The devil's devices to control men: negative thoughts
(1) Fear -- of poverty, criticism, ill health, loss of love, old age, death
(2) ignorance -- Poverty discourages man from thinking and make him easy prey for the devil. Some wealthy men serve the devil's cause by the way they use their wealth.
(3) habit of drifting -- drifters allow themselves to be influenced by circumstances or others without thinking through things themselves. Drifting destroys the power of individual initiative.
A drifter -- lack major purpose in life, lack self-confidence, never accomplish anything requiring thought and effort, spends all he earns and more (if can get credit), sick or ailing to real or imaginary illness, no imagination, lack enthusiasm, ill-tempered, will not attract people to him, have opinions on everything but accurate knowledge of nothing, can't cooperate, repeat same mistakes, narrow minded and not open to criticism, eat too much and exercise little, criticize but no suggestion,
(4) destroy the power to think
Nature does not need one's consent in order to place him under the spell of hypnotic rhythm. It needs only to find him off guard, through any form of neglect to use his own mind.
Any successful attempts to break the habit of drifting must be done before nature makes the habit permanent, through hypnotic rhythm.
The 9 doors to human minds
Fear, superstitions, avarice, greed, lust, revenge, anger, vanity, laziness
Laziness + indifference = procrastination = drifting
(5) flattery -- vanity + egotism
(6) propaganda
Bribes utilized to get into people's mind:
Love, thirst for sex, covetousness for money, desire to gain something for nothing, vanity, egotism , desire to be the master of others, desire for intoxicants and narcotics, desire for self-expression through words and deeds, desire to imitate others, desire for perpetuation of life after death, desire to be hero, desire for physical food ......
The non-drifter takes from life whatever he wants, but he takes it on his own terms. The drifter takes whatever he can get, but he takes what he gets on my terms -- devil.
Every principle of good carries with it the seed of an equivalent danger.
7 principles to attain spiritual, mental, and physical freedom:
1. Definiteness of purpose
2. Mastery over self
Self discipline -- (a) food, (b) sex, (c) speech without accurate thinking
3. Learning from adversity
Every adversity brings with it the seeds of an equivalent advantage
Failure is man made. When you accept temporary setback as permanent, then it becomes failure.
Failure breaks the grip of hypnotic rhythm and frees the mind for a fresh start
4. Controlling environmental influence (associations)
Stay away from negative sources!
5. Time (giving permanency to positive, rather than negative thought-habits and developing wisdom)
Time is the law of hypnotic rhythm. The lapse of time is required to give permanency (during the life if the individual) to thought-habits
Wisdom comes only to non-drifters who form positive thought-habits as a dominating force in their lives.
6. Harmony (acting with definiteness of purpose to become the dominating influence in your own mental, spiritual, and physical environment)
The proper relationship is one that brings to all connected with it, or affected by it, some form of benefit.
7. Caution (thinking through your plan before you act)
If you just drift into the next thing without thinking, you are likely to get yourself into a bad position very soon.
You are where you are and what you are because of your thoughts and your deeds.
Everything having a real existence is capable of proof
The devil controls people by making negative thinking and destructive deeds pleasing to them.
The power of independent thought backed by definiteness of purpose -- the most important requirement to a free life
All negative desires are frustrations of positive desires
Nature will not tolerate idleness or vacuum of any sort. All space must be and is filled with something ... When the individual does not use the brain for the expression of positive, creative thoughts, nature fills the vacuum by forcing the brain to act upon negative thoughts.
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