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TNT—The Power Within You by Claude M. Bristol & Harold Sherman Order in Adobe PDF eBook form for $4.95 or click here to order the book in printed form from Amazon.com Book Description
Here is a book that gives the essence of Claude Bristol's philosophy. Bristol tells us that there is nothing new in this book, although it may be new to you. These are the secrets used by Moses, Alexander The Great, Napoleon, Shakespeare, Washington, Lincoln, Ben Franklin, Edison, F.D.Roosevelt, Gandhi and countless others. Originally written in 1953, this book gives easy to follow instructions on how to use the force within you to obtain without. This mind stuff works. Give it a try. Use TNT to explode your success! <>"THAT SOMETHING"
For
those of you who seek to learn and make progress, I gently lay this
message in
your laps. I do so without the slightest fear but that it will turn
your world
entirely upside down—bringing you health, wealth, success and
happiness,
provided you understand and accept it. Remember,
TNT is a dangerously high explosive; so when you gather it closely,
handle it
carefully. Down through the centuries its power has destroyed those who
sought
to misuse it Therefore exercise great caution that it is used only for
good. This
power can be proved by the teachings of the Bible, certain
well-established
laws of physics, and, last but not least, just plain common sense. Read
and
determine for yourself whether or not the proofs I offer stand by
themselves. Some of
you may see only the spiritual side, others recognize the scientific
truths,
and still others may accept it
as just a practical operating device to put you on the road to success.
No
matter: many know the truth, and for you who will open your minds the
light
will pour in with dazzling white brilliancy. I'm
indebted to an old friend of mine, an expert on X-ray and electrical
high
frequency apparatus, who, when I was a boy experimenting with
electricity,
called to my attention the first bit of powerful TNT in my pocket. Then
I
didn't know what it was and didn't understand, but fortunately
it has
remained there all through the years. As I
look back, I realize why he didn't force me to understand what it was.
He
believed in me, and knew that when I was ready to accept it, I would.
It's
taken nearly thirty years, during which time I sought up and down the
highways,
looking, seeking and searching for "that something"—the secret—TNT. All the
time there was some in my pocket, mine for the mere reaching. However,
I've got
a firm grip on it now, and I will divide it graciously, knowing that if
used
wisely it will blow away all obstacles and straighten out the road on
which
you've been wanting to travel all your life. Why are you blocked? For many
years I was a newspaper man, frequently behind the scenes. I met great
men and
women, interviewed famous people. Naturally, I studied them and
tried to
understand what peculiar qualities they possessed that placed them
above the
others. But their secret evaded me. Then came the First
World War and I wondered why
others made progress
while I seemed to be blocked in my own ambitions. The war did teach me,
however, that I could sleep in the mud, eat moldy bread and live to
laugh about
it. This is part of my T N T, so remember what I learned. It helped me
to give
Old Man Fear a solar-plexus blow, and I believe it will help you. Hoping
to find a royal road to fortune, I read hundreds of the so-called
"success" books, but they took me nowhere. I did the same with books
on philosophy, psychology, and still the great secret kept just a
jump ahead
of me. I joined secret fraternal organiz-ations, hoping that I might
find that
which I sought. However, just like the bit of TNT in my pocket, the
secret was
in every book, in the great orders, everywhere, in fact, right under my
very
nose, but something kept me from it. You will
have to determine for yourself what keeps you from it if you
don't get
it from TNT. It's there. If you don't find it in the printed word, look
between
the lines—as I've done my best to present it to you. Are you afraid? Following
the war, I became a member of a coast-wide investment banking
organization, and
during the years I cherished quite a dream—as did thousands of others
in all
lines of business—only to discover that the air castles which I built
were on
an unstable foundation. That
cataclysmic happening which turned the world upside down financially
obliterated my air castles entirely, and I became afraid. I got
lost in the
fog. Everywhere I turned, something fell in on me. As an
executive of the organization, my responsibilities multiplied. Our
business, owing to the economic
changes which were taking place in the world, faced a crisis. Many
people,
failing to under-stand the catastrophe which had overtaken business
everywhere,
were critical. All of this brought worry and many sleepless nights. I
found
myself dreading to go to work, fearing that each day would bring added
misery. The
weeks went on and conditions got worse and worse. I was baffled.
