The walls, the obstacles, the problems, crumble of their own weight if I 
can reach the point of stillness within me. The man who can fix within his own mind's eye an idea, even though the 
world would deny it, if he remains faithful to that idea he will see it mani -
fested. There is all the difference in the world between holding the idea, 
and being held by the idea. Become so dominated by an idea that it 
haunts the mind as though you were it. Then, regardless of what others 
may say, you are walking in the direction of your fixed attitude of mind. You are walking in the direction of the idea that dominates the mind. As we told you last night, you have but one gift that is truly yours to give,
and that is yourself. There is no other gift; you must press it out of your -
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenself by an appropriation. It is there within you now for creation is finished. There is nothing to be that is not now. There is nothing to be created for 
all things are already yours, they are finished. Although man may not be able to stand physically upon a state, he can 
always stand mentally upon any desired state. By standing mentally I 
mean that you can now, this very moment, close your eyes and visualize 
a place other than your present one, and assume that you are actually 
there. You can FEEL this to be so real that upon opening your eyes you 
are amazed to find that you are not physically there. This mental journey into the desired state, with its subsequent feeling of 
reality, is all that is necessary to bring about its fulfillment. Your dimen -
sionally greater self has ways that the lesser, or three-dimensional you, 
know not of. Furthermore, to the greater you, all means are good which 
promote the fulfillment of your assumption. Remain in the mental state defined as your objective until it has the feel -
ing of reality, and all the forces of heaven and earth will rush to aid its 
embodiment. Your greater self will influence the actions and words of all 
who can be used to aid the production of your fixed mental attitude. *****
Now we turn to the book of Numbers and here we find a strange story. I 
trust that some of you have had this experience as described in the book 
of Numbers. They speak of the building of a tabernacle at the command 
of God; that God commanded Israel to build him a place of worship. He gave them all the specifications of the tabernacle. It had to be an 
elongated, movable place of worship, and it had to be covered with skin. Need you be told anything more? Isn’t that man? “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God 
dwelleth in you?” (1 Cor 3:16). There is no other temple. Not a temple made with hands, but a temple 
eternal in the heavens. This temple is elongated, and it is covered with 
skin, and it moves across the dessert. “And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the 
tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was 
upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning. So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire 
by night.” (Num 9:15, 16). The command given to Israel was to tarry until the cloud ascended by day
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenand the fire by night. “Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, 
that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the chil -
dren of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was 
taken up, they journeyed.” (Num 9:22). You know that you are the tabernacle, but you may wonder, what is the 
cloud. In meditation many of you must have seen it. In meditation, this 
cloud, like the sub-soil waters of an artesian well, springs spontaneously 
to your head and forms itself into pulsating, golden rings. Then, like a 
gentle river they flow from your head in a stream of living rings of gold. In a meditative mood bordering on sleep the cloud ascends. It is in this 
drowsy state that you should assume that you are that which you desire 
to be, and that you have that which you seek, for the cloud will assume 
the form of your assumption and fashion a world in harmony with itself. The cloud is simply the garment of your consciousness, and where your 
consciousness placed, there you will be in the flesh also. This golden cloud comes in meditation. There is a certain point when you 
are approaching sleep that it is very, very thick, very liquid, and very 
much alive and pulsing. It begins to ascend as you reach the drowsy, 
meditative state, bordering on sleep. You do not strike the tabernacle; 
neither do you move it until the cloud begins to ascend. The cloud always ascends when man approaches the drowsiness of sleep. For when a man goes to sleep, whether he knows it or not, he slips from a
three-dimensional world into a fourth-dimensional world and that which is
ascending is the consciousness of that man in a greater focus; it is a 
fourth-dimensional focus. What you now see ascending is your greater self. When that begins to as -
cend you enter into the actual state of feeling you are what you want to 
be. That is the time you lull yourself into the mood of being what you 
want to be, by either experiencing in imagination what you would experi -
ence in reality were you already that which you want to be, or by repeat -
ing over and over again the phrase that implies you have already done 
what you want to do. A phrase such as, “Isn't it wonderful, isn't it won -
derful,” as though some wonderful thing had happened to you. “In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, 
in slumberings upon the bed. Then he openeth the ears of men, and 
sealeth their instruction.” (Job 33:15, 16). Use wisely the interval preceding sleep. Assume the feeling of the wish 
fulfilled and go to sleep in this mood. At night, in a dimensionally larger 
world, when deep sleep falleth upon men, they see and play the parts 
that they will later play on earth. And the drama is always in harmony 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenwith that which their dimensionally greater selves read and play through 
them. Our illusion of free will is but ignorance of the causes which make 
us act. The sensation which dominates the mind of man as he falls asleep, 
though false, will harden into fact. Assuming the feeling of the wish ful -
filled as we  fall asleep, is the command to this embodying process saying
to our mood, “Be thou actual.” In this way we become through a natural 
process what we desire to be. I can tell you dozens of personal experiences where it seemed impossible 
to go elsewhere, but by placing myself elsewhere mentally as I was about
to go to sleep, circumstances changed quickly which compelled me to 
make the journey. I have done it across water by placing myself at night 
on my bed as though I slept where I wanted to be. As the days unfolded 
things began to mold themselves in harmony with that assumption and all
things that must happen to compel my journey did happen. And I, in spite
of myself, must make ready to go toward that place which I assumed I 
was in when I approached the deep of sleep. As my cloud ascends I assume that I am now the man I want to be, or 
that I am already in the place where I want to visit. I sleep in that place 
now. Then life strikes the tabernacle, strikes my environment and re -
assembles my environment across seas or over land and reassembles it in
the likeness of my assumption. It has nothing to do with men walking 
across a physical desert. The whole vast world round about you is a 
desert. From the cradle to the grave you and I walk as though we walk the 
desert. But we have a living tabernacle wherein God dwells, and it is cov -
ered with a cloud which can and does ascend when we got to sleep or are 
in a state akin to sleep. Not necessarily in two days, it can ascend in two 
minutes. Why did they give you two days? If I now become the man I 
want to be, I may become dissatisfied tomorrow. I should at least give it 
a day before I decide to move on. The Bible says in two days, a month, or a year; whenever you decide to 
move on with this tabernacle let the cloud ascend. As it ascends you start 
moving where the cloud is. The cloud is simply the garment of your con -
sciousness, your assumption. Where the consciousness is placed you do 
not have to take the physical body; it gravitates there in spite of you. Things happen to compel you to move in the direction where you are con -
sciously dwelling. “In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have 
told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place 
for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Haventhere ye may be also.” (John 14:2, 3). The many mansions are the unnumbered states within your mind, for you 
are the house of God. In my Father's house are unnumbered concepts of 
self. You could not in eternity exhaust what you are capable of being. If I sit quietly here and assume that I am elsewhere, I have gone and 
prepared a place. But if I open my eyes, the bi-location which I created 
vanishes and I am back here in the physical form that I left behind me as 
I went to prepare a place. But I prepared the place nevertheless and will 
in time dwell there physically. You do not have to concern yourself with the ways and the means that 
will be employed to move you across space into that place where you 
have gone and mentally prepared it. Simply sit quietly, no matter where 
you are, and mentally actualize it. But I give you warning, do not treat it lightly, for I am conscious of what it
will do to people who treat it lightly. I treated it lightly once because I just
wanted to get away, based only upon the temperature of the day. It was 
in the deep of winter in New York, and I so desired to be in the warm cli -
mate of the Indies, that I slept that night as though I slept under palm 
trees. Next morning when I awoke it was still very much winter. I had no intentions of going to the Indies that year, but distressing news 
came which compelled me to make the journey. It was in the midst of war
when ships were being sunk right and left, but I sailed out of New York on
a ship 48 hours after I received this news. It was the only way I could get
to Barbados, and I arrived just in time to see my mother and say a three-
dimensional “goodbye” to her. In spite of the fact that I had no intentions of going, the deeper self 
watched where the great cloud ascended. I placed it in Barbados and this 
tabernacle (my body) had to go and make the journey to fulfill the com -
mand, “Wherever the sole of your foot shall tread that have I given unto 
you.” Wherever the cloud descends in the desert, there you reassemble 
that tabernacle. I sailed from New York at midnight on a ship without taking thought of 
submarines or anything else. I had to go. Things happened in a way that I
could not have devised. I warn you, do not treat it lightly. Do not say, “I will experiment and put 
myself in Labrador, just to see if it will work.” You will go to your Labrador 
and then you will wonder why you ever came to this class. It will work if 
you dare assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled as you go to sleep. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenControl your moods as you go to sleep. I cannot find any better way to 
describe this technique than to call it a “controlled waking dream.” In a 
dream you lose control, but try preceding your sleep with a complete con -
trolled waking dream, entering into it as you do in a dream, for in a 
dream you are always very dominant, you always play the part. You are 
always an actor in a dream, and never the audience. When you have a 
controlled waking dream you are an actor and you enter into the act of 
the controlled dream. But do not do it lightly, for you must then reenact it
physically in a three-dimensional world. Now before we go into our moment of silence there is something I must 
make very clear, and that is this effort we discussed last night. If there is 
one reason in this whole vast world why people fail it is because they are 
unaware of a law known to psychologists today as the law of reverse ef -
fort. When you assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled it is with a minimum of
effort. You must control the direction of the movements of your attention. But you must do it with the least effort. If there is effort in the control, 
and you are compelling it in a certain way you are not going to get the re -
sults. You will get the opposite results, whatever they might be. That is why we insist on establishing the basis of the Bible as Adam slept. That is the first creative act, and there is no record where he was ever 
awakened from this profound sleep. While he sleeps creation stops. You change your future best when you are in control of your thoughts 
while in a state akin to sleep, for then effort is reduced to its minimum. Your attention seems to completely relax, and then you must practice 
holding your attention within that feeling, without using force, and with -
out using effort. Do not think for a moment that it is will power that does it. When you re -
lease Barabbas and become identified with Jesus, you do not will yourself 
to be it, you imagine that you are it. That is all you do. Now as we come to the vital part of the evening, the interval devoted to 
prayer, let me again clarify this technique. Know what you want. Then 
construct a single event, an event which implies fulfillment of your wish. Restrict the event to a single act. For instance, if I single out as an event, shaking a man's hand, then that 
is the only thing I do. I do not shake it, then light a cigarette and do a 
thousand other things. I simply imagine that I am actually shaking hands 
and keep the act going over and over and over again until the imaginary 
act has all the feeling of reality. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenThe event must always imply fulfillment of the wish. Always construct an 
event which you believe you would naturally encounter following the ful -
fillment of your desire. You are the judge of what event you really want to
realize. There is another technique I gave you last night. If you cannot concen -
trate on an act, if you cannot snuggle into your chair and believe the chair
is elsewhere, just as though elsewhere were here, then do this: Reduce 
the idea, condense it to a single, simple phrase like, “Isn't it wonderful,” 
or, “Thank you,” or, “It's done,” or, “It's finished.”
