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Today's reading was edited and adapted from... Mastery of Fate. By Christian D. Larson, published in 1908. What you are and what you do determines in what conditions, circumstances, and circumstances. And environments you shall be placed and since you can change your yourself in your actions, you can determine what your fate is to be. To change yourself, you must change your thought. Because you are as you think, and to change your actions, you must change the person. Of your life because every action is consciously or unconsciously inspired By the purpose you hold in view. To change your thought you must be able to...

To determine what impressions are to form in your mind. Because every thought is Created in the likeness of a mental impression. To choose your own mental impressions, you must... Learn to govern the objective senses and acquire the art of original thought. Everything that enters your mind through the physical senses will produce impressions upon the mind. Less prevented by original thought. These impressions will be direct reflection. Of the environment from whence they came. And since your thoughts will be... Created in the exact likeness of these impressions, so long as you permit me to do so. The environment to impress your mind, your thoughts will be exactly like your environment. And since you become like the thought you think.

You will also become like your environment. In this way you not only grow into the likeness of your environment, But are in addition controlled by your environment because your thoughts, desires, motives, and actions are suggested to you. By the impressions that you willingly accept from the environment. Therefore, one of the first essentials In the mastery of fate is to learn to govern the physical senses so thoroughly that no can enter your mind from without unless it is consciously desired. This is a... Accomplished by holding your mind in a strong, firm, positive attitude at all times, but while surrounded by conditions that are inferior.

Will bring your senses under the supremacy of the subconscious will. It's a state of mind that never responds to impressions from without, unless directed to do so. To overcome the tendency of the physical senses to accept indiscriminately all sorts of impressions from without, you are my friend. Should at frequent intervals employ the physical senses in trying to detect the superior possible. Abilities that may be latent in the various surrounding conditions. Gradually your senses themselves will become selective and will instantaneously We inform your mind whenever an undesirable impression demands admission. Are being employed in the search of superior possibilities the impressions received should be analyzed.

And recombine in constructive states of consciousness. Will promote original thinking, which will in turn counteract the tendency of the objective side of your mind to receive suggestions from without. Every original thought that your mind creates will to a degree change you and rotate. Make you according to what you inwardly desire to be. Because every original thought is patterned after your conception of yourself, when you are at your best. Thoughts inspired by the environment are inferior or superior. According to what the environment may be. But an original thought is always superior, because it is inspired by... You yourself while the superior elements of your being are predominant. Whenever you thought that your mind created

Yates is an original thought. You will constantly grow in greatness. Superiority and worth. And when all these original thoughts are created with the same purpose in view, you will be become exactly what is indicated by that purpose. Therefore, since you can base thinking upon any purpose... That you may desire, you can through original thinking become whatever you may choose to be. The result of being and doing. A direct effect of the life and works of the individual. A natural creation. Of woman or man and the creation is always in the image and likeness of the Creator. You through original thinking. Acquire the power to become what you choose to become. Your fate will of itself...

Change you as you change. And through this law you can create for yourself any fate desired. That you will consciously and naturally create your own fate, when you gain the power to recreate yourself as you desire to be, is evident. For various reasons. The power to recreate yourself is simply the power of original thought. Become like the thoughts you think, and original thoughts are created in the likeness of your ideal impressions of your superior self. Individual person is the direct or indirect result of what that person is and does can be demonstrated by

by the following self-evident facts. 1. The mental world in which a person lives is the exact reflection of what that person is, feels and thinks. Therefore, when a superior life and worthier thoughts are attained, the mental world is the world will also change accordingly. 2. The circumstances and conditions of a person's physical world are the direct or indirect... The effects of the active elements in their mental world. 3. Like attracts like. Therefore, as we change for the better, we will attract and be attracted into better associations. 4. The events that transpire in our lives are the consequences of our efforts to express ourselves and our lives.

In our individual world of action. Therefore, what happens to us is the reality. Action of what we have previously said or done. This being true, we have the... Or to cause any event to transpire that we may decide upon. Though to accomplish this it is... Necessary to understand the law of action and reaction as applied to both the... Physical and metaphysical worlds. When you begin to recreate yourself, you will rise superior to your present position. And since new and better opportunities always appear when we prove ourselves superior to our present position. To our present position. You can, by changing yourself as you desire, call forth any upper opportunity that you may desire to have the privilege to take advantage

Vantage of better opportunities is the direct path to better conditions. ...and better environments. And since we can create this... Privileged at will, you can create your own faith, your own future. Your own destiny. However, the secret of creating this privilege at will lies in you. For power to form only such impressions upon your mind, as will originate constructive thought. ...because when all the thoughts you think are constructive, every mental process... Will be a building process. It will constantly increase your ability, capacity, and personal worth.

This in turn will make you competent to accept the larger places that are waiting everywhere from minds with sufficient capability to fill them. Every thought has creative power, and this power will explode. Itself according to the desire that was in the mind when the thought was created. Therefore if every thought is to express its creation... To power in the building up of a person, the mind must constantly be filled with the spirit of that purpose. When the desire for growth ensues... Superior attainment does not predominate in the mind. The greater part of the creative energy of thought is misdirected. Mental conditions are formed only to act as obstacles to our...

Welfare and advancement. The creative power of thought is the only power employed in the construction and reconstruction of the individual. Reason we are is we think. Consequently when you think what you desire to think, you will be... Become what you desire to become. But to think what you desire to think, you must consciously govern the process through which... Impressions are formed upon your mind. To govern this process is to have the power to to include any impressions from without that are not desired, and to completely Press upon your mind every original thought that may be formed. Thus giving your mind the power to think only what it consciously chooses to think...

Can govern this process, you must understand the difference between the two leading attitudes of mind, the attitude of self-submission. And the attitude of self supremacy. You must learn how to completely eliminate the former and how to establish it. All life, all thought, and all action absolutely upon the ladder. When this is done no- Depression can form upon your mind without your conscious permission and then complete the creative power of your thought is permanently secured. Master the creative power of thought is to master your personal self. And to master your personal self... Is to master your fate.

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