• A common stumbling block to wealth 
There is one emotion, which is the cause of the lack of wealt h in the 
lives of many. Most people learn this the hard way. It is  envy. For 
example, if you see a competitor depositing large sums of m oney in 
the bank, and you have only a meager amount to deposit, does it make 
you envious? The way to overcome this emotion is to say to yourself , 
“Isn’t it wonderful! I rejoice in that man’s prosperity. I  wish for him 
greater and greater wealth.” 
To entertain envious thoughts is devastating because it places y ou in 
a very negative position; therefore, wealth flows from you instead of 
to you. If you are ever annoyed or irritated by the prosperity or great 
wealth of another, claim immediately that you truly wish for  him 
greater wealth in every possible way. This will neutrali ze the negative 
thoughts in your mind and cause an ever-greater measure of weal th to 
flow to you by the law of your own subconscious mind. • Rubbing out a great mental block to wealth 
If you are worried and critical about someone whom you claim is 
making money dishonestly, cease worrying about him. You know 
such a person is using the law of mind negatively; the law of mi nd 
takes care of him. Be careful not to criticize him for the  reasons 
previously indicated. 106  Remember: The block or obstacle to wealth is in your own mind. You can now destroy that mental block. This you may do by getting 
on mental good terms with everyone. • Sleep and grow rich 
As you go to sleep at night, practice the following tech-nique . Repeat the word, “Wealth,” quietly, easily, and feelingly. Do t his over 
and over again, just like a lullaby. Lull yourself to sleep wit h the one 
word, “Wealth.” You should be amazed at the result. Wealth should 
flow to you in avalanches of abundance. This is another example o f 
the magic power of your subcon-scious mind. • Serve yourself with the powers of your mind 
1. Decide to be wealthy the easy way, with the infallible aid of your 
subconscious mind. 2. Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard 
labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyar d. You do 
not have to strive or slave hard. 3. Wealth is a subconscious conviction. Build into your men-tality  
the idea of wealth. 4. The trouble with most people is that they have no invisible means 
of support. 5. Repeat the word, “Wealth,” to yourself slowly and quietly for 
about five minutes prior to sleep and your subconscious will br ing 
wealth to pass in your experience. 6. The feeling of wealth produces wealth. Keep this in mind at all  
times. 7. Your conscious and subconscious mind must agree. Your 
subconscious accepts what you really feel to be true. The dom inant 
idea is always accepted by your subconscious mind. The dominant 
idea should be wealth , not poverty. 107  8. You can overcome any mental conflict regarding wealth by 
affirming frequently, “By day and by night I am being pros-pe red in 
all of my interests.” 
9. Increase your sales by repeating this statement over and ov er 
again, “My sales are improving every day; I am ad-vancing , 
progressing, and getting wealthier every day.” 
10. Stop writing blank checks, such as, “There is not enough to go 
around,” or “There is a shortage,” etc. Such state-ments magnify  and 
multiply your loss. 11. Deposit thoughts of prosperity, wealth, and success in your 
subconscious mind, and the latter will give you compound interest. 12. What you consciously affirm, you must not mentally deny a few 
moments later. This will neutralize the good you have affirmed. 13. Your true source of wealth consists of the ideas in your mind. You can have an idea worth millions of dollars. Your subconscious 
will give you the idea you seek. 14. Envy and jealousy are stumbling blocks to the flow of wealth . Rejoice in the prosperity of others. 15. The block to wealth is in your own mind. Destroy that block 
now by getting on good mental terms with everyone. 108  10 
Your Right to Be Rich 
It is your right to be rich. You are here to lead the abun-dant l ife and 
be happy, radiant, and free. You should, therefore, have all the money  
you need to lead a full, happy, and pros-perous life. You are here to grow, expand, and unfold spiritually, men-tally, a nd 
materially. You have the inalienable right to fully develop and express 
yourself along all lines. You should sur-round yourself with beauty 
and luxury. Why be satisfied with just enough to go around when you can enjoy 
the riches of your subconscious mind? In this chapter you can le arn to 
make friends with money, and you should al-ways have a surplus. Your desire to be rich is a desire for a fuller, happier, mor e wonderful 
life. It is a cosmic urge. It is not only good, but also very good. • Money is a symbol 
Money is a symbol of exchange. It means to you not only freedom 
from want, but beauty, luxury, abundance, and refine-ment. It is 
merely a symbol of the economic health of the nation. When your 
blood is circulating freely in your body, you are healthy. When money 
is circulating freely in your life, you are economically heal thy. When 
people begin to hoard money, to put it away in tin boxes, and become  
charged with fear, there is economic illness. Money has taken many forms as a medium of exchange down 
through the centuries, such as, salt, beads, and trinkets of vari ous 
kinds. In early times a man’s wealth was determined by the num ber of 
sheep and oxen he had. Now we use currency, and other negotiable 
instruments, as it is much more convenient to write a check than c arry 
some sheep around with you to pay bills. 109  • How to walk the royal road to riches 
Knowledge of the powers of your subconscious mind is the means 
to  the royal road to riches of all kinds—spiritual, men-tal, o r 
financial. The student of the laws of mind believes and knows 
definitely that regardless of economic situations, stock marke t 
fluctuation, depression, strikes, war, other conditions or 
circumstances, he will always be amply supplied, regardles s of what 
form money takes. The reason for this is that he has con-veyed the  
idea of wealth to his subconscious mind, and it keeps him supplied  
wherever he may be. He has convinced himself in his mind that 
money is forever flowing freely in his life and that there  is always a 
wonderful surplus. Should there be a fi-nancial collapse of 
government tomorrow and all the man’s  present holdings become 
valueless, as the German marks did after the First World War , he 
would still attract wealth and be cared for, regardless of th e form the 
new currency took. • Why you do not have more money 
As you read this chapter, you are probably saying, “I am worthy of a 
higher salary than I am receiving.” I believe most people are 
inadequately compensated. One of the causes many people does not 
have more money is that they are silently or openly condemning i t. 
They refer to money as “filthy lucre” or “the love of money is  the root 
of all evil.” Another reason they do not prosper is that they ha ve a 
sneaky subconscious feeling there is some virtue in poverty. T his 
subconscious pattern may be due to early childhood training, 
superstition, or it could be based on a false interpretation of scri ptures. • Money and a balanced life 
One time a man said to me, “I am broke. I do not like money. It is 
the 
root of all evil.” These statements represent a confused ne urotic 
mind. Love of money to the exclusion of everything else will c ause 
you to become lopsided and unbal-anced. You are here to use your  
 110  power or authority wisely. Some men crave power others cra ve 
money. If you set your heart on money exclusively and say, “Money is al l I 
want; I am going to give all my attention to amassing money; nothi ng 
else matters,” you can get money and attain a fortune, but you have 
forgotten that you are here to lead a balanced life. You must also 
satisfy the hunger for peace of mind, harmony, love, joy, and perfect  
health. By making money your sole aim, you simply made a wrong choice. You thought that was all you wanted, but you found after all your 
efforts that it was not only the money you needed. You also desired  
true expression of your hidden talents, true place in life, beaut y, and 
the joy of contributing to the welfare and success of others. B y 
learning the laws of your subconscious mind, you could have a million 
dollars or many millions, if you wanted them, and still have peac e of 
mind, harmony, per-fect health, and perfect expression. • Poverty is a mental disease 
There is no virtue in poverty; it is a disease like any ot her mental 
disease. If you were physically ill, you would think there was  
something wrong with you. You would seek help and do something 
about the condition at once. Likewise, if you do not have money 
constantly circulating in your life, there is some-thing radic ally wrong 
with you. The urge of the life principle in you is toward growth, ex-pansi on, 
and the life more abundant. You are not here to live in a hovel, dress 
in rags, and go hungry. You should be happy, prosperous, and 
successful. • Why you must never criticize money 
Cleanse your mind of all weird and supe rstitious beliefs about  
money. Do not ever regard money as evil or filthy. If you do, you 
cause it to take wings and fly away from you. Remember that you lo se 
what you condemn. You cannot attract what you criticize. 111  • Getting the right attitude toward money 
Here is a simple technique you may use to multiply money in your  
experience. Use the following statements several times a  day, “I like 
money, I love it, I use it wisely, constructively, and judiciousl y. Money is constantly circulating in my life. I release it wi th joy, and it 
returns to me multiplied in a wonderful way. It is good and very g ood. Money flows to me in avalanches of abundance. I use it for good only , 
and I am grateful for my good and for the riches of my mind.” 
