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| 1 | 1948 The Magic of Believing "Gradually I discovered that there is a golden thread that runs through all the teachings and makes them work for those who sincerely accept and apply them, and that thread can be named in a single word— belief. It is this same element or factor, belief, which causes people to be cured by mental healing, enables others to climb the ladder of success, and gets phenomenal results for all those who accept it. |
| 2 | "Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage." In a nutshell Every great thing starts with a thought and is powered into realization by a belief. In a similar vein James Allen As a Man Thinketh (50SHC) Joseph Murphy The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (50SHC) Florence Scovel Shinn The Secret Door to Success (p. 246) David J. Schwartz The Magic of Thinking Big (p. 240) Wallace D. Wattles The Science of Getting Rich (p. 282) Claude M. |
| 3 | Bristol Claude Bristol was a hard-headed journalist for several years, including stints as a police reporter and as church editor of a large city newspaper. In this post he met people from every denomination and sect, and later read hundreds of books on psychology, religion, science, metaphysics, and ancient magic. Gradually, Bristol began to see the "golden thread" that runs through all religions and esoteric teachings: that belief itself has amazing powers. |
| 4 | Having spent years thinking about the power of thought, he had assumed that others knew something about it too. He was wrong. Strangely, he found that most people go through life without realizing the effect that strong belief can have on reaching their goals: they leave their desires vague and so they get vague outcomes. When Bristol was a soldier in the First World War, there was a period in which he had no pay and couldn't even afford cigarettes. |
| 5 | He made up his mind that when he got back to civilian life he would have a lot of money. In his mind this was a decision, not a wish. Barely a day had passed after his arrival back home when he was contacted by a banker who had seen a story about him in the local newspaper. He was offered a job, and though he started on a small salary, he constantly kept before him "a mental picture of wealth." In quiet moments or while on the telephone, he doodled dollar signs on bits of paper that crossed his desk. |
| 6 | This definiteness of belief, he suggests, more than anything else paved the way for a highly successful career in investment banking and business. Bristol had learned the truth of philosopher William James's statement, "Belief creates its verification in fact." Just as fearful thoughts set you up to experience the situation you can't stop thinking about (the biblical Job said, "What I feared most had come upon me"), optimistic thoughts and expecting the best inevitably form favorable circumstances. |
| 7 | Belief and destiny Napoleon Bonaparte was given a star sapphire when he was a boy, accompanied by the prophecy that it would bring him good fortune and make him Emperor of France. Napoleon accepted this as fact, and therefore to him at least his rise was inevitable. Bristol tells the intriguing story of Opal Whiteley, the daughter of an Oregon logger, who believed herself to be the daughter of Henri d'Orleans, a Bourbon with a claim to be King of France. |
| 8 | There was a diary purportedly written by her describing her royal parents, although most believed it to be a hoax. Nevertheless, when Opal was in her twenties she was spotted in India, being pulled along regally in a carriage belonging to the Maharaja of Udaipur; it turned out that she was living in the royal household. An Oregon newspaper man who had known Opal in her childhood remarked: "It was uncanny, almost supernatural, the manner in which circumstances suited themselves to her plans." This brings us to The Magic of Believing's strongest message: that virtually anything can be yours, and you can be anything, if you are able to develop a "knowing" about it that you don't ever need to question. |
| 9 | Bristol says of Napoleon and Alexander the Great, "They became supermen because they had supernormal beliefs." Your belief about yourself and your place in the world is arguably the main determinant of success. The subconscious servant If you can understand the relationship between the conscious and the subconscious mind, Bristol says, you will get to the core of belief power. The subconscious continually works to express our deepest beliefs and desires. |
| 10 | It is a faithful servant that renews, guides, and inspires, but to get the most from it requires great respect for and faith in what it can do. Because the subconscious operates in terms of imagery, it is vital that we feed it mental pictures of what we desire. It can then go to work in living up to the image placed before it, by giving us intuitions about what to do, where to go, who to meet. Somehow the subconscious is connected to all other parts of our mind, and through the law of radiation and attraction it can attract events and people to us that will assist in making our dreams reality. |
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