The secret of mental magic Author:William Walker Atkinson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MY BASIC STATEMENT There exists an Universal Dynamic Principle of Life; pervading all space; immanent in all things; manifesting in an infinite variety of for... more »ms, and life, and energy or force;—and the essential inner nature of that Universal Principle is MIND! The energy, or force, of that Principle is no respecter of persona. Its aervicea are open to all, and it operates in response to the proper effort no matter by whom it may be exerted. But the proper effort must be exerted, consciously or unconsciously, else there will be no operation of the forces. William Walker Atkinson. LESSON I. MENTAL MAGIC. Introductory—Mysterious Mental Influencing Power—The Present Interest in Mental Magic—The Basis of Modern "Isms"—What Is "Mental Magic"?—The Persian Magi—The Occult Forces of Nature—The Esoteric Knowledge—Tte Ancient Use of Will Power—The Priestly Adepts—The Force Above Good aid Evil—The Secret of the Force—Ignorant Use of the Force—Modern Uses of the Force—The Attempt to Monopolize the Occult Knowledge—Too Late to Deny Facts—A Mighty Power for Good or Evil—Ignorance No Protection—The Bane and the Antidote—The Coming of the Super-Man—A Scientific Presentation— Adverse Criticism Braved. Ancient Occultism in the last twenty years, under various names and forms, the fundamental principle of which consists in forms of mental "treatments" of one kind or another, present or "absent"; or in the phenomena of what has been called "Suggestion," of which we hear so much in scientific circles; or in the various forms of Mind or Faith Cures, of which so much has been heard of late years, and upon which a number of religions and cults have been built; or in the repulsive forms of Mental Influence, known as Witchcraft, Voodooism, Black Magic, etc., etc.— we have the same fundamenta...« less