第一章
思想和性格
有句名言：“一个人内心的想法塑造了他自己。” 不仅仅包含他的自己本身，而且全面覆盖了他人生中所有息息相关的人和事。一个人是他想法的真实的反映，他性格的形成是他所有想法的总和。也就是说，他是怎么想的就会成为什么人。
如果没有种子，即便在春天里也长不出植物，人们的行为是隐形的思想种子在它的春天里萌发，如果没有思想的种子就没有相关的行为。所有行为都因思想种子的萌发而产生，包括“自发”和“未经深思熟虑”的行为，也包括故意执行的行为。
行为是思想的花朵，而快乐和痛苦的情感是思想行为的果实，所以一个人感觉到幸福或者痛苦都是他自己内心的感受。
想法塑造人性，
思想决定人生。
如果他的思想充满邪恶，那么痛苦与他为伴，不离不弃；
如果他的思想保持纯洁，那么快乐伴他而行，如影随行。
人的成长有一定规律，却无法精心设计，一切的因果隐藏在潜意识里，正如可见物存在于世界之中。高尚的、神圣的品格并非偶然，是始终如一执行善念，不断努力追求神圣品格的必然结果；反之亦然，在肮脏思想的长期熏陶之下，卑鄙下流的品格也会自然形成。（古语说：近朱者赤，近墨者黑）
成为怎样的人，全因你自己。思想如同一个武器工厂，人们在里面锻造武器，用来摧毁自己；人们还发明制作各式各样的思维工具，为自己建设快乐愉悦的、充满力量的与宁静平和的天堂。如果思想通过正确的选择并运用得当，可以到达神圣完美的高度；如果思想被滥用或错误应用， 人将禽兽不如。在神性与兽性这两个极端之间，包含所有的品格等级，人是它们的创造者和主人。
在这个时代，关于人类灵魂真理被发现和揭示，没有任何事情比这个更令人振奋——人类是自己思想的主人，性格的塑造者，同时也是条件、环境和命运的创造者和塑造者。
作为一个拥有力量、智慧和爱的灵物，作为自己思想的主宰，人们掌控一切。在思想世界里，人拥有一种转型和重生的能力，通过这种能力，人们可以随心所欲地创造自己。
人永远是自己的主人，即使他处于最脆弱并被遗弃的状态下；例如，当他对思想管理不够明智，他丧失对自己的掌控能力，使他处于软弱和堕落中。然而，当他开始自我反省，并努力寻求重建自己的方法，他可以成为自己思想的明君，用智慧引导自己的能量，并将自己的思想变成果实累累的理论。作为自我思想意识的主人，人们唯有通过发现自己内在思想规律才能成为这样的主人；通过综合问题处理、自我分析和经验教训来找出自己的思想规律。
只有通过大量的探索和挖掘，才能获得黄金和钻石。如果愿意深入挖掘自己灵魂的矿藏，人可以找到与自己本质关联的真相（思想的底层逻辑）；每个人都是自己性格的创造者、生命的塑造者、命运的缔造者。人们可以证明，如果他愿意观察、控制和改变自己的思想，通过寻找所有相关影响因素，诸如：自身因素、他人因素、所处的生活和环境等等因素，并通过耐心的实践和调研，利用他的每一次经历，甚至是最琐碎的日常事务，通过理解、智慧、力量充分地获得自己所需的相关知识。这个是必然的规律，除此之外，别无他法：通过认识自己，敲开自己的灵魂之门， 以及通过耐心的实践和不断的求索，才能进入知识殿堂的大门。
Chapter One
Thought and Character
The aphorism, "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he," not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so comprehensive as to reach out to every condition and circumstance of his life. A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them. This applies equally to those acts called "spontaneous" and "unpremeditated" as to those which are deliberately executed.
Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.
Thought in the mind hath made us. What we are
By thought we wrought and built. If a man's mind
Hath evil thoughts, pain comes on him as comes
The wheel the ox behind . . . If one endure
In purity of thought, joy follows him
As his own shadow - sure.
Man is a growth by law, and not a creation by artifice, and cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things. A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with Godlike thoughts. An ignoble and bestial character, by the same process, is the result of the continued harboring of groveling thoughts.
Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and master.
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which have been restored and brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening or fruitful of divine promise and confidence than this - that man is the master of thought, the molder of character, and maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny.
As a being of Power, Intelligence, and Love, and the Lord of his own thoughts, man holds the key to every situation, and contains within himself that transforming and regenerative agency by which he may make himself what he wills.
Man is always the master, even in his weakest and most abandoned state; but in his weakness and degradation he is the foolish master who misgoverns his household. When he begins to reflect upon his condition, and to search diligently for the Law upon which his being is established, he then becomes the wise master, directing his energies with intelligence, and fashioning his thoughts to fruitful issues. Such is the conscious master, and man can only thus become by discovering within himself the laws of thought; which discovery is totally a matter of application, self-analysis, and experience.
Only by much searching and mining are gold an diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul; and that he is the maker of his character, the molder of his life, and the builder of his destiny, he may unerringly prove, if he will watch, control, and alter his thoughts, tracing their effects upon himself, upon others, and upon his life and circumstances, linking cause and effect by patient practice and investigation, and utilizing his every experience, even to the most trivial, everyday occurrence, as a means of obtaining that knowledge of himself which is Understanding, Wisdom, Power. In this direction, as in no other, is the law absolute that "He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened"; for only by patience, practice, and ceaseless importunity can a man enter the Door of the Temple of Knowledge.
