It is my privilege to enclose Part Twenty-One. In paragraph 7 you will find that one of the secrets of success, one of the methods of organizing victory, one of the accomplishments of the Master Mind is to think big thoughts. 

In paragraph 8 you will find that everything which we hold in our consciousness for any length of time becomes impressed upon our subconsciousness and so becomes a pattern which the creative energy will wave into our life and environment. This is the secret of the wonderful power of prayer.
We know that the universe is governed by law; that for every effect there must be a cause, and that the same cause, under the same conditions, will invariably produce the same effect. 
Consequently, if prayer has ever been answered, it will always be answered, if the proper conditions are complied with. This must necessarily be true; otherwise the universe would be a chaos instead of a cosmos.
 
The answer to prayer is therefore subject to law, and this law is definite, exact and scientific, just as are the laws governing gravitation and electricity. An understanding of this law takes the foundation of Christianity out of the realm of superstition and credulity and places it upon the firm rock of scientific understanding.
But, unfortunately, there are comparatively few persons who know how to pray. 
They understand that there are laws governing electricity, mathematics, and chemistry, but, for some inexplicable reason, it never seems to occur to them that there are also spiritual laws, and that these laws are also definite, scientific, exact, and operate with immutable precision.

PART TWENTY-ONE
1. The real secret of power is consciousness of power. The Universal Mind is unconditional; therefore, the more conscious we become of our unity with this mind, the less conscious we shall become of conditions and limitations, and as we become emancipated or freed from conditions we come into a realization of the unconditional. We have become free!
2. As soon as we become conscious of the inexhaustible power in the world within, we begin to draw on this power and apply and develop the greater possibilities which this discernment has realized, because whatever we become conscious of, is invariably manifested in the objective world, is brought forth into tangible expression.
3. This is because the Infinite Mind, which is the source from which all things proceed, is one and indivisible, and each individual is a channel whereby this Eternal Energy is being manifested. Our ability to think is our ability to act upon this Universal Substance, and what we think is what is created or produced in the objective world.
4. The result of this discovery is nothing less than marvelous, and means that mind is extraordinary in quality, limitless in quantity, and contains possibilities without number. To become conscious of this power is to become a "live wire"; it has the same effect as placing an ordinary wire in contact with a wire that is charged. The Universal is the live wire. It carries power sufficient to meet every situation which may arise in the life of every individual. When the individual mind touches the Universal Mind it receives all the power it requires. This is the world within. All science recognizes the reality of this world, and all power is contingent upon our recognition of this world.
5. The ability to eliminate imperfect conditions depends upon mental action, and mental action depends upon consciousness of power; therefore, the more conscious we become of our unity with the source of all power, the greater will be our power to control and master every condition.
6. Large ideas have a tendency to eliminate all smaller ideas so that it is well to hold ideas large enough to counteract and destroy all small or undesirable tendencies. This will remove innumerable petty and annoying obstacles from your path. You also become conscious of a larger world of thought, thereby increasing your mental capacity as well as placing yourself in position to accomplish something of value.
7. This is one of the secrets of success, one of the methods of organizing victory, one of the accomplishments of the Master-Mind. He thinks big thoughts. The creative energies of mind find no more difficulty in handling large situations, than small ones. Mind is just as much present in the Infinitely large as in the Infinitely small.
8. When we realize these facts concerning mind we understand how we may bring ourselves any condition by creating the corresponding conditions in our consciousness, because everything which is held for any length of time in the consciousness, eventually becomes impressed upon the subconscious and thus becomes a pattern which the creative energy will wave into the life and environment of the individual.
9. In this way conditions are produced and we find that our lives are simply the reflection of our predominant thoughts, our mental attitude; we see then that the science of correct thinking is the one science, that it includes all other sciences.
10. From this science we learn that every thought creates an impression on the brain, that these impressions create mental tendencies, and these tendencies create character, ability and purpose, and that the combined action of character, ability and purpose determines the experiences with which we shall meet in life.
11. These experiences come to us through the Law of Attraction; through the action of this law we meet in the world without the experiences which correspond to our world within.
12. The predominant thought or the mental attitude is the magnet, and the law is that "like attracts like", consequently the mental attitude will invariably attract such conditions as correspond to its nature.
13. This mental attitude is our personality and is composed of the thoughts which we have been creating in our own mind; therefore, if we wish a change in conditions all that is necessary is to change our thought; this will in turn change our mental attitude, which will in turn change our personality, which will in turn change the persons, things and conditions, or, the experiences with which we meet in life.
14. It is, however, no easy matter to change the mental attitude, but by persistent effort it may be accomplished; the mental attitude is patterned after the mental pictures which have been photographed on the brain; if you do not like the pictures, destroy the negatives and create new pictures; this is the art of visualization.
