Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich’s Burning Desire, Faith, and Decision: How Adam Knows Eve

I like Vic Johnson's video, "Think and Grow Rich: The Lost Secret" (https://youtube.com/watch?v=m73pePb5BUY). Napoleon Hill may have been a con artist, but he was a very successful con artist.

In the video, Vic explains Hill's principles of success: to have a white-hot burning desire, faith that it can be done, and the decision to do it—desire, faith, action. These interestingly correspond to the biblical formula for success: Adam, the consciousness of God, has a rib*—desire; desire becomes Eve—faith; consciousness "knows" Eve, and manifestation results. "Knowing" is not sex; it is believing in one's imagination that what is desired exists—"I know it is real. "Believe (know) ye receive . . . the two become one flesh."

This worked for Napoleon Hill. His principles of success—having a positive mental attitude, a pleasing personality, faith, and imagining what is desired exists—made him a very successful man.


*The Hebrew word for rib here, tsela, has little to do with any rib. Tsela means side. It can mean the side of a person, the side of a door, the side of a house, the side of a hill. I take it here to mean the side of a consciousness: "On the one hand, I am thinking one thing; and on the other hand, I am thinking another." I.e., I am in one state, but I desire another.