There should not be more than three words. Something that implies the 
desire is already realized. “Isn't it wonderful,” or “Thank you,” certainly 
imply that. These are not all the phrases you could use. Make up out of 
your own vocabulary the phrase which best suits you. But make it very, 
very short and always use a phrase that implies fulfillment of the idea. When you have your phrase in mind, lift the cloud. Let the cloud ascend 
by simply inducing the state that borders on sleep. Simply begin to imag -
ine and feel you are sleepy, and in this state assume the feeling of the 
wish fulfilled. Then repeat the phrase over and over like a lullaby. Whatev -
er the phrase is, let it imply that the assumption is true, that it is con -
crete, that it is already a fact and you know it. Just relax and enter into the feeling of actually being what you want to 
be. As you do it you are entering Jericho with your spy who has the power
to give it. You are releasing Barabbas and sentencing Jesus to be crucified
and resurrected. All these stories you are reenacting if now you begin to 
let go and enter into the feeling of actually being what you want to be. Now we can go. SILENCE PERIOD. *****
If your hands are dry, and if your mouth is dry at the end of this medita -
tion, that is positive proof that you did succeed in lifting the cloud. What 
you were doing when the cloud was lifted is entirely your business. But 
you did lift the cloud if your hands are dry. I will give you another phenomena that is very strange and one I cannot 
analyze. It happens if you really go into the deep. You will find on waking 
that you have the most active pair of kidneys in the world. I have dis -
cussed it with doctors and they cannot explain it. Another thing you may observe in meditation is a lovely liquid blue light. The nearest thing on earth to which I can compare it is burning alcohol. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenYou know when you put alcohol on the plum pudding at Christmas time 
and set it aflame, the lovely liquid blue flame that envelops the pudding 
until you blow it out. That flame is the nearest thing to the blue light 
which comes on the forehead of a man in meditation. Do not be distressed. You will know it when you see it. It is like two 
shades of blue, a darker and a lighter blue in constant motion, just like 
burning alcohol, which is unlike the constant flame of a gas jet. This flame
is alive, just as spirit would be alive. Another thing that may come to you as it did to me. You will see spots be -
fore your eyes. They are not liver spots as some people will tell you who 
know nothing about it. These are little things that float in space like a 
mesh, little circles all tied together. They start with a single cell and come 
in groups in different geometrical patterns, like worms, like trailers, and 
they float all over your face. When you close your eyes you still see them,
proving that they are not from without, they are from within. When you begin to expand in consciousness all these things come. They 
may be your blood stream objectified by some strange trick of man that 
man does not quite understand. I am not denying that it is your blood 
steam made visible, but do not be distressed by thinking it is liver spots 
or some other silly thing that people will tell you. If these various phenomena come to you, do not think you are doing 
something wrong. It is the normal, natural expansion that comes to all 
men who take themselves in tow and try to develop the garden of Geth -
semane. The minute you begin to discipline your mind by observing your thoughts 
and watching your thoughts throughout the day, you become the police -
man of your thoughts. Refuse to enter into conversations that are unlove -
ly, refuse to listen attentively to anything that tears you down. Begin to build within your own mind's eye the vision of the perfect virgin 
rather than the vision of the foolish virgin. Listen only to the things that 
bring joy when you hear them. Do not give a willing ear to that which is 
unlovely, which when you heard it you wish you had not. That is listening 
and seeing things without oil in your lamp, or joy in your mind. There are two kinds of virgins in the Bible: five foolish and five wise vir -
gins. The minute you become the wise virgin, or try to make an attempt 
to do it, you will find all these things happen. You will see these things, 
and they interest you so that you have not time to develop the foolish 
sight, as many people do. I hope that no one here does. Because no one 
should be identified with this great work who can still find great joy in a 
discussion of another that is unlovely. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenLesson III: Thinking Fourth-Dimensionally
There are two actual outlooks on the world possessed by every man, and 
the ancient story tellers were fully conscious of these two outlooks. They 
called one “the carnal mind,” and the other “the mind of Christ.”
We recognize these two centers of thought in the statement: “The natural 
man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness 
unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually dis -
cerned.” (1 Cor 2:14). To the natural mind, reality is confined to the instant called now; this very
moment seems to contain the whole of reality, everything else is unreal. The the natural mind, the past and the future are purely imaginary. In 
other words my past, when I use the natural mind, is only a memory im -
age of things that were. And to the limited focus of the carnal or natural 
mind the future does not exist. The natural mind does not believe that it 
could revisit the past and see it as something that is present, something 
that is objective and concrete to itself, neither does it believe that the fu -
ture exists. To the Christ mind, the spiritual mind, which in our language we will call 
the fourth-dimensional focus, the past, the present, and the future of the 
natural mind are a present whole. It takes in the entire array of sensory 
impressions that man has encountered, is encountering and will en -
counter. The only reason you and I are functioning as we are today, and are not 
aware of the greater outlook, is simply because we are creatures of habit,
and habit renders us totally blind to what otherwise we should see; but 
habit is not law. It acts as though it were the most compelling force in the
world, yet it is not law. We can create a new approach to life. If you and I would spend a few 
minutes every day in withdrawing our attention from the region of sensa -
tion and concentrating it on an invisible state and remain faithful to this 
contemplation, feeling and sensing the reality of an invisible state, we 
would in time become aware of this greater world, this dimensionally larg -
er world. The state contemplated is now a concrete reality, displaced in 
time. Tonight as we turn to our Bible you be the judge as to where you stand in 
your present unfoldment. *****
Our first story for tonight is from the 5th chapter of the Gospel of Mark. In 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Haventhis chapter there are three stories told as though they were separate ex -
periences of the dominant characters. In the first story we are told that Jesus came upon an insane man, a 
naked man who lived in the cemetery and hid himself behind the tombs. This man appealed to Jesus not to cast out the devils that bedeviled him. But Jesus said unto him, “Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.” 
(Mark 5:8). Thus Jesus cast out the devils that they may now destroy themselves, 
and we find this man, for the first time, clothed and in his right mind and 
seated at the feet of the Master. We will get the psychological sense of 
this chapter by changing the name Jesus to that of enlightened reason or 
fourth-dimensional thinking. As we progress in this chapter we are told that Jesus now comes upon the
High Priest whose name is Jairus, and Jairus the High Priest of the Syna -
gogue has a child who is dying. She is 12 years old, and he appeals to Je -
sus to come and heal the child. Jesus consents, and as he starts toward the home of the High Priest a 
woman in the market place touched his garment. “And Jesus, immediately
knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned about in the 
press and said, Who touched my clothes?” (Mark 5:30). The woman who was healed of an issue of blood that she had had for 12 
years confessed that she had touched him. “And he said unto her, Daugh -
ter, Thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.” (Mark 5:34). As he continues toward the home of the High Priest he is told that the 
chld is dead and there is no need to go to resurrect her. She is no longer 
asleep, but is now dead. “As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler
of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe.” (Mark 5:36). “And when he was come in, he saith unto them. Why make ye this ado, 
and weep? The damsel is not dead, but sleepth.” (Mark 5:39). With this the entire crowd mocked and laughed, but Jesus, closing the 
doors against the mocking crowd, took with him into the household of 
Jairus, his disciples and the father and mother of the dead child. They entered into the room where the damsel was lying. “And he took the
damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.” 
(Mark 5:41). More Free Books Law of Attraction Haven“From this deep sleep she awoke and arose and walked, and the High 
Priest and all the others were astonished. And he changed them straightly
that no man should know it; and he commanded that something should 
be given her to eat.” (Mark 5:43). You are this very night, as you are seated here, pictured in this 5th chap -
ter of Mark. A cemetery is for one purpose: it is simply a record of the 
dead. Are you living in the dead past? If you are living among the dead, your prejudices, your superstitions, and
your false beliefs that you keep alive are the tombstones behind which 
you hide. If you refuse to let them go you are just as mad as the mad 
man of the Bible who pleaded with enlightened reason not to cast them 
out. There is no difference. But enlightened reason is incapable of protect -
ing prejudice and superstition against the inroads of reason. There is not a man in this world who has a prejudice, regardless of the 
nature of the prejudice, who can hold it up to the light of reason. Tell me 
you are against a certain nation, a certain race, a certain “ism,” a certain 
anything – I do not care what it is – you cannot expose that belief of 
yours to the light of reason and have it live. In order that it may be kept 
alive in your world you must hide it from reason. You cannot analyze it in 
the light of reason and have it live. When this fourth-dimensional focus 
comes and shows you a new approach to life and casts out of your own 
mind all these things that bedeviled you, you are then cleansed and 
clothed in your right mind. And you sit at the foot of understanding, called
the feet of the Master. Now clothed and in your right mind you can resurrect the dead. What 
dead? The child in the story is not a child. The child is your ambition, your
desire, the unfulfilled dreams of your heart. This is the child housed within
the mind of man. For as I have stated before, the entire drama of the 
Bible is a psychological one. The Bible has no reference at all to any per -
son who ever existed, or any event that ever occurred upon earth. All the 
stories of the Bible unfold in the minds of the individual man. In this story Jesus is the awakened intellect of man. When your mind 
functions outside of the range of your present senses, when your mind is 
healed of all the former limitations, then you are no longer the insane 
man; but you are this presence personified as Jesus, the power that can 
resurrect the longings of the heart of man. You are now the woman with the issue of blood. What is this issue of 
blood? A running womb is not a productive womb. She held it for 12 
years, she was incapable of conceiving. She could not give form to her 
longing because of the running of the issue of blood. You are told her faith
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenclosed it. As the womb closes it can give form to the seed or idea. As your mind is cleansed of your former concept of self, you assume you 
are what you want to be, and remaining faithful to this assumption, you 
give form to your assumption or resurrect your child. You are the woman 
cleansed of the issue of blood, and you move towards the house of the 
dead child. The child or state you desired is now your fixed concept of yourself. But 
now having assumed that I am what formerly I desired to be, I cannot 
continue desiring what I am conscious of being. So I do not discuss it. I 
talk to no one concerning what I am. It is so obvious to me that I am 
what I wanted to be that I walk as though I were. Walking as though I am what I formerly wanted to be, my world of limited
focus does not see it and thinks I no longer desire it. The child is dead 
within their world; but I, who know the law, say, “The child is not dead.” 
The damsel is not dead, she but sleepeth. I now awaken her, I by my as -
sumption, awaken and make visible in my world what I assume, for as -
sumptions if sustained invariably awaken what they affirm. I close the door. What door? The door of my senses. I simply shut out 
completely all that my senses reveal. I deny the evidence of my senses. I 
suspend the limited reason of the natural man and walk in this bold asser -
tion that I am what my senses deny. With the door of my senses closed, what do I take into that disciplined 
state? I take no one into that state but the parents of the child and my 
disciples. I close the door against the mocking, laughing crowd. I no 
longer look for confirmation. I completely deny the evidence of my sens -
es, which mock my assumption and do not discuss with others whether 
my assumption is possible or not. Who are the parents? We have discovered that the father-mother of all 
creation is man's I Amness. Man's consciousness is God. I am conscious 
of the state. I am the father-mother of all my ideas and my mind remains
faithful to this new concept of self. My mind is disciplined. I take into that 
state the disciples, and I shut out of that state everything that would 
deny it. Now the child, unaided by man, is resurrected. The condition which I de -
sired and assumed I had, becomes objectified within my world and bears 
witness to the power of my assumption. You be the judge, I cannot judge you. You are either living now in the 
dead past, or you are living as the woman whose issue of blood has been 
staunched. Could you actually answer me if I asked you the question: “Do
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenyou believe now that you, without the assistance of another, need only as -
sume that you are what you want to be, to make that assumption real 
within your world? Or do you believe that you must first fulfill a certain 
condition imposed upon you by the past, that you must be of a certain or -
der, a certain something?”
I am not being critical of certain churches or groups, but there are those 
who believe that anyone outside of their church or group is not yet saved. I was born a Protestant. You talk to a Protestant, there is only one Chris -
tian, a Protestant. You talk to a Catholic, why there is nothing in the world
that is a Christian but a Catholic. You talk to a Jew, and the Christians are
heathens, and the Jews are the chosen. You talk to a Mohammedan, Jews
and Christians are the infidels. You talk to someone else and all these are 
the untouchables. It does not matter to whom you talk, they are always 
the chosen ones. If you believe that you must be one of these in order to be saved, you are
still an insane man hiding behind these superstitions and these prejudices
of the past, and you are begging not to be cleansed. Some of you say to me, “Do not ask me to give up my belief in Jesus the 
man, or in Moses the man, or in Peter the man. When you ask me to give 
up my belief in these characters you are asking too much. Leave me 
these beliefs because they comfort me. I can believe that they lived upon 
earth and still follow your psychological interpretation of their stories.”
