zero limits

zero limits

The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More

JOE VITALE
IHALEAKALA HEW LEN, PhD

To Morrnah and Ka’i
—Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len

To Mark Ryan and Nerissa
—Dr. Joe Vitale

Ho’oponopono is a profound gift that allows one to develop a working relationship with the Divinity within and learn to ask that in each moment, our errors in thought, word, 
deed, or action be cleansed. The process is essentially about freedom, complete freedom from the past.  ---Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, 
Ho’oponopono Master Teacher, 
creator of Self I-Dentity  Ho’oponopono, 
named a Living Treasure of the 
State of Hawaii in 1983 by the Hongwanji Mission of Honolulu and the Hawaii State Legislature.


Acknowledgments

Two key people deserve thanks for this book: Mark Ryan is the priceless friend who first told me the story of the unusual therapist you’re about to read about, and Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len is that unusual therapist who 
has become my latest priceless friend.  Nerissa, my love, is my main support person and domestic life partner. Matt Holt and my dear friends at John Wiley & Sons, Inc. are terrific people to know and work with. Suzanne Burns is my key assistant and publicist, and proofread an early draft of this manuscript. My mastermind group supported me in this project, including Jillian ColemanWheeler, CindyCashman, Craig Perrine, Pat O’Bryan, Bill Hibbler, and Nerissa 
Oden. Early readers of this book who helped me shape it and perfect it include Mark Weisser and Mark Ryan. I also want to thank the Divine for guiding me in the process of writing this book. 
I am grateful to all.


Contents

Preface: Where Peace Begins Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len ix

Introduction: The Secret of the Universe Dr. Joe Vitale xi

The Adventure Begins 1

Finding the World’s Most Unusual Therapist 11

Our First Conversation 19

The Shocking Truth about Intentions 27

What Exceptions? 39

I Love You 51

Eating with the Divine 67

The Evidence 77

How to Create Faster Results 113

How to Receive Greater Wealth 123

Skeptical Minds Want to Know 137

Choice Is a Limitation 147

Cigars, Hamburgers, and Killing the Divine 163

The Truth Behind the Story 177

Epilogue: The Three Stages of Awakening 189

Appendix A: Zero Limits Basic Principles 197

Appendix B: How to Heal Yourself (or Anyone Else)
and Discover Health,Wealth, and Happiness 203

Appendix C: Who’s in Charge? Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len 207

Bibliography 225

Online Resources 229

About the Authors 231

Index 233

How to Experience Zero Limits Right Now 238

Preface


Where Peace Begins

Dear Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, the creator 
and first master teacher of Self I-Dentity Ho’oponopono, had on her desk a placard that read, “Peace begins with me.”

I witnessed this peace beyond all understanding as I worked and traveled with her from December 1982 to that fateful day in Kirchheim, Germany, in February 1992. Even as she lay in death on her bed surrounded by chaos, 
she exuded that stillness beyond all understanding.
It was my great good fortune and honor to have received the training from Morrnah in November 1982 and to have been in her presence for a decade. I have been doing Self I-Dentity Ho’oponopono ever since.I am 
pleased that, with the help of my friend Dr. Joe Vitale, this message can now reach the world.

But the truth is it only has to reach you, through me, as we are all one and it all happens inside.

Peace of I,
Ihaleakala Hew Len, PhD
Chairman Emeritus
The Foundation of I, Inc. 
Freedom of the Cosmos

www.hooponopono.org www.businessbyyou.com

Introduction

The Secret of the Universe

In 2006 I wrote an article titled “The World’s Most Unusual Therapist.”
It was about a psychologist who helped heal an entire ward of mentally ill criminals—without ever seeing any of them professionally.
He used an unusual healing method from Hawaii. 
Until 2004, I had never heard of him or his 
method. I searched for two years before I 
found him. I then learned his method and wrote 
that now famous article.
That article swept the Internet. It was posted on 
newsgroups and e-mailed to huge lists of 
people from all walks of life. My own list at
www.mrfire.com loved it, and passed it on to 
tens of thousands of others. They in turn 
forwarded it to family and friends. I estimate
about five million people saw that article.
Everyone who read it found it hard to believe. 
Some were inspired. Some were skeptical.
All wanted more.This book is a result of their 
and my quest. Even if you’re a veteran of the 
five steps in my earlier book,The Attractor 
Factor, you may not understand the incredible 
insights I’m about to reveal to you here, at 
least not at first glance. The simple process 
I’m going to share in this book will help 
explain why I’ve been able to manifest some 
huge accomplishments without actually
trying to make them happen. Here are a few 
of them:

■ My Nightingale-Conant audio program, The 
Power of Outrageous Marketing, happened 
after I quit pounding on their door for 10 years.

■ How did I go from homeless to poverty to 
struggling writer to published author to best-
selling author to Internet marketing guru with 
no plan at all?

■ My desire to attract a BMW Z3 sports car led to 
me being inspired with an Internet marketing idea 
no one had ever thought of before—which made 
me $22,500 in one day and a quarter of a million 
dollars in a year or so.

■ My desire to buy and move into a Texas hill 
country estate when I was broke and going 
through a divorce led to me creating a new 
business that brought in $50,000 in one day.

■ My huge weight loss of 80 pounds occurred 
after I gave up and opened myself to a new 
way to achieve my desire.

■ My desire to be the author of a #1 best-selling 
book led to my writing a #1 best-selling book 
that I never planned to write at all and wasn’t 
even my idea.

■ My appearance in a hit movie, The Secret, 
happened without my begging,pleading,
intending,or orchestrating anything at all.

■ My appearance on Larry King Live in November 
2006, and again in March 2007, happened without 
my ever intending it.

