Doctrine of Esoteric Psychology

Terminology

Man’s Highest Tendencies Are Built From Low Desires

Every Soul is Called Into Existence to Fill a Definite Cosmic Need

All Feeling and Intelligence Are Due to Experience

The Energy of All Experiences is Retained

The Astral Body is Thought-Built

The Justice of Each Soul’s Experiences

The Three Psychological Levels

The Objective Mind Was Developed to Take Care of New Situations

Example Birth Chart: William Dudley Pelley

Example Birth Chart: Aimee Semple McPherson

Language and the Value of Dreams

Every Thought Brings a Change in the Physical Body

Symbols Are Habitually Used by the Unconscious Mind to Communicate With the Bodily Organs

Universal Emotional Symbols Used by Animals and Men

Man then Added Universal Imitative Symbols

Things Acquire their Names Through the Law of Association

Symbolical Pictograph is Closely Allied to the Oldest Language – that of Feeling

Symbolical Pictograph is the Language Commonly Employed by the Unconscious Mind When Feelings Do Not Suffice

The Three Dream Factors

The Dissipation of Day-Dreaming

Censorship

The Happenings of the Previous Waking State

Recognition of Occurrences Witnessed from the Astral Plane

Wish Fulfillment

Dream Interpretation

Example Birth Chart: Norma Shearer

Example Birth Chart: Mars Baumgardt

Desire and How to Use It

Conditioning is the Most Important Process to Understand

All Action is Due to the Release of Energy Which While Under Tension is Called Desire

Conditioning Desires Is the Only Avenue to a Better Life

Will Power is Directed Desire

Properly Directing Desire

Example Birth Chart: Judge Clarence H. Gilbert

Example Birth Chart: Judge Max Reinhardt

Why Repression Is Not Morality

POWER URGES

The Three Hereditary Drives

Domestic Elements

Intellectual Elements

Social Elements

Aggressive Elements

Religious Elements

Safety Elements

Individualistic Elements

Utopian Elements

Universal Welfare Elements

The LAW of ASSOCIATION Operates through Energy Relationships Established Between Mental Factors

Repression

Three Methods of Desire-Energy Release

Sublimation

Practice in Sublimation

Example Birth Chart: Margre Gestring

Example Birth Chart: John Steven McGroarty

How To Rule the Stars

Importance of Events Can Be Increased by Giving the Thought-Cells More Energy

More Fortunate Events Can Be Attracted by Conditioning the Thought-Cells to Desire More Harmonious Expression

Conversion Conditions the Thought-Cells to Work Energetically to Attract Only Favorable Events

Conversion Is Merely Reconditioning the Desires of the Thought-Cells

Events of Importance Come Into the Life Only When Planetary Energies in More Than Usual Volume Reach the Thought-Cells

Five Methods Employed to Rule the Stars

How to Rule the Stars

Example Birth Chart: Douglas Fairbanks

Example Birth Chart: Mary Astor

How To Apply Suggestion

Suggestions During Childhood

Moral Conduct

Wisdom and Morality are the Same

Resolving Conflicts

Four Ways of Meeting Temptation

Attention Gives Tremendous Temporary Energy to a Desire

Movement is Always Toward the Image Which Gains Attention

Applying Suggestion

Example Birth Chart: Nikola Tesla

Example Birth Chart: Madame Schumann-Heink

The Correct Use of Affirmations

Action is Always Toward the Image Receiving Attention

Negative Desires

Fear

Self-Consciousness

Bashfulness With the Opposite Sex

How a Complex is Formed

Inferiority Complex

Superiority Complex

Compensation

Affirmation Should Keep the Attention on the Image of That To Be Accomplished

Detecting Possible Autosuggestions

Example Birth Chart: Henry M. Stanley

Example Birth Chart: Admiral Richard E. Byrd

How To Think Constructively

All Objective Thought and Feeling Expend Electrical Energy

The Electrical Function of Rest and Sleep

Directed Thinking Requires High Electrical Expenditure

Cultivating Directed Thinking

Common Hindrances to Constructive Thinking

Energies of Emotions Should Be Utilized in Action

Displacing Painful Thoughts

Developing Will Power

Example Birth Chart: Dr. Charles Horace Mayo

Example Birth Chart: Governor Eugene Talmadge

How To Cultivate Subliminal Thinking

Cause of Laughter

Cause of Swearing

Cause of Hysteria

Why People Fail to Perceive the Astral World

Gaining Information During Sleep

Example Birth Chart: Ben Bernie

Example Birth Chart: Edith Cavell

How To Develop Creative Imagination

Creative Work Depends Upon Reproductive Energies

Source of Images Used in Creative Work

Directed Thinking in Creative Work

How the Occultist Differs From the Mystic and Materialist

Rationalization

Why We Forget Resolutions

Example Birth Chart: Emile Coué

Example Birth Chart: Jack London

How To Demonstrate Success

What Is Success?

The Three Essentials of Man’s Success

Success in Attaining Any Single Objective

Developing the Effective Mental Energy

Do Not Instruct the Thought-Cells How to Do Their Work

Do Not Require the Unconscious to Make Bricks Without Straw

Fanaticism In Demonstrating

Demonstrating

Example Birth Chart: Nikola Lenin

Example Birth Chart: Huey P. Long

Give the Thought-Cells as Much Aid as Possible in Their Work