15. As soon as you have done this you will begin to attract new things, and the new things will correspond to the new pictures. To do this: impress on the mind a perfect picture of the desire which you wish to have objectified and continue to hold the picture in mind until results are obtained.
16. If the desire is one which requires determination, ability, talent, courage, power or any other spiritual power, these are necessary essentials for your picture; build them in; they are the vital part of the picture; they are the feeling which combines with thought and creates the irresistible magnetic power which draws the things you require to you. They give your picture life, and life means growth, and as soon as it beings to grow, the result is practically assured.
17. Do not hesitate to aspire to the highest possible attainments in anything you may undertake, for the mind forces are ever ready to lend themselves to a purposeful will in the effort to crystallize its highest aspirations into acts, accomplishments, and events.
18. An illustration of how these mind forces operate is suggested by the method in which all our habits are formed. We do a thing, then do it again, and again, and again, until it becomes easy and perhaps almost automatic; and the same rule applies in breaking any and all bad habits; we stop doing a thing, and then avoid it again, and again until we are entirely free from it; and if we do fail now and then, we should by no means lose hope, for the law is absolute and invincible and gives us credit for every effort and every success, even though our efforts and successes are perhaps intermittent.
19. There is no limit to what this law can do for you; dare to believe in your own idea; remember that Nature is plastic to the ideal; think of the ideal as an already accomplished fact.
20. The real battle of life is one of ideas; it is being fought out by the few against the many; on the one side is the constructive and creative thought, on the other side the destructive and negative thought; the creative thought is dominated by an ideal, the passive thought is dominated by appearances. On both sides are men of science, men of letters, and men of affairs.
21. On the creative side are men who spend their time in laboratories, or over microscopes and telescopes, side by side with the men who dominate the commercial, political, and scientific world; on the negative side or men who spend their time investigating law and precedent, men who mistake theology for religion, statesmen who mistake might for right, and all the millions who seem to prefer precedent to progress, who are eternally looking backward instead of forward, who see only the world without, but know nothing of the world within.
22. In the last analysis there are but these two classes; all men will have to take their place on one side or the other; they will have to go forward, or go back; there is no standing still in a world where all is motion; it is this attempt to stand still that gives sanction and force to arbitrary and unequal codes of law.
23. That we are in a period of transition is evidenced by the unrest which is everywhere apparent. The complaint of humanity is as a roll of heaven's artillery, commencing with low and threatening notes and increasing until the sound is sent from cloud to cloud, and the lightning splits the air and earth.
24. The sentries who patrol the most advanced outposts of the Industrial, Political, and Religious world are calling anxiously to each other. What of the night? The danger and insecurity of the position they occupy and attempt to hold is becoming more apparent every hour. The dawn of a new era necessarily declares that the existing order of things cannot much longer be.
25. The issue between the old regime and the new, the crux of the social problem, is entirely a question of conviction in the minds of the people as to the nature of the Universe. When they realize that the transcendent force of spirit or mind of the Cosmos is within each individual, it will be possible to frame laws that shall consider the liberties and rights of the many instead of the privileges of the few.
26. As long as the people regard the Cosmic power as a power non-human and alien to humanity, so long will it be comparatively easy for a supposed privileged class to rule by Divine right in spite of every protest of social sentiment. The real interest of democracy is therefore to exalt, emancipate and recognize the divinity of the human spirit. To recognize that all power is from within. That no human being has any more power than any other human being, except such as may willingly be delegated to him. The old regime would have us believe that the law was superior to the law-makers; herein is the gist of the social crime of every form of privilege and personal inequality, the institutionalizing of the fatalistic doctrine of Divine election.
27. The Divine Mind is the Universal Mind; it makes no exceptions, it plays no favorites; it does not act through sheer caprice or from anger, jealousy or wrath; neither can it be flattered, cajoled or moved by sympathy or petition to supply man with some need which he thinks necessary for his happiness or even his existence. The Divine Mind makes no exceptions to favor any individual; but when the individual understands and realizes his Unity with the Universal principle he will appear to be favored because he will have found the source of all health, all wealth, and all power.
28. For your exercise this week, concentrate on the Truth. Try to realize that the Truth shall make you free, that is, nothing can permanently stand in the way of your perfect success when you learn to apply the scientifically correct thought methods and principles. Realize that you are externalizing in your environment your inherent soul potencies. Realize that the Silence offers an ever-available and almost unlimited opportunity for awakening the highest conception of Truth. Try to comprehend that Omnipotence itself is absolute silence, all else is change, activity, limitation. Silent thought concentration is therefore the true method of reaching, awakening, and then expressing the wonderful potential power of the world within.
The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequence eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do them good, but instead leave all to chance——Marden       

