The ancients knew that the secret name of God had power. Now we do.
Now I am going to ask you to start building your basic thought for prosperity without further delay. Center your thought again in our affirmation: I AM PROSPERITY. This is the nucleus that is to grow and multiply indefinitely. It must be backed up with your earnest faith and desire. Your idea of prosperity may be a better position, more income, a nice vacation, an agreeable companion, or more health. It may be something you do not have but need desperately. The Law says that you can have anything you desire if you believe that you already have it; that is, if you have a subjective acceptance of the thing desired.
Now contemplate that for a few moments . . not the money to meet the mortgage, not the new car, not the new house but THE BASIC IDEA: I AM PROSPERITY. You are going to change your Consciousness out of the old mold of lack and into the new mold of plenty. You are going to create a new habit atmosphere and new thought inclinations. That is your big responsibility in the process. You are going to eradicate a mental equivalent of lack by substituting a mental equivalent of plenty. You are going to start this idea of Prosperity revolving on its axis at such a high rate of speed that it will draw into your life all the good things you need.
Now put the book down . . close your eyes . . relax . . and repeat the affirmation slowly and with pointed purpose one hundred times. Take it easy, and feel your pattern deeply. Realize that with each repetition your new idea is going further and further underground until it is perfectly integrated with the Creative Mind. It now has the power to attract to itself all the elements that it needs for its fulfillment. The rest of the process is a matter of sustained attention, faith, feeling, acting, and seeing.
See the new idea clearly. Realize it, feel it, and accept it. Speed it up with your belief. Keep it alive with your faith. Feed it with fresh, rich, powerful, and life-giving images. Give it motion through action. Act it out. I AM PROSPERITY. Realize how rich you are. Keep the prosperity ideas and thoughts circulating freely through your mind. See them generating abundance, opportunities, and success. Do not allow negative ideas to creep in and short circuit your good. I AM PROSPERITY. Keep repeating it until it goes underground and takes form. I AM PROSPERITY. Feel it. Rejoice in it. Bless it. Love it. Speed up the rate of vibration by telling your subconscious mind that you are already prosperous.
Harmony is the foundation of your being, and perfect relaxation enables this harmonious condition to be made manifest. When in this state is the time to repeat your mantra. The saying that Coué invented was: “Day by day, in every respect, I AM getting better and better.” Under strict analysis this is not correct, because the I AM and the me are different. The I AM . . GOD . . is the inner Self which is perfect and cannot be made more perfect, but the me is the personal or the outer self, which is affected by our actions and thoughts. Therefore I have altered the saying to: “Day by day, in every way, God is making me better and better.” This does not conflict with the truth.
By this method we open ourselves to the inflow of the great Life Principle, the Intelligence. We are benefited, cured of our troubles. If we fear it or do not trust it, we shut the door and we suffer. We must let go of our adverse thoughts, or we prevent the Divine Principle from working through us; for it is the uninterrupted flow of Life within which changes the tissue structure to a healthy condition and eliminates disease.
“And God said unto Moses, I AM That I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. . . . “This is my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.” I AM, then, is God’s name. Every time you say I AM sick, I AM weak, I AM discouraged, are you not speaking God’s name in vain, falsely? I AM cannot be sick; I AM cannot be weary, or faint, or powerless; for I AM is All Life, All-Power, All-Good. “I AM,” spoken with a downward tendency, is always false, always “in vain.”
The seventh commandment says, “Take not the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.” And Jesus said, “By thy words thou shall be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”
If you speak the “I AM” falsely, you will get the result of false speaking. If you say, “I AM sick,” you will get sickness; “I AM poor,” you will get poverty; for the law is, “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
“I AM,” spoken upward, toward the good, the true, is sure to out picture in visible good, in success, in happiness. Does all this sound foolish to you? Do you doubt that such power goes with the speaking of that name? If so, just go alone, close your eyes, and in the depth of your own soul say over and over the words, “I AM.” Soon you will find your whole being filled with a sense of power which you never had before . . power to overcome, power to accomplish, power to do all things.
Following is a brief discussion of the phases of consciousness:
- The three planes of consciousness and the Self.
Outline:
Conscious Mind
Subjective Mind
Subconscious Mind
“I AM” . . Self
First there is the conscious mind; then the subjective mind; then the subconscious mind and finally the Self or “I AM.” The first is the ordinary consciousness or objective mind which we use day by day; that part of Mind of which we are cognizant; with which we commonly think; which we use and are conscious of using in ordinary states.
The subjective mind is the twilight zone between the objective and the subconscious. It is this state of consciousness in which the individual functions when he is neither awake nor asleep. People live in this consciousness too much; they are not thinking from the deeper part of Mind . . neither do they seem to use even the objective or reasoning mind. They are said to be “asleep.”
