Let us
now pass on to a consideration of the second
class of Telementation, which I call "Indirect
Telementation," or the use of the Force with a general
purpose of affecting the desired result,
without
special direction toward any particular person
or persons. This form of manifestation of
telementation may be grouped into two
sub-classes, viz.,
(a) in
which the general desire or will of the
individual to attain certain results manifests
itself in personal interviews, and induces
mental states in those with whom he comes in
contact; and
(b) in
cases wherein the general desire and will
manifest in telementative currents, or waves, or
whirlpools, affecting all persons and things who
are interested in any way in the enterprise,
scheme, plan or undertaking of the individual,
and tending to cause them to "fall into line"
and obey the will or comply with the desires of
the general plan of the individual.
This
last form of telementative influence is far more
common than one would suppose. Strong, positive
men start into motion waves and currents that
sweep over the country, gathering force with
each added impetus, and using the principle of
"mental contagion" to increase its influence.
Great
"leaders of men" are centers of these mentative
whirlpools, and similar forms of mentative
influence, and draw in, or suck in to themselves
persons, things, and objects conducive to their
plans and ambitions. They do not have it all
their own way, of course, for there are many
influences at work which tend to neutralize
their efforts.
Other
men have conflicting schemes which interfere
with and often destroy the influence of these
great mentators, and people are becoming
educated regarding the nature of the forces they
employ, and will not accept adverse suggestions
or allow their vibrations to influence them.
Still the force is still used to great effect by
many politicians, and other persons who reach
out toward large numbers of people.
Leading
"generals of business" also make use of the
force in this manner, and draw things "their
way." In fact nearly everybody who does business
with people scattered over a large territory,
employs this force more or less, generally
unconsciously. And many of these uses work no
harm upon those affected, because many of these
people are engaged in legitimate enterprise, and
want always to give a "square deal," and a "good
dollar's worth."
I am not
holding up this manifestation of telementation
as reprehensible--I am merely stating its
general laws and forms of manifestation. One may
repel these mentative waves in the same way, and
by the same methods mentioned in the preceding
chapters in reference to the repelling of direct
telementation. The rule is the same in both
cases, for the principle involved is the same.
Before
leaving this branch of the subject, I would
remind you that one may take advantage of this
last mentioned form of telementation for his own
good, in a perfectly proper and justifiable way.
One may wish to gain certain information and
knowledge about certain subjects.
If so,
if he will hold a strong desire that the desired
knowledge shall come to his notice and
attention, and if at the same time he wills that
the mentative currents flow forth in search of
persons, things, and objects capable of
imparting the knowledge or information, he will
get results. He will find that after a while he
will run across people who will be glad to give
him the information he wants; or he will pick up
a book that will either tell him what he wants,
or else will refer to some other book or subject
that will point out the path to him.
These
instances are quite common, and afford wonderful
proofs of the laws herein stated. In this way no
one is harmed, and mutual benefits are obtained.
People are attracted to each other in this way,
and each finds his own.
The
above manifestation results from the operation
of what has been called the "Law of
Attraction," by the workings of which each
person is continually drawing to himself the
people, things, objects and even "circumstances"
in harmony and accord with his prevailing mental
states. Like attracts like, and the mental
states determine that which one draws to
himself.
If you
are not satisfied with what is coming to you,
start to work and change your mental attitudes
and mental states, and you will see a change
gradually setting in, and things that you want
will begin to "come your way."
This law
of attraction has been much written about
in works on Mental Science during the past ten
years, so it is not necessary for me to go into
details about it here. I have given you the
general principles in this chapter, and you may
apply them accordingly.
A most
important fact about the effect of mentative
vibrations upon people lies in the principle
that one is more affected by vibrations in
harmony with his own accustomed feelings and
mental states, than by those of opposite
natures.
A man
who is full of evil schemes, and selfish aims,
is more apt to be caught up by similar
vibrations than one who lives above that plane
of thought. He is more easily tempted by evil
suggestions and influences, than one to whom
these things are abhorrent. And the same is true
on every plane.
A man
whose mental attitude is one of confidence and
fearlessness is not apt to be affected by
vibrations of a negative, pessimistic, gloomy
nature, and vice versa. Therefore, if you wish
to receive the vibrations of the thoughts and
feelings of others, you must place yourself in a
mental attitude corresponding with those
vibrations you wish to receive.