■ As I write these words, Hollywood hotshots are 
talking about turning my book, The Attractor 
Factor, into a movie, and still others are 
negotiating to get me my own television program.
The list could go on, but you get the idea. I have 
many miracles happening in my life.

But why are they happening?

I was once homeless. Today I’m a best-selling 
author, Internet celebrity, and multimillionaire.
What happened to me to create all this success?
Yes, I followed my dreams.
Yes, I took action.
Yes, I was persistent.
Haven’t a lot of other people done those same 
things and yet not achieved success?

What’s different?
If you look at the accomplishments I’ve listed 
with a critical eye,you might see that none of 
them were directly created by me. In fact,what 
they all have in common is a spirit of Divine 
planning, with me a sometimes unwilling 
participant.

Let me explain this another way: Toward the end 
of 2006 I taught a seminar called Beyond 
Manifestation (www.BeyondManifestation.com), 
which is heavily influenced by what I learned
after I discovered the mysterious Hawaiian 
therapist and his method.
In that event I asked everyone to list all the ways 
they knew to manifest or attract something in 
their life.They said things like affirmations,
visualizations, intentions, body awareness 
methods, feeling the end result, scripting, 
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) or tapping,
and many, many more. Once the group 
inventoried every single way they could come up 
with to create their own reality, I asked them if 
those ways worked all the time, without exception.
Everyone agreed they did not always work.
“Well, why not?” I asked them.
No one could say for sure.

I then hit the group with my observation: “All of 
those ways have limitations,” I declared. “They 
are toys your mind plays with to keep you thinking 
you’re in charge. The truth is, you are not in 
charge, and the real miracles come when you let 
go of the toys and trust in a place inside yourself 
where there are zero limits.”


I then told them that where you want to be in life 
is behind all of those toys,which is behind the 
chatter of the mind and right there with what we 
call the Divine. I went on to explain that there 
are at least three stages to life, beginning with you as 
victim, then moving on to you as creator of your 
life, and ending—if you’re lucky—with you 
becoming servant to the Divine. In that last stage,
which I’ll discuss later in this book, astonishing 
miracles happen—almost without you trying.

Earlier today I interviewed a goals expert for my 
Hypnotic Gold membership program. (See www.HypnoticGold.com.) He has written a 
dozen books and sold millions of copies of them. 
He knows how to teach people how to set goals. 
Most of his philosophy revolves around having a 
burning desire to accomplish something. But
that’s an incomplete strategy. I asked him what 
he suggested when someone can’t find the 
motivation to set a goal, let alone complete it.
“If I knew that,” he began,“I’d be able to solve
most of the problems in the world.” He went 
on to say that you have to be hungry to achieve 
a goal. If you aren’t, you won’t keep up the 
discipline needed to focus on it and work 
toward it. “But what if you’re not hungry 
enough?” I asked. “Then you won’t reach 
your goal.” “How do you make yourself 
hungry or motivated?” He couldn’t answer.

And that’s the rub. At a certain point all the self-
help and goalsetting programs fail.They come 
up against the troubling fact that if someone 
isn’t ready to achieve something, they won’t 
maintain the energy needed to manifest it.
They’ll quit. Everyone knows this experience 
from setting resolutions on January 1st and
forgetting them by January 2nd. The good 
intentions were there. But something deeper 
wasn’t in alignment with the conscious desires.
So how do you take care of that deeper state that 
isn’t “hungry”? That’s where the Hawaiian 
method you’ll learn in the book comes in 
handy. It helps clean the unconscious, which 
is where the block resides. It helps dissolve 
the hidden programs that keep you from 
attaining your desires, whether health, wealth, 
happiness, or anything else. It all happens
inside you. I’ll explain all of this in the book 
you are holding right now. For now, consider 
this:There’s a quote from Tor Norretranders’ 
book, The User Illusion, that sums up the 
essence of the mental roller-coaster ride 
you’re about to embark on:“The universe 
began when nothing saw itself in the mirror.”
In short, Zero Limits is about returning to the zero 
state, where nothing exists but anything is possible. 
In the zero state there are no thoughts, words, 
deeds, memories, programs, beliefs, or anything 
else. Just nothing.
But one day nothing saw itself in the mirror and 
you were born. From there, you created, and 
unconsciously absorbed and accepted, beliefs, 
programs, memories, thoughts, words, deeds, 
and more. Many of these programs go all the 
way back to the beginning of existence itself.
The whole purpose of this book is to help you 
to experience wonder moment by moment. 
From that place, miracles like the ones I 
described will happen to you.They’ll be unique 
to you.And they’ll be just as marvelous, 
magical, and miraculous. My experience of this 
spiritual rocket ship into power beyond
comprehension has been almost indescribable. 
I have success beyond my wildest dreams. I have 
new skills, and my level of love for myself
and the world is on a level of understanding 
words often fail to describe. I live in a near-
constant state of awe. Let me put it this way: 
Everyone has a lens through which they view 
the world. Religions, philosophies, therapies, 
authors, speakers, gurus, and candlestick 
makers all perceive the world through a 
particular mind-set.What you’ll learn in this 
book is how to use a new lens to dissolve all
other lenses. And once you succeed, you’ll be 
at the place I call zero limits.

Please understand that this is the first book in 
history to reveal this updated Hawaiian method 
for healing, called Self I-Dentity Ho’oponopono. 
But also please understand that this is just one 
man’s experience with the method: mine.While 
this book is written with the blessing of the 
therapist who taught me the amazing method, 
everything to follow is written through my own 
lens of the world.
To fully understand Self I-Dentity Ho’oponopono, 
you need to attend a weekend training and 
experience it for yourself. (Trainings are listed
at www.hooponopono.org and www.zerolimits.info.)
Finally, the entire essence of this book can be 
summed up in one phrase—a phrase you will 
learn to use; a phrase that reveals the ultimate
secret of the universe; a phrase that I want to 
say to you and the Divine right now: “I love you.”
Take a ticket and have a seat.The train into your 
soul is about to take off.

