1.
The whole of creation is asleep within the deep of man and is awakened to objective existence by his subconscious assumptions.
2.
Subjective words . . subconscious assumptions . . awaken what they affirm.
They are living and active
and
“shall not return unto me void,
but shall accomplish that which I please,
and shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent them.”
3.
Man creates himself out of his own imagination.
If the state desired is for yourself and you find it difficult to accept as true what your senses deny, call before your mind‘s eye the subjective image of a friend and have him mentally affirm that you are already that which you desire to be.
This establishes in him, without his conscious consent or knowledge, the subconscious assumption that you are that which he mentally affirmed, which assumption, because it is unconsciously assumed, will persist until it fulfills its mission.
Its mission is to awaken in you, its vibratory correlate, which vibration, when awakened in you, realizes itself as an objective fact.
4.
That which requires a state of consciousness to produce its effect obviously cannot be effected without such a state of consciousness, and in your ability to assume the feeling of a greater life, to assume a new concept of yourself, you possess what the rest of Nature does not possess . . imagination . . the instrument by which you create your world.
Your imagination is the instrument, the means, whereby your redemption from slavery, sickness, and poverty is effected.
If you refuse to assume the responsibility of the incarnation of a new and higher concept of yourself, then you reject the means, the only means, whereby your redemption, that is, the attainment of your ideal, can be effected.
Imagination is the only redemptive power in the universe.
5.
We must act on the assumption that we already possess that which we desire, for all that we desire is already present within us. It only waits to be claimed. That it must be claimed is a necessary condition by which we realize our desires.
Our prayers are answered if we assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled and continue in that assumption.