• How the scientific thinker looks at money 
Suppose, for example, you found gold, silver, lead, copper, or iron 
in the ground. Would you pronounce these things evil? All evil comes  
from man’s darkened understanding, from his ignorance, from his 
false interpretation of life, and from his misuse of his  subconscious 
mind. Uranium, lead, or some other metal could have been used as a 
medium of exchange. We use paper bills, checks, nickel, and silver  
surely these are not evil. Physicists and chemists know today that the 
only difference between one metal and another is the number and rate 
of motion of electrons revolving around a central nucleus. They ca n 
now change one metal into another through a bombardment of the 
atoms in the powerful cyclotron. Gold under certain conditions 
becomes mercury. I believe that our modern scientists in the ne ar 
future will be able to make gold, silver, and other metals s ynthetically 
in the chemical laboratory. The cost may be pro-hibitive now, but it 
can be done. I cannot imagine any intelli-gent person seeing anything  
evil in electrons, neutrons, protons, and isotopes. The piece of paper in your pocket is composed of atoms and 
molecules with their electrons and protons arranged differ-entl y. Their 
number and rate of motion are different. That is the only way  the 
paper differs from the silver in your pocket. • How to attract the money you need 
Many years ago I met a young boy in Australia who wanted to 
become a physician and surgeon, but he had no money. I explained to 
him how a seed deposited in the soil attracts to itself ever ything  
 112  necessary for its unfolding, and that all he had to do was to ta ke a 
lesson from the seed and deposit the required idea in his subcons cious 
mind. For expenses this young, brilliant boy used to clean out doctors’  
offices, wash windows, and do odd repair jobs. He told me that every  
night, as he went to sleep, he used to picture in his mind’s e ye a 
medical diploma on a wall with his name on it in big, bold let ters. He  
used to clean and shine the framed diplomas in the medical build ing 
where he worked. It was not hard for him to engrave the image  of a 
diploma in his mind and develop it there. Definite results fol -lowed as 
he persisted with his mental picture every night for about four months. The sequel of this story was very interesting. One of the doctors  
took a great liking to this young boy and after training him i n the art 
of sterilizing instruments, giving hypodermic in-jections, and ot her 
miscellaneous first-aid work, he employed him as a technical assistant 
in his office. The doctor later sent him to medical school at his  own 
expense. Today, this young man is a prominent medical doctor in 
Montreal, Canada. He discovered the law of attraction by using his  
subconscious mind the right way. He operated an ageold law, whi ch 
says, “Having seen the end, you have willed the means to  the 
realization of the end.” The end in this case was to become a medical 
doctor. This young man was able to imagine, see, and feel the reality of 
being a doctor. He lived with that idea, sustained it, nourished it,  and 
loved it until through his imagination it pene-trated the layers  of his 
subconscious mind and became a con-viction, thereby attracting  to 
him everything necessary for the fulfillment of his dream. • Why some men do not get a raise in pay 
If you are working in a large organization and you are silently 
thinking of and resenting the fact you are underpaid, that you are  not 
appreciated, and that you deserve more money and greater 
recognition, you are subconsciously severing your ties with that 
organization. You are setting a law in motion, and the superintende nt 
or manager will say to you, “We have to let you go.” Actually , you  
 113  dismissed yourself. The manager was simply the instrument thro ugh 
which your own negative mental state was confirmed. It was an 
example of the law of action and reaction. The action was your 
thought, and the reaction was the response of your subconscious mind. • Obstacles and impediments on the pathway to riches 
I am sure you have heard men say, “That fellow has a racket.” “He 
is a racketeer.” “He is getting money dishonestly.” “He is  a faker.” “I 
knew him when he had nothing.” “He is a crook, a thief, and a 
swindler.”  
If you analyze the man who talks like that, you discover he is 
usually in want or suffering from some financial or physical  illness. Perhaps his former college friends went up the ladder of  success and 
excelled him. Now he is bitter and envious of their progress. In many 
instances this is the cause of his downfall. Thinking negativel y of 
these classmates and condemning their wealth causes the wealt h and 
prosperity he is praying for to vanish and flee away. He is 
condemning the thing he is praying for. He is praying two ways. On the one hand he is saying, “Wealth is 
flowing to me now,” and in the next breath, silently or audibly, he i s 
saying, “I resent that fellow’s wealth.” Always make i t a special point 
to rejoice in the wealth of the other person. • Protect your investments 
If you are seeking wisdom regarding investments, or if you are  
worried about your stocks or bonds, quietly claim, “Infinite 
intelligence governs and watches over all my financial tr ansac-tions, 
and whatsoever I do shall prosper.” Do this frequently and you will    
find that your investments will be wise; moreover, you will be  
protected from loss, as you will be prompted to sell your secu rities or 
holdings before any loss accrues to you. • You cannot get something for nothing 
In large stores the management employs store detectives to prevent 
people from stealing. They catch a number of people every da y trying  
 114  to get something for nothing. All such people are living in the mental 
atmosphere of lack and limitation and are stealing from themsel ves 
peace, harmony, faith, honesty, integrity, good will, and confidence . Furthermore, they are attracting to themselves all manner of loss, such 
as, loss of charac-ter, prestige, social status, and peace of mind. These 
people lack faith in the source of supply and the understanding of  how 
their minds work. If they would mentally call on the powers of th eir 
subconscious mind and claim that they are guided to their true 
expression, they would find work and constant supply. Then by 
honesty, integrity, and perseverance, they would become a credit  to 
themselves and to society at large. • Your constant supply of money 
Recognizing the powers of your subconscious mind and the creative  
power of your thought or mental image is the way to opulence, 
freedom, and constant supply. Accept the abundant life in your own  
mind. Your mental acceptance and expectancy of wealth has its own  
mathematics and mechanics of expression. As you enter into the  mood 
of opulence, all things necessary for the abundant life will c ome to 
pass. Let this be your daily affirmation; write it in your heart, “I  am one 
with the infinite riches of my subconscious mind. It is my right to be 
rich, happy, and successful. Money flows to me freely, copious ly, and 
endlessly. I am forever conscious of my true worth. I give of my 
talents freely, and I am wonderfully blessed financially. It is 
wonderful!” 
• Step up this way to riches 
1. Be bold enough to claim that it is your right to be rich and your 
deeper mind will honor your claim. 2. You don’t want just enough to go around. You want all the 
money you need to do all the things you want to do and when you 
want to do them. Get acquainted with the riches of your sub conscious 
mind. 115  3. When money is circulating freely in your life, you are eco-
nomically healthy. Look at money like the tide and you will always  
have plenty of it. The ebb and flow of the tide is constant. Wh en the 
tide is out, you are absolutely sure that it will return. 4. Knowing the laws of your subconscious mind, you will al-ways 
be supplied regardless of what form money takes. 5. One reason many people simply make ends meet and never have  
enough money is that they condemn money. What you condemn takes 
wings and flies away. 6. Do not make a god of money. It is only a symbol. Remem-ber 
that the real riches are in your mind. You are here to lead a ba lanced 
life—this includes acquiring all the money you need. 7. Don’t make money your sole aim. Claim wealth, happiness, 
peace, true expression, and love, and personally radiate love a nd good 
will to all. Then your subconscious mind will give you compound 
interest in all these fields of expression. 8. There is no virtue in poverty. It is a disease of the mi nd, and you 
should heal yourself of this mental conflict or malady at once. 9. You are not here to live in a hovel, to dress in rags, or to go 
hungry. You are here to lead the life more abundant. 10. Never use the terms “filthy lucre” or “I despise money.”  You 
lose what you criticize. There is nothing good or bad, but thinki ng of 
it in either light makes it so. 11. Repeat frequently, “I like money. I use it wisely, construc-tively, 
and judiciously. I release it with joy, and it returns a thousand fold.” 
12. Money is not evil any more so than copper, lead, tin, or iron 
which you may find in the ground. All evil is due to igno-rance and 
misuse of the mind’s powers. 13. To picture the end result in your mind causes your subcon-
scious to respond and fulfill your mental picture. 116  14. Stop trying to get something for nothing. There is no such thing 
as a free lunch. You must give to receive. You must give mental  
attention to your goals, ideals, and enterprises, and your deeper m ind 
will back you up. The key to wealth is application of the la ws of the 
subconscious mind by im-pregnating it with the idea of wealth. 117  11 
Your Subconscious Mind as a Partner 
in Success 
Success means successful living. A long period of peace, joy, an d 
happiness on this plane may be termed success. The eternal 
experience of these qualities is the everlasting life s poken of by Jesus. The real things of life, such as peace, harmony, integrity, secur ity, and 
happiness are intangible. They come from the Deep Self of ma n. 