I say, come out of the dead past. Come out of that cemetery and walk, 
knowing that you and your Father are one, and your Father, who men call 
God, is your own consciousness. That is the only creative law in the world. Of what are you conscious of being? Although you cannot see your objec -
tive with the limited focus of your three-dimensional mind, you are now 
that which you have assumed you are. Walk in the assumption and re -
main faithful to it. Time in this dimension of your being, beats slowly and you may not, even
after you objectify your assumption, remember there was a time when 
this present reality was but an attitude of mind. Because of the slowness 
of the beat of time here you often fail to see the relationship between 
your inner nature and the outer world that bears witness to it. You be the judge of the position you now occupy in this 5th chapter of 
Mark. Are you resurrecting the dead child? Are you still in need of having 
that womb of your mind closed? Is it still running and therefore cannot be
fertile? Are you now the insane man living in the dead past? Only you can 
be the judge and answer these questions. More Free Books Law of Attraction Haven*****
 
Now we turn to a story in the 5th chapter of the Gospel of John. This will 
show you how beautifully the ancient story tellers told of the two distinct 
outlooks on this world – one, the limited three-dimensional focus, and the
other, the fourth-dimensional focus. This story tells of an impotent man who is quickly healed. Jesus comes to 
a place called Bethesda, which by definition means the House of Five 
Porches. On these Five Porches are unnumbered impotent folk – lame, 
blind, halt, withered, and others. Tradition had it that at certain seasons 
of the year an angel would descend and disturb the pool which was near 
these Five Porches. As the Angel disturbed the pool, the first one in was 
always healed. But only the first one, not the second. Jesus, seeing a man who was lame from his mother's womb, said to him, 
“Wilt thou be made whole?” (John 5:6). “The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is 
troubled, to put me into the pool – but while I am coming, another step -
peth down before me.” (John 5:7). “Jesus saith unto him. Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.” (John 5:8). “And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and 
walked, and on the same day was the Sabbath.” (John 5:9). You read this story and you think some strange man who possessed 
miraculous power suddenly said to the lame man, “Rise and walk.” I can -
not repeat too often that the story, even when it introduces numberless 
individualities, takes place within the mind of the individual man. The pool is your consciousness. The angel is an idea, called the messen -
ger of God. Consciousness being God, when you have an idea you are en -
tertaining an angel. The minute you are conscious of a desire your pool 
has been disturbed. Desire disturbs the mind of man. To want something 
is to be disturbed. The very moment you have an ambition, or a clearly defined objective, 
the pool has been disturbed by the angel, which was the desire. You are 
told that the first one into the disturbed pool is always healed. My closest companions in this world, my wife and my little girl, are to me 
when I address them, second. I must speak to my wife as, “you are.” I 
must speak to anyone, no matter how close they are, as “you are.” And 
after that the third person, “he is.” There is only one person in this world 
with whom I can use the first person present and that is self. “I am,” can 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenbe said only of myself, it cannot be said of another. Therefore, when I am conscious of some desire that I want to be, but 
seemingly am not, the pool being disturbed, who can get into that pool 
before me? I alone possess the power of the first person. I am that which 
I want to be. Except I believe I am what I want to be, I remain as I for -
merly was and die in that limitation. In this story you need no man to put you into the pool as your conscious -
ness is disturbed by desire. All you need do is to assume you are already 
that which formerly you wanted to be and you are in it, and no man can 
get in before you. What man can get in before you when you become con -
scious of being that which you want to be? No one can be before you 
when you alone possess the power to say I AM. These are the two outlooks. You are now what your senses would deny. Are you bold enough to assume that you are already that which you want 
to be? If you dare assume you are already that which your reason and 
your senses now deny, then you are in the pool and, unaided by a man, 
you, too, will rise and take your couch and walk. You are told it happened on the Sabbath. The Sabbath is only the mystical
sense of stillness, when you are unconcerned, when you are not anxious, 
when you are not looking  for results, knowing that signs follow and do 
not precede. The Sabbath is the day of stillness wherein there is no working. When you
are not working to make it so you are in the Sabbath. When you are not 
at all concerned about the opinion of others, when you walk as though 
you were, you cannot raise one finger to make it so, you are in the Sab -
bath. I cannot be concerned as to how it will be, and still say I am con -
scious of being it. If I am conscious of being free, secure, healthy, and 
happy, I sustain these states of consciousness without effort or labor on 
my part. Therefore, I am in the Sabbath; and because it was the Sabbath 
he rose and walked. *****
Our next story is from the 4th chapter of the Gospel of John, and it is one 
you have heard time and time again. Jesus comes to the well and there is
a woman called the woman of Samaria, and he said to her, “Give me to 
drink.” (John 4:7). “Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a 
Jew, asketh drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? For the Jews 
have no dealings with the Samaritans.” (John 4:9). More Free Books Law of Attraction Haven“Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and 
who it is that saith to thee, Give me a drink; thou wouldest have asked of 
him, and he would have given thee living water.” (John 4:10). The woman seeing that he has nothing with which to draw the water, and 
knowing the well is deep, says: Art thou greater than our father Jacob, 
which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and 
his cattle?” (John 4:12). “Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall
thirst again – but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him 
shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well
of water springing up into everlasting life.” (John 4:13, 14). Then he tells her all concerning herself and asks her to go and call her 
husband. She answered and said, “I have no husband.” (John 4:17). “Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: For thou 
hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband.” 
(John 4:17, 18). The woman, knowing this to be true, goes into the market place and tells 
the other, “I have met the Messiah.”
They ask her, “How do you know you have met the Messiah?”
“Because he told me all things that I have ever done.” she replies. Here is
a focus that takes in the entire past at least, and tells her now concerning
the future. Continuing with the story, the disciples come to Jesus and say, “Master, 
eat.” (John 4:31). “But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.” (John 
4:32). When they speak of a harvest in four months, Jesus replies, “Say not ye, 
there are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Behold, I say unto 
you, lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already in
harvest.” (John 4:35). He sees things that people wait four months for, or wait four years for; he
sees them as in a dimensionally larger world, existing now, taking place 
now. Let us go back to the first part of the story. The woman of Samaria is the 
three-dimensional you, and Jesus at the well is the fourth-dimensional 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenyou. The argument starts between what you want to be, and what reason 
tells you that you are. The greater you tells you that if you would dare as -
sume you are already what you want to be, you would become it. The lesser you, with its limited focus, tells you, “Why you haven't a buck -
et, you haven't a rope and the well is deep. How could you ever reach the
depth of this state without the means to that end?”
You answer and say, “If you only knew who asks of you to drink you 
would ask of him.” If you only knew what in yourself is urging upon the 
embodiment of the state you now seek, you would suspend your little 
sight and let him do it for you. Then he tells you that you have five husbands, and you deny it. But he 
knows far better than you that your five senses impregnate you morning, 
noon, and night with their limitations. They tell you what children you will 
bear tonight, tomorrow, and the days to come. For your five senses act 
like five husbands who constantly impregnate your consciousness, which 
is the great womb of God; and morning, noon, and night they suggest to 
you, and dictate to you that which you must accept as true. He tells you the one you would like to have for your husband is not your 
husband. In other words the sixth has not yet impregnated you. What you
would like to be is denied by these five, and they hold the power, they 
dictate what you will accept as true. What you would like to accept has 
not yet penetrated your mind and impregnated your mind with its reality. He whom you call husband is really not your husband. You are not bearing
his likeness. To bear his likeness is proof that you are his wife, at least 
you have known him intimately. You are not bearing the likeness of the 
sixth; you are only bearing the likeness of the five. Then one turns to me and tells me all that I have ever known. I go back 
in my mind's eye and reason tells me that all through my life I have al -
ways accepted the limitations of my senses, I have always looked upon 
them as fact; and morning, noon, and night I have born witness to this 
acceptance. Reason tells me I have only known these five from the time I was born. Now I would like to step outside the limitation of my senses but I have 
not yet found within myself the courage to assume I am what these five 
would deny that I am. So here I remain, conscious of my task, but with -
out the courage to step beyond the limitations of my senses, and that 
which my reason denies. He tells these, “I have meat ye know not of. I am the bread that droppeth
down from heaven. I am the wine.” I know what I want to be, and be -
cause I am that bread I feast upon it. I assume that I am, and instead of 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenfeasting upon the fact that I am in this room talking to you and you are 
listening to me, and that I am in Los Angeles, I feast upon the fact that I 
am elsewhere and I walk here as though I am elsewhere. And gradually I 
become what I feast upon. *****
Let me give you two personal stories. When I was a boy I lived in a very 
limited environment, in a little island called Barbados. Feed for animals 
was very, very scarce and very expensive because we had to import it. I 
am one of a family of 10 children and my grandmother lived with us mak -
ing 13 at the table. Time and again I can remember my mother saying to the cook in the ear -
ly part of the week, “I want you to put away three ducks for Sunday's din -
ner.” This meant that she would take from the flock in the yard three 
ducks and coop them up in a very small cage and feed them, stuff them 
morning, noon, and night with corn and all the things she wanted the 
ducks to feast upon. This was an entirely different diet from what we regularly fed the ducks, 
because we kept those birds alive by feeding them fish. We kept them 
alive and fat on fish because fish were very cheap and plentiful; but you 
could not eat a bird that fed upon fish, not as you and I like a bird. The cook would take three ducks put them in a cage and for seven days 
stuff them with corn, sour milk and all the things we wanted to taste in 
the birds. Then when they were killed and served for dinner seven days 
later they were luscious, milk fed, corn fed birds. But occasionally the cook forgot to put away the birds, and my father, 
knowing we were having ducks, and believing that she had carried out the
command, did not send anything else for dinner, and three ducks came to
the table. You could not touch those birds for they were so much the em -
bodiment of what they fed upon. Man is a psychological being, a thinker. It is not what he feeds upon phys -
ically, but what he feeds upon mentally that he becomes. We become the 
embodiment of that which we mentally feed upon. Now those ducks could not be fed corn in the morning and fish in the af -
ternoon and something else at night. It had to be a complete change of 
diet. In our case we cannot have a little bit of meditation in the morning, 
curse at noon, and do something else in the evening. We have to go on a 
mental diet, for a week we must completely change our mental food. “Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Haventhings are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are of 
good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on 
these things.” (Phil 4:8). As a man thinketh in his heart so is he. If I could now single out the kind 
of mental food I want to express within my world and feast upon it, I 
would become it. Let me tell you why I am doing what I am doing today. It was back in 
1933 in the city of New York, and my old friend Abdullah, with whom I 
studied Hebrew for five years, was really the beginning of the eating of all
my superstitions. When I went to him I was filled with superstitions. I 
could not eat meat, I could not eat fish, I could not eat chicken, I could 
not eat any of these things that were living in the world. I did not drink, I 
did not smoke, and I was making a tremendous effort to live a celibate 
life. Abdullah said to me, “I am not going to tell you you are crazy Neville, but 
you are you know. All these things are stupid.” But I could not believe 
they were stupid. In November, 1933, I bade goodbye to my parents in the city of New York
as they sailed for Barbados. I had been in this country 12 years with no 
desire to see Barbados. I was not successful and I was ashamed to go 
home to successful members of my family. After 12 years in America I 
was a failure in my own eyes. I was in the theater and made money one 
year and spent it the next month. I was not what I would call by their 
standards nor by mine a successful person. Mind you when I said goodbye to my parents in November I had no desire
to go to Barbados. The ship pulled out, and as I came up the street, 
something possessed me with a desire to go to Barbados. It was the year 1933, I was unemployed and had no place to go except a 
little room on 75th street. I went straight to my old friend Abdullah and 
said to him, “Ab, the strangest feeling is possessing me. For the first time 
in 12 years I want to go to Barbados.”
“If you want to go Neville, you have gone.” he replied. That was a very strange language to me. I am in New York City on 72nd 
Street and he tells me I have gone to Barbados. I said to him, “What do 
you mean, I have gone, Abduallah?”
He said, “Do you really want to go?”
I answered, “yes.”
More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenHe then said to me, “As you walk through this door now you are not walk -
ing on 72nd Street, you are walking on palm lined streets, coconut lined 
streets; this is Barbados. Do not ask me how you are going to go. You are
in Barbados. You do not say 'how' when you 'are there.' You are there. Now you walk as though you were there. I went out of his place in a daze. I am in Barbados. I have no money, I 
have no job, I am not even well clothed, and yet I am in Barbados. He was not the kind of person with whom you would argue, not Abdullah. Two weeks later I was no nearer my goal than on the day I first told him I
wanted to go to Barbados. I said to him, “Ab, I trust you implicitly but 
here is one time I cannot see how it is going to work. I have not one pen -
ny towards my journey,” I began to explain. You know what he did? He was as black as the ace of spades, my old 
friend Abdullah, with his turbaned head. As I sat in his living room he rose
from his chair and went towards his study and slammed the door, which 
was not an invitation to follow him. As he went through the door he said 
to me, “I have said all that I have to say.”
On the 3rd of December I stood before Abdullah and told him again I was 
no nearer my trip. He repeated his statement, “You are in Barbados.”
The very last ship sailing for Barbados that would take me there for the 
reason I wanted to go, which was to be there for Christmas, sailed at 
noon on December 6th, the old Nerissa. On the morning of December 4th, having no job, having no place to go, I 
slept late. When I got up there was an air mail letter from Barbados under
my door. As I opened the letter a little piece of paper flickered to the floor. I picked it up and it was a draft for $50.00. The letter was from my brother Victor and it read, “I am not asking you to
come, Neville, this is a command. We have never had a Christmas when 
all the members of our family were present at the same time. This Christ -
mas it could be done if you would come.”
My oldest brother Cecil left home before the youngest was born and then 
we started to move away from home at different times so never in the 
history of our family were we ever all together at the same time. The letter continued, “You are not working, I know there is no reason why
you cannot come, so you must be here before Christmas. The enclosed 
$50.00 is to buy a few shirts or a pair of shoes you may need for the trip. You will not need tips; use the bar if you are drinking. I will meet the ship 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenand pay all your tips and incurred expenses. I have cabled Furness, Withy
& Co. in New York City and told them to issue you a ticket when you ap -
pear at their office. The $50.00 is simply to buy some little essentials. You
may sign as you want aboard the ship. I will meet it and take care of all 
obligations. I went down to Furness, Withy and Co. with my letter and let them read 
it. They said, “We received the cable Mr Goddard, but unfortunately we 
have not any space left on the December 6th sailing. The only thing avail -
able is 3rd class between New York and St Thomas. When we get to St 
Thomas we have a few passengers who are getting off. You may then ride
1st class from St Thomas to Barbados. But between New York and St 
Thomas you must go 3rd class, although you may have the privileges of 
the 1st class dining room and walk the decks of the 1st class. I said, “I will take it.”
