Chapter 6
Imagination the workshop of the Mind The fifth
step toward riches the imagination is literally
the workshop we're in our fashion are all plans
created by man the impulse the desire is given
shape form and action through the aid of the
imaginative faculty of the Mind it has been
said that men can create anything which he
can imagine of all the ages of civilization
this is the most favorable for the development
of the imagination because it is an age of
Rapid change on every hand when they contact
stimuli which develop the imagination through
the aid of his imaginative faculty when has
discovered and harnessed more of Nature's
forces during the past 50 years then during
the entire history of the human race previous
to that time he has conquered the are so completely
that the birds are a poor match for him and
find he is harnessed The Ether and made it
serve as a maid of instantaneous communication
with any part of the world he has analyzed
and Wade the Sun at a distance of millions
of miles and has determined through the aid
of imagination the elements of which it consists
he has discovered that his own brain is both
a broadcasting and receiving station for the
vibration of thought and he's beginning now
to learn how to make practical use of this
discovery is increase the speed of locomotion
until Humane now travel at a speed of more
than 300 miles an hour the time will soon
come when a man made breakfast in New York
and lunch in San Francisco men's only limitation
within reason lies in his development and
use of his imagination he has not yet reached
the Apex of development and use of his imaginative
faculty he has newly discovered that he has
an imagination and has convinced to use it
in a very Elementary way two forms of imagination
the imaginative faculty functions in two forms
one is known as synthetic imagination and
the other has creative imagination synthetic
imagination through this faculty one may arrange
old Concepts ideas or plans into new combinations
this faculty creates nothing really works
with the material of experience education
and observation with which of the spend it
is the faculty used most by the inventor with
the exception of the one who draws upon the
creative imagination when he cannot solve
this problem through synthetic imagination
creative imagination through the faculty of
creative imagination the finite mind of man
has direct communication with the infinite
intelligence it is the faculty and Inspirations
are received it is by this faculty that all
basic or new ideas are handed over to man
it is through this faculty isn't phone vibrations
from the minds of others are received it is
through this faculty that one individual May
TuneIn or communicate with the subconscious
mind of other men the creative imagination
Works automatically in the manner described
it later on this program this faculty functions
only when the conscious mind is vibrating
at an exceedingly rapid rate as for example
when the conscious mind is stimulated through
the emotion of a strong designer the creative
faculty becomes more alert more receptive
to vibrations from the sources mentioned in
proportion to its development soon use this
statement is significant ponder over it before
passing out keep in mind as you follow these
principles that the entire story of how one
may convert desire into money cannot be told
in one statement the story will be complete
only one one has mastered assimilated and
begun to make use of all the principles the
great leaders of business industry in finance
and a great artists musicians poets and writers
became great because they developed the faculty
of creative imagination synthetic and creative
faculties of imagination become more alert
would use any muscle or organ of the body
developed a desire is only a thought and impulse
it is nebulous and ephemeral it is abstract
and of no value until it has been transformed
into its physical counter will the synthetic
imagination is the one which will be used
most frequently in the process of transforming
the impulse of Desire into money you must
keep in mind the fact that you may face circumstances
and situations which demand use of the creative
imagination as well your imaginative faculty
me has become weak to in it can be revived
and made alert through use this faculty does
not die though it may become a quiet since
I love you your attention for the time being
on the development of the synthetic imagination
because this is the faculty which you will
use more often in the process of converting
desire and her money transformation of the
intangible impulse of designer into the tangible
reality of money calls for the use of a plan
or plans these plans must be formed with the
aid of the imagination and mainly with the
synthetic faculty listen to the entire audiobook
then come back to this chapter will begin
it wants to put your imagination to work on
the building of a plan or plans for the transformation
of your desire into money detailed instructions
for the building of plans have been given
an almost every chapter carry out the instructions
best suited to your needs reduce your plan
to writing if you have not already done so
you complete this we were definitely given
concrete form to the intangible designer listen
to the preceding sentence once more say it
aloud very slowly and as you do so remember
that the moment you reduce the statement of
your designer and a plan for its realization
to writing you have actually taken the first
of a series of steps which will enable you
