T h o u g h t V i b ra ti o n !

The Law of Attraction i n the

Thou ght World

By

WI LLIAM WALKER ATKINS ON

Au th ot of Thou g h t Po m .
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Th e Law of t h e New Th ou g h t .
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on .

THE LI BRARY S HELF

1299 Farwe ll Ave .
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1908
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In December 1 90 1 W i lli amW alker Atkinson

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in assu mi ng the editorship of the popula r maga

z ine N z w T HOU G H T introduced himself to the
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rea ders of that periodical in a memorabl e article .

Tha t art icle conta ined a clea r ringi ng forceful

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statement of h i s individu al creed than which ,

nothing can aff ord a deeper insi ght into the cha r
acter and inner self of the m an whose n ame ap

pea rs as author of thi s book I t is the crys

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t all ized expression of the world principles the -

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truths which his writings seek to illuminate and

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in my Opinion should be read by every student

of his works as the key to the philosophy he
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tea ches .

For thi s reason there h as been p refixed to this ,

his l atest book under the title M y Working

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Creed the most vital of the fundamental b e
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li efs enunci ated by M r Atkinson in tha t famous

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i ntroductory statement of 1 90 1 N one can rea d

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the recurring ringing I BELI EV E of this
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author without feeling an ans weri ng thrill of

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exal tation and power To those who read this

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book I would say imbue yourself thoroughly

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with the bro ad and beautiful spirit of those few

preliminary paragraphs that you m ay p ass on

understandingly to the perus al of the teachings

which follo w .

Those who h ave an opportunity to refer to the

a rticle from which this Creed is t aken should do ,

so .
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I t tells of the work the m ateri al success
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followed by over strain physic al and mental

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breakdown and fin anci al disaster which marked ,

the earlier years of Willi am Walker Atkinson .

I t shows how he came to know wh at he now

holds to be T H E T RU T H and how in his own , ,

life he h as demonstrated its value For from

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mental and physical wreck and financi al ruin he ,

wrought through its principles perfect h ealth , ,

mental vigor and material prosperity .

M r Atkinson during the m any years of his

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connection with the m agazine N E W T H OU G H T , ,

built for himself an enduring pl ace in the hearts

of its readers For four years his literary work
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was con fined to its pag es (including in addition ,

three books for its publishers ) and article after ,

a rticle of wonderful stren g th and vit al force

flowed from his pen During thi s time several

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1 " l ded i n N cv T h o
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N ew T h ough t P u bli sh i ng
h t Annual f or 1 90 2 ” p u b ll sh ed by Th e
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series of l essons appeared under vary ing titles

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in rega rd t o the application of the Law of At

traction i n the Thought World les sons which ,

created a sens ation and exerted a wonderful i n

flu ence upon the lives of those who applied their
principl es They were written in M r Atkinson s
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o wn sp arkling intimate sty le teeming with

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thought force energy fi re but shorn of all at

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mosph ere of the study all attempt at fine writ

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ing polished periods or digni fi ed metaphor and
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all afi ect at i o n or assumption of superior learning .

O ne of M r Atki nson s cardinal principles is

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Stand on your own feet and he deprecates ,

any attempt to read infallibility into his writings .

For this reason we have again prefaced the pres

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ent work with 3 Foreword in whi ch he s eeks
to instill into all students of N ew Though t ,

whet her as expressed in his writings or i n t ho se

o f ot hers —
, the quality of self dependence A -
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reading of this Foreword will

g ive t h e studen t
a clear idea of the attitude of mind in whi ch

M r Atkinson t hinks this and all other individual

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i nt erpret r tions of life should be appro ached

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W i th M y Working Creed and the Fore
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word as gu ides the present reader should enter
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u pon T H OU G H T VI B RA T I O N the bo ok proper in

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a spirit cal cul ated to extract the greatest possible

value .

T H OU G H T VI B R T I ON embraces two series of

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the vital lessons mentioned above with some ,

a dditiona l articles by M r Atkinso n follow .

ing ou t the same line of t eaching The order .

of the lessons h as been somewhat changed in the

combination ; and for further continuity and
cl earness new lesso n titles in the form of chapter
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headings h ave been selected T he publishers have.

preferred to retain the famili ar unstudied style

o f the lessons as originally written r ather th an to
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subj ect the articles to the literary revision by the

a uthor which usu all y precedes public atio n in book

form They contend that M r Atkinson s mightiest

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influence his gre atest strength and power lies in

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his simple straightforward and at t im es even

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colloqui al language the kind which even my “

little son can understand as wrote in gratitude

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one earnest student I t is such writing that t h e

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world needs writing which can be read and
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apprehended by the little sons of t h e world ,

whether known as children or as men There .

i s a great deal of so called

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N ew Thought subjects beautiful sentences full
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of high though somet imes misty thought ;b u t

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this world needs common practical everyday ap

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plication of this thought Where there is one

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rea der for the literary m asterpiece there are a ,

hu ndred readers (plus even that other one ) for ,

the book written as a keen live hum an m , an ,

t alks and writt en about the di ffi culti es the prob

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lems the possibilities of the average citizen of

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the world .

This is a truth M r Atkinson h as mastered

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and it is with intention he c ast s from h i m the

restrictions of an academic style H e speaks al .

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ways not in dignified tones to the public b u t
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in the l angu age of a friend to Y O U I t can b e

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said of h i min praise as of another before him :

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T h e com mon p ople h ard h i m g ladly ! the
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highest most enduring tribute that can b e p aid
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to a l eader of men .

R ecognition is due to Louise Radford Wells

for the revision of the proofs of this book the ,

selection of its title and chapter headings and ,

t h e ordered a rrangement of the lessons .

FRAN KLI N L B ERRY .

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Editor of N ew T h ou g h t .

J u ne I 5 , 1 90 6
Ch i cag o, I lli noi s .
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PREFACE
By F kl
ran i n L B err y
met hi ng
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h h
I n w i c we earn so l of th e au t hor and h ow
b k
t h e oo was orn b .

Fonzwonn
h h th e h word b
d
I n w ic au t or h as a to say a ou t
t ea ch ers and di sci p l es, hi mself l
i nc u de .

MY WoRRI N o Cam
Th eI beli ve e of th e au t hor .

C HAPTER I
T m: LAW or A TT RACT I ON I N T HE T HOUG HT WORLD
One g reat Law— Th ou h t a g
ani est at i on o f Energ m f y
Th ou ht V i rat i on— V i rat i ons of i h t and
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g b b lg
h eat di ff er so e i n rat e of vi rat i on—Hu an
l ly b m
i nst ru ent capa e of re i s t eri ngm bl g
t h ou h t wa es—Ex eri ent s i n t e epat h
g -
v p m
pro e l y v
— g
t h e law of t h ou ht a t t a cti on Li ke a t ra ct s i ke
r -
t l
— g
i n t h e Th ou h t wo d T h e wi re ess t e e ra h of
r -
l l lg p y
th e i nm— l
d A fie d of energy wi t h esta i sh ed aws bl l .

CHAPT ER I I
THOUGHT WAVES AN D T HEI R Power; or REP RODU CTI ON
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H w t h ght w v
o t v
ou e th
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s f M i nd— Th e
a es ra er s e ea o
w po e d f
er p d ci ng t h m lv —Vi
ss sse o re ro u e se es
t i n whi h
ra o fl ct n —Th
s c whi h d a n t e a ose c o o
—
Wh y i W are wh t we h v t h ght
e lv i nt
a a e ou ou rse es o
i n e —
b g T h g en y f t h e a t h ght i n h pi ng
c o o ers
’
ou s s a
—
d t y T h w ki ng f t h L w f At t
ti n i ll t t ed by t h M
our i n es e or o e a o rae
o u s ra ni wi l ss i n t mnt e arco re e s ru e s
—Th Mi nd h mny d g e f pi t h—P i t i ve
e as a e re s o c os
—
t h gh t N g t i v
ou t h ght —We a
e a p i ti ve t o
e ou re os
m n g t i ve t th —A kn wl dg f M nt al
f om negati v t o posi ti ve
so e, e a o o ers o e e o e
Law n chang e u
ca s r e
 CO NT EN T S

M ore people
neg at i e v pl ane t h an on
on p v
osi ti e
pl ane—C onsequ ent ly m g v h gh v b
or e ne a t i e t ou t i ra -

— bl
t i ons How t o cou nt er a ance t e hm — m
A fi r a t i ons
and au t o su gg
est i o s,
n -
and —
t h ei r u ses E st a i sbl h
in
g —new m l
ent a d
a t t i t u es — D v l pm
e eo ent of th e
Wi ll hg m d
A i h t ensi on no t a t a ll t i es esi ra e bl
dv g
A ant a e of c an i n h g g f mp ro v p v
o si t i e t o r ece ti e,

C HAP TER I I I
A T ALK ABOUT T HE MI N D
M n h
a b t
as n uM i n d— F n t i n l ng t w li n
o e u c o s a o o es
f mnt l
o e fi t —P
a iv
e or fi t
f ft n ass lt f e e or o e r esu o
vi b t y i mp l i mp t d i n g l ng p t
ra or u s es ar e a es o as
A ti vc ff t n w b n Th gh t i m
e e or — e p l nd m
or ou u se a o
i
t n o i mp l l t
u se resuf A t i v ff t — oA ti v f n c e e or c e u c
ti n o t P i v f n ti n b y d
crea es, ass e u nd c o o e s or ers a
gg t i n —A t i v f n t i n nd f t h vi b
su es o s c e u c o se s or ra

ti n — Th
o s f e f H b i t —App t n y T h
o r ce o aim e e c -
e
p l f th P iml C
u se o e r Li f f
a — M nt l
a u se
‘
e -
orce
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e a
C lt u u re nd M nt l D v l pmnt
a e atw di fi nt
e e o e o ere
mn bi li ty f t h Mi nd t t h Wi ll
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t hi ng — T h s e a e a o e o e
—T h Wi ll th e t w d mni f t t i n
e ou f th
ar I a es a o o e
AM T h — tt et i n fa T H E A S OLU T E T h
ra c Bo o — e
rea l M n t h m t — A t i v nd P i v f n t i n
a e as er c e a ass e u c o s
b t t l
u oo s.
C HAP TER I V
MI N D B UI LDI N G
The P ower of M an—U nconsci ou s mi nd bu i l di ng
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Th e I, ”v g M d
t h e so erei n o f t h e i n — T h e U ni
v l ll m y
ersa Wi — T h e lf
as t er o f t h e Lower S e — Th e
m l m g v d by
ent a p bl f l
i s o er ne i rres onsi e acu t i es
bl hm
T h e reest a i s d m l k g
ent of or er i n t h e ent a in
m
do — b l—
T h e fir st a t t e T h e conqu est of t h e L esser
lf by
Se l lf m
t h e R ea S e — Afi r at i on and exer ci s e .

CHAP TER V
T HE S ECRET or T HE WI LL
Th e Wi ll P ower and i ts p bi li t y of bei ng de
ca a
vel op ed , di s ci pli ned cont r olled and di rect ed
v y mn t h e p se
,
E er a p t ent i lly f t ng
os ssor, o a o a s ro
wi —
ll T—h g t p w h e f t h U ni v
rea a l Wi ll
o er -
ou se o e
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ers
P w— Wi ll d n t n d t i ni ng b t Mi nd
o er oes o ee ra u
i nd t h i n t mnt —M nt lly l y p pl
,
d oesM
—S t ng wi l l f ll ws st r ng d i r —T h p i
, e s ru e e a az eo e
f
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ro o o o es e e r ce o
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att m ai n
ent — r —
Th e eal test T h e secret o f t h e de
velop ment of t h e Wi ll—Au to su ggesti o n and exer -

ci se
CHAP TER V I
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How T O B ECOM E 1 11 mm : To I N mmus T a ou eHT A mi e

TI ON

T h e first thi ng t o do— Fear thou g h t—S tro ng expect

a ncy a powerfu l m a gnet — Th e m an wh o f ears
How t o ov erco m e t h e ha b i t o f Fear— A was te of
ti me t o fi gh t nega ti ve t h ou gh t by d enyi ng i t
enta l at ti tu de—S et ti ng new vi b a ti ons
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T h e i gh t m r r
in m o t i o n— Th e conqu est of Fear t h e first i m
portant st ep—T h e posi ti ve wi ll prevai l .

CHAP T ER VI I
M S W T ATI ON or N m a rm s T HOUGH T

W y th orr hi l d f Fe — T h m ti v nd lyi ng
e c o ar e o e u er
act n— T hio t h t el t i n
ca uses S — H w a resu uccess o
D i t
es r e — W n gati v
ac s nd d o rr t h p d i ng e e a ea ro uc
by
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D i nd Am ti n p i t i v
es r e a nd li f p d i ng o os e a e- ro uc
—T h t n m t t i n f W y—G tt i ng i nt h
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e ra s u a o o orr e o ar
mn wi t h t h i gh t t h ght w v —S tt i ng i n
o e r ou -
a es e
m n t h L w f Att t i n— F
e o e a p ly
o ra c o ear a ra zes
De i — Ons re id f i t di fi ce l ty ml t
r ow y cu e s a a
m ty L w Th t hi ng w
,
Th w k gi
e n f or i h — o a a e s e
w y ab t
orr out th m lv — Th t
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us e se es e s or
i ng p f n -
u o th
e er f d are ar e e ea re
B tt ew er v mi ng bj t i n bl
e 0 o er co o ec o a e
th n by hti ng th m
a e .

CHAPT ER V III
T HE Law or MEN T AL (3 o
Th g h t ei th f i thf l v nt
ou s er ty anni al mas
a u ser a s or r c
t —S m f
e rs b t mnt l w k p f md
o e o ou r es e a or er or e
f wh n
or us n i mnt li ty i t
e our co t sc o us e a s a res
Th k t t h my te y T h mn wh
e
— o e nd s r e a o u er

t nd
s a w t n hi
s mnt l ngi e S l wi ng
o nru — s e a e
“
o

d wn t h Mi nd
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o e .

CHAP TER I X
gen al w k ni ng —
d d Let Li f fl ow throu g h
word deed Th o
A er a a e nee e e
us, mni f ti ng i n th a es ou g h t ,
— ,
ex .
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pressi on of consci ou s li f —Afi mati

e r on and Exer
ci se.
CHAPT ER X
TRAI N I N G T HE HABI T MI ND -

Th e su b n cico s
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mi nd—I mp t nce f t ansmi t ti ng
ou s or a o r
p pe M p l —A t mt i h bi t
ro r u s es u o Whi ch f
a c a s o
th tw
ese t hi ngs h all I d 1 — F m
o s i ng n w o or a e
h bi t—B ki ng n l d n —T h
a rea a j t nc
o — o e e us o e
’

i dea—T h M i nd e pi f p p — M nta l creases

a ece o a er e .

CHAP TER X I
T HE PS YCHOLOGY or T EM OTI ON S
Emt i n d p nd nt l g ly
o o s e e e p n h bi t —M y b e
ar e u o a a
p ed i n
re ress d d v l p d h ng d— Wh n t
crease e eo e c a e e o
mt bl mt i n J l y I t
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a s er n nd i
a u es ra — e — e o o ea ou s s
g wt h—R g —T h h bi t f f li ng nd t i ng
ro a e e a o ee a ac
m n —W y— C nt i n d t h ght mni f t i n
ea orr o ue ou a es s
acti n o F lt findi ng —T h h ni
au -
n gg e c ro c a er
N g ti v
-
e a mt i n nd t h i
e e o o s an —H w er recu r re ce o
t h k
o c o e ou t th h bi t ese a s.

C HAP TER X I I
DEVELOP I N G N EW B RAI N CELLs
Und i ble t t f f li ng W
es ra s a es o — n t t h e cr
ee e are o ea
mti n —T h mj i ty f t h ac
d
t u r es o f o ur e o o s e a or o e r e so

g v n
o er e t g e t
o a d g —r a M n t h l
e ree m t a e rea as er
f hi
o mti n T h d v l pmnt f n w b i n
s e — o o s e e e o e o e ra
c ll —T h
e s di e f l d b i n ll wi t h
su se o o nd i ra -
ce s u es r
bl mni f t t n T h b i n t h
a e a i — es a o s g n nd
e ra e or a a
i n t mnt f t h M i nd—O t m
,
s ru e o e t nd n i p ur e e c es, e era
mnt d p di p t
e n
s a i re i n — Th m
s os i ll i n o sf n d e o s o u u se
i
r n - —
b a ll M nt l t ti t d
ce s e a cq i a d u es a u re or
d d t w ll T h e mi nd l
car e i —a th w y f c ears e a or
t h g ht ou g ds f t
oo h i nd i v i
or d al i n t e p u er oses re
h mf l On p i t i v
—
,
i t n
s s e ce t th wh h
o i ose c ar e ar u e os e
t h g ht wi ll
ou nt t
cou n m berac f n g ti v a u er o e a e
t h ght ou H ldi g
s n t h o t h gh t — H w t e c l ou o o u
t i vat e a t ni h
cer ab i t f c t i n
a— Bi ddi ng n o lf
a o o ese
f
o mnt al t i t
a e ra .

