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Supreme Personality
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=Supreme PERSONALITY=
BY
DR. DELMER EUGENE CROFT Psychotherapist and Lecturer.
Personality is founded upon self-consciousness, with self-governed
intelligence and self-directed action.
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The purpose of this Course of Lessons is to kill Doubt, Fear, and
Worry, Cure the habit of growing old, develop your limitless Psychic,
Mental and Bodily forces, bring you back to Nature, renew your cosmos,
and help you lay a pipe line to the power house of the Universe to
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If the word "Death," had never been known to human thought, or
language, and some such term as "Passing to the New Life," had been
adopted, crepe would have been a drug on the market, painful funeral
discourses unheard of, and long, somber funeral processions unknown.
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Thousands of human lives are blasted by negative goodness.
* * * * *
A little country boy whose mother everlastingly nagged him about being
good, but whose father was ever telling him about the beautiful things
in the city, ended his prayer with this: "O, God make me such a good
boy, that when I die I can go to New York."
_One Hundredth Thousand_
Observe your opportunities to be kind. A little boy was sitting in his
father's lap in the street car when a charming young lady entered, and
as the little fellow observed there was no seat, he quickly jumped off
his father's lap and said to the young lady, "please take my seat."
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It is not wealth, or position that gives health and happiness.
* * * * *
A mighty Emperor was stricken with a malady; his court physicians
gave him up to die. He called in his magicians and they told him if he
would wear the shirt of a happy man he would recover. He ordered his
kingdom searched for a happy man. They found him, up in the silent
mountains, but alas, he had no shirt.
No, Satan did not bring the temptation to Eve instead of Adam,
because woman was a weaker, and man a superior being. He brought the
temptation to Eve because a woman isn't afraid of the Devil. If he had
brought it to Adam, he would have been running yet.
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Some people are so stupid in passive goodness, that their whole life
wouldn't fill three feet of a moving picture reel.
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=Dedication=
This book is gratefully dedicated to the kindly memory of two eminent
physicians, long since gone from this earth plane, who professionally
observed my fourth physical eclipse by rheumatic fever; and who
hopefully assured me, as I fluttered weakly from the shadow, that I
could never pass thru it again. When I received their bills I was sure
I could not.
The Author.
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If you are "A Self-Made Man," don't say too much about it, someone may
suspect you "loafed on the job," and tell the Union.
* * * * *
Prayer should always prepare you for action. For example, little
Willie was saying his prayer, and his sister, seeing his pink toes
sticking out from under his nightie, tickled them. Willie grew red in
the face and suddenly exclaimed: "O God, excuse me a minute while I
get up and knock the stuffing out of Susie."
=The Fore=word=
Life is self-realization. Every birth is divine. We are born anew
every morning. My wish is that you may catch the gleam, be freed
from limitations and enter upon your boundless possibilities. Your
endowments are so rich and rare. There is no other person in the world
just like you. You have genius, which, if it were brought forth into
the sunlight, would glorify with brilliant inspiration a thousand
lives. You have insight that, if it were energized, would make the
desert blossom as the rose. You have initiative that once illuminated
would create an empire fairer than any ever raised in marble. You
have harmony lying latent in the vast octaves of your being, which
if awakened into melody would sooth, comfort, restore, and purify the
passions of a world. You have beauty, matchless in forms of grace,
which if breathed into marble, or spread in soul colors upon the
canvass would adorn the palaces of kings. You have thoughts which if
given expression would burn and shine thru countless ages and bear
their messages of hope and power to fainting multitudes.
To bring you into the throne-room of your being, that you may awaken
in self-realization, is why I have prepared this course of lessons.
Should you give five minutes a day to them, in a year you will know
the joy there is in Life, in Power, and in Service.
THE AUTHOR.
=Supreme Personality=
Your Psychic Nature possesses limitless power and possibilities, which
you may have as life realities.
CONTENTS
LESSON FIRST
SUPREME CONTROL OF CONDITIONS.
LESSON SECOND
SUPREME CONTROL OF AGE.
LESSON THIRD
SUPREME DAILY-LIFE METHOD.
LESSON FOURTH
THE SUPREME LAW OF SUCCESS.
LESSON FIFTH
SUPREME BODY BUILDING METHOD.
