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ruthless. Riches are shy and timid. They have to be "attracted."
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ANYBODY can WISH for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that
a definite plan, plus a BURNING DESIRE for wealth, are the only dependable
means of accumulating wealth.
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Chapter u
The Mystery of Sex: Transmutation
The Tenth Step toward Riches
The meaning of the word "transmute" is, in simple language, "the changing, or
transferring of one element, or form of energy, into another."
The emotion of sex brings into being a state of mind. Because of ignorance
on the subject, this state of mind is generally associated with the physical, and
because of improper influences, to which most people have been subjected, in
acquiring knowledge of sex, things essentially physical have highly biased the
mind.
The emotion of sex has back of it the possibility of three constructive potentiali-
ties, they are: -
1. The perpetuation of mankind.
2. The maintenance of health, (as a therapeutic agency, it has no equal).
3. The transformation of mediocrity into genius through transmutation.