CHAP TER X III

T HE AT TRACTI VE Poms —DES I RE F ORcE
M t al le k T h mn w man i n
ne — a s e a orh f s c o searc o u
ess
c — W h M tal F ce ope at es b t Th Mi nd
n ne e or— r es e
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works on t h e su b consci ou s-
ane a on plg l
t h e i ne Of l
t h e ru i ngl p
assi on or esi re d —
S cat t eri n t ou g h gh
t
f orce — G et t i ng ou t Of t h e current Of at t ra ct i on
p
M y ersona ex eri ence l p Lo e v
at t h e ot to b m
of t h e w o e Of h l i e—Th e ao ca e
lf ll d h m
c e i cal
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afi ni t i es
’ —Desi re a m f
ani est at i on of t i s U ni h
l
versa Li e Lo f ve.

CHAP TER XI V

Th e di fl erenceb fl m
et ween t h e su ccess u st rong en
fl
and t h e u nsu ccess u m gy
weak en — Ener and I n
m
i nci e D et er i nat i on— Ener
v bl gy not rare—W ast ed
ner e orce—T h e Hu an Wi — A g rea t d na i c
v f -
m ll y m
for ce — l v v
T h e eop e wh o ha e y ‘
arri ed
’ —
Are t h e
’p —
“
o d na
r iy r f a M
t er a ll i a d e Of t h e st u fi O f
m —
,
b
t h ose a ou t t h e Wh erei n does t hei r great ness
l f
li e i —B e i e i n t h e se es—T h e ri h t u se of
m lv g m at e
l
ri a — The t ck
ri g ’
O fg rgea t nes s— T h e o od t hi n s
l
o ck ed uy m
p i n ou r i n bl
d — T h e i n exh aust i e

CHAP TER XV
mmNO Y
C I OUR OW N
N ot hi n t oo ood f or you —Y ou r di rect i nheri t ance
g g
g l
G rea t t hi n s ost f or want Of a ski n g — Th e Law
t akes you i n earnest —Y o u are a m f
a ni est a t i on Of
t h e Who e Thi n l — Y oug m
u st fir st awaken t o a
l
rea i zat i on t h at you are ere m ly g
aski n y f or ‘
our
own -
i il r —
T h e Law w l d o t s wo k T h e h y not i s Of p m
‘
ml y
hu i i t ’ —
g C m
Th e g rea t t h i n s i n t h e os os wh i ch
awai t y
o ur co mg
i n Of ag e— T h e pl y g
a t hi lf
n s o f i e

g a e m
t as k
-
s— T h e d i fi e r ence b et w e en t h e
M ast er o f C m
i rcu st a nces and th e S a e Of lv C m i rcu

CHAP TER X VI
N OT C HAN CE
T h e A t t racti e v P
ower Of Thou g ht A at t er of
‘
m
I nc m
— A ag ni ficent i u st rat i on Of t h e Law of
ll
At t ract i on—A st ron e ie g bl f
as efi caci ou s as a
st ron g —
wi sh Th e a n wh o m et s t h ere g-
Th e
m an wh o ai l s —N O su ch t hi ng as
f h ance—Law C
e erywh ere—
v Pl
an a nd p p
u r ose ;cau se a nd efi ect
T h e ri g ht vi b rati ons- G et i ng i nt o th e current
t .
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I min
a receipt Of a letter from an earnest stu
dent o f N ew T hought who writes me th at he is
,

end eavoring to put into practice the teachings for

—
which I stand T ha t is a ll ri ght I think he
.

will get some good ou t O f the practice (I know

that I do ) But here is where the trouble comes
.

— “
i n h e goes on to say tha t he is a faithful disci
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ple O f mine and is content to sit at the feet O f
,

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the Teacher . N ow if you will p ardon t h e slang
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I must say t hat such t alk makes me t i red I .

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wish no disciples disciples are mere pa rrot s
—
repeating wh at one says mere human sheep trot
ti ng along a fter some conceited Old bell wether -
.

I do not wish to pose as a bell wether nor do I -

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wish a flock Of hum an sheep trotting a fter me .

I want everyone of my fellow stu dents O f M ent al

Sci ence to be his own bell wether I like com -
.

radesh i p and mutu al hel p — the help of i nt erde

p e n d e nc
.e But I don t like this t’
a lk O f m a ster and
d i sci l —
f lea der and follower this talk and
idea of dependence .
 As f or si t ti ng
’
at an
y s f eet
o net h e id ea
, a rouse s

all t h e spi ri t of i ndependence wi thi n m I don t

’
e .

i
want t o s t a any one s feet and I d on t want
t — ’ ’

any one t o si t at m i ne I amwil li ng and often

.
,

g la d , t o li s t en t o so m e t a
e c h e r an d t o pick from
h i s t each i ngs su ch b i t s o f t ru t h as m y m i nd is
I amwi lli ng t o say I don t
“
rea dy t o recei ve
’
.

kno w and t o accep t f ro m o t h ers that w h ich ap

.

p e a ls t o m e a s t ru t h ; no t b ecau se t h e ot h er says

t h at i t is t ru t h b u t b ecau se m
, y m i nd r eco g nizes
i t as such I take m
.
y o w n w he rev er I find it b e ,

cause I recog niz e i t as m ine I know t hat all

.

stu dents and teachers g et t h ei r kno wledg e from

th e only s ou r c e of supp l y — t h ey ca n t g et i
’
t fro m
an y where el se .And if som e o t h er fell ow h appens

t o see a particu la r b i t o f t ru th befo re I do I gla dl y ,

accep t a port i on of i t from his h and s h e b e king ,

or beggar ;while if I happen t o see t h e t hing first ,

I will gl adl y sh are it w it h all wh o are ready for

it and wh o may wa nt it w ithout feel ing that I
, ,

ama
” “ “
leader or t eacher or that th ey are fol
. ,

”
lo wers or di sciples “
.We are all fellow stu !

dents— that s all I recogni ze no man as my

’
.
xx FO R EWORD

help you unless you t ake hold o f the m atter your

,

self and work out your own s alvation You can .

not get true mental or spiritual teaching by simpl y

paying so much for a course of lessons and do ,

ing nothing yours elf You must bring some .

thing to the teacher before you can take anything

away .You must w o rk up t o an understanding
before the teachings of an other will do you any
good.

T he teacher may make a sugg estion th at will

Open up a line of thought for you or he may ,

point out a way th at h as proved of value to him ;

a nd thus s ave you much time and trouble But .

you mu st do the real work yourself .

A teacher may be so filled with the truth that

he will overflow and you will get some of the
,

“ ”
overflow I believe th at truth is catching But
. .

even so unless you m ake th at truth your own by

,

living it out and applying it to your needs it will

, ,

do you no good And so long as you are content

.

“ ” “ ”
t o sit at his feet and do the disciple act you
, ,

will not gro w one inch You will be merely a .

reflection of the teach er instea d of being an indi

,

vidu al .

We need a jogging up on this point every once

“ ”
i n a while lest we forget
, I t is so easy to have .
 FOREWORD xxi

your thoughts predigested for you by some teacher

—
or writer so easy t o receive your teaching in
cap s u les I t is so nice to be able to sit down and
.

swallow the tabloid that the teacher or writer

kindly h as prep ared for you and im agine th at ,

you are gett ing the real thing But I tell you .
,

won t d o th e work I mbibe all the

’
friends .

tea ch i ngs you please but you have got to get,

down to bu s iness yoursel f You can t give some .

’

one else a power of attorney to do the work in

your pl ace Li fe accepts no subs t itutes you
.
—
must step out yourself I t is mighty eas y this — .

idea of p aying so much in time or money to some , ,

teacher or writer and then sneaking into the

,

Kingdom of H eaven hol d ing on to h i s skirt s

b u t it won t work
’ ’
You ve got to do some
.

’
hustling on your own account and don t you ,

make any mistake about this fact .

M an y of you are running around after teach

ers preachers prophets seers i llu mi nat ed souls
, ,
“ ”
, , ,

and wh at not expecting th at your little fee for

,

co urses of lessons priv ate teachings and all the

, ,

rest is going to l and you right up in the front

,

’
rank Don t you beli eve a word of it You ve
.
’
.

got to go through the motions yoursel f before ,

you will att ain an ything Yb u can t sneak in .

’
xxii FOREWORD

th at —
way i t
’
won t work I look around me .

“
and see m any of these poor creatu res sitting at
”
the feet of some one or other sinking their indi ,

vi du ali ty in th at of the teach er and not daring to ,

—
think an origi n al thought lest it conflict with
“ ”
some notion of their M aster These good souls .

are so full of the teaching they are imbibing they ,

will repeat it by the yard phrase a fter phrase , ,

like a well train ed parrot But they don t under

-
.
’

st and a bit of it T hey are like the moon which

.

shines by reason of the refl ection of the sun s ’

rays and h as no light or heat of its own The

, .

“ ” ”
t alk of these discipl es and sitters at the feet - - -

is nothing but moonsh i ne mere reflected light

— h .

—
M oons are dead cold things no light no heat
,
—
—no fire— no energy .
—
D e ad dea d de ad cold , , ,

“
barren and pl ayed out Stop this moon busi
-
.

ness and build yourself up into a Sun You h ave .

—
it in you m anifest it St art yoursel f in motion
.
,

’
and m anifest Life Do n t suppose th at you must
.

be able t o solve all the R iddles of the Universe

before you can do anything N ever mind about .

those riddles j ust you g et down to the task that

,

li es ahead of you and throw into i t some of th at

,

G reat Life Principle th at is within you waiting

for a chance to m anifest itself Don t m ake t h e .
’
 FOR EWORD xiii
x

mistake of suppo sing th at this or th at teacher h as

solved the G reat R iddle I f he says he h as he i s
.
,

only b lu fli ng and whistling t o keep up courag e .

He m ay h ave found a goo d si z ed chunk of the -

t ruth and i f he is willing to p ass you a bit of it

, ,

all right but he hasn t the Whole Thing by a

’
, ,

m i ghty sight The Whole Thing isn t placing i t

.
’

self i n the exclusiv e control of any little bit of

itself N one h as a monopoly of knowing a
. 0 —
corner on the Truth I t is yours as much as any
.

’
—
body s but you must dig for it .

’
Don t bother about the theories or the u nsolv ,

able riddles— just get down to business and begin

t o Live Sometimes I amuse myself by reading

.

“ ”
some of the theories and explanations of those
who think th at they have hold Of the Whole
Thing After I get through with the theories of
.

“
one dead sure chap I take up the directl y Op
-
,

p o si t e theor i es of another fellow who considers

himself the special mouthpiece of the Absolute .

Whew l i t s a great brain shaker I f you re not

’
-
.
’

careful you will find yourself being served a nice

dish of scrambled brai ns When I get sort of .

”
stewed u p over such things I go out i nto the
-

“ ”
sun and fall back on the Laughing Philosophy ,

which soon brings me around all right Nothing .

x xi v FO REWO R D

will puncture these bubbles so quickly as a good

dose of Laughter Laug h ter is the only thing
.

that keeps the race from madness The sense of .

humor is God s best gift to M an Try it t h e next

’
.

” “ ”
ti me you get stewed up with high stat ements ,

“ ” “
basic truths , axiom atic principles Bew are .

of any teachings th at will not stand the t est of

the sunny out o i doors and the application of the
- -
,

Laughing Philosophy Shun the teachings that

.

require a pursed u p mouth and a strained pre

-
, ,

t ernat u rally sober face H ave nothing to do with

.

teachings that require a dim dark sunless room , ,

i —
t o b e absorbed n bew are of teac hings and doc
trines that bear t h e musty smell of the cell upon _
them Carry out into the sun the teachings th at
.

are Off ered you and see whether or not they

,

—
fade apply the chemical of l aughter and ascer ,

t ain whether the stu ff bleaches R emember this .

test when you are perplexed or worried over some

—
strang e theory or doctrine no m att er from
whence it comes I f any one tells you that which
.

—
will not bear the test discard the teaching for ,

it is spurious in that event Try t his on my writ.

ings along with the others .

Stop being moons Stop living by reflected

.

light Get into action and convert yoursel f into

.
 FOREWO RD xxv

a living sun You can do it I t is within your

. .

power Every human soul contains within it the

.

—
elements of the Sun g et to work and express
yourself Sti ff en up your backbone and hold
.

your head erect Don t be afraid to say I am

.
’

”
IT .

This is a straight from the shoulder talk Don t

- - -
.
’

t ell me that you are disciples of mine— I dis

“ ”

own you ;I refuse to h ave disciples Don t try ’

‘

“ ”—
to sit at my feet i i you do I will use my feet ,

to push you off the platform I need room to .

swing my feet about and don t want people sit ’

:

“
ting there But if you wish to call me Brother
.
,

” “
or Fellow Student or Schoolmate in the Kin
,

”
derg art en of God I will be gl ad to h ave you do
,

.
’
—
so T h at s all we are after all little babes tug
,

ging aw ay at the breast of the Absolute .

WI LLI A M WALK ER AT KI N S ON .
xxviii MY WORKI N G CR EED

as su rely a nd as s t ea di ly as t h e arrow fro mt h e

b ow o f t h e s ki lled arch er .

I b eli eve i n th e B ro t h erh ood o f M an .

I b eli eve i n b ei ng Ki nd .

m
I b eli eve i n everyone i ndi ng h i s own b u s i ness
— and allowi n ever one els e th e s o e ri vi le e
g y p g m .

I b el i eve t h a t we h ave no ri g h t to co nd e mn
let h i mwh o i s wi t h ou t s i n cas t t h e fi rs t s t one .

I b eli eve t h a t h e wh o H at es i s an assass i n ;t h a t

h e wh o Covets i s a th i e f;th at h e wh o Lu s ts i s an

a du l t erer ;t h a t t h e g i s t o f a cri mi i n i ts desi re

e s .

—
S eei ng t h i s l o oki ng i nt o ou r own h ear ts — h ow
can w e cond e n? m
I b eli eve t h at Evi l i s b u t I g norance .

I b eli eve t h at t o know all i s t o forg i ve all

“
.

I b eli eve t h at t h ere i s g ood i n every man;l et

u s h elp h i m m
to a ni fes t i t .

I b eli eve i n t h e ab solu t e eq u al i ty o f th e M an

a nd th e Wome n s o
— meti ms I e th i nk t h at t h e odds

are s li g h f
tly i n avor o f th e Woman .

b eli eve i n t h e —
S ex b u t I
I s acredness o f
als o b eli eve th a t S ex mani fes ts on th e S pi ri tu al
and M ental planes as w ell as on t h e P h ys i cal .

A nd I b eli eve t h at t o t h e pu re all t h i ng s are p u re .

I b eli eve t h a t man i s i mmort l th at th e R eal a

S elf i s S pi ri t, wh i ch u ses mi nd and b ody as i ts

 MY WOR KI N G C REE D

to ols, and mani fes ts i tself accordi ng t o th e fi tness

of t h e t ools .

I b eli eve t h a t M an i s ra i d
p y g l row i ng i nt o a

new plane of cons ci ou sness, i n wh i ch h e wi ll know

himself as h e —
i s wi ll recog ni ze th e I AM — th e

S m et h i ng Wi t h i n
o .

I b eli eve t h a t th ere i s an I nfini t e P ower i n, and

of ,
all th i ng s .

I b eli eve t h a t, al t h ou g h t oday we h ave b u t th e

fai nt es t i dea o f th a t P ower, s ti ll we wi ll s teadi ly

g row t o co mp r eh end it m —
fu ly wi ll g et i n
l ore

cl os er t ou ch wi t h it . Even now w e h a ve o m
mentary g li mp s es o f i ts —
exi s nce a
t e mmentary
o

cons ci ou s ness o f Oneness wi t h th e A b s olu te .

I b eli eve t h a t t h e g rea tes t h appi ness consis ts

in m ai nt ai ni ng t ow ard t h e A b s olu t e t h e a t t i t u de

o f t h e t ru s t i ng ch i l d, wh o, fee
li ng no dou b t of

th e p arent s
’
—
l ove no d ou b t of h i s wi s do m
plac es h i s l i t t l e h and i n t h a t of t h e parent , and

says
“
Lead T h ou me on .

I b eli eve t h a t h e w h o feels t owards t h e A b sa

lu te, t h e t ru s tfu lness of t h e b a b e w h i ch pl a ces i ts

li t tle t i red h ead cl ose t o t h e b reas t o f th e moth e r,

wi ll also be cons ci ou s o f t h e t ender ans weri ng

p ressu re, as t h e b a b e i s drawn j us t a li t tle cl os er

to th e moth er h eart -
.

W I LLI A M W AL K E R AT K I N S O N .
 CHAP T ER I .

T H E LAW OF ATTRACTI ON IN T HE T HOUG HT

WORLD .

