YOUR FORCES, AND HOW TO USE THEM.
By PRENTICE MULFORD.

                                                          NEW YORK CITY
                                                           F. J. NEEDHAM,
                                            52 WEST Foun'rzan'm STREET.
                                                                 1889.
In mental condition, thousands Of people about us are breathless, hurried, and on the“ dead run,” and running from year to year in the same rut Of thought . They cannot , in such mental condition, see Opportunities for pushing their fortunes. They have not the courage to take hold of Opportunities if they do see them. They do today exactly what they did yesterday, and do that only because they did it yesterday. They are the Slaves, not Of the capitalist or monopolist, but Of their own mental condition, which binds them to continual and monotonous ruts Of thought.

The same mental state can be brought by other
and more natural means, and, as these are cultivated,
the results will be far more profitable and lasting. 

You have drawn to your mind
an atom Of power which you will never lose. You
cannot expect immediate success in the cultivation
Of this much needed faculty. You may have the
hurried mental habit Of a whole lifetime gradually
to overcome.

Every physical act, even your steps in walking,
as the mood Of deliberation and repose is cultivated,
can be made a source of pleasure ; and when your
physical movement is pleasant to you and not irk
some, your work, be it what it may, is not only well
done, but in the pleasant doing you are drawing
more and more power to yourself, and such power
comes to stay forever.

Presence Of mind is the mind holding its power
through this ability to give itself rest and store
up force, and is the secret of all ease and grace of

  physical movement .

  The mental attitude Of good will to all, above spoken Of, does not imply that humble, servile, abject frame of mind which endures outrage and injury with out resistance or protest, deeming it to b e a merit .You may desire the best for the man who tries to set your house on fire, but common sense tells you to prevent him by all possible means from set ting it on fire. If a fool at tempts to tyrannize over you or abuse you, you will resist him. 

When his foolishness is put down, you can Show your good will
for him. When Christ cast out devils, he was neither gentle nor humble in commanding them to leave the persons they tormented.  

YOUR TWO MEMORIES.

YOU have two memories, as you have or are composed of two selves : the physical, or temporary self, and the Spiritual, or eternal self. You have an earthly memory, a perishable belonging of your temporary, physical self,and a spiritual memory, a belonging of your eternal and indestructible self. Your earthly memory is as much a part of your physical body as any other organ of that body. Its use is the retention in mind of events on the physical stratum of existence. It is formed only to deal with material substance.

Your spirit has experiences in its spiritual realm of existence. It goes to other places, meets persons, exchanges thought , participates in enjoyments ; but when it returns to the body, there is of that body no organ capable of receiving or preserving the spiritual picture, or impression, of such experiences.

The physical organ of memory is subject to decay,
like the other physical organs, as is sometimes seen in cases of people with very old physical bodies.

 In other words, the worn-out body will have the worn- out physical organ of memory.

Thought is an Element .

                      

 The earthly memory need not decay, no more than
the earthly body need decay. But if you have faith
Only in material things, and what you call material
laws, your body and all its functions, memory
included, must go the way of all material things
to decay.

It must be kept in mind, as much as possible, that your body and your Spirit are two distinct and separate things Or factors, as the carpenter and his saw are separate things ; that your Spirit has used, and through ignorance, or lack of power, worn out many bodies, as the carpenter may have used and worn out many saws ; and that with ever-increasing knowledge and power your Spirit may, instead of wearing your body out, as heretofore, renew it ever with finer and finer material.
Your memory is an actual photographic plate, constantly taking pictures of all scenes and events palpable  to the other senses, by a process of which our artificial photography is a coarse and feeble imitation.

You have an earthly memory, for use on the earth stratum of life, and a Spiritual memory, for use on the spiritual Side of your life, even as you have the Spiritual correspondence, or duplicate of all your other senses, such as hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, touching. None of the Spiritual senses, save in exceptional instances, are brought into play in the earthly, or physical life. 

Your successful man is often the man who, in early life, received little education. His memory was not crammed and burdened with words or opinions, which he was taught implicitly to receive as
genuine. His mind was left the more free and clear.