Hold on to your hat.

I love you.

Aloha no wau ia oe.

Dr. Joe Vitale
(Ao Akua)
Austin,Texas

www.mrfire.com

The universe began when nothing saw itself in the mirror.(Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion)

zero limits 1: The Adventure Begins
Peace be with you, all my Peace.

O ka Maluhia no me oe, Ku’u Maluhia a pau loa.

In August 2004, I was speaking and working a 
booth at the National Guild of Hypnotists annual 
convention. I enjoyed the people, the event, the 
energy, and the networking. But I wasn’t 
prepared for the life-changing event that would 
begin that day.
My friend Mark Ryan was working the booth with 
me. Mark is a hypnotherapist, as well. He’s very 
open-minded, curious, articulate, and penetrating 
when it comes to exploring life and all its mysteries.
We often had conversations that lasted for hours.
We talked about our heroes in therapy, from 
Milton Erickson to lesser-known shamans. It was 
during one of these conversations that Mark 
surprised me by asking, “Have you ever heard of the therapist who healed
people without ever seeing them?”
The question stopped me. I had heard of psychic 
healers and remote or distance healers, but Mark 
seemed to be suggesting something different.
“He’s a psychologist who healed an entire mental 
hospital full of the criminally insane (30 to be 
exact)w a single patient.”

“What did he do?”
“He used a Hawaiian healing system called ho’oponopono.”
“Ho-oh-what?” I asked.
I asked Mark to repeat the term about a dozen 
times. I had never heard it before. Mark didn’t 
know the story, or the process, well enough to 
tell me much more. I admit I was curious, but I 
also confess that I was skeptical, as well. I 
figured this had to be an urban legend.
Heal people without seeing them? Yeah, right.
Mark went on to tell me the following story:
“I had been traveling to Mount Shasta in 
California for about 16 years in search of myself,” Mark
 explained. “One friend there gave me a little 
booklet that I never forgot. It was white paper 
with blue ink. It was an article about this Hawaiian 
therapist and his method. I read that article over 
and over again for years. It didn’t describe what
the therapist actually did, but it said he healed people with his method.”
“Where’s that article now?” I asked. I wanted to read it.
“I can’t find it,” Mark said. “But something told 
me to tell you about it. I know you don’t believe 
me, but I’m as fascinated as you are. I want to 
know more, too.” A year passed before the next 
convention. During the intervening months, I 
poked around online but couldn’t find anything 
about any therapist who cured people without 
seeing them. Sure, there’s information on 
distance healing, where someone heals another 
without the other person being present, but I 
understood that the Hawaiian therapist didn’t 
do that. As I would come to learn, there’s no
distance at all in the type of healing he did. 
On top of all that, I didn’t know how to spell 
ho’oponopono to look it up online. So I let it go.
Then, in 2005, at the next annual hypnosis 
convention, Mark again mentioned the therapist.
“Did you ever find anything about him?” he asked.
“I don’t know his name, and I don’t know how to 
spell how whatever that term is,” I explained. “So 
I couldn’t find a thing.”
Mark’s a go-getter.We took a break, pulled out 
my laptop, found a wireless Internet connection, 
and went searching. It didn’t take long to find 
the main and only official site for ho’oponopono 
at www.hooponopono.org. I looked around and 
saw a few articles. They gave me a quick 
overview of what I was about to get into.
I found a definition of ho’oponopono: 
“Ho’oponopono is a process of letting go of 
toxic energies within you to allow the impact
of Divine thoughts, words, deeds, and actions.”
I had no idea what that meant, so I looked 
around some more. I found this: “Simply put, 
Ho’oponopono means,‘to make right,’ or ‘to 
rectify an error.’ According to the ancient 
Hawaiians, error arises from thoughts that are 
tainted by painful memories from the past. 
Ho’oponopono offers a way to release the 
energy of these painful thoughts, or errors, 
which cause imbalance and disease.”
Interesting, yes. But what did it mean?
As I explored the site, looking for 
information on the mysterious psychologist 
who healed people without seeing them, I 
learned that there is an updated form of 
ho’oponopono called Self I-Dentity through 
Ho’oponopono (SITH).
I didn’t pretend to know what all of this 
meant. Mark didn’t pretend, either.We were 
fellow explorers. Our laptop was the horse we
rode into the wilderness of this new land.We 
were in search of answers.We eagerly typed 
forward. We found an article that helped 
explain a few things:

Self I-Dentity Through Ho’oponopono
Being 100 Percent Responsible for the Problems 
of My Clients
By Ihaleakala Hew Len, PhD, and Charles Brown, LMT