Although they are both open to suggestion, one great difference between the subjective mind and the subconscious mind is to be noted, namely, the subconscious mind creates and objectifies all that it believes; the subjective mind does not. Since the subconscious is the creative mind it begins to work out forms in the visible world, according to the patterns given it by the Self. If the subconscious mind received all the impressions of the objective mind and created them, what a confusion we would have! If all the false beliefs regarding sickness, and all the false ideas of lack were to be received in the subconscious mind, man would live in constant poverty while here and pass on not having learned the Truth.
If you will look at the outline previously given, you will understand the point which I now present. The subjective mind acts as an insulation, keeping out false ideas and thoughts of error from the subconscious . . with this exception, however . . if there is great fear or fright the suggestion goes through and registers in the subconscious. To make this plain let me give you an illustration. If a block of metal were charged with positive electricity and were placed on a similar block charged with negative electricity, the negative block would be charged. However, if there were a sheet of rubber between these blocks, acting as an insulator, it would not receive the current, unless the positive block were highly charged.
People do not really desire things enough or their positive suggestions would come through the subconscious where they would register and bring forth results. Mind in all its activities is the instrument of the Self. In the outline the short line under the subconscious mind represents the real Self . . the “I AM.” Man is therefore a threefold being. He is body, Soul and Spirit. “I AM” is Spirit; Soul is Mind (subconscious, subjective and conscious) and body is the visible manifestation of Self produced by Mind. The proper way of thinking and speaking is from the “I AM” consciousness or from the center to the surface; from reality to appearance; from cause to effect. When one says “I AM . . perfect,” or “I AM . . success,” with the understanding which he gains in the Silence, he demonstrates in the world of visibility.
The wider the generalization we thus make, the less we shall need to trouble about particulars, knowing that they will form themselves by the natural action of the Law; and the widest generalization is therefore, to state not what we want to have, but what we want to be. The only reason we ever want to have anything, is because we think it will help us to be something . . something more than we are now; so that the “having” is only a link in the chain of secondary causes, and may therefore be left out of consideration, for it will come of itself through the natural workings of the Law, set in operation by the Word as First Cause. This principle is set forth in the statement of the Divine Name given to Moses. The Name is simply “I AM” . . it is Being, not having . . the having follows as a natural consequence of the Being; and if it be true that we are made in the likeness and image of God, that is to say on the same Principle, then what is the Law of the Divine nature must be the Law of ours also . . and as we awake to this we become “partakers of the Divine Nature”
I may not like what I have just heard, that I must turn to my own consciousness . . I AM . . as to the only reality, the only foundation on which all phenomena can be explained. It was easier living when I could blame another. It was much easier living when I could blame society for my ills, or point a finger across the sea. and blame another nation. It was easier living when I could blame the weather for the way I feel. But to tell me that I AM the cause of all that happens to me that I AM forever molding my world in harmony with my inner nature, that is more than man is willing to accept. If this is true, to whom would I go? If these are the words of eternal life, I must return to them, even though they seem so difficult to digest.
Man in the past has had a material consciousness and has failed to arrive at the castle of his dreams because of that. Few have realized this to be the fact, but it remains so. A spiritually minded person is the successful person, but how can one have a spiritual mind with a material consciousness? “The double-minded man is unstable in all his ways; let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord.” We cannot have any belief in duality. Either God is Mind and all is Mind or God is matter and all is material. The end of the world, generally expressed, has not been fully comprehended. The scientific meaning of that expression is “the end of your belief in the material world.” Emerson was told one day that the world was coming to an end and he calmly replied, “I can get along without it.” The end of the world has taken place for you, as you reach the realization that the world is spiritually made of this one Spirit . . Mind . . Substance. Remember, I am not denying forms but I am endeavoring to show you that the Substance of forms, or that which “stands under” the form is Mind. The form which we call the body is not physical or material; it is spiritual. A man can say, “I AM Spirit, because I AM made of this one universal Substance.” I do not mean that man is Spirit in a physical body . . that is the old idea . . but I mean that his body is made out of this one Substance, one Spirit . . Substance. His body is this Substance brought into visibility. His Soul is of the same Substance but invisible. To illustrate: ice is H2O, but it is in a different degree of manifestation. You must know that matter . . so-called . . is Mind. There is one primary Principle, Mind, Substance, which is universal, and this is the scientific understanding of God. I want to prove to you that there is nothing in the universe but Spirit . . Substance. Remember . . this may be vibrating at a low rate and be visible, or it may be in a very high state of vibration and be invisible, so that ( I AM) God is all there is . . visible and invisible.
