We may summarize all these suggestions in the words of a distinguished scientific writer: 

“Life is not a bully who swaggers out into the open universe, upsetting the laws of energy in all directions, but rather a consummate strategist, who, sitting in his secret chamber over his wires, directs the movements of a great army.”  This is a good description of magnetism.

III.  THE SUCCESS-MAGNETISM ASSUMPTION: 

We are now ready for the great assumption-principle of magnetism in applied life: 

Think of every goal as already reached, of every undertaking as already achieved.

Treat yourself as A live and A surely successful proposition.

So closes this book.  The subject before us has been vast and profound.  It is unnecessary to confess that the field has by no means been exhausted.  At every step of study its immensity is discovered.  Even when the general arena of success in life has been closed out of consideration, as in these pages, Success-Magnetism defies any single mind to fathom it or to bound it.

With this feeling, yet with the confident belief that you are more completely furnished for magnetic achievement because you have read, studied, absorbed and practised the teachings now closed, the author bids you all good-speed in life and signs himself,

Yours for real success,

A brother cooperative.

PART 22

CULTURE OF COURAGE

The route by which we approach the pinnacle of mastery of self now takes a new turn.  It is neither that of Business and Financial achievement, as we studied in the First Division of the course, nor is it that of Success and Magnetism as was taught in the Second Division.  For many students we now come to the real battle-ground where they must wage the fight for supremacy.  The final 14 lessons group under the general title, The culture of courage.

There is an insidious foe to mastery and freedom, which dooms millions to self-imposed bondage.  Most people know it has them in its grip; countless others do not know what the hidden power is which holds them from the richer, freer, happier conditions of life.

This foe is fear.  It assumes numerous disguises.  It appears in many phases of our daily lives.  It has done more to wreck careers and ruin happiness than all the wars of history.  Hordes of earth toilers believe themselves beyond its influence—­while all the time it is riding their backs and laughing at them.

One reason for this is the common misunderstanding of what fear really is.  Most people think of it only as fearing to meet certain people, or fearing some accident may happen to them or their loved ones.  Yet there are fears of the future, fears of one’s self, fears of events, fears of natural phenomena, fears of old age, fears of poverty.  And there are still more hidden, stunting fears developed by the un-religious teachings of blind, bigoted, crafty Religion.