- 歸納法
歸納法是人類最偉大的邏輯發明之一，它是通過對各種現象的觀察分析，歸納出存在於事物中的普通規律。歸納推理是一種客觀思維的邏輯過程。
- 歸納法的要點
歸納推理有兩個要點：第一是比較不同的現象，第二是找到這些現象之間的共同點，掌握了這兩點就可以得心應手地運用這一方法了。
- 歸納法引導我們獲得智慧
歸納法以理發代替蒙昧，以必然性代替偶然性，消除了人類生活中難以捉摸的成分，它能夠使我們避開愚昧迷信布下的陷阱，邁入智慧的領地。
- 歸納法使我們的思維變得理性
歸納法就像一個盡忠職守的門衛，一絲不苟地看守著我們思維的大門，絕對不會讓虛假、混亂的想法進入我們的思想，避免我們產生迷惑。
- 歸納法對人類社會有著重大貢獻
- 知其然，也要知其所以然
- 歸納法導致成功
有些人似乎總是有著被上帝親吻的好運氣，其他人需要艱苦跋涉也不能達到的目標，他們毫不費力地就實現了。其實，這並不是什麽命運之神的眷顧，隻不過是因為他們掌握了一種普遍真理的精髓——歸納推理。
- 認識歸納法
歸納法雖然所向無敵，但它從不輕易降臨。隻有努力思考的人才能夠擁有這種神奇的力量，它可以用來解決人類的一切難題，因此，認識這種規律，明白這樣的真理，有著極其重要的意義。
- 自然之河，浩浩蕩蕩
- 浩翰宇宙的每一個角落，都充滿著生命與能量，它不停地運動，卻秩序井然，真是令人稱奇。
- 互補短長
同性相斥，異性相吸，酸堿中和，取長補短，這是大自然的法則。人類也可以借鑒，人與人之間，具備不同才能的人可以相互吸引，相互配合，發揮自身最大的效力。
- 有所追求
內心有所渴望、有所追求，你就會在礦石中找到金子，在大海中找到珍珠，在茫茫人海中找到你所愛之人，你的追求會引導你完成這一切。
- 管窺一豹
世界之大，而我們的視野卻非常有限，但借助於管中窺豹的道理，我們仍可通過局部的樣式來了解整個社會。
- 一切皆有規律可循
許多人覺得冥冥中似乎有神在安排一切，其實這個神就是規律。所有的事物都有規律可循。
- 理性使我們變得聰慧
動物隻有趨利避害的本能，人類卻有反思過去、思考未來的理性。通過學習和思考可以提高我們的理性，理性越是強大者，他就越是聰慧。
- 借助於規律，我們可以支配一切
阿基米德說：“給我一個支點和一根足夠長的杠杆，我可以撬起地球。”規律正是宇宙運行的法則，一切皆在它的控製之中。
- 個人利益與整體利益保持一致
我們每個人都是大自然共和國的公民，個人利益的總和就是這個國度的整體利益。但是兩者必須協調統一起來，形成合力。個人利益與整體利益對抗的結果，隻有混亂和衝突。所以我們要強調和諧與統一，個體與整體對抗的後果隻有滅亡。
- 每個人心中都有理想
每個人心中都有渴望和向往，這些渴望與向往在他的腦海中畫出一幅美麗絕倫的畫卷。
- 理想成就現實
雖然理想看起來有些遙遠，它卻一直用種種恩惠回饋著人們，越是忠誠於理想的人，他的勤懇耕耘所得到的回報就越多，他就越是因此而受到激勵。心中的渴望，會驅使我們采取行動，把理想變為現實。一切現實都是由精神創造而來，你越是渴望，它實現得就越快，理想終究會變為現實。
- 像鳥兒一樣翱翔
遠大的理想絕不等同於異想天開，理想會變成現實，隻要你肯為之采取行動。像鳥兒一樣打開理想的翅膀，然後你就會飛上藍天，自由翱翔。
- 理想會導致決心、努力與勇氣
理想會使你的內心變得堅定，你會因此擁有決心，即便是麵對別人的嘲諷。你會為之付出努力，獲得堅持下去的勇氣。這一切積極的狀態可以使你克服一切阻礙，把理想變為現實。
- 種下理想的種子
理想並不是水中月、鏡中花，它是實實在在的，通過努力就可以達到的。把一顆種子種在土壤中，給它陽光與水分，就會發芽長大，結出累累的果實。在你的心裏種下一個理想，把它當作已經存在的事實，它就會在你的精神世界裏留下印記。它會種在你的潛意識當中，激發你的潛能，變成你的良好習慣。你的身體、精神將會被激發，排除種種限製條件，成為一台隆隆開動的強大機器，一切坎坷都將被碾平。
- 真理具有普遍性
真理具有普遍性，不隨時間、空間而轉移，不因人類的好惡而變化，隻要稍加分析，就會發現真理無處不在而又本質相同，所謂“不同的真理”，其唯一的不同之處就是表達方式的不同。
- 彰顯思想的力量
思想的力量是如此強大，它總是不甘於被埋沒和忽視，它自然而然的要在我們的生活中唱主角。無論是在研究領域，還是在建設領域，無論是在藝術領域還是在文學領域，思想的力量無處不在，重要性不言而喻。善於彰顯思想的力量者，將會因此受益匪淺。
- 活躍的思想
思想是最活躍的能量，它總是處於被激活的狀態。它不停的創造，不斷的改變自己，以各種方式表達。
- 思想升華為智慧
越靠近思想的核心，思想的力量也就越強；思想自身通過不斷完善和升華，經受了種種嚴格的考驗之後，無論在過去、現在還是未來，都變得永恒與普適，永恒之光籠罩著它，思想因此變成智慧。
- 智慧
智慧是思想的最高形式，智慧誕生於理性的沉思之中，在這個自我沉思的過程中，智慧得以破殼而出，成為宇宙精神對人類的啟示，這種啟示高於一切我們所見的東西，是最高的自然法則。智慧能夠使我們變得頓悟、更有遠見、更有洞察力，智慧者將主宰一切，智慧中本來就包括了天生的領導才能。
- 利用自然的法則
生活中有許多令我們稱奇的事物，有許多無堅不摧的力量令我們們感到驚訝。許多人取得了看似不可能的成功，有許多人實現了自己一生渴求的夢想，許多人改變了一切，包括他自身。然而這一切其實並不神奇，隻不過是世界的自然法則而已，如果能合理地運用它，我們也將成為令人驚奇的對象！