Jesus also said, “Whatsoever ye ask in my name” . . that is, in the name I AM . . “He will give it you.” Whenever you desire . . not supplicate, but desire, speaking the “I AM” upward . . He will give what you ask. Every time you say, “I AM happy,” you ask in His name for happiness. Every time you say, “I AM unhappy,” you ask in His name for unhappiness. “Hitherto,” He said to the disciples, “ye have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.” Is not this just the trouble? Hitherto what have we been asking “in His name”? Have we been asking for health or sickness, for happiness or unhappiness, for riches or poverty, by the manner of our speaking the I AM? Have we spoken it upward, toward the good, or downward toward the not good? That which we have been receiving will tell the story. Jesus said if they asked rightly in His name, their “joy would be full.” Is your joy full? If not, then give heed to your asking. The disciples healed “in the name of Jesus Christ.” In the name of Jesus Christ is in the name of the I AM.
Even though you are overwhelmed by poverty, sickness and sorrow, affirm the opposite. Say with all the earnestness you can muster: I AM rich, I AM well, I AM happy. Say it again and again, day after day, though all things conspire to give the lie to your words. If you do this faithfully you will at last enable the Subconscious Mind to make your words come true.
By your realizing this truth, that all is Life, and, therefore, good, you are enabled to speak the word that becomes the flesh and blood of a regenerated existence. In other words, you are able by a supreme belief in Being, in the allness of Life, or good, and by this supreme belief identifying yourself with it, to speak for what you want, and to get it too; and that without wronging another, because there is no monopoly in the knowledge of truth; and each mind can make its own opulence apparent in the degree of its power to recognize the truth that all is Life, and, therefore, good; thus casting out every belief in evil; every belief in disease, sin, sorrow and death, and leaving Life only, good only, to fill your entire personality.
And of this everlasting good, or Life, such qualities as are recognized as best and most desirable can be affirmed by the student; and affirmed as being already in possession.
Thus, “I AM healthy, I AM strong; I AM intellectual, I have the power of an infinite understanding, I AM great, I AM beautiful, I AM opulent.” Any, or all of these affirmations are in order.
And remember that everything that is, is now; that in infinite Being, in the eternal Life Principle, there is no increase and no decay. All exists, and exists in absolute perfectness at one time equally as much as at any other time; and that that which makes any part of this Life, this perfectness apparent is individual recognition.
Therefore, make all your affirmations in the present time, “I AM That which I desire to be, and I AM it now.” The external Principle of Life is best expressed in the simple word “Being,” which means yesterday, today and forever; or one eternal now.
All is good, and all good is mine. I have health now, because the power dwells within me to compel the perfect action of every function of my body; and all I need to do is to recognize this truth in order to send the negative forces (weakness, disease, pain, etc.) flying, and to utilize my unlimited power. Why, I tell you that you who read these lines have nothing to fear, for no sickness, no tyranny, no negative conditions, no fetter or slavery of any kind whatever can hold or even detain for one moment the growing soul of man after he has entered the domain of the Law of Attraction . . the Principle of Life, the all-good of limitless Being . . by the knowledge of the fact that he is one with all this infinite power; that he has this infinite power within himself, at his daily and hourly command, to set aside any hindrance in the shape of the negative forces which may rise either within or without him.
And what is required to find this power? A living recognition of it. A firm, unshaken belief that it is within you; that it is your all in all. But this you cannot attain in a day or a week. It only comes with the daily striving after truth; the earnest thought and effort to secure truth; and constant living in, and practice of, the highest truth you know. In this way you gradually draw near to the grand results Mental Science promises and reveals; and every twenty-four hours leaves you in possession of an increased understanding. But the increase may be so small as to be immeasurable from day to day, and only discernible at longer periods of comparison. For so it is that we journey up the heights of understanding; ever enjoying the new manifestations of the eternal revealed to our wondering eyes at each advancing step.
The brain, as the most positive part of the organization, takes the lead; and because I know that this organization is all mind, I AM sure that if thought . . the positive leads, the most negative parts will follow. I AM sure that my thought . . the positive part of the magnet me . . will infuse enough of its intelligence into the less intelligent part to show forth the fact that pain and sickness are not positive forces, having inherent power to conquer me, but are negative, amenable to supreme forces . . love, life, intelligence, faith, justice, courage, health, etc.
All I AM Quotes From The Power of I AM Volume 2 are from the following Authors
Fay Adams, U. S. Andersen, Raymond Charles Barker, M. MacDonald-Bayne, Joseph Benner, Kate Atkinson Boehme, Thomas Parker Boyd, Louise Brownell, H. Emilie Cady, Robert Collier, Florence Gloria Crawford, Mrs. Dan M. Davidson, Walter Devoe, Franklin Fillmore Farrington, Charles Fillmore, Emmet Fox, John Seaman Garns, Harry Gaze, Neville Goddard, Henry Hand, Shirley Bell Hastings, Ernest Holmes, C. W. Kyle, Christian D. Larson, Elinor S. Moody, Joseph Murphy, Janeski Robenoff, Robert A. Russell, John Milton Scott, Elizabeth Towne, Thomas Troward, Helen Wilmans