And if
you wish to avoid vibrations of a certain kind,
the best way is to rise above them in your own
mind, and to cultivate mental states opposite to
them. The positive always overcomes the
negative--and optimistic mental states are
always positive to pessimistic mental states.
The sense of individuality, and one's relation
to the Universal Mind-Power, is the strongest
and most positive mental state one can attain.
Therefore cultivate it, first, last and all the
time.
I now
come to a phase of the subject that underlies
all of the phenomena of telementation, and
really gives the "key" to much of its wonderful
effects. I allude to what occultists know as
"Visualization." This visualization is to
telementation what the pattern is to the maker
of objects; what the plans of the architect are
to the builders; what the "mould" or "matrix" is
to molders of metal. It is the skeleton around
which the materialization of thought-forms
occurs. It is of the greatest importance to you
to acquaint yourselves with its laws and
effects.
To
"visualize" means to "see mentally"--that is, to
form a mental image of a thing--to "see it in
one's mind," etc., Visualization, along the
lines of one's daily occupation is a most
important thing, but one that is very poorly
appreciated because little understood.
The best
workmen, writers, inventors, composers, etc.,
are those who are able "to see the thing in the
mind," and then reproduce it in materialized
form. Sir Francis Galton, one of the best
authorities upon the subject, has said: "The
free action of a vivid visualizing faculty is of
much importance in connection with the higher
processes of generalized thought. A visual image
is the most perfect form of mental
representation wherever the shape, position, and
relations of objects to space are concerned. The
best workmen are those who visualize the whole
of what they propose to do, before they take a
tool in their hand.
“Strategists,
artists of all denominations, physicists who
contrive new experiments, and in short, all who
do not follow routine, have need of it. A
faculty that is of importance in all technical
and artistic occupations; that gives accuracy to
our perceptions, and justice to our
generalizations ; is starved by lazy disuse,
instead of being cultivated judiciously in such
a way as will, on the whole, bring the best
return. I believe that a serious study of the
best means of developing and utilizing this
faculty, without prejudice to the practice of
abstract thought in symbols, is one of the many
pressing desiderata in the yet unformed science
of education."
And all
that Sir Francis Galton has said above is
equally true of the cultivation of the art of
visualization in connection with telementation.
The trouble with the majority of people is that
they do not know just what they do want.
They are
not able to form clear mental images of that
which they wish to "create" or "materialize."
The men who obtain the greatest and most
wonderful results through mentative influence,
particularly in the form of telementation, are
those men who are able to "visualize" most
clearly the things that they wish to
"materialize"--who are able to form the mental
image of the things they wish to manifest.
The
secret of visualization lies in the occult and
psychological principle that "as is the mental
matrix, so is the mental form; and as is the
mental form, so is the physical
materialization." In other words, the visualized
mental image is the matrix or mould into which
the Mind-Power is poured, and from which it
takes form; and around this mental image the
deposit of materialization forms--and thus does
the ideal become the real.
If you
wish to get the best effects from Mind-Power you
must create a mental image around which the
material or physical materialization is
formed--and the way to form the proper mental
image is by visualization, which thus builds Tip
the matrix or mould in which the Mind-Power
pours. And as is the matrix so is the image, and
as is the image so is the materialization.
Before
you can draw to you the material needed for
building up the things or conditions you desire
you must form a clear mental image of just
what you want to materialize--and before
you can make this mental image, you must realize
mentally just exactly what you do desire.
And the process of this is called visualization.
That is, you build up a mental matrix or mould,
little by little, until you have it before you
clearly--until it stands out clearly formed as a
mental image, just as you would see it if it
were actually materialized.
Then you
must hold this mental image before you
constantly, regarding it not as a mere
imagination, but as a something real
which you have created in your mind, and
which will proceed to surround itself with the
material necessary to give it material
objectivity, or materialization.
If you
cannot see the whole thing at first, as a mental
image--that is, if you are not able to build up
a complete matrix by visualization, then do the
next best thing--which is the very best thing
for the majority of people--and build a matrix
of the first step toward the whole thing, that
is, the first thing that is needed. Then
concentrate upon this first thing until the
mental image stands out sharp and clear, and you
will find that things have been started in
motion.
