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their physical or monetary equivalent, you will comprehend the full significance
of the instructions given in the chapter on DESIRE. You will also understand why
you have been repeatedly admonished to MAKE YOUR DESIRES CLEAR, AND
TO REDUCE THEM TO WRITING.

You will also understand the necessity of PERSISTENCE in carrying out instruc-
tions.

The thirteen principles are the stimuli with which you acquire the ability to reach,
and to influence your subconscious mind. Do not become discouraged, if you can-
not do this upon the first attempt. Remember that the subconscious mind maybe
voluntarily directed only through habit, under the directions given in the chapter
on FAITH. You have not yet had time to master faith. Be patient. Be persistent.

A good many statements in the chapters on faith and auto-suggestion will be re-
peated here, for the benefit of YOUR subconscious mind. Remember, your sub-
conscious mind functions voluntarily, whether you make any effort to influence it
or not. This, naturally, suggests to you that thoughts of fear and poverty, and all
negative thoughts serve as stimuli to your subconscious mind, unless, you master
these impulses and give it more desirable food upon which it may feed.

The subconscious mind will not remain idle! If you fail to plant DESIRES in your
subconscious mind, it will feed upon the thoughts which reach it as the result of
your neglect. We have already explained that thought impulses, both negative and
positive are reaching the subconscious mind continuously, from the four sources
which were mentioned in the chapter on Sex Transmutation.

For the present, it is sufficient if you remember that you are living daily, in the
midst of all manner of thought impulses which are reaching your subconscious

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mind, without your knowledge. Some of these impulses are negative, some are
positive. You are now engaged in trying to help shut oil the flow of negative im-
pulses, and to aid in voluntarily influencing your subconscious mind, through
positive impulses of DESIRE.

When you achieve this, you will possess the key which unlocks the door to your
subconscious mind. Moreover, you will control that door so completely, that no
undesirable thought may influence your subconscious mind.

Everything which man creates, BEGINS in the form of a thought impulse. Man
can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT. Through the
aid of the imagination, thought impulses may be assembled into plans. The im-