本課重點
１、歸納推理如何解釋？
——歸納推理是一種客觀思維的過程，它把許多看起來沒有關係的各自獨立的現象相互比較，然後找出它們的共同原因。
２、歸納導致了什麽樣的結果？
——找到統治這個世界的真理，這些真理已經成為人類曆史上劃時代進步的原因所在。
３、是什麽主導著人的舉動？
——是渴望、追求與信念：它們在很大程度上引導著一個人的成功。
４、我們怎樣才能取得成功？
——我們要相信我們所渴求的終究會成為現實，接下來的就是看到它的實現。
５、有哪些偉大的傳道者支持過“信念導致成功”的觀點？
——耶穌、柏拉圖、斯韋登伯格。
６、理想能夠產生什麽？
——如果我們心中懷有理想，就像在土地上播種，如果讓種子茁壯地生長，它一定會生根發芽、開花結果。
７、世界上最活躍的能量是什麽？
——人的思想。
８、思想升華以後會得到什麽？
——智慧。
９、認識並且利用自然法則為什麽如此重要？
——因為它消除了生活中變幻莫測、難以捉摸的部分，以理性、必然和真理取而代之。
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Part Eleven
Your life is governed by law - by actual, immutable principles that never vary. Law is in operation at all times; in all places. Fixed laws underlie all human actions. For this reason, men who control giant industries are enabled to determine with absolute precision just what percentage of every hundred thousand people will respond to any given set of conditions.
It is well, however, to remember that while every effect is the result of a cause, the effect in turn becomes a cause, which creates other effects, which in turn create still other causes; so that when you put the law of attraction into operation you must remember that you are starting a train of causation for good or otherwise which may have endless possibilities.
We frequently hear it said, "A very distressing situation came into my life, which could not have been the result of my thought, as I certainly never entertained any thought which could have such a result." We fail to remember that like attracts like in the mental world, and that the thought which we entertain brings to us certain friendships, companionships of a particular kind, and these in turn bring about conditions and environment, which in turn are responsible for the conditions of which we complain.
PART ELEVEN
1. Inductive reasoning is the process of the objective mind by which we compare a number of separate instances with one another until we see the common factor that gives rise to them all.
2. Induction proceeds by comparison of facts; it is this method of studying nature which has resulted in the discovery of a reign of law which has marked an epoch in human progress.
3. It is the dividing line between superstition and intelligence; it has eliminated the elements of uncertainty and caprice from men's lives and substituted law, reason, and certitude.