Meditating on these qualities builds these treasures of heav en in our 
subconscious. It is where moth and rust do not consume, and where 
thieves do not break through and steal. MATT. 6:20. • The three steps to success 
Let us discuss three steps to success: The first step to  suc-cess is to 
find out the thing you love to do, then do it. Success is in loving your 
work. Although, if a man is a psychiatrist, it is not adequate for hi m to get 
a diploma and place it on the wall; he must keep up with the t imes,  
attend conventions, and continue studying the mind and its workings. The successful psychiatrist visits clinics and reads the l atest scientific 
articles. In other words, he is informed in the most advanced m ethods 
of alleviating human suffering. The successful psychiatrist or doctor 
must have the interest of his patients at heart. Someone may say, “How can I put the first step into opera-t ion? I 
do not know what I should do.” In such a case, pray for guidance as 
follows: “The infinite intelligence of my subcon-scious mind r eveals 
to me my true place in life.” Repeat this prayer quietly , positively, and 
lovingly to your deeper mind. As you persist with faith and 
confidence, the answer will come to you as a feeling, a hunch, or a  
tendency in a certain direction. It will come to you clearl y and in 
peace, and as an inner silent awareness. 118  The second step to success is to specialize in some part icular branch 
of work and know more about it than anyone else. For example, if a 
young man chooses chemistry as his profession, he should concentra te 
on one of the many branches in this field. He should give all of hi s 
time and attention to his chosen spe-cialty. He should become 
sufficiently enthusiastic to try to know all there is avai lable about his 
field; if possible, he should know more than anyone else. The young 
man should become ardently interested in his work and should desire 
to serve the world. He that is greatest among you, let him become your serv-ant. There 
is a great contrast in this attitude of mind in com-parison t o that of the 
man who only wants to makes a living or just “get by.” “Getti ng by” 
is not true success. Man’s motive must be greater, nobler, and more 
altruistic. He must serve others, thereby casting his brea d upon the 
waters. The third step is the most important one. You must be sure that t he 
thing you want to do does not redound to your success only. Your 
desire must not be selfish; it must benefit humanity. The pat h of a 
complete circuit must be formed. In other words, your idea must go 
forth with the purpose of blessing or serving the world. I t will then 
come back to you pressed down, shaken together, and running over. If 
it is to benefit yourself exclusively, the circle or complete circuit  is not 
formed, and you may ex-perience a short circuit in your life w hich 
may consist of limita-tion or sickness. •The measure of true success 
Some people may say, “But Mr. James made a fortune in selling  
fraudulent oil stock.” A man may seem to succeed for a while , but the 
money he obtained by fraud usually takes wings and flies away. When 
we rob from another, we rob from our-selves, because we are in a 
mood of lack and limitation, which may manifest itself in our body,  
home life, and affairs. What we think and feel, we create. We create what we believe. Even 
though a man may have accumulated a fortune fraudulently, he is not  
 119  successful. There is no success without peace of mind. What good i s 
man’s accumulated wealth if he cannot sleep nights, is sick, or has a 
guilt complex? I knew a man in London who told me of his exploits. He had been a 
professional pickpocket and had amassed a large amount of money. He had a summer home in France and lived in a royal fashion in 
England. His story was that he was in con-stant dread of being 
arrested by Scotland Yard. He had many inner disorders, whic h were 
undoubtedly caused by his constant fear and deep-seated guilt 
complex. He knew he had done wrong. This deep sense of guilt 
attracted all kinds of trouble to him. Subsequently, he volunta rily 
surrendered to the police and served a prison sentence. After  his 
release from prison, he sought psychological and spiritual couns el and 
became transformed. He went to work and became an honest, law-
abiding citizen. He found what he loved to do and was happy. A successful person loves his work and expresses himself fu lly. Success is contingent upon a higher ideal than the mere accumula tion 
of riches. The man of success is the man who possesses great 
psychological and spiritual understanding. Many of the great  
industrialists today depend upon the correct use of their subconsc ious 
minds for their success. There was an article published some years ago about Flagle r, an oil 
magnate. He admitted that the secret of his success was hi s ability to 
see a project in its completion. For instance, in his case, he c losed his 
eyes, imagined a big oil industry, saw trains running on track s, heard 
whistles blowing, and saw smoke. Having seen and felt the fulf illment 
of his prayer, his subconscious mind brought about its realizat ion. If 
you imagine an objective clearly, you will be provided with the 
necessities, in ways you know not of, through the wonder-working 
power of your subconscious mind. In considering the three steps to success you must never forget t he 
underlying power of the creative forces of your sub-conscious mi nd. This is the energy in back of all steps in any plan of succe ss. Your  
 120  thought is creative. Thought fused with feeling becomes a subje ctive 
faith or belief, and according to your belief is it done unto you. MATT. 9:29. Knowledge of a mighty force in you, which is capable of bringing to 
pass all your desires, gives you confidence and a sense of peac e. 
Whatever your field of action may be, you should learn the laws of  
your subconscious mind. When you know how to apply the powers of 
your mind, and when you are expressing yourself fully and giving of  
your talents to others, you are on the sure path to true success . If you 
are about God’s business, or any part of it, God, by His ve ry nature, is 
for you, so who can be against you? With this understanding there is  
no power in heaven or on earth to withhold success from you. • How he made his dream come true 
A movie actor told me that he had very little education, but he had a 
dream as a boy of becoming a successful movie actor. Out in the  field 
mowing hay, driving the cows home, or even when milking them he  
said, “I would constantly imagine I saw my name in big lights at a 
large theatre. I kept this up for years until finally I  ran away from 
home. I got extra jobs in the motion-picture field, and the day f inally 
came when I saw my name in great, big lights as I did when I was a 
boy!” Then he added, “I know the power of sustained imagination to 
bring success.” 
• His dream pharmacy became a reality 
Thirty years ago I knew a young pharmacist who was re-ceiving  
forty dollars a week plus commission on sales. “After twenty- five 
years,” he said to me, “I will get a pension and re-tire.” 
I said to this young man, “Why don’t you own your own store? Get 
out of this place. Raise your sights! Have a dream for your children. Maybe your son wants to be a doctor; perhaps your daughter desires to 
be a great musician.” 
His answer was that he had no money! He began to awaken to t he 
fact that whatever he could conceive as true, he could give conception. 121  The first step toward his goal was his awakening to the pow ers of 
his subconscious mind, which I briefly elaborated on for his be nefit. His second step was his realization that if he could succeed i n 
conveying an idea to his subconscious mind, the latter would 
somehow bring it to pass. He began to imagine that he was in his own store. He mentally 
arranged the bottles, dispensed prescriptions, and imagined sev eral 
clerks in the store waiting on customers. He also visual ized a big bank 
balance. Mentally he worked in that imaginary store. Like a good 
actor he lived the role. Act as though I am, and I will be. This 
pharmacist put himself whole-heartedly into the act, living, mov ing, 
and acting on the assump-tion that he owned the store. The sequel was interesting. He was discharged from his position. He 
found new employment with a large chain store, became manager, and 
later on, district manager. He saved enough money in four years to 
provide a down payment on a drugstore of his own. He called it his 
“Dream Pharmacy.” 
“It was,” he said, “exactly the store I saw in my imagina-ti on.” He 
became a recognized success in his chosen field, and was happy doing 
what he loved to do. • Using the subconscious mind in business 
Some years ago I gave a lecture to a group of businessmen on the 
powers of imagination and the subconscious mind. In this lecture I  
pointed out how Goethe used his imagination wisely when confronted 
with difficulties and predicaments. His biographers point out that he was accustomed to fill ma ny hours 
quietly holding imaginary conversations. It is well known that hi s 
custom was to imagine one of his friends before him in a chair 
answering him in the right way. In other words, if he were concerne d 
over any problems, he imagined his friend giving him the right  or 
appropriate answer, accompanied with the usual gestures and tonal  
qualities of the voice, and he made the entire imaginary scene as real 
and as vivid as possible. 122  One of the men present at this lecture was a young stock-broker . He 
proceeded to adopt the technique of Goethe. He began to have menta l, 
imaginary conversations with a multi-millionaire banker fri end of his  
who used to congratulate him on his wise and sound judgment, and 
compliment him on his purchase of the right stocks. He used to 
dramatize this imaginary conversation until he had psychologica lly 
fixed it as a form of belief in his mind. This broker’s inner talking and controlled imagination certain ly 
agreed with his aim, which was to make sound invest-ments for hi s 
clients. His main purpose in life was to make money for his  clients 
and to see them prosper financially by his wise counsel. He i s still  
using his subconscious mind in his busi-ness, and he is a brill iant 
success in his field of endeavor. • Boy of sixteen years turns failure into success 
A young boy who was attending high school said to me, “I am 
getting very poor grades. My memory is failing. I do not know what i s 
the matter.” I discovered that the only thing wrong with this boy was 
his attitude, which was one of indifference (sự lãnh đạm, thờ ơ)  and 
resentment (sự oán giận)  toward some of his teachers and fellow 
students. I taught him how to use his subconscious mind, and how to 
succeed in his studies. He began to affirm certain truths several times a day particularly at 
night prior to sleep, and also in the morning after awakening. The se 
are the best times to impregnate (làm thấm nhuần)  the subconscious 
mind. He affirmed as follows: “I realize that my subconscious mi nd is a 
storehouse of memory. It retains (giữ lại)  everything I read and hear 
from my teachers. I have a perfect memory, and the infinite (vô tận, vô 
hạn) intelligence in my subconscious mind constantly reveals to me 
everything I need to know at all my examinations, whether writt en or 
oral. I radiate love and good will to all my teachers and fellow 
students. I sincerely wish for them success and all good things.”  