Several times
I talked about getting out of the business; and one day, in the latter
part of
June, 1931, I made up my mind to leave. I mentioned this to one of the
women
with whom I had been associated in business for several years and
saw nothing
but reproach in her eyes That
night I tried to sleep. Again, I found it impossible. I paced the
floor for
hours—when at about 3:30 in the morning I suddenly stopped and sat
down. I was
face to face with myself. I could follow the inclination to run and
leave the
others to carry on by themselves, or I could stay and do my share; a
duty which
I knew was mine. I caught
myself saying, almost aloud:
"Right is right. It's always been
right. It can't be otherwise." This was something I
had been taught since infancy. Suddenly
there appeared to be an unfoldment! Out of the air! Out of
the air came a voice saying:
"What have you been looking for all
these years? What were you taught? What did you learn? Where have you
been?
Where are you going?" I jumped
to my feet, crying: "I know it. I've got it now. It's the secret.
That's
what they tried to teach me. It is the Royal Secret, too!" Something
told me that I would find those identical words in a book which had
been given
me many years before and which I had tried to read, failed to
understand and
had put aside. It was written by a great man, Albert Pike, a mystic, a
poet and
a scholar. Pulling it from the shelf, feverishly I ran through the
pages. The
words were there and I understood immediately. Open your mind I now
had the key. I could see a broad smooth highway and at the end of
that
highway, a perfect flood of gorgeously beautiful radiance:
"That's the road you are on now. What
a simpleton you have been! They tried to teach you, they tried to help
you and
you kept your mind closed—thinking that you alone could find the road
and stay
on it." I was
nearly overcome with the sheer joy of it all. My fears, my worries had
disappeared. I smiled. I knew that I was right and that everything
would be
right for me from then on. I slept like a baby. There
was a different atmosphere in the office that day. The oppressive black
clouds
which hung over us began to fade away. I told the woman—she with
the reproachful
eyes—what had happened, and she smiled a knowing smile. She helped me
get back
on the track, and I can never repay her. As one
learned man said: "All of us are born with the ability to differentiate
between right and wrong, and with the ability to achieve, but some
of us must run
head-on into a stone wall, smash ourselves to bits before we really
know what
it's all about." I hit
the wall with a terrific crash and it was the greatest thing, the
finest thing,
that ever happened to me. Many,
noting the transformation, asked for an explanation. I told some
of my closest
friends. Knowing it will help, I give it to all of you. Tap-Tap-Tap! Take a
little at a time. Like a little drop of water, tap—tap—tap, TNT will
wear away
your old fears and doubts and prejudices, making room for new ideas,
new
concepts, new truths. Tap-tap-tap:
it is opportunity knocking at the door of your mind. Open up your mind
and let
this knowledge in. From the
day I decided to pass on this charge of TNT to others, it has been put
to use
by thousands of individuals, firms and organizations. In addition, I
have
talked and lectured, in person and over the radio, to many additional
thousands; and I am very happy to say that, without exception,
phenomenal
results have been obtained by those who have understood and applied the
principles and mechanics outlined herein. Tap-Tap-Tap! You may
get it all at once, or it may take you a little time to prepare your
mind so
that the power you've always had can work through you. But don't
work at it
too hard, don't try to force it. Be assured, the power is there and you
can
learn to use it. At the
time my awakening came, the morale of our whole organization was at its
lowest
ebb. Everyone was discouraged. Afraid. By the very necessity of things,
we had
to do an about-face. Right is right My job
was doing everything I could to help the other fellow because I knew it
was
right. At first I was perplexed as to the methods I should employ to
help
others, but I used my own system in calling upon the subconscious,
and the
inner voice said that I should talk to them. Some
were skeptical, but I said to myself: "I can prove that I am
right!" And during the week that followed I spent every
waking hour
reviewing the books that I had studied through the years. Naturally,
the Bible
came first; then followed studies in Yogism, the philosophies of
the old Greek
and Roman masters and of the later-day teachers and students. Again I
deliberated over the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, reread
Thomson Jay
Hudson's Law of Psychic Phenomena and another book, The
Gist of It, written
by a brilliant physician, Haydon Rochester. Once more, I studied my
books on
physics, electricity, and those on the vibrations of light, and
discovered
that not only was I right, as I knew I would be, but that peculiarly
the same
general basic principles ran through them all. I reread numerous books
