Success

would that they should do unto you" is not too old to use in the New Civilization. Live for all you are worth yourself, but let the others have a chance to live too. This is true success; team work is hard to do perfectly, but if we use our genius, our power, our mastery to help others, and rise in deeper patience and helpfulness to the majesty of our place on the path, then power becomes a wonderful possession, our word never comes back to us void, and we can know that we are the highest expression of our own type of consciousness; that we can command, everything will love to obey, because we are one with all, in truth, in justice and in power. 23 SEVENTH SUCCESS METHOD FAITH THE polar opposite of faith is fear, and the great master and pioneer of mental science Helen Wilmans wrote: "There is only one live devil, that is fear." And the more we study humanity and its many-sided expressions, the more we see the wisdom of her words. Fear, more than any other thing, operates against success. No one can reach the summit of himself as long as he tries to climb with this ball and chain weighing him down. Fear stands as a gloomy sentinel and will not let the Spirit pass into possession of its best. The strands of failure are made from the fibres of fear; wherever fear is active, failure is its neighbor. Looking at this very active agent we are obliged to ask the question, "where did fear originate, of what are we afraid, and why does fear dog the footsteps of the whole failure world?" Try as we will to deny it, the fact remains that no matter how unfolded a human life is, there is always something of which it is afraid. Sometimes it is manifested as physical fear, sometimes as psychological fear, sometimes as spiritual fear, but fear of something and weakness of character in that particular direction is a part of the scheme of the race unfoldment. And where fear is positive in the nature, controlling and limiting the life's natural forces, there is nothing on earth that will turn aside the negative results of this law. Fear is the inheritance we have received from primeval man; the younger the nation, race or individual, the more fear there is expressed. In the beginning of life, when man first found himself, he found that self surrounded by things with which he was totally unfamiliar; he found danger on every side; the roar of the wild beasts around him struck terror to his soul and he soon found that he was in perpetual danger; in every unguarded mom

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