follows:
FIRST METHOD: THE INSPIRATION OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND. You are
invited, always through the reading of this book and during life,
to believe, assume and realize--
_I_ AM GROWING IN MY SOUL A PERFECT COURAGE.
SECOND METHOD: THE ELIMINATION OF FEAR. This is the negative phase
of our work. Specific instructions will be given having to do with
every kind of fear. I shall endeavor to suggest practical help to
all readers for each particular difficulty.
THIRD METHOD: THE CULTURE OF SPIRITUAL COURAGE. By the word
"spiritual" I mean not merely religious in the ordinary sense, but
rather that kind of courage which is just the breath and tone of
the White Life manifest in the human life. The WHITE LIFE in you
is harmony with the White Life which is The Good, The Beautiful,
The True, The All-Health, The Father, The Infinite Soul of this
wonderful Universe in which we live. If you come to harmony with
the White Life, your fears will vanish because you will then share
in the Courage of the Eternal Good.
There are two kinds of courage:
THE COURAGE THAT DARES AND WINS; and
THE COURAGE THAT SMILES AND RECEIVES.
"And shall I with a Giant strive,
And charge a Dragon on the field?"
In these lines we have the first kind of courage. It is good, but
there is a type which is vastly superior:
I AM THE COURAGE OF THE SOUL HARMONIC WITH THE PERFECT WHOLE.
These lines indicate the second kind of courage--than which there
is no higher. "Herein is love with us made perfect, that we may
have boldness."
These are our methods. They are commended to your approval. I
shall try to state them plainly, going on from one fear to
another, and another, until the long list is disposed of, and
always shall I follow details of procedure similar to those set
forth in "POWER FOR SUCCESS," the ideal constantly being
EXACTLY WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO EXACTLY THAT.
FOREWORD.
"There is no limit to the knowing of the mind that knows."--
Indian Upanishads.
I wish to indulge in a little Foreword because in this way may be
indicated a warning against contentment with a seemingly very
sensible conclusion which will prove, on further thought, to be
hasty and incomplete.
Five years ago I wrote in this identical place in our study these
words:
"Fear will never go out of this world until pleasure loses value,
desire ceases for want of an object, and reason no longer imposes
responsibility.
"The best gift of Nature to primitive man, after reason, was fear.
"The imagination is reason's magnifying power.
"Fear observed and obeyed by reason is a friend.
"Fear and reason take care of man.
"Fear and imagination send him into a panic."
To many minds these statements will have the look of sanity.
But there are others who will instantly perceive that they
represent thought on a comparatively low plane. I now observe:
The best gift of Life to primeval man, after love, was reason.
The imagination, void of love,--the feeling of harmony with all,--
forgets reason and permits fear to enter the soul.
Fear is an ALIEN to our life, and never a friend. The real friend
is reason, acting amid harmonic conditions.
When you are threatened by some hostile force or event, reason
tries to induce self-protection, but you know no real fear if you
are saturated with the feeling of harmony. You may believe it is
FEAR that seeks your self-protection. But your REASON can do
precisely the same thing without fear. Fear is, then, only an
extra, a distressing extra, foisted in front of reason.
You are invited now to live the WHITE LIFE, to cast fear out, and
to make real reason its substitute. By so much you will add
immeasurably to personal comfort and power.
Love and reason alone can take care of man, so far as his own
efforts are concerned. In properly blended proportions these
constitute the very life of courage. What conceivable service
then, can fear render any man or woman?
If you desire panic and distress, let imagination fill your soul
with fears. But if peace, happiness, health and power be your
desires, live the WHITE LIFE and hold fast only to reason.
By the reality called reason I do not mean mere cold calculation
and hard logic. Such phases of reason are legitimate in their
place, if freed from cunning and deceit, but the higher reason is
to these as a woman's love--look is to the glitter of ice. The
higher reason is not alone intellection, it is also intuition and
harmonic assurance--what religious thought calls faith. The higher
reason declares self-preservation to be the first law of life, and
then, just because this is true, it cares for self and trusts the
White Universe to assist. I really do not see what a human soul
need actually fear when that soul and the White Universe are bent
on the same goal, the soul's welfare.
The Universe is a growing organism. It is forever striving to
realize its own best estate. This is the true goal for all
individuals. It is saying the same thing if we affirm the goal to
be Health--for worlds or man: Body-Health, Mind-Health, Self-
Health.
When any form of health is threatened, you say, perhaps, it is
FEAR that warns you to self-preservation. But I say it is REASON,
and your fear-feeling is unnecessary and hurtful. If you can
remember that the White Life or Universe and you have the same
desire, your highest welfare, you can banish the fear-element,
reserving only the reason-assurance element. All the fears in the
world cannot benefit you. Harmony and courage will sublime your
whole life.
I have never known a person whose reason has induced self-
suffering. Suffer-fear is always a product of diseased
imagination. What some may call reason-fear, when they think they
are extremely sensible, is simply fear, and nothing but fear, and
it is due to imagination, not to reason.
"But," you say, "are there not all sorts of evils in the world,
and do they not threaten us, and should we not forefend against
them? In this forefending, how can we escape fear?"
These questions show how thoroughly fear is knit into our very
lives.
Now this is precisely the point. Fear has no rightful place with
any rightful living, because the WHITE LIFE alone is rightful, and
in that life reason-assurance only is possible, and, therefore,
rightful.
The best way in which to forefend against evil is to deny it and
cast out the fiction.
This entire question of evil is at your command. Evil exists
because other people admit its existence. If all were to live the
WHITE LIFE, each person might rightly declare, "There is no evil."
The only real evil is that which can hurt your best self. When
anything hurts your best self, it is your self that hurts your
self. The only evil in the Universe is some one's act hurting
others, but more, hurting self. If to you evil is, then, it is
yourself. You can so live the sublime WHITE LIFE of harmony as to
be able to say: "So far as I am concerned, evil has gone out of
the world. There is no evil to me."
You see, surely now, that you need not fear "evil." I do not know
anything more absolutely and sufficiently opposed to the
permission of that self-acting which alone, for you, is evil, than
reason. Fear has nothing properly to do with the matter. And
reason-assurance has to do with it only by living the WHITE LIFE
and denying fear and evil altogether.
You are invited to make these heaven-born truths your own.
_I_ AM GROWING IN MY SOUL A PERFECT COURAGE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. The World's New Dawn