Napoleon Hill

Positive belief in the attainment of your definite purpose is the very germ with which you fertilize the egg of your thought and if you fail to give it this fertilization, you might as well expect an unfertilized hen-egg to produce a chicken as to expect the attainment of the object of your definite chief aim.

You never can tell what a thought will do In bringing you hate or love: For thoughts are things, and their airy wings Are swifter than a carrier dove. They follow the law of the universe, - Each thought creates its kind, And they speed oer the track to bring you back Whatever went out from your mind. Thoughts are things! This is a great truth which, when you understand it, will bring you as close to the door of that secret passage-way to knowledge, previously mentioned, as is possible for another person to bring you.

When you grasp this fundamental truth you will soon find that door and open it. The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.

Please read and study the foregoing sentence until you grasp its meaning. If it is within your power to control your thoughts the responsibility then rests upon you as to whether your thoughts will be of the positive or the negative type, which brings to mind one of the worlds most famous poems:

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced or cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.
Henley

Henley did not write this poem until after he had discovered the door to that secret passage-way which I have mentioned.

You are the master of your fate and tile captain of your soul, by reason of the fact that you control your own thoughts, and, with the aid of your thoughts, you may create whatever you desire. . . . . . As we approach the close of this lesson, let us pull aside the curtain that hangs over the gateway called death and take a look into the Great Beyond.