Law Of Attraction

ent he became a prey for the beasts in the jungle. Hemmed in on every side by destroying elemental forces, he came by fear and caution to protect his own life; gradually this ever-present need developed a fear-consciousness which increased or decreased according to his power of coping with the elemental forces; those who were able to outwit the beast, destroy the viper, escape the lightning strike and withstand the wind and storms, gradually developed a moral courage which in time cast out all physical fear these became the progenitors of all races of dauntless courage, but those who, slower in perception, cruder in action, and timid in power, grew more and more fearful, developed a fear consciousness which became the progenitor of a race of physical cowards. The descendants of these physical cowards are everywhere. Ignorance, and the lack of power, was the root of the tree of fear and its branches in the present day are self-consciousness and lack of true knowledge of self, people and condition. We only fear what we do not understand, and no one ever fears to express themselves only in the degree they are in a false position to themselves. Men fear physical conditions because they are unfamiliar with the things and conditions in them. They fear people because they do not know them. 24 Whoever thought of being afraid of one they loved? A perfect love casteth out all fear, and perfect love means perfect understanding. We will fear until we learn that there is nothing in all the world of which we need be afraid, and nothing can harm us but ourselves. The lion tamer has no fear of the den of lions, and Daniel in the lions' den was perfectly safe through this knowledge of the true laws of all life, his conscious union made for him a new condition. There is something in the soul of man which rises supreme over the animal world. Man has finished and included all of the animal consciousness centuries ago and has pent up within him the latent consciousness of all the animal kingdom it is for man to command and it must obey. Men fear new conditions, because they are outside of their immediate experiences. There are some who would as soon face a loaded cannon as break in in a new position, or meet a new responsibility, but after they are acquainted with it they are brave as a lion. All things are easy and common-place as soon as they are old. There are crowds of failures simply because we are afraid of each other. Good actors and actresses have failed beca