Then,
you may add little by little to your matrix, and
build up your mental image a little larger and
in greater detail. And here is an important
thing. You must mentally see the thing as
actually existing, right now, and not as "going
to exist" later on. You must realize that the
mental image exists right now, else it will lack
clearness and effectiveness.
You must
pour into that mental image a constant supply of
strong, positive Desire-Force, and Willpower,
all of which will spread out in the proper
directions and affect the material needed to
materialize your mental image. By so doing you
impart to the mentative currents the necessary
impetus and direction, and they will operate
along these lines, and will proceed to
materialize your mental image for you.
Things
will come your way; people will appear who are
necessary to your plans; information will come
to you from strange sources, and in unexpected
times and places; opportunities will open
themselves up to you. But remember this, that
you must be prepared to act upon these openings,
and opportunities. You must be alert and
watchful, and expectant. You will have
to do the work, remember, yourself, although the
forces you have started into operation will
supply you with the material.
The door
will be opened to you, but you must step in
yourself; the tools and materials will be
provided yon, but you must use them; the
information will he laid before you, but you
must make it your own. Even Mind-Power will not
avail the lazy man. You must learn to "do
things" yourself.
This
subject of visualization would fill a book by
itself, but I hope that I have been able to give
you a clear idea of its working principles.
Remember,
always this rule--this Triple-Key of Attainment,
as I have often called it:
(1) You
must desire a thing most intensely;
(2) then
you must earnestly expect it:
(3) then
you must use your will in the direction
of action tending to bring it about.
But
first of all, as I have said, you must know just
what you do want, and then proceed to create the
mental matrix or mould by visualization--that
is, you most proceed to mentally see it
as already existing.
This
chapter must be read and studied in connection
with the chapters preceding it, for they blend
into each other, and the information "laps." I
have given you certain principles, in plain,
practical form, which may seem so simple to you
as to be passed over without the proper
consideration and examination.
Do not
make this mistake, I pray you. Do not long for
high-sounding terms and mystical verbiage. The
truth is capable of being expressed without
these fancy trappings or drapery. I have tried
to tell you the principle of these things--but
you must study carefully in order to grasp every
point.
I have
boiled down, and condensed a great deal of
information into this lesson--be sure that you
do not allow any of the points to escape you.
You cannot expect to acquaint yourself fully
with this subject in one hasty reading. You must
read and re-read many times, with careful study
and thought. You must do some thinking on your
own account, in order to apply these general
principles to your own "symptoms" and needs. You
must read carefully, and then think a little.
There is
no royal road to Mind-Power, or anything else. I
have tried to make the road a little easier for
you--but you must do the traveling yourself. You
cannot reach the heights by proxy. You must
digest these things yourself--predigested ideas
will do you no good.
Underlying
all of these wonderful manifestations of
telementation, there is just the simple
principle that I have pointed out to
you--induction of mental states by Desire-Force
and Will-Power. Everything occurs by reason of
this principle. You may think that the book that
you needed, and which came to you so
wonderfully, must have arrived in some other
way.
Not so,
the book was placed here, and moved there, by
people, and these people have minds capable of
being moved by vibratory waves and so when once
the thing was set into operation, all things
worked together toward the given end. Even the
present book reached you under the law of
attraction. There is no chance in these
matters--there are laws in operation everywhere,
and always--and over all there is the Great Law.
And, now
in concluding this chapter, I would remind you
to always realize that you are centers of living
mental energy in the great Ocean of Mind-Power.
And that you are strong in the degree that you
are positive. And that you are positive in the
degree that you are an individual. And you are
an Individual in the degree that you realize
that you are a "center of living will,"
There is
nothing to fear but fear--you are capable of
asserting your individuality always, and
everywhere--your only chains are those you forge
for yourself--you are free right now, here, and
always. Do not be deluded by the petty things of
personality, that pass away and perish
over-night--but rest serene and firm in the
consciousness that you are an individual living
will center; and fear not to assert the
individual "I." There is no Devil but
fear--nothing bit fear can keep you from your
own heritage and birthright Assert the "I" and
banish fear.
