"You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires"
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Bristol writes like a man trying to turn desire into a machine: feed it images, keep the gears turning, and it will eventually spit out success. The sentence is a mouthful on purpose. It mimics the very “continuous” pressure he’s prescribing, piling clause on clause until the reader feels the sensation of relentless mental rehearsal. This is classic early 20th-century self-help logic, perched between New Thought mysticism and salesmanship: the mind as both projector and product, reality as something you can persuade into existence through repetition.
The specific intent is behavioral, not poetic. “Intensify” and “render continuous” reads like a training manual for attention, urging the reader to crowd out doubt with curated fantasy. The “feast of good things” and “flowing fountain” aren’t subtle metaphors; they’re abundance imagery designed to bypass rational skepticism and hit the appetite. Bristol is selling a discipline of wanting: if you can keep the picture bright enough, long enough, you’ll stay motivated, confident, and action-ready.
The subtext is more complicated, and a little darker. If success fails to materialize, the framework conveniently blames the practitioner for not visualizing hard enough, not keeping the mental film running. It also smuggles in a moral hierarchy: “successful achievement” becomes proof not just of effort, but of correctly managed consciousness. In a culture increasingly obsessed with hustle and self-optimization, Bristol’s promise is seductive because it collapses uncertainty into a technique. Keep imagining the fountain, and you won’t have to look too closely at the plumbing.
The specific intent is behavioral, not poetic. “Intensify” and “render continuous” reads like a training manual for attention, urging the reader to crowd out doubt with curated fantasy. The “feast of good things” and “flowing fountain” aren’t subtle metaphors; they’re abundance imagery designed to bypass rational skepticism and hit the appetite. Bristol is selling a discipline of wanting: if you can keep the picture bright enough, long enough, you’ll stay motivated, confident, and action-ready.
The subtext is more complicated, and a little darker. If success fails to materialize, the framework conveniently blames the practitioner for not visualizing hard enough, not keeping the mental film running. It also smuggles in a moral hierarchy: “successful achievement” becomes proof not just of effort, but of correctly managed consciousness. In a culture increasingly obsessed with hustle and self-optimization, Bristol’s promise is seductive because it collapses uncertainty into a technique. Keep imagining the fountain, and you won’t have to look too closely at the plumbing.
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