 123  This young man is now enjoying a greater freedom than he has eve r 
known. He is now receiving all “A’s.” He constantly imagines t he 
teachers and his mother congratulating him on his success in his 
studies. • How to become successful in buying and selling 
In buying and selling, remember that your conscious mind is the 
starter and your subconscious mind is the motor. You must start the 
motor to enable it to perform its work. Your conscious mind is th e 
dynamo that awakens the power of your subconscious mind. The first step in conveying your clarified desire, idea, or ima ge to 
the deeper mind is to relax, immobilize the attention, get sti ll, and be 
quiet. This quiet, relaxed, and peaceful attitude of mind pre vents 
extraneous matter and false ideas from inter-fering with your mental 
absorption of your ideal. Furthermore, in the quiet, passive, and receptive attitude of mi nd, 
effort is reduced to a minimum. The second step is to begin to imagine the reality of that w hich you 
desire. For example, you may wish to buy a home, and in your relaxed 
state of mind affirm as follows: “The infinite intelligenc e of my 
subconscious mind is all-wise. It reveals to me now the ideal  home, 
which is central, ideal, is in a lovely environ-ment, meets with all my 
requirements, and is commensurate with my income. I am now turning 
this request over to my sub-conscious mind, and I know it responds 
according to the nature of my request. I release this reques t with 
absolute faith and confidence in the same way that a farmer deposits a 
seed in the ground, trusting implicitly in the laws of growth.” 
The answer to your prayer may come through an advertise-ment in  
the paper, through a friend, or you may be guided directly to a 
particular home, which is exactly what you are seeking. There are 
many ways by which your prayer may be answered. The princip al 
knowledge, in which you may place your confidence, is that the 
answer always comes, provided you trust the working of your deeper  
mind. 124  You may wish to sell a home, land, or any kind of prop-erty. In 
private consultation with real estate brokers I have told t hem of the 
way I sold my own home on Orlando Avenue in Los Angeles. Many 
of them have applied the technique I used with remarkable and sp eedy 
results. I placed a sign which read, “For sale by owner” in t he garden 
in front of my home. The day after I said to myself as I was going to 
sleep, “Supposing you sold your house, what would you do?” 
I answered my own question and I said, “I would take that sign 
down and throw it into the garage.” In my imagination I took hold of 
the sign, pulled it up from the ground, placed it on my shoulder, went  
to the garage, threw it on the floor, and said jokingly to the sig n, “I 
don’t need you any more!” I felt the inner satisfaction of it a ll, 
realizing it was finished. The next day a man gave me a deposit of $1,000 and said to me, 
“Take your sign down. We will go into escrow now.” 
Immediately I pulled the sign up and took it to the garage. T he outer 
action conformed to the inner. There is nothing new about this. As 
within, so without, meaning according to the image impressed on your 
subconscious mind, so it is on the objective screen of your life . The 
outside mirrors the inside. External action follows internal action. Here is another very popular method used in selling homes, la nd, or 
any kind of property. Affirm slowly, quietly, and feelingly as f ollows: 
“Infinite intelligence attracts to me the buyer for this home who wants 
it and who prospers in it. This buyer is being sent to me by the 
creative intelligence of my subconscious mind, which makes no 
mistakes. This buyer may look at many other homes, but mine is t he 
only one he wants and will buy, because he is guided by the infi nite 
intelligence within him. I know the buyer is right, the time i s right, 
and the price is right. Everything about it is right. The deepe r currents 
of my subconscious mind are now in operation bringing both of us 
together in divine order. I know that it is so.” 
Remember always, that what you are seeking is also seeking  you, 
and whenever you want to sell a home or property of any kind, there is  
 125  always someone who wants what you have to offer By using the 
powers of your subconscious mind correctly, you free your mind of al l 
sense of competition and anxiety in buying and selling. • How she succeeded in getting what she wanted 
There is a young lady who regularly comes to my lectures and 
classes. She had to change buses three times; it took her one a nd a half 
hours each time to come to the lectures. In one lecture I explained how 
a young man who needed a car in his work received one. She went home and experimented as outlined in my lecture. He re is 
her letter in part, narrating her application of my method, a nd 
published by her permission: 
Dear Dr. Murphy: 
This is how I received a Cadillac car—I wanted one to come to t he 
lectures regularly. In my imagination I went through the identica l 
process I would go through if I were actually driving a car. I went to 
the showroom, and the sales-man took me for a ride in one. I also 
drove it several blocks. I claimed the Cadillac car as my  own over and 
over again. I kept the mental picture of getting into the car, drivi ng it, feeling 
the upholstery, etc., consistently for over two weeks. Last we ek I 
drove to your lectures in a Cadillac. My uncle in Inglewood p assed 
away, and left me his Cadillac and his entire estate. • A success technique employed by many outstanding executives 
and businessmen 
There are many prominent businessmen who quietly use the abstr act 
term, “success,” over and over many times a day until they rea ch a 
conviction that success is theirs. They know that the idea of success 
contains all the essential elements of success. Likewise, y ou can begin 
now to repeat the word, “suc-cess,” to yourself with faith a nd 
conviction. Your subconscious mind will accept it as true of you, and 
you will be under a subconscious compulsion to succeed. 126  You are compelled to express your subjective beliefs, im-p ressions, 
and convictions. What does success imply to you? You want, 
undoubtedly, to be successful in your home life and in your 
relationship with others. You wish to be outstanding in your chosen 
work or profession. You wish to possess a beau-tiful home, and all  the 
money you need to live comfortably and happily. You want to be 
successful in your prayer life and in your contact with the powers  of 
your subconscious mind. You are a businessman also because you are in the busi-ness of  
living. Become a successful businessman by imagining yoursel f doing 
what you long to do, and possessing the things you long to possess. Become 
imaginative; mentally participate in the reality of the s uccessful 
state. Make a habit of it. Go to sleep feeling successful every night, 
and perfectly satisfied, and you will eventually succeed in i mplanting 
the idea of success in your subconscious mind. Believe you were born 
to succeed, and wonders will happen as you pray! • Profitable pointers 
1. Success means successful living. When you are peaceful, happy,  
joyous, and doing what you love to do, you are successful. 2. Find out what you love to do, and then do it. If you don’t know 
your true expression, ask for guidance, and the lead will come. 3. Specialize in your particular field and try to know more about it 
than anyone else. 4. A successful man is not selfish. His main desire in life is to serve 
humanity. 5. There is no true success without peace of mind. 6. A successful man possesses great psychological and spirit ual 
understanding. 127  7. If you imagine an objective clearly, you will be provided w ith the 
necessities through the wonder-working power of your subconscious 
mind. 8. Your thought fused with feeling becomes a subjective belief , and 
according to your belief is it done unto you. 9. The power of sustained imagination draws forth the miracle -
working powers of your subconscious mind. 10. If you are seeking promotion in your work, imagine your 
employer, supervisor, or loved one congratulating you on your 
promotion. Make the picture vivid and real. Hear the voice, see the 
gestures, and feel the reality of it all. Continue to do this fre quently, 
and through frequent occupancy of your mind, you will experience the 
joy of the answered prayer. 11. Your subconscious mind is a storehouse of memory. For a 
perfect memory, affirm frequently: “The infinite intellig ence of my 
subconscious mind reveals to me everything I need to know at all  
times, everywhere.” 
12. If you wish to sell a home or property of any kind, affirm 
slowly, quietly, and feelingly as follows: “Infinite intell igence attracts 
to me the buyer for this house or property, who wants it, and who 
prospers in it.” Sustain this awareness, and the deeper c urrents of your 
subconscious mind will bring it to pass. 13. The idea of success contains all the elements of success. R epeat 
the word, “success,” to yourself frequently with faith and convict ion, 
and you will be under a subconscious com-pulsion to succeed. • Scientists Use the Subconscious Mind 
Many scientists realize the true importance of the sub-consc ious 
mind. Edison, Marconi, Kettering, Poincarè, Ein-stein, and many 
others have used the subconscious mind. It has given them the i nsight 
and the “know-how” for all their great achievements in modern 
science and industry. Research has shown that the ability to b ring into  
 128  action the subconscious power has determined the success of al l the 
great scientific and research workers. An instance of how a famous chemist, Friedrich von Stradonitz, 
used his subconscious mind to solve his problem is as follows: H e had 
been working laboriously for a long time trying to rearrange t he six 
carbon and the six hydrogen atoms of the benzine formula, and he was 
constantly perplexed and unable to solve the matter. Tired and  
exhausted, he turned the request over completely to his subconsci ous 
mind. Shortly after-ward, as he was about to board a London bus, his 
subconscious presented his conscious mind with a sudden flash of a 
snake biting its own tail and turning around like a pin wheel. This 
answer, from his subconscious mind, gave him the longsought answer 
of the circular rearrangement of the atoms that is known as th e 
benzine ring. • How a distinguished scientist brought forth his inventions 
Nikola Tesla was a brilliant electrical scientist who br ought forth 
the most amazing innovations. When an idea for a new invention 
came into his mind, he would build it up in his imagina-tion, know ing 
that his subconscious mind would reconstruct and reveal to his 
conscious mind all the parts needed for its manufacture in concre te 
form. Through quietly contemplating every possible improvement, he 
spent no time in correcting defects, and was able to give the 
technicians the perfect product of his mind. He said, “Invariably, my device works as I imagined it should. In 
twenty years there has not been a single exception.” 
