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Through the aid of the sixth sense, you will be warned of impending dangers in
time to avoid them, and notified of opportunities in time to embrace them.

There comes to your aid, and to do your bidding, with the development of the
sixth sense, a "guardian angel" who will open to you at all times the door to the
Temple of Wisdom.

Whether or not this is a statement of truth, you will never know, except by follow-
ing the instructions described in the pages of this book, or some similar method
of procedure.

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The author is not a believer in, nor an advocate of "miracles," for the reason that
he has enough knowledge of Nature to understand that Nature never deviates
from her established laws.

Some of her laws are so incomprehensible that they produce what appear to be
"miracles." The sixth sense comes as near to being a miracle as anything I have
ever experienced, and it appears so, only because I do not understand the method
by which this principle is operated.

This much the author does know-that there is a power, or a First Cause, or an
Intelligence, which permeates every atom of matter, and embraces every unit of
energy perceptible to man-that this Infinite Intelligence converts acorns into oak
trees, causes water to flow down hill in response to the law of gravity, follows
night with day, and winter with summer, each maintaining its proper place and
relationship to the other. This Intelligence may, through the principles of this
philosophy, be induced to aid in transmuting DESIRES into concrete, or material
form. The author has this knowledge, because he has experimented with it- and
has EXPERIENCED IT.

Step by step, through the preceding chapters, you have been led to this, the last
principle. If you have mastered each of the preceding principles, you are now
prepared to accept, without being skeptical, the stupendous claims made here.
If you have not mastered the other principles, you must do so before you may
determine, definitely, whether or not the claims made in this chapter are fact or
fiction.

While I was passing through the age of "hero-worship" I found myself trying to
imitate those whom I most admired. Moreover, I discovered that the element of
FAITH, with which I endeavored to imitate my idols, gave me great capacity to do
so quite successfully.

I have never entirely divested myself of this habit of hero-worship, although I
have passed the age commonly given over to such. My experience has taught me