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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."
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