• How a famous naturalist solved his problem 
Professor Agassiz, a distinguished American naturalist, disc overed 
the indefatigable activities of his subconscious mind while he slept. His widow in her biography of her famous husband has reported the 
following. 129   “He had been for two weeks striving to decipher the some-what 
obscure impression of a fossil fish on the stone slab in w hich it was 
preserved. Weary and perplexed, he put his work aside at last , and 
tried to dismiss it from his mind. Shortly after, he waked one night 
persuaded that while asleep he had seen his fish with all the missing 
features perfectly restored. But when he tried to hold and ma ke fast 
the image it escaped him. Nevertheless, he went early to the Jardin des 
Plantes, thinking that on looking anew at the impression he should s ee 
something, which would put him on the track of his vision. In vain—
the blurred record was as black as ever. The next night he saw the fish 
again, but with no more satisfactory result. When he awoke it 
disappeared from his memory as before. Hoping that the same 
experience might be repeated, on the third night he placed a pencil and 
paper beside his bed before going to sleep. “Accordingly, toward morning the fish reappeared in his dream, 
confusedly at first, but at last with such distinctness t hat he had no 
longer any doubt as to its zoological characters. Still half dreaming, in 
perfect darkness, he traced these charac-ters on the shee t of paper at 
the bedside. In the morning he was surprised to see in his noct urnal 
sketch features, which he thought it impossible the fossil i tself should 
reveal. He hastened to the Jardin des Plantes, and, with his draw ing as 
a guide, succeeded in chiseling away the surface of the stone under 
which portions of the fish proved to be hidden. When wholly exposed it cor-responded with his dream and his 
drawing, and he succeeded in classifying it with ease.” 
• An outstanding physician solved the problem of diabetes 
Some years ago I received a clipping from a magazine descr ibing 
the origin of the discovery of insulin. This is the essence of the  article 
as I recall it. About forty years ago or more, Dr. Frederick Banting, a brillia nt 
Canadian physician and surgeon, was concentrating his attention on 
the ravages of diabetes. At that time medical science of fered no 
effective method of arresting the disease. Dr. Banting spent  
 130  considerable time experimenting and study-ing the international  
literature on the subject. One night he was exhausted and fell asleep. While asleep, his subconscious mind instructed him to extr act the 
residue from the degenerated pancreatic duct of dogs. This was the 
origin of insulin which has helped millions of people. You will note that Dr. Banting had been consciously dwell-ing on 
the problem for some time seeking a solution, a way out, and his  
subconscious responded accordingly. It does not follow that you will always get an answer overnight. The 
answer may not come for some time. Do not be discouraged. Keep on  
turning the problem over every night to the subconscious mind pr ior 
to sleep, as if you had never done it before. One of the reasons for the delay may be that you look upon it as a 
major problem. You may believe it will take a long time to solve it. Your subconscious mind is timeless and spaceless. Go to sleep 
believing you have the answer now. Do not postulate the answer in the 
future. Have an abiding faith in the outcome. Become convinced now 
as you read this book that there is an answer and a perfect solution for 
you. • How a famous scientist and physicist escaped from a Russi an 
concentration camp  
Dr. Lothar von Blenk-Schmidt, a member of the Rocket Society and  
an outstanding research electronic engineer, gives the followi ng 
condensed summary of how he used his subcon-scious mind to free 
himself from certain death at the hands of brutal guards in a  Russian 
prison camp coal mine. He states as follows: 
“I was a prisoner of war in a coal mine in Russia, and I saw m en 
dying all around me in that prison compound. We were watched over 
by brutal guards, arrogant officers, and sharp, fast-thinking 
commissars. After a short medical checkup, a quota of coal was 
assigned to each person. My quota was three hundred pounds per day. 131  In case any man did not fill his quota, his small food ration wa s cut 
down, and in a short time he was resting in the cemetery. “I started concentrating on my escape. I knew that my subconscious 
mind would somehow find a way. My home in Germany was 
destroyed, my family wiped out; all my friends and former associ ates 
were either killed in the war or were in concentration camps. “I said to my subconscious mind, ‘I want to go to Los Angeles, and  
you will find the way.’ I had seen pictures of Los Angeles and I 
remembered some of the boulevards very well as well as s ome of the 
buildings. “Every day and night I would imagine I was walking down Wilshire  
Boulevard with an American girl whom I met in Berlin prior to the 
war (she is now my wife). In my imagina-tion we would visit th e 
stores, ride buses, and eat in the restau-rants. Every night I made it a 
special point to drive my imaginary American automobile up and 
down the boulevards of Los Angeles. I made all this vivid and rea l. 
These pictures in my mind were as real and as natural to me as one of 
the trees out-side the prison camp. “Every morning the chief guard would count the prisoners as they 
were lined up. He would call out ‘one, two, three,’ etc., and when 
seventeen was called out, which was my number in sequence, I 
stepped aside. In the meantime, the guard was called away for a 
minute or so, and on his return he started by mistake on the n ext man 
as number seventeen. When the crew returned in the evening, the 
number of men was the same, and I was not missed, and the discovery 
would take a long time. “I walked out of the camp undetected and kept walking for twenty -
four hours, resting in a deserted town the next day. I was able to live 
by fishing and killing some wild life. I found coal trains going t o 
Poland and traveled on them by night, until finally I reached Pola nd. With the help of friends, I made my way to Lucerne, Switzerland. “One evening at the Palace Hotel, Lucerne, I had a talk with a  man 
and his wife from the United States of America. This man ask ed me if  
 132  I would care to be a guest at his home in Santa Monica, Cal ifornia. I 
accepted, and when I arrived in Los Angeles, I found that their 
chauffeur drove me along Wilshire Boulevard and many other 
boulevards, which I had imagined, so vividly in the long months in the 
Russian coalmines. I recognized the buildings, which I had seen in my 
mind so often. It actually seemed as if I had been in Los Angeles  
before. I had reached my goal. “I will never cease to marvel at the wonders of the sub- conscious 
mind. Truly, it has ways we know not of.” 
• How archaeologists and paleontologists reconstruct ancient 
scenes 
These scientists know that their subconscious mind has a memory of 
everything that has ever transpired. As they study the ancien t ruins 
and fossils, through their imaginative percep-tion, their subc onscious 
mind aids them in reconstructing the ancient scenes. The dead p ast 
becomes alive and audible once more. Looking at these ancient 
temples and studying the pottery, statuary, tools, and household 
utensils of these ancient times, the scientist tells us  of an age when 
there was no language. Communication was done by grunts, groans, 
and signs. The keen concentration and disciplined imagination of the scienti st 
awakens the latent powers of his subconscious mind enabling him t o 
clothe the ancient temples with roofs, and surround them with 
gardens, pools, and fountains. The fossil remains are clothed with  
eyes, sinews, and muscles, and they again walk and talk. The p ast 
becomes the living present, and we find that in mind there is no time 
or space. Through disci-plined, controlled, and directed imagination,  
you can be a companion of the most scientific and inspired think ers of 
all time. • How to receive guidance from your subconscious 
When you have what you term “a difficult decision” to make, or  
when you fail to see the solution to your problem, begin at onc e to  
 133  think constructively about it. If you are fearful and worried, you are 
not really thinking. True thinking is free from fear. Here is a simple technique you can use to receive guidance on a ny 
subject: Quiet the mind and still the body. Tell the body to relax; it has  
to obey you. It has no volition, initiative, or self-conscious 
intelligence. Your body is an emotional disk, which records your 
beliefs and impressions. Mobilize your at-tention; focus your thought on the solution to your 
problem. Try to solve it with your conscious mind. Think how happy  
you would be about the perfect solution. Sense the feeling y ou would 
have if the perfect answer were yours now. Let your mind play w ith 
this mood in a relaxed way; then drop off to sleep. When you aw aken, 
and you do not have the answer, get busy about something else. Probably, when you are preoccupied with some-thing else, the ans wer 
will come into your mind like toast pops out of a toaster. In receiving guidance from the subconscious mind, the simple way  
is the best. This is an illustration: I once lost a valuable ring, which 
was an heirloom. I looked everywhere for it and could not locate it. At 
night I talked to the subconscious in the same manner that I would talk 
to anyone. I said to it prior to dropping off to sleep, “You know a ll 
things; you know where that ring is, and you now reveal to me where 
it is.” 
