How To Attract Success

We refuse to attack anyone or any thing, because the moment we attack we cease to defend and begin to offend, thus getting into the destructive currents and becoming destructive in our creations and materializations. This attitude does not take away from us any of our initiative, but it does require that when we do take the initiative that our consciousness is free all desire for revenge, free from all resentment, resistance, etc.; that our only desire is to uphold what we believe to be constructive and harmonious and not to convert the other fellow to our way of thinking.

That the other fellow may take a destructive attitude towards us is not our concern; it is his business not to do so and when he is not big enough to be constructive and harmonious in his attitude that is his misfortune and he will have to take what goes with it until he learns his lesson of harmony.

Under the Law of Conscious Imaging or Ideation, through our inspirational, intuitional, and revelational faculties, we create the vision or image of the thing we want and by the intelligent use of our intellect we hold fast to this vision or image in our thought world and begin its creation in material form by doing the things which we find nearest at hand to do on the objective plane, doing them with all our might, doing them harmoniously, constructively, and without resentment or resistance, knowing that each thing we do under these laws brings us one step nearer to the materialization of our vision. Under the Law of Persistent Application we go on day after day holding fast to our image of success, not resenting nor resisting any apparent failure of its immediate materialization, working harmoniously and constructively under these laws without looking for results.

When we look for results we relate with the currents in which doubt, fear, worry, anxiety, lack, etc., are found and such relationship delays the materialization of results. When we have built a consciousness which will enable us to live under these laws without looking for results, but because they are so deeply stamped upon our own consciousness and have become such a fixed habit in our lives that they are a part of our character and are natural to us, when we live under these laws because they are the highest and greatest and best thing we know how to live 50 and because we cannot live under any others, then will we become the master of ourselves and our environment, and success will be ours along every line we may direct.

Let me tell you of a personal experience which I had a number of years ago in my business in the commercial world and which illustrates the unconscious use I made of these laws. At that time I was doing business largely on borrowed capital and the time came when it was necessary for me to raise $1,000 by a certain date or lose $10,000. I had reached the limit of my borrowing capacity at my bank and so went to friends in my efforts to raise the money. Every avenue on the objective plane seemed to be closed against me and nowhere did I receive any encouragement in the way of assistance.

I had made up my mind in the beginning, however, that I would raise the $1,000 and would not lose my $10,000 and no matter how often I met with a refusal I persisted in affirming that I had the money NOW. As the days went by, and every avenue on the objective plane seemed closed to me, I made my affirmation that much stronger and more powerful, were it possible to do so, displacing instantly every thought of fear, anxiety, doubt, etc., refusing to allow them to find lodgement in my thought world.

The morning of the day upon which I had to pay the $1,000 arrived and without my having either the money or any idea from where it would come. As I walked down to my office that morning I said: It has come to a showdown, for this is the day I must make the payment.