I went back to my friend Abdullah on the afternoon of December 4th and 
said, “It worked like a dream.” I told him what I had done, thinking he 
would be happy. Do you know what he said to me? He said, “Who told you that you are go -
ing 3rd class? Did I see you in Barbados, the man you are, going 3rd class? You are in Barbados and you went there 1st class.”
I did not have one moment to see him again before I sailed on the noon 
of December 6th. When I reached the dock with my passport and my pa -
pers to get aboard that ship the agent said to me, “We have good news 
for you, Mr Goddard. There has been a cancellation and you are going 1st 
class.”
Abdullah taught me the importance of remaining faithful to an idea and 
not compromising. I wavered, but he remained faithful to the assumption 
that I was in Barbados and had traveled 1st class. *****
Now back to the significance of our two Bible stories. The well is deep and
you have no bucket, you have no rope. It is four months to the harvest 
and Jesus says, “I have meat to eat ye know not of. I am the bread of 
heaven.” 
Feast on the idea, become identified with the idea as though you were al -
ready that embodied state. Walk in the assumption that you are what you
want to be. If you feast on that and remain faithful to that mental diet, 
you will crystallize it. You will become it in this world. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenWhen I came back to New York in 1934, after three heavenly months in 
Barbados, I drank, I smoked, and did everything I had not done in years. I remembered what Abdullah had said to me, “After you  have proven this
law you will become normal, Neville. You will come out of that graveyard, 
you will come out of that dead past where you think you are being holy. For all you are really doing you know, you are being so good, Neville, you 
are good for nothing.”
I came back walking this earth a completely transformed person. From 
that day, which was in February 1934, I began to live more and more. I 
cannot honestly tell you I have always succeeded. My many mistakes in 
this world, my many failures would convict me if I told you that I have so 
completely mastered the movements of my attention that I can at all 
times remain faithful to the idea I want to embody. But I can say with the ancient teacher, although I seem to have failed in 
the past, I move on and strive day after day to become that which I want 
to embody in this world. Suspend judgment, refuse to accept what reason
and the senses now dictate, and if you remain faithful to the new diet, 
you will become the embodiment of the ideal to which you remain faithful. If there is one place in the world that is unlike my little island of Barba -
dos, it is New York City. In Barbados the tallest building is three stories, 
and the streets are lined with palm trees and coconut trees and all sorts 
of tropical things. In New York City you must go to a park to find a tree. Yet I had to walk the streets of New York as though I walked the streets 
of Barbados. To one's imagination all things are possible. I walked, feeling
that I was actually walking in the streets of Barbados, and in that as -
sumption I could almost smell the odor of the coconut lined lanes. I began
to create within my mind's eye the atmosphere I would physically en -
counter were I in Barbados. As I remained faithful to this assumption, somebody canceled passage 
and I received it. My brother in Barbados, who never thought of my com -
ing home, has the commanding urge to write me a strange letter. He had 
never dictated to me, but this time he dictated, and thought that he origi -
nated the idea of my visit. I went home and had three heavenly months, returned 1st class, and 
brought back quite a sum of cash in my pocket, a gift. My trip, had I paid 
for it, would have been $3000, yet I did it without a nickel in my pocket. “I have ways ye know not of. My ways are past finding out.” The dimen -
sionally greater self took my assumption as the command and influenced 
the behavior of my brother to write that letter, influenced the behavior of 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havensomeone to cancel that 1st class passage, and did all the things necessary 
that would tend toward the production of the idea with which I was identi -
fied. I was identified with the feeling of being there. I slept as though I were 
there, and the entire behavior of man was molded in harmony with my 
assumption. I did not need to go down to Furness, Withy & Co. and beg 
them for passage, asking them to cancel someone who was booked 1st 
class. I did not need to write my brother and beg him to send me some 
money or buy me a passage. He thought he originated the act. Actually, 
to this day, he believes that he initiated the desire to bring me home. My old friend Abdullah simply said to me, “You are in Barbados, Neville. You want to be there; where you want to be, there you are. Live as 
though you are and that you shall be.”
These are the two outlooks on the world possessed by every man. I do 
not care who you are. Every child born of woman, regardless of race, na -
tion, or creed, possesses two distinct outlooks on the world. You are either the natural man who receiveth not the things of the Spirit 
of God, because to you in the natural focus they are foolishness unto you. Or you are the spiritual man who perceiveth things outside of the limita -
tions of your senses because all things are now realities in a dimensionally
larger world. There is no need to wait four months to harvest. You are either the woman of Samaria or Jesus at the well. You are the 
man waiting on the Five Porches for the disturbance and someone to push
him in; or you are the one who can command yourself to rise and walk in 
spite of others who wait. Are you the man behind the tombstones in the cemetery waiting and beg -
ging not to be clean, because you do not want to be cleansed of your 
prejudices? One of the most difficult things for man to give up is his su -
perstitions, his prejudice. He holds on to these as though they were the 
treasure of treasures. When you do become cleansed and you are free, then the womb, your 
own mind is automatically healed. It becomes the prepared ground where
seeds, your desires, can take root and grow into manifestation. The child 
you now bear in your heart is your present objective. Your present longing
is a child that is as though it were sick. If you assume you are not what 
you would like to be, the child for a moment becomes dead because there
is no disturbance anymore. You cannot be disturbed when you feel you are what you want to be be -
cause if you feel you are what you wanted to be, you are satisfied in that 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenassumption. To others who judge superficially you seem no longer to de -
sire, so to them the desire or damsel is dead. They think you have lost 
your ambition because you no longer discuss your secret ambition. You 
have completely adjusted yourself to the idea. You have assumed that 
you are what you want to be. You know, “She is not dead, she but sleep -
eth.” “I go to awaken her.”
I walk in the assumption that I am, and as I walk, I quietly awaken her. Then when she awakens I will do the normal, natural thing. I will give her 
to eat. I will not brag about it and tell others, I simply go and tell no man. I feed this state I now like with my attention. I keep it alive within my 
world by becoming attentive to it. Things that I am not attentive to fade and wither within my world, regard -
less of what they are. They are not just born and remain unfed. I gave 
them birth by reason of the fact that I became conscious of being them. When I embody them within my world that is not the end. That is the be -
ginning. Now I am a mother who must keep alive this state by being at -
tentive to it. The day that I am not attentive, I have withdrawn my milk 
from it, and it fades from my world, as I become attentive to something 
else in my world. You can either be attentive to the limitations and feed these and make 
them mountains, or you can be attentive to your desires; but to become 
attentive you must assume you are already that which you wanted to be. Although today we speak of a third-dimensional and a fourth-dimensional 
focus, do not think for one moment these ancient teachers were not fully 
conscious of these two distinct centers of thought within the minds of all 
men. They personified these two, and they tried to show man that the 
only thing which robs him of the man he could be, is habit. Although it is 
no law, every psychologist will tell you that habit is the most inhibiting 
force in the world. It completely restricts man and binds him and makes 
him totally blind to what otherwise he should be. Begin now to mentally see and feel yourself as that which you want to be,
and feast upon that sensation morning, noon, and night. I have scoured 
the Bible for a time interval that is longer than three days and I have not 
found it. “Jesus answered and said unto them, destroy this temple, and in three 
days I will raise it up.” (John 2:19). “Prepare your victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jor -
dan, to go in to possess the land, which the Lord your God giveth you to 
possess it.” (Joshua 1:11). More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenIf I could completely saturate my mind with one sensation and walk as 
though it were already a fact, I am promised (and I cannot find any denial
of it in this great book) that I do not need more than a three day diet if I 
remain faithful to it. But I must be honest about it. If I change my diet in 
the course of the day, I extend the time interval. You ask me, “But how do I know about the interval?” You, yourself deter -
mine the interval. We have today in our modern world a little word which confuses most of 
us. I know it confused me until I dug deeper. The word is “action.” Action 
is supposed to be the most fundamental thing in the world. It is not an 
atom, it is more fundamental. It is not a part of an atom like an electron, 
it is more fundamental than that. They call it the fourth-dimensional unit. The most fundamental thing in the world is action. You ask, “What is action?” Our physicists tell us that it is energy multi -
plied by time. We become more confused and say, “Energy multiplied by 
time, what does that mean?” They answer, “There is no response to a 
stimulus, no matter how intense the stimulus, unless it endures for a cer -
tain length of time.” There must be a minimum endurance to the stimulus 
or there is no response. On the other hand there is no response to time 
unless there is a minimum degree of intensity. Today the most fundamen -
tal thing in the world is called action, or simply energy multiplied by time. The Bible gives it as three days; the duration is three days for response in
this world. If I would now assume I am what I want to be, and if I am 
faithful to it and walk as though I were, the very longest stretch given for 
its realization is three days. If there is something tonight that you really want in this world, then expe -
rience in imagination what you would experience in the flesh were you to 
realize your goal and deafen your ears, and blind your eyes to all that de -
nies the reality of your assumption. If you do this you would be able to tell me before I leave this city of Los 
Angeles that you have realized what was only a wish when you came 
here. It will be my joy to rejoice with you in the knowledge that the child 
which was seemingly dead is now alive. This damsel really was not dead, 
she was only asleep. You fed her in this silence because you have meat no
one else knows of. You gave her food and she became a resurrected living
reality within your world. Then you can share your joy with me and I can 
rejoice in your joy. The purpose of these lessons is to remind you of the law of your own be -
ing, the law of consciousness; you are that law. You were only uncon -
scious of its operation. You fed and kept alive the things you did not wish 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havento express within this world. Take my challenge and put this philosophy to the test. If it does not work 
you should not use it as a comforter. If it is not true, you must completely
discard it. I know it is true. You will not know it until you try either to 
prove or disprove it. Too many of us have joined “isms” and we are afraid to put them to the 
test because we feel we might fail; and, then, where are we? Not really 
wanting to know the truth concerning it, we hesitate to be bold enough to
put it to the test. You say, “I know it would work in some other way. I do 
not want to really test it. While I have not yet disproved it, I can still be 
comforted by it. Now do not fool yourself, do not think for one second that you are wise. Prove or disprove this law. I know that if you attempt to disprove it, you 
will prove it, and I will be the richer for your proving it, not in dollars, not 
in things, but because you become the living fruit of what I believe I am 
teaching in this world it is far better to have you a successful, satisfied 
person after five days of instruction than to have you go out dissatisfied. I
hope you will be bold enough to challenge this instruction and either 
prove or disprove it. Now before we go into the silence period I shall briefly explain the tech -
nique again. We have two techniques in applying this law. Everyone here 
must now know exactly what he wants. You must know that if you do not 
get it tonight you will still be as desirous tomorrow concerning this objec -
tive. When you know exactly what you want, construct in your mind's eye a 
single, simple event which implies fulfillment of your desire, an event 
wherein self predominates. Instead of sitting back and looking at yourself 
as though you were on the screen, you be the actor in the drama. Restrict the event to one single action. If you are going to shake a hand 
because that implies fulfillment of your desire then do that and that only. Do not shake hands and then wander off in your imagination to a dinner 
party or to some other place. Restrict your action to simply shaking hands
and do it over and over again, until that handshake takes on the solidity 
and the distinctness of reality. If you feel you cannot remain faithful to an action, I want you now to de -
fine your objective, and then condense the idea, which is your desire, into
a single phrase, a phrase which implies fulfillment of your desire, some 
phrase such as, “Isn't it wonderful?”
More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenOr if I felt thankful because I thought someone was instrumental in bring -
ing my desire to pass, I could say, “Thank you,” and repeat it with feeling 
over and over again like a lullaby until my mind was dominated by the 
single sensation of thankfulness. We will now sit quietly in these chairs with the idea which implies fulfill -
ment of our desire condensed to a single phrase, or to a single act. We 
will relax and immobilize our physical bodies. Then let us experience in 
imagination the sensation which our condensed phrase or action affirms.
