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PROOF!

The proof is simple and easily demonstrated. It is wrapped up in the principle of
auto-suggestion. Let us center our attention, therefore, upon the subject of self-
suggestion, and find out what it is, and what it is capable of achieving. It is a well
known fact that one comes, finally, to BELIEVE whatever one repeats to one's
self, whether the statement be true or false. If a man repeats a lie over and over,

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he will eventually accept the lie as truth. Moreover, he will BELIEVE it to be the
truth. Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which
he permits to occupy his mind. Thoughts which a man deliberately places in his
own mind, and encourages with sympathy, and with which he mixes any one or
more of the emotions, constitute the motivating forces, which direct and control
his every movement, act, and deed!

Comes, now, a very significant statement of truth:

THOUGHTS WHICH ARE MIXED WITH ANY OF THE FEELINGS OF EMO-
TIONS, CONSTITUTE A "MAGNETIC" FORCE WHICH ATTRACTS, FROM THE
VIBRATIONS OF THE ETHER, OTHER SIMILAR, OR RELATED THOUGHTS.

A thought thus "magnetized" with emotion may be compared to a seed which,
when planted in fertile soil, germinates, grows, and multiplies itself over and over
again, until that which was originally one small seed, becomes countless millions
of seeds of the SAME BRAND!

The ether is a great cosmic mass of eternal forces of vibration. It is made up of
both destructive vibrations and constructive vibrations. It carries, at all times,
vibrations of fear, poverty, disease, failure, misery; and vibrations of prosperity,
health, success, and happiness, just as surely as it carries the sound of hundreds
of orchestrations of music, and hundreds of human voices, all of which maintain
their own individuality, and means of identification, through the medium of ra-
dio.

From the great storehouse of the ether, the human mind is constantly attracting
vibrations which harmonize with that which DOMINATES the human mind. Any
thought, idea, plan, or purpose which one holds in one's mind attracts, from the
vibrations of the ether, a host of its relatives, adds these "relatives" to its own
force, and grows until it becomes the dominating, MOTIVATING MASTER of the
individual in whose mind it has been housed.

Now, let us go back to the starting point, and become informed as to how the