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.30.If our predominant mental attitude is one of power, courage, kindliness, and sympathy, we shallfind that our environment will reject conditions in correspondence with these thoughts; if it is weak,critical, envious and destructive, we shall find our environment reflecting conditions correspondingto these thoughts.31.Thoughts are causes and conditions are effects.Herein is the explanation of the origin of bothgood and evil.Thought is creative and will automatically correlate with its object.This is aCosmological law (a universal law), the Law of Attraction, the Law of Cause and Effect; therecognition and application of this law will determine both beginning and end; it is the law by87which in all ages and in all times the people were led to believe in the power of prayer."As thyfaith is, so be it unto thee," is simply another, shorter and a better way of stating it.32.This week visualize a plant; take a flower, the one you most admire, bring it from the unseeninto the seen, plant the tiny seed, water it, care for it, place it where it will get the direct rays of themorning sun, see the seed burst; it is now a living thing, something which is alive and beginning tosearch for the means of subsistence.See the roots penetrating the earth, watch them shoot out in alldirections and remember that they are living cells dividing and subdividing, and that they will soonnumber millions, that each cell is intelligent, that it knows what is wants and knows how to get it.See the stem shoot forward and upward, watch it burst through the surface of the earth, see it divideand form branches, see how perfect and symmetrical each branch is formed, see the leaves begin toform, and then the tiny stems, each one holding aloft a bud, and as you watch you see the bud beginto unfold and your favorite flower comes to view