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        The walls, the obstacles, the problems, crumble of their own weight if I 
can reach the point of stillness within me. The man who can fix within his own mind's eye an idea, even though the 
world would deny it, if he remains faithful to that idea he will see it mani -
fested. There is all the difference in the world between holding the idea, 
and being held by the idea. Become so dominated by an idea that it 
haunts the mind as though you were it. Then, regardless of what others 
may say, you are walking in the direction of your fixed attitude of mind. You are walking in the direction of the idea that dominates the mind. As we told you last night, you have but one gift that is truly yours to give,
and that is yourself. There is no other gift; you must press it out of your -
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenself by an appropriation. It is there within you now for creation is finished. There is nothing to be that is not now. There is nothing to be created for 
all things are already yours, they are finished. Although man may not be able to stand physically upon a state, he can 
always stand mentally upon any desired state. By standing mentally I 
mean that you can now, this very moment, close your eyes and visualize 
a place other than your present one, and assume that you are actually 
there. You can FEEL this to be so real that upon opening your eyes you 
are amazed to find that you are not physically there. This mental journey into the desired state, with its subsequent feeling of 
reality, is all that is necessary to bring about its fulfillment. Your dimen -
sionally greater self has ways that the lesser, or three-dimensional you, 
know not of. Furthermore, to the greater you, all means are good which 
promote the fulfillment of your assumption. Remain in the mental state defined as your objective until it has the feel -
ing of reality, and all the forces of heaven and earth will rush to aid its 
embodiment. Your greater self will influence the actions and words of all 
who can be used to aid the production of your fixed mental attitude. *****
Now we turn to the book of Numbers and here we find a strange story. I 
trust that some of you have had this experience as described in the book 
of Numbers. They speak of the building of a tabernacle at the command 
of God; that God commanded Israel to build him a place of worship. He gave them all the specifications of the tabernacle. It had to be an 
elongated, movable place of worship, and it had to be covered with skin. Need you be told anything more. Isn’t that man. “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God 
dwelleth in you. ” (1 Cor 3:16). There is no other temple. Not a temple made with hands, but a temple 
eternal in the heavens. This temple is elongated, and it is covered with 
skin, and it moves across the dessert. “And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the 
tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was 
upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning. So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire 
by night. ” (Num 9:15, 16). The command given to Israel was to tarry until the cloud ascended by day
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenand the fire by night. “Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, 
that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the chil -
dren of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was 
taken up, they journeyed. ” (Num 9:22). You know that you are the tabernacle, but you may wonder, what is the 
cloud. In meditation many of you must have seen it. In meditation, this 
cloud, like the sub-soil waters of an artesian well, springs spontaneously 
to your head and forms itself into pulsating, golden rings. Then, like a 
gentle river they flow from your head in a stream of living rings of gold. In a meditative mood bordering on sleep the cloud ascends. It is in this 
drowsy state that you should assume that you are that which you desire 
to be, and that you have that which you seek, for the cloud will assume 
the form of your assumption and fashion a world in harmony with itself. The cloud is simply the garment of your consciousness, and where your 
consciousness placed, there you will be in the flesh also. This golden cloud comes in meditation. There is a certain point when you 
are approaching sleep that it is very, very thick, very liquid, and very 
much alive and pulsing. It begins to ascend as you reach the drowsy, 
meditative state, bordering on sleep. You do not strike the tabernacle; 
neither do you move it until the cloud begins to ascend. The cloud always ascends when man approaches the drowsiness of sleep. For when a man goes to sleep, whether he knows it or not, he slips from a
three-dimensional world into a fourth-dimensional world and that which is
ascending is the consciousness of that man in a greater focus; it is a 
fourth-dimensional focus. What you now see ascending is your greater self. When that begins to as -
cend you enter into the actual state of feeling you are what you want to 
be. That is the time you lull yourself into the mood of being what you 
want to be, by either experiencing in imagination what you would experi -
ence in reality were you already that which you want to be, or by repeat -
ing over and over again the phrase that implies you have already done 
what you want to do. A phrase such as, “Isn't it wonderful, isn't it won -
derful,” as though some wonderful thing had happened to you. “In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, 
in slumberings upon the bed. Then he openeth the ears of men, and 
sealeth their instruction. ” (Job 33:15, 16). Use wisely the interval preceding sleep. Assume the feeling of the wish 
fulfilled and go to sleep in this mood. At night, in a dimensionally larger 
world, when deep sleep falleth upon men, they see and play the parts 
that they will later play on earth. And the drama is always in harmony 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenwith that which their dimensionally greater selves read and play through 
them. Our illusion of free will is but ignorance of the causes which make 
us act. The sensation which dominates the mind of man as he falls asleep, 
though false, will harden into fact. Assuming the feeling of the wish ful -
filled as we  fall asleep, is the command to this embodying process saying
to our mood, “Be thou actual. ” In this way we become through a natural 
process what we desire to be. I can tell you dozens of personal experiences where it seemed impossible 
to go elsewhere, but by placing myself elsewhere mentally as I was about
to go to sleep, circumstances changed quickly which compelled me to 
make the journey. I have done it across water by placing myself at night 
on my bed as though I slept where I wanted to be. As the days unfolded 
things began to mold themselves in harmony with that assumption and all
things that must happen to compel my journey did happen. And I, in spite
of myself, must make ready to go toward that place which I assumed I 
was in when I approached the deep of sleep. As my cloud ascends I assume that I am now the man I want to be, or 
that I am already in the place where I want to visit. I sleep in that place 
now. Then life strikes the tabernacle, strikes my environment and re -
assembles my environment across seas or over land and reassembles it in
the likeness of my assumption. It has nothing to do with men walking 
across a physical desert. The whole vast world round about you is a 
desert. From the cradle to the grave you and I walk as though we walk the 
desert. But we have a living tabernacle wherein God dwells, and it is cov -
ered with a cloud which can and does ascend when we got to sleep or are 
in a state akin to sleep. Not necessarily in two days, it can ascend in two 
minutes. Why did they give you two days. If I now become the man I 
want to be, I may become dissatisfied tomorrow. I should at least give it 
a day before I decide to move on. The Bible says in two days, a month, or a year; whenever you decide to 
move on with this tabernacle let the cloud ascend. As it ascends you start 
moving where the cloud is. The cloud is simply the garment of your con -
sciousness, your assumption. Where the consciousness is placed you do 
not have to take the physical body; it gravitates there in spite of you. Things happen to compel you to move in the direction where you are con -
sciously dwelling. “In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have 
told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place 
for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Haventhere ye may be also. ” (John 14:2, 3). The many mansions are the unnumbered states within your mind, for you 
are the house of God. In my Father's house are unnumbered concepts of 
self. You could not in eternity exhaust what you are capable of being. If I sit quietly here and assume that I am elsewhere, I have gone and 
prepared a place. But if I open my eyes, the bi-location which I created 
vanishes and I am back here in the physical form that I left behind me as 
I went to prepare a place. But I prepared the place nevertheless and will 
in time dwell there physically. You do not have to concern yourself with the ways and the means that 
will be employed to move you across space into that place where you 
have gone and mentally prepared it. Simply sit quietly, no matter where 
you are, and mentally actualize it. But I give you warning, do not treat it lightly, for I am conscious of what it
will do to people who treat it lightly. I treated it lightly once because I just
wanted to get away, based only upon the temperature of the day. It was 
in the deep of winter in New York, and I so desired to be in the warm cli -
mate of the Indies, that I slept that night as though I slept under palm 
trees. Next morning when I awoke it was still very much winter. I had no intentions of going to the Indies that year, but distressing news 
came which compelled me to make the journey. It was in the midst of war
when ships were being sunk right and left, but I sailed out of New York on
a ship 48 hours after I received this news. It was the only way I could get
to Barbados, and I arrived just in time to see my mother and say a three-
dimensional “goodbye” to her. In spite of the fact that I had no intentions of going, the deeper self 
watched where the great cloud ascended. I placed it in Barbados and this 
tabernacle (my body) had to go and make the journey to fulfill the com -
mand, “Wherever the sole of your foot shall tread that have I given unto 
you. ” Wherever the cloud descends in the desert, there you reassemble 
that tabernacle. I sailed from New York at midnight on a ship without taking thought of 
submarines or anything else. I had to go. Things happened in a way that I
could not have devised. I warn you, do not treat it lightly. Do not say, “I will experiment and put 
myself in Labrador, just to see if it will work. ” You will go to your Labrador 
and then you will wonder why you ever came to this class. It will work if 
you dare assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled as you go to sleep. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenControl your moods as you go to sleep. I cannot find any better way to 
describe this technique than to call it a “controlled waking dream. ” In a 
dream you lose control, but try preceding your sleep with a complete con -
trolled waking dream, entering into it as you do in a dream, for in a 
dream you are always very dominant, you always play the part. You are 
always an actor in a dream, and never the audience. When you have a 
controlled waking dream you are an actor and you enter into the act of 
the controlled dream. But do not do it lightly, for you must then reenact it
physically in a three-dimensional world. Now before we go into our moment of silence there is something I must 
make very clear, and that is this effort we discussed last night. If there is 
one reason in this whole vast world why people fail it is because they are 
unaware of a law known to psychologists today as the law of reverse ef -
fort. When you assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled it is with a minimum of
effort. You must control the direction of the movements of your attention. But you must do it with the least effort. If there is effort in the control, 
and you are compelling it in a certain way you are not going to get the re -
sults. You will get the opposite results, whatever they might be. That is why we insist on establishing the basis of the Bible as Adam slept. That is the first creative act, and there is no record where he was ever 
awakened from this profound sleep. While he sleeps creation stops. You change your future best when you are in control of your thoughts 
while in a state akin to sleep, for then effort is reduced to its minimum. Your attention seems to completely relax, and then you must practice 
holding your attention within that feeling, without using force, and with -
out using effort. Do not think for a moment that it is will power that does it. When you re -
lease Barabbas and become identified with Jesus, you do not will yourself 
to be it, you imagine that you are it. That is all you do. Now as we come to the vital part of the evening, the interval devoted to 
prayer, let me again clarify this technique. Know what you want. Then 
construct a single event, an event which implies fulfillment of your wish. Restrict the event to a single act. For instance, if I single out as an event, shaking a man's hand, then that 
is the only thing I do. I do not shake it, then light a cigarette and do a 
thousand other things. I simply imagine that I am actually shaking hands 
and keep the act going over and over and over again until the imaginary 
act has all the feeling of reality. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenThe event must always imply fulfillment of the wish. Always construct an 
event which you believe you would naturally encounter following the ful -
fillment of your desire. You are the judge of what event you really want to
realize. There is another technique I gave you last night. If you cannot concen -
trate on an act, if you cannot snuggle into your chair and believe the chair
is elsewhere, just as though elsewhere were here, then do this: Reduce 
the idea, condense it to a single, simple phrase like, “Isn't it wonderful,” 
or, “Thank you,” or, “It's done,” or, “It's finished. ”
There should not be more than three words. Something that implies the 
desire is already realized. “Isn't it wonderful,” or “Thank you,” certainly 
imply that. These are not all the phrases you could use. Make up out of 
your own vocabulary the phrase which best suits you. But make it very, 
very short and always use a phrase that implies fulfillment of the idea. When you have your phrase in mind, lift the cloud. Let the cloud ascend 
by simply inducing the state that borders on sleep. Simply begin to imag -
ine and feel you are sleepy, and in this state assume the feeling of the 
wish fulfilled. Then repeat the phrase over and over like a lullaby. Whatev -
er the phrase is, let it imply that the assumption is true, that it is con -
crete, that it is already a fact and you know it. Just relax and enter into the feeling of actually being what you want to 
be. As you do it you are entering Jericho with your spy who has the power
to give it. You are releasing Barabbas and sentencing Jesus to be crucified
and resurrected. All these stories you are reenacting if now you begin to 
let go and enter into the feeling of actually being what you want to be. Now we can go. SILENCE PERIOD. *****
If your hands are dry, and if your mouth is dry at the end of this medita -
tion, that is positive proof that you did succeed in lifting the cloud. What 
you were doing when the cloud was lifted is entirely your business. But 
you did lift the cloud if your hands are dry. I will give you another phenomena that is very strange and one I cannot 
analyze. It happens if you really go into the deep. You will find on waking 
that you have the most active pair of kidneys in the world. I have dis -
cussed it with doctors and they cannot explain it. Another thing you may observe in meditation is a lovely liquid blue light. The nearest thing on earth to which I can compare it is burning alcohol. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenYou know when you put alcohol on the plum pudding at Christmas time 
and set it aflame, the lovely liquid blue flame that envelops the pudding 
until you blow it out. That flame is the nearest thing to the blue light 