4. It is the "Watchman at the Gate" mentioned in a former lesson.
5. When, by virtue of this principle, the world to which the senses were accustomed had been revolutionized; when the sun had been arrested in his course, the apparently flat earth had been shaped into a ball and set whirling around him; when the inert matter had been resolved into active elements, and the universe presented itself wherever we directed the telescope and microscope, full of force, motion and life; we are constrained to ask by what possible means the delicate forms of organization in the midst of it are kept in order and repair.
6. Like poles and like forces repel themselves or remain impenetrable to each other, and this cause seems in general sufficient to assign a proper place and distance to stars, men and forces. As men of different virtues enter into partnership, so do opposite poles attract each other, elements that have no property in common like acids and gases cling to each other in preference and a general exchange is kept up between the surplus and the demand.
7. As the eye seeks and receives satisfaction from colors complementary to those which are given, so does need, want and desire, in the largest sense, induce, guide and determine action.
8. It is our privilege to become conscious of the principle and act in accordance with it. Cuvier sees a tooth belonging to an extinct race of animals. This tooth wants a body for the performance of its function, and it defines the peculiar body it stands in need of with such precision that Cuvier is able to reconstruct the frame of this animal.
9. Perturbations are observed in the motion of Uranus. Leverrier needs another star at a certain place to keep the solar system in order, and Neptune appears in the place and hour appointed.
10. The instinctive wants of the animal and the intellectual wants of Cuvier, the wants of nature and of the mind of Leverrier were alike, and thus the results; here the thoughts of an existence, there an existence. A well-defined lawful want, therefore, furnishes the reason for the more complex operations of nature.
11. Having recorded correctly the answers furnished by nature and stretched our senses with the growing science over her surface; having joined hands with the levers that move the earth; we become conscious of such a close, varied and deep contact with the world without, that our wants and purposes become no less identified with the harmonious operations of this vast organization, than the life, liberty, and happiness of the citizen is identified with the existence of his government.
12. As the interests of the individual are protected by the arms of the country, added to his own; and his needs may depend upon certain supply in the degree that they are felt more universally and steadily; in the same manner does conscious citizenship in the Republic of nature secure us from the annoyances of subordinate agents by alliance with superior powers; and by appeal to the fundamental laws of resistance or inducement offered to mechanical or chemical agents, distribute the labor to be performed between them and man to the best advantage of the inventor.
13. If Plato could have witnessed the pictures executed by the sun with the assistance of the photographer, or a hundred similar illustrations of what man does by induction, he would perhaps have been reminded of the intellectual midwifery of his master and, in his own mind might have arisen the vision of a land where all manual, mechanical labor and repetition is assigned to the power of nature, where our wants are satisfied by purely mental operations set in motion by the will, and where the supply is created by the demand.
14. However distant that land may appear, induction has taught men to make strides toward it and has surrounded him with benefits which are, at the same time, rewards for past fidelity and incentives for more assiduous devotion.
15. It is also an aid in concentrating and strengthening our faculties for the remaining part, giving unerring solution for individual as well as universal problems, by the mere operations of mind in the purest form.
16. Here we find a method, the spirit of which is, to believe that what is sought has been accomplished, in order to accomplish it: a method, bequeathed upon us by the same Plato who, outside of this sphere, could never find how the ideas became realities.
17. This conception is also elaborated by Swedenborg in his doctrine of correspondences; and a still greater teacher has said, "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." (Mark 11:24) The difference of the tenses in this passage is remarkable.
18. We are first to believe that our desire has already been fulfilled, its accomplishment will then follow. This is a concise direction for making use of the creative power of thought by impressing on the Universal subjective mind, the particular thing which we desire as an already existing fact.
19. We are thus thinking on the plane of the absolute and eliminating all consideration of conditions or limitation and are planting a seed which, if left undisturbed, will finally germinate into external fruition.
20. To review: Inductive reasoning is the process of the objective mind, by which we compare a number of separate instances with one another until we see the common factor that gives rise to them all. We see people in every civilized country on the globe, securing results by some process which they do not seem to understand themselves, and to which they usually attach more or less mystery. Our reason is given to us for the purpose of ascertaining the law by which these results are accomplished.
21. The operation of this thought process is seen in those fortunate natures that possess everything that others must acquire by toil, who never have a struggle with conscience because they always act correctly, and can never conduct themselves otherwise than with tact, learn everything easily, complete everything they begin with a happy knack, live in eternal harmony with themselves, without ever reflecting much what they do, or ever experiencing difficulty or toil.
