How To Attract Success

Were they two-year old children in physique and did these things we would not condemn them, so why, knowing that they are children in consciousness, no matter how old they may be in years as we measure time, should we condemn them?

We should not.

Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord the Universal Law I will repay. We know that under the Universal Law this is true. The Lord the Universal Law can only repay here on the objective plane through manipulating people and things, and so people and things become the instruments in the hands of the Lord the Universal Law which He uses to work out in us the effects of the causes we alone have created and set in motion.

When we allow our consciousness to be filled with the desire to punish the thief who steals our pocket-book we put ourselves in the negative destructive currents where the Lord the Universal Law can manipulate and use us as a destructive instrument to give the thief the destructive effects of the destructive causes with which he related when he took the pocket-book under the Law of Force. In becoming such a destructive instrument we, in turn, set destructive causes in motion the effects of which we will have to reap later on, and someone else, through the manipulation of the Universal Law, will be used as the destructive instrument to work out in our lives the effects of such causes.

Again it would be impossible for anyone to steal anything from us had we not some time before that created in our thought world, through destructive and inharmonious thinking, the energy which when embodied in form related us with such a loss. This being the case we can readily see that we must cease generating and relating with such negative energy should we desire to stop having such losses and discontinue registering the destructive effects of the negative energy we have created in the past.

In defending ourselves objectively against such a loss we have a perfect right to pursue the thief, capture him when we can, and obtain the return of our property. We also have a right to protect ourselves and society from the acts of such children in consciousness during the time they are being taught to displace the Law of Force with the Law of Harmonious Attraction, and for this purpose Schools of Detention not prisons should be established where those who commit such overt acts may be detained while taught more constructive methods. In the meantime those on the outside of these Schools of Detention should also be taught this same truth to the end that mankind everywhere may cease to set these destructive causes in motion which relate us with the destructive effects.

CHAPTER 12

We are all souls unfolding from different planes of consciousness, we are in different states of development, and like the child whose intellect is being trained we must first learn the simple rules of arithmetic before we are prepared to solve the more difficult problems of geometry and higher mathematics. We have recognized that in our present state of development and unfoldment it is impossible for us to get hold of and play with the moon and we therefore change our want rather than bewail the fate which keeps the moon away from us.

Great wealth may be just as far away from us today, in our consciousness, as is the moon and so for the time being we change our want and use a lesser ideal towards which we find it less difficult to develop our consciousness. We never lose sight of the greater ideal, but with the lesser one the one which seems possible for us to accomplish NOW we go steadily forward, developing our consciousness with the affirmation that we have this lesser thing NOW and we find that it does not take us long to materialize it objectively.