FICHA 9 CONOCIMIENTO Y GOBERNANZA

To image a thing is to form a mental concept first. Then the projection of this mental concept to the outer world is an almost automatic function which involves the mechanism of the higher mind, the sympathetic nervous system and the reflex actions of the muscles and nerves.

You may ask what you will of life, but you will only achieve it by first forming the correct mental images of what you desire.

Ask yourself: “What do I want of life?” Image it clearly in all its de-tails. This should include the things you want to do, the person you want to be, the things you want to have.

You possess within your mind a Metaphysical Brain Projector which is capable of projecting to the outer world the mental images that you have built within.

Just as a motion picture projector sends out a beam of light which fo-cuses on a screen the picture on the film, so your brain projector can only project a picture if it is clearly imprinted upon the cells of your brain. If there are no images on that film, there can be no outer projection.

Let us see how this works; there can be no successful projection unless you have first fixed the mental image of success upon your consciousness.

What is the picture you hold of your success? Is it mediocre or big? Is it an image of your own business or working for someone else? Do you visualize a different job from the one you are doing, which you do not like?

To have a great destiny you must have big mental concepts. Here is the regime for building these big mental concepts which can cause your higher mind to project the creative pattern you hold to the outer world of reality:

1. Sit down for a least a half hour a day and concentrate your mind on building big concepts. If you are making one hundred dollars a week, expand your image to two hundred a week. Visualize yourself earning that money first; do not make the mistake of raising your mental sights too rapidly for you must really believe you can earn two hundred a week before you can project that Success Image to the outer world.

After you have built this mental concept for a week or two, you may be prompted to enroll in a special course in evening high school, a course that will actually project you into a future job paying the bigger salary.

EXAMPLE:

A woman of fifty attended my classes in New York for several weeks.

Her husband had died, leaving her some insurance money but not enough for future security. She told me in a personal interview that she had tried to get a job but no one wanted “an old woman,” as she put it. I told her to change that mental concept of herself at once. She had let her hair become dingy and gray-streaked. I advised her to search within her own mind to see what she really liked and wanted to do. She knew a man who was a judge and one day she visited his court and became fascinated at seeing the stenographer taking notes on a stenotype machine. She told no one of her plan at the time, but she enrolled in a course in steno-typing, and when she had finished her course she began to project the mental concept that she would one day be a court stenographer.

A few months later her judge friend told her that his secretary was leav-ing to be married and he needed a good stenotype operator. It was only then that she revealed her secret to her friend; that she was a trained stenotype op-erator! He hired her at a good weekly salary, and this woman, who had felt that she was old and finished in life, began at fifty a new career that paid her well and gave her new dignity and self-respect.

Miracles can truly occur through the use of mental imagery!

2. Look around you in your everyday life and see what conditions you would like to change or improve. Almost all great things have been accom-plished because someone looked about him and was discontented with the way things were and wanted to change and improve them. This exercise

should apply not only to your physical environment but also to your mental gifts and talents. Perhaps you want to play the piano, or sing, or do public speaking. This desire to change the circumstances of your life can be ex-tended to all departments of living. Visualize yourself playing the piano, writ-ing the book, takwrit-ing the trip, makwrit-ing a bigger sum of money, and soon you will be guided by the Divine Mind within to doing the things that you have created through mental imagery.

3. Constantly strive to increase your knowledge of the world in which you live. The power of imagery increases when you possess a mind that has many highly developed facets. Your imagination can only compile new and more effective forms of imagery when your brain has absorbed many new ideas. It is true: “He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”

The imagination must be developed through knowledge and solid facts.

Make it a point to study all branches of knowledge so you will be well-read and will have an appreciation of the better things in life. The Chinese say,

“Man with good education seems to have much luck.”

4. Mentally practice actions that you would like to have take place in your life so that your imagination will be more fully exercised. For example, practice aloud and before a mirror asking your boss for a raise in salary.

Then practice selling some product to a prospective buyer. Make a speech be-fore the Congress in which you plead some universal cause such as peace or brotherhood. Visualize yourself buying a Cadillac or other fine car, driving it, showing it off to your friends. Do the same thing with buying your own home, investing money in the stock market, or taking a trip to some place you want to go. The ability to create mental images depends on exercise, just like physical development of a muscle. If you can pass a series of such mental images through your mind daily, you will soon find yourself reflecting these mental images in your daily life and doing the things you have held as mental concepts.

