The Secret of the Ages

Robert Collier · 1926

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About the book

Collier's seven-volume argument that the mind is a genie you have been ordering about carelessly for years. He was a mail-order copywriter by trade, and it shows: everything is illustrated, repeated, and made to stick.

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Part 1 · The Discovery Hidden in Plain Sight. The first six slides, free.

The Discovery Hidden in Plain Sight

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The age’s greatest discovery, Collier says, is not another machine or scientific marvel. It is the recognition of a “Life Principle” working throughout nature-and the possibility of working with it consciously.

Inside the course

14 parts

The greatest discovery, and what Collier thinks people missedFree above
The genie of your mind, and the wishes you keep wasting
The primal cause, and mind as the one substance
The god in you: Collier's version of the inner self
Desire as the first law of gain
Aladdin & Company: choosing a goal specific enough to be answered
Seeing yourself doing it — the practice, in detail
«As a man thinketh», in Collier's hands
The law of supply, and the fear of not enough
The formula of success, step by step
«This freedom», and the law of attraction as a blank check
The three requisites — and the master of your fate
Thought and health, in the language of the 1920s
Prayer, as Collier redefines it — and what to do the day you finish

Questions

Is The Secret of the Ages free to read in Astra Trainer?

Yes. The full book opens free in the app’s reader, in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian.

What is the short course?

14 short parts that walk through the book’s key ideas in slides, each with a quick quiz. The first six slides are free to try on this page.

Where do I get the app?

Astra Trainer is free on the App Store and Google Play. The Secret of the Ages is waiting in the app’s library.