 
很高興開講第二十一章。在本章中,你會學到:成功的秘訣之一,通往勝利的途徑之一,也是大智大勇者的造化之一,就是敢於提出大設想、大思考。


在下面,你也會發現,我們的意識中出現過的一切想法,不管它存在的時間有多久,都會在我們的潛意識中留下戳記,因而構成了一種模式,我們的創造性能量就是按照這種模式編織我們的生活和環境的。這就是神奇的祈禱力量的奧秘之所在。


我們知道,宇宙是遵循法則運轉的。事凡有果,勢必有因,只要是相同的“因”,在相同的情境下,一定會產生相同的“果”。因此,如果祈禱曾經被應允過,那麽只要是在合適的條件下,所有的祈禱就都會被應允。這一點是絕對真實的,否則,宇宙將不再是有序的日月星辰,而成為一片空虛混沌。如果祈求就能得到答覆,那麽這種答覆一定是遵循法則的。這種法則是絕對、準確、科學的,就如引力法則和電力法則一模一樣。對這種法則的領會將帶領人們不再紮根於迷信盲從的沼澤,而是奠基在科學觀念堅固的磐石上。


然而,很不幸的是,很少有人知道應該如何去祈禱。他們知道有數學定律、化學原理、電力法則,但不知道為什麽,他們卻從來不知道有精神法則,而所謂的精神法則是同樣確定、科學、嚴格的,它準確無誤、亙古不變地運行著。


《第二十一章》


1、力量的真正奧秘在於對力量的認識。宇宙精神是無條件存在的,因此,只要我們能清楚地意識到我們與宇宙精神的同一性,那些外在的條件和局限對我們來說就會顯得微不足道。當我們從條件和局限中解放出來,獲得自由,我們就能夠隨心所欲。我們自由了!


2、一旦意識到內在世界這種取之不盡、用之不竭的力量,我們很快就能從中汲取力量和勇氣,運用它並創造出這種認知帶給我們的更多更好的機會,因為不管我們意識到什麽,這種意識都會在客觀世界中彰顯出來,並獲得有形的表達。


3、這是因為,無限精神是萬物產生的根源,它是一個不可再分的整體,而任何個體都是這種永恒能量分流的渠道。我們的思考能力也就是我們作用於宇宙質的能力,我們所思所想的,也正是我們在客觀世界中所創造的。


4、這個發現不啻於奇跡,這意味著精神在性質上是超凡的,在數量上是無限的,其中包含了無窮無盡的可能性。意識到這種能力,你就能夠成為一根“通電的線路”,就好比把一根普通的電線接到了帶電的線路上一樣。宇宙就是一根帶電的線路。它的能量足以讓你應對個人生活中層出不窮的問題。當個人的精神觸摸到宇宙精神的時候,就能夠接收到所需要的全部能量。這就是內在世界的作用。一切科學都認可這個世界的存在,一切力量都取決於我們對這個世界的認知。


5、從不完美的境遇中解脫出來的能力取決於精神行為,而精神行為又取決於對力量的認知。因此,我們越是認識到自己與一切力量之源的統一,我們就越有力量去控制和把握所有的外部環境。