to convert the thought into its physical counterpart
the earth on which you live you yourself and
every other material thing are the result
of evolutionary change microscopic bits of
matter has been organized and arranged in
an orderly fashion moreover and this statement
is a stupendous importance this Earth every
one of billions of individual cells of your
body and every item of matter began as an
intangible form of energy desire is thought
impulse thought impulses are forms of energy
when you begin with the desire to accumulate
money you are drafting into your service the
same stuff of that nature used in creating
this Earth and every material form in the
universe including the body and brain in which
the thought impulses function as far as science
has been able to determine the entire universe
consists of what two elements matter and energy
through the combination of energy and matter
has been created everything perceptible to
men from the largest star which floats in
the heavens down to and including man self
you are now engaged to the task of trying
to profit by Nature's method you are sincerely
I nervously we hope trying to adapt yourself
to nature's laws by endeavoring to convert
desire into its physical or monetary equivalent
you can you do it it has been done before
you can build a fortune through the 8th of
laws which are immutable But first you must
become familiar with these laws and learn
to use them through repetition and by approaching
the description of these principles from every
conceivable angle the author hopes to reveal
to you the secret through which every great
Fortune has been accumulated strange and paradoxical
as it may seem the secret is not a secret
nature herself advertisers it in the earth
on which we live the Stars the planets suspended
within our view in the elements above and
around us in every blade of grass and every
form of life within our vision major advertisers
this Secret in terms of biology in the conversion
of a tiny cell so small that it may be lost
our point of a pin into the human being now
hearing this line the conversion of Desire
into its physical equivalent is certainly
no more miraculous do not become discouraged
if you do not fully comprehend all that has
been stated unless you no longer in the student
of the mind it is not to be expected that
you will assimilate all that is in this chapter
upon her for appearing but you will in time
make good progress the principles would follow
will open the way for understanding of imagination
assimilate that what you understand as we
hear this philosophy for the first time then
when you read this you will discover that
something has happened to clarify it and give
you a broader understanding of the hole above
all do not stop nor hesitate in your study
of these principles until you have listened
to the audio book at least three times for
then you will not want to stop how to make
practical use of imagination ideas are the
beginning points of all fortunes ideas are
products of the imagination let us examine
a few well-known ideas which of you did huge
fortunes with the hope that these illustrations
of a definite information concerning the method
by which imagination may be used in accumulating
riches be enchanted kettle 50 years ago an
old country doctor drove toit's this horse
quietly slipped into a drug store by the back
door and begin Dickering with the young drug
clerk his mission was destined to you to great
wealth too many people it was destined to
bring to the South and most far-flung benefit
since the Civil War for more than an hour
behind prescription counter the old doctor
in the clerk talked in low tones and the doctor
left he went out to the buggy and brought
back a large old fashioned Kettle a big wooden
paddle used for storing the contents of the
cattle and deposited them in the back of the
store the clerk inspected the kettle reached
took out a roll of bills and handed it over
to the doctor the roll contain exactly $500
the entire savings the doctor handed over
a small slip of paper on which was written
a secret formula the words on that small slip
of paper were worth a king's Ransom but not
to the doctor knows magic words were needed
to start the kettle to Boiling but neither
the doctor and more the young clerk knew what
fabulous fortunes were destined to flow from
that kettle the old doctor was glad to sell
the outfit for $500 the money would pay off
his debts and give him freedom of mind the
clerk was taking a big Chance by staking his
entire life savings on a mere scrap of paper
in a gold Kettle he never dreamed is investment
would start a kettle to overflowing with gold
that would surpass the miraculous performance
of Aladdin's lamp what the clear really purchased
was an idea the old kettle on the wooden paddle
and the secret message on a slip of paper
were incidental the strange performance of
that kettle begin to take place after the
new owner mixed with a secret instructions
ingredient of which the doctor knew nothing
listen to the story carefully give your imagination
the past see if you can discover what it was
that the young man added the secret message
would cause the kettle to overflow with gold
remember as you listen that this is not a
story from Arabian Nights here you have a
story of facts Stranger Than Fiction facts
which began in the form of an idea let us
take a look at the vast fortunes of gold this
idea has produced it has paid and still pays
huge fortunes to men and women all over the
