How To Attract Success

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To know the truth of this we only need to go back to the native American Indian and the frontiersman who, living largely in the instinctive side of their consciousness, could follow the trail of man or beast through pathless forests and could tell all about the person or animal they were following; when one who had developed his intellect and was living in that side of his life could not see anything to indicate the trail or that the forest had ever been penetrated before. Some few men learned to combine their instinct and intellect and use the latter in further developing the former, and in all such cases they preserved their union their oneness with the Universal Life and knew no lack either in their body or environment. The masses, however, unconsciously used their intellect to separate them from the One-Life, through the thoughts they generated and allowed to persist.

They related in their thought world with the currents where lack, disease, fear, worry, anger, hatred, envy, jealousy, strife, resentment, resistance, impatience, intolerance, condemnation, criticism, and kindred thoughts found their home, and the more often they related with these currents the more did they attract to themselves, both in body and environment, the atoms which would make another inharmonious physical home where these conditions could manifest in material form.

As the result of the over-development of the intellect and the under-development of the other faculties we find men who are living in emaciated physical bodies, devoid of all sense of instinct, inspiration, intuition, and revelation, but with an intellect that in its reason and logic is tremendous, but entirely incapable of appreciating the instinct of the physical man, the inspiration of the dreamer, the intuition of the mystic, or the wonderful revelations which comes to one who harmoniously combined and develops all of these faculties.

Such persons have not yet learned that the true function of logic is to teach us the constructive use of our reason or intellectual powers along harmonious lines. These two states of consciousness, the Physical and Mental, deal solely with the states which have their initiative or origin in the physical body. When the physical body is destroyed by death these two states of consciousness cease to manifest; that is the Mental state ceases to manifest as soon as death ensues, and the Physical state the intelligence in the cells of the body, the sub-conscious mind at once goes to work to disintegrate the body and upon the completion of this ceases to manifest in physical form.

These two states of consciousness must have the objective body through which to manifest, otherwise their expression here on the material plane is impossible. The other states of consciousness the Soul or Inspirational, the Spiritual or Intuitional and Revelational can manifest as well outside of the physical body as through it. It is true that in order for us to perceive the effects of their manifestations with our physical senses they must have a physical body of some kind through which to manifest, but they are separate and distinct from it 14 and manifest through it rather than in it.

These states of consciousness are not under the dominion nor control of the Physical or Mental minds, neither do they in turn control the mentality in any way. The Physical mind the cell consciousness or sub-conscious mind is the only mind or intelligence which is under the control of the Mental mind or Intellect. The term cell consciousness, as used here, includes not only the intelligence in the atoms or cells of the physical body but also that in the atoms of which the environmental is composed. These are all under the control and domination of the Intellect or Mental mind.

While it is true that the Soul and Spiritual minds or states of consciousness are not in any way under the control of the Intellect, yet the latter can make conditions both in the physical body through which it is expressing and in the environment through which the Soul and Spiritual states of consciousness may express, and this is one of the true and constructive functions of the Intellect.