on
psychology and found the same story everywhere. Subsequently I quoted excerpts, and lo and behold, things
began to
move! Where is your niche? As I
looked about me I made the significant observation that men and
women who use
this power are showmen, or to use the words of my newspaper days, headliners,
those who hit the front page. Something causes them to toss
away the bushel
basket under which they hide their heads, and they rise above the
common place. Not that
you may ever want to become a headliner in this sense, but you will
surely
agree that such people who have developed the power within to the nth
degree
have become headliners, or they would never have gotten their
niche in the
hall of fame. It doesn't follow that they are newspaper
publicity-seekers,
because some of them are very reticent—and possibly by their very
reticence
are showmen. (Page Greta Garbo!) Others adopt certain peculiarities or
use
certain devices to make them stand out from their fellow men. Some wear
an
efficacious smile (Dwight D. Eisenhower, for one!), others scowl (John
L.
Lewis!), some command attention by critical barbs at peoples and
customs
(George Bernard Shaw!), and still others have a certain charm of manner
(Eleanor Roosevelt). Long hair (many musicians and conductors such as
Leopold
Stokowski), whiskers and sideburns (the Smith Brothers!), monocles
(Charles
Coburn) play their part. Flowing robes and distinctive dress are worn
by others
(Mark Twain and his famous white suits!). The showmanship of some is
evidenced
by red neckties, others by spats, affected manners, and some
even by their number
of marriages and divorces (such as Tommy Manville!) The
world takes note of the unorthodox, the unconventional, the uninhibited
individuals, and most headliners come under these classifications. They
are different
in some one or more particulars. Some deliberately flaunt and dramatize
their
differences. Others are not concerned with what people think about
them. They
are too busy being themselves and doing what they want in life, whether
or not
it is making right use of their power of TNT. Many
master the art of oratory, the science of warfare, banking,
statesmanship,
politics, the arts; but all of them stand out in the full glare of the
spotlight—as headliners. The
number is legion. I mention a few of those of history and today:
Demosthenes,
Nero, Julius Caesar, Christopher Columbus, Galileo, Cleopatra, Balzac,
de
Maupassant, Sir Isaac Newton, Joan of Arc, Cromwell, Edgar Allan Poe,
Benjamin
Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Bismarck, Alexander Graham Bell,
General Grant,
Abraham Lincoln, Cecil Rhodes, P. T. Barnum, Clemenceau, Lord
Kitchener,
Woodrow Wilson, Sir Thomas Lipton, Mussolini, Hitler, Winston
Churchill, Joseph
Stalin, Lenin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles E. Hughes, Lloyd George,
Mahatma
Gandhi, Will Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, John
Burroughs,
Charles Lindbergh, Alfred E. Smith, Jane Addams, George Washington
Carver, Al
Jolson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Anderson, Ralph Bunche, Harry
Truman,
Jawaharlal Nehru, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ezio Pinza, Bernard Baruch,
Jimmy
Stewart, Jane Froman, Cecil B. DeMille, Albert Einstein and Dr. Albert
Schweitzer. You
could go on and on, each name calling to mind a personality, living or
dead,
who has been unique in expression and achieve-ment. Such individuals
have been
and are found in every walk of life. It will always be so, as their use
of the
power within elevates them to the top in their profession or endeavor. You will
note the inclusion of such names as Nero, Julius Caesar, Mussolini,
Hitler,
Stalin and Lenin in this list. They were all brilliant in their way,
and
attained their positions of great power through use of "that
something"
within—but they trampled humanity in the dust doing it. As history
evaluates
them, it must weigh the evil they have done against the good. You can
become a
headliner by using this inner power wrongly as well as rightly. That's
why it's
so wonderful and so dangerous at the same time! That's why you must
learn how
to control it, in a way helpful to you and to others—and (if you become
a
headliner), to the world! Gandhi
used this power, I am sure, and I think he was perhaps the greatest
headliner
of modern times. You can find many pictures showing him in the
civilized garb
of present-day man, but in his later years he kept his hair cropped
short, wore
only a loincloth and a pair of huge spectacles. I have no right to say
that
Gandhi affected this attire for any specific purpose, but I believe he
did it
with the realization that this appearance helped focus the world's
attention
upon himself for India's cause. I make
no attempt to explain why those who use this power are showmen. But
you'll
notice, as you begin to exercise this power in your own life,
that it will make
you stand out among your friends and loved ones. They will immediately
detect a
difference in you, the way you express yourself, the way you act.