world who distribute the contents of the cat
the old kettle is not one of the world's largest
consumers of sugar does providing jobs of
a permanent nature to thousands of men and
women engaged in growing sugarcane and in
refining and marketing sugar the old kettle
costumes anyway millions of glass bottles
providing jobs to huge numbers of glass workers
the old kettle gives employment to an army
of Clerks stenographers copywriters and advertising
experts throughout the nation it has brought
Fame and Fortune to scorns of artist who created
the old kettle has the smallest city into
the business capital of the sound where it
now benefits directly or indirectly every
business and practically every resident of
the city the influence of this idea now that
if it's every civilized country in the world
pouring out a continuous stream of go to all
who touch it gold from the kennel built and
maintained one of the most prominent colleges
of the South were thousands of young people
received the training essential for success
the old kettle has done other marvelous things
all through the world depression when factories
Banks and business houses were folding up
and quitting by the thousands the owner of
this Enchanted keto like marching on giving
continuous employment to an army of men and
women all over the world and paying out extra
portions of gold to those who long ago had
faith in the idea it's a product of that old
brass Kettle could talk it would tell thrilling
Tales of romance in every language romances
of Love romances of business romances of professional
women wear daily being stimulated by at the
author is short of at least one such romance
for he was a part of it and it All Began not
far from the very spot on which the drug clear
to purchase the old kettle it was here that
the author that his wife and it was she who
first told him of the enchanted Kettle it
was the product of that kettle they were drinking
when he asked her to accepting for better
or worse now that you know the content of
the enchanted Kettle is a world-famous drink
it is fitting that the author confessed the
home city of the drink Supply them with the
wife also that the drink itself provides him
with stimulation of thought without intoxication
thereby it serves to give the refreshment
of mind which an author must have to do his
best work whoever you are wherever you may
live whatever occupation you may be engaged
in just remember her future every time you
see the words Coca-Cola that its vast Empire
of wealth and influence grew out of a single
idea and that the mysterious ingredient the
drug clerk Acer can mixed with a secret formula
wise imagination stop and think of that for
a moment remember also that the 13 steps to
riches described in this audio program where
the media through which the influence of Coca-Cola
has been extended to every city Town Village
in Crossroads of the world and that any idea
you may create as good and meritorious as
Coca-Cola has the possibility of duplicating
the stupendous record of this worldwide first
killer true mate thoughts are things and their
scope of operation is the world itself what
I would do if I had $1000000 this story proves
the truth of that old saying where there's
a will there's a way it was told to me by
that beloved educator and clergymen delayed
Frank W consalus who began his professional
career in the Stockyards Regional South Chicago
through college he observed many defects in
our educational system defects which he believes
he could correct if he were the head of a
college deepest desire was to become the directing
head of an educational institution in which
young men and women would be taught to learn
by doing made up his mind to organize a new
College in which you could carry out his ideas
without being an account by Orthodox methods
of Education he needed $1000000 to put the
project across where was he lay his hands
on so large sum of money that was the question
that absorb the most of this ambitious young
preachers but he couldn't seem to make any
progress every night he took that thought
to bed with him he got up with it in the morning
he took it with him everywhere he went he
turned it over and over in my mind until it
became a consuming obsession with him a million
dollars is a lot of money he recognized that
fact but he also recognize the truth that
the only limitation is that which one sets
up in one's own mind being a philosopher as
well as the preacher dr. Gonzalez recognized
as do all who succeed in life that definiteness
of purpose is the starting point from which
one might begin to recognize to that definiteness
of purpose takes on animation life and power
went back by a burning desire to translate
that purpose into his material equivalent
he knew all these great truths yet he did
not know where or how to lay his hands on
$1000000 the natural procedure would have
been to give up and quit by saying well my
idea is a good one but I cannot do anything
with it because I never can procure the necessary
million dollars that is exactly what the majority
of people would have said but it is not what
dr. Gonzalez said what he said and what he
did are so important that I now introduce
him and let him speak for himself one Saturday
afternoon I sat in my room thinking of ways
and raising the money to carry out my plans
for nearly two years I have been thinking
but I have done nothing but think the time
had come for Action I made up my mind then
and there that I would get the necessary million
dollars within a week how I was not concerned
