Daring to assume that all things are possible to imagine, put this one reality to the extreme test
by assuming you are the person you would like to be. Your reasonable mind and outer senses may deny it; but I promise you: if you will persist, you will receive your assumption. Believe me, you are the same God who created and sustains the universe, but are keyed low; so youmust be persistent if you would bring about a change When you know what you want, you don't ask God as though he were another; you ask your individual self to bring about your desire, for you are he! And God - your own wonderful human imagination - will respond when you will not take no for an answer, as your denial is spoken from within and there is no other. It is within your own being that you persist in assuming you have received what you want. I must continue in that assumption until that which I have assumed is objectively realized Your imagination is the only God, and there is no other being greater than He! Claim you are what you want to be. Persist in that assumption. Continue to assume that role until that which you have assumed is reflected in your world Prove to yourself that you are God by feeling your desire is now an accomplished fact. Continue to imagine your desire is already an accomplished fact; and when it is objectively realized, proof will be yours. You must believe in yourself or die in your sins! Youmust believe that God actually became you that you may become God - for he did. His name is I am and unless you say within yourself: "I am what I want to be" and believe it, you will remain saying within yourself: "I wish I were what I want to be" and die in your frustration (your sin). I urge to you learn how to believe in yourself. It may appear to be difficult at first, but not when you are willing to go out on a limb and try it.
Judge not by appearances," said Jesus. If you would win your way to the manifestation of those things that are your goals, you must not be swayed from your conviction and faith by any of the events or circumstances you meet in your daily life. Whatever is contrary to your belief you must reject as not having reality, as being only a temporary thing, a detour on the road you follow, not a setback at all but a necessary path to follow; for the whole plan rests in Universal Mind and though it may seem at the moment to be going against your desires, have no fear. We will accept from the thought-things in the world around us only those which add to our faith and our conviction in the goals we have set or in ourselves. All other thought-things we reject as being only temporary and lacking final reality. Thus in the
inner recesses of our beings we maintain a place of quiet assurance and contemplation, steadfast always in our knowledge that our faith will become manifest in our lives. It is then we who set the temper of our thoughts. It is then we who achieve mastery over our fates. Our positions are unassailable; we create from within and are never victims of circumstance. Have complete confidence in the fact that first cause is mental and first cause once set in motion must inevitably manifest itself in the physical world. Simply have faith in what you believe and refuse to accept negative circumstance as final. This is the proper use of faith. For faith will overcome the deluded convictions of the Conscious Mind, build habits of positive thinking, which is the first step en the road to power. Faith is nothing other than a sustained effort to impart to the Universal Subconscious Mind that thought which you wish to be manifested in your experience. Faith means thinking the one thing and not thinking of its opposite Faith means refusing to accept any negative circumstance or to entertain any negative thought. Faith means complete reliance and trust in the power and goodness of God, and absolute trust that whatever you conceive with conviction will be returned to you in this world! No matter how you choose to think, you are calling into existence those very things you believe in. The choice then is simple: good or evil. There is in this life no alternative to faith other than fear and evil. No sane person, understanding this, will dally with his choice. For thirty days, one month, you are not to accept a single negative thought nor dwell on a single negative premise. This does not mean that such thoughts or ideas will not occur to you. They most certainly will occur, as frequently or even more so than they have all your life. This simply means that you will refuse to accept any of them, discarding them immediately they occur, as fictional ideas, without basis in truth, delusions that are without foundation for they have no roots in your mind. In this manner, by consciously exercising a choice of that which you allow to become part of your mind, by deliberately planting only positive seeds in the garden of the Subconscious, you will not only set about an eventual harvesting of the greatest bumper crop of good ever to enter your life, but more important, you will be building up a habit of positive thinking that will become easier and easier, day by day. Eventually, you will no longer have to struggle with positive and negative, good and evil, truth and illusion. You will ally yourself with the forces for good in the universe and achieve an attunement and an effortlessness in life that once seemed impossible of imagining.
