The Mystic Will: A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary IntelligenceLeland, Charles Godfrey
Philosophy
The Mystic Will: A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence
Leland, Charles Godfrey
Mental suggestion
Proceed gradually and firmly through the series, never trying anything
new, until the old has fully succeeded. This is essential, for failure
leads to discouragement. Then, in time, fully realizing all its
deepest meaning, so as to impress the Imagination one may will as
follows:
"May my quickness of Perception, or Intuition, aid me in the business
which I expect to undertake tomorrow. I _will_ that my faculty of
grasping at details and understanding their relations shall be active.
May it draw from my memory the hidden things which will aid it!"
The artist or literary man, or poet, may in time earnestly will to
this effect:
"I desire that my genius, my imagination, the power which enables man
to combine and create; the poetic (or artist) spirit, whatever it be,
may act in me tomorrow, awakening great thoughts and suggesting for
them beautiful forms."
He who expects to appear in public as an orator, as a lawyer pleading
a case, or as a witness, will do much to win success, if after careful
forethought or reflecting on what it is that he really wants, he will
repeat:
"I will that tomorrow I may speak or plead, with perfect
self-possession and absence of all timidity or fear!"
Finally, we may after long and earnest reflection on all which I have
said, and truly not till then, resolve on the Masterspell to awaken
the Will itself in such a form that it will fill our soul, as it were,
unto which intent it is necessary to understand what Will really means
to us in its purity and integrity. The formula may be:
"I _will_ that I may feel inspired with the power, aided by calm
determination, to do what I desire, aided by a sense of right and
justice to all. May my will be strong and sustain me in all trials.
May it inspire that sense of independence of strength which, allied to
a pure conscience, is the greatest source of happiness on earth!"
If the reader can master this last, he can by its aid progress
infinitely. And with the few spells which I have given he will need no
more, since in these lie the knowledge, and key, and suggestion to all
which may be required.
Now it will appear clearly to most, that no man can long and steadily
occupy himself with such pursuits, without morally benefiting by them
in his waking hours, even if auto-hypnotism were all "mere
imagination," in the most frivolous sense of the word. For he who will
himself not to yield to irritability, can hardly avoid paying
attention to the subject, and thinking thereon, check himself when
vexed. And as I have said, what we summon by Will ere long remains as
Habit, even as the Elves, called by a spell, remain in the Tower.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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