LESSON SIXTH
SUPREME LAW OF INTERNAL VIBRATION.
LESSON SEVENTH
SUPREME METHOD OF MENTAL HEALING.
LESSON EIGHTH
SUPREME POWER OF MAGNETISM.
LESSON NINTH
SUPREME LAW OF TELEPATHY.
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You cannot bring Health, Success, Happiness and Power to others
without bringing them to yourself.
=This Supreme Day=
Out of the tomb of night a day has risen. Be not anxious, this day
is all your own. Do not hurry, for in time it is like all other days.
Neither delay, for NOW is opportunity.
Early turn your face to the dawn and let its beams bathe away all
stains of the night. Then, should the noon be dark with storms, your
smile shall wear the serene promise of confidence and realization.
This Supreme day can only be saved by spending it. Therefore, to its
burden give your strength; to its confusion give your patience; to
its sorrow give your comfort; to its trial give your nobleness; to its
peril give your heroism; to its sacrifice give your love.
During this Supreme day step softly among human hearts and leave so
much of kindness along its path, that in golden days, gladness shall
spring up bearing its tribute to other weary hearts in the cool
eventide of the world's glad Easter.
Set eternity in your heart, let Truth be your fadeless Day Star, then
over your life of service, sacrifice, courage, cheerfulness, patience,
kindness and love, time shall have no power.
THE AUTHOR.
Lesson First
SUPREME CONTROL OF CONDITIONS
Conditions are thought made. Change your thought and you will change
your condition. To agonize and struggle in a bad condition is like
struggling in quicksand, you get in deeper. Tell your bad conditions
to another and you multiply them. If the heavens are falling and the
earth is slipping under your feet, grab a big Turkish towel, walk
briskly into the supreme sanctuary of the body,--the bath-room, take a
thorough salt-water bath, with a few drops of perfume in it to awaken
your self-respect. Then in a quiet, darkened room take a good sleep
of ten to fifteen hours. Then rise and eat slowly, quietly and happily
some nourishing food. God, Himself, could do nothing with Elijah,
until He had given him a long sleep and a good meal. Then Elijah went
forth and crowned a King, appointed a Prophet, established a Kingdom,
and rode Home in chariots of fire. Once you make a start, the world
is at your command. Let go of the past. Stop the foolish thinking
that conditions hold you, it is you holding onto conditions. Quit
your self-pity, blaming others, and saying you are the victim of
circumstances. Stop whining, and begin singing, then will your feet
be loosed from the stocks and the iron gates open outward before you.
Look away from yourself.
=IS YOUR WILL ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL?= Awake it. See if you are
sailing, or drifting. Set the compass of your Mind to new thoughts,
fresh purposes, selfless desires, fill your sails with boundless hope,
and let your daily voyage spell SERVICE in a big way. You are not a
chip on the River of Life, you are a Supreme Master in a Universe of
Facts. You think you are stuck in the harbor mud, but it is only that
the tide is out. Command your Will to put up the sails, God will send
you wind and tide to bear you out of the stale, sordid mental and
bodily conditions you are living in, give you wider horizon, and a
limitless ocean of experience. If anybody does not wish to sail with
you, leave them on the shore. Let go of your past, break away from
conditions that hold you in slavery. Seek new scenery, form new
surroundings, begin a new Supreme Life.
=KEEP YOUR BODY SUPREME:= Go back to Nature; be a fine animal.
Get into the sunshine, the silent woods, the open fields. Magnetize
your body by walking thru the dew barefooted, by sleeping on the
grass, or half buried in the sand. Tuberculosis, rheumatism, insomnia
are unknown to wild animals. Our bodies are sick and weak because we
have denatured ourselves. Make friends of the wild animals, they will
teach you how to keep well. They have not a single case of nervous
prostration in all their vast forest home. Learn to relax. Drop your
tension and you check confusion. Stop a few minutes sometime in the
day and quiet your nerves, rest your muscles, calm your senses, sooth
your thoughts, somewhere in the sunshine, or under the shade of an old
apple-tree. Eat simply, slowly, nuts, dates, cereals, fruits. Drink
abundantly of water between meals. Dress less somber, study your
personal appearance, give it harmony. Keep your body well groomed. A
bath and hair cut will change the out-look of life. Quit habits that
weaken the body. Never talk about your bodily weakness, illness, or
condition, nor listen to those of others. Criticise your body and it
will fail you. Praise your body and it will serve you. Take air-baths,
cold water plunges, or cold water sponges, every morning. Fix your
mind upon having a sound and energized body and you will attract it.
