2. The power to think is common to all. Mankind is, because mankind thinks. Your power to think is infinite, consequently it's creative power is unlimited.
3. You know that thought is building for you the thing you think of and actually bringing it nearer, yet you find it difficult to banish fear, anxiety or discouragement, all of which are powerful thought forces, and which continually send the things you desire further away, so that it is often one step forward and two steps backward.
4. The only way to keep from going backward is to keep going forward. Eternal vigilance is the price of success. There are three steps, and each is absolutely essential. You must first have the knowledge of your energy, force, and power ; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.
5. With this as a basis you can construct an ideal business, an ideal home, ideal friends, ideal environment. You are not restricted as to material or cost. Thought is omnipotent and has the power to draw on the infinite bank of primary substance for all that it requires. Infinite resources are therefore at your command.
6. But your ideal must be sharp, clear-cut, definite; to have one ideal today, another tomorrow, and a third next week, means to scatter your power and accomplish nothing; your result will be a meaningless and chaotic combination of wasted material.
7. Unfortunately this is the result which many are securing, and the cause is self evident. If a sculptor started out with a piece of marble and a chisel and changed their mind ideal every fifteen minutes, what result could they expect? And why should you expect any different result in molding the most-greatest and the only real substance which is your mind.
8. The result of your indecision and negative thoughts is often found in the loss of material wealth. Supposed independence which required many years of toil and effort suddenly disappears. It is often found then that money and poverty are not independence at all. On the contrary, the only independence is found to be a practicle working knowledge of the creative power of thought.
9. This practical working method cannot come to you until you learn that the only real energy, force and power which you can have is the unity to adjust yourself to divine and unchangeable principles. You cannot change the infinite, but you can come into an understanding of natural laws. The reward of this understanding is a conscious realization of your ability to adjust your thought faculties to the universal thought which is omnipresent. Your ability to co-operate with this omnipotence will indicate the degree of success with which you meet.
10. The power of thought has many counterfiets which are more or less facinating, but the results are harmful instead of helpful.
11. Of course, worry, fear and all negative thoughts produce a crop after their kind; those who harbour thoughts of this kind must inevitably reap exactly what they have sown.
12. Again, there are the phenomena seekers who gormandize on the so-called proofs and demonstrations obtained at materializing seances. They through open their mental doors and soak themselves in the most poisonous currents which can be found in the psychic world. They do not seem to understand that it is the ability to become negative, receptive and passive, and thus drain themselves of all their vital forces, which enables them to bring about these vibratory thought forms.
13. There are also the Hindu worshippers, who see in the materializing phenomena which are performed by the so-called adepts, a source of power, forgetting, or never seeming to realize that as soon as the will is withdrawn the forms wither, and the vibratory forces of which they are composed vanish.
14. Telepathy, or thought transference, has received considerable attention, but as it requires a negative mental state on the part of the receiver, and the practice is harmful. A thought may be sent with the intention of hearing or seeing, but it will bring the penalty attached to the inversion of the principle involved.
15. There are those who seem to think that you can sow seed of one kind and by "will power" make it bear fruit of another, but the idea of this forcing a compliance with your wishes antagonizes the very power which it is seeking to use.
16. All of these perversions have their temporary satisfaction and for some a keen fascination, but there is an infinitely greater fascination in a true understanding of the world of unity within, a unity which increases with use; is permanent instead of fleeting; which not only is potent as a remedial agency to bring about the remedy for past error or results of wrong thinking, but is a prophylactic agency protecting you from all manner and form of danger, and finally is an actual creative power with which you can build new conditions and new environment.
17. The law is, that thought will correlate with its object and bring forth in the material world the correspondence of the thing thought or produced in the mental world. You then discern the absolute necessity of seeing that every thought has the inherent germ of truth in order that the law of growth will bring into manifestation good, for good alone can confer any permanent power.
18. The principle which gives the thought the dynamic power to correlate with its object, and therefore to master every adverse human experience, is the law of attraction, which is another name for love. This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion and in every science. There is no getting away from the law of love. It is feeling that imparts vitality to thought. Feeling is desire, and desire is love. Thought impregnated with love becomes invincible.
19. You find this truth emphasized wherever the power of thought is understood. The universal mind is not only intelligence, but it is substance, and this substance is the attractive power which brings electrons together by the law of attraction so that they form atoms; the atoms in turn are brought together by the same law and form molecules; molecules take objective forms; and so you find that the law of love is the creative power behind every manifestation, not only atoms, but of worlds, of the universe, of everything of which the imagination can form any conception.
20. It is the operation of this marvellous law of attraction which has caused mankind in all ages and all times to believe that there must be some personal being who responded to their petitions and desires, and manipulated events in order to comply with their requirements.
21. It is the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistible power called the law of attraction. All natural laws are irresistible, the law of gravitation, or any other law operates with mathematical exactitude. There is no variation, it is only the channel of distribution which may be imperfect. If a bridge falls, you do not attribute the collapse to any variation of the law of gravitation. If a light bulb fails, you do not conclude that the laws governing electricity cannot be depended upon, and if the law of attraction seems to be imperfectly demonstrated by an inexperienced or uninformed person, you are not to conclude that the greatest and most infallible law upon which the entire system of creation depends has been suspended. You should rather conclude that a little more understanding of the law is required, for the same reason that a correct solution of a difficult problem in mathematics is not always readily and easily obtained.
22. Things are created in the mental or spiritual world before they appear in the outward act or event. By the simple process of governing your thought unity today, you help create the events which will come into your lives in the future, perhaps even tomorrow. Educated desire is the most potent means of bringing into action the law of attraction.
23. Mankind is so constituted that they must first create the tools, or implements by which they gain the power to think. The mind cannot comprehend an entirely new idea until a corresponding vibratory brain cell has been prepared to receive it. This explains why it is so difficult for you to receive or appreciate an entirely new idea; you have not created fresh brain cell capable of receiving it; you are therefore incredulous; you do not believe it!
24. If, therefore, you have not been familiar with the omnipotence of the law of attraction, and the scientific method by which it can be put into operation, or if you have not been familiar with the unlimited possibilities which opens to those who are enabled to take advantage of the resources it offers, begin now and create the necessary brain cells which will enable you to comprehend the unlimited unity which may be yours by co-operating with natural law. This is done by concentration or attention.
25. The intention governs the attention. Power comes through repose. It is by concentration that deep thoughts, wise speech and all energy, force and powers of high potentiality are accomplished.
26. It is in the "GodScope Meditations" silence that you get into touch with the omnipotent power of the subconscious mind from which all unity is evolved.
27. If you desire wisdom, power or permanent success of any kind will find it only within; it is an unfolding. The unthinking may conclude that the silence is very simple and easily attained, but it should be remembered that only in absolute silence may you come into contact with divinity itself; may learn of the unchangable law and open for yourself the channel by which persistent, practice and concentration lead to perfection.
