The Arcane Formulas or Mental Alchemy

About this book

William Walker Atkinson treats a thought as something that can be changed through deliberate practice. Fear, habit and discouragement become materials for an experiment in mental transformation.

The Arcane Formulas brings the language of alchemy to attention, suggestion and the management of inner states. Short exercises and explanations promise a kind of practical command over one's reactions. Its theories reflect the New Thought movement of its time, when popular writers began to present the mind as a workshop in which character itself might be reshaped.