5. Mentally set some high goal for yourself and let this goal constantly inspire you to make bigger efforts to achieve your goal. You might, in your mental imagery, plan what you would do if you suddenly inherited one mil-lion dollars. You might laugh at the thought that you would ever come into so much money, but remember, you are using a Metaphysical Miracle power that can work its miracles for you as it has for thousands of others in the past.

EXAMPLES:

Here are four examples of students in my classes who used this power of mental projection through the imagination, and who came into unexpected sums of money:

One young lady received money through a large insurance policy that a relative had made out in her name years before.

A man had a sum of money come to him from reparations paid by Aus-tria to those whom the Nazis had robbed when they occupied AusAus-tria during the war.

A third member of our lecture group came into a large sum of money through the settlement of a court case involving a patent infringement.

Another lady in our group sold her first novel, which she wrote after learning how to exercise her imagination. She was given a substantial ad-vance payment for the book and later received thousands of dollars from a movie company that bought the book.

6. Do not accept the limitations that might exist at the present moment in your life. In your mental imagery see these circumstances changed by time into the new conditions that you hold in consciousness. If you were a shoe-shine boy in Texas and someone told you that you would one day become President of the United States, it might almost appear laughable. And yet, a boy named Lyndon Baines Johnson made that type of amazing transition in a period of a few short years. He used these principles of mental imagery to amass his vast fortune, and even if he had not become President through chance, his life still would be counted a successful one.

7. Talk to your higher mind, just as you would talk to a person, telling it your secret aspirations and desires, and then sit quietly in the silence and let it guide you to taking the right steps which will fulfill your destiny.

Sammy Davis Jr. had every known limitation in his early life, but he kept telling himself, “I can do it!” and visualizing and imagining his future success, until he finally won through and became a great star.

Another instance of a man of the same race, who has amazed everyone in the boxing world, who has used this principle of imagination and mental projection, is Cassius Clay. Some people might consider his confident state-ments about victory in the ring as mere braggadocio, but the fact remains he has up to this point fulfilled every promise he made to himself.

8. Perhaps you are not living the life in this moment that you would like to live in the future. You may be in the wrong work and you may not be

able to make a change at present. You may not have enough money to do the things you desire, and you may feel that you can never change these negative circumstances of your life. Should you let your situation depress and discou-rage you? Indeed not! By using the Metaphysical Miracle Power that your higher mind can release in your everyday life, you can soon alter these nega-tive conditions and create a posinega-tive, happy, successful future for yourself. In the meantime make it a point to see your present environment through rose-colored glasses and in your imagination see the perfection you dream of in your inner world.

How A Child Saw Spiritual Reality

I remember I once visited a place on the Pacific called Balboa. There were charming white stucco houses on the side streets facing the ocean, with purple and red bougainvillea spilling over their trim roofs. Suddenly I found myself at the end of the street and there was a shabby little house that had been built of packing cases and odds and ends of lumber. It was obviously in-ferior to the other cottages that lined the streets.

Playing in the yard of this shabby house was a little boy of eight or ten, with blue eyes and a shock of golden hair. I pointed to the shabby shack and added, “Does anybody live in that house?”

The boy looked up at me with a big smile on his bright face and said,

“Yes, I live there. Ain’t I lucky?”

This child was seeing the true spiritual reality behind his life, not the ugly, limited shack which had caught my attention. He had the blue Pacific at his doorstep, the golden California sun bathed his world with beauty, he had the unlimited vision, beauty and spirit of youth to buoy him up and to him this little shack in which he lived was a palace and he felt himself fortunate to be living in it.

This is the mental attitude that you must bring to your own life. You may not live in the most perfect home at present, your job may not be to your liking, and you may not have all the money you would like to have, but don’t let your discontent with your present situation blind you to the Metaphysical Miracle Power within your mind, which can change these negative conditions if you will but hold the right mental images and concepts in your conscious-ness.

SUMMARY

1. Metaphysical Miracles produced by great men of history through Mental Imagery.

2. The Imagination a God-given function with which man may per-form miracles

3. How the Master Metaphysician Jesus performed His amazing mi-racles through mental imagery.

4. How to project the big mental concept for success, health and happiness.

5. How to use the Metaphysical Brain Projector.

6. The regime for building the right mental concepts.

7. Importance of visualization and faith.

8. New gifts and talents through mental imagery.

9. How to talk yourself into good fortune.

10. Four instances where students demonstrated money through Mental Imagery.

11. How Sammy Davis Jr. and Cassius Clay used Mental Imagery to achieve success.

11. The metaphysical miracle of turning a shack into a palace.

12. The spiritual reality of beauty that lives within the conscious-ness.

Chapter 4

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