Consider your own circle of acquaintances and find someone who appears to accomplish more with less effort than do any of their associates. Study this person and you observe that he or she is a strategist, in that they have learned how to arrange facts so as to bring to their aid the law of increasing returns.
The person who knows they are working with facts goes about their task with a felling of self-confidence that enables them to refrain from procrastinating, hesitating, or waiting to make sure of their ground. They know in advance what the outcome of their efforts will be. Therefore, they move more rapidly and accomplish more than does the person who must "feel their way" because they are not sure they are working with facts.
The person who has learned of the advantages of searching for facts as the foundation of their thinking has gone a very long way toward the development of accurate thinking. But the person who has learned to separate facts into the important and the unimportant has gone still further.
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
-Francis Hutcheson
Important and relevant facts is any fact that you can use, without interfering with the rights of others, in the attainment of that purpose.
All other facts, as for as you are concerned, are superfluous and of minor importance at most. You can, however, work just as hard in organizing, classifying, and using unimportant and irrelevant facts as you can in dealing with their opposites but you will not accomplish as much.
Creative thought and infinite intelligence
Five evolutionary steps through which we believe life has evolved
1. Mineral Period. Here we find life in its lowest form, lying motionless and inert, a mass of mineral substances with no power to move.
2. vegetable Period. Here life is in a more active form, with intelligence sufficient to gather food, grow, and reproduce, but still unable to move from its fixed moorings.
3. Animal Period. Here we find life in a still higher and more intelligent form, and with the ability to move from place to place.
4. Human or Thinking Man Period. Here we find life in its highest known form-the highest because man can think, and because thought is the highest known form of organized energy. In the realm of thought, man knows no limitations. He can gather facts and assemble them in new and varying combinations. He can also create hypotheses and translate them into physical reality through thought. He can reason both inductively and deductively.
5. Spiritual. On this plane the lower forms of life described in the previous four periods converge and become infinitude in nature. At this point thinking man has unfolded, expanded, and grown until he has projected his thinking ability into infinite intelligence. As yet, thinking man is but an infant in this fifth period, for he has not learned how to make use of this infinite intelligence called spirit.Moreover, with a few rare exceptions, man has not yet recognized thought as the connecting link that gives him access to the power of infinite intelligence. These exceptions have been such men as Moses, Solomon, Christ, Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Confucius, and a comparatively small number of others. Since their time we have had many who partly uncovered this great truth, yet the truth itself is as available now as it was then.
To make use of creative thought, one must work largely on faith, which is the chief reason why more of us do not indulge in this sort of thought. The most ignorant of us can think in terms of deductive reasoning, in connection with issues of a purely physical and material nature, but to go on a step higher and think in terms of infinite intelligence is another matter.
The average person is totally lost the moment they get beyond that which they can comprehend with the aid of their five physical senses of seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, and tasting. Infinite Intelligence works through none of these agencies and we cannot invoke its aid through any of them.
The only way to use the power of infinite intelligence is through creative thought.
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it.
Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, New insights begin.
-Hermann Hesse
The subconscious mind is the intermediary between the conscious thinking mind and infinite intelligence, and you can invoke the aid of infinite intelligence only through the medium of the subconscious mind by giving it clear instructions as to what you want.
An outstanding characteristic of the subconscious mind is that is records the suggestions that you send it through autosuggestion and it invokes the aid of infinite intelligence in translating these suggestions into their natural physical form.
An outstanding characteristic of the subconscious mind is that it accepts and acts upon all suggestions that react it, whether they are constructive or destructive and whether they come from the outside or from your own conscious mind.
You can see why you must search diligently for facts, and why you cannot afford to listen to the slanderer, for to do so would be poisonous to the subconscious mind and ruinous to creative thought.
The person who knows they are working with facts goes about their task with a felling of self-confidence that enables them to refrain from procrastinating, hesitating, or waiting to make sure of their ground. They know in advance what the outcome of their efforts will be. Therefore, they move more rapidly and accomplish more than does the person who must "feel their way" because they are not sure they are working with facts.
The person who has learned of the advantages of searching for facts as the foundation of their thinking has gone a very long way toward the development of accurate thinking. But the person who has learned to separate facts into the important and the unimportant has gone still further.
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
-Francis Hutcheson
Important and relevant facts is any fact that you can use, without interfering with the rights of others, in the attainment of that purpose.
All other facts, as for as you are concerned, are superfluous and of minor importance at most. You can, however, work just as hard in organizing, classifying, and using unimportant and irrelevant facts as you can in dealing with their opposites but you will not accomplish as much.
Creative thought and infinite intelligence
Five evolutionary steps through which we believe life has evolved
1. Mineral Period. Here we find life in its lowest form, lying motionless and inert, a mass of mineral substances with no power to move.
2. vegetable Period. Here life is in a more active form, with intelligence sufficient to gather food, grow, and reproduce, but still unable to move from its fixed moorings.
3. Animal Period. Here we find life in a still higher and more intelligent form, and with the ability to move from place to place.
4. Human or Thinking Man Period. Here we find life in its highest known form-the highest because man can think, and because thought is the highest known form of organized energy. In the realm of thought, man knows no limitations. He can gather facts and assemble them in new and varying combinations. He can also create hypotheses and translate them into physical reality through thought. He can reason both inductively and deductively.
5. Spiritual. On this plane the lower forms of life described in the previous four periods converge and become infinitude in nature. At this point thinking man has unfolded, expanded, and grown until he has projected his thinking ability into infinite intelligence. As yet, thinking man is but an infant in this fifth period, for he has not learned how to make use of this infinite intelligence called spirit.Moreover, with a few rare exceptions, man has not yet recognized thought as the connecting link that gives him access to the power of infinite intelligence. These exceptions have been such men as Moses, Solomon, Christ, Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Confucius, and a comparatively small number of others. Since their time we have had many who partly uncovered this great truth, yet the truth itself is as available now as it was then.
To make use of creative thought, one must work largely on faith, which is the chief reason why more of us do not indulge in this sort of thought. The most ignorant of us can think in terms of deductive reasoning, in connection with issues of a purely physical and material nature, but to go on a step higher and think in terms of infinite intelligence is another matter.
The average person is totally lost the moment they get beyond that which they can comprehend with the aid of their five physical senses of seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, and tasting. Infinite Intelligence works through none of these agencies and we cannot invoke its aid through any of them.
The only way to use the power of infinite intelligence is through creative thought.
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it.
Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, New insights begin.
-Hermann Hesse
The subconscious mind is the intermediary between the conscious thinking mind and infinite intelligence, and you can invoke the aid of infinite intelligence only through the medium of the subconscious mind by giving it clear instructions as to what you want.
An outstanding characteristic of the subconscious mind is that is records the suggestions that you send it through autosuggestion and it invokes the aid of infinite intelligence in translating these suggestions into their natural physical form.
An outstanding characteristic of the subconscious mind is that it accepts and acts upon all suggestions that react it, whether they are constructive or destructive and whether they come from the outside or from your own conscious mind.
You can see why you must search diligently for facts, and why you cannot afford to listen to the slanderer, for to do so would be poisonous to the subconscious mind and ruinous to creative thought.
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