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the development of the synthetic imagination, because this is the faculty which
you will use more often in the process of converting desire into money.

Transformation of the intangible impulse, of DESIRE, into the tangible reality, of
MONEY, calls for the use of a plan, or plans. These plans must be formed with the
aid of the imagination, and mainly, with the synthetic faculty.

Read the entire book through, then come back to this chapter, and begin at once
to put your imagination to work on the building of a plan, or plans, for the trans-
formation of your DESIRE into money. Detailed instructions for the building of
plans have been given in almost every chapter. Carry out the instructions best
suited to your needs, reduce your plan to writing, if you have not already done
so. The moment you complete this, you will have DEFINITELY given concrete
form to the intangible DESIRE. Read the preceding sentence once more. Read it
aloud, very slowly, and as you do so, remember that the moment you reduce the
statement of your desire, and a plan for its realization, to writing, you have actu-
ally TAKEN THE FIRST of a series of steps, which will enable you to convert the
thought into its physical counterpart.

The earth on which you live, you, yourself, and every other material thing are
the result of evolutionary change, through which microscopic bits of matter have
been organized and arranged in an orderly fashion.

Moreover-and this statement is of stupendous importance-this earth, every one
of the billions of individual cells of your body, and every atom of matter, began as
an intangible form of energy. DESIRE is thought impulse! Thought impulses are
forms of energy. When you begin with the thought impulse, DESIRE, to accumu-
late money, you are drafting into your service the same "stuff that Nature used
in creating this earth, and every material form in the universe, including the body
and brain in which the thought impulses function.

As far as science has been able to determine, the entire universe consists of but
two elements-matter and energy. Through the combination of energy and matter,
has been created everything perceptible to man, from the largest star which floats
in the heavens, down to, and including man, himself.

You are now engaged in the task of trying to profit by Nature's method. You are
(sincerely and earnestly, we hope), trying to adapt yourself to Nature's laws, by
endeavoring to convert DESIRE into its physical or monetary equivalent. YOU

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CAN DO IT! IT HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE!