introduction

• power, as the term is here used, refers to organized effort, sufficient to enable an individual to transmute desire into its monetary equivalent
• organized effort is produced through the coordination of effort of two or more people, who worl towards a definiteend in a spirit of harmony
• power is required for the accumulation of money. power is necessary for the retention of money after it has been accumulated
• knowledge can come from three sources
  • infinite intelligence - this source of knowledge may be contacted through the procedure described in chapter 6 with theaid of creative imagination
  • accumulated experience - the accumulated experience of humankind (or that portion of it which has been organized and recorded) may be found in any well-equipped public library. an important part of this accumulated experience is taught in schools and colleges, where it has been classified and organized
  • experiment and research - in the field of science, and in practically every other walk of life, people are gathering, classifying and organizing new facts daily. this is the source to which one must turn when knowledge is not available through 'accumulated experience'. here, too, the creative imagination must often be used
• knowledge may be acquired from any of the foregoing sources. it may be converted into power by organizing it into definite plans and by expressing those plans in terms of action

gaining power through the 'master mind'

• the 'master mind' may be defined as 'coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose'
• great power can be accumulated through no other principle
• nature's building blocks are available to us in the energy involved in thinking
• when a group of individual brains is coordinated and functions in harmony, the increased energy created through that alliance becomes available to every individual brain in the group
• people take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony
• if you doubt that this is a miracle, try to induce any two people to cooperate in a spirit of harmony for any length of time
• the senses are not always reliable. infinite intelligence does not err
• every person who has accumulated a great fortune has recognized the existenceof the unseen stream of power. the positive emotions of thought formon the side of the stream that carries one to fortune. the negative emotions form on the side that carries one down to poverty