In the morning I awoke suddenly with the words ringing in my ear, 
“Ask Robert!” 
I thought it very strange that I should ask Robert, a young boy ab out 
nine years of age; however, I followed the inner voice of intuition. Robert said, “Oh, yes, I picked it up in the yard while I wa s playing 
with the boys. I placed it on the desk in my room. I did not think it 
worth anything, so I did not say anything about it.” The subconsc ious 
mind will always answer you if you trust it. 134  • His subconscious revealed the location of his father ’s will 
A young man who attends my lectures had this experi-ence. His 
father died and apparently left no will. However, this man’s  sister told 
him that their father had confided to her that a will had been e xecuted 
which was fair to all. Every attempt to locate the will failed. Prior to sleep he talked to his deeper mind as follows: “I now turn 
this request over the subconscious mind. It knows just where tha t will 
is, and reveals it to me.” Then he condensed his request down to one 
word, “Answer,” repeating it over and over again as a lulla by. He 
lulled himself to sleep with the word, “Answer.” 
The next morning this young man had an overpowering hunch to go 
to a certain bank in Los Angeles where he found a safe deposit  vault 
registered in the name of his father, the contents of which so lved all 
his problems. Your thought, as you go to sleep, arouses the powerful latency, 
which is within you. For example, let us suppose you are wondering  
whether to sell your home, buy a certain stock, sever partnersh ip, 
move to New York or stay in Los Angeles, dissolve the pres ent 
contract or take a new one. Do this: Sit quietly in your armcha ir or at 
the desk in your office. Remem-ber that there is a universal  law of 
action and reaction. The action is your thought. The reaction is the  
response from your subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is 
reactive and reflexive; this is its nature. It rebounds, re wards, and 
repays. It is the law of correspondence. It responds by corre sponding. As you contemplate right action, you will automatically experi- ence a 
reaction or response in yourself, which represents the guidance o r 
answer of your subconscious mind. In seeking guidance, you simply think quietly about right action, 
which means that you are using the infinite intelligence resi dent in the 
subconscious mind to the point where it begins to use you. From t here 
on, your course of action is directed and controlled by the subject ive 
wisdom within you, which is all wise and omnipotent. Your decision 
will be right. 135  There will only be right action because you are under a subje ctive 
compulsion to do the right thing. I use the word compulsion because 
the law of the subconscious is compulsion. • The secret of guidance 
The secret of guidance or right action is to mentally devote yourself 
to the right answer, until you find its response in you. The respons e is 
a feeling, an inner awareness, and an overpowering hunch wher eby 
you know that you know. You have used the power to the point where 
it begins to use you. You cannot possibly fail or make one fals e step 
while operating under the subjective wisdom within you. You will 
find that all your ways are pleasantness and all your paths are peace . • Highlights to recall 
1. Remember that the subconscious mind has determined the 
success and wonderful achievements of all great scientific workers. 2. By giving your conscious attention and devotion to the solu-tion 
of a perplexing problem, your subconscious mind gathers all th e 
necessary information and presents it full-blown to the conscious  
mind. 3. If you are wondering about the answer to a problem, try to solv e 
it objectively. Get all the information you can from resear ch and also 
from others. If no answer comes, turn it over to your subconscious  
mind prior to sleep, and the an-swer always comes. It never fails. 4. You do not always get the answer overnight. Keep on turn-ing 
your request over to your subconscious until the daybreaks and the  
shadows flee away. 5. You delay the answer by thinking it will take a long time or that it 
is a major problem. Your subconscious has no prob-lem it knows  only 
the answer. 6. Believe that you have the answer now. Feel the joy of the a nswer 
and the way you would feel if you had the perfect answer. Your 
subconscious will respond to your feeling. 136  7. Any mental picture, backed by faith and perseverance, will com e 
to pass through the miracle-working power of your subconscious. Trust it, believe in its power, and wonders will happen as you pray. 8. Your subconscious is the storehouse of memory, and within your 
subconscious are recorded all your experiences since childhood. 9. Scientists meditating on ancient scrolls, temples, fossils,  etc., are 
able to reconstruct scenes of the past and make them alive today. Their subconscious mind comes to their aid. 10. Turn over your request for a solution to your subconscious prior 
to sleep. Trust it and believe in it, and the answer will come . It knows 
all and sees all, but you must not doubt or question its powers. 11. The action is your thought, and the reaction is the response of 
your subconscious mind. If your thoughts are wise, your actions and 
decisions will be wise. 12. Guidance comes as a feeling, an inner awareness, an over-
powering hunch whereby you know that you know. It is an inner sense 
of touch. Follow it. 137  13 
Your Subconscious and the Wonders of 
Sleep 
You spend about eight out of every twenty-four hours, or one-third 
of your entire life, in sleep. This is an inexorable law of li fe. This also 
applies to the animal and vegetable kingdoms. Sleep is a divi ne law, 
and many answers to our problems come to us when we are sound 
asleep upon the bed. Many people have advocated the theory that you get tired during t he 
day, that you go to sleep to rest the body, and that a reparati ve process 
takes place while you sleep. Nothing rests in sleep. Your hea rt, lungs, 
and all your vital organs func-tion while you are asleep. If you e at 
prior to sleep, the food is digested and assimilated; also, your skin 
secretes perspiration, and your nails and hair continue to grow. Your subconscious mind never rests or sleeps. It is always active, 
controlling all your vital forces. The healing process take s place more 
rapidly while you are asleep as there is no inter-ference fr om your 
conscious mind. Remarkable answers are given to you while you are  
asleep. • Why we sleep 
Dr. John Bigelow, a famous research authority on sleep,* 
demonstrated that at night while asleep you receive impressi ons 
showing that the nerves of the eyes, ears, nose, and taste buds  are 
active during sleep, and also that the nerves of your brain are quite 
active. He says that the main reason we sleep is be- 
* Dr. John Bigelow, The Mystery of Sleep (New York and London: 
Harper Brothers, 1903). cause “the nobler part of the soul is un ited by 
abstraction to our higher nature and becomes a participant i n the 
wisdom and foreknowledge of the gods.”  
 138  Dr. Bigelow states also, “The results of my studies have not  only 
strengthened my convictions that the supposed exemp-tion from 
customary toils and activities was not the final pur-pose of sleep, but 
have also made clearer to my mind the conviction that no part o f a 
man’s life deserves to be considered more indispensable to  its 
symmetrical and perfect spiritual development than the while  he is 
separated from the phenomenal world in sleep.” 
• Prayer, a form of sleep 
Your conscious mind gets involved with vexations, strife, and 
contentions of the day, and it is very necessary to withdraw 
periodically from sense evidence and the objective world, and 
commune silently with the inner wisdom of your subconscious mind. By claiming guidance, strength, and greater intelligence in al l phases 
of your life, you will be enabled to overcome all difficulti es and solve 
your daily problems. This regular withdrawal from sense evidence and the noise and 
confusion of everyday living is also a form of sleep, i.e., you be come 
asleep to the world of the senses and alive to the wisdom and power of 
your subconscious mind. • Startling effects of sleep deprivation 
Lack of sleep can cause you to become irritable, moody, and 
depressed. Dr. George Stevenson of the National Associa-tion for Mental 
Health says, “I believe it can safely be said that all hu man beings need 
a minimum of six hours’ sleep to be healthy. Most people need more. Those who think they can get along on less are fooling themselves.” 
Medical research scholars, investigating sleep processes an d 
deprivation of sleep, point out that severe insomnia has prec eded 
psychotic breakdown in some instances. Remember, you are 
spiritually recharged during sleep, and adequate sleep is essential to 
produce joy and vitality in life. 139  • You need more sleep 
Robert O’Brien, in an article, “Maybe You Need More Sleep,” i n an 
issue of The Reader¶s Digest, reports the following experiment on 
sleep: “For the last three years experiments have bee n in progress at 
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, D.C. 