6、大理念有一種消滅一切小理念的傾向,這樣才能使自己抱持的理念大到足以去抵消並摧毀一切渺小的、不良的絆腳石。帶你進入到一個更加開闊的思想領域中,當你的精神容量變得更加開闊,你就可以讓自己處在更好的位置上,以實現一此有價值的事情。


7、這就是成功的秘訣之一,是通往勝利的途徑之一,是大智大勇者的造化之一。有大智慧的人,總是從大處著想。精神的創造性能量,在應對大環境時,並不比應對小環境更困難,它總是舉重若輕、化難為易。它既存在於“無窮大”中,也存在於“無窮小”中。


8、當我們認識到這些精神的事實,就會明白我們是如何把意識中的情境帶到客觀世界中的,因此任何在意識中存在過一段時間的想法,最終都會在潛意識中留下印記,轉換成一種創造性能量,從而滲入到個體的生活與境遇中。


9、我們所遭遇的環境就是這樣產生的,我們的生活不過是我們的思想和心態的折射。我們知道,正確思想是一門科學,這門科學涵蓋了所有學問。


10、研究這門科學,我們就知道,任何想法都會在大腦中留下印記,這種印象創造了精神傾向,而精神傾向又創造了性格、能力和意圖,性格、能力和意圖的綜合作用,決定了我們在生活中所遭遇的一切經歷。


11、這些經歷正是通過引力法則的作用,在我們的身上顯現出來的。正是在這一法則的作用下,我們在外在世界中所經歷的一切,都與我們的內在世界相一致。


12、支配性的思想或心態,就像一塊磁石,只不過遵循的是“同性相吸”的法則,因此,心態總是把那些與其特性相一致的外在境遇吸引到你的身邊。


13、這種心態也就是我們的人格,它由我們自己頭腦中所產生的想法組成。因此,如果我們希望自己的境遇發生改變,惟一要做的就是改變我們的想法,這反過來會從改變我們的心態,改變我們的人格,從而也就改變了我們在生活中遭遇的人和事,環境和經歷。


14、不過,改變心態並不是一件容易事,但通過堅持不懈的努力,還是可以實現的。當我們的頭腦中攝入精神圖像的時候,精神狀態就形成了。如果我們不喜歡目前的圖像,我們可以拿去其中有負面作用的成分,創造新的圖像,這就是視覺化的藝術。


15、當你完成了這步,你就開始將一些新的東西吸引到自己身邊了,這些新的事物是與你腦海中新的圖景相吻合的。這樣做:把你理想中的一幅完美畫面印到你的心靈中,這幅畫面應該是你希望在客觀世界中實現的,在你的心靈中保存這幅圖畫,一直到它變成現實。


16、如果實現願望需要決心、能力、才華、勇氣、力量或任何其他精神能量,那麽這些也應該是你的精神圖像中必不可少的要素。把它們放入你的內心深處,它們是圖像中最關鍵的成分。它們是情感和理性的結合,這將會產生不可抗拒的魔力,把你需要的一切帶到你的身邊。它們會把生機賦予你的精神圖像,生機意味著成長,一旦它開始成長,那麽實際的結果就必然會實現。


17、不管你做什麽,都應該毫不猶豫地去追求能夠達到的最高境界,因為精神力量時刻準備對你是以援手,只要你有堅強的意誌,努力把這種至高的追求轉化為行動、造化與事件。


18、這種精神能力如何發生作用,與我們的習慣是如何養成的非常類似。我們做一件事情,反反覆覆去做,這件事情就會變得輕而易舉,甚至是習慣成自然。而要改掉那些壞習氣,道理也是一樣。只要我們不再做某事,一而再,再而三地避免它,直到我們完全從中解脫出來。如果我們偶爾失敗跌倒,也絕不應該喪失信心,因為這個法則是絕對的、不可戰勝的,它信任我們的每一次努力、每一次成功,即便我們的努力和進步並非總是一帆風順。