Exercise, walk, run, play, work, and learn to rest. Change your habits
of living. Cut out the grouch. Stop nagging. You're sour because your
pores are stopped up; get a buck-saw and take a sweat. You're morbidly
blue because your solar plexus has gone to sleep; give it half an hour
of internal vibration. Don't knock the weather, like it, get into it,
let it put iron into your blood. Plunge into a storm, it will act as
tonic on your spirit. A dip in the ocean will add magnetism to your
body. Your body is a mighty fine engine of marvelous energy. Over-fed,
under-fed, over-burdened, neglected, abused, weakened, shamefully
talked about, yet year after year it goes on generating the divinest
thing in the universe--Life. It transmutes profane elements into
divine energy, washes a river of blood free of tons of poison,
supports a brain that builds and rules limitless empires, sustains a
vision that dissolves darkness into light, the unknown into the known,
upholds the image of, and is "the Temple of the Living God." Your
body is Supreme. Keep it divine. Strip your body bare and lie in the
sunshine. Let it soak deeply into the tissue, it will magnetize your
body, and renew it with youth. Take these sun-baths every sunny day
possible by lying on a couch before a large window, or even better,
out in the open air. If you want a magnetic body that is supple,
elastic and youthful give it sun-baths and air-baths daily.
=KEEP YOUR MIND SUPREME:= Your mind is limitless. You were born
to lead, not to be always led. Think for yourself. Do your own
planning. Make new plans. Train your mind to think alone. Misery is
rust on a mind that has stopped working. Train your mind to delight
people. Don't follow the crowd, but step softly among human hearts.
Train your mind to think big. Expand your mind until it encircles the
universe. Stop fussing over little things, over useless people, and
fill your mind with new ideals and fresh purpose. Stop wailing over
flowers that will never blossom on the north side of your house; go
around to the south side and make a new garden. You have a temperament
that is likely to be misunderstood; that's fine. So did Sarvonarola,
Columbus, Galileo, Luther, Whitfield, Emerson, Lincoln and Christ.
"Seven cities fought for Homer, dead, thru whose streets the living
Homer begged his bread." The reputation of Christ was just the
opposite of His character. These, stood thinking their brave thoughts
on the horizon where Truth asks you to stand. You are better than
you think; or as good. You are the sum total of your thinking. Build
thought palaces, not mud huts. Create, originate, produce new ideas.
Beware of dead monotony, it kills the brain. Unfetter your thoughts
from notions, prejudices and limitations. Think well of yourself,
think well of what you have, think well of what you do, think
invincibly, think persistently, think with unflinching resolve.
Concentration is getting at a thing, thinking it, planning it,
preparing for it, working on it, DOING IT. Your conditions, mental,
physical, financial, are thought made; fill your mind with different
thoughts and you will have different conditions. Thought gathers
around you the things you want, when you stop thinking of them they
pass away. Thoughts are seeds, they produce after their kind. A little
thought will shake off useless conditions and confused environment.
Think some fun into your daily events. Don't be over-serious; it
breeds disease germs, just as anger and hate thoughts induce cancer,
tumor and liver troubles. Start a hurricane of jollity. Break loose
in a thunderstorm of mirth, it will clear the atmosphere under a roof,
just as a thunderstorm clears the air over the roof. On the other hand
"there is a season to weep." Never smother your emotion, to choke it
back stifles the heart. Lift the flood-gates and let your tears water
the garden of your heart. "Be renewed in the spirit of your mind."
That is the life. Be renewed every morning, for each day is a new
life, a fresh world, the beginning of eternity. Think your thought
created enemies into thought created friends. Think your thought
created suspicions, into thought created confidences. Thought has
drawn you into your conditions, it will pull you out. Your Soul, your
Mind, your Body cannot become ugly, useless, imprisoned so long as you
think supreme harmony, dominion, and love. Thought makes your body a
hovel, your mind a madhouse, or thought makes your body a temple
and your mind a shrine where angels commune with you. Environment,
conditions, circumstances are not your masters, they are materials out
of which thought makes the beautiful mosaics of character. Light the
candle of a new thought and diligently sweep every corner of your
mind, and you shall find the rare treasure--happiness. Put fun into
your thinking. Do not take yourself so serious, put the red blood of
mirth into your daily thinking.