—
T he Universe is governed by Law one great
Law . manifestations are multiform b u t
I ts ,

view ed fr om the U ltimate there is but one Law .

We are familiar with some of its m anifestatio ns ,

but are almost totally ignorant of cert ain others .

S till we are learning a little more every day

the veil is being gradu ally lifted .

We S peak learnedly of the Law of Gravit ation ,

but ignore th at equ ally wonderful m anifesta tion ,

T H E LA W OF A TT RAC T I ON I N T H E T H OUG H T
WOR LD We are familiar with th at wonderful
.

manifestation of Law which draws and holds

together the atoms of which matter is composed
—we recognize the power of the law th at att racts
bodies to the earth th at holds the circling world s
,
2 T HO U G HT VI B RA T IO N
i n t heir pl aces but we close our eyes to
, th e
mi g h ty law th at draws t o us t h e t h i ng s we desi re
or fear ,
th a t makes or mars o ur lives .

When we come to see that T hought is a force

—a manifesta tion of energy— having a magnet
like po wer of att raction we will beg in to under
,

stand the why and wherefore of many things

th at h ave heretofore seemed dark to us There .

is no study that will so well repa y the student

for his time and trouble as the stu dy of the work
ings Of this mighty law of the world of Thought
t h e Law of Att raction .

When we think we send ou t vibrations of a

fi ne eth erea l substance which are as rea l as the
,

vibr ations manifes ting light heat electricity , , ,

magnetism T h at these vibrations are not evi dent

.

to our five s enses is no proof that they do not

exist A powerful magnet will send out vibra
.

tions and ex ert a force suffi cient to attract to i t

self a piece of steel wei ghing a hundred po unds ,

but we can neither see taste smell hear nor feel

, , ,

the mighty force T hese thought vibrat i ons

.
,

likewise cannot be seen tasted smelled heard

, , , ,

nor felt in the ordinary way ;although it is t rue

there are on record cas es of persons peculi arly
sensitive t o psychic impressions who h ave per
 LAW O F ATT RAC T ION 3

cei ved powerful thought waves and very many -

,

of us can testify that we h ave distinctly felt the

thought vibrations O f others both whil st in the ,

presence Of the sender and at a distance Tele .

pathy and its kindred phenomena are not idle

dreams .

Light and heat are manifested by vibrations of

a f ar lower intensity th a n th ose of T hought but ,

the di ff erence is sol ely in the rate of vibration .

The annals of science throw an interesting light

upon this question Prof Elish a Gray an emi
. .
,

“
nent scientist says in his little book
, The ,

”
M iracles of Nature °

“
There is much fo od for speculation i n the
thought th at there exist sound w aves that no -

hum an car can hear and color waves of light

,
-

th at no eye can see T he long dark soundless

.
, ,

space bet ween and

vibrations per second and the infinity of range

,

beyond vibrations per sec

ond where light ceases in the universe of m
, ,
o
”
tion makes it possible to indulge in speculation
, .

“
M M W illi ams in his work entitled Short
. .
,

”
Chapters in Science says ,

“
T here is no gr ad ation between the most rapid
undulations or tremblings that produce our sen sa
4 T H O UGH T VI B RA T ION

t ion of sound and t h e slo wes t of th ose which give

,

ri se to our sensa ti ons of gentlest warmth There .

is a huge g ap bet ween them wide enough to i n

,

elude another world of m ot ion a ll lying bet w een

,

our world of so und and our worl d of heat and

light ;and there is no g ood rea so n whatever for
supposing that matter is incapable of such inter
medi ate activity or th at such activity may not
,

give rise to intermedi ate sensations provided ,

there are organs for taking up and sensi f yi ng

”
thei r movements .

I cite the above a uth o rities merely to give you

food for thought not to att em
, pt to demonstrate
to you the fact that thought vibrations exist T h e .

l ast named fact h as been fully established t o t h e

-

sati sfaction of numerous investigators of the su b

j cet and a little reflect ion will show you that i t
,

coincides with your own experiences .

We often hear repeated the well known M ental

-

“ ”
Science statement T houghts are Things and
, ,

we say these words over without consciously real

i z ing just wh at is the mea ning of the statement .

I f we fully comprehended the truth of the st ate

ment and the n atural consequences of the truth
back of it we should understand many t hing s
,

whi ch h ave appeared dark t o us and wou ld b e

,
6 T H O UGH T V I BRAT I ON

are being made every year and the unexplored

field gradually lessened .

As new instruments are invented new vibra ,

t ions are register ed by them — and yet t h e vi b ra

ti ons were ju s t as real b efore th e i nventi on of t h e

i nstru m ent as aft erward .Supposing that we h ad
—
no instruments to register m agnetism o ne might
be justified in d enying the existence of that
mighty force because it could not be tasted felt
, , ,

smelt heard seen weighed or measured And

, , ,
.

yet the mighty magnet would still send out waves

of force su fficient to draw to it pieces of steel
weighing hundreds of pounds .

Each form of vibr ation requires its own form

of in strument for registration At present the .

hum an brain seems to be the only instrument

cap able of regist ering thought w aves although ,

occultists say th at in this century scientists will

invent appa ratus su ff i ciently delic ate to catch and
register such impressi ons And from present i n
.

d i cat i ons it looks as if the invention named might

be expected at any time T he dem and exists
.

and undoubtedl y will be soon supplied But to .

those who h ave experimented along the lines of

practical telepathy no further proof is required
t h an the results o f their own experiments .
 LAW OF ATT RA C T IO N 7

We are sending out thoughts of greater or less

i nt ensity allthe time and we are reaping the re
,

su lt s of such thoughts N ot only do our thought

.

waves influence ourselves and oth ers but they ,

—
have a drawing power they attract t o us the
t houghts of others things circumstances peo
, , ,

”
p l,e luck,
in a ccord with the ch ar acter of the

thought uppermost in our minds T houghts of .

Love will attract to us the Love of others ;cir

cu m st ances and surroundings in accord with the

thought ; people who are of like thought .

Thoughts of Anger H ate Envy M alice and

, , ,

Jealousy will draw to us the foul brood of kin

dred thoughts em an ating from the minds of
others ;circum stanc es in which we will be called
upon to manifest these vile thoughts and will
receive them in turn from others ;people who
will manifest inh armony ;and so on A strong .

thought or a thought long continued will m ake

, ,

us the center o f attraction for the corr esponding

thought waves of others Like attracts like in
-
.

—
the T h ought World as ye sow so sh all ye reap .

Birds of a feather flock together in the Thought

—
World curses like chickens come home to roost ,

and bring their friends with them .

The man or woman who is filled with Love sees

8 T H OUGH T V I BRAT I O N

Love on all sides and att racts the Lo ve of others

T he man with Hate in his hea rt get s all the Hate
.

he can stand T h e man who thinks Fight g en

.

eral l runs up ag inst l l the Fight he w nts be

y a a a

fore he gets through A nd so it g oes ea ch gets

.
,

wh at he c alls for over t h e wireless telegr aphy of

the M ind T h e man who rises in the morning
.

“ ”
feeling grumpy usu ally m anages to h ave the
w hole family in the same mood before the brea k
“ ”
fast is over The nagging woman generally
.

“ ”
finds enough to gratify her n agging propensity
during the day .

T his matter of T hought Att raction is a serious

one When you stop to think of it you will see
.

t h at a man really makes his own surroundings ,

although he bl ames others for it .I h ave known

people who understood this law to hol d a positive ,

c alm thought and be absolutely unaff ected by t h e

i nh armony surrounding them . They were like
t h e vessel from w hich the oil h ad been poured

o n the troubled w aters — they rest ed sa fely and

cal mly whilst the tempest raged around them .

O ne is not at the mercy of the fit fu l storms of

T hought after he h as learned the workings of
the Law .

We have passed through the ag e of ph ysi oal

 LAW O F A TT RAC T IO N 9

force on to t h e ag e of intellectu al suprem acy ,

and are now enter i ng a new and almost unknown

field that of psychic power T his fi eld of energy

, .

h as its established l aws as well as h ave the others

, ,

and we should acqu aint ourselves with them or we

will be crowded to the wall as are the ignorant

on t h e pl anes of e ff ort I will endeavor t o make
.

plain to you the great underlying principles of

this new field of energy which is opening up b e
fore u s that you m
, ay be able to m ake use of this

great power and apply it for legitimate and

worthy purposes just as men are using steam
, ,

electricity and other forms of energy today .

 CHAPT ER II

T H OUG H T W AV ES
-
AN D T H EI R P RO CESS OF

REP RODU C T I O N

Like a stone thrown into the w ater thought ,

p roduces ripples and w aves which spread

o u t over the great ocean of t hought There is .

t his di ff erence however : the w aves on the w at er

,

move only on a level pl ane in all directions ,

whereas thought w aves move in all directions

-

from a common center just as do the rays from

,

the sun .

Just as we here on earth are surrounded by a

g rea t s e a of a i r so
,
are we surrounded b y a gre at
sea of M ind . Ou r thought w aves move t hrough
-

t his va st ment al et her extending h owever in all

, , ,

direct ions as I h ave expl ained becoming some

, ,

wh at lessened i n intensity according to the dis

t ance traversed because of the friction occasioned
,

by the w aves coming in contact with the great

body of M ind surrounding us on all sides .

These thought waves have other qu alities dif

-

Io
 T H O UGH T WAVES I I

f eri ng from the w aves on the w ater . T h ey h ave

th e p p f p
ro erty o re rodu ci ng m
t h e s elves . I n thi s
respect they resemble sound waves rather than
-

w aves upon the w ater Just as a note of the

.

vi o lin will cause the thin gl ass to vibrate and

“ ”
sing so will a strong thought tend to awaken
,

simil ar vibrations in minds attuned t o receive it .

“
M any of the stray thoughts which come to us
are but reflections or answering vibrations t o
some strong thought sent o u t by another But .

unless our minds are attuned to receive it the ,

thought will not likely aff ect us I f we are .

thinking high and great thoughts our minds ac ,

quire a certain keynote corresponding to the char

acter of the thoughts we h ave been thinking .

And this keynote once established we will be

, ,

apt to c atch the vibr ations of other minds keyed

to the s ame thought O n the other h and let us

.
,

get into the h abit of thinking thoughts of an

oppo site character and we will soon b e echoing
,

the low order of thought eman ating from the

minds of the thous ands thinking along the s ame
lines .

W e are l argely what we h ave thought our

selves into being the balance being represented
,

by the h
c a r acter o f the suggestions an d thought
Iz TH OUGH T V I BRAT ION
of others which h ave reached us either directl y
,

by verbal suggestions or telepathica lly by means '

of such thought w aves Ou r general mental atti

-
.

tu de however determines the character of the

, ,

h
t o ught w-
aves received from others as well as

the t houghts emanating from ourselves We t e .

ce i ve onl y such thoughts a s are in h a rmony with

the g eneral mental attitude held by ourselves ;
the thoughts not in h armo ny aff ecting us very
little as they aw aken no response in us
, .

The man who believes thoroughly in himself

and m aint ains a positive strong ment al attitude

of Confidence and Determination is not likely t o

be aff ected by the adverse and negative thoughts
o f Discouragement and Failure em an ating from

the minds of other persons in who m these l ast

qu alities predominate At the same time these
.

negative thoughts if they reach one whose men

,

t al attitude is pitched on a low key deepen his ,

negative state and add fuel to the fire which is

consuming his streng th or if you prefer this , ,

figure serve to further smoth er the fire of his

,

energy and activity .

We attract t o us the thoughts of others of the

same order of thought The man who thinks .

success will be ap t to get into tune with the minds

I 4 T HO UGHT VI B R AT I O N
thoughts of similar charact er which are constant
ly being sent out from the minds of other u nf o r
t u nat es who h ave not yet lea rned the law of at
traction i n the thought world And if we o cca .

si onally rise to heights of enthusi asm and energy ,

how quickly we feel the inflow o f the c ourageous ,

daring energetic positive thoughts being sent out

, ,

by the live men and w omen of the world We .

recognize this without much trouble when we

come in perso n al contact with people and feel
th eir vibrations depressing or invigorating as
, ,

the c ase may be But the same law oper ates

.

when we are not in their presence although less ,

strongly .

T he mind h as m any degr ees of pitch ranging ,

from the highest p os itive note t o the lowest nega

tive note with m any notes in between v arying
, ,

in pitch according to their respective distance

from the p ositive or negative extreme .

When your mind is operating along positive

lines you feel strong buoyant bright cheerful
, , , ,

happy confid ent and courageous and are en abled

, ,

to do your w ork well to carry out your i nt en ,

tions and progress on your ro ad to Success You

,
.

send out strong positive thought which aff ects ,

others and causes them to co operate with you or -

 T H O UGH T WAV E S 15

to foll ow your lead according to their own men

,

t al keynote .

When you are playing on the extreme nega

tive end of the mental keyboard you feel de
pressed weak p assive dull fearful cow ardly
, , , , , .

And yo u find yourself un able to m ake progress

or to succeed And your e ff ect upon others is
.

p ractically ni l You are led by rather th an lead

.
,

ing others and are used as a hum an doo r m

, at -

or foo tball by more positive persons .

I n some persons the positive element seems to

predominate;and in others the n eg ative qu ality
seems to be more in evidence T here are of . ,

course,
widely v arying degrees of po sitiveness
and negativeness and B m ay be negative to A
, ,

while positive to C When two people first meet

.

t here is generally a silent mental conflict in which

their respective minds test th eir quality of posi

t i veness and fix their rel ative po sition toward
,

each other This process may be unco nscious in

.

many cases but it occurs neverth eless The ad

,
.

j ustment is often automatic but occasionally the ,

—
struggle is so sh rp the Opponents being so well
a

—
matched that the m atter forces its elf int o the
consci ousness of the two people Sometimes both .

parties are so much alike in their degrees of posi

16 T H OUGH T V I B RAT ION
t i venessthat they practically fail t o come t o terms ,

mentally ;they never really are able t o get along

with each other and they are either mutuall y
,

repelled and separate or else st ay together amid

constant broils and wrangling .

We are po sitive or negative to every one with

wh om we have rel ations We may be p o sitive t o
.

our children o u r employes and dependents but

, ,

we are at the s ame time negative to others to

whom we occupy inferior positions or whom we
,

have allowed to assert themselves over us .

O f course something may occur and we will

,

suddenly become mo re po sitive th an the man or

woman to whom we have heretofore been neg a
tive We frequently see c ases of this kind And
. .

as the kn owledge of these ment al l aws b ecomes

m ore general we will see m any more instances

of persons asse rting th emselves and making use
o f their new found power
-
.

But remember you po ssess the power t o raise

the keynote of your mind to a positive pitch by
an e ff ort of the will
. And of course it is equ all y
, ,

true th at you may allow yourself to drop int o a

low negative note by c arelessness or a weak will
,
.

There are more p eople on the negative plane

of thought than on the positive pl ane and cou se
,
 THO UGH T WAVE S 17

quently there are more negat ive thoug ht vibra

tions in operation in our mental at mosphere But.
,

happil y for us this is counterbal anced by the fact

,

th at a po sitive thought is infini t ely more power

ful th an a negative one and if by force of will
,

we ra ise ourselves to a higher menta l key we can

shut out the dep ressing thoughts and may take
up the vibrations correspo nding with our ch anged
mental attitude Th is is one of the secrets of the
.

affirm ations and auto suggestions used by the sev

-

e ral schools of M ent al S cience and other N ew

Thought cults Th ere is no p articul ar merit in
.

affi rma tions of themselves but they serve a two

,

fold purpo se : ( I ) T hey tend to est ablish new

mental attitudes within us and act wonderfull y
—
in the direction of character building the science
of m aking ourselves over .
( )
2 The y tend t o

raise the mental keynote so that we may get the

benefit of the positi ve though t waves of others
-

on the same plane of thought .

Wh ether or not we believe in them we are,

consta ntly making afli rmat i ons The m . a n wh o

asserts th at he ca n and will do a thing — and

asserts it ea rnestly— develop s in himself the qu ali

ties conducive to the well doing of th at thing and ,

at the same time pl a ces his mind in the proper

18 T H O UGH T VI B RA T IO N
key to receive all the thought w aves likely to help
-

h i min the doing I f on the other h and one say s

.
, ,

and feels th at he is going t o fail he will choke ,

and smother the thoughts coming from his own

subconscious mentality which are intended to help

him and at the same time will place himself in
,

tune with the Fai lu re thought of the w orld

-

and there is plenty of the l atter kind of thought

around I can tell you

, .

Do not allow yourselves to be a ff ected by the

adverse and negative thoughts of those around

you R ise to the upper chambers of your mental

.

d welling and key yourself up t o a strong pitch

, ,

away above the vibr ati ons on the lo wer pl anes o f

thought T hen you will not only be immune to

.

their negative vibrations but will be in touch with

the great bo dy of strong positive thought coming
from those of your own pl ane of develop ment .

