Chapter 1: Law and Its Operation
Feeling is the assent of the subconscious to the truth of that which is declared to be true.
There is nothing impossible to man. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and feel as true, the subconscious can and must objectify.
The conditions of the world reflect your feeling.
"As within, so without" ["As above, so below; as below, so above; as within, so without; as without, so within", "Correspondence", the second of The Seven Principles of Hermes Trismegistus].
"The kingdom of heaven is within you"[Luke17:21].
You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to
believe this is the only reason you do not see it.
These are the two gateways into the subconscious:
Chapter 2: Sleep
Sleep, the life that occupies one-third of our stay on earth, is the natural door into the subconscious. It is in sleep and in prayer, a state akin to sleep, that man enters the subconscious to make his impressions and receive his instructions.
"As in heaven, so on earth" [Matthew 6:10; Luke 11:2]. As in the subconscious, so on earth.
You should always feel the wish fulfilled before you drop off to sleep. "How would I feel were my wish realized?" is the feeling which should monopolize and immobilize your attention as you relax into sleep.
If, as you prepare for sleep, you assume and maintain the consciousness of success by feeling "I am successful", you must be successful.
"Signs follow, they do not precede". Proof that you are will follow the consciousness that you are; it will not precede it.
Do not limit yourself to the past. Knowing that nothing is impossible to consciousness, begin to imagine states beyond the experiences of the past.
Always imagine and expect the best.
Chapter 3: Prayer
Prayer is an illusion of sleep which
diminishes the impression of the outer world and renders the mind more receptive to suggestion from within.
Prayer is not so much what you ask for, as how you prepare for its reception.
"Whatsoever things ye desire, when ye pray believe that you have received them, and ye shall have them"[Mark 11:24].
The moment you accept the wish
as an accomplished fact, the subconscious finds the means for its realization.
Whenever you are in the state of
mind "I should like to, but I cannot", the harder you try, the less you are able to yield
to the wish.
You never attract that which you want, but always attract that which you are conscious of being.
Prayer is the art of yielding to the wish and not the forcing of the wish. Whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish, feeling will be the victor.
To yield successfully to the wish as an accomplished fact, you must create a passive state, a kind of reverie or meditative reflection similar to the feeling which precedes sleep.
An easy way to create this passive state is to relax in a comfortable chair or on a bed. If on a bed, lie flat on your back with your head on a level with your body, close
the eyes and imagine that you are sleepy.
Feel – I am sleepy, so sleepy, so very sleepy. In a little while, a faraway feeling accompanied by a general lassitude and loss of all desire to move envelops you.
When this passive state is reached, imagine that you have realized your wish – not how it was realized, but simply the wish fulfilled.
Imagine in picture form what you desire to achieve in life; then feel yourself as having already achieved it.
When you emerge from the moment of prayer, it is as though you were shown the happy and successful end of a play although you were not shown how that end was achieved.
However, having witnessed the end, regardless of any anticlimactic sequence, you remain calm and secure in the knowledge that the end has been perfectly defined.
Chapter 4: Spirit – Feeling
As you capture the feeling of the state sought, you are relieved of all effort to make it so, for it is already so.
Faith is feeling, "According to your faith (feeling) be it unto you"[Matthew 9:29].
"To him that hath it shall be given and to him that hath not it shall be taken away..."[Matthew 13:12; 25:29; Mark 4:25;Luke 8:18; 19:26].
Instead of believing in God or in Jesus – believe you are God or you are Jesus.
Jesus found it not strange to do the works of God, because He believed Himself to be God. "I and My Father are one" [John 10:30].
When a man believes in the value of the advice given him and applies it, he establishes within himself the reality of success.