In traditional approaches to problem solving and 
healing, the therapist begins with the belief that 
the source of the problem is within the client, 
not within him. He believes that his responsibility 
is to assist the client ...
( http://files.meetup.com/3684022/ZeroLimitsJoeVitaleINGLES.pdf
 ...in working through his problem. Could these
 beliefs have resulted in systemic burnout throughout the healing profession?
To be an effective problem solver, the therapist must be willing to be 100 percent responsible for having created the problem situation; that is, he must be willing to see that the source of the problem is erroneous thoughts within him,
not within the client.Therapists never seem to notice that every time there is a problem, they are always present!
Being 100 percent responsible for actualizing the problem allows the therapist to be 100 percent responsible for resolving it. Using the updated Ho’oponopono approach, a process of repentance, forgiveness, and transmutation developed by Kahuna Lapa’au Morrnah Nalamaku
Simeona, a therapist is able to have erroneous thoughts within himself and within the client transmuted into perfect thoughts of LOVE.
Her eyes brim with tears. Deep trenches enclose the corners of her mouth. “I am worried about my son,” Cynthia sighs softly. “He’s back on drugs again.”As she tells her painful story, I begin the cleaning of the erroneous thoughts within me that have actualized as her problem.
As erroneous thoughts are replaced by loving thoughts in the therapist and in his family, relatives, and ancestors, they are replaced too in the client and in her family, relatives, and ancestors.The updated Ho’oponopono process allows the therapist to work directly with the Original Source who can transmute erroneous thoughts into LOVE. Her eyes dry up.The trenches around her mouth soften. She smiles, relief dawning across her face. “I don’t know why, but I’m feeling better.” I do not
know why, either. Really. Life is a mystery except to
LOVE, who knows all. I just let it go at that, and 
just thank LOVE from whom all blessings flow.
In problem solving using the updated Ho’oponopono process, the therapist first takes his I-Dentity, his Mind, and connects it up with the Original Source, what others call LOVE or GOD.With the connection in place, the therapist then appeals to LOVE to correct the erroneous thoughts within him that are actualizing as the problem for himself first  and for the client second.The appeal is a process of repentance and forgiveness on the part of the therapist—“I am sorry for the erroneous thoughts within me that have caused the problem for me and for the client; please forgive me.”
In response to the repentance and forgiveness appeal of the therapist, LOVE begins the mystical process of transmuting the erroneous thoughts. In this spiritual correction process, LOVE first neutralizes the erroneous emotions that have caused the problem, be they resentment, fear, anger, blame, or confusion. In the next step, LOVE then releases the neutralized energies from the thoughts, leaving them in a state of void, of emptiness, of true freedom.
With the thoughts empty, free, LOVE then fills them with Itself. The result? The therapist is renewed, restored in LOVE.As the therapist is renewed so is the client and all involved in the problem.Where there was despair in the client, there is LOVE.Where there was darkness in her soul, there is now the healing Light of LOVE.
The Self I-Dentity through Ho’oponopono training 
teaches people who they are and how they can solve problems moment to moment, and in the process be renewed and restored in LOVE.The training begins with a two-hour free lecture. Attendees are given an overview of how thoughts within them actualize as spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, relational, and financial problems in their lives and in the lives of their families, relatives, ancestors, friends, neighbors, and associates. In the weekend training, students are taught what a problem is, where the problems are located, how to solve different kinds of problems using over 25 problem solving processes, and how to really take good care of themselves.The underlying emphasis in the training is on being 100 percent responsible for themselves and for what happens in their lives and for solving problems effortlessly.
The wonder of the updated Ho’oponopono process is that you get to meet yourself anew each moment, and you get to appreciate more and more with each application of the process the renewing miracle of LOVE. 

I operate my life and my relationships according to 
the following insights:

1. The physical universe is an actualization of my thoughts.

2. If my thoughts are cancerous, they create a cancerous physical reality.

3. If my thoughts are perfect, they create a 
physical reality brimming with LOVE.

4. I am 100 percent responsible for creating my 
physical universe the way it is.

5. I am 100 percent responsible for correcting the 
cancerous thoughts that create a diseased reality.

6. There is no such thing as out there. Everything 
exists as thoughts in my mind.


Mark and I read the article and wondered which 
author was the therapist we sought: Charles Brown 
or this Dr. Hew Len.We didn’t know.We couldn’t 
tell.And who was this Morrnah the article 
mentioned? And what was Self I-Dentity Ho-oh-
please?

We read on. We found a few more articles that 
shed light on what we sought. They included 
revealing statements, such as:“Self I-Dentity through Ho’oponopono sees each problem not as 
an ordeal, but as an opportunity. Problems are 
just replayed memories of the past showing up to 
give us one more chance to see with the eyes of 
LOVE and to act from inspiration.”

I was curious but I wasn’t getting it. Problems 
were “replayed memories of the past”? Huh? 
What were these authors trying to explain? How 
did this ho-whatever help the therapist who healed 
people? Who was this therapist, anyway?

I found yet another article, this one by a reporter 
named Darrell Sifford, who wrote about meeting 
the creator of this ho’opo-whatever process. Her 
name is Morrnah and she’s a kahuna, or keeper of 
the secrets.What this Morrnah does to help heal 
people is “appeal to the divine creator of our 
choice ‘through the divinity that is within each 
person . . . who is really an extension of the divine 
creator.’ ”

Maybe you understand that. I didn’t at the time. 
Neither did Mark. Apparently this Morrnah said 
some words, like a prayer, that helped people heal. 
I made a mental note to locate that prayer, but 
right now I was going on a different mission: to 
find the therapist and learn his method for healing. 
My eagerness to know more and to meet this 
shaman therapist was becoming more and more 
exciting.

Even though Mark and I really needed to be back 
at our booth at the convention, we let it slide so 
we could continue our quest.

Based on the articles and web site, we guessed the 
therapist we wanted to find was named Ihaleakala 
Hew Len. Some first name. I had no idea how to 
pronounce it, let alone spell it. I didn’t know how 
to locate him, either.The site didn’t have any 
contact information for him. Mark and I tried to 
Google him, but turned up nothing. We began to 
wonder if this ethereal therapist was a fiction, or retired or even deceased. I closed my laptop and went back to the convention.

But the adventure had begun.

The Power of the Word

A person knowing the power of the word, becomes very careful of his conversation. He has only to watch the reaction of his words to know that they do "not return void." Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself. I knew a man who said, "I always miss a car. It invariably pulls out just as I arrive."

His daughter said: "I always catch a car. It's sure to come just as I get there." This occurred for years. Each had made a separate law for himself, one of failure, one of success. This is the psychology of superstitions.