about that the main thing of importance was
the decision to get the money within a specified
time and I want to tell you that the moment
I reached a definite decision to get the money
within a specified time a strange feeling
of assurance came over me such as I never
before experienced something inside and seemed
to say why didn't you reach that decision
a long time ago the money was waiting for
you all the time things began to happen in
a hurry I called the newspaper at 7 else I
would preach a sermon the following morning
and titled what I would do if I had $1000000
I went to work on Sterling immediately but
I must tell you frankly the tap was not difficult
because I've been preparing that sermon for
almost 2 years the spirit back of it was a
part of me long before midnight I finished
writing a sermon I went to bed and slept with
a feeling of confidence for I could see myself
already in possession of the million dollars
next morning I Rose early went into the bathroom
read the sermon they might come to the attention
of someone who Supply the needed money while
I was praying I again denied that that the
money would be forthcoming in my excitement
I walked out without my sermon and did not
discover the oversight until I was in my pulpit
and about ready to begin delivering it it
was too late to go back for my notes and what
a blessing that I couldn't go back and said
my own subconscious mind yielded the material
I ended when I Rose to begin my sermon I close
my eyes and spoke with all my heart and soul
of my dreams I not only talked to my audience
but I fancy I talked also to God I told what
I would do with a million dollars if that
amount were placed in my hands I described
the plan I had in mind for organizing a great
educational institution where young people
would learn to do practical things and at
the same time develop their minds when I finished
inside down a man's lolea Rose from the seed
about three rows from the rear and made his
way toward the pulpit I wondered what he was
going to do he came into the pulpit extended
his hand and said Reverend I liked your sermon
I believe you can do everything you said you
would if you had $1000000 to prove that I
believe in you and your sermon if you will
come to my office tomorrow morning I will
give you the million dollars my name is Philip
D Armour young Gonzalez went to mister armors
office and a million dollars was presented
to him with the money he founded the armor
Institute of Technology that is more money
than the majority of creatures ever see in
an entire lifetime yet the thought impulse
back of the money was created in the young
preachers mind in a fraction of a minute the
necessary million dollars came as a result
of an idea back of the idea was it designer
which young Gonzalez have been nursing his
mind for almost 2 years observed this important
fact he got the money within 36 hours after
he reached a definite decision in his own
line to get it and decided upon a definite
plan for getting it there was nothing new
or unique about young Gonzalez has big thinking
about a million dollars and weekly hoping
for it others before him and many senses time
I've had similar thoughts but there was something
very unique and different about the decision
he reached on that memorable Saturday when
we put vagueness into the background and definitely
said I will get that money within a week God
seems to throw himself on the side of the
man who knows exactly what he wants if he
is determined to get just that moreover the
principal through which dr. Gonzalez got his
million dollars is still alive it is available
to you this universal law is as workable today
as it was when the young preacher made use
of it so successfully this audiobook describe
step-by-step the 13 elements of this great
wall and suggest how they may be put to use
observe that Asa Candler and dr.
Frank Gonzalez had one characteristic in common
both knew the astounding truth that ideas
can be transmuted into cash through the power
of definite purpose plus definite plans if
you are one of those who believe that hard
work and honesty alone will bring riches perish
the thought it is not true riches when they
come in huge quantities are never the result
of hard work which has come if they come at
all in response to definite Dimensions based
upon the application of definite principles
and not by chance or luck generally speaking
and idea is an impulsive thought that in pounds
action by an appeal to the imagination can
be sold where merchandise cannot ordinary
salesman do not know this that is why they
are ordinary publisher of books would sell
for a nickel made the discovery that should
be worth much to Publishers generally he learned
that many people buy titles and not contents
are books by manually changing the name of
one book that was not moving his sales on
that book jumped upward more than a million
copies the inside of the book was not changed
anyway he nearly ripped off the cover bearing
the title that did not sell and put on a new
cover with a title that had box office value
that as simple as it may seem was an idea
it was an imagination there is no standard
price on ideas the creator of ideas makes
his own price and if you're smart guess it
the moving picture industry created a whole
flock of millionaires most of them women who
couldn't create ideas but they have the imagination
to recognize ideas when I saw them the next
block of millionaires will grow out no business
which is new and not overburdened with Mana
food imagination the money will be made by
