Self-Help : The Secret of Ages
The Wisdom of Wallace D. Wattles - Including: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Great & The Science of Being Well | 
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Best one yet!
Out of all the "secret" books I've been introduced to, this one is the best. It explained things in a way that made sense to me. Highly recommended.
Collier was someone who really explained 'The Secret'
There is No Secret that the Secret has recreated more interest in the Law of Attraction and the laws that Wattles taught us 100 years ago. But reading Colliers books will be the difference between looking on the outside and being right in - front and center! The Secret of the Ages has done a great job of bringing these ideas to a new generation and they have done it well. This should be a starting point, not a `done deal'. Learn and educate yourself! There is much more that you need to read and watch and DO to learn to manifest! Good start! Now keep up your studies!
Also strongly recommended:
If you'd like a Real Library vs. an e-library, a multi - dimensional experience vs. a one - dimensional experience and a record of YOUR thoughts, ideas, goals, interpretations alongside the master authors, then this might be the most important book you'll ever read.
Everything you need to know for your success and future has been written by these masters...and you know, it's all available, ready to be carefully placed in your success library. All you have to do is walk into your library. You will have access to the finest, most ready success masterpieces in the world. The books that collectively have launched millions of millionaires. Soon, you will be one of them - NOT because you bought into some new Internet business, (who knows?), but because you have done the work that takes place right upstairs, in your head: your mindset. And that mindset is the foundation of your fortune. And your fortune is founded on the knowledge you will receive from the Masters. As you commune with them, and acquire that idea that will separate you from the rest of the pack, and begin to fill dollars into your bank account, you will realize it all came from simply reading a key book, jotting down your inspired idea, referring back to it, and taking action. After all, you'll have that `action plan' written in the margins of these books!
Think And Grow Rich: The Personal Study Edition
The Master Key System: The Personal Study Edition
Path To Prosperity - Mastery Of Destiny - Acres Of Diamonds: The Personal Study Edition
The Science of Getting Rich: The Movie - 2 Disk Set
See you at the top!
 Beware of poor production work
First off, let me say the "content" of this book deserves a 5 star rating. I won't rate this aspect of the book since so many other reviewers have covered the content in such a fine way.
It was very difficult for me to give this book 3 stars, but felt it necessary to warn others of the poor re-production of this particular edition. It is in Public Domain, therefore, any publisher can re-produce without paying royalties. It's a great price at $5.99, but in this instance I think you get what you pay for. The typesetting is probably 8-9 points (a good 1/3 smaller than standard) and the 'leading' (the space between the lines) is much too tight as well. For most people (even with excellent reading eyesight) this alone will eventually cause eyestrain. For those of us who already require a little help with reading glasses, it is quite difficult to read - for any length of time anyway. The focus and concentration required to read this edition takes away from its wonderful content.
PS: While I fully embrace the wisdom of Robert collier, here's just a side-note about about what another reviewer mentioned as a warning regarding his philosophy on health and healing. He died of cancer at age 65. His belief, along with Mary Baker Eddy, that illness can not survive if you deny its existence (greatly simplified here) didn't work for him - and it didn't work for Wallace Wattles (another noteworthy writer from the New Thought Movement of the early 20th century who died an untimely death). perhaps this is because this basic belief fails to address what may have caused the disease in the first place. Therefore, denying only the disease, does not deny the possible wrong thinking that may have brought it about. In the case of disease, it may be better to focus on changing wrong thinking patterns, along with a focus on drawing the proper health care across your path (doctors, nutritionists, books, etc... all of which played a roll in eradicating cancer when I had it).
Hope this review helps. Thanks for taking the time to read it.
The book that started everything
This is the book that contains all the universal thruth. All the other like "The Secret", "Think and Grow Rich" are based in this book. It is the number one in self awareness and positive thinking. Any reader who is serious about changing his or her life, must read this book.
Tony Alcazar
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 Very inspirational writing, but it is just the beginning
Like The Secret and other modern books, Mr. Collier wrote The Secret of the Ages in order to make money. About this there can be no question. One only has to read his famous book (in advertising circles) called The Robert Collier Letter Book to learn this from his own mouth.
The truth is that Mr. Collier (and modern success teachers) loved this concept because people will keep coming back for more of it decade after decade even though their lives do not always improve. It is a clear historical fact that Robert Collier developed multiple series based around this same concept of attraction (The Secret of the Ages, The Life Magnet and The Book of Life early on and the Law of Higher Potential later) and sold the same information again and again with different stories. Since the "Law of Attraction" or "you get what you think" is really just the first step toward success, authors and speakers are sure to keep the flocks coming back as long as they indicate that it is THE key to success rather than the FIRST STEP to success.
In The Robert Collier Letter Book he lays out all of the details of how he tested different letters until he found the one that would get people to buy. In fact, he admits that he had not even written the books when he sent out the letters. The order came in so fast that he "worked day and night getting the books written." He also said that "a lot of books came back. They would, when oversold as much as this letter and circular did oversell them. The idea had been excellent, BUT NO BOOK EVER WRITTEN COULD QUITE COME UP TO SUCH A PROMISE." {Capitalized for emphasis.}
Those words screamed out at me when I read them in the only advanced success book Robert Collier ever wrote - his sales letter book. Of course it is about creating marketing, testing the marketing, using what works and providing the product. Hold on! Do you mean to tell me that Robert Collier - the key source of the modern Secret movement - didn't actually believe that success came through your thoughts but rather through systematic effort? It turns out, in his own words, that it's true.
Please, don't take my word for it. Read a copy of The Robert Collier Letter Book yourself. You can find it here: The Robert Collier Letter Book. It will be one of the most important reads of your life - if you really want success and fulfillment. You'll find that thoughts are WILDLY important, but they never work alone. You don't get back what you THINK, you get back what you DO. That's exactly what Robert Collier really believed himself. The Secret books that he wrote were really just the juvenille steps toward success and he knew it.
Sadly, today, people act like The Secret and the Law of Attraction are at the post-graduate level of success. My friends, I care for you and all humankind deeply, so I must tell you that the Law of Attraction doesn't work unless you are attracted to work. The Secret of the Ages, when simplified without the glorious language (and there is no question that Robert Collier wrote about the obvious first step toward success far better than any of the modern authors) reads like this:
Before you can do anything that will bring you success, you must think upon doing it and how you will do it. If you think about all the things that could go wrong, you'll be discouraged and won't take action.
There you have it. It is an important key to success, but it's only the beginning. I've written five books and am writing my sixth now for the computer industry. But here's the key - I wrote them. I didn't think about writing them... I wrote them. The first step is to stop believing you can't and start believing you can, but once you become a can believer, you have to do it. All success comes by doing in the end.
I know some won't like this review, but it is a review of the author and the truth behind what's in the book. I've read not only this book, but every book written by Robert Collier, Orison Swett Marden, David Bush, Elmer Wheeler, Elmer Leterman, Frank Channing Haddock, and William Matthews among others. I've spent two decades reading, studying and seeking for the secrets to success and all I've learned can be summed up in the following formula:
Think + Act + Think + React = Success
The first think indicates that one must be positive and believe that she or he may achieve the desired end. The second think, however, is quite different. Here, you must technically analyze your results and then react by changing your actions so as to succeed. It's not all about positive thoughts and attracting of results.
I'll understand if some don't like this review, but all I've said is true regarding Robert Collier and his writing of this book among others and can be verified by anyone who is a true seeker of truth. I, too, was shocked and yet the revelation was the most important step in my success journey and searching so far!
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