The horse-shoe or rabbit's foot contains no power, but man's spoken word and belief that it will bring good luck creates expectancy in the subconscious mind, and attracts a "lucky situation." I find however, this will not "work" when man has advanced spiritually and knows a higher law. One cannot turn back, and must put away "graven images."

For example: Two men in my class had had great success in business for several months, when suddenly everything "went to smash." We tried to analyze the situation, and I found, instead of making their affirmations and looking to God for success and prosperity, they had each bought a "lucky monkey." I said: "Oh I see, you have been trusting in the lucky monkeys instead of God." "Put away the lucky monkeys and call on the law of forgiveness," for man has power to forgive or neutralize his mistakes.

They decided to throw the lucky monkeys down a coalhole, and all went well again. This does not mean, however, that one should throw away every "lucky" ornament or horse-shoe about the house, but he must recognize that the power back of it is the one and only power, God, and that the object simply gives him a feeling of expectancy.

I was with a friend, one day, who was in deep despair. In crossing the street, she picked up a horse-shoe. Immediately, she was filled with joy and hope. She said God had sent her the horsehoe in order to keep up her courage.

It was indeed, at that moment, about the only thing that could have registered in her consciousness. Her hope became faith, and she ultimately made a wonderful demonstration. I wish to make the point clear that the men previously mentioned were depending on the monkeys, alone, while this woman recognized the power back of the horseshoe.

I know, in my own case, it took a long while to get out of a belief that a certain thing brought disappointment. If the thing happened, disappointment invariably followed. I found the only way I could make a change in the subconscious, was by asserting, "There are not two powers, there is only one power, God, therefore, there are not disappointments, and this thing means a happy surprise." I noticed a change at once, and happy surprises commenced coming my way.

I have a friend who said nothing could induce her to walk under a ladder. I said, "If you are afraid, you are giving in to a belief in two powers, Good and Evil, instead of one. As God is absolute, there can be no opposing power, unless man makes the false of evil for himself. To show you believe in only One Power, God, and that there is no power or reality in evil, walk under the next ladder you see."

Soon after, she went to her bank. She wished to open her box in the safe-deposit vault, and there stood a ladder on her pathway. It was impossible to reach the box without passing under the ladder. She quailed with fear and turned back. She could not face the lion on her pathway. However, when she reached the street, my words rang in her ears and she decided to return and walk under it. It was a big moment in her life, for ladders had held her in bondage for years. She retraced her steps to the vault, and the ladder was no longer there! This so often happens! If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to.

It is the law of nonresistance, which is so little understood.

Someone has said that courage contains genius and magic. Face a situation fearlessly, and there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.

The explanation is, that fear attracted the ladder on the woman's pathway, and fearlessness removed it.

Thus the invisible forces are ever working for man who is always "pulling the strings" himself, though he does not know it. Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract. People who continually speak of disease, invariably attract it.

After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his words. For example: I have a friend who often says on the 'phone, "Do come to see me and have an old-fashioned chat." This "old-fashioned chat" means an hour of about five hundred to a thousand destructive words, the principal topics being loss, lack, failure and sickness.

I reply: "No, I thank you. I've had enough old-fashioned chats in my life, they are too expensive, but I will be glad to have a new-fashioned chat, and talk about what we want, not what we don't want." There is an old saying that man only dares use his words for three purposes, to "heal, bless or prosper." What man says of others will be said of him, and what he wishes for another, he is wishing for himself.

"Curses, like chickens, come home to roost."

If a man wishes someone "bad luck," he is sure to attract bad luck himself. If he wishes to aid someone to success, he is wishing and aiding himself to success.

The body may be renewed and transformed through the spoken word and clear vision, and disease be completely wiped out of the consciousness. The metaphysician knows that all disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first "heal the soul."

The soul is the subconscious mind, and it must be "saved" from wrong thinking.

In the twenty-third psalm, we read: "He restoreth my soul." This means that the subconscious mind or soul, must be restored with the right ideas, and the "mystical marriage" is the marriage of the soul and the spirit, or the subconscious and superconscious mind. They must be one. When the subconscious is flooded with the perfect ideas of the superconscious, God and man are one, "I and the Father are one." That is, he is one with the realm of perfect ideas; he is the man made in God's likeness and image (imagination) and is given power and dominion over all created things, his mind, body and affairs.

It is safe to say that all sickness and unhappiness come from the violation of the law of love. A new commandment I give unto you, "Love one another," and in the Game of Life, love or good-will takes every trick.

For example: A woman I know, had, for years an appearance of a terrible skin disease. The doctors told her it was incurable, and she was in despair. she was on the stage, and she feared she would soon have to give up her profession, and she had no other means of support. She, however, procured a good engagement, and on the opening night, made a great "hit." She received flattering notices from the critics, and was joyful and elated. The next day she received a notice of dismissal. A man in the cast had been jealous of her success and had caused her to be sent away. She felt hatred and resentment taking complete possession of her, and she cried out, "Oh God don't let me hate that man." That night she worked for hours "in the silence."

She said, "I soon came into a very deep silence. I seemed to be at peace with myself, with the man, and with the whole world. I continued this for two following nights, and on the third day I found I was healed completely of the skin disease!" In asking for love, or good will, she had fulfilled the law, ("for love is the fulfilling of the law") and the disease (which came from subsconscious resentment) was wiped out.

Continual criticism produces rheumatism, as critical, inharmonious thoughts cause unnatural deposits in the blood, which settle in the joints.

False growths are caused by jealousy, hatred unforgiveness, fear, etc. Every disease is caused by a mind not at ease. I said once, in my class, "There is no use asking anyone 'What's the matter with you?' we might just as well say, 'Who's the matter with you?' "Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.

