How To Attract Success

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This is a statement which will require careful study and consideration in order to begin to appreciate its great importance and wonderful action. Our business is first, last, and all the time, through the power of our inspiration, intuition and revelation, to create and fill our imagination with this image and vision of the abundance of supply and our oneness with it, using our intellect with which to hold it so strongly and powerfully that all the poverty and lack of the objective plane cannot dim it, and then go on with the work in which we are now engaged on the objective plane, like the street car driver did, doing it with all the harmonious and attractive soul energy we are able to generate, and permit God the Universal Law to do the manipulating of people and things.

When we do this we will find that one by one new avenues, new and increased lines of transference, will open up to us and keep pace with our increasing development, just as they did in the street car drivers case and many other similar ones. The principle the law under which God works through man is exactly the same as it is under which He works through the other kingdoms. The lily gets the vision and then God the great Universal Law has man plant the seed, then water, cultivate, and take care of it.

God the Universal Law can only manifest on the material plane through the people and things of this plane because there is nothing else here. When we understand this truth and attend to our part of the work and let God attend to His, working together in perfect harmony, He does for man what He does for the lily, and the money, as well as everything else, which comes to us under this Law of Harmonious Attraction, comes to us because it wants to come and not because we make it come against its desire.

The true Law of Success is the Law of Harmonious Attraction. Many lives are unconsciously working under this Law most of the time. Sometimes they ignorantly and unconsciously live in the currents of the Law of Force for a while then they wonder why bad luck comes to them.

When living under the Law of Harmonious Attraction they belong to the class of people to which the world refers as being so lucky that they could fall into the water without getting wet. When such people get caught in the negative currents of the Law of Force they frequently do not know how to get out of them and then their condition is pitiable.

I was teaching a class in Abundance once in which there were several physicians and other professional men. One of the physicians told me the following story: He was a specialist and used to treat fifty or more patients a day; he had so much work that it was necessary to employ assistants.

When he was going to his office each day he always saw it filled, in his imagination, with patients, and he always found them there on his arrival. One day he was taken with a severe illness and was kept from his work for several months. During the time he was sick he saw his patients scattered and his practice dwindling to practically nothing. The result was that when he was able to take up his work again he had lost about all his practice and although it had been three years since that illness when he came to me he had not gotten back more than twenty-five percent of his former business.

When I showed him how he had used the same law of unconscious imaging (but with pictures and ideas directly opposite to what he really wanted,) to destroy his practice that he originally used to build it he at once realized this and went to work to rebuild under the Law of Harmonious Attraction, and within the next forty-five days it increased to four-fifths of as much as it ever had been.

Under this law the money we accumulate comes to us on a plane of consciousness so high that we cannot lose it, because no force is strong enough to displace the power we have under the Law of Harmonious Attraction. Under this law we have power without force, while under the Law of Force we have force without power, other than such as might or force gives us. But under that Law there is always some stronger force, some stronger might, which rises up at most inopportune times and displaces our force, our might.