M y ai mwill be to direct and train you in the

proper use of thought and will that you m ay,

h ave yourself well in h and and may be able t o

strike the positive key at any moment you m ay

feel it necessary I t is not necess ary to strike the

.

extreme note on al l occasions The better plan .

is to keep yourself in a comfort able key wi t hout ,

mu ch strain and to h ave the means at command

,
 T H O UGH T WAVE S 19

whereby you can raise the pitch at once when oc

casion demands By this knowledge you will not
.

be at the mercy of the old automatic action of

the mind but may have it well under your own
,

control .

Development of the will is very much like the

—
developme t of a muscle a m atter of practice
n

and gra du al improvement At first it is apt to

.

be tiresome but at each tri al one grows stronger

,

until the new stren g th becomes real and perm a

nent M any of us h ave made ourselves positive
.

under sudden c alls or emergencies W e are in .

“ ”
the habit of bracing up when occ asion de
mands But by intelligent practice you will be
.

so much strength ened th at your h abitu al st ate will

“ ”
be equal t o your bracing up stage now and ,

then when you find it n ecessary to apply the spur

you will be able to reach a stage not dreamed of
at present .

Do not understand me as advoc ating a high

tension continuously This is not at all desir
.

able not only bec ause it is ap t to be too much of

,

a str ain upon you but a lso beca use you will find

it desirable t o relieve the t ension at times and

become receptive that you m ay abs o rb impres

sions I t is well to be able to rel ax and assume

.
20 T H OUGH T V I B RAT IO N
a certai n d egr ee of receptiveness knowing th at
,

you are always able to spring back t o the more

positive state at will The h abitu ally strongly
.

positive m an loses much enj oyment and recre

ation .Positive you give out expressi ons ;recep

,

tive you take in impressions Positive you are

,
.
,

a teach er ;receptive a pupil

, . I t is not only a
good thing to be a good teacher but it is als o
,

ve ry import ant to be a good listener at times.

22 T H OUGHT VI B RA T IO N
unfold and u nsh eat h when the proper state of
, ,

evolutionary development is reached ) .

f —
The Active ef ort is ew born fresh from the
n -

mint whilst the Passive eff ort is of less recent

,

creation and in fact is often the result of vibra

, , ,

tory impulses imparted in ages long past The .

Active eff ort makes its own way brushing aside ,

the impeding vines and kicking from its path the

obstructing stones The Passive e ff ort travels
.

along the be aten path .

A thought impulse or motion impulse orig i

-

,
-
,

n ally caused by an Active e ff ort of faculty may ,

become by continued repetition or h abit strictl y , ,

autom atic the impulse given it by the repeated

,

Active eff ort developing a strong momentum ,

which carries it on al ong Passive lines until

, ,

stopped by another Active eff ort or its direction

ch anged by the s ame cause .

O n the other h and thought impulses or mo

,
-

tion impulses continued along Passive lines may

-
,

be termin ated or corrected by an Active eff ort .

The Active function creates changes or destroys , .

The Passive function carries on the work given

it by the Active functi on and obeys orders and
suggestions .

The Act ive functi on produces the thoug ht

 T HE M IN D 23

habit or motion habit and imp arts to it the vibra

,
-
,

tions which carry it on along the Passive lines

therea fter T he Active function also h as the
.

power to send forth vibrations which neutralize

the mom entum of the thought habit or motion -
,

h abit ;it als o is able to launch a new thought

habit or motion h abit with stronger vibration s
,
-
, ,

which overcomes and absorbs the first thought ,

or motion and substitutes the new one

,
.

All thought impulses or motion impulses once

-
,
-
,

started on their errands continue to vibrate along ,

passive lines until corrected or termin ated by sub

sequent impulses imparted by the Active func
tion or other controlling power The continu
, .

ance of the origin al impulse adds momentum and

force to it and renders its correction or termin a

,

tion more di fficult This expl ai ns th at which is

.

“
called the force of habit I think th at this will
.

be readily understo od by those wh o h ave strug

gled t o overcome a h abit which h ad been easily
acquired T he Law applies to good h abits as well
.

as b ad T he moral is obvious
. .

Several o f the faculties of the mind often com

bine to produce a single m anifestation A task .

t o be performed m ay c all for the combined exer

24 T H O UGH T V I B RA T I O N

cise of sev eral faculties so me of which may m ani

,

fest by Active e ff ort and others by P assive eff ort .

—
The meeting of new conditions new probl ems
-
calls f o r the exercise of Active eff o rt ;whilst

a fam ili ar problem or task can be easily handled

, ,

by the Passive e ff ort without the assis tance of his

more enterprising brother .

There is in N ature an instinctive tendency of

living organisms to perform cert ain actions the ,

tendency of an organized body to seek th at which

satisfies the wants of its organism T his t endency .

is som etimes call ed Appetency I t is really a .

Passive ment al impulse origin ating with the i m

,

p otus imparted by the Primal Cause and trans ,

mi t t ed along the lines of evolutio nary develop

ment gaining strengt h and power a s it pro
,

g re sse s . T he impul se of the Prim al Cause is as

sisted by the po w erful upw ard attraction exerted

by T H E A B S O LU T E .

I n pl ant life this tendency is pl ainly discerni

ble ranging from the lesser exhibiti ons in the
,

lower types to the greater in the higher types I t .

i s th at which is gen er ally spoken of as the life

”
fo rce in plants I t is however a manifestation
.
, ,

of rudimentary mentation functio ning along t h e

,

lines of Passive eff ort I n some of the higher

.
 T HE M IN D 2 5 I

forms of pl ant life there appea rs a faint col o r of

“ ”—
independent life action a fa i nt indica tion of

choice of voli t i on Writers on pl ant life relate

.

m any remarkable instances of this phenomenon .

I t is undoubtedly a n exhibi tion of rudimentary

, ,

Acti ve ment ation .

I n the lower anim al kingdom a very high de

gree of Passive ment al eff ort is found And .
,

v arying in deg ree in the severa l families and

speci es a considerable amount of Active menta
,

tion is app arent The l ower anima l undoubtedly

.

possesses R eas on only in a lesser degree than

man and in fact the displ ay of volition al menta
, , ,

t ion exhi bited by an intelligent anima l is often

nea rly as high as that shown by the lower types
of m a n or by a young child .

As a child before birth shows in i ts body the

, ,

stag es of the physical evoluti on of man so does a ,

—
child before and a fter birth until m aturity
,

manifest the stages of the mental evolution of

man .

M an the highest ty pe of life yet produced

, , at

least upon this pl anet shows the highest form of

,

Passive mentation and also a much higher de ,

velop ment of Active ment ation th an is seen in the

lower anim al s and yet t h e degrees of th at power

,
26 T H OUGHT V I B RAT IO N
v ary widely amo ng the di ff erent races of men .

Even among men of our race the di ff erent de

grees of Active mentation are plainly noticeable ;
these degrees not depending by any means upon
“
the amount of culture soci al position or edu
,

cat i onal a dv a nt ages po ssessed by t h e individu al .

M ental Culture and M enta l Development are t wo

very di ff erent things .

You have but to lo ok around you t o see the

di ff erent stages of the development of Active
mentation in m an The reasoning of many men
.

is scarcely more than Pa ssive mentation exhibit ,

ing but little of the qualities of volition al thought .

T hey prefer to let other men think for them Ac .

tive mentati o n tires them and they find the i n

st i nct i ve automatic Pa ssive menta l process much
, ,

ea sier .
Their minds work a long the lines of lea st
resistance T hey are but little more th an human
.

sheep .

Among the lower animals and the lower types

of men Active mentation is l argely confined t o
—
the grosser faculties the more materi al plane ;
the higher mental faculties working along the i n
st i nct i ve autom atic lin es of the Pa ssive function
,
.

As the lower forms of life progressed in the

evolutionary scale they developed new faculties
, ,
 T HE M IN D 27

which were latent within them These faculties .

alw ays m anifested in the form of rudimentary

Passive functioning and afterwards worked u p

, ,

through higher Passive forms until the Active ,

functions were brought into pl ay The evolu .

t i onary process still continues the inva ri able

,

tendency being tow ard the go al of highly devel

o ped Active mentation This evolutionary prog
.

ress is caused by the vibrat o ry impulse impa rted

by the Prim al Cause a ided by the uplifting at
,

traction o f T H E A B SO LU T E .

This law of evolution is still in progress and ,

man is beginning to develop new powers of mind ,

which of course are first manifesting themselves

, ,

along the lines of Passive eff ort Some men h ave

.

developed these new faculti es to a considerable

degree and it is po ssible that before long M an
,

will be able to exercise them al ong the line of

their Active functions I n fact this power h as
.
,

already been att ained by a few T his is the secret

.

of the Ori ental occultists and o f some of their

,

O ccident al brethren .

The amen ability of the mind to the Will can be

increased by properly directed practice That .

which we are in t h e h abit of referring to as the

“ ”
strengthening of t h e Will is in re ality the trai n
28 T H OUGH T VI B RA T I O N
ing of the mind to recognize and abs orb the
Po wer Within The Will is strong enough ;it
.

does not need strengthening but the mind needs

,

to be trained to receive and act upon the su g g es

tions of the Will The Will is the outw ard mani
.

f est at i on of the I AM The Will current is flow

.

ing in full strength along the spiritu al wires ;but

you must learn how t o raise the trolley pole to
-

to uch it before the mental car will mo ve This .

is a somewhat di ff erent idea from th at which

you have been in the h abit of rec eiving from
writers on the subj ect of Will Po wer but it is
,

correct as you will demonstrate t o yo ur own

,

s atisfaction if you will follow up the subj ect by

experiments along the proper lin es .

The attraction of T H E A B S O L U T E is drawing

man upward and the vibratory force of the
,

Prim al I mpulse h as not yet exh austed itself The .

time of evolutiona ry development h as come when

man can help himself The man who understands
.

the Law can accomplish wonders by means of

the develo pment o f the powers of the mind ;whilst
the man who turns his b ack upon the truth will
su ff er from his l ack of knowledge o f the Law .

He wh o underst ands the l aws of his ment al

being develops his latent powers and uses them
,
 C H APT E R IV

M I N D B U ILDI N G

M an can build up his mind and m ake it wh at

he wills I n fact we are mind building every
.
,
-

hour of our lives either consciously or u ncon

,

sci ou sly
. The m ajority of us are doing t h e work
u nconsciously but those who h ave seen a little
,

below the surface of things have taken the mat

ter in h and and h ave b ecome conscious creators
m
of their own entality They are no longer sub
.

j ec t to the suggestions an d influences of others

but h ave become masters of themselves They as .

“ ”
sert the I and compel obedience from t h e sub
,

“ ”
ordin ate ment al faculti es The I is the sover .

ei g n of the mind and wh at we call W I LL i s the

,

”
instrument of the I “
O f course there is some
.
,

thing back o i this and the Univ ersal Will i s

,

higher th an the Will of the I ndivid u al but the ,

l atter is in much clos er to u ch with the Universal

W ill than is generally suppos ed and when one ,

”
conq irers the lower self and asserts the
“
, I he ,

so
 M IN D BU I LD IN G 3:

becomes in close touch with the Univers al Will

and pa rt akes l argely of its wonderf u l power .

“ ” “
The moment one asserts the I and finds him ,

”
self he establishes a close connection between
,

t h e I ndividual Will and the Univers al Will But .

before he is able t o avail himself of the mighty

power at his comm and h e must fi rst eff ect the
,

M astery of the lower self .

Think of the absurdity of M an cl aiming to

manifest po wers when he is the sl ave of the
,

lower p arts of his mental being which should be ,

subordin ate Think of a man being the S l ave of

.

his moods passi ons anim al appetites and lower

, ,

faculties and at the same time trying to cl aim the

,

benefits of the Will N o w I amnot preaching

.
,

a sceticism which seems to me to be a confession

,

of weakness I amspeaking of Sel f M astery

.
-

“ ”
the assertion o f the I over the subordinate p arts
of oneself I n the higher view of the subj ect
.
,

“ ”
this I is the only real Self and the rest is the ,

non self but ou r space does not permit th e dis

-

cu ssi o n of this point and we will use the word

,

“
self as meaning the entire man Before a man
”
.

“ ”
can a ssert the I in its full streng th he must
o bta in the complete m a stery of the subordin ate
part s of the self All things are good when we
.
32 T H O UGH T VI B R AT I O N

lea rn to master them but no thing is good when

,

it m asters us Just so long as we allow the lower

.

portions of the self to give us orders we are ,

“ ”
sl aves I t is only wh en the I mounts his
.

throne and lifts the sc eptre th at order is estab,

li sh ed and things ass u me their prop er rel ation to

each other .

We are finding no fa u lt with tho se who are

—
swayed by th eir lower selves they are in a lower
grade of ev ol u tion and will work up in tim e
,
.

But we are c alling the attention o f those w h o are

ready t o the fact th at the Sovereign must assert
,

his will and that the subj ects must obey O rders
, .

must be g iven and c arried o u t Rebellion must .

be put down and the rightful authority insisted

,

upon And the time to do it is N ow

. .

You h ave been allowing yo u r rebellious sub

j ec t s to keep the King from his throne Y ou
h ave been allo wing the m ental kingdom to be mis
governed by irresponsibl e fac u lties You h ave .

been the slaves of Appetite Unworthy Thoughts , ,

Passion and N egativeness The Will h as been set

.

aside and Lo w D esire h as us u rped the throne It .

is time to re establish order in the mental king

-

dom .

Y ou are able to assert the m astery over any

 M IN D BU I LD IN G 33

emotion appetite passion or cl ass of thoughts by

, ,

the assertion of the Will You can order Fear to

.

go to the rea r ;Jealousy to leave your presence ;

H ate to depart from your sight ;Anger to hide
itself ;Worry to cease troubling you ;U ncon
trolled Appetite and Passion to bow in su b m is
sion and t o become humble slaves instead of m as

—
ters al l by the assertion of the I“ ”
You may
m
.

surround yoursel f with the glorious com ny of

Courage Lo ve and Sel f Control by the same
,
-

means You may put down the rebellion and

.

secure peace and order in your mental kingdom

if you will but utter the m andate and insist upo n
its execution Before you ma rch forth to empire
.
,

you mu st establish the proper intern al conditions

— must S how your ability to govern your own
ki ngdom The first battle is the conquest of the
.

lesser self by the R eal Self .

A F F I R M AT I O N .

I A mAsserti ng th e M as tery o M
f y R ea l S elf .

Repeat these words earnes t ly and positively

during the day at least once an hou r and par
, ,

t i cu larly when you are confronted with conditions

which tempt you to act on the lines of the lesser

sel f instead of following the cou rse dict ated by
34 T H O UGH T VI B RAT ION

the Real Self I n the moment of doubt and hesi

.

t at i o n say these words earnestly and your way

, ,

will be m ade clear to you R epe at them several .

times a fter you retire and settle yourself to sleep .

But be sure to back up the words with the

thought inspiring them and do not merely repeat
,

th em par rot like Form the mental im age of t h e

-
.

Real S elf asserting its m astery over the lower

—
pl anes of your mind see the King on his
Throne You will become conscious of an influx
.

of new thought and things which h ave seemed

,

hard f o r you will sudd enly become much easier .

You will feel th at you h ave yourself well i n

hand and that YO U are the m aster and not the
,

sl ave The thought yo u are holding will mani

.

fest itself i n action and you will steadily grow to

,

become that which you h ave in mind .

E X ERC I SE .

Fix the mind firmly on the higher Self and

d raw inspiration from it wh en you feel led to
y ield to the promptings of the lower p art of your
nature When you are tempted to burst into
.

— “ ”
Anger assert the I and your voice will drop
, .

Anger is unworthy of the developed Self W hen .

y ou feel v exed and cross rem ember wh at you are

, ,
 MI N D B U I LD I N G 35

and rise above your feeling Wh en you feel

.

Fearful remember th at the Real S elf fears noth

,

ing and assert Courage When you feel Jealo u sy

, .

inciting think of your higher n atur e and l augh

, ,
.

And so on asserting the R eal Sel f and no: allow

,

ing the things on the lower pl an e of ment al i t v to

disturb you T hey are u nworthy of you and
. ,

must be tau ght to keep their places D o not .

allow th ese thi ngs t o m a st er you — th ey sh ould be

your subj ect s not your m ast ers Y o u must get
,
.

aw ay from th i s pl ane and t h e only w ay to do so

,

is to cu t lo ose fro m these phases of t h ought

“ ”
wh i ch h ave been r u nni ng things to su it t h em
selves Y ou may h ave tr oubl e at t h e st art b u t
.
,

keep at it and yo u wi ll h av e t h at sati sfacti o n

w hich c o m es o n ly fr o m co nqueri ng t h e lo w er

p art s of ou r natu re Y o u h ave been a slav e lo ng

.

eno ugh — no w i s t h e ti m e t o f ree y o u rsel ves If .

you wi ll follo w t h ese ex erci ses fa i t h fu lly yo u

w i ll b e a d i ff erent b ei ng b y t h e end o f t h e y ear ,

and w i l l lo o k b a ck w i t h a i t
p y g i n s mi le t o y o u r

fo rmer co nd i t i o n Bu t i t t akes w o rk T h i s i s
. .

no t ch i ld s p lay b u t a t ask f o r ear nest m en a nd

’

,
 CHAPT E R V

T HE S E C R ET OF T H E WILL

While p sychol ogists may di ff er in their theories

regardi ng t h e nature of the Will none deny its ,

existence nor qu estion its pow er All persons

, .

recognize the power of strong W ill all see how

—
it may be u sed to overcom e the greatest obstacles .

