Andersen Three Magic Words

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-60796-328-8
Verlag: BN Publishing
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

In the pages of Three Magic Words, you will learn of the unlimited power that is yours. You will learn how you can turn this power to work for you, here on earth, to make your life majestic and overflowing with good.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andersen, Uell S.

Leseproben

CHAPTER 1: THE LOCK

O, raise up thine eyes to eternal sky

In thy bondage strike out to be free

Hush the whispering voice of the infinite why

With "I am and I was and I ever will be."

THE FORGING OF THE LOCK

Somewhere, in some city, town or hamlet, there is a child being born. Somewhere, pure spirit is inspired into form. And even now the Lock takes shape. Mighty is the anvil that forges this Lock, for it is the memory of the Subconscious Mind. Light, sound, discomfort, pain, roughness, dampness, hunger, smells - all impinge on subconscious memory, forging the Lock that bars the door to the infinite.

There is something both sad and beautiful about this - sad because it seems sad to see spirit deny itself - beautiful because self-determination is beautiful. For this infant, wherever it is being born at this moment, is free, even as each member of the entire human race is born free - free to determine his destiny - free to discover the source of his being and the immensity of his power.

FALSE THOUGHT HABITS

Why is it, you may well ask yourself, that the great mass of humanity lead drab and colorless lives, concerned only with fear, frustration, and insecurity? What, you may well wonder, is the point of this scheme into which you have been drawn through no volition of your own and from which you will soon depart, a microbe in a microcosm, a pinpoint on a pinpoint, a flicker in a flash of light? These thoughts are products of your Conscious Mind, and it could not be otherwise. For only the Conscious Mind remembers its beginning and looks forward to its end.

The world, said Wordsworth, is too much with us. Circumstance shapes our destiny, and this should not be so. There is a resource which can raise the human soul above all circumstance, but how few people use it!

Do you know this man? John Jones was born in San Francisco in 1906. His parents were immigrants and his father was a laborer. John grew up in modest circumstances and was a child during the First World War. His father was drafted and killed overseas, and the burden of support of his mother and two smaller brothers fell entirely on John's shoulders. Following the line of least resistance, John became a day laborer. Each week his paycheck went to his mother. Later, when his brothers were able to contribute to his mother's support, John continued at his job as a laborer. He was, as he thought, unable to do anything else, and the full blame for his lost future he laid at the doorstep of a cruel fate, personified in resentment towards his mother. When he was forty-two, John developed a brain tumor and spent the latter years of his life bedridden, partially paralyzed, dying at the age of forty-eight.

Does this sound like one of the children to whom it is the Father's good pleasure to give the Kingdom? Does this sound like a free soul expanding into conscious cosmic power? It most certainly does not. Multiply John Jones by a million and a million times it does not. Yet John Jones was using the same power as Einstein, Homer, Plato, Lincoln, Emerson and Buddha.

Thought habits of the Conscious Mind shaped John Jones' life. He thought he was hemmed in by circumstance and so he became, so that even when the circumstance dissipated of its own accord, he still could not stir away from his own conception of his position. He harbored a resentment toward his mother until it grew within him, in the form of a tumor, to end his life; even as he was wishing his life ended through his own attitudes of defeat. Conceptual habits of the Conscious Mind are the greatest bar to man's discovery of himself.

THE SAME POWER BRINGS BOTH GOOD AND EVIL

If you have engaged in competitive athletics, you have seen a sign on the locker room wall that read, "A team that won't be beat, can't be beat." And you know that a team that understood the meaning of that sign was a winner.

If you are a businessman, you have heard it said, "Think big, do big." And you know that the men who operate on this premise do big things.

If you are a member of a family, you have seen the power of faith work miracles - in an illness, in financial insecurity, in birth, in death, in all of life's events.

If you are a member of an organized religion, you have seen the tremendous power of prayer.

If you have ever in your life been faced with a crisis, you know the calm inner self you have turned to in a flash which has rewarded you with an answer in an instant.

Everyone has experienced this power to some degree. It is not so securely locked away that each human being does not touch it during some period of his life. Yet, strange to say, the vast majority of humanity shrug it off as perhaps only a fortunate circumstance, a coincidence, a "piece of good luck."

It is important for you to remember - every day of your life - that the same power that brings you good fortune brings you bad fortune and it does so according to how you use it. The only reason it brings so little good fortune to the great mass of people is that they do not know it exists, use it but sparingly, and use it the wrong way. Their conceptions of

themselves are locked in the Subconscious Mind. And just as surely as the earth rotates, their futures are mapped out according to these conceptions and thoughts. The only way they can become free to achieve success and happiness and health is to arrive at truth - unlock the Lock - discover the Key!

THE MIND THAT NEVER SLEEPS

Perhaps you do not know or truly understand that the mind of man is not alone memory and reason such as he exerts when in a conscious active state. There is in man a mind that never sleeps, that is constantly active, with untold reservoirs that have never yet been plumbed - a mind of such infinite capacity and power that it could not possibly belong to one man alone. This is the Subconscious Mind, as sharply delineated from the Conscious Mind.

The advent of psychiatry has told us a good deal about this Subconscious Mind. We know, for instance, that its memory is perfect - not just for important facts but for every shade and detail and scene ever experienced. The skilled psychiatrist can run back twenty years in a patient's Subconscious, eliciting a scene from him when he was six years old, and lo, the scene unfolds with color, sound and detail such as could not be recorded on photographic film. A bird's song faint on the summer air, the soft rustle of maple leaves drying on the grass, the distant rumble of a train, the grimace of a countenance, the movement of a person, words, inflections - all exact even to emotional impact. And yet here is a scene that the Conscious Mind had long forgotten.

PROBING THE SUBCONSCIOUS

Psychiatry, concerned with restoring people to mental health, has run back along the time track of the Subconscious Mind, probing for emotional "sore spots," then exposing them to the patient's Conscious Mind so that he can rationally judge how trivial they are. Varying degrees of success have been achieved in the restoration of mental health by such methods, and certainly enough to have merited the procedure. Sometimes, alas, disaster has occasioned when a serious "rejection" of the Conscious Mind has been elicited from the Subconscious and submitted to the patient, who in terror at this exposure has lapsed into hysteria or a stony depression, so great have been the emotional conflicts aroused.

But this probing of the Subconscious Mind has unearthed a vast store of hitherto unknown material. Under deep hypnosis, patients have described noises and surroundings that could have been experienced only in the womb. In the same manner, there have been patients who have described scenes and times that it would have been impossible for them to know of or witness. A previous life? Some other person's life? Thought transference? Perhaps the psychiatrist has occasionally laid it to "static" on the time track of the Subconscious Mind, but the existence of such phenomena is indisputable.

What a powerful, stupendous toy this Subconscious Mind is turning out to be! Games played in parlors are now assembling in the laboratory. The psychic who can foretell the future, the thought-reader, the hypnotist, are falling under the scrutiny of the microscope. Measured, numbered, weighed, counted, tabulated and cross-tabulated, they all add up to one thing: The Subconscious Mind is the most powerful creative instrument in the universe; it spans space and time, manifests form from substance, reaches out to all knowledge. And it exists in every man!

THE MASTER AND THE SERVANT

You might wonder why, with such an inexhaustible subject as this, we should concern ourselves with the Conscious Mind at all - the tiny, insignificant Conscious Mind that only remembers a very few years, that only remembers a very few facts, that barely has learned the rudiments of thought, and indeed is scarcely capable of dealing with its immediate surroundings.

We are concerned because here we are dealing with master and servant, and startling as it...