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The engineer uses steam or electricity to run his engine. The human engine is run by Thought, the amount of energy put into it being regulated by the character of the Thought. There is a current of Thought generated in Illusion that is weak and inefficient. There is another, based on Truth, that is strong and all-sufficient. As a man thinketh, so is he. If he thinks himself strong he becomes so, as did the hypnotized subject who threw off the six strong policemen. Although physically weak he had been made to think himself strong; strength was suggested to him by the hypnotizer, and he became as a giant. The suggestion opened the way to the Universal Energy, which flowed through him and made him strong in spite of his feeble body.

And the truth is — Strength is not in muscle and nerve but in the spiritual force that in fills them, else how is it that flabby muscle can perform the work of a Hercules? Also, how was it that Jeffries lost the fight with Johnson? His trainer said he was physically fit, but he began to doubt his power several days before the fight and so he lost it, because, although really a giant, he was bound in mental chains of weakness. Again, As a man thinketh, so is he.

You may think it is demeaning to spiritual force to assert that it gives strength to the prizefighter But why not? God is no respecter of persons. He gives of His Power to all who know how to get it. He sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. God gives energy but does not stipulate how it shall be used, because