Subjects—more than one hundred military and civilian volun-t eers—
have been kept awake for as long as four days. Thousands of te sts 
have measured the effects on their behavior and per-sonality. R esults 
of these tests have given scientists astonishingly new insi ghts into the 
mysteries of sleep. “They now know that the tired brain apparently craves sleep so 
hungrily that it will sacrifice anything to get it. After onl y a few hours 
of sleep loss, fleeting stolen naps called ‘lapses,’ or mi cro-sleep, 
occurred at the rate of three or four an hour. As in real sl eep, eyelids 
drooped, heartbeat slowed. Each lapse lasted just a fraction of a second. Sometimes the lapses 
were periods of blankness; sometimes they were filled with images, 
wisps of dreams. As hours of sleep loss mounted, the lapses took place 
more often and lasted longer, perhaps two or three seconds. Even if 
the subjects had been piloting an airliner in a thunderstorm, the y still 
couldn’t have resisted micro-sleeps for those few price less seconds. And it can happen to you, as many who have fallen asleep at the 
wheel of a car can testify. “Another startling effect of sleep deprivation was its at-t ack on 
human memory and perception. Many sleep-deprived subjects wer e 
unable to retain information long enough to relate it to the task they 
were supposed to perform. They were totally befuddled in si tuations 
requiring them to hold several factors in mind and act on them, as a  
pilot must when he skillfully in-tegrates wind direction, air speed, 
altitude, and glide path to make a safe landing.” 
• Sleep brings counsel 
A young lady in Los Angeles who listens to my morning radio talk s 
told me that she had been offered a lucrative position in Ne w York  
 140  City at twice her present salary. She was wondering whether t o accept 
or not and prayed prior to sleep as follows: “The creative  intelligence 
of my subconscious mind knows what is best for me. Its tendency is 
always lifeward, and it reveals to me the right decision, w hich blesses 
all concerned. I give thanks for the answer which I know will come to 
me.”  
She repeated this simple prayer over and over again as a l ullaby 
prior to sleep, and in the morning she had a persistent feeling  that she 
should not accept the offer. She rejected the offer and subsequent  
events verified her inward sense of know-ing, because the com pany 
went bankrupt in a few months fol-lowing their offer of empl oyment 
to her. The conscious mind may be correct on the facts objecti vely 
known, but the intuitive faculty of her subconscious mind saw the 
failure of the concern in question, and prompted her ac-cordingly. • Saved from certain disaster 
I will illustrate how the wisdom of your subconscious mind can 
instruct you and protect you relative to your request for right a ction as 
you go to sleep. Many years ago, before the Second World War, I was offered a  very 
lucrative assignment in the Orient, and I prayed for guidance  and the 
right decision as follows: “Infinite intelli-gence within me knows all 
things, and the right decision is revealed to me in divine order. I  will 
recognize the answer when it comes.” 
I repeated this simple prayer over and over again as a lul laby prior 
to sleep, and in a dream came the vivid realization of things t o come 
three years hence.
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        • A common stumbling block to wealth 
There is one emotion, which is the cause of the lack of wealt h in the 
lives of many. Most people learn this the hard way. It is  envy. For 
example, if you see a competitor depositing large sums of m oney in 
the bank, and you have only a meager amount to deposit, does it make 
you envious. The way to overcome this emotion is to say to yourself, 
“Isn’t it wonderful. I rejoice in that man’s prosperity. I  wish for him 
greater and greater wealth. ” 
To entertain envious thoughts is devastating because it places y ou in 
a very negative position; therefore, wealth flows from you instead of 
to you. If you are ever annoyed or irritated by the prosperity or great 
wealth of another, claim immediately that you truly wish for  him 
greater wealth in every possible way. This will neutrali ze the negative 
thoughts in your mind and cause an ever-greater measure of weal th to 
flow to you by the law of your own subconscious mind. • Rubbing out a great mental block to wealth 
If you are worried and critical about someone whom you claim is 
making money dishonestly, cease worrying about him. You know 
such a person is using the law of mind negatively; the law of mi nd 
takes care of him. Be careful not to criticize him for the  reasons 
previously indicated. 106  Remember: The block or obstacle to wealth is in your own mind. You can now destroy that mental block. This you may do by getting 
on mental good terms with everyone. • Sleep and grow rich 
As you go to sleep at night, practice the following tech-nique. Repeat the word, “Wealth,” quietly, easily, and feelingly. Do t his over 
and over again, just like a lullaby. Lull yourself to sleep wit h the one 
word, “Wealth. ” You should be amazed at the result. Wealth should 
flow to you in avalanches of abundance. This is another example o f 
the magic power of your subcon-scious mind. • Serve yourself with the powers of your mind 
1. Decide to be wealthy the easy way, with the infallible aid of your 
subconscious mind. 2. Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard 
labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyar d. You do 
not have to strive or slave hard. 3. Wealth is a subconscious conviction. Build into your men-tality  
the idea of wealth. 4. The trouble with most people is that they have no invisible means 
of support. 5. Repeat the word, “Wealth,” to yourself slowly and quietly for 
about five minutes prior to sleep and your subconscious will br ing 
wealth to pass in your experience. 6. The feeling of wealth produces wealth. Keep this in mind at all  
times. 7. Your conscious and subconscious mind must agree. Your 
subconscious accepts what you really feel to be true. The dom inant 
idea is always accepted by your subconscious mind. The dominant 
idea should be wealth, not poverty. 107  8. You can overcome any mental conflict regarding wealth by 
affirming frequently, “By day and by night I am being pros-pe red in 
all of my interests. ” 
9. Increase your sales by repeating this statement over and ov er 
again, “My sales are improving every day; I am ad-vancing, 
progressing, and getting wealthier every day. ” 
10. Stop writing blank checks, such as, “There is not enough to go 
around,” or “There is a shortage,” etc. Such state-ments magnify  and 
multiply your loss. 11. Deposit thoughts of prosperity, wealth, and success in your 
subconscious mind, and the latter will give you compound interest. 12. What you consciously affirm, you must not mentally deny a few 
moments later. This will neutralize the good you have affirmed. 13. Your true source of wealth consists of the ideas in your mind. You can have an idea worth millions of dollars. Your subconscious 
will give you the idea you seek. 14. Envy and jealousy are stumbling blocks to the flow of wealth. Rejoice in the prosperity of others. 15. The block to wealth is in your own mind. Destroy that block 
now by getting on good mental terms with everyone. 108  10 
Your Right to Be Rich 
It is your right to be rich. You are here to lead the abun-dant l ife and 
be happy, radiant, and free. You should, therefore, have all the money  
you need to lead a full, happy, and pros-perous life. You are here to grow, expand, and unfold spiritually, men-tally, a nd 
materially. You have the inalienable right to fully develop and express 
yourself along all lines. You should sur-round yourself with beauty 
and luxury. Why be satisfied with just enough to go around when you can enjoy 
the riches of your subconscious mind. In this chapter you can le arn to 
make friends with money, and you should al-ways have a surplus. Your desire to be rich is a desire for a fuller, happier, mor e wonderful 
life. It is a cosmic urge. It is not only good, but also very good. • Money is a symbol 
Money is a symbol of exchange. It means to you not only freedom 
from want, but beauty, luxury, abundance, and refine-ment. It is 
merely a symbol of the economic health of the nation. When your 
blood is circulating freely in your body, you are healthy. When money 
is circulating freely in your life, you are economically heal thy. When 
people begin to hoard money, to put it away in tin boxes, and become  
charged with fear, there is economic illness. Money has taken many forms as a medium of exchange down 
through the centuries, such as, salt, beads, and trinkets of vari ous 
kinds. In early times a man’s wealth was determined by the num ber of 
sheep and oxen he had. Now we use currency, and other negotiable 
instruments, as it is much more convenient to write a check than c arry 
some sheep around with you to pay bills. 109  • How to walk the royal road to riches 
Knowledge of the powers of your subconscious mind is the means 
to  the royal road to riches of all kinds—spiritual, men-tal, o r 
financial. The student of the laws of mind believes and knows 
definitely that regardless of economic situations, stock marke t 
fluctuation, depression, strikes, war, other conditions or 
circumstances, he will always be amply supplied, regardles s of what 
form money takes. The reason for this is that he has con-veyed the  
idea of wealth to his subconscious mind, and it keeps him supplied  
wherever he may be. He has convinced himself in his mind that 
money is forever flowing freely in his life and that there  is always a 
wonderful surplus. Should there be a fi-nancial collapse of 
government tomorrow and all the man’s  present holdings become 
valueless, as the German marks did after the First World War, he 
would still attract wealth and be cared for, regardless of th e form the 
new currency took. • Why you do not have more money 
As you read this chapter, you are probably saying, “I am worthy of a 
higher salary than I am receiving. ” I believe most people are 
inadequately compensated. One of the causes many people does not 
have more money is that they are silently or openly condemning i t. They refer to money as “filthy lucre” or “the love of money is  the root 
of all evil. ” Another reason they do not prosper is that they ha ve a 
sneaky subconscious feeling there is some virtue in poverty. T his 
subconscious pattern may be due to early childhood training, 
superstition, or it could be based on a false interpretation of scri ptures. • Money and a balanced life 
One time a man said to me, “I am broke. I do not like money. It is 