=KEEP YOUR WILL SUPREME:= Your will is divine energy, therefore
it is a Supreme Power. Christ said: "Be it unto thee even as thou
WILLED." It is inertia that suffers. Fate, Fear and Doubt are children
of the imagination. The power of the will dissolves them into mist.
Will power into your Being. Will power into your work. Will power into
your ambitions. Will power into your expressions. Will power into your
words. And you shall be "a fellow workman with God, a master builder
that needeth not to be ashamed." Your Will gives infinite clearness,
infinite strength, infinite ideals, infinite aspirations, for infinite
realities. Your Will tells you that if there is anything to-day that
seems to you too good to be true, believe it, endeavor toward it,
reach forth to receive it, and tomorrow it will be true. Will is the
engine in the depths of the ship that drives it thru the buffeting
waves and storm to the distant harbor. Will puts your back-bone where
your wish-bone is now. Will puts iron into your blood, tightens up
your vertebrate and makes you "a self-starter." You may have lost your
battle, your Will stands ready for another better campaign. You miss
an opportunity, your Will stands ready to open the door to a hundred
new ones. Delay is the mother of most failures. One thing worse than
"a quitter," is the person afraid to begin. Your Will gives purpose
and makes you stick to it. Get grit for a new siege. Will makes
desire. Will makes brains. Will gives decision. To decide means "to
cut"; cut deep into the world of possibilities, cut out of your prison
of difficulties, cut thru your jungle of opposition to liberty, to
health, to success, to supreme power. THINK, PLAN, DO IT. Will heals
disease. Will drives poisons out of the system. Will makes the body
immune. Will illumines the brain with brilliant perception. Will
sweeps misfortunes aside and rebuilds a nobler success. Julius Caesar
trained his supreme will until it became the dominion of the Roman
Empire. The goddess Diana said of Hercules: "When I saw him, whether
he sat or stood, I knew he was a god, so majestic is his will." Like
the magnetic mountain in the "Arabian Nights," your Will can draw the
nails from your enemies' ships, so they shall fall to pieces before
they reach your shores. Will is a dynamic, cosmic energy from whence
eternal things proceed, and immortal organisms are constructed. Will
is the glory of the Divine universe, and you are a part of that Will.
In your Will sleep the oracles of prophecy. You were made master over
this world. In your Will is enthroned Sovereignty, Dominion, Kingship.
With force of Will, Pygmalion carved his soul dream into the marble
until its loveliness of form and grace became so real as to take on
life and motion. With force of Will Dante created his Hell, and with
force of Will Milton created his Paradise Regained. Put your Will into
command. Start new. Realize that you are Supreme. Get a mind picture
of what you want, what you want to be, what you want to do, THEN
ACTUALIZE IT. Get above doubts. Do not wait to be well, to be happy,
to be rich, all of these will be added unto you. Climb out of your
prison of doubts, worries, fears. Begin where you are. Let your Will
create, even as God creates. "He that believeth shall not perish,
shall not abide in darkness, shall have the light of life, shall have
everlasting life; all things are possible to him that believeth." Come
down out of the gallery of supine hero worshippers, get into the arena
and be the hero. Quit the drivel of matinee idol longing, and get
onto the stage of life and get the bouquets for yourself. The world is
waiting to ring up the curtain for your star part in life.
=YOU CAN WORK MIRACLES=: A miracle is a wonder, a marvel, a
supernatural occurrence, a result obtained by suspension of natural
processes. You can do that any day. The miracle is that so few do it.