But few r ealize th at the Will may be developed

and strengthen ed by intelligent practice They .

fe el th at they could accomplish wonders if they

h ad a strong Will but instead of attempting t o
,

develop it they content th emselves with vain

,

regrets They sigh but do nothi ng

.
,
.

T hose who have i nvestigated the subject closely

know th at Will Power with all its l atent possi
,

b i li t i es and mighty powers m ay be developed

, ,

disciplined controll ed and directed j ust as may

, ,

be any other of N atur e s forces I t does not

’
.

m atter what theory you may entertain about the

n ature of the Will you will obtain the results if
,

y o u pr actice intelligently .

so
3s T H O UGH T VI B RA T ION

ence he h as not dreamed This secret of the W ill .

is the magic key which opens all doors .

T he late Donald G M itchell once wrote .

R esolve is wh at m akes a m
“
an m anifest ; not

puny resolve but crude determin ation ;not errant

,

p p
u r ob
se b u t th at strong a nd i n def atigable will
which treads d own d ifli cu lt i es and d anger as a‘
,

boy treads down the heaving frost l ands o f -

winter ;which kindles his eye and brain with a

proud pul se beat toward the un att ain able W ill
-
.

makes men gi ant s ”

.

M any of us feel th at if we would but exert

our Will we might acc omplish wonders But
, .

somehow we do not seem to w ant to t ake the

—
tr oubl e at any rate we do not get to the actu al
,

willing p o i nt We put it off from time to time

.
,

“ ”
and t alk v agu ely of some day but that some ,

day never comes .

We i nstinctively feel the power of the Will ,

but we h aven t enough energy to exercise it and

’
,

so drift a long with the tide u nless perhaps some ,

fri endly di fficulty arises some helpfu l obstacle ,

appe ars in our p ath or so m e kindly pain stirs us

,

into action in either of which cases we are com

,

p olled to assert our Will and thus begin to accom

p li sh something .
 T HE W I LL 39

The trouble with us is that we do not w ant t o

do the thing enough t o make us exert our Will
Po wer We d on t want t o h ard enou g h We
.
’
.

are ment ally l azy and of weak D esire I f you .

do not like the word Desire substitute for it the

”
word Aspiration (Some
. p eople c a ll the lower
impulses Desires and the higher A spirations
, ,

it s all a m atter of w ord s take your ch oice )

’
,
.

That is the trouble Let a man be in danger of

.

—
losing his life let a woman be in danger of
—
losing a great l ove and you will witness a
st artling exhibition of Will Power froman u nex
’

p ect ed source Let

. a w o m an s child be thre a tened
with d anger and she will manifest a degree of
,

Courage and Will th at sweeps all before it And .

yet the same wom an will qu ail before a domi

neering husband and will l ack the Will t o per
,

form a simple task A boy will do all sorts of

.

work if he b u t considers it pl ay and yet he can ,

scarcely force himsel f to cut a little fire wood -

.

Strong Will follows strong Desire I f you really .

want to do a thing very much you can usually ,

develop the Will Power t o accomplish it .

The trouble is th at you have not really wanted

to do these things and yet you blame your Will
, .

You say th at you d o w ant to do it but if you ,

40 T H O UGH T VI B RA T IO N
s top to think you will see that you reall y want
to do something else more than the thing in
question You are not willing to pay the price
.

of attainment Stop a moment and an alyze this

.

st atement and apply it to your own case .

r a —
You a e ment lly l azy th at s the trouble
’
.

’
Don t t alk to me abo ut not h aving enough Will .

You h ave a great storehouse of Will aw aiting

your use but you are too l azy t o use it Now
, .
,

if you are really in earnest about this matter get ,

to work and first find out wh at you really want

—
to do then start to w o rk and do it N ever .

—
mind about the Will Power you ll find a full ’

supply of th at whenev er you need it The thing .

t o do is to get to the point where you will resolve

t o Will .
’
—
That s the real test th e resolvi ng .

Think of these things a little and make up your

,

mind whether or not you reall y w ant to be a

Willer su ffi ci ently hard to get to work .

M any exc ellent ess ays and books h ave been

written on this subj ect all of which agree regard
,

ing the greatn ess of Will Power the most en ,

t h u si ast i c t erms being used ;but few h ave any

thing t o say abo ut h ow this power may be
acquired b y those w h o h ave it not or who pos ,

sess it in but a limited degree .Some h ave given

 T HE W I LL 4 x

exercises designed t o strengthen the Will ,

which exercis es really strength en the M ind so

th at it is able to draw upon its store of power .

But they h ave generally overlooked the fact that '

in auto suggestion is to be found t h e secret o f the

-

devel opment of the mind so th at it may beco me

the effi cient instrument of the Will .

A U T O S UGGE ST I O N
-

I A m Usi ng My Wi ll P ower .

S ay these words several times earnes tly and

positively immedi ately after finishing this article
, .

Then repeat them frequently during the day at ,

least once an hour and particularly when you

,

meet something that calls for the exercise of Will

Power Also repeat them several times after
.

you retire and settle yourself for S leep N ow .

,

there is nothing in these words unless you back

them up with the thought I n fact the thought.
,

”
is the whole thing and the words only pegs
“
,

upon which to hang the thought S o think of .

what you are saying and mean wh at you say

,
.

You must use Faith at the start and use the ,

words with a confident expectati on of the result .

H old the steady thought th at you are drawing

on your storehouse of Will Power and before ,
42 T H O UGH T V I B RA T ION

long y ou will find that thought is taking form

in action and that your Will Power is m anifest
,

ing itself You will feel an influx of strength

.

with each repeti tion of the words You will find .

yourself overcoming di ffi culties and b ad h abits ,

and will be surprised at how things are being

smoo thed out for you .

E X E R CI SE
Perfo rm at least one disagreeable task each day
during t h e month I f there is any speciall y dis
.

agreeable ta sk which you would like to S hirk ,

t h a t is the one for you to perform This is not.

given you in order to m ake you self sacrifici ng -

or meek or anything of that sort i t is given

,
—
y o u to ex erci s e y ou r Wi ll An y one ca
.n do a

pleasant thing cheerfully but it takes Will to do

,

the unplea sant thing ch eerfully ;and that is how

you must do the work I t will prove a most
.

valu able discipline to you Try it for a month .

“ ”
and you will see where it comes in I f you .

S hirk this exercise you h ad better stop right here

and acknowledge th at you do not w ant Will

Power and are co ntent to stay where you are

,

and rem ain a weakling .

 C HAP T E R V I

How To B EC O M E IM M U N E T o I N J URI OU S
T H O UG H T A TT RA C T I O N

T he first thing to is to begin to cut out

do
Fear and Worry Fea rt h ou g h t is the cause of
.

much unhappiness and many fa ilures You have .

been told this thing over and over again but it ,

will bea r repeating Fear is a h abit of mind

.

which h as been fastened upon us by negative

race thought but from which we may free ou r
-
,

selves by individual eff o rt and perseverance .

Strong expectancy is a powerful m agnet H e .

of the strong confident desire attracts to him the

,

—
things best ca lculated to ai d him persons ,

things circumstances surroundings ;if he desires

, ,

them hopefully trustfully confidently calmly

, , , .

And equally true he who Fears a thing generally

, ,

man ages t o start into operation forces which will

cause the thing he feared to come upon him .

Do n t you see the m

’
an wh o Fea rs re ally expects
,

the feared thing and in the eyes of the Law it is

,

48
44 T H OUGH T VI B RAT IO N
t h e same as if he really h ad wish ed for or des ired
it ? The L a w is Oper tive in both ca ses the
a —
principle is the same .

The best way to overcome the habit of Fea r

is t o assume the mental att itude of Courage just ,

as the best way to g et rid of d arkness is to let

in the light I t is a w aste of ti me to fight a

.

negative thought h abit by recognizing its force

-

a nd trying to deny it out of existence by migh t y

eff orts The best surest easiest and quickest

.
, ,

method is to assume the existence of the positive

thought desired in its pl ace ;and by constantly
dwelling upon the positive thought manifest it ,

into objective reality .

“
Therefore instead of repeating
, I m not ,
’

a fraid
,
”
say boldly I am full of Courag e
,
” “
I ,

am Courageous
” “
You must assert T here s
. ,
’

nothing t o fear which although in the nature

, ,

o f a deni al S imply denies the reality of the object

,

causing fear rather th an admitting the fea r itself

and then denying it .

T o overcome Fear one should hold firmly t o ,

the mental attitude of Courage H e should think .

Co urage say Courage act Courage H e should

, ,
.

keep the mental picture of Courage before him

a ll the time until it becomes his norm a l ment a l
,
46 T H O UGH T VI B RA T IO N

tu de brou g h t to t h e surface latent qualit i es as ,

well as att racted help from outside ;whilst the

“
second menta l att itu de not only attract ed I
” ’
Ca n t p eople and things but also kept the man s,
’

own powers from manifest i ng themselves I .

have demons t rated the correct ness of these views ,

and so h a ve m any others and the number of ,

people who know these things is growing every

day .

D on
t waste your Thought Force but use it to
’
-
,

a dvantage Stop attracting to yourself failure

.
,

,
—
unh appiness inh armony sorrow begin now ,

and send out a current of bright positive h appy , ,

thought Let your prev ailing thought be I Can

.

and I Will t h i nk I Can and I W ill dream

“

“
I Can and I Will ; say I Can and I Will act
“

I Can and I W ill Live on the I Can and I

.

”
Will pl ane and before you are aware of it you
, ,

will feel the new vibrations manifesting them

selves in action ;will see them bring results ;will
be conscious of the new point of V iew ;will real
ize that your own is coming to you You will .

feel better act better see bett er BE better in

, , ,

“ ”
every way after you join the I Can and I Will
,

brigade .

Fear is the parent of Worry H ate Jealousy , , ,

 T H OUGH T ATT RAC T I O N 47

Malice Anger D iscontent

, ,Failure and all the ,

rest The man who rids himself of Fear will

.

find that the rest of the brood have disappeared .

The only way to be Fr ee is to get rid of Fear .

Tear it out by the roots I regard the conquest .

of Fear as t h e first import ant step to be taken by

those who wish to master the application of
T hought Force S o long as Fear m asters you
’

.
,

you are in no c ondition to m ake progress in the

rea lm of Thought and I must insist th at you ,

start to work at once to get rid of this obstru e

—
tion You CA N do i t i f you only go about it
.

in earnest And when you h ave ridded yourself

.

of the vile thing life will s eem entirely di ff erent

,

t o you — you will feel happier freer stronger , , ,

more positive and will be more successful in

,

every undertaking of Life .

St art in today m ake up your mind that this

,

—
intruder must G O do not compromise m atters
with him but insist upon an absolute surrender
,

on his part Y ou will find the task di ffi cult at

.

first but each time you Oppose h i mhe will grow

,

weaker and you will be stronger Shut off his

, .

— —
nourishment st arve him t o death h e c annot
live in a tho ught atmosphere of Fearlessness So
-
.
,

start to fill your mind with goo d strong Fear , ,

48 T H OUGH T VI BRAT ION
—
less thoughts keep yourself busy thinking Fear
lessness and Fea r will die of his own accord
, .

a —
Fe rlessness is positive Fear is negative and ,

you may be sure th at the positive will prev ail .

“ ” “ ”
So long as Fear is around with his but if , ,
” “ ” “ ” “
suppose ,I m a fraid
’
I can t wh at if
,
’
, ,

and all the rest of his cowardly suggestions

y o u ,

will not be able to use your T hought Force to the

best advant age O nce get him out of the way
.
,

you will h ave clear s ailing and every inch of ,

thought sail will c atch the wind H e is a Jonah

-
. .

O verboard with him ! (T he whale who swallows

him will h ave my sympathy ) .

I advise that you start in to do some of the

things which you feel you could do if you were
not afrai d to try Start to work to do these
.

things affirming Courage all the way through

, ,

and you will be surprised to see how the ch anged

mental attitude will clear away obstacles from

y o ur p ath a nd will
,
m ake things very much e as ier

t h an you h ad anticipated Exercises of this kind

.

will develop you wo nderfully and you will be ,

much gratified at the result of a little practice

a long these lines .

There are many things before you awaiting

accomplishment which you can m aster if you
,
 T H O UGH T ATTRAC T I O N 49

will only throw aside the yoke of —

Fear i i you
will only refuse to accept the race suggestion ,

“ ”
and will boldly a ssert the I and its power .

And the best way t o v anquish Fear is t o assert

“ ”
Courage and stop thinking of Fear By this .

pl an you will train the mi nd into new h abits of

th ought thus eradicating the old n eg ative
,

thought s which h ave been pulling you down and ,

holding you back T ake the word Courage

.
“

with yo u as your w atchword and m anifest it in

acti o n
.

R emember t h e only thi ng t o fear is Fear and

, ,

—w ell d o n t ev en fear Fea r f o r h e s a c ow ardly

,
’
,
’

chap at t h e best who will run if you S how a brave

,
 C H AP T E R VI I

T H E T RA N S M U T A TION OF NEGATI V E TH O UG H T

—
Worry is the child of Fear i i you kill ou t

Fear Worry will die for want of nourishment

, .

This advice is very old and yet it is always

,

worthy o f r ep etition for it is a lesson o f which

,

we are greatly in n eed Some people think th at

.

if we kill out Fear and Worry we will never be

able to accomplish a nything I have read edito
.

ri als in the great j ourn als in which the writers

held th at without Worry one can never aecom
p l i sh a ny of the gr eat t asks of life bec ause ,

Wo rry is necess ary to stimul ate interest and

work This is nonsense no m att er who utt ers
.
,

it Worry never helped one to accomplish any

.

thing ; o n the contrary it st ands in the way of

,

accomplishment and att ainment .

The motive underlying action and doing

”
things is D esire and I nterest I f one earnestly.

desires a thing he naturall y becomes very much

,

interest ed in its accomplishment and is quick t o ,

 NE GA T IVE T H O UGH T 51

sei z e upon anyth i ng likely to help him to gain

the th i ng he wants M ore t h an t hat his mind
.
,

starts up a work on the sub conscious plane that -

brings into the field of consciou sness many idea s

of value and import ance Desire and I nterest .

are the causes th at result in success

“

Worry is .

not Desire I t is t rue that if one s surroundings

.
’

and environments beco me intolerable he is ,

driven in desperati on to some eff orts that will

resu lt in throwing off the u ndesirable conditions
and in the acquiring of those more in h armony

with his desire But t his is only another form

.

of D esire the m
— a n desires something diff erent

from what he h as ;and when his desire becomes

strong enough his entir e inter est is given to the
task he makes a m ighty e ff ort a nd the change
, ,

is accomplished But it w asn t Worry t h at

.
’

c aused the eff ort Wo rry could content itsel f

.

“
with wringing its hands and moaning W oe is
me and wea ring its nerves to a frazz le and
, ,

accomplishing n othing Des ire acts di ff erentl y

. .

I t grows stron g er as the m an s conditi ons become

’

intolerable and finally when he feels the hurt so

,

’
strongly that he can t stand it any longer he ,

,
“ ’
—
s ays I won t st and thi s any longer I wi ll m ake
”
a cha nge , and 10 ! then Desi re spri ngs int o
52 T H O UGH T VI B RA T IO N

a ction The m
. an keeps on wanting a chang e“

t h e worst way (which is the b est way ) and h i s

I nterest and Att ention being given to the task o f
deliverance he begi ns to m ake things move
, .

Worry never accomplished anything Worry i s .

negative and death producing Desire and Ambi .

tion are positive and life producing A man m ay .

worry himself to death and yet nothing will be

a ccomplished but let that man transmute his
,

worry and discontent into Desire and I nterest ,

coupled with a belief that he is able to make the

a e —
ch ng the I C “
an an d
” —
I W ill idea then
something h appens .

Yes Fear and Worry must go before we can

,

do much O ne must proceed to cast out these

.

negative intru ders and repl ace them with Con

,

fidence and HOpe Transmute Worry into keen

.

Desire Then you will find th at I nterest is awak

.

ened , and you will begin to think things of

interest to you T houghts will come to you from

.

the great reserve stock in your mind and you will

start to manifest them in action M oreover you .

will be pl acing yourself in h armon y with simil ar

thoughts of others and will draw to you a id and
,

assist ance from the great volume of thought

waves with which the world is filled O ne draws .