I called on a woman, one day, who said she was ill from having eaten a poisoned oyster. I replied, "Oh, no, the oyster was harmless, you poisoned the oyster. What's the matter with you?" She answered, "Oh about nineteen people." She had quarrelled with nineteen people and had become so inharmonious that she attracted the wrong oyster.

Any inharmony on the external, indicates there is mental inharmony. "As the within, so the without."

Man's only enemies are within himself. "And a man's foes shall be they of his own household." Personality is one of the last enemies to be overcome, as this planet is taking its initiation in love. It was Christ's message - "Peace on Earth, good will towards man." The enlightened man, therefore, endeavors to perfect himself upon his neighbor. His work is with himself, to send out goodwill and blessings to every man, and the marvelous thing is, that if one blesses a man he has no power to harm him.

For example: A man came to me asking to "treat" for success in business. He was selling machinery, and rival appeared on the scene with what he proclaimed, was a better machine, and my friend feared defeat. I said, "First of all, we must wipe out all fear, and know that God protects your interest, and that the divine idea must come out of the situation. That is, the right machine will be sold, by the right man, to the right man." And I added, "Don't hold one critical thought towards that man. Bless him all day, and be willing not to sell your machine, if it isn't the divine idea." So he went to the meeting, fearless and nonresistant, and blessing the other man. He said the outcome was very remarkable. the other man's machine refused to work, and he sold his without the slightest difficulty. "But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which spitefully use you and persecute you."

"Good-will produces a great aura of protection about the one who sends it, and "No weapon that is formed against him shall prosper." In other words, love and good-will destroy the enemies with one's self, therefore, one has no enemies on the external!

"There is peace on earth for him who sends good-will to man!" 

And Five of Them Were Wise

"And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them." --Matt. 25:2-3

My subject is the parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins. "And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them. But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps." The parable teaches that true prayer means preparation.

Jesus Christ said, "And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive" (Math. 21:22). "Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them" (Mark 11:24). In this parable he shows that only those who have prepared for their good (thereby showing active faith) will bring the manifestation to pass.

We might paraphrase the scriptures and say: When ye pray believe ye have it. When ye pray ACT as if you have already received.

Armchair faith or rocking chair faith, will never move mountains. In the armchair, in the silence, or meditation, you are filled with the wonder of this Truth, and feel that your faith will never waver. You know that The Lord is your Shepherd, you shall never want.

You feel that your God of Plenty will wipe out all burdens of debt or limitations. Then you leave your armchair and step out into the arena of Life. It is only what you do in the arena that counts.

I will you give you an illustration showing how the law works; for faith without action is dead.

A man, one of my students, had a great desire to go abroad. He took the statement: I give thanks for my divinely designed trip, divinely financed, under grace, in a perfect way. He had very little money, but knowing the law of preparation, he bought a trunk. It was a very gay and happy trunk with a big red band around its waist. Whenever he looked at it it gave him a realization of a trip.

One day he seemed to feel his room moving. He felt the motion of a ship. He went to the window to breathe the fresh air, and it smelt like the aroma of the docks. With his inner ear he heard the shriek of a sea-gull and the creaking of the gangplank. The trunk had commenced to work. It had put him in the vibration of his trip. Soon after that, a large sum of money came to him and he took the trip. He said afterwards that it was perfect in every detail.

In the arena of Life we must keep ourselves tuned-up to concert pitch.

Are we acting from motives of fear or faith? Watch your motives with all diligence, for out of them are the issues of life.

If your problem is a financial one (and it usually is) you must know how to wind yourself up financially, and keep wound up by always acting your faith. The material attitude towards money is to trust in your salary, your income and investments, which can shrink over night.

The spiritual attitude toward money is to trust in God for your supply. To keep your possessions, always realize that they are God in manifestation. "What God has given cannot be diminished," then if one door shuts another door, immediately opens.

Never voice lack or limitation for "by your words your are condemned." You combine with what you notice, and if you are always noticing failure and hard times, you will combine with failure and hard times.

You must form the habit of living in the fourth dimension, "The World of the Wondrous." It is the world where you do not judge by appearances.

You have trained your inner eye to see through failure into success, to see through sickness into health to see through limitation into plenty. I will give you the land which you though seeth."

The man who achieves success has the fixed idea of success. If it is founded on a rock of truth and rightness it will stand. If not, it is built upon sand and washed into the sea, returning to its native nothingness.

Only divine ideas can endure. Evil destroys itself, for it is a cross current against universal order, and the way of the transgressor is hard.

"They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them. But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps."

The lamp symbolizes man's consciousness. The oil is what brings Light or understanding.

"While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made. Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us your oil; for our lamps are gone out."

The foolish virgins were without wisdom or understanding, which is oil for the consciousness, and when

they were confronted with a serious situation, they had no way of handling it.

And when they said to the wise "give us of your oil," the wise answered saying, "Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves."

That means that the foolish virgins could not receive more than was in their consciousness, or what they were vibrating to.

The man received the trip because it was in his consciousness, as a reality. He believed that he had already received. As he prepared for the trip he was taking oil for his lamps. With realization comes manifestation.

The law of preparation works both ways. If you prepare for what you fear or don't want, you begin to attract it. David said, "The thing I feared has come upon me." We hear people say, "I must put away money in case of illness." They are deliberately preparing to be ill. Or, "I'm saving for a rainy day." The rainy day is sure to come, at a most inconvenient time.

The divine idea for every man is plenty. Your barns should be full, and your cup should flow over, but we must learn to ask aright.

For example take this statement: I call on the law of accumulation. My supply comes from God, and now pours in and piles up, under grace.