You know Ibsen's play, "The Doll House." How the wife forged a note,
raised the money to send her husband to regain his health. How he did
regain it, returned to great prominence and wealth as a banker. Then
the blackmailer threatened to reveal the crime. How the husband rushed
to his wife in anger that she should have done such a thing, that it
meant ruin to him in his high position. How the wife replied: "Why, I
expected the miracle. That you would save me as I saved you. That you
would say that you did it." If he only had, what a marvelous, what a
wonderful, what a supernatural thing it would have been. Christ made
whole and useful a withered hand. People say, "O, that I could do so
wonderful a thing." Well, why don't you. See the withered hands around
you. A young woman with a beautiful voice, but no means to cultivate
it. You have a thousand or so in the bank? You can save that voice to
a world that needs song. A young man with a fine mind, helpless to go
thru college, you have means to give that mind to a world in power
and usefulness. The natural thing is for you not to do it, the
supernatural, the miracle, is that you are divine enough to do it. A
man, a woman, is forsaken, friendless, cruelly judged by the world,
their goodness blasted, their spirit crushed, their hearts bleeding,
their lives made useless, withered. The natural thing is to avoid
such, stand aloof, be quite scornfully indifferent. The miracle would
happen if you went to them, lifted them up, restored them to society.
I have said avoid useless people, I mean selfish, lazy, purposeless,
aimless people. Sir Humphrey Davy worked a miracle when he took the
boy Farrady out of a stable loft and gave him a chance to cultivate
his genius. The Sistine Chapel is Angelo's miracle. When the band on
the deck of the Titanic, under the pale light of the morning stars
played "Nearer My God To Thee," to give hope and strength to men and
women struggling to be saved, each player, as the voice of his melody
was forever hushed behind the shining emerald gates, in the crystal
tomb of the sea, went down crowned with the glory of a selfless
miracle. The natural thing would have been for them to have
frantically fought to save themselves. What superb opportunities to
work miracles have passed you! What magnificent possibilities are
still right before you! The cripple is always at your Gate
Beautiful. Are you divine enough, wonderful enough, marvelous enough,
supernatural enough to say: "Such as I HAVE, GIVE I unto thee"? Do it
quickly. Do it, and you shall know daily the joy of hearing the Father
say: "This is My Son in whom I am well pleased."
If there is any one person on this earth to whom I take off my hat and
wait until they safely pass, it is a school teacher. The most obscure
teacher, back in the country hills, unknown, unthought of, unpraised,
but with loving patience unfolding the secrets of knowledge to little
frowzy headed boys and girls, can look into her mirror at evening and
behold the face of an angel.
Flowers cast their wealth upon the vacant air, and rich fathers oft
cast their wealth upon the vacant heir.
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Some people are so sensitive that if you call them "Honey," they will
break out with the "hives" the next morning.
* * * * *
Do not divorce your husband because he has cold feet, perhaps he got
them since you were married.
* * * * *
Christ stopped every funeral that came his way and sent the mourners
home singing. Funeral sermons were too sad for Him to preach. Every
sick room He entered became a health resort. He made grave-yards
unpopular.
* * * * *
Many a lonely bachelor looking back over the stretch of years, recalls
the charming moonlight nights, when the cool summer air was perfumed
with old fashioned flowers, and he looked into the loving eyes of his
sweetheart; recalls how the crimson glow of youth flushed her velvet
cheeks as he took her warm hand in his; recalls sadly that if he had
only given that hand "a square deal," played it in the game of life,
he would have had "a full house" now.
* * * * *
Would you like to become young? Then tap new reservoirs of youthful
thoughts, irrigate your alkali desert from the fountains of youth,
become youthfully active in some new field of work. Vanderbilt added
$100,000,000 to his fortune after he was eighty. Wordsworth earned the
Laureateship at seventy-three. Theirs established the French Republic
and became its first president at seventy-two. Verdi wrote "Falstaff"
at eighty. Sir Walter Scott was $600,000 in debt when he was
fifty-five, but thru his own efforts he paid all and made himself a
lasting name.
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Book knowledge is not all. A wealthy, fond father, fearing his son
would be contaminated by college life, had him educated at home. When
he was twenty-one, he took him to ride thru the streets of the city.
They passed a female seminary just as the doors opened and a crowd of
young women came out. The dear boy grabbed his father's arm and cried,
"What are those?" His father replied, "They are only goslins." Later
in the day, the fond father said: "My son, you have obeyed me, have
faithfully completed your education, now I am ready to spend $50,000
to give you the highest ambition of your life." The boy looked up in
glad wonder and said: "O, dad, give me a goslin."