54 T H O UGH T VI B RAT IO N

a dequate compensation But if you really Desire

.

a thing in earnest you will a the price withou t

, p y
question ;for the Desire will dw arf the impor
t ance of the other things .

You say that you w ant a thing very much ,

and are doing everything po ss ible tow a rd its

att a inm ent ? Psh aw ! you are only playing

D esire .Do you want the thing as much as a
—
prison er wants freedom as much as a dying
man wants life ? Look at the al most miraculous
things accomplish ed by prisoners desiring free
dom Look how th ey work through steel pl ates
.

and stone walls with a bit of stone I s your .

desire as strong as th at ? Do you work for the

desired thing as if your life depended upon it ?
N onsense ! you don t know what Desire is I
’
.

tell you if a man wants a thing as much as the

prisoner wants freedom or as much as a strongly
,

vit al man w ants life then th at man will b e able

,

to sweep aw ay obst acles and impediments ap

p a rent ly immov able The .ke y to att ainment is
Desire Confidence and Will This key will open
, ,
.

m any doors .

Fear paralyzes Desire— i t scares the life out of

it You must get rid of Fear There h ave been
. .

t imes in m y life when Fear would get hold of me

 N E GAT IV E T H OUGH T 55

and take a go od firm grip on my V ital s and I

, ,

would lose all hope ;all interest ;all ambition ;all

desire But thank the Lord I h ave always man
.
, ,

aged to throw o ff the grip of the monster and

face my di ffi culty like a man ; and 10 ! t hings

would seem to be straightened out for me some
h ow Either the di ffi culty would m elt aw ay or
.
,

I would be given means to overcome i t or g et ,

around or under or over it

, I t is strange h ow .

this works N o matter how great is the di ffi cul ty

.
,

when we finally face it with courage and con

fidence in ourselves we seem to pull through ,

s om ehow and then we beg in to wonder wh at we

,

were scared about T his is not a mere fancy it

.
,

is the wo rking of a migh ty law which we do not ,

as yet fully underst and but which we m ay prove

,

at any time .

“
People often ask : I t s all very well for you ’

N ew Thought people to say Don t wor ry but ‘ ’

,
’

what s a person to do when he thinks of all the

’

possible things ahead of him which might upset ,

”
him and his pl ans ? Well all that I can say is ,

that t h e man is foolish to bother about thinking

of troubles to come at some time in the futu re .

The majority of thing s th at we worry about

’
don t come to pass at all ;a l arge proportion of
56 T H O UGH T VI B RA T I O N

the others come in a milder form th an we h ad

anticip ated , and there are a lw ays other things

which come at the s ame time which help us t o

overcome the trouble The future holds in sto re
.

for us not only di ffi culties to be overcome but ,

also agents to help us in overcoming the d i ffi cu l

ti es Things adjust themselves We are pre

. .

pared for any trouble which may come upon us ,

and when the time comes we somehow find o u r

selves able to m eet it God not only tempers the

.

wind to the shorn lamb but H e also tempers t h e

,

shorn l amb to the wind The wind and t h e

.

shearing do not come together ;th ere is usuall y

enough time for the l amb t o get seasoned and ,

then he gen erally grows new wool before the

cold bl as t comes.

I t h as been well said th at nine tenths of the

-

worries are over things which never come to pass ,

and th at the other tenth is over things of little or

’
no account So wh at s the use in using up all
.

your reserve force in fretting over future

troubles if this be so ? Bet ter w ait until your
,

t ro ubles really c ome before you worry You will .

find th at by this storing up of energ y you will

be able to meet about any sort of trouble that
comes your way .
 NE GA T I V E T H O UGH T 57

Wh at is it t h at uses up all
the energy in the
aver age m an or wom an an yw ay ? , I s it the real
overcoming of di ffi culties or the worrying about
,

impending t roubles ? I t s always Tomorrow

“’

,
”
tomorrow and yet tomorrow never comes j ust
,

as we feared it woul d Tomo rrow is all right ;

.

it ca rri es in its grip good things as well as

troubles Bless my sou l when I sit down and
.
,

think over t h e things which I once feared might

po ss ibly descend upon me I l augh ! Where are
,

tho se feared things now ? I don t know have — ’

al most forgotten th at I ever f ea red them .

—
You do not need to ti g h t Worry th at isn t t h e ’

way t o overcome the h abit Just practice con

.

cen t ration and then lea rn to concentr ate upon

,

something right before you and y ou will find ,

th at the worry thought h as v anished The .

mind can think of but one thing at a time and if ,

you concent rate u pon a bright thing the other ,

thing w i ll fade aw ay There are better w ays of

.

overcoming objectionable thoughts tha n by fig h t

ing them Lea rn to concentrate upon thoughts
.

of an opposite character and you will h ave solved

,

the problem .

When the mind is full of worry thoughts it ,

cannot find time to work out pl ans to benefit you .

58 T H O UGH T VI B RA T IO N

Bu t when you have concentrated upon bright ,

h elpful t houghts you will discover that it will

,

start to work subconsciously ;and when the time

co mes y ou will find all so rts of pl ans and meth

ods by which you will b e able to meet the

d em ands upon you Keep your mental attitude
.

right and all things will be added unto you

, .

There s no S ense in worry ing ;nothing h as ever

’

been ga ined by it and nothing ever will be Bright

, .
,

cheerful and happy thoughts at tract bright ,

cheerful and h appy things to u s worry drives

-

them away Cultiv ate the right mental attitude

.
.
 C H A P T ER V III

T H E LA W OF M EN TAL C O NTROL
You r t houghts are either faithful servants or
—
tyrannical masters ju st as you allow them t o
be You h ave the say about it ;take your choice
. .

They will either go about your work under di rec

tion of the firm will doing it the best they know
,

how not only in your w aking hours but when

, ,

—
you are asleep some of our best mental work
being performed for us when our conscious men
tality is at rest as is evidenced by the fact that
,

when the morning comes we find troublesome

problems h ave been worked out for us during the
night a fter we h ad dismissed them from our
,

—
mind s apparently ;or they will ride all over us
and m ake us their sl aves if we are foolish enough

to allow them to do so M ore th an half the

.

people of the world are sl aves of every vagrant

thought which may see fit to torment them .

Your mind is given you for your g ood and for

—
your own use not to use you There are very.
60 T H OUGHT VI B RA T I O N
few people who seem to realize this and wh o
unders tand h e art of m anaging the mind T he
t .

key to the mystery is Concentration A little .

practice will develop with i n eve ry man the power

to use the mental m achine properly When you .

have some mental work to do concentrate upon

it to the exclu sion of everyt hing el se and you ,

will find that the mind will g et right down to

— —
busines s to the work at h and and m atters will
be cleared up in no time There 18 an absence of
.

friction and all waste motion or lost power is

,

obviated Every pound of energy is put to use

.
,

and every revolution of the mental driving wheel -

counts for something I t p ays to be able to be a

.

competent m ental engineer .

And the man who u nderstands how to ru n his

mental engine knows th at one of the important
things is to be able to stop it wh en the work h as
been done He does not keep putting coal in the
.

furnace and m aintaining a high pressure after

,

’
the work is finished or when the day s portion
,

of the work h as been done and the fires S hould

,

be banked until the next day Some people act .

as if the engine should be kept running whether

there was any work to be done or not and then ,

they compl ain if it gets worn out and wobbles

 CHAP T E R IX

A SSERT I N G T HE LI F E FOR CE
-

I h ave spoken to you of the advantage of get

ting rid o f Fear N ow I wish to put L I F E into
.

you M any of you have been going along as if

.

— —
you were dead no ambition no energy no —
— —
vitality no interest no life This will never .

do. You are st agnating W ake up and display

.

a few signs of life ! This is not the place i n

which you can stalk around like a living corpse
this is the place for wide aw ake active li ve -
, ,

people and a go od general awakening is what is

,

needed ;although it would take nothing less th an

’
a bl ast from Ga briel s trumpet to aw aken some of

the people who are stalking around thinking that

they are alive but who are really dead to all that
,

makes life worth whil e .

We must let Life flow throu gh us and all ow i t ,

to express itself n aturally Do not let the lit t le

.

worries of life or the big ones either depress

, ,

you and cause you to lose your vitality Assert .

a
 T HE L I F E F OR C E 63

th e Life Force within you and m anifest it in,

every thought act a nd deed and before long you

, ,

will be exhilarated and fairly bubbling over with

vitality and energy .

—
Put a little life into your work into your
—
pleasures into yourself S top doing things in a
.

half hearted way and begin to t ake an int erest

-
,

in wh at you are doing s aying and thinking I t

,
.

i s ast onishing how much inter est we m ay find

in the ordinary things of life if we will only ,

w ake up There are interesting things all around

.

us — interesting events occurring every moment

—but we will not be aw are of them unless we
as s ert our life force and begin to actu ally live

in stead of merely existing .

No m an or wom an ever amount ed to anything

unless he or she put life int o the t asks of every

—
day life t h e acts the thoughts
-
What the .

world needs is live men and women Just look .

into the eyes of t h e peopl e whom you meet and ,

see how few of them are really ali ve T he most .

of them l ack th at expression of conscious life

which distingui shes the man who li ves from the
one who S imply exi s ts .

I w ant you to acquire this sense of conscious

life so th at you may m anifest it in your life and
64 T H O UGH T VI B RAT ION

Show what M ental S cience h as done for you I .

w ant you t o g et to work today and begin to

m ake yourselves over according to the latest pat
tern Y ou can do this if you will only t ake the
.

O
p p
r er int erest in the t a sk .

A F F I R M AT I O N AN D E X E RC I S E
I A mAli ve .

“ ”
Fix in your mind the thought th at the I
within you i s v ery much alive and th at you
are m anifesting life fully ment ally and phy sic ally
,
.

And keep this th ought th ere aiding yourself with

,

’
const ant repetiti ons of the watchword Don t let .

the thought escape you but keep pushing it back

,

into the mind Keep it before the ment al vision

.

as m u ch a s pos sible Repeat the watchword when

.

—
you aw aken in the morning say it wh en you re
tire at night And say it at meal times and
.
,

—
whenev er else you can during the day at least
once an hour For mthe ment al picture of your
.

self as fill ed with Life and Energy Live up to it .

as f ar a s po ssible .When you start in to perform

“ ”
a t ask say I Am Alive and mix up as much life
a s possible in the t ask I f you find you rsel f feel
.

“
ing d epressed say I Am Alive and then take a
, ,

few deep breaths and with each inhalation let t h e

,
 T HE LI F E F O R CE 65

mind hold the t h o g ht th at you

u breathing in
a re

S tr en g th and Life and as you exh a le hold the

, ,

t h o u g ht t h at you are br eat h i ng out all the old ,

dea d neg ativ e co nd i t i o ns and a re gl ad t o g et rid

,

o f t h em T h en fi ni sh up w i t h an ea rn est vi g orous
.
,

affirm I Am Alive and mean it wh en

“
at i on : ,

y o u sa
y it t,o o .

And let yo u r th o u g hts t ake fo rm in acti o n .

Do n t rest c o nt ent w ith m erely sayi ng t h at you

’

are aliv e b u t p ro ve it w ith y o ur acts

, T ake an
.

i nt erest i n do i ng t h i ng s and d on t g o arou nd

,
’

“
mooni ng or day d reaming Get down to busi
” -
.
 C HAP T ER X

T RA I N I N G T HE HA B I T M I N D
-

Professor Willi am J ames the well known ,

-

teacher of and writer upon Psycholog y very

, ,

truly s ays
“
The great thing in all education is t o m ake
o u r nervous system our ally instead of our

enemy For this we must make autom atic and

.

h abitu al as early as possible as many useful

, ,

acti ons a s we can and as c arefully g u ard against

,

growing into w ays that are likely t o be di sad

vant ag eou s I n the acquisition of a new h abit or
.
,

the leaving off of an old one we must take care ,

to l aunch ourselves with as strong and decided

initi ative as possible N ever suff er an exception
.

t o occur until the new h abit is securely rooted in

your life S eize the very first possible oppor

.

t u ni t y to act on every resolution you make and

on every emotiona l prompting you m ay expe

ri ence in the direction of the h abits you aspire t o

,

”
gain .
 T HE HAB I T M IN D 67

This advice is along the lines famili ar to all

stu dents of M ental S cience but it states the mat
,

ter more pl ainly th an the m ajority of us have

done I t impresses upon us the import ance of
.

passing on to the subconscious mind the proper

impulses so th at th ey will become automatic and
,

“ ”
second nature O ur subconscious mentality is
.

a grea t store house for all sorts of suggestion s

from ourselves and oth ers and as it is the , ,

“ ”
h abit mind we must be c areful to send it the
-
,

proper m aterial fromwhich it may make habits .

I f we get into the h abit of doing cert ain things ,

we may be sure that the subconscious mentality

will make it easier for us to do just the same
thing over and over aga in easier each time until
, ,

finally we are firmly bound with the ropes and

ch ains of the h abit and find it more or less dif
,

ficu lt sometimes almost impossible to free our

, ,

selves from the hateful thing .

We S hould cultivate good habits against the

hour of need The time will come when we will
.

be required to put fort h our best eff orts and it ,

rests with us tod ay whether th at hour of need

S h all find us doing the prop er thing auto maticall y

and almost without thought or strugg ling to do

,

it bound down and hind ered with t h e chains of

68 T H O UGHT VI B R AT I O N
things opposed to th at which we desire at th at
moment .

We must be on gu ard at all times t o preven t

the forming of undesirable h abits There may .

be no speci al h a rm in doing a certain thing tod ay ,

or perh aps ag a in tomorrow but there may be ,

much h arm in setting u p t h e h ab i t o f doing th at

particular thi ng I f you are confronted with the
.

question : Which of these two things should I

do the best answer is “
I will do th at which I
”
would like to become a h abit with me .

I n forming a new h abit or in breaking an old

,

o ne w e should throw ours elve s into the t ask with

,

as much enthusi asm a s possible in order to gain ,

the most ground before the energ y expends itsel f

wh en it meets with friction from the opposing
habits already form ed W e sh ould start in by
.

m aking as strong an impression as possible upon

the subco nscious m entality Then we should be
.

const antly on gu ard aga inst temptations t o break

” “
the new resolution j u st this once This just .

”
once idea kills off more good resolutions than
any other one c ause The moment you yield
.

“ ”
j ust this once you introduce the thin edge o f
,

the wedge th at will in the end S plit your reso

, ,

lu t i o n into pi eces .
 CHAPT E R XI

T HE P S Y C H OLOG Y OF EM O T I O N

O ne is to think of the emotions as inde

apt

pendent from h abit We easily may think of one

.

acquiring h abits o f action and even of t hinking

, ,

but we are apt to regard the emotions as some

“ ”
thing connected with feeling and quite di
vorced from intellectu al eff ort Yet not wi t h
.
,

standing the distinction between the t wo both ,

a re dependent l argely upon h abit and one m ay,

repress increase develop and ch ange one s em

, , , o
’

tions just as one may regulate habits of action

,

and lines of thought .

I t is an axiom of psychology th at Ernot i ons

‘

deepen by r epetition I f a person allows a s t ate

.

of feeling to thoroughly take possession of him ,

he will find it easier to yield to the same emotion

the second time and so on until the particular
, ,

emotion or feeling becomes second nature to him .

If a n undesir able emotion shows itself inclined t o

take up a permanent abode with you you h ad ,

so
 T HE E M OT IO N S 7 1

better sta rt to wo rk to get rid of it or at lea st ,

to master it And the best ti me to do this is at

.

the sta rt ;for each repetition renders t h e h abit

more firml y intrenched and the tas k of di slodg
,

ing it m ore di fficult .

Were you ever j ealous ? I f so you will re ,

member how insidiou s was its first approach ,

how subt ly it whispered h ateful suggestions into

your willing ear and how gradually it followed
,

up such suggestions until finally you bega n to

, ,

see green (Jealousy h as an eff ect upon the bile

.
,

and ca u ses it to poi son the blood This is why .

the idea of green is alway s a ssoci ated with it ) .

Then you will remember how the thing seemed

to grow t aking possession of you until you
,

scarcely could shake it o ff You found it much

.

easier to become j ealous the next time It .

seemed to bring before you all sorts of obj ect s

appa rently justifying y our suspicions and feel

—
ing Everything began to look green the green
.

eyed monster waxed f at .

And so it is with every feeling or emotion I f .

you give way to a fit of rage you will find it ,

easier to become angry the next time on less ,

provocation The h abit of feeling and acting

.

”
mean does not take long to fi rmly settle itself
7 2 T H O UGH T VI B RAT ION

in i t s new home if encouraged Worry is a great

.

habit for growing and w axing f at People start .

by worrying about big things and then begin t o

,

worry and fret about some smaller thing And .

then the merest trifle worries and distresses them .

