Are some of your friends confident, happy, healthy and fit? Do you wish you were like them? Do you want to lift yourself up from unhappiness and confusion? It’s easy. Once you learn how to use the inner powers which you already possess, you will be able to open the locked door of fear and enter into the glorious life you desire.

This book will teach you the basics of the laws of mind and the foundations of positive thinking that can help you move towards relaxation and self-confidence, health and well-being, wealth and success, and harmonious relationships. Repeat the affirmations and let your subconscious mind absorb them and guide you into a state of calmness and relaxation so you will be able to bring about the changes you are longing for so you can become the master of your life.

Harness the power of your own mind and the infinite resources surrounding you to be, do, and receive whatever you desire, imagine, and believe. Allow this to be your personal guide to leading a happier, wealthier, and more fulfilling life as you learn to:

• Unleash your mind power
• Tell your subconscious mind what to do through autosuggestion and other techniques
• Read real-life stories of mind power in action
• Repair the damage and overcome self-limiting thoughts Implanted in your mind
• Get healthy and fit
• Make lots of money
• Be confident: overcome shyness and fear
• Excel at school and work
• Get others to respect you
• Make friends
• Find your soulmate
• Have more fun
• Travel the world
• Learn a new skill
• Make the world a better place
• Develop your psychic powers

A KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

No other book in history has done more to clarify the Esoteric, mystical, and occult traditions of the world than Manly P. Hall’s The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Now, historian Mitch Horowitz provides the first companion work to Hall’s opus. The Secret Teachings of All Ages helps twenty=first-century readers enter and experience (or re-experience) Hall’s hallowed pages and also clarifies and expands on some of the book’s key themes and topics.

Mitch explores developments and historical discoveries since hall published his “Great Book” nearly a century ago and adds fresh dimensions to subjects including:

• The antiquity and legacy of Ancient Egypt.
• The mystical origins of the world’s major faiths.
• Strange beasts and anomalies in history and today.
• The origins and esotericism of Tarot.
• Secret Societies in Myth and Fact.
• The enduring relevance of astrology.

Authorized by Manly P. Hall’s Philosophical Research Society, The Secret Teachings of All Ages is a feast of esoteric exploration on its own and a worthy companion to history’s unparalleled encyclopedia arcana.

“Mitch is a fantastic tour guide to the fringes of reason, high weirdness, deep esoterica, secret societies, and mystery religions.” –BoingBoing

“Has the rare gift of making the esoteric accessible to discerning masses.” –HuffPost

SUCCESS IS NOT WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU.
IT IS THE MEANING AND EXCELLENCE

YOU BRING TO EACH TASK.

In this vivifying omnibus, historian and popular voice of esoteric spirituality Mitch Horowitz abridges and introduces nearly forty world classics of inspiration, motivation, and successful living.

From The Art of War and The Prince to The Power of Your Subconscious Mind and The Magic of Believing, readers will discover time-hallowed methods of powerful living that honor traits of nobility and selfhood versus sneakiness and avarice. The many books in this collection—each introduced by Mitch—offer not sentimentality or myopia but hard-won and realistic guidance for life as it is, not as we idealize it.

Mitch opens the collection with his provocative “101 Rules of Effective Living,” each worthy of a chapter in itself.

“I have no idea whether nice guys finish first, last, or not at all,” Mitch writes in the preface. “But I do know that honor is what builds powerful (not forceful) individuals and sound communities and companies, without which nothing can thrive. I believe this book places the motivated querent on the path to both.”

Features Joseph Murphy, Neville Goddard, Norman Vincent Peale, James Allen, Sun Tzu, Niccolò Machiavelli, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Napoleon Hill, Florence Scovel Shinn, Khalil Gibran, Dale Carnegie, Wallace D. Wattles, James Allen, Andrew Carnegie, and more.

SUCCESS IS NOT WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU.
IT IS THE MEANING AND EXCELLENCE

YOU BRING TO EACH TASK.

In this vivifying omnibus, historian and popular voice of esoteric spirituality Mitch Horowitz abridges and introduces nearly forty world classics of inspiration, motivation, and successful living.

From The Art of War and The Prince to The Power of Your Subconscious Mind and The Magic of Believing, readers will discover time-hallowed methods of powerful living that honor traits of nobility and selfhood versus sneakiness and avarice. The many books in this collection—each introduced by Mitch—offer not sentimentality or myopia but hard-won and realistic guidance for life as it is, not as we idealize it.

Mitch opens the collection with his provocative “101 Rules of Effective Living,” each worthy of a chapter in itself.

“I have no idea whether nice guys finish first, last, or not at all,” Mitch writes in the preface. “But I do know that honor is what builds powerful (not forceful) individuals and sound communities and companies, without which nothing can thrive. I believe this book places the motivated querent on the path to both.”

Features Joseph Murphy, Neville Goddard, Norman Vincent Peale, James Allen, Sun Tzu, Niccolò Machiavelli, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Napoleon Hill, Florence Scovel Shinn, Khalil Gibran, Dale Carnegie, Wallace D. Wattles, James Allen, Andrew Carnegie, and more.

"Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.'

From this gripping first sentence, The Trial, by Franz Kafka, is a darkly humorous, somewhat terrifying narrative of an ordeal faced by Josephy K., a bank clerk, who wakes up one day to find himself arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority who accuses him of a crime he did not commit. In a maze of nonsensical rules and bureaucratic roadblocks Joseph K.’s entrapment is based on an undisclosed charge and the nature of his crime is never revealed to him nor to the reader.

Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. His trial is conducted in a mysterious court, outwardly co-operative, but capable of horrific violence. As Josef K. gradually succumbs to the psychological pressure, he consults various advisers but cannot escape his fate. He finds himself in an excruciating downward spiral.

Was there some way out that he failed to see? Is this study of political power a pessimistic religious parable, or is it a crime novel where the accused man is himself the problem?

This engrossing parable about the human condition is one of Kafka’s best known works. This ordinary man’s ordeals raise provocative, ever-relevant issues related to guilt, responsibility, freedom, the role of government and the nature of justice. Kafka offers no solutions, but provokes his readers to arrive at meanings of their own.