How To Attract Success

The following incident illustrates this truth.

Years ago, in one of our large and growing cities of the Middle West, a man was driving a street car at $1.10 a day. In his dreams he saw himself in a policeman's uniform and, holding fast to that vision, in less than a year it was materialized. He had no sooner donned the policeman's uniform than he dreamed another dream and saw himself passing step by step until he became a police captain and that dream was not long in materializing.

Still he was not satisfied but continued to build his air-castles and to live in his dreams; he saw himself in the position of Marshal of that county, a place which paid in fees over $50,000.00 a year, with a four-year term without re-election. By the intelligent use of his intellect it was not long before that dream in turn was materialized. Having reached the pinnacle of success in official life, so far as money consideration for services was concerned, his dreams turned in another direction and he saw himself agent for a great public necessity having an exclusive control of its product, and this dream was materialized at the completion of his term as County Marshal.

Through the profits acquired by him in his progress in the development of his money consciousness he accumulated several million dollars, and today is the president and one of the principal owners of the street railway system in a city of nearly half a million population.

Had this man attempted to at once bridge the chasm between the street car driver at $1.10 a day and the millionaire owner of the street railway system he would have failed, but by putting aside his larger vision temporarily although never losing sight of it taking up and materializing these lesser visions, he was finally able to materialize the apparently impossible vision of his street car driver days.

During all his onward progress he used his intellect to hold fast to the dream vision which his inspiration, intuition and revelation brought him, doing that which he found nearest at hand to do with all his might and, as each new dream materialized, his inspirational, intuitional and revelational faculties unfolded to him the possibilities of still greater things to be accomplished, still larger things to be done, and God the great Universal Law manipulated people and things in the unfoldment of that life as He does in every life in accordance with the visions created and which are held continuously and persistently in the thought world by the intellect.

The lily of the field has limited itself to being a lily and as long as it remains in that state of consciousness it will continue to be a lily, reproducing itself again and again, but the day will come in its evolution and unfoldment when it will have a consciousness of something greater, something larger, something better, and it will then begin to evolve into this new and greater ideal.

So with man.

In the physical state of consciousness we go on relating with and reproducing our kind until through our evolutionary growth we become intellectual. Before that time we are unconscious or instinctive creators, we are in our Garden of Eden, our Paradise, but when we begin to use our intellectual faculty we become conscious creators and can create just what we may desire and are held accountable under the Universal Law for the causes we set in motion the energy we generate by the use of this new faculty the intellect.

It is the inharmonious, ignorant and destructive use of the energy by our intellect that drives us out of our Garden of Eden and causes us to lose our Paradise. What we create and the extent and quality of our creations are determined by the faculties we use. When man lived wholly on the plane of instinct and only used that faculty he lived like the beasts of the field and roamed the country without home, clothing, or any of the things which civilized man calls the essentials of life.