 Your Spiritual memory retains the results, or wisdom gathered throughout all your past physical lives, or re-embodiments. The more numerous these lives, the Older your spirit, the greater is your wisdom. In other words, the clearer then is your insight, your
intuition, which means the teachings of your own Spirit, which is the only teacher and source of knowledge for you in the universe.

THE USES OF SICKNESS

IN this era of our planet’s existence, there can scarcely be for anyone entire escape from ills of the body. But there are two entirely different method of treating in mind those states of the body we call sickness. The right one is to consider and hold in mind, and ever desire earnestly, that you may be led into more and more faith that all pain, sickness, and debility, of whatever nature, are but efforts of the spirit to purge itself, and throw off from the body that which has become too gross for your spirit, to use. 

Using Sickness, is to hold and firmly believe that you are nothing but the body you use ; that it is only the body which is Sick ; that its only cure lies in material remedies ; that its present state of sickness or debility is but an unmitigated evil, and not the means whereby it is being freed from a load of relatively dead matter, too lifeless and inert for the spirit to use. This indicates utter ignorance of the spirit; and such ignorance of the spirit brings on more and more of disease and corporeal deadness,until at last your real and only power, your spirit, is Unable to carry the half dead body any longer.

Belief in the truth will then help the mind to more command over the body.Command of mind over body must Ultimately free
the body from every ill and pain.

There may be nothing new under the sun, but there are things innumerable, now unknown, which would be new to us. We have touched hardly the edge of our real life, and know little what it means really to live.

 Truth must be recived in small doses, otherwise a sudden flood of light, a sudden revelation of life's possibilities, would cause 

so sudden a physical change, and so great a disturbance
betwixt spirit and body, as possibly to destroy the body. 

The removal of the old, and its replacement
by the new, should be a gradual process.

There is a kind and quality of mind affecting us
all more or less. It is sometimes called the unconscious mind.

 It is belief in error, absorbed from others possibly in infancy and youth, which we have never questioned and never doubted never thought to question or doubt, and which we blindly go on
believing, scarcely knowing it is our belief.

Social Mind Programing

Thousands are today unconsciously imprisoned in the idea that what all human or physical life has been in the past, that it must necessarily be in the future, and that it must necessarily involve the three periods of youth, maturity, and decay. To believe this so implicitly, makes these phases of life inevitable for the believer, and bars the door against any new possibilities.

Do you ask what are some of the errors unconsciously held by thousands about us ? An individual whom you know to be a demagogue or charlatan, passes with thousands as a great man. A system of education which you know to b e honey-combed with
falsity and the blind repetition of custom, they accept as perfect . War between nations which you know to b e but blind idiocy, they accept as a political necessity, because from infancy the sound of
those two words has been trumpeted into their ears and remains clinched there. Customs, usages, and habits, which you know to b e not only useless, but resulting in injury or inconvenience, are perpetuated from generation to generation, un thought of,

 unquestioned.

The cruelty wantonly inflicted by our race on beast and bird in their natural state, in slaughtering and mutilating them for mere amusement, as well as the imprisonment of every species of biped and quadruped, dooming the inhabitants of field, forest , and air to an unnatural and suffering life, Simply that we may stare at them behind their bars, is another evidence of the unconsciousness of our race to the wrong and injustice which it permits, and even
endorses as right and proper.

The degraded estimation in which woman is held by great masses of men; the degraded estimation which she accepts without quest ion or protest her self ; the estimate of her by so many men, either
as a pleasing toy or a convenience the ignorance and denial by most men that she is equal to him in power for business or any pursuit, as well as the ignorance and consequent denial, both on his or her part, that she is, when rightly understood, a necessary factor to
his highest success, all these are still unconscious errors leading to  grevions ills in the minds of millions.

The truth Shall make you free, says the biblical
record. It is so. The truth shall free us from every
form of physical and mental suffering ; and when the
God in yourself rules completely the old and lower
self, all tears are then wiped from our eyes.
 

PRENTICE MULFORD

Religion has nothing to do with Spiritual.

Religion never gives you Authority over Yourself 

It's bad for their business of harvesting your life force energy.

Quantum Physic can show you the forces of Nature, 

there is no mystery any longer.

There are a few chapters left out, self educate, your worth it!

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THE USE OF A ROOM.
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