which comes on the forehead of a man in meditation. Do not be distressed. You will know it when you see it. It is like two 
shades of blue, a darker and a lighter blue in constant motion, just like 
burning alcohol, which is unlike the constant flame of a gas jet. This flame
is alive, just as spirit would be alive. Another thing that may come to you as it did to me. You will see spots be -
fore your eyes. They are not liver spots as some people will tell you who 
know nothing about it. These are little things that float in space like a 
mesh, little circles all tied together. They start with a single cell and come 
in groups in different geometrical patterns, like worms, like trailers, and 
they float all over your face. When you close your eyes you still see them,
proving that they are not from without, they are from within. When you begin to expand in consciousness all these things come. They 
may be your blood stream objectified by some strange trick of man that 
man does not quite understand. I am not denying that it is your blood 
steam made visible, but do not be distressed by thinking it is liver spots 
or some other silly thing that people will tell you. If these various phenomena come to you, do not think you are doing 
something wrong. It is the normal, natural expansion that comes to all 
men who take themselves in tow and try to develop the garden of Geth -
semane. The minute you begin to discipline your mind by observing your thoughts 
and watching your thoughts throughout the day, you become the police -
man of your thoughts. Refuse to enter into conversations that are unlove -
ly, refuse to listen attentively to anything that tears you down. Begin to build within your own mind's eye the vision of the perfect virgin 
rather than the vision of the foolish virgin. Listen only to the things that 
bring joy when you hear them. Do not give a willing ear to that which is 
unlovely, which when you heard it you wish you had not. That is listening 
and seeing things without oil in your lamp, or joy in your mind. There are two kinds of virgins in the Bible: five foolish and five wise vir -
gins. The minute you become the wise virgin, or try to make an attempt 
to do it, you will find all these things happen. You will see these things, 
and they interest you so that you have not time to develop the foolish 
sight, as many people do. I hope that no one here does. Because no one 
should be identified with this great work who can still find great joy in a 
discussion of another that is unlovely. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenLesson III: Thinking Fourth-Dimensionally
There are two actual outlooks on the world possessed by every man, and 
the ancient story tellers were fully conscious of these two outlooks. They 
called one “the carnal mind,” and the other “the mind of Christ. ”
We recognize these two centers of thought in the statement: “The natural 
man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness 
unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually dis -
cerned. ” (1 Cor 2:14). To the natural mind, reality is confined to the instant called now; this very
moment seems to contain the whole of reality, everything else is unreal. The the natural mind, the past and the future are purely imaginary. In 
other words my past, when I use the natural mind, is only a memory im -
age of things that were. And to the limited focus of the carnal or natural 
mind the future does not exist. The natural mind does not believe that it 
could revisit the past and see it as something that is present, something 
that is objective and concrete to itself, neither does it believe that the fu -
ture exists. To the Christ mind, the spiritual mind, which in our language we will call 
the fourth-dimensional focus, the past, the present, and the future of the 
natural mind are a present whole. It takes in the entire array of sensory 
impressions that man has encountered, is encountering and will en -
counter. The only reason you and I are functioning as we are today, and are not 
aware of the greater outlook, is simply because we are creatures of habit,
and habit renders us totally blind to what otherwise we should see; but 
habit is not law. It acts as though it were the most compelling force in the
world, yet it is not law. We can create a new approach to life. If you and I would spend a few 
minutes every day in withdrawing our attention from the region of sensa -
tion and concentrating it on an invisible state and remain faithful to this 
contemplation, feeling and sensing the reality of an invisible state, we 
would in time become aware of this greater world, this dimensionally larg -
er world. The state contemplated is now a concrete reality, displaced in 
time. Tonight as we turn to our Bible you be the judge as to where you stand in 
your present unfoldment. *****
Our first story for tonight is from the 5th chapter of the Gospel of Mark. In 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Haventhis chapter there are three stories told as though they were separate ex -
periences of the dominant characters. In the first story we are told that Jesus came upon an insane man, a 
naked man who lived in the cemetery and hid himself behind the tombs. This man appealed to Jesus not to cast out the devils that bedeviled him. But Jesus said unto him, “Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. ” 
(Mark 5:8). Thus Jesus cast out the devils that they may now destroy themselves, 
and we find this man, for the first time, clothed and in his right mind and 
seated at the feet of the Master. We will get the psychological sense of 
this chapter by changing the name Jesus to that of enlightened reason or 
fourth-dimensional thinking. As we progress in this chapter we are told that Jesus now comes upon the
High Priest whose name is Jairus, and Jairus the High Priest of the Syna -
gogue has a child who is dying. She is 12 years old, and he appeals to Je -
sus to come and heal the child. Jesus consents, and as he starts toward the home of the High Priest a 
woman in the market place touched his garment. “And Jesus, immediately
knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned about in the 
press and said, Who touched my clothes. ” (Mark 5:30). The woman who was healed of an issue of blood that she had had for 12 
years confessed that she had touched him. “And he said unto her, Daugh -
ter, Thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace. ” (Mark 5:34). As he continues toward the home of the High Priest he is told that the 
chld is dead and there is no need to go to resurrect her. She is no longer 
asleep, but is now dead. “As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler
of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe. ” (Mark 5:36). “And when he was come in, he saith unto them. Why make ye this ado, 
and weep. The damsel is not dead, but sleepth. ” (Mark 5:39). With this the entire crowd mocked and laughed, but Jesus, closing the 
doors against the mocking crowd, took with him into the household of 
Jairus, his disciples and the father and mother of the dead child. They entered into the room where the damsel was lying. “And he took the
damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise. ” 
(Mark 5:41). More Free Books Law of Attraction Haven“From this deep sleep she awoke and arose and walked, and the High 
Priest and all the others were astonished. And he changed them straightly
that no man should know it; and he commanded that something should 
be given her to eat. ” (Mark 5:43). You are this very night, as you are seated here, pictured in this 5th chap -
ter of Mark. A cemetery is for one purpose: it is simply a record of the 
dead. Are you living in the dead past. If you are living among the dead, your prejudices, your superstitions, and
your false beliefs that you keep alive are the tombstones behind which 
you hide. If you refuse to let them go you are just as mad as the mad 
man of the Bible who pleaded with enlightened reason not to cast them 
out. There is no difference. But enlightened reason is incapable of protect -
ing prejudice and superstition against the inroads of reason. There is not a man in this world who has a prejudice, regardless of the 
nature of the prejudice, who can hold it up to the light of reason. Tell me 
you are against a certain nation, a certain race, a certain “ism,” a certain 
anything – I do not care what it is – you cannot expose that belief of 
yours to the light of reason and have it live. In order that it may be kept 
alive in your world you must hide it from reason. You cannot analyze it in 
the light of reason and have it live. When this fourth-dimensional focus 
comes and shows you a new approach to life and casts out of your own 
mind all these things that bedeviled you, you are then cleansed and 
clothed in your right mind. And you sit at the foot of understanding, called
the feet of the Master. Now clothed and in your right mind you can resurrect the dead. What 
dead. The child in the story is not a child. The child is your ambition, your
desire, the unfulfilled dreams of your heart. This is the child housed within
the mind of man. For as I have stated before, the entire drama of the 
Bible is a psychological one. The Bible has no reference at all to any per -
son who ever existed, or any event that ever occurred upon earth. All the 
stories of the Bible unfold in the minds of the individual man. In this story Jesus is the awakened intellect of man. When your mind 
functions outside of the range of your present senses, when your mind is 
healed of all the former limitations, then you are no longer the insane 
man; but you are this presence personified as Jesus, the power that can 
resurrect the longings of the heart of man. You are now the woman with the issue of blood. What is this issue of 
blood. A running womb is not a productive womb. She held it for 12 
years, she was incapable of conceiving. She could not give form to her 
longing because of the running of the issue of blood. You are told her faith
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenclosed it. As the womb closes it can give form to the seed or idea. As your mind is cleansed of your former concept of self, you assume you 
are what you want to be, and remaining faithful to this assumption, you 
give form to your assumption or resurrect your child. You are the woman 
cleansed of the issue of blood, and you move towards the house of the 
dead child. The child or state you desired is now your fixed concept of yourself. But 
now having assumed that I am what formerly I desired to be, I cannot 
continue desiring what I am conscious of being. So I do not discuss it. I 
talk to no one concerning what I am. It is so obvious to me that I am 
what I wanted to be that I walk as though I were. Walking as though I am what I formerly wanted to be, my world of limited
focus does not see it and thinks I no longer desire it. The child is dead 
within their world; but I, who know the law, say, “The child is not dead. ” 
The damsel is not dead, she but sleepeth. I now awaken her, I by my as -
sumption, awaken and make visible in my world what I assume, for as -
sumptions if sustained invariably awaken what they affirm. I close the door. What door. The door of my senses. I simply shut out 
completely all that my senses reveal. I deny the evidence of my senses. I 
suspend the limited reason of the natural man and walk in this bold asser -
tion that I am what my senses deny. With the door of my senses closed, what do I take into that disciplined 
state. I take no one into that state but the parents of the child and my 
disciples. I close the door against the mocking, laughing crowd. I no 
longer look for confirmation. I completely deny the evidence of my sens -
es, which mock my assumption and do not discuss with others whether 
my assumption is possible or not. Who are the parents. We have discovered that the father-mother of all 
creation is man's I Amness. Man's consciousness is God. I am conscious 
of the state. I am the father-mother of all my ideas and my mind remains
faithful to this new concept of self. My mind is disciplined. I take into that 
state the disciples, and I shut out of that state everything that would 
deny it. Now the child, unaided by man, is resurrected. The condition which I de -
sired and assumed I had, becomes objectified within my world and bears 
witness to the power of my assumption. You be the judge, I cannot judge you. You are either living now in the 
dead past, or you are living as the woman whose issue of blood has been 
staunched. Could you actually answer me if I asked you the question: “Do
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenyou believe now that you, without the assistance of another, need only as -
sume that you are what you want to be, to make that assumption real 
within your world. Or do you believe that you must first fulfill a certain 
condition imposed upon you by the past, that you must be of a certain or -
der, a certain something. ”
I am not being critical of certain churches or groups, but there are those 
who believe that anyone outside of their church or group is not yet saved. I was born a Protestant. You talk to a Protestant, there is only one Chris -
tian, a Protestant. You talk to a Catholic, why there is nothing in the world
that is a Christian but a Catholic. You talk to a Jew, and the Christians are
heathens, and the Jews are the chosen. You talk to a Mohammedan, Jews
and Christians are the infidels. You talk to someone else and all these are 
the untouchables. It does not matter to whom you talk, they are always 
the chosen ones. If you believe that you must be one of these in order to be saved, you are
still an insane man hiding behind these superstitions and these prejudices
of the past, and you are begging not to be cleansed. Some of you say to me, “Do not ask me to give up my belief in Jesus the 
man, or in Moses the man, or in Peter the man. When you ask me to give 
up my belief in these characters you are asking too much. Leave me 
these beliefs because they comfort me. I can believe that they lived upon 
earth and still follow your psychological interpretation of their stories. ”
I say, come out of the dead past. Come out of that cemetery and walk, 
knowing that you and your Father are one, and your Father, who men call 
God, is your own consciousness. That is the only creative law in the world. Of what are you conscious of being. Although you cannot see your objec -
tive with the limited focus of your three-dimensional mind, you are now 
that which you have assumed you are. Walk in the assumption and re -
main faithful to it. Time in this dimension of your being, beats slowly and you may not, even
after you objectify your assumption, remember there was a time when 
this present reality was but an attitude of mind. Because of the slowness 
of the beat of time here you often fail to see the relationship between 
your inner nature and the outer world that bears witness to it. You be the judge of the position you now occupy in this 5th chapter of 
Mark. Are you resurrecting the dead child. Are you still in need of having 
that womb of your mind closed. Is it still running and therefore cannot be
fertile. Are you now the insane man living in the dead past. Only you can 
be the judge and answer these questions. More Free Books Law of Attraction Haven*****
 
Now we turn to a story in the 5th chapter of the Gospel of John. This will 
show you how beautifully the ancient story tellers told of the two distinct 
outlooks on this world – one, the limited three-dimensional focus, and the
other, the fourth-dimensional focus. This story tells of an impotent man who is quickly healed. Jesus comes to 
a place called Bethesda, which by definition means the House of Five 
Porches. On these Five Porches are unnumbered impotent folk – lame, 
blind, halt, withered, and others. Tradition had it that at certain seasons 
of the year an angel would descend and disturb the pool which was near 
these Five Porches. As the Angel disturbed the pool, the first one in was 
always healed. But only the first one, not the second. Jesus, seeing a man who was lame from his mother's womb, said to him, 
“Wilt thou be made whole. ” (John 5:6). “The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is 
troubled, to put me into the pool – but while I am coming, another step -
peth down before me. ” (John 5:7). “Jesus saith unto him. Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. ” (John 5:8). “And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and 
walked, and on the same day was the Sabbath. ” (John 5:9). You read this story and you think some strange man who possessed 
