Napoleon Hill's First Classic: The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons

Napoleon Hill’s Law of Success - A Review

Before his Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill had already created this 16-volume master work, exactly 20 years after Andrew Carnegie commissioned Hill to a find the secrets of over 500 successful businessmen and millionaires.
In 16 lessons, this book lays out the primary principles necessary to gaining success, wealth, and happiness.This edition has been edited from the original to fit into a single volume.
Review:

While Napoleon Hill continued to refine his understanding of the Law of Success, and even expanded it in later years, it was still this key work which changed his life and those of others around him.  

As you read the extensive descriptions of  each point, you can see where Hill pulled the material for his "Think and Grow Rich".  As well, you'll find numerous illustrative stories in each section which give practical applications of those points.  

And it's Hill's interviews of over 500 key statesmen, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders which formed the backbone to his wealth of knowledge for each point. It's a known fact that the continual best seller books are the result of often life-long studies into both the literature and actual lives of the people who lived in any time.  

Hill's Law of Success isn't commonly known, but is becoming more appreciated as people find out it exists. They often have had their life changed by following his smaller runaway bestseller, and now want to dig deeper into the underlying theory and knowledge of how these systems work.

Along with Troward and Haanel, this work should be on anyone's library bookshelf of success books. With these, you'll get a very full and complete understanding of how the Universe actually works and how it can fill your every want and need.

One key point to this revision, is that it removes only non-essential points such that the rest can fit into a single volume. These points were those comments and illustrative poems which made it into 16 separate volumes, but weren't necessary to understanding the essential principles. Having a single book for your library (or computer drive) makes accessing this data even easier.

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Napoleon Hill’s Law of Success

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Classic Self Help - The Complete Genevieve Behrend Collection

Complete Genevieve Behrend Collection

IMAGINE you were able to sit at the feet of the greatest thinker alive – a man who had distilled the complete philosophical data from all the world’s major religions. Who lectured about his research and then wrote popular, bestselling books on those same findings. Whose published works were revolutionary in concept – while the ideas behind them were ancient and whose origins were themselves lost in antiquity, at least, until he started lecturing about them.

And then imagine that you were his only student. That you had his undivided attention for your studies. That you could ask him anything you wanted.

That is exactly the scene which Genevieve Behrend found herself in.

She had read Thomas Troward’s Edinburgh and Dore lectures and then started applying these to herself. When he defined the Law of Attraction and how to apply it to your own life – she took these words to heart and applied them to those things she most wanted.

She figured she needed a princely sum to be able to journey to England and become the student of Thomas Troward. By applying these teachings (which she describes in the books herein) she made her dreams come true. She got the money, she got her trip, she became that student.

And gave the world an insight into this legendary mind which no one at the time or since has accomplished.

Her own world changed as a result. She wrote two books, and found herself in such demand that she spent the rest of her life lecturing and traveling.
As you listen to “The Secret” DVD, you hear teachers who tell you that all this is possible. When you read the books following, you see that Behrend created – in the early 1920′s, in a male-dominated world – a dream life that any today would love to have.

She showed us that these principles are accurate, that they work when exactly applied, than anyone can use them to change their lives completely – to one which has only existed in their dreams before this point.
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How To Attract To Yourself The Things You Desire

The power within you which enables you to form a thought picture is the starting point of all there is. In its original state it is the undifferentiated formless substance of life. Your thought picture forms the mould (so to speak) into which this formless substance takes shape.
Visualizing, or mentally seeing things and conditions as you wish them to be, is the condensing, the specializing power in you that might be illustrated by the lens of a magic lantern. The magic lantern is one of the best symbols of this imaging faculty. It illustrates the working of the Creative Spirit on the plane of the initiative and selection (or in its concentrated specializing form) in a remarkably clear manner.
This picture slide illustrates your own mental picture -invisible in the lantern of your mind until you turn on the light of your will. That is to say, you light up your desire with absolute faith that the Creative Spirit of Life, in you, is doing the work. By the steady flow of light of the will on the Spirit, your desired picture is projected upon the screen of the physical world, an exact reproduction of the pictured slide in your mind.
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When all said and done, happiness is the one thing which every human being wants, and the study of visualization enables you to get more out of life than you ever enjoyed before. Increasing possibilities keep opening out, more and more, before you.

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Complete Genevieve Behrend Collection

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Masterwork in Understanding Self-Help - The Complete Thomas Troward Collection

The Complete Thomas Troward Collection

Welcome to this singularly complete collection of Judge Thomas Troward’s works.

The result of studying his works is to gain an intense understanding of the underlying laws this universe operates from, quite apart from personal revelations which are welcome distractions as you read.
I’ve collected these works from years of research. I found that Troward was a singular source-point for a great deal, if not all, of American self-help classics. Charles F. Haanel (Master Key System) and Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, Law of Success) both quote Troward and amplify the underlying principles he stated in his lectures, as well as other writings. So in this collection, you have the original works which greatly forwarded the New Thought philosophic movement. Historically, had Troward been absent, New Thought would not have gained the impetus and presence it has enjoyed up to the present.

Another point to keep in mind is that Troward wrote from a decidedly Christian view. All his comparatives are with and against Biblical references, ultimately. While he learned Eastern languages and studied all the Indian religions’ Bibles in that native language (and the Jewish and Christian Bibles in Hebrew and Greek), he lectured in the Queen’s English. So for a modern American to try to simply read his works can be tantamount to trying to understand original Shakespeare straight up. There is my reason for suggesting study, not reading. The only simpler approach I would suggest is to read Hill, then Haanel, then Troward. This backwards approach gives you progressively more difficult English to work through while you already have the simple principles to hand. While you can read Hill a page at a time, Haanel is best studied by the paragraph. Troward seems best digested by the sentence. With these caveats in mind, the depth of Troward’s understanding will then be more fully accessible to you.

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Thomas Troward was Her Majesty’s Assistant Commissioner and later Divisional Judge of the North Indian Punjab from 1869 until his retirement in 1896. It is this later period for which he is best remembered and most celebrated; in it he was at last able to devote himself to his great interest in metaphysical and esoteric studies.

He had already thoroughly digested all of the sacred books of the oriental religions and they had certainly influenced his spiritual ideas. While in India, he learned the language of the country.
He studied all of the bibles of the world, including the Koran, Hindu scriptures and books of Raja Yoga. His studies in original Hebrew provided the foundation for his book, Bible Mystery and Bible Meaning.

The philosopher William James characterized Troward’s Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science as "far and away the ablest statement of philosophy I have met, beautiful in its sustained clearness of thought and style, a really classic statement."

On May 16, 1916, at the age of 69, Thomas Troward passed from this plane. He will be recognized in history as a contributing influence to Religious Science, the New Thought Movement in the United States and Great Britain, and also, to some extent, to the more liberal ideas of the Church of England.
This book contains the full text of:

• The Edinburgh Lectures
• The Dore Lectures
• The Creative Process in the Individual
• The Law and the Word

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