TTHE MMAGIC OF BBELIEVING BY CLAUDE BRISTOL (1948) SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 The POWERFUL Success Strategy of Conscious and Subconscious BELIEF to Achieve Goals, Acquire Wealth, and Attain Prosperity and Success! COMPILED AND EDITED BY RICHARD A. CATALINA, JR., ESQ. Copyright © 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Publishing Group Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America All Rights Reserved United States of America PRINCETON CAMBRIDGE PUBLISHING GROUP, PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRINCETON CAMBRIDGE PUBLISHING GROUP THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL First Printing, October 2010 Copyright © 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Publishing Group Compiled and Edited by Richard A. Catalina, Jr., Esq. All rights reserved. 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THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRINCETON CAMBRIDGE PUBLISHING GROUP THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING BY CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 How I Came to Tap the Power of Belief . 7 2 Mind-Stuff Experiments . 42 3 What the Subconscious Really Is . 80 4 Suggestion is Power . 92 5 The Art of Mental Pictures . 134 6 The Mirror Technique for Releasing the Subconscious . 183 7 How to Project Your Thoughts . 209 8 Women and the Science of Belief . 256 9 Belief Makes Things Happen . 303 5 © Copyright 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group www.successmanual.com Published by Princeton Cambridge Publishing Group www.prosperitybible.com Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America All Rights Reserved. THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRINCETON CAMBRIDGE PUBLISHING GROUP 6 © Copyright 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group www.successmanual.com Published by Princeton Cambridge Publishing Group www.prosperitybible.com Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America All Rights Reserved. THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRINCETON CAMBRIDGE PUBLISHING GROUP CHAPTER 1 HOW I CAME TO TAP THE POWER OF BELIEF IS THERE some force, or factor, or power, or science – call it what you will – which a few people understand and use to overcome their difficulties and achieve outstanding success? I firmly believe that there is, and it is my purpose in this book to try to explain it so that you can use it if you desire. Around 1933, the financial editor of a great Los Angeles newspaper attended lectures I gave to financial men in that city and read my brochure T.N.T. – It Rocks the Earth. Afterwards, he wrote the following: “You have caught from the ether something that has a mystical quality – a something that explains the magic of coincidence, the mystery of what makes men lucky.” 7 © Copyright 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group www.successmanual.com Published by Princeton Cambridge Publishing Group www.prosperitybible.com Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America All Rights Reserved. THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRINCETON CAMBRIDGE PUBLISHING GROUP I realized that I had run across something that was practical and workable. But I didn’t consider it then – neither do I now – as anything “mystical,” except in the sense that it is unknown to the majority of people. This “something” has always been known to a fortunate few down the centuries, but for some unknown reason it is still barely understood by the average person. Years ago, when I started to teach this science by means of lectures and the medium of my brochure, I wasn’t certain that the concepts could be grasped by the ordinary individual. But since then, I have seen those who have used it to double and triple their incomes, build their own successful businesses, acquire homes of their dreams, and create sizable fortunes. I am now convinced that any intelligent person who is sincere with themselves can reach any heights they truly and honestly desire. I had no intention of writing a second book, although many urged me to do so, until a woman in the book business who had sold many copies of my first little book literally read me “the riot act” by stating: “You have a duty to give to the men and women who seek places for themselves in the world, in easily understood form, the new material that you have given in your lectures. Everyone of ambition wants to 8 © Copyright 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group www.successmanual.com Published by Princeton Cambridge Publishing Group www.prosperitybible.com Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America All Rights Reserved. THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRINCETON CAMBRIDGE PUBLISHING GROUP get ahead, and you have amply demonstrated that you have something that will help anyone. It’s up to you to pass it along.” It took time to sell myself on the idea. But having served as a soldier in World War I, mostly in France and Germany, and having been active for many years in ex-service men’s organizations as well as a state commission for the rehabilitation of ex-service men and women, I realized that it would be hard for many individuals to make outstanding places for themselves in a world from which they had long been separated. It is with a sincere desire to help them, as well as all ambitious men and women, that I write this more full and detailed exposition of the Power of Belief. Thus, this work is written also to help develop individual thinking and doing. Since this book may fall into the hands of some who may call me a crackpot or screwball, let me say that I am past the half-century mark and have had many years of hard practical business experience – as well as a goodly number of years as a newspaper man. I started as a police reporter. Police reporters are trained to get facts and take nothing for granted. For a two year period I was church editor of a large metropolitan newspaper, during which I came in close contact with clergymen and leaders of all 9 © Copyright 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group www.successmanual.com Published by Princeton Cambridge Publishing Group www.prosperitybible.com Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America All Rights Reserved. THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRINCETON CAMBRIDGE PUBLISHING GROUP sects and denominations, mind-healers, divine healers, Spiritualists, Christian Scientists, New Thoughters, Unity leaders, sun and idol worshipers – and, yes, even a few infidels and pagans. The well-known English evangelist Gypsy Smith was making a tour of America at that time. Night after night as I sat on his platform, watching people stumble down the aisles, some sobbing, others shouting hysterically, I wondered.