miraculous power suddenly said to the lame man, “Rise and walk. ” I can -
not repeat too often that the story, even when it introduces numberless 
individualities, takes place within the mind of the individual man. The pool is your consciousness. The angel is an idea, called the messen -
ger of God. Consciousness being God, when you have an idea you are en -
tertaining an angel. The minute you are conscious of a desire your pool 
has been disturbed. Desire disturbs the mind of man. To want something 
is to be disturbed. The very moment you have an ambition, or a clearly defined objective, 
the pool has been disturbed by the angel, which was the desire. You are 
told that the first one into the disturbed pool is always healed. My closest companions in this world, my wife and my little girl, are to me 
when I address them, second. I must speak to my wife as, “you are. ” I 
must speak to anyone, no matter how close they are, as “you are. ” And 
after that the third person, “he is. ” There is only one person in this world 
with whom I can use the first person present and that is self. “I am,” can 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenbe said only of myself, it cannot be said of another. Therefore, when I am conscious of some desire that I want to be, but 
seemingly am not, the pool being disturbed, who can get into that pool 
before me. I alone possess the power of the first person. I am that which 
I want to be. Except I believe I am what I want to be, I remain as I for -
merly was and die in that limitation. In this story you need no man to put you into the pool as your conscious -
ness is disturbed by desire. All you need do is to assume you are already 
that which formerly you wanted to be and you are in it, and no man can 
get in before you. What man can get in before you when you become con -
scious of being that which you want to be. No one can be before you 
when you alone possess the power to say I AM. These are the two outlooks. You are now what your senses would deny. Are you bold enough to assume that you are already that which you want 
to be. If you dare assume you are already that which your reason and 
your senses now deny, then you are in the pool and, unaided by a man, 
you, too, will rise and take your couch and walk. You are told it happened on the Sabbath. The Sabbath is only the mystical
sense of stillness, when you are unconcerned, when you are not anxious, 
when you are not looking  for results, knowing that signs follow and do 
not precede. The Sabbath is the day of stillness wherein there is no working. When you
are not working to make it so you are in the Sabbath. When you are not 
at all concerned about the opinion of others, when you walk as though 
you were, you cannot raise one finger to make it so, you are in the Sab -
bath. I cannot be concerned as to how it will be, and still say I am con -
scious of being it. If I am conscious of being free, secure, healthy, and 
happy, I sustain these states of consciousness without effort or labor on 
my part. Therefore, I am in the Sabbath; and because it was the Sabbath 
he rose and walked. *****
Our next story is from the 4th chapter of the Gospel of John, and it is one 
you have heard time and time again. Jesus comes to the well and there is
a woman called the woman of Samaria, and he said to her, “Give me to 
drink. ” (John 4:7). “Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a 
Jew, asketh drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria. For the Jews 
have no dealings with the Samaritans. ” (John 4:9). More Free Books Law of Attraction Haven“Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and 
who it is that saith to thee, Give me a drink; thou wouldest have asked of 
him, and he would have given thee living water. ” (John 4:10). The woman seeing that he has nothing with which to draw the water, and 
knowing the well is deep, says: Art thou greater than our father Jacob, 
which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and 
his cattle. ” (John 4:12). “Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall
thirst again – but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him 
shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well
of water springing up into everlasting life. ” (John 4:13, 14). Then he tells her all concerning herself and asks her to go and call her 
husband. She answered and said, “I have no husband. ” (John 4:17). “Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: For thou 
hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. ” 
(John 4:17, 18). The woman, knowing this to be true, goes into the market place and tells 
the other, “I have met the Messiah. ”
They ask her, “How do you know you have met the Messiah. ”
“Because he told me all things that I have ever done. ” she replies. Here is
a focus that takes in the entire past at least, and tells her now concerning
the future. Continuing with the story, the disciples come to Jesus and say, “Master, 
eat. ” (John 4:31). “But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. ” (John 
4:32). When they speak of a harvest in four months, Jesus replies, “Say not ye, 
there are yet four months, and then cometh harvest. Behold, I say unto 
you, lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already in
harvest. ” (John 4:35). He sees things that people wait four months for, or wait four years for; he
sees them as in a dimensionally larger world, existing now, taking place 
now. Let us go back to the first part of the story. The woman of Samaria is the 
three-dimensional you, and Jesus at the well is the fourth-dimensional 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenyou. The argument starts between what you want to be, and what reason 
tells you that you are. The greater you tells you that if you would dare as -
sume you are already what you want to be, you would become it. The lesser you, with its limited focus, tells you, “Why you haven't a buck -
et, you haven't a rope and the well is deep. How could you ever reach the
depth of this state without the means to that end. ”
You answer and say, “If you only knew who asks of you to drink you 
would ask of him. ” If you only knew what in yourself is urging upon the 
embodiment of the state you now seek, you would suspend your little 
sight and let him do it for you. Then he tells you that you have five husbands, and you deny it. But he 
knows far better than you that your five senses impregnate you morning, 
noon, and night with their limitations. They tell you what children you will 
bear tonight, tomorrow, and the days to come. For your five senses act 
like five husbands who constantly impregnate your consciousness, which 
is the great womb of God; and morning, noon, and night they suggest to 
you, and dictate to you that which you must accept as true. He tells you the one you would like to have for your husband is not your 
husband. In other words the sixth has not yet impregnated you. What you
would like to be is denied by these five, and they hold the power, they 
dictate what you will accept as true. What you would like to accept has 
not yet penetrated your mind and impregnated your mind with its reality. He whom you call husband is really not your husband. You are not bearing
his likeness. To bear his likeness is proof that you are his wife, at least 
you have known him intimately. You are not bearing the likeness of the 
sixth; you are only bearing the likeness of the five. Then one turns to me and tells me all that I have ever known. I go back 
in my mind's eye and reason tells me that all through my life I have al -
ways accepted the limitations of my senses, I have always looked upon 
them as fact; and morning, noon, and night I have born witness to this 
acceptance. Reason tells me I have only known these five from the time I was born. Now I would like to step outside the limitation of my senses but I have 
not yet found within myself the courage to assume I am what these five 
would deny that I am. So here I remain, conscious of my task, but with -
out the courage to step beyond the limitations of my senses, and that 
which my reason denies. He tells these, “I have meat ye know not of. I am the bread that droppeth
down from heaven. I am the wine. ” I know what I want to be, and be -
cause I am that bread I feast upon it. I assume that I am, and instead of 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenfeasting upon the fact that I am in this room talking to you and you are 
listening to me, and that I am in Los Angeles, I feast upon the fact that I 
am elsewhere and I walk here as though I am elsewhere. And gradually I 
become what I feast upon. *****
Let me give you two personal stories. When I was a boy I lived in a very 
limited environment, in a little island called Barbados. Feed for animals 
was very, very scarce and very expensive because we had to import it. I 
am one of a family of 10 children and my grandmother lived with us mak -
ing 13 at the table. Time and again I can remember my mother saying to the cook in the ear -
ly part of the week, “I want you to put away three ducks for Sunday's din -
ner. ” This meant that she would take from the flock in the yard three 
ducks and coop them up in a very small cage and feed them, stuff them 
morning, noon, and night with corn and all the things she wanted the 
ducks to feast upon. This was an entirely different diet from what we regularly fed the ducks, 
because we kept those birds alive by feeding them fish. We kept them 
alive and fat on fish because fish were very cheap and plentiful; but you 
could not eat a bird that fed upon fish, not as you and I like a bird. The cook would take three ducks put them in a cage and for seven days 
stuff them with corn, sour milk and all the things we wanted to taste in 
the birds. Then when they were killed and served for dinner seven days 
later they were luscious, milk fed, corn fed birds. But occasionally the cook forgot to put away the birds, and my father, 
knowing we were having ducks, and believing that she had carried out the
command, did not send anything else for dinner, and three ducks came to
the table. You could not touch those birds for they were so much the em -
bodiment of what they fed upon. Man is a psychological being, a thinker. It is not what he feeds upon phys -
ically, but what he feeds upon mentally that he becomes. We become the 
embodiment of that which we mentally feed upon. Now those ducks could not be fed corn in the morning and fish in the af -
ternoon and something else at night. It had to be a complete change of 
diet. In our case we cannot have a little bit of meditation in the morning, 
curse at noon, and do something else in the evening. We have to go on a 
mental diet, for a week we must completely change our mental food. “Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Haventhings are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are of 
good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on 
these things. ” (Phil 4:8). As a man thinketh in his heart so is he. If I could now single out the kind 
of mental food I want to express within my world and feast upon it, I 
would become it. Let me tell you why I am doing what I am doing today. It was back in 
1933 in the city of New York, and my old friend Abdullah, with whom I 
studied Hebrew for five years, was really the beginning of the eating of all
my superstitions. When I went to him I was filled with superstitions. I 
could not eat meat, I could not eat fish, I could not eat chicken, I could 
not eat any of these things that were living in the world. I did not drink, I 
did not smoke, and I was making a tremendous effort to live a celibate 
life. Abdullah said to me, “I am not going to tell you you are crazy Neville, but 
you are you know. All these things are stupid. ” But I could not believe 
they were stupid. In November, 1933, I bade goodbye to my parents in the city of New York
as they sailed for Barbados. I had been in this country 12 years with no 
desire to see Barbados. I was not successful and I was ashamed to go 
home to successful members of my family. After 12 years in America I 
was a failure in my own eyes. I was in the theater and made money one 
year and spent it the next month. I was not what I would call by their 
standards nor by mine a successful person. Mind you when I said goodbye to my parents in November I had no desire
to go to Barbados. The ship pulled out, and as I came up the street, 
something possessed me with a desire to go to Barbados. It was the year 1933, I was unemployed and had no place to go except a 
little room on 75th street. I went straight to my old friend Abdullah and 
said to him, “Ab, the strangest feeling is possessing me. For the first time 
in 12 years I want to go to Barbados. ”
“If you want to go Neville, you have gone. ” he replied. That was a very strange language to me. I am in New York City on 72nd 
Street and he tells me I have gone to Barbados. I said to him, “What do 
you mean, I have gone, Abduallah. ”
He said, “Do you really want to go. ”
I answered, “yes. ”
More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenHe then said to me, “As you walk through this door now you are not walk -
ing on 72nd Street, you are walking on palm lined streets, coconut lined 
streets; this is Barbados. Do not ask me how you are going to go. You are
in Barbados. You do not say 'how' when you 'are there. ' You are there. Now you walk as though you were there. I went out of his place in a daze. I am in Barbados. I have no money, I 
have no job, I am not even well clothed, and yet I am in Barbados. He was not the kind of person with whom you would argue, not Abdullah. Two weeks later I was no nearer my goal than on the day I first told him I
wanted to go to Barbados. I said to him, “Ab, I trust you implicitly but 
here is one time I cannot see how it is going to work. I have not one pen -
ny towards my journey,” I began to explain. You know what he did. He was as black as the ace of spades, my old 
friend Abdullah, with his turbaned head. As I sat in his living room he rose
from his chair and went towards his study and slammed the door, which 
was not an invitation to follow him. As he went through the door he said 
to me, “I have said all that I have to say. ”
On the 3rd of December I stood before Abdullah and told him again I was 
no nearer my trip. He repeated his statement, “You are in Barbados. ”
The very last ship sailing for Barbados that would take me there for the 
reason I wanted to go, which was to be there for Christmas, sailed at 
noon on December 6th, the old Nerissa. On the morning of December 4th, having no job, having no place to go, I 
slept late. When I got up there was an air mail letter from Barbados under
my door. As I opened the letter a little piece of paper flickered to the floor. I picked it up and it was a draft for $50. 00. The letter was from my brother Victor and it read, “I am not asking you to
come, Neville, this is a command. We have never had a Christmas when 
all the members of our family were present at the same time. This Christ -
mas it could be done if you would come. ”
My oldest brother Cecil left home before the youngest was born and then 
we started to move away from home at different times so never in the 
history of our family were we ever all together at the same time. The letter continued, “You are not working, I know there is no reason why
you cannot come, so you must be here before Christmas. The enclosed 
$50. 00 is to buy a few shirts or a pair of shoes you may need for the trip. You will not need tips; use the bar if you are drinking. I will meet the ship 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenand pay all your tips and incurred expenses. I have cabled Furness, Withy
& Co. in New York City and told them to issue you a ticket when you ap -
pear at their office. The $50. 00 is simply to buy some little essentials. You
may sign as you want aboard the ship. I will meet it and take care of all 
obligations. I went down to Furness, Withy and Co. with my letter and let them read 
it. They said, “We received the cable Mr Goddard, but unfortunately we 
have not any space left on the December 6th sailing. The only thing avail -
able is 3rd class between New York and St Thomas. When we get to St 
Thomas we have a few passengers who are getting off. You may then ride
1st class from St Thomas to Barbados. But between New York and St 
Thomas you must go 3rd class, although you may have the privileges of 
the 1st class dining room and walk the decks of the 1st class. I said, “I will take it. ”
I went back to my friend Abdullah on the afternoon of December 4th and 
said, “It worked like a dream. ” I told him what I had done, thinking he 