19、這條法則可以為你做任何的_事情。大膽地相信你自己的理想吧!要記住,人的天性是能夠被理想塑造的,你只要把理想當作既成事實去想它。


20、生命中惟一的戰爭就是理念的爭鬥,這是少數與多數的鬥爭。一方是建設性的、創造性的思想,另一方是破壞性的、負面的想法。創造性的思想受理想的支配,消極的思想受表象的支配。雙方各有勢力,有科學家、文學家和實幹家。


21、站在創造性思想一方的,代表性人物就是那些在實驗室裏、或是通過顯微鏡和望遠鏡觀察世界的人,與他們並肩而戰的是商界、政界以及科學界的權威人士。而在消極的一方,代表性的人物就是那些花費時間研究傳統和習俗,錯把神學當宗教的人,還有那些錯把權力當權利的政客,以及成千上萬喜歡先例勝過喜歡進步的蕓蕓眾生,他們總是向後看而不是向前看,總是註意到外在世界,卻對內在世界一無所知。


22、歸根結底,只有這兩類人。對於每個人來說,若是不站在此方,就得站在彼方。要麽倒退,要麽前進。對一個運動的世界而言,想要站在原地不動根本就是不可能的事。正是那些不想進步、想要站在原地靜止不動的嘗試,才使得那些恣意專橫、極不公平的陳規陋習有了保障和力量。


23、我們正處在一個急劇變遷的時期,無處不在的動蕩局面就是明顯的例證。人類的訴苦聲就像是天空中一連串滾滾雷鳴,一開始是低沈而兇險的悶響,逐漸地,聲音越來越大,穿過層層烏雲,閃電劃破長空,照徹大地。


24、那些在產業、政治和宗教世界的前沿陣地上巡邏站崗的哨兵們,憂慮不安地互相招呼:夜裏如何。(譯註:語出《舊約·以賽亞書》第21章)他們所占據並努力把持的位置,每時每刻_都面臨危機和風險。而新時代的黎明必將宣告,現存的秩序已去日無多。


25、新舊體制之間的爭鋒,社會問題的癥結,完全是一個人類智慧對宇宙本性的信念問題。當他們認識到宇宙精神的超驗力量就存在於每個人的心中的時候,就可能會制定出這樣的法律:它們尊重多數人的自由和權利,而不是少數人的特權。


26、盡管抗議的浪潮一個接著一個,但只要人們依然認為宇宙能力是一種非人類的能力,一種對人類來說陌生遙遠的能力,少數的特權就很容易借助神權確立他們的統治。因此,民主的真正要義,在於提升、解放並認知人類精神的神聖性;在於認識到一切能量都源於內在。任何人都不比其他人擁有更多的權力,除非人們自願地授權給他。舊的體制讓我們相信,法律高於立法者。把“神的選擇”的宿命論信條制度化了,特權和個人不平等所帶來的每一種形式的罪惡,其根源正在於此。


27、“神的精神”就是宇宙精神。它不允許有例外,不允許有偏愛。它的作為不會出自心血來潮或是一時的怒氣、忿恨和嫉妒。它不接受人的恭維或是甜言蜜語的欺哄,不為同情心所動,不會隨意根據人的想法把生存、幸福的需要厚賜予人。宇宙精神對任何人都一視同仁,公正不阿。但是,如果誰能夠認識並領會自己與宇宙精神的同一性,看起來宇宙精神就會對他青睞有加,因為他發現了一切健康、財富和力量的源泉。


28、你本周的作業是,集中精力思考學到的真理。努力認識到這一點,真理能夠使你自由,如果你能學會運用這種科學的思想觀和精神法則,你就會發現在你通往成功的道路上沒有什麽事情能夠成為你永遠的阻礙。要明白,你正在用你內在心靈的力量具體化你的外部環境。要認識到,“寂靜”提供了隨時可以利用而且幾乎無窮無盡的機遇,喚醒你對真理的最高認識。試著去領會,“全能力量”本身就是絕對寂靜,其他的一切都是變化的、活躍的、有局限的。因此,通過集中意念而進入“寂靜”之境,才是探索、喚醒、表達你內在世界神奇的潛在力量的惟一正確的方法。


訓練思想帶來的機遇是無窮無盡的,它的益處是長存不息的,然而,卻很少有人願意下功夫把自己的思想導入讓自己受益的正確渠道,而是一切都聽憑運氣的擺布。——馬登


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