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The Sixth Sense: The Door to the Temple of Wisdom – The Thirteenth Step toward Riches
“On scores of occasions, when I have faced emergencies, some of them so grave that my life was in jeopardy, I have been miraculously guided past these difficulties through the influence of my ‘Invisible Counselors.’”
Napoleon Hill
This is the 13th and last Step toward Riches in Napoleon Hill’s famous world bestseller “Think And Grow Rich”. Though it is not the book’s last chapter. Napoleon Hill calls this 13th Step toward Riches the “apex of the philosophy. It can be assimilated, understood, and applied ONLY by first mastering the other twelve principles.”
I am not sure, if I already master the other12 principles to get rich. But I like the this chapter anyway. The most entertaining, partly funny part is Mr. Hill’s description of “an imaginary Council meeting with this group whom I called my ‘Invisible Counselors.’”
Every night, over a long period of years, Napoleon Hill meets 9 men for an imaginary council:
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Luther Burbank
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Andrew Carnegie
- Henry Ford
- Thomas A. Edison
- Thomas Paine
- Charles Darwin
- Abraham Lincoln
Napoleon Hill reports: “My purpose was to rebuild my own character so it would represent a composite of the characters of my imaginary counselors.” He talked to his 9 imaginary guests naming their character traits and skills he would like to acquire by using his Sixth Sense.
For example: Mr. Hill wished “(…) the marvelous understanding of Nature which distinguished your life.” from Ralph Waldo Emerson, “(…) access to the knowledge which enabled you to make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before (…)” from Luther Burbank.
He asked from Abraham Lincoln “(…) the keen sense of justice, the untiring spirit of patience, the sense of humor, the human understanding, and the tolerance (…)” and addressed Andrew Carnegie “I wish to acquire a thorough understanding of the principles of organized effort, which you used so effectively in the building of a great industrial enterprise.”
Over time, these 9 men developed individual characteristics.Abraham Lincoln was always late, walked slowly and rarely smiled, while Luther Burbank and Thomas Paine often seemed wanting to shock the other members of the cabinet , indulging in witty repartee.
Mr. Hill remembers: “On one occasion Burbank was late. When he came, he was excited with enthusiasm, and explained that he had been late, because of an experiment he was making, through which he hoped to be able to grow apples on any sort of tree.
“Paine chided him by reminding him that it was an apple which started all the trouble between man and woman. Darwin chuckled heartily as he suggested that Paine should watch out for little serpents, when he went into the forest to gather apples, as they had the habit of growing into big snakes. Emerson observed-”No serpents, no apples,” and Napoleon remarked, “No apples, no state!”
Napoleon Hill states, that he discontinued the meetings for several months. The Council had become so realistic, that he was afraid to lose sight of the imaginary Sixth Sense character of the meetings.
Later he added some new members to his Cabinet up to more than 50, among them Christ, St. Paul, Galileo, Copernicus, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Homer, Voltaire, Bruno, Spinoza, Drummond, Kant, Schopenhauer, Newton, Confucius, Elbert Hubbard, Brann, Ingersol, Wilson, and William James.
Napoleon Hill sees big advantages in this method of an imaginary Council. He says: “I now go to my imaginary counselors with every difficult problem which confronts me and my clients. The results are often astonishing, although I do not depend entirely on this Sixth Sense form of Counsel.”
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