ACCURATE THINKING 695roadways over which you must travel in your upward climb in quest
of knowledge.
You are in control of the first three, and how you travel these three
roadways will be up to you. Therefore it will also depend on you as to
the time and place at which they will converge into the fourth: infinite
intelligence.
You understand what is meant by the terms autosuggestion and
subconscious mind. Let us again make sure that you also understand
what is meant by the term creative thought. It means thought of a
positive, nondestructive, creative nature. The object of Lesson Eight
on Self-Control was to prepare you to understand and successfully
apply the principle of creative thought. If you have not mastered
that lesson you are not ready to make use of creative thought in the
attainment of your Definite Chief Aim.
Remember, it is in your subconscious mind that the seed of
your Definite Chief Aim is planted, and it is with creative thought
that you awaken that seed into growth and maturity. Your subcon-
scious mind will not germinate the seed of your Definite Chief Aim,
nor will infinite intelligence translate that purpose into physical reality,
if you fill your mind with hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and greed.
These negative or destructive thoughts will choke out the seed of your
difinite purpose.
Creative thought presupposes that you will keep your mind in a
state of expectancy of attainment of the object of your Definite Chief
Aim; that you will have full faith and confidence in its attainment in
due course and in due order.
If this lesson does what it was intended to do, it will bring you a
fuller and deeper realization of the third lesson, on Self-Confidence,
and it will also become clear that it is not Self-Confidence, but, rather,
infinite intelligence that is the real source from which you are drawing
your power.