This doesn't
mean that you will be showing off or trying to attract attention. It
just means
that you are starting, for the first time, perhaps, to be really
yourself, to
take advantage of the opportunities that are all about you, to cut
loose from
your old hidebound ideas and limitations, and to claim that which is
rightfully
yours—which you might have attained long ago, had you understood how to
release
the power of TNT in your life. Remember:
you can't be a shrinking violet and win any recognition or respect for
yourself
in this world. "A
city that is set upon a hill cannot
be hid. Neither do men light a candle and place it under a bushel...."
Again: "The
great truths of life become known
only to those who are prepared to accept them...." Thousands
who used the power within for evil brought on their own destruction.
Look back
through history and you can pick these men and women out for yourself. We get
out of life exactly what we put into it—no more, no less. This is an
old
truism, but it cannot be emphasized enough. When we put in good
thoughts, constructive
efforts, and do good, then we receive like in return, for "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." What is
"that something"—the TNT that rocks the earth? The power within every
and any individual which he has to use, if he is to amount to
anything
in life. Have you
figured it out yet? It's you, your real self, the hidden power of your
own inner
mind, released under purposeful control, and directed to
serve you in the
meeting of any experience, the removal of any obstacle and the
overcoming of
any condition, economic, physical, mental or spiritual. Picture the force! It is
the explosive force of a mental picture of what you want in life, given
by you
to your subconscious, touched off by faith in yourself and faith in God. Whatever
you picture, within reason, can come true in your life if you
have
sufficient faith in the power within! That's
your TNT—a mental image of what you want and the faith that you can and
will
get it! It's as
simple as that: so simple that millions of men and women won't believe
it,
won't take the time to learn about this power, would rather go on
beating their
heads against stone walls of willful blindness, ignorance and
stubbornness, and
keep on creating all manner of misery, economic loss and ill health for
themselves through wrong thinking. Remember,
I stumbled along for thirty years with a bit of TNT in my pocket. All I
had to
do was reach for it, and I had hold of a power which could have saved
me worlds
of grief. But I knew more than the happy, successful men and women
around me
who were using this power and who were inviting me to share it. I
thought I
could do it all myself, that this success business was largely luck,
that you
couldn't depend on faith or any God Power. I was exposed to this
truth, time and time
again, but it didn't take. I had vaccinated myself against it by my
skeptical,
scoffing attitude. Let's
hope you don't get as sick of life and as despondent and
despairing as I was
before you clean out the pockets of your mind and find the TNT that's
waiting
for you there. What's
that? You say you've come across a detonating cap already?
Good! Get it
set. Put out the caution signals. Proceed carefully and prepare
yourself for
the first explosion in your consciousness which is going to
blast away
your wrong thinking and open up a new pathway that will change the
course of
your entire life—for the better!
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