22. The fruit of this thought is, as it were, a gift of the gods, but a gift which few as yet realize, appreciate, or understand. The recognition of the marvelous power which is possessed by the mind under proper conditions and the fact that this power can be utilized, directed, and made available for the solution of every human problem is of transcendental importance.
23. All truth is the same, whether stated in modern scientific terms or in the language of apostolic times. There are timid souls who fail to realize that the very completeness of truth requires various statements -- that no one human formula will show every side of it.
24. Changing, emphasis, new language, novel interpretations, unfamiliar perspectives, are not, as some suppose, signs of departure from truth but on the contrary, they are evidence that the truth is being apprehended in new relations to human needs, and is becoming more generally understood.
25. The truth must be told to each generation and to every people in new and different terms, so that when the Great Teacher said -- "Believe that ye receive and ye shall receive" or, when Paul said -- "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" or, when modern science says -- "The law of attraction is the law by which thought correlates with its object", each statement when subjected to analysis, is found to contain exactly the same truth. The only difference being in the form of presentation.
26. We are standing on the threshold of a new era. The time has arrived when man has learned the secrets of mastery and the way is being prepared for a new social order, more wonderful than anything every heretofore dreamed of. The conflict of modern science with theology, the study of comparative religions, the tremendous power of new social movements, all of these are but clearing the way for the new order. They may have destroyed traditional forms which have become antiquated and impotent, but nothing of value has been lost.
27. A new faith has been born, a faith which demands a new form of expression, and this faith is taking form in a deep consciousness of power which is being manifested, in the present spiritual activity found on every hand.
28. The spirit which sleeps in the mineral, breathes in the vegetable, moves in the animal and reaches its highest development in man is the Universal Mind, and it behooves us to span the gulf between being and doing, theory and practice, by demonstrating our understanding of the dominion which we have been given.
29. By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought. The importance of this discovery has been a little slow in reaching the general consciousness, but it has arrived, and already in every field of research the importance of this greatest of all great discoveries is being demonstrated.
30. You ask in what does the creative power of thought consist? It consists in creating ideas, and these in turn objectify themselves by appropriating, inventing, observing, discerning, discovering, analyzing, ruling, governing, combining, and applying matter and force. It can do this because it is an intelligent creative power.
31. Thought reaches its loftiest activity when plunged into its own mysterious depth; when it breaks through the narrow compass of self and passes from truth to truth to the region of eternal light, where all which is, was or ever will be, melt into one grand harmony.
32. From this process of self contemplation comes inspiration which is creative intelligence, and which is undeniably superior to every element, force or law of nature, because it can understand, modify, govern and apply them to its own ends and purposes and therefore possess them.
33. Wisdom begins with the dawn of reason, and reason is but an understanding of the knowledge and principles whereby we may know the true meaning of things. Wisdom, then, is illuminated reason, and this wisdom leads to humility, for humility is a large part of Wisdom.
34. We all know many who have achieved the seemingly impossible, who have realized life-long dreams, who have changed everything including themselves. We have sometimes marveled at the demonstration of an apparently irresistible power, which seemed to be ever available just when it was most needed, but it is all clear now. All that is required is an understanding of certain definite fundamental principles and their proper application.
35. For your exercise this week, concentrate on the quotation taken from the Bible, "Whatsoever things ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them"; notice that there is no limitation, "Whatsoever things" is very definite and implies that the only limitation which is placed upon us in our ability to think, to be equal to the occasion, to rise to the emergency, to remember that Faith is not a shadow, but a substance, "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
Death is but the natural process whereby all material forms are thrown into the crucible for reproduction in fresh diversity.
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Study Questions with Answers
101. What is inductive reasoning?
The process of the objective mind by which we compare a number of separate instances with each other until we see the common factor which gives rise to them all.
102. What has this method of studying accomplished?
It has resulted in the discovery of a reign of law which has marked an epoch in human progress.
103. What is it that guides and determines action?
It is need, want and desire which in the largest sense induce, guide and determine action.
104. What is the formula for the unerring solution of every individual problem?
We are to believe that our desire has already been fulfilled; its accomplishment will then follow.
105. What great Teachers advocated it?
Jesus, Plato, Swedenborg.
106. What is the result of this thought process?
We are thinking on the plane of the absolute and planting a seed, which if left undisturbed will germinate into fruition.
107. Why is it scientifically exact?
Because it is Natural Law.
108. What is Faith?
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen."
109. What is the Law of Attraction?
The Law by which Faith is brought into manifestation.
110. What importance do you attach to an understanding of this law?
It has eliminated the elements of uncertainty and caprice from men's lives and substituted law, reason, and certitude.