This statement does not give any picture of stint or saving or sickness. It gives a fourth dimensional feeling of abundance, leaving the channels to Infinite Intelligence.

Every day you must make a choice, will you be wise or foolish? Will you prepare for your good?

Will you take the giant swing into faith? Or serve doubt and fear and bring no oil for your lamps?

"And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not."

You may feel that the foolish virgins paid very dearly for neglecting to bring oil for their lamps, but we are dealing with the law of Karma (or the law of come back). It has been called the "judgment day," which people usually associate with the end of the world.

Your judgment day comes, they say, in sevens - seven hours, seven days, seven weeks, seven months, or seven years. It might even come in seven minutes. Then you pay some Karmic debt; the price for having violated spiritual law. 

You failed to trust God, you took no oil for your lamps.

Every day examine your consciousness and see just what your are preparing for. You are fearful of lack and hang on to every cent, thereby attracting more lack. Use what you have with wisdom and it opens the way for more to come to you.

In my book, "Your Word Is Your Wand," I tell about the Magic Purse. In the Arabian Nights they tell the story of a man who had a Magic Purse. As money went out, immediately money appeared in it again.

So I made the Statement: My supply comes from God - I have the magic purse of the spirit. It can never be depleted. As money goes out, immediately money comes in. It is always crammed, jammed with abundance, under grace, in perfect ways.

This brings a vivid picture to mind: You are drawing on the bank of the imagination.

A woman who did not have much money was afraid to pay any bills and see her bank account dwindle. It came to her with great conviction: "I have the magic purse of the spirit. It can never be depleted. As money goes out, immediately, money comes in." She fearlessly paid her bills, and several large cheques came to her that she did not expect.

"Watch and pray lest ye enter into the temptation" of preparing for something destructive instead of something constructive.


I knew a woman who told me she always kept a long crepe veil handy in case of funerals. I said to her, "You are a menace to your relatives, and are preparing to hurry them all off, so that you can wear the veil." She destroyed it.

Another woman who had no money decided to send her two daughters to college. Her husband scorned the idea and said, "Who will pay their tuition? I have no money for it." She replied, "I know some unforeseen good will come to us." She kept on preparing her daughters for college. Her husband laughed heartily and told all their friends that his wife was sending the girls to college on "some unforeseen good." A rich relative suddenly sent her a large sum of money. "Some unforeseen good" did arrive, for she had shown active faith. I asked what she had said to her husband when the cheque arrived. She replied, "Oh, I never antagonize George by telling him I am in the right."

So prepare for your "unforeseen good." Let every thought and every act express your unwavering faith.

Every event in your life is a crystallized idea.

Something you have invited through either fear or faith. Something you have prepared for.

So let us be wise and bring oil for our lamps - and when we least expect it, we shall reap the fruits of our faith.

My lamps are now filled with the oil of faith and fulfillment.

YOUR BIG OPPORTUNITY

You have only one judge—your word. Jesus Christ said; "I say unto you that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment, for by thy word thou shalt be justified, and by thy word thou shalt be condemned."

Every day is a day of Judgment. We used to be taught that it would be at the end of the world. Look back in your life and see how you have attracted either happiness or disaster through your words. The subconscious has no sense of humor. People joke destructively about themselves and the subconscious takes it seriously. It is because the mental picture you make while speaking impresses the subconscious and works out on the external. A person who knows the power of the word becomes very careful of his conversation. He has only to watch the reaction of his words to know they do not return void. People make their worst mistakes by speaking while they are angry or resentful, because there is so much ill-feeling back of their words. Owing to the vibratory power of words, what you voice, you begin to attract. People who continually speak of disease, invariably attract disease.

Invisible forces are ever working for man, who is always pulling the strings himself, though he does not know it. We read in the Bible "life and death are in the power of the tongue." Yet most people are speaking destructively from morning until night. It is because they have formed a habit of criticism, condemnation and complaint and are eager to tell you of their misfortunes and how mean all their relatives are. They wear their friends out and people avoid them. They are talking themselves into a flock of troubles. Now that we know the power of the word why not take advantage of it? We take advantage of the radio, the telephone and aeroplanes but live with the Mound-builders in conversation.

Science and religion are now coming together. Science is discovering the power within the atom; metaphysics teaches the power within thoughts and words. We are dealing with dynamite when we deal with words. Think of the power of the word in healing! A word is spoken and a chemical change takes place in the body.


One of my friends was seriously ill. The doctor said she had chronic bronchitis and was on the verge of pneumonia. Her daughters and the doctor rushed her to bed and she had a nurse, but weeks passed and there was no improvement. She was a Truth student but for over a year had attended no meetings nor had she kept up her reading. One morning she telephoned me and said, "Please speak the word and get me out of this! I can't stand it any more; I'm not sick, I'm just disgusted. So much negative talk and thought have almost floored me." Through the spoken word and her affirmation of Truth immediately there was a change for the better. She had a strong hunch to go out and was told it would be dangerous, but by this time she was following Divine Guidance. She went out and called on me and said she was going to attend a luncheon the next day. What had happened? The words of Truth were making a change in her mind and a chemical change was taking place in her body. We are told that if we believe, never doubting, we can say to that mountain, "Be thou removed," and it would disappear into the sea.

The inexhaustible energy in man is released by good-will. A man free from fear, undisturbed by appearances, sending good-will to men and nations, could say to these mountains of hate and war; "Be thou removed" and they would return to their native nothingness.

Resentment and intolerance rob man of his power. We should have signs in the subways and shops "Watch your thoughts!" "Watch your words!"

Let us now be careful in directing this dynamic force within us. Let us direct it to heal, bless and prosper and direct it in waves of good to the whole world. It goes out a mighty force, but noiseless! Thought, the strongest power in the Universe is without sound. Your good-will sweeps all obstacles from your pathway and your heart's desire is released for you.

