Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. MIND BUILDING. Advanced lian has the power of consciously building his mind?Doing the building yourself instead of letting others do it?The sub-conscious warehouse?Moving along the lines of least resistance?Taking mental stock and discarding worthless material?Worthless mental bric- a-brac?Man not a worm of the dust?Man's destiny great and glorious?Man's mind just what he makes it?Training and developing the mind?How to acquire desired mental traits?Moulding and shaping the mind according to the will?We are no longer servants of our minds?Mental freedom?The mind an instrument to be used by the Real Self?Auto-suggestions and affirmations?The doctrine of I Can and I Will?What kind of mental material are you using? To the advanced Man is reserved the proud privilege of con- sciously building up his mind into any desired shape?the privi- lege of altering, repairing, and adding to the mental structure. In the lower animals, primitive man, and even the majority of men to-day, the work of building up the mind is largely performed by forces outside of himself?environment, associations, suggestions, etc., and, of course, even the most advanced man is subject to these influences. But the developed man knows that HE, himself, has a hand in the building up of his mind. This J building, of course, is done altogether in the sub-conscious field, the conscious thought supplying the material, and the I being the builder. In a previous chapter, I have spoken of the Subconscious Plane of the mind, and how it is being added to, each day, by thoughts of the conscious plane of our own mind, the thoughts of others, suggestions, and so on. I have also compared the sub-conscious plane of mentation to a body of water into which a clear stream was flowing, and showed how the cha...