T hey im agine th at all sorts of evil things a re

about to befa ll them I f th ey start on a j ourney
.

they are cert ai n t h ere is going to be a wreck I f .

a t el egr am comes it is sure to cont ain some

,

dreadful tidings I f a child seems a little quiet

.
,

the wor rying mother is positive it is going to fall

ill and die I f the husband seems thoughtful a s
.
,

he revolves some business pl an in his mind then ,

the good wife is convinced th at he is beg in

ning to cease to love her and indulges in a
,

.
—
c rying sp ell And so it goes worry wo rry , ,

worry— eac h indulgence making the h abit mor e

at home . After a wh ile the continued thought
shows itself in action N ot only is the mind
.

poisoned by the blu e thoughts but the forehead ,

shows deep lines between the eyebrows and the ,

voice takes on that whining rasping tone so com

,

mon among worry burdened people

-
.

T he condition of mind known as fault find -

”
i ng is anoth er emotion th a t grows f at with ex er

cise First fault is found with this thing th en

.
, ,
74 T H O UGH T VI BR AT ION

ment against the sin of b ad thoughts I t is .

merely a calling of your attention to the law

underlying the psychology of emotions N othing .

— —
new bout i t o ld as the hill s so old that man y
a

of us h ave forgotten all about it .

I f you wish to manifest these constantly disa

g re e a b le a nd unple a sa nt tr a its and to
, suff er t h e

unh appiness th at comes from them by all means ,

—
do so th at is your own business and privilege , .

I t s none of mine and I amnot preaching at you

’

— i t keeps me busy minding my own business and

keeping an eye on my own undesirable h abits
a nd action s . I am merely telling you the law
regarding t h e m atter and you may do the rest
, .

I f you wish to ch oke o u t these h abits there are ,

two w ays open to you First wh enever you find

.
,

yourself indulging in a negative thought or feel

ing take r i ght hold of it and say to it firmly and
, ,

vigorously G et out
,
“
I t won t like this at first
’
,

and will bri d le up curve its b ack a nd sn arl like

,

an off e nded cat .

—
But never mind j ust say
”
“
S cat to it .T he next time it will not be so
—
confident and aggressive i t will h ave mani
f est ed a little of the fear h abit -
Each time you
.

repr ess and choke out a tendency of this kind the ,

weaker it will become and the stronger will you r

,

will be .
 T HE E M OT I ON S 75

Professor J ames says : Refuse to express a

passion and it dies Count ten before venting
,
.

your anger and its occasion seems ridiculous

,
.

Whistling to keep up courage is no mere figure

of speech O n the other hand sit all day in a
.
,

moping posture sigh and reply to everything

, ,

with a di smal voice and your mel ancholy lingers

, .

T here is no m ore valuable precept in moral edu

cati o n th an this as all w h o h ave experience
,

know : i f we wish to conquer emotion al tenden

cies in ourselves we mu st assiduou sly and in
, ,

the first in st anc e cold b loodedly g o through t h e

,
-

ou t wa rd m ovem ents of thos e cont ra ry di spo si

tions which we prefer to cultiv ate .

Smooth the brow bright en t h e eye c ontract the

, ,

dor sal rath er th an the ventral asp ect of t h e fram e ,

and spe ak in a m aj o r key p ass t h e

g e
,n i a l co m
l i men t and y o u r h ea rt mu st b e f ri i d i nd eed if
p .
g
”
it d oes not gr ad u ally th aw .
 C H APT ER XI I

DEVELO P I N G N Ew B R A I N -
C ELLS

I h ave spoken of the pl an of getting rid of

undesirable states of feeling by driving them out .

But a f ar better way is to cultivate the feeling or

emotion directly opposed to the one you wish to
eradicate .

We are very apt to regard ourselves as the

c eat u res of our emotions and feelings and to ,

“ ”
fancy th at th ese feelings and emotions are we .

But such is f ar from being the truth I t is true

.

th at the maj ority of the race are sl aves of their

emot i ons and feelings and are governed by them
,

to a great degree T h ey think th at feelings are

.

things th at rule one and from which one cannot

free himsel f and so th ey c ease to rebel T hey
, .

vi eld to the feeling without question although ,

they may know th at the emotion or mental trait

is calcul ated to injure them and to bring unh ap
,

i n and f a ilure inste ad of h appiness and suc

p ess
”
cess T hey say we are m ade that way and let
.
“
,

it go at that .
78 T H O UGH T VI B RA T I O N
main the same Ce rtain key s seem to respond t o
.

our touch more ea sily than others Certain notes .

seem to sound forth as the current of circu m

stances sweeps over the strings And certai n .

o ther notes are less easily vibrated But we find .

that if we but make an e ff ort of the will t o

restrain the utterance of some of these easil y
sounded strings they will grow more di ffi cult t o
,

sound and less liable to be stirred by the passing

,

breeze And if we will pay attention to some o f

.

the other strings that h ave not been giving forth

a clea r tone we will soon get them in good work
,

i g order ;their n o tes will chime forth clear and

vibrant and will drown the less pleasant sounds
, .

We have millions of unused brain cells aw ait -

ing our cultivation We are using but a few of.

them and some of these we are working to death

,
.

We are able to give some of these cells a rest by ,

using other cells The brain m ay be trained and

.

c ultiv ated in a m anner incredible to one who h a s

not looked into the subj ect M ent al attitudes .

may be acquired and cultivated changed and dis ,

carded at will There is no longer any excuse

,
.

for people m anifesting unpleas ant and h armful

mental states We h ave the remedy in our own
.

hands .
 B RA I N C E LL S
-
79

We cquire habits of th ought feeling and

a , ,

action by repea t ed use

, .We may be born with a
tendency in a certain direction or we m
,
a y ac

quire tendencies by suggestions from others ;

such as the exam fl es of those a round us su gg,
es

tions from reading listening to teachers We

,
.

are a bundle of mental h abi t s . Each time we

indulge in an undes ir able thought or habit the ,

easier does it become to repeat th at thought or

acti o n. And the oftener we give forth a certain
desirable thought or perform a desirable action
, ,

the easier does it become for us to repea t th at

thou ght or action .

M ental scienti sts a re i n the habit of spe aking

of desirable thoughts or ment al attitudes as
“ ” “
positive and of the undes irable ones as nega
,

”
tive. There is a good reason for this The .

mind instinct ively recogni zes certa i n things as

g ood for the individu al to which it belongs an d ,

it clears the path for such thoughts and int er ,

poses the l east resistance to them They h ave a

.

much greater eff ect than an undesirable thought

pos sess es and one positive thou g ht will cou nter
,

act a number of nega tive though t s The best

.

way to overcome undesir able or negative t hough t s

and feelings is to cul tiva te the positive ones The .
80 T H OUGH T VI BR AT IO N
positive thought is the strongest pl ant and will ,

in time sta rve out the negative one by withdraw

ing from it the nourishment necessary for i t s
existence .

O f course the neg ative thought will set u p a

vigorous resistance at first for it is a fight for ,

life with it I n the slang words of the time it

.
,

“ ”
sees its finish if the positive thought is allowed
to grow and develop ; and consequently it , ,

makes things unpleas ant for the individual until

he h as started well into the work of starving i t
out Brain cells do not like to be l aid on the
.

shelf any more th an does any other form of

living energy and they rebel and struggle until
,

they become too weak to do so The best way .

is to pay as little attention as possible to thes e

weeds of the mind but put in as much time as
,

possible w atering ca ring for and attending t o

,

the new and beautiful pl ants in the garden of t h e

mind .

For instance if you are ap t to h ate people you

, ,

can best overcome the n egative thought by culti

vat i ng Love in its pl ace T hink Love . an d act it ,

out as often as possible Cultivate thoughts of

,
.

kindness and act as kindly as you can to every

,

one with whom you come in cont act You will .

82 T H O UGH T V I B RAT ION
a fixed habit with you Thou ghts take formi n .

action ; and in turn actions influence thought So .

“ ”
by acting out certain lines of thought t h e ,

actions react upon the mind and increa se t h e ,

development of the pa rt of the mind h aving close

rel ati on to the act Each time the mind enter
.

ta ins a thought the easier becomes the resulting

,

action — and each time an act is performed the ,

easier becomes the corresponding thought S o .

—
you see the thing works both ways action and
reaction I f you feel cheerful and h appy it is
.
,

very n atural for you to l augh And if you will .

l augh a little you will begin to feel bright and

,

cheerful Do you see what I amtrying t o get

.

at ? Here it is in a nutshell : I f you wi sh to

,

cu l t i va t e a certai n h ab i t f
o acti on, b eg i n b y cu lti
voti ng th e ment al a t ti tu de correspondi ng t o i t .

A nd as a mans
e o f cu l ti vati ng th at ment al a t ti
“ ”
t u de, s t art i n to ac t ou t,
-
or g o t h rou g h , th e
moti ons f o t h e act correspondi ng t o t h e t h ou g h t .

Now see if you cannot apply this rule Take up

, .

s omething that you really feel should b e done ,

but which you do not feel like doing Cultivate .

—
the thought leading up to i t say to yourself
“
I like t o do so and so and then go through the,

motions (cheerfully remember ! ) and act out the

,
 B R A I N CE LLS
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83

thought that you lik e to do the thing Take an .

—
interest in t h e doin g study out the be st way t o
do i t — put brai s into
n i t — t ake a pride in i t and—

you will find your self d oing t h e thing with a

c on siderable amount of pleasure and interest
you will hav e cu ltiv ated a new h abit .

I f you p refer tryi ng it on so me ment al trai t

of whi ch you w i sh t o b e ri d it w ill w o rk the
,

sam e w a S t art i n to cul t iv at e t h e opp o sit e t rait

y .
,

a nd t h i nk it o u t and act it out f o r a l l yo u are

wort h T h en w at ch t h e ch a nge t h at w i ll com e

.

o v er o n t b e d i sco u raged at t h e resi st

’

y o.u D
ance yo u w i ll enco u nt er at fi rst b u t si ng g aily
,

”
“
I Can and I Wi ll and g et t o wo rk i n earn est
, .

T h e im p o rtant t h i ng i n th i s w o rk i s t o k eep ch eer

f u l and i nt erest ed I f yo u m
. anag e t o d o t h i s t h e
,

r est w i ll b e easy .
 C H AP T E R X III

T HE ATTRACT E IV —
P OW ER D ES I RE FORCE
.

We h ave di scu ssed the necessity of getting rid

of fea r th at your desire may have full strengt h
,

with which t o work Supposing th at you h ave

.

mastered this part of the t ask or at least started ,

on the ro ad to mast ery I will now c all your ,

attention t o another import ant branch of the sub

ject .I a llude to the subj ect of ment a l l eaks .

N o I don t mean the leakage arising from your

,
’

failure to keep your own secrets th at is als o -

important but forms another story T he leakage

, .

I amnow referring to is th at occasioned by the

habit of h aving the attention attracted to and
distracted by every passing fancy .

I n order t o attain a thing it is necessary th at

the mind should fall in love w ith it and be con ,

scious of its existence almost to the exclusion of

,

everything else You must get in love with the

.

thing you wish to atta in j ust as much as you ,

would if you were to meet the girl or man you

wished to marry I do not mean that you should
.
86 T H O UGH T V I BR AT I O N
and if he begin s fli rt ing w ith other fair ch armers ,

sh e soo n turn s her b ack upo n h i m If a man .

a llo ws his strong intere st in the ma in ch ance t o

be sidetracked he will be the loser M ental Force

. .

o per ates best w hen it i s concentrated You must .

gi ve to t h e des ired thing your best and most

ea rnest thought Just as the m . an who is thor

oughly in love will think out pl ans and schemes

w hereby he m ay ple ase the f air one so will the ,

man wh o i s in love with his work or business

give it h i s best thought and the result will be
,

th at a hundred and o ne pl ans will come into his

field of consci ousness many of which are ve ry
,

import ant T he mind works on the subconscious

.

pl ane r emember and almost always along the

, ,

lin es of the ruling p assion or desire I t will fix .

up th ings and p atch t o gether pl ans and schemes

, ,

and when you need th em the most it will pop

them into your consciousness and you will feel ,

l i k e hurrah i ng j ust as if you h ad r eceived some

,

v alu abl e ai d f rom outsid e .

But if you sc atter your thought force the sub -

,

conscious mind will not know just how t o please

you and the result is th at you are apt to be put
,

o ff from this source of a i d and a ssist ance B e .

side this you will miss the powerful result of

,
 A TT RAC T IVE P OWE R 87

concentrat ed thought in the conscious working

o u t of the det ails of y our pl ans And then again
.

th e m a n whose mind is full of a dozen interests

fails to exert the attracting power that is mani

f est ed by the m an of the one ruling p assion and ,

he fails to draw to him persons things and re , ,

su lt s th at will ai d in the working out of his pl ans ,

and will al so f ail to pl ace himself in the current

of attraction whereby he is brought into cont act

with those who will be gl ad to help him because
of h arm onious interests .

I h ave noticed in my own aff airs th at when I

, ,

would allow mys elf to be side tracked by any -

thing outside o i my regu l ar line of Work it ,

would be only a short ti me before my receipts

dropped o ff and my business showed signs of a
,

l ack of vitality N ow m any may say th at this

.
,

w as because I l eft undone some things th at I

would h ave done if my mind h ad b een centered
on the business This is true ;but I h ave noticed
.

like results in cases where there was nothing to

—
be done cases in which t h e seed was sown and ,

the crop was awa ited And in just such c ases

.
, ,

as soon as I directed my thought to the m atter

the seed began t o sprout I do not mean th at I

.

h ad to send out great m ental w aves with the ide a

88 T H O UGH T VI B RA T ION
—
of aff ecting peopl e not bit of it I simply b e
a .

g a n to re alize wh at a good thing I h ad a nd h o w ,

much people wanted it and how gl ad they would

,

b e to knOw of it and all th at sort of thing and

, ,

10 ! my thought seemed to vit alize the wo rk a nd ,

the seed began to sprout T his is no mere fancy

.
,

for I h av e experienced it on several occasions ;I

h ave spoken to m any others on the subj ect and I ,

find that our experiences tally perfectly So .

don t get into the h abit of permitting these ment a l

’

lea ks Keep your D esire fresh and active and

.
,

let it g et in its work without interference fro m

conflicting d esires Keep in love with the thing
.

—
you wish to attain feed your fancy with i t S ee —
’
it as accomplish ed already b u t d on t lose you r
,

i nteres t Keep your eye on the ma in ch ance and

.
,

keep your one ruling passion strong and vigorou s .

—
D on t be a ment al p olygamist o ne mental love is
’

a ll th at a m an n eeds— th at is one at a ti m, e .

S om e scienti sts h av e cl aimed that somethin g

“ ”
th at might as w ell be called Lo ve is at the bot
t om of the wh o le of life They cl aim that the
.

l ove of the pl ant for w ater c auses it t o send forth

its roots until the loved thing is found They .

say th at the love of the flower for the sun cause s ,

i t to grow away from the dark pl aces so th at ,

 C HAPT E R XI V

T HE G REAT DY N A M I C FO RC ES

You have notic ed the di ff erence between th e

successful and strong m en in any w alk of life ,

and the unsucc essful wea k men around th em .

You are conscious of the widely di ff ering char

act eri st i cs of the two cl asses but somehow find
,

it d i ffi cult to express just in what the di ff erence

lies Let us take a look at the matt er
. .

Buxton s aid “
The longer I live the more
,

certain I am that the g reat di ff erence between

men the feeble and the pow erful the g reat and
, ,

the insignificant is energy and invincible deter

,

—
mination a purp o s e onc e fi xed a nd then Death
or V ict o ry
. T h at quality w ill do anything th at
ca n —
be done in this world and no ta lents no ,

circu mst anc es no o pport u niti es will m ake a two

,

legged creat u re a man w ithout i t ”

.I do not see
how t h e i dea co uld be m o re cl early expressed
th an B u x t on h a s spoken He h as put his finger
.

—
right in the c e ter of the subj ect his eye h as
n

seen into the heart of it .

 DY N A M I C F O R CE S 9 I

—
Energy and invincible determin ation th ese
t wo things will sweep away mighty barriers and ,

will surmount the greatest obstacl es And yet .

they must be used together En ergy without de .

termination will go to w aste Lots of men h ave .

—
plenty of energy they are full to overflowing
with it ; d yet they l ack concentration they
an —
l ack the concentrated force that enables them to
bring their pow er to bear upon the right spot .

Energy is not nearly so r are a thing as m any

imagine it to be I can l ook around me at any
.

time and pick out a number of people I know

,

who are full of energy m any of th ema re en ergy

—

l — d v t somehow th y do not s em to
p u s a n e , e , e

make any headw ay T h ey are w asting t heir

.

energy all the time N ow th ey are foo ling with

.

—
this thing now meddling with th at T hey will .

take up some trifling thing of no real interest or

importance and w aste enough energy and nervous
,

force t o carry them through a h ard day s work ; ’

and yet when they are through nothing h as been ,

accomplished .

