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The Tenth Lesson: Sub-Consciousing.649
The pieces of leather would be made into shoes; the cloth would be sewed
into garments; the wood would be joined, and nailed together into boxes,
chairs, benches and what not. But in each case the rough materials were
prepared by the artisan himself during the day.
Well, that is just what we are trying to introduce to you. A clan of mental
brownies, loving and kindly disposed toward you, who are anxious and
willing to help you in your work. All you have to do is to give them the
proper materials, and tell them what you want done, and they will do the
rest. But these mental brownies are a part of your own mentality, remember,
and no alien and foreign entities, as some have imagined.
A number of people who have accidentally discovered this power of the
sub-conscious mind to work out problems, and to render other valuable
service to its owner, have been led to suppose that the aid really came from
some other entity or intelligence. Some have thought that the messages
came from friends in the spirit land, and others have believed that some
high intelligence—God or his angels—was working in their behalf. Without
discussing spirit communication, or Divine messages, in both of which we
believe (with certain provisional reservations) we feel justified in saying
that the majority of cases of this kind may be referred to the sub-conscious
workings of one’s own mentality.
Each of us has “a friend” in our own mind—a score of them in fact, who
delight in performing services for us, if we will but allow them to do so. Not
only have we a Higher Self to whom we may turn for comfort and aid in times
of deep distress and necessity, but we have these invisible mental workers
on the sub-conscious plane, who are very willing and glad to perform much
of our mental work for us, if we will but give them the material in proper
shape.
It is very difficult to impart specific directions for obtaining these results,
as each case must depend to a great extent upon the peculiar circumstances
surrounding it. But we may say that the main thing needed is to “lick into
shape” the material, and then pass it on to the sub-conscious mind in the