THE IMAGING FACULTY
Question—What is the technique for an expansion of the Imaging Faculty?

ANSWER—Your imaging faculty is mental, and all mental functions are of Mind, acting within Mind. If you can think of yourself as being able to imagine (or image) WHATSOEVER you choose to create, and dwell in this contemplation, you will find your efforts to create mental pictures becoming much more fruitful, and with less stress. The limit of our ability to demonstrate depends on our ability to provide a mental equivalent for our desire. This mental equivalent is created entirely by the imaging faculty.
Your mental muscle grows by exercise, as does any other muscle. Picture your desires in a large, rich colorful way, and you will be exercising this mental muscle.

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MEANING OF THE LAW OF AVERAGES
Question—What about the law of averages?

ANSWER—It is a law of experience which says that the average person will live about so long, eat about so much, sleep about so much, drink about so much and die at a certain time and will have in the life span a certain amount of happiness and a certain amount of grief. It is the consensus of human opinion about itself. We are subject to the law of averages as we are subject to the race thought until we free ourselves from it. By specializing the law of flotation iron is made to float by the same law which makes it sink. So we specialize ourselves out of the law of averages by introducing a new mental equivalent which, while it does not deny the law of averages, lifts us somewhat above it.

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MEMORY—CONSCIOUSNESS—PERSONALITY
Question—What is the value of remembering?

ANSWER—Memory is the only thing that binds personality (page 34) together in a sequential continuity. It is the only thing that makes possible a continuity. The value of any particular memory is probably simply the value by comparison. Memory itself becomes a subjective tendency no longer standing out in a clear and sharp outline relative to instances but becoming a tendency in life, deciding what is going to happen to our future and our acts. And so we find memory is a thing without which there can be no sequence of time and without a sequence of time there can be no conscious experience. We are growing into a better consciousness but should this consciousness which We now have be entirely eliminated you would not be you and the consciousness which you would have would be another thing entirely. It is necessary then that this thing is hooked up through all human experience.