What is really yours? The answer is: "All that the kingdom affords is yours." Every righteous desire of the heart is promised you. There are three thousand promises in the Bible, but these gifts can come to us only if we can believe them possible, for everything comes through you—not to you. All life is vibration. Feel rich, and you attract riches. Feel successful and you become successful.

I knew of a small boy who was born in a little country town with no advantages, but he always felt successful; he had the conviction that when he grew up he would be a big artist. No one could discourage him because he was success; he had only success thoughts; he radiated success. At an early age he left the small town and went to a big city and to support himself he got a position as a newspaper artist on a daily paper, all this without previous preparation. It never occurred to him that it could not be done. He went to an art school and immediately became a shining light. He never studied in an academic way. Whatever he once saw he remembered. In a few years he went to a still larger city and became a well-known artist. This success came to him because he was always seeing success. "I will give to you the land that thou seeth."

The children of Israel were told that they could have all the land that they could see. The Bible is a metaphysical book and it is speaking to the individual. This minute, it says to each one of us, "I will give to you the land that thou seeth." So, what are you seeing with your inner eye? What pictures are you inviting into your life? The imaging faculty has been called the scissors of the mind. If you have failure thoughts, reverse the thought with a success thought. This sounds easy enough to do, but when a failure thought has become a habit, it takes eternal vigilance to dislodge it. That is when a powerful affirmation is needed. You cannot always control your thought but you can control your word, and eventually the word impresses the subconscious and wins out.

If you are in a negative state of mind just take the statement: "I look with wonder at that which is before me!" It creates an expectancy of something wonderful and something wonderful will come to you. Cultivate the feeling that miracles and wonders are coming to pass. Cultivate a success expectancy.

Very few people bring into life what is rightfully theirs. They live on the outskirts of their heart's desire. It always seems too good to be true. To the person spiritually awake nothing is too good to be true.

If you want to hear people talking who are still asleep in the Adamic dream, go to a hairdresser's establishment. The Adamic dream is the illusion of opposites. Adam fell into a deep sleep having eaten of the tree of illusion. Of course, Adam stands for generic man— the race-man. The race- man vainly imagined loss, lack, failure, sin, sickness and death. The awakened man knows only one power, God, and one condition, good. But now we will return to the beauty parlor. The following is an exact quotation and a good example of what one hears: A woman sat down near me and said in a loud voice, "This place is too warm! Turn something on or open something." The attendant said to her, "How are you feeling today, Mrs. S?" She replied with a heavy sigh, "Oh, I'm pretty well, but I have a hard time keeping well." To the manicurist she said, "Why don't you wear glasses?" The girl replied, "I don't need glasses, why should I wear them?" The woman replied, "Because everybody wears them. You'll find there is something wrong with your eyes if you have them examined." When she finally leaves they all feel limp and wonder if they are really well or only seem to be well. She leaves a trail of apprehension and gloom. This is a sample of what one hears from nearly every booth; the way most people talk. It is appalling when one knows the power of the word and what they are attracting, for they are nearly all describing illnesses or operations.

You combine with what you notice so do not describe anything destructive for you begin to combine with it. What is really yours? The blessings you bring to yourself, through your spoken or silent word; the things you see with your inner eye. Only your doubts, fears and resentments keep your good from you. If you hate or resent a situation, you have fastened it to you, for you attract what you fear or dislike. For example: someone has been unjust to you and you are filled with wrath and resentment. You cannot forgive that person. Time rolls on and another person does the same thing. It is because you have a picture of injustice engraved in your subconscious. History will repeat itself until you think you are cursed with misfortune and injustice. There is only one way to neutralize it. Be absolutely undisturbed by injustice and send good-will to all concerned. "My good-will is a strong tower round about me. I now transmute all enemies into friends, all inharmony into harmony, all injustice into justice." You will be amazed at the working of the law. One student brought harmony out of chaos in her business affairs by that statement.

Do not look back and hash over hard times, or you will be drawn back into these conditions. Give thanks for the dawn of a new day. You must be immune to all discouragement and adverse appearances.

All that you desire or require is already on your pathway, but you must be wide awake to your good to bring it into manifestation. After making statements of Truth you suddenly have a flash of realization. You suddenly feel yourself in a new environment. You feel old negative conditions falling away. I once said to a woman "The walls of lack and delay now crumble away, and you enter your promised land, under grace." She said she had a sudden flash of a wall crumbling away and that she stepped over it. Soon after that, the change came, and she really did enter her Promised Land of Plenty.

I knew a woman whose daughter's desire was a home and husband. In her early youth she had had a broken engagement. Whenever a possible marriage appeared on the horizon, she became frantic with fear and apprehension, picturing vividly another disappointment, and she had several. Her mother came to me to speak the word for her right marriage, Divinely designed, which could not be interfered with. During the interview the mother said continually: "Poor Nellie! Poor Nellie!" I said: "Do not call your daughter 'poor Nellie' again. You are helping her to be demagnetized. Call her 'Lucky Nellie,' `Fortunate Nellie, for you must have faith that God now gives to her the desires of her heart." The mother and daughter persisted in making their affirmations. She has now fulfilled her destiny for she is Mrs. Nellie, the demon of fear dissolved forever.

There are wonderful statements in the Bible referring to the breaking down of negative thought forms. "The power of the Spirit is mighty even unto the pulling down of strongholds." The human mind is helpless to cope with these negative thoughts. The victory is won by the God within, the superconscious mind.

"Brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, and there be any praise, think on these things." Phil. 4 : 8.

If people obeyed this, general conversation would come to a standstill for a while, until people learned to talk about constructive things.