would be happy. Do you know what he said to me. He said, “Who told you that you are go -
ing 3rd class. Did I see you in Barbados, the man you are, going 3rd class. You are in Barbados and you went there 1st class. ”
I did not have one moment to see him again before I sailed on the noon 
of December 6th. When I reached the dock with my passport and my pa -
pers to get aboard that ship the agent said to me, “We have good news 
for you, Mr Goddard. There has been a cancellation and you are going 1st 
class. ”
Abdullah taught me the importance of remaining faithful to an idea and 
not compromising. I wavered, but he remained faithful to the assumption 
that I was in Barbados and had traveled 1st class. *****
Now back to the significance of our two Bible stories. The well is deep and
you have no bucket, you have no rope. It is four months to the harvest 
and Jesus says, “I have meat to eat ye know not of. I am the bread of 
heaven. ” 
Feast on the idea, become identified with the idea as though you were al -
ready that embodied state. Walk in the assumption that you are what you
want to be. If you feast on that and remain faithful to that mental diet, 
you will crystallize it. You will become it in this world. More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenWhen I came back to New York in 1934, after three heavenly months in 
Barbados, I drank, I smoked, and did everything I had not done in years. I remembered what Abdullah had said to me, “After you  have proven this
law you will become normal, Neville. You will come out of that graveyard, 
you will come out of that dead past where you think you are being holy. For all you are really doing you know, you are being so good, Neville, you 
are good for nothing. ”
I came back walking this earth a completely transformed person. From 
that day, which was in February 1934, I began to live more and more. I 
cannot honestly tell you I have always succeeded. My many mistakes in 
this world, my many failures would convict me if I told you that I have so 
completely mastered the movements of my attention that I can at all 
times remain faithful to the idea I want to embody. But I can say with the ancient teacher, although I seem to have failed in 
the past, I move on and strive day after day to become that which I want 
to embody in this world. Suspend judgment, refuse to accept what reason
and the senses now dictate, and if you remain faithful to the new diet, 
you will become the embodiment of the ideal to which you remain faithful. If there is one place in the world that is unlike my little island of Barba -
dos, it is New York City. In Barbados the tallest building is three stories, 
and the streets are lined with palm trees and coconut trees and all sorts 
of tropical things. In New York City you must go to a park to find a tree. Yet I had to walk the streets of New York as though I walked the streets 
of Barbados. To one's imagination all things are possible. I walked, feeling
that I was actually walking in the streets of Barbados, and in that as -
sumption I could almost smell the odor of the coconut lined lanes. I began
to create within my mind's eye the atmosphere I would physically en -
counter were I in Barbados. As I remained faithful to this assumption, somebody canceled passage 
and I received it. My brother in Barbados, who never thought of my com -
ing home, has the commanding urge to write me a strange letter. He had 
never dictated to me, but this time he dictated, and thought that he origi -
nated the idea of my visit. I went home and had three heavenly months, returned 1st class, and 
brought back quite a sum of cash in my pocket, a gift. My trip, had I paid 
for it, would have been $3000, yet I did it without a nickel in my pocket. “I have ways ye know not of. My ways are past finding out. ” The dimen -
sionally greater self took my assumption as the command and influenced 
the behavior of my brother to write that letter, influenced the behavior of 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havensomeone to cancel that 1st class passage, and did all the things necessary 
that would tend toward the production of the idea with which I was identi -
fied. I was identified with the feeling of being there. I slept as though I were 
there, and the entire behavior of man was molded in harmony with my 
assumption. I did not need to go down to Furness, Withy & Co. and beg 
them for passage, asking them to cancel someone who was booked 1st 
class. I did not need to write my brother and beg him to send me some 
money or buy me a passage. He thought he originated the act. Actually, 
to this day, he believes that he initiated the desire to bring me home. My old friend Abdullah simply said to me, “You are in Barbados, Neville. You want to be there; where you want to be, there you are. Live as 
though you are and that you shall be. ”
These are the two outlooks on the world possessed by every man. I do 
not care who you are. Every child born of woman, regardless of race, na -
tion, or creed, possesses two distinct outlooks on the world. You are either the natural man who receiveth not the things of the Spirit 
of God, because to you in the natural focus they are foolishness unto you. Or you are the spiritual man who perceiveth things outside of the limita -
tions of your senses because all things are now realities in a dimensionally
larger world. There is no need to wait four months to harvest. You are either the woman of Samaria or Jesus at the well. You are the 
man waiting on the Five Porches for the disturbance and someone to push
him in; or you are the one who can command yourself to rise and walk in 
spite of others who wait. Are you the man behind the tombstones in the cemetery waiting and beg -
ging not to be clean, because you do not want to be cleansed of your 
prejudices. One of the most difficult things for man to give up is his su -
perstitions, his prejudice. He holds on to these as though they were the 
treasure of treasures. When you do become cleansed and you are free, then the womb, your 
own mind is automatically healed. It becomes the prepared ground where
seeds, your desires, can take root and grow into manifestation. The child 
you now bear in your heart is your present objective. Your present longing
is a child that is as though it were sick. If you assume you are not what 
you would like to be, the child for a moment becomes dead because there
is no disturbance anymore. You cannot be disturbed when you feel you are what you want to be be -
cause if you feel you are what you wanted to be, you are satisfied in that 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havenassumption. To others who judge superficially you seem no longer to de -
sire, so to them the desire or damsel is dead. They think you have lost 
your ambition because you no longer discuss your secret ambition. You 
have completely adjusted yourself to the idea. You have assumed that 
you are what you want to be. You know, “She is not dead, she but sleep -
eth. ” “I go to awaken her. ”
I walk in the assumption that I am, and as I walk, I quietly awaken her. Then when she awakens I will do the normal, natural thing. I will give her 
to eat. I will not brag about it and tell others, I simply go and tell no man. I feed this state I now like with my attention. I keep it alive within my 
world by becoming attentive to it. Things that I am not attentive to fade and wither within my world, regard -
less of what they are. They are not just born and remain unfed. I gave 
them birth by reason of the fact that I became conscious of being them. When I embody them within my world that is not the end. That is the be -
ginning. Now I am a mother who must keep alive this state by being at -
tentive to it. The day that I am not attentive, I have withdrawn my milk 
from it, and it fades from my world, as I become attentive to something 
else in my world. You can either be attentive to the limitations and feed these and make 
them mountains, or you can be attentive to your desires; but to become 
attentive you must assume you are already that which you wanted to be. Although today we speak of a third-dimensional and a fourth-dimensional 
focus, do not think for one moment these ancient teachers were not fully 
conscious of these two distinct centers of thought within the minds of all 
men. They personified these two, and they tried to show man that the 
only thing which robs him of the man he could be, is habit. Although it is 
no law, every psychologist will tell you that habit is the most inhibiting 
force in the world. It completely restricts man and binds him and makes 
him totally blind to what otherwise he should be. Begin now to mentally see and feel yourself as that which you want to be,
and feast upon that sensation morning, noon, and night. I have scoured 
the Bible for a time interval that is longer than three days and I have not 
found it. “Jesus answered and said unto them, destroy this temple, and in three 
days I will raise it up. ” (John 2:19). “Prepare your victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jor -
dan, to go in to possess the land, which the Lord your God giveth you to 
possess it. ” (Joshua 1:11). More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenIf I could completely saturate my mind with one sensation and walk as 
though it were already a fact, I am promised (and I cannot find any denial
of it in this great book) that I do not need more than a three day diet if I 
remain faithful to it. But I must be honest about it. If I change my diet in 
the course of the day, I extend the time interval. You ask me, “But how do I know about the interval. ” You, yourself deter -
mine the interval. We have today in our modern world a little word which confuses most of 
us. I know it confused me until I dug deeper. The word is “action. ” Action 
is supposed to be the most fundamental thing in the world. It is not an 
atom, it is more fundamental. It is not a part of an atom like an electron, 
it is more fundamental than that. They call it the fourth-dimensional unit. The most fundamental thing in the world is action. You ask, “What is action. ” Our physicists tell us that it is energy multi -
plied by time. We become more confused and say, “Energy multiplied by 
time, what does that mean. ” They answer, “There is no response to a 
stimulus, no matter how intense the stimulus, unless it endures for a cer -
tain length of time. ” There must be a minimum endurance to the stimulus 
or there is no response. On the other hand there is no response to time 
unless there is a minimum degree of intensity. Today the most fundamen -
tal thing in the world is called action, or simply energy multiplied by time. The Bible gives it as three days; the duration is three days for response in
this world. If I would now assume I am what I want to be, and if I am 
faithful to it and walk as though I were, the very longest stretch given for 
its realization is three days. If there is something tonight that you really want in this world, then expe -
rience in imagination what you would experience in the flesh were you to 
realize your goal and deafen your ears, and blind your eyes to all that de -
nies the reality of your assumption. If you do this you would be able to tell me before I leave this city of Los 
Angeles that you have realized what was only a wish when you came 
here. It will be my joy to rejoice with you in the knowledge that the child 
which was seemingly dead is now alive. This damsel really was not dead, 
she was only asleep. You fed her in this silence because you have meat no
one else knows of. You gave her food and she became a resurrected living
reality within your world. Then you can share your joy with me and I can 
rejoice in your joy. The purpose of these lessons is to remind you of the law of your own be -
ing, the law of consciousness; you are that law. You were only uncon -
scious of its operation. You fed and kept alive the things you did not wish 
More Free Books Law of Attraction Havento express within this world. Take my challenge and put this philosophy to the test. If it does not work 
you should not use it as a comforter. If it is not true, you must completely
discard it. I know it is true. You will not know it until you try either to 
prove or disprove it. Too many of us have joined “isms” and we are afraid to put them to the 
test because we feel we might fail; and, then, where are we. Not really 
wanting to know the truth concerning it, we hesitate to be bold enough to
put it to the test. You say, “I know it would work in some other way. I do 
not want to really test it. While I have not yet disproved it, I can still be 
comforted by it. Now do not fool yourself, do not think for one second that you are wise. Prove or disprove this law. I know that if you attempt to disprove it, you 
will prove it, and I will be the richer for your proving it, not in dollars, not 
in things, but because you become the living fruit of what I believe I am 
teaching in this world it is far better to have you a successful, satisfied 
person after five days of instruction than to have you go out dissatisfied. I
hope you will be bold enough to challenge this instruction and either 
prove or disprove it. Now before we go into the silence period I shall briefly explain the tech -
nique again. We have two techniques in applying this law. Everyone here 
must now know exactly what he wants. You must know that if you do not 
get it tonight you will still be as desirous tomorrow concerning this objec -
tive. When you know exactly what you want, construct in your mind's eye a 
single, simple event which implies fulfillment of your desire, an event 
wherein self predominates. Instead of sitting back and looking at yourself 
as though you were on the screen, you be the actor in the drama. Restrict the event to one single action. If you are going to shake a hand 
because that implies fulfillment of your desire then do that and that only. Do not shake hands and then wander off in your imagination to a dinner 
party or to some other place. Restrict your action to simply shaking hands
and do it over and over again, until that handshake takes on the solidity 
and the distinctness of reality. If you feel you cannot remain faithful to an action, I want you now to de -
fine your objective, and then condense the idea, which is your desire, into
a single phrase, a phrase which implies fulfillment of your desire, some 
phrase such as, “Isn't it wonderful. ”
More Free Books Law of Attraction HavenOr if I felt thankful because I thought someone was instrumental in bring -
ing my desire to pass, I could say, “Thank you,” and repeat it with feeling 
over and over again like a lullaby until my mind was dominated by the 
single sensation of thankfulness. We will now sit quietly in these chairs with the idea which implies fulfill -
ment of our desire condensed to a single phrase, or to a single act. We 
will relax and immobilize our physical bodies. Then let us experience in 
imagination the sensation which our condensed phrase or action affirms. Section summary: 

This excerpt discusses several key points related to manifesting goals and achieving success:
-   Focus internally on assuming the role/identity/state/direction. - Avoid external validation/reason/senses/judgment/criticism/mocking/stumbling block/challenge/etc. , ignoring distractions/neglect/waste/burn-out etc. ). Stay focused;
      - Donât compromise/give-in/concede/yield/have doubts/fear/anxiety/vulnerability/lack-of-confidence â­ï¸ ðŸ˜ŽðŸ‘

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* Emphasizes internal transformation rather than relying solely on outward conditions (*"…crumbles of their own weight"*). * Presents biblical examples illustrating principles applied (**Numbers**, ***Gospel*** passages)
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To assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled and go to sleep with that assumption.
What is the key to manifesting one's desires?
The cloud is the garment of your consciousness, and it represents the manifestation of your assumption.
What is the "cloud" mentioned in the passage?
The story illustrates the importance of remaining faithful to one's assumption and not compromising.
What is the significance of the story in the 5th chapter of Mark?
The Sabbath represents the state of stillness and quietness, which is necessary for the manifestation of one's desires.
What is the purpose of the "Sabbath" mentioned in the passage?
The well is a metaphor for the subconscious mind, and the water represents the power of the subconscious to bring about the fulfillment of one's desires.
What is the "well" mentioned in the passage?