those who discover or create a new and more
meritorious radio programs and have the imagination
to recognize Marriott in to give the radio
listeners a chance to pop it by it the sponsor
that unfortunate victim of now pays the cost
of all Radio Entertainment soon will become
idea conscious and demand something for his
money the man who beats the sponsor to the
draw and supplies programs that merger useful
service is the man who will become rich in
this new industry Sooners and light cheddar
artists from now pollute the air with wisecracks
and silly Giggles will go the way of all light
Timbers and their places will be taken by
real artists who will Trip It carefully planned
programs which have been designed a service
the minds of men as well as provide entertainment
here is a wide-open field of opportunity screaming
it's protest at the way it is being butchered
because of lack of imagination and begging
for rescue at any products above all the thing
that radium is new ideas if this new field
of opportunity and perhaps you might profit
by the suggestion that the successful radio
programs of the future will give more attention
to creating a buyer audiences and less attention
to listener audio stated more play me the
Builder of Red Hill programs to succeed in
the future to convert listeners into buyers
more over the successful producer of radio
programs in the future polski his features
so that he can definitely show its effect
upon the audience sponsors are becoming a
bit weary of buying live selling talks based
upon statements grabbed out of thin air they
want and in the future will demand indisputable
proof that the music program not only gives
millions of people that silly as to giggle
ever but that the silly Diggler can sell merchandise
another thing that might as well be understood
by those who this new field of opportunity
radio advertising is going to be handled by
an entirely new group of advertising experts
separate and distinct from the old-time newspaper
and magazine advertising agency in the old-timers
any advertising game cannot read the modern
radio scripts because they have been schooled
to see ideas the new radio technique to man's
name who can interpret ideas from a written
manuscript in terms of sound it cost the author
a year of hard labor and many thousands of
dollars to learn this radio right now is about
where the moving pictures were when Mary Pickford
in her curls first appeared on the screen
there is plenty of room radio for those who
can produce or recognize ideas if the foregoing
comment on the opportunities of radio has
not started your idea Factory to work you
would better forget it you are opportunity
is it some other field if the comment intrigued
you in the slightest degree then go further
into it and you may find one idea you need
to round out your career never let it discourage
you if you have no experience in radio Andrew
Carnegie Newberry middle about making steel
I have turned in his own work for this but
he made the Practical use of two of the principal
described in this audiobook and steel business
you him a fortune the story of practically
every great Fortune starts with a day when
a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got
together and work in harmony, but not two
men who created ideas and then we'll put ideas
into operation and made himself in the others
fabulously Rich millions of people go through
life hoping for favorable breaks perhaps a
favorable break and got one an opportunity
but the safest plan is not to depend upon
lock it was a favorable break that gave me
the biggest opportunity of my life but 25
years of determined effort had will be devoted
to that opportunity before it became an asset
the break consisted of my good fortune in
weeding and getting the cooperation of Andrew
Carnegie on that occasion Carnegie planted
in my mind the idea of organizing the principles
of achievement into a philosophy of success
thousands of people have profited by the discoveries
made in the five years of research and several
fortunes have been accumulated to the application
of the philosophy the beginning was simple
it was an idea which anyone might have developed
the favorable break a kingdom Carnegie but
what about the determination definiteness
of purpose and the desire to attend the goal
and the persistent effort of 25 years it was
no ordinary desire that survived disappointment
discouragement temporary defeat criticism
and the constant reminding of waste of time
it was a burning desire and obsession when
the idea was first planted in My Mind by Mr
Carnegie it was coaxed nursed and enticed
to remain alive gradually the idea became
a giant under its own power and coaxed nurse
and drove me ideas I like that first you give
Life and Accident items to ideas then they
take on power of their own and sweep aside
all opposition ideas are intangible forces
but they have more power than the physical
brains that give birth to them they have the
power to live on after the brain that creates
them as return to dust for example take the
power of Christianity that begin with a simple
idea born in the brain of Christ is Chief
tenant was do unto others as you would have
others do unto you Christ has gone back to
the source from whence he came but his idea
goes marching on someday it may grow up and
come into its own then it will have fulfilled
Christ deepest desire the idea has been developing
only two thousand years give it time success
requires no explanations failure permits no
alibis.
