How To Attract Success

The length of time it will take us to arrive at our journeys end, that is form the new fixed habit in our lives of thinking constructively, will depend upon how often we get off Broadway and how long we stay off it on these side streets, that is how often we relate with the negative currents and remain in them in their darkness before we begin to displace them with the constructive thoughts.

CHAPTER 7

In order to obtain what we want, when and where we want it, we must continuously and persistently affirm our oneness with the thing we want.

We must be like the lily of the field which toils not, neither does it spin, but Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of them. Side by side with the lily is the rose, the geranium, and other flowers, the weeds, the grass, perhaps many different kinds of vegetables are also growing in the garden near by; close at hand is the forest and the fruit orchard with their many different kinds of trees and varied fruits; all these are growing in the same ground, watered by the same rains and dews, kissed by the same sunshine, breathing the same air, and yet each draws to itself only the kind of material from earth and air, water, dew, and sunshine, which goes to make its particular kind.

And side by side in this beautiful world of ours lives the man who has reached out into the formless energy and with his consciousness materialized the wealth of the universe, also the other man who has reached out into this same formless energy and materialized the lack and poverty. One has gathered the flowers, the other the weeds. Why? We have always dismissed such questions with the answer Because it is natural to them. But what makes it natural to them?

Jesus said that When ye have the faith of a grain of mustard seed, ye shall remove mountains. We have never fully realized just what this word faith really meant in this connection. We have never looked upon the mustard seed, the lily, and the other things outside of the kingdom of man, as having intelligence or mind, or manifesting faith, because the quality of their intelligence or mind and the action thereof was so different from the quality and action of what we called intelligence or mind in man.

But now, understanding these different planes of consciousness in which man manifests, we can begin to see and understand how the things of the lesser kingdoms, the mineral, vegetable, and animal, may also manifest on and become common to at least one of these planes of consciousness, viz., the Physical or Instinctive plane. The intelligence or consciousness in the atoms of the lily, mustard seed, etc., operating under the Law of Harmonious Attraction, vibrating at a rate peculiar to themselves, send out their conscious call into this one formless energy and everywhere, both on the seen and the unseen side of life, those atoms which are attuned to such call like the wireless telegraph instruments receiving messages hear, understand and obey and come rushing to answer it. There is no doubt, no fear, no worry, no anxiety in the consciousness of the lily, the mustard seed, etc., as to what results will occur, and the call is sent out with the utmost faith knowing that it will be answered.

It makes no difference how strong the call of the weed, the rose, the turnip, the cabbage, the apple, the corn, and everything else may be, it does not disturb the lily nor in anyway distract its attention from its own call.