O thers who h ave plenty of energy fail to di ,

rect it by the power of t h e Will toward t h e de

”
sired end . I nvincible determination those -

a re the wo rds Do they not thrill you with their

.
92 T H O UGH T V I B RA T I O N

power ? I f you have something to do get to ,

work and do it M arshal your energy and then

.
,

—
guide and d irect it by your Will bestow upon
“ ”
it that invincible determinati on and you will
do the thing .

Every one h a s within him a gi ant will but the ,

m ajority of us are too l azy to use it We can .

not get ourselves nerved up to t h e point at which

we can say tru thfully : I Wi ll
,
“ ”
I f we can
.

but screw up our courage to th at po int and will ,

th en pin it in pl ac e so th at it will not slip back ,

we will be able to c all into play th at wonderful

—
power the Human Will M an as a rule h as
.
, ,

but the faintest conception o f the power of the

Will but th o se who h ave studi ed along the occult
,

teachings know that the Will is one of the g reat

,

dynamic forces of the universe and if harnessed

,

and direct ed properly it is c ap able of accomplish

ing almost miraculous things .

Energ y and I nvincibl e D eterminati on

Comm
’
aren t they m agnificent words ? it them
to memory — press them like a die into the wax
of your mind and they will b e a const ant inspira
,

tion to you in hours of need I f you can get

.

these words to vibrating in your being you will ,

be a gi ant among pygmies S ay these words

.
94 T H O UGH T V I B RAT I O N

waste their wisdom upon the desert ai r You .

meet so me great captain of industry and he ,

does not g ive you the impression of the shrewd

ness so marked in s ome little bargain drivi ng -

trader in your own town How is this any

.
,

way ? Are the r eput ations of these p eople fict i

tious or wh at is the trouble ?
,

The trouble is this You h ave imagined

these people to b e made of superior met al and ,

a re disappointed to find them made of the

s ame stu ff as yourself and those about you But .
,

you ask wherein does their g reatness of achieve

,

ment li e ? Ch i efly in this : Belief in thems elves

and in their inherent pow er in their fac ulty to
,

concentrate on the work in h and when they are

,

working and in their ability to prevent leaks of

,

power when they are not working T h ey b eli eve.

i n t h em s elves and ,
make every eff ort count .

Your vill age wiseman spills his wisdom on every

corner and talks to a lot of fools ;when if he
,

really were wise he would s ave up his wisdom

and pl ac e it wh ere it would do some work The .

brilli ant writer does not w aste his wit upon every
comer ;in fact he shuts the draw er in which he
,

contains his wit and opens it only when he is

,

rea dy to concentrate and get down to business .

 DY N A M I C F O RC E S 95

The captain of industry h as no desire to impress

“ ”
you with his shrewdness and sm artness He .

never did even when he w as young While his

, .

companions were talking and boasting and ,

“ ”
blowing this future successful financier was
,

’
sawin wood and sayin ’

—
The great people of the W OI ld th at is those ,

“ ”—
who h ave arrived are not very di ff e rent from

, ,
—
you or me or the rest of u s all of us are about
the same at the base Y ou h ave only to meet
”
them to see how very ordin ary they are a fter ,

all But don t fo rget t h e fact th at t h ey know

’
.
,

how to use the materi al th at is in them ;while the

rest of the crowd does not and in fact even , , ,

doubts whether the true stu ff i s there T he man .

”
or woman who gets there usu all y starts out by
,

realizing that he or she is not so very di ff erent ,

after all from the successful people that they

,

hear so much about T his giv es them confidence

.
,

and the result is they find ou t th at they are able

”
to do things Then they learn to keep their
.

mouths closed and to avoid w asting and dissi

,

pating their energy T hey store up energy and

.
,

concentrate it upon the task at h and ;while their

companions are scattering their energ ies in every
d irection try ing to show o ff and let people
,
9s T H O UGH T VI B RAT ION

know how smart they are T he man or wom an

.

“
who gets there prefers to wait for the ap
,

p la u se th a t follows deeds accomplished and c a res ,

very little f or the praise that attends promises of

“ ”
wh at we expect to do some day or an exh i b i
,

“
tion of sm artness without works .

O ne of the reasons th at people who are thrown

in with successful men often manifest success
themselves is that they are able to watch the
,

successful man and sort of catch the trick of his

“ ”

greatness T hey see that he is an everyd ay sort

.

of man but th at he thoroughly believes in him

,

self and also that he does not w aste energy but

, ,

reserves all his force for the actu al t asks before

him And profiting by example they st art t o
.
, ,

work and put the lesson into practice in their own

lives .

N ow what is the moral of this talk ? S imply

’
this : Don t undervalue yourself or overvalue ,

others R ealize th at you are m ade of good stu ff

.
,

and th at locked within your mind are m any goo d

things Then get t o work and unfold those goo d

.

things and m ake something out of th at good

,

stu ff Do this by attention to the things before

.

you and by giving to each the best that is in you

, ,

kno wing th at plenty of more good things are

 CHAP T ER XV

C LA I M I N G Y O UR OW N

Ina recent conversation I was telling a wom an

,

to pluck up courage and to reach out for a cer

t ain good thing for which she h ad been longing
for many y ea rs and which at last appeared to
, , ,

be in sight I told her that it looked as if her

.

—
d esire was about to be g rat i fied th at the Law of
Attraction was bringing it to her S h e l acked .

“
faith and kept on repeating O h ! it s too good
, ,
’

to b e true it s t oo good fo r me!

— ’ ”
She h ad not
emerged fro m the worm o f the dust stage and
-— -
,

a lthough she was in s ight of the Promised Land

“
she refused to enter it because it was too g ood
for her I think I succeeded in puttin g suffi
“
cient ginger into her to enable her to cl aim
her own for the l ast reports indicate that she is
,

t aking possession .

But that is not wh at I wish t o tell you I .

w ant to call your attention to the fact th at noth

—
ing is too good for Y OU no matter how g reat the
 CLA I M IN G Y O UR O W N 99

th i ng may b e no matt er h ow u ndeserving you

—
may seem to be You are entitled to the best
.

’
there is for it is your direct inheri tance So don t
, .

—
b e a fraid to ask demand— and t ake The good
.

things of the world are not the po rtion of any

favored sons They belong to all but they come
.
,

only to those wh o are wise enough to recog nize

that the good things are theirs by right and wh o ,

are su fli ci ent ly cour ageous t o reach out for them .

M any good things are lost for w ant of the ask

ing M an y S plendid things are lost to you b e
.

cause o f your feeling th at you are unwort h y of

them M an y great things are lost to you b e
.

cause you l ack the confidence and cour age to

demand and take possession of them .

“ ”
N one but the brave deserves the fair says ,

the old ad age and the rule is tru e in all lines of

,

human eff ort I f you keep on repeating that you

.

are unw o rthy of the good thing — th at it is too

—
good for you the Law will be apt to take you
at your word and believe wh at you say That s ’
.

a peculi r thing ab out the Law

a — i t believes wh at
—
you say i t takes you in earnest So beware .

what you say to it for it will be apt to give

,

credence S ay to it that you are worthy of the

.

best there is and that there is nothing too goo d

,
l oo T H O UGH T V I B RAT I O N
for you and you will be likely to have the Law
,

“
take you in earnest and say I guess he is right ;
, ,

I mgoing to give him the whole bakeshop if he

’

—
wants i t h e knows his rights and what s the ,
’

”
use of trying to deny it to him ? But if you say ,

“
O h it s too goo d f or m
,
’
e!
”
the Law will prob
“
ably say Well I wouldn t wonder but wh at that ’

, ,

is so Surel y he ought to know and it isn t for

.
,
’

me to contradict him And so it goes . .

Wh y S hould anything be to o good for you ?

Did you ever stop to think just what you are ?
You are a manifestation of the Whole T hing ,

and h ave a perfect right to all there is O r if .

,

you prefer it this way you are a child of the I n

,

finite and are heir to it all You are telling the

,
.

truth in either statement or both At any rate , .

,

no m atter for wh at you ask you are merely de ,

manding yo ur own And the m o re in earnest

.

—
you are about demanding i t the more confident
—
you are of receiving i t the more will you use in
—
reaching out for i t the surer you will be to
obtain it .

— —
Strong desi re confident expect ation courage
—
in action t hese things bring to you your o wn .

Bu t before you pu t these forces into eff ect you .

must awaken to a reali zation that you are merely

10 2 T H O UGH T VI B RA T ION
heir of the Universe and is entitled to whatever
,

he needs for his growth h appiness and sat i sf ac ,

tion ! I do not mean th at one should assume a

blustering and domineering attitude of mind
that is also absurd for true strength does not so
,

exhibit itself The blusterer is a self confessed

.
-

—
weakling h e blusters to disguise his weakness .

The truly strong man is c alm self contained ,

-
,

a nd ca rries with him a consciousness of strength

which renders unnecessa ry the bluster and fuss

of assumed streng th But get away from this.

“
hypnotism of humility — this meek and lowly ”

attitude of mind R emember the horrible ex

.

ample o f U ri ah H eep and bew are of imit ating

,

him Throw back your head and look the world

.
,

’
square in the face There s nothing to be afraid
.

of — the world is apt to be as much afraid of you ,

a s you are of it anyw ay , Be a man or woman .

, ,

and not a cr awling thing And this applies to .

your mental attitude as well as to yo ur outw ard

,

demeanor Stop this crawling in y our m i nd

. .

See yourself as standing erect and facing life

without fear and you will gradually grow into
,

your ideal .

There is nothing th at is too goo d for you

not a thing The best there is is not beginning
. ,
 CLA I M IN G YO UR OWN 10 3

to be good enough for you ;for there are sti ll

bett er things ahead The best gi ft tha t the world
.

h as to o ff er is a mere bauble compa red t o the

great things in the Cosmos th at aw ait you r com
’
ing of ag e So don t be afraid to reach out for
.

—
these playthings of life these baubles of this
plane of consciousness R each out for them .

—
grab a whole fis t fu l pl ay with them until you
’
are tired ;t hat s wh at they are made for any ,

way . They are m ade for our express u se not —

to look at but to be played with if you des i re
, ,
.

—
H elp yoursel f there s a whole shopful of these
’

toys awai t ing your desire demand and taking , .

’
Don t be bashful ! Don t let me hear any more ’

of this silly talk about things bei ng too good

f or y ou Psh aw ! You h ave been like th e Em
.

’
p ero r s little son thinking th a t the tin soldiers
a nd to y drum were f a r too good for him and ,

refusing to reach out for them But you don t .

’

find this trouble wi th children as a rule They .

i nstinctively recogni ze th at no t hi ng i s too good

for them They w ant al l t h at is in sight to pl ay
.

with and they seem to feel th at the things are

,

theirs by right And that is the conditi on of

.

mind t hat we seekers a fter the Divine Adventure

must cultivate Unless we become as little chil
.

dren we ca nnot enter the Kingdom of H eaven .

104 T H O UGH T VI B RAT IO N
The things we see around us are the playthings
o f the Kinderga rten of Go d playthings which ,

we use in our game tasks H elp yourself t o -

.

them — a sk for them without bashfulness de —

mand as m any as you can make use o f they are—
yours And if you don t see just what you
.
’

,
—
w ant ask for i t there s a big reserve stock on ’

the shelves and in the closets Pl ay play pl ay

, .
, , ,

to your heart s content Learn to weave m ats

’
.

t o build houses with the block s — to stitch out

—
lines on the squares play the g ame through and ,

pl ay it well And dem and all the proper ma

.

t eri als for the pl ay — —

d on t be bashful there s
’ ’

enough to go round .

But remember this ! While all this be true

— ,

the best things are still only game things toys — -

,

blocks m ats cubes and all the rest U seful

, , , .
,

most useful for the learning of the lessons

pl easant most pl easant with which to pl ay and
,
-

desirable most desirable for these purposes G et

, ,
.

all the fun and profit out of the use of things th at

is possible Throw yourself heartily into the

.

g a me,
an d pl ay it out i t is G ood But
-
here s .
,

—
the thing to remember never lose sight of the
fact that these good things are but pl aythings
—
p rt of the game and yo u mu st be perfectl y
a
10 6 T H O UGH T VI B RAT ION
self to be made a sl ave of them H e is afraid .

that they m ay be t aken aw ay from him and he is ,

a fraid to toddle across the floor and help himself

to the others The M aster knows that all are his

.

for the asking H e demands that which he needs

.

from day to day and does not worry about over

,

loading himself ; for he knows that there are

“ ”
lots more and that he cannot be cheated out
,

of them H e plays and pl ays well and h as a

.
, ,

g ood time in the pl ay— and he lea rns his Kinder

garten lessons in the pl aying But he does not .

become too much attached to his toys H e is .

willing to fling aw ay the worn o u t o ne and reach-

,

out for a new one And when he is c alled into

.

the next roo m for promotion he drops on the ,

floor the worn out toys of the day and with

-
,

glistening eyes and confident attitude of mind ,

—
m arches into the next room into the Great U h
—
known with a smile on his face H e is not .

a fraid for he hears the voice of the Teacher and

, ,

—
knows th at she is there w ait i ng for him i n that
G reat N ext R oom .
 CHAP T E R XV I

LA W , N OT C H A N CE

S ome time ag o I was talking to a man about

the Attractive Power of Thought H e said that .

he did not believe that Thought could attract

anyt hing to him and th at it was all a matter of
,

luck H e h ad found he said th at ill luck rel ent

.
, ,

lessly pursued him and that everything he

,

touched went wrong I t alw ays h ad and al

.
,

w ays would and he h ad grown to expect it

, .

When he undertook a new thing he knew b e

forehand th at i t would go wrong and th at no
good would come of it O h no ! there w asn t
.
,
’

anything in the theory of Attractive Thought so ,

f ar as he could see ;it was a ll a m atter of luck !

This man failed to see th at by his own con
f essi on he was giving a most convincing argu
ment in favor of the Law of Attr action He .

was testifying th at he was alw ays expecting

things to go wrong and th at they alw ays came
,

b
a o ut as he expected H e.w a s a m agnificent i l
107
10 8 T H O UGH T VI B RA T ION
lustr tion of the
a Law of —
Attraction but he didn t ’

know it and no argument seemed to m ake the

,

“ ”
matter clear to him H e was up against it
.
,

a nd there was no wa
y out of i t — h e alw ays ex
p ec t ed the ill luck a nd ,ever y occurr ence proved
th at he was right and th at the M ental Sci enc e
,

position was all nonsense .

There are many people who seem to think th at

the onl y way in which the La w of Attraction
operates is when one wi sh es h ard strong and ,

steady They do not seem to realize th at a strong

.

b eli ef is as efficacious as a strong wish The suc .

cess f u l m an believes in himself and in his ulti

m ate success and paying no attention to l ittle

, ,

setbacks stumbles tumbl es and slips presses on

, , ,

eagerly to the goal believing all the time th at

,

he will g et there H is views and aims may alter

.

as he prog resses and he m

,
ay ch ange his pl ans or

h ave them ch anged for him but all the time he

,

“
knows in his heart th at he will eventu ally g et
there .
”
H e is not steadily wi s h i ng he may get
there h e simply feels it and b eli eves it and
-
,

thereby sets into Operation the strongest forc s e

known in the world of thought .

The man who just as steadily believes he is

going to fa il will invariably fail H ow could he .
I IO T H O UGHT VI B RAT ION
prevailing M ent al Attitude Clear up your M en .

t al Atmosphere !

There is no such thing as chance Law m ain .

tains everywhere and all th at happens h appens

,

because of the operation of Law You c annot .

n ame the simplest thing th at ever occurred by

ch ance try it and then run the thing down to a
-
,

final analysis and you will see it as the result of

,

Law . I t is as pl ain as m athem atics Pl an and .

purpose ;cause and eff ect From the movements

.

of worlds to the growth of the grain of mustard

—
seed all the result of Law The fall of the .

stone down the mountain side is not chance -

forces which h ad been in operation for centuries

caused it And back of that cause were other
.

c auses and so on until the Causeless Cause is

,

reached .

—
And Life is not the result of ch ance t h e Law
is h ere too ,
The Law is in full operation
.

—
wheth er you know it or not whether you b e
lieve in it or not You may be t h e ignorant ob
.

j e ct upon which the L aw Oper ates and bring ,

yourself all sorts of trouble because of your i g

norance of or opposition to the Law O r you .

may fall in with the Operations of the Law— get

—
into its current as it were and Life will seem
,
 LAW, NOT CHANCE I I I

a di ff erent thing to you You cannot get out

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in the world of thought .

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mental bedfellow You are tod ay setting into
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motion thought currents which will in time at

tract toward you thoughts people and conditions,

in h armony with the predominant no te of your

thought Your thought will mingle with that
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of others of like nature and mind and you will be ,

att ract ed tow ard each other and will surely come,

together with a common purpose sooner or l ater ,

unless one or the o th er of you should ch ange the

cu rrent of his thoughts .

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it a p art of yoursel f Get into its currents

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note o i Courage Confidence and Success Get

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good minds Get into the right vibrations You

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