The Power of Your Imagination - If You Can Count to Four

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The Power of Your Imagination - 1
If I told you that, by the proper use of your imagination, you
can be anything you want to be in and you can have
anything you want to have, would you be ready to receive
that as a basic truth? In my research, I determined that it
was a basic truth. I feel that how I began to appropriate this
truth will be of interest to you. I assumed that it was true. I
then figured that if it were true, what would be the first
thing I would want to attain in the material realm? Would it
be a new automobile or a new home, new clothes or a new
income?
During my consideration of this phase of my research, I
found myself driving along Wilshire Boulevard in Los
Angeles. I suddenly realized I was right in front of a mobile
dealer's showroom, where was displayed one of the loveliest
automobiles in the world.
I pulled over to the curb and parked in front of the
showroom. I sat there and thought over this wonderful
discovery. I realize that, through the imagination, I could
assume that I already had what I wanted to have, and that
by the power of assumption, the power of feeling as I would
feel if I already had the automobile or whatever I desired,
some wonderful power within me would bring it to pass.
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So I sat there, and my older model automobile, in which I
had an investment of only a few hundred dollars, and I
looked into the window. I saw exactly the make of car that I
thought was the most wonderful car in the world. It was
priced at almost $8000.
I visited with my wife along this line. She reminded me that
I had maintained that the only thing I needed to be
concerned with was the use of my imagination, that
imagination was sufficient, that I need not be consciously
concerned about how to pay for it, that as soon as I got this
wonderful feeling from assuming it was already mine, all of
the other things in the realm of the so-called "practical"
would fit into place and rearrange themselves so the
purchasing of the automobile would be no problem.
So, my wife and I Masterminded together. We wondered
whether we should dare to make this marvelous
experiment. Finally, we decided to assume that we were
going to purchase the automobile that evening. We went
into the showroom and went through the whole routine of
sitting in the car and imagining that it was ours. We talked
to the salesman on the assumption that we were going to
buy it. He became thrilled over the idea that he was going to
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make a sale. He filled out the papers completely on the
assumption that he had made a sale to the point of my
signature on the contract. Well, I'll never forget how close I
came to buying this automobile that evening, even though
when I walked down I was a million miles from buying it.
About two weeks later, I was down in the same territory of
Los Angeles, and I went through the same routine. This
time, however, I drove it for about an hour all around Los
Angeles, getting the feel, using my imagination dynamically,
assuming that it was already mine in every phase of feeling
it. I came very close to purchasing the automobile that day,
because in those two weeks something had happened in my
business activity.
I found I had new zeal, new energy, new enthusiasm and
new dreams, and I had increased the activity in my usual
business almost enough during that two-week period to
justify the purchasing of the automobile. Whereas,
previously I had been unconsciously loafing too much. I
didn't buy the automobile on that second visit, but an
appointment was set up for the next day. I went in at 6:00
P.M. the next evening and by 7:30, I drove this brand-new
$8000 automobile off the showroom floor and into another

part of Los Angeles to attend a sales training meeting. It was
the first new automobile in my life.
It was an amazing experience. I had proved to myself that
through the use of the imagination, the subconscious
provides all of the missing ingredients you need. From day
to day, I have proved to myself that this wonderful
imagination has indescribable power because, as we all
know, the imagination is the ability, the mechanism and the
instrument that makes it possible for us to assume a new
idea or a new state of beingness. In other words, it is the
ability of the mind to design and experience, in the form of
an idea, something new, something different than we have
ever experienced before.
Through the proper use of the imagination, any person on
the face of the earth can immediately assume that he is the
person he would like to be. He can also assume that he has
what he would like to have. But we must dare to imagine
these things.
Otherwise, we do not appropriate the great law of creation,
because the first step in creating anything is to plant a seed.
Now we all understand how to plant the seed in the field or
in the garden. We know if we plant a good seed in the

garden, when harvest time arrives, we will have a harvest in
the proportion to the quality and quantity of the seed
planted, which we all understand.
But let us dwell a little on the subconscious mind. What is
the seed of life? The seed of life, which must be planted in
the soil of the subconscious mind, is a well-defined idea. A
well-defined idea can only be experienced through the
mechanism of the imagination. Let us think of the
imagination as a very practical thing, something which we
shall use constantly and intelligently.
Let us begin to design the type of ideas which we would like
to experience. Once we have designed the type of life we
would like to live, with all of the things in our lives we would
like to possess, it is for us to assume that we already are the
type of person we would want to be and that we already
have the things we want to have.
Then we continually ask ourselves the questions, how would
I feel, what would I say, what would I do, what types of
clothes would I wear, what kind of a car would I drive, what
would all of the things in my life be like if I already were the
type of person that I want to be and if I already had all of

the things I want to have? That is the technique of planting
the seed in the soil of the subconscious mind.
I know that some skeptical person is going to ask, "Well,
how do I get from where I am now to where I want to be
merely by using my imagination?" That is very simple. What
happens after the farmer plants the seed in the spring of the
year, until this seed germinates and grows and expands and
renders him a giant harvest? What happens in the soil?
What takes place? Where does the increase come from? Out
of the neighbor's crib? No, it comes out of the abundance of
this great universe. We do not know what goes on in the soil
of the vegetable world, we merely know when we plant the
seed that this wonderful infinite power of the universe
makes it grow and increase and we accept the harvest with
gratitude.
And so it is when we plant in the soil of life or the
subconscious. Our only conscious responsibility is to design
the type of seed we want to plant into the subconscious in
the form of good ideas. It was a tremendous discovery a
number of years ago for me to learn that every idea has
quality as well as quantity.

