Success

ds in their development except ourselves; no one can tell us what to do; in the last analysis we must stand alone, and if we learn this, we put ourselves and our affairs far beyond the reach of promiscuous direction into the great path of truth, where and whatever is, is right for us as well as for others. The life that has found its own center and who knows that it is its own unaided law that stands amid eternal ways in the midst of changing and chaotic conditions, that walks on serene with mind alive to the divine teachings, has the Success law, and the true position toward the differentiations of life and the changes of substance. It is poised above the plane of competition, where it has only to desire and speak the word, and it will clothe itself in physical manifestations for it. Does it want wealth, it knows the opulence of supply and asks for it. Does it want wealth, love, possession, anything it knows that there is abundance everywhere, and in the calm purpose of life, it has 58 only to ask and it is given. This is realization, this is happiness; a realization which only is vouchsafed to those who have made a conscious union with the Infinite. The life that sublimes itself into the plane above the human thought-plane of error, comes into the "perfect peace that passeth all understanding," for it has touched the Absolute; that life looks at all the conflicting expressions of this earth life with all seeing eyes, and knows that no matter what the expression may be, far above the heart-aches, the self-made loss, the self-made pain or remuneration, the hand of the eternal Good is guiding this life finds peace and happiness, and this brings power and power brings Success. It knows that every idol of our human hearts must somehow, somewhere be laid down unless we know how to take it with us as we pass onward to our own fulfillment. It knows that we must lay it down with tears and pain, and lips dumb with suffering, and leave it until in that great day of all days, our soul is born into the higher kingdom of thought, where we learn to make union with our own, through God-like consciousness. True possession is true happiness. We cannot lose anything which is our own. It is true that whatever we really desire and vitalize into existence for ourselves, may become our own, not only now but for all eternity. Failure, loss, pain and grief are but words to the life that has awakened to this knowledge; it keeps its soul filled with the greatness of growth