the 
root of all evil. ” These statements represent a confused ne urotic 
mind. Love of money to the exclusion of everything else will c ause 
you to become lopsided and unbal-anced. You are here to use your  
 110  power or authority wisely. Some men crave power others cra ve 
money. If you set your heart on money exclusively and say, “Money is al l I 
want; I am going to give all my attention to amassing money; nothi ng 
else matters,” you can get money and attain a fortune, but you have 
forgotten that you are here to lead a balanced life. You must also 
satisfy the hunger for peace of mind, harmony, love, joy, and perfect  
health. By making money your sole aim, you simply made a wrong choice. You thought that was all you wanted, but you found after all your 
efforts that it was not only the money you needed. You also desired  
true expression of your hidden talents, true place in life, beaut y, and 
the joy of contributing to the welfare and success of others. B y 
learning the laws of your subconscious mind, you could have a million 
dollars or many millions, if you wanted them, and still have peac e of 
mind, harmony, per-fect health, and perfect expression. • Poverty is a mental disease 
There is no virtue in poverty; it is a disease like any ot her mental 
disease. If you were physically ill, you would think there was  
something wrong with you. You would seek help and do something 
about the condition at once. Likewise, if you do not have money 
constantly circulating in your life, there is some-thing radic ally wrong 
with you. The urge of the life principle in you is toward growth, ex-pansi on, 
and the life more abundant. You are not here to live in a hovel, dress 
in rags, and go hungry. You should be happy, prosperous, and 
successful. • Why you must never criticize money 
Cleanse your mind of all weird and supe rstitious beliefs about  
money. Do not ever regard money as evil or filthy. If you do, you 
cause it to take wings and fly away from you. Remember that you lo se 
what you condemn. You cannot attract what you criticize. 111  • Getting the right attitude toward money 
Here is a simple technique you may use to multiply money in your  
experience. Use the following statements several times a  day, “I like 
money, I love it, I use it wisely, constructively, and judiciousl y. Money is constantly circulating in my life. I release it wi th joy, and it 
returns to me multiplied in a wonderful way. It is good and very g ood. Money flows to me in avalanches of abundance. I use it for good only, 
and I am grateful for my good and for the riches of my mind. ” 
• How the scientific thinker looks at money 
Suppose, for example, you found gold, silver, lead, copper, or iron 
in the ground. Would you pronounce these things evil. All evil comes  
from man’s darkened understanding, from his ignorance, from his 
false interpretation of life, and from his misuse of his  subconscious 
mind. Uranium, lead, or some other metal could have been used as a 
medium of exchange. We use paper bills, checks, nickel, and silver  
surely these are not evil. Physicists and chemists know today that the 
only difference between one metal and another is the number and rate 
of motion of electrons revolving around a central nucleus. They ca n 
now change one metal into another through a bombardment of the 
atoms in the powerful cyclotron. Gold under certain conditions 
becomes mercury. I believe that our modern scientists in the ne ar 
future will be able to make gold, silver, and other metals s ynthetically 
in the chemical laboratory. The cost may be pro-hibitive now, but it 
can be done. I cannot imagine any intelli-gent person seeing anything  
evil in electrons, neutrons, protons, and isotopes. The piece of paper in your pocket is composed of atoms and 
molecules with their electrons and protons arranged differ-entl y. Their 
number and rate of motion are different. That is the only way  the 
paper differs from the silver in your pocket. • How to attract the money you need 
Many years ago I met a young boy in Australia who wanted to 
become a physician and surgeon, but he had no money. I explained to 
him how a seed deposited in the soil attracts to itself ever ything  
 112  necessary for its unfolding, and that all he had to do was to ta ke a 
lesson from the seed and deposit the required idea in his subcons cious 
mind. For expenses this young, brilliant boy used to clean out doctors’  
offices, wash windows, and do odd repair jobs. He told me that every  
night, as he went to sleep, he used to picture in his mind’s e ye a 
medical diploma on a wall with his name on it in big, bold let ters. He  
used to clean and shine the framed diplomas in the medical build ing 
where he worked. It was not hard for him to engrave the image  of a 
diploma in his mind and develop it there. Definite results fol -lowed as 
he persisted with his mental picture every night for about four months. The sequel of this story was very interesting. One of the doctors  
took a great liking to this young boy and after training him i n the art 
of sterilizing instruments, giving hypodermic in-jections, and ot her 
miscellaneous first-aid work, he employed him as a technical assistant 
in his office. The doctor later sent him to medical school at his  own 
expense. Today, this young man is a prominent medical doctor in 
Montreal, Canada. He discovered the law of attraction by using his  
subconscious mind the right way. He operated an ageold law, whi ch 
says, “Having seen the end, you have willed the means to  the 
realization of the end. ” The end in this case was to become a medical 
doctor. This young man was able to imagine, see, and feel the reality of 
being a doctor. He lived with that idea, sustained it, nourished it,  and 
loved it until through his imagination it pene-trated the layers  of his 
subconscious mind and became a con-viction, thereby attracting  to 
him everything necessary for the fulfillment of his dream. • Why some men do not get a raise in pay 
If you are working in a large organization and you are silently 
thinking of and resenting the fact you are underpaid, that you are  not 
appreciated, and that you deserve more money and greater 
recognition, you are subconsciously severing your ties with that 
organization. You are setting a law in motion, and the superintende nt 
or manager will say to you, “We have to let you go. ” Actually, you  
 113  dismissed yourself. The manager was simply the instrument thro ugh 
which your own negative mental state was confirmed. It was an 
example of the law of action and reaction. The action was your 
thought, and the reaction was the response of your subconscious mind. • Obstacles and impediments on the pathway to riches 
I am sure you have heard men say, “That fellow has a racket. ” “He 
is a racketeer. ” “He is getting money dishonestly. ” “He is  a faker. ” “I 
knew him when he had nothing. ” “He is a crook, a thief, and a 
swindler. ”  
If you analyze the man who talks like that, you discover he is 
usually in want or suffering from some financial or physical  illness. Perhaps his former college friends went up the ladder of  success and 
excelled him. Now he is bitter and envious of their progress. In many 
instances this is the cause of his downfall. Thinking negativel y of 
these classmates and condemning their wealth causes the wealt h and 
prosperity he is praying for to vanish and flee away. He is 
condemning the thing he is praying for. He is praying two ways. On the one hand he is saying, “Wealth is 
flowing to me now,” and in the next breath, silently or audibly, he i s 
saying, “I resent that fellow’s wealth. ” Always make i t a special point 
to rejoice in the wealth of the other person. • Protect your investments 
If you are seeking wisdom regarding investments, or if you are  
worried about your stocks or bonds, quietly claim, “Infinite 
intelligence governs and watches over all my financial tr ansac-tions, 
and whatsoever I do shall prosper. ” Do this frequently and you will    
find that your investments will be wise; moreover, you will be  
protected from loss, as you will be prompted to sell your secu rities or 
holdings before any loss accrues to you. • You cannot get something for nothing 
In large stores the management employs store detectives to prevent 
people from stealing. They catch a number of people every da y trying  
 114  to get something for nothing. All such people are living in the mental 
atmosphere of lack and limitation and are stealing from themsel ves 
peace, harmony, faith, honesty, integrity, good will, and confidence. Furthermore, they are attracting to themselves all manner of loss, such 
as, loss of charac-ter, prestige, social status, and peace of mind. These 
people lack faith in the source of supply and the understanding of  how 
their minds work. If they would mentally call on the powers of th eir 
subconscious mind and claim that they are guided to their true 
expression, they would find work and constant supply. Then by 
honesty, integrity, and perseverance, they would become a credit  to 
themselves and to society at large. • Your constant supply of money 
Recognizing the powers of your subconscious mind and the creative  
power of your thought or mental image is the way to opulence, 
freedom, and constant supply. Accept the abundant life in your own  
mind. Your mental acceptance and expectancy of wealth has its own  
mathematics and mechanics of expression. As you enter into the  mood 
of opulence, all things necessary for the abundant life will c ome to 
pass. Let this be your daily affirmation; write it in your heart, “I  am one 
with the infinite riches of my subconscious mind. It is my right to be 
rich, happy, and successful. Money flows to me freely, copious ly, and 
endlessly. I am forever conscious of my true worth. I give of my 
talents freely, and I am wonderfully blessed financially. It is 
wonderful. ” 
• Step up this way to riches 
1. Be bold enough to claim that it is your right to be rich and your 
deeper mind will honor your claim.
Envy.
What is the main cause of lack of wealth in many people's lives?
To wish for the other person's greater wealth.
What is the key to overcoming envious thoughts?
To claim that you truly wish for the other person's prosperity and to not criticize them.
What is the key to using the subconscious mind to attract wealth?
They are silently thinking and resenting their current salary, which subconsciously severs their ties with the organization.
Why do some people not get a raise in pay?
To trust it and believe in its power, and to not doubt or question its abilities.
What is the key to using the subconscious mind to get guidance?