Every idea has design. It has form. It has color. In other
words, everything we see in the outer world was first an idea
in some designer's mind. But each of us has the ability,
through this wonderful imagination, to design the size,
color, form, quantity and the quality which we desire to
experience later in the harvest.
Our only conscious responsibility is to design, in the form of
an idea, the type of life that we want to live and the types of
things we want to possess and experience. It is our
responsibility to design them and to plant them in the soil
of the subconscious.
By assuming that we already are what we want to be, and
that we have what we want to have, this wonderful seed is
planted in the soil, and in due season, the crops are
harvested in this dimension as well as a vegetable
dimension. And in ways which we know little about, this
wonderful seed will germinate and grow and increase and
become, in the outer world, exactly the same size and color
and design as the idea contained. I don't know exactly, in
detail, where you are going to get the money and how you
can afford it and how all this is going to come to pass, but in
a general sense, I know that you will get the money, you will
get all the necessary ingredients which are indispensable in

order for you to experience your dream fulfilled, as all the
necessary ingredients provided which caused one grain of
corn, having fallen into the soil to come up and grow into a
large stalk with two or three large ears, with hundreds of
grains on each ear.
Where did this little grain of corn get all of the additional
material, the additional ingredients, the additional power to
become a large stalk of corn with three large ears on it, with
hundreds of additional grains equal or greater than itself?
The great master teacher said, "We live by faith and not by
sight."
Too many people in the world today have to see everything
with the natural eye before they can believe it, yet we
believe in the usual routine from spring until fall in the
agricultural world. We believe that, in the animal world,
there must be a time period before a little offspring can be
born. We understand, in the human family, that it takes a
period of time before a child can be conceived and then be
born.
We don't know how the increase comes exactly, but we
know, by faith, that the power is there to fulfill every
ingredient. It has been said, by great men of old, that every

idea contained, within itself, all of the necessary ingredients
for its fulfillment.
It has been my privilege to experiment with this great idea
of the imagination, to test it out in the realm of things and
in the realm of states of beingness. Let me assure you, from
experience, that this great imagination works and
scientifically as electricity or mathematics or chemistry. We
can depend upon it. All we have to do is to use this
wonderful imagination to dare to design and to dream the
things we want to experience, the type of life we want to
live, and in ways which we know very little about, our
dreams will be fulfilled through the magic power of the
infinite intelligence which we can contact with the proper
use of the conscious and subconscious mind.
What do you want to be? What do you want to have? I'll
continue to ask that question until you will dare to begin to
use these wonderful principles. It always has amazed me
that 98 people out of every 100 have not discovered how to
use the imagination.
I know many hundreds of people who have attended
lectures and read books by the hundreds and they still do
not consciously use the imagination. They do not dare

dream or assume that they are something which they are
not at this moment. They do not realize that the
subconscious mind does not know anything about the past
or the future. It only knows about the present.
They do not realize that in order for them to become
something which they are not at the present time, they must
assume that they already are it. They must start acting as
though they are already what they want to be. In other
words, if you want to be truly successful, you must say
constantly to yourself, "I am truly successful," not "I am
going to be truly successful," because when you say you are
going to be truly successful, you are confessing that you
were not truly successful.
Then, the subconscious picks up the inference that you are
not successful and brings that type of harvest into your life.
But, dare to believe this principle and start saying to
yourself that you are successful. Say to yourself, "I am
successful, I am happy, I am prosperous, I am poised, I am
very healthy, I am a person of wisdom, I am a person of
peace and happiness and joy and gentleness and faith and
meekness, I am a person of enthusiasm and conviction."

Put everything you want to be in the form of the present and
start making statements to yourself and the attitude of
ability and prayer. That is the way the subconscious will
receive it and will bring it to pass, in due season, when you
do not lose your faith. As long as you have this well-defined
idea of what you want to be and have, you are practicing
scientific faith. But, if you have an ounce of doubt in this
principle, you will destroy the mental mold. You will destroy
the design, and you will not experience, in perfection, that
which you desire.
So, let me challenge you to study this great principle. Learn
how to use the imagination. Practice using the imagination
and dare to dream largely. It doesn't cost a penny to dream
largely and since we live in an inexhaustible universe, there
is no reason why we should dream limited dreams. It is just
as easy for this great power to answer this principle when
you appropriate it largely as it is when you appropriate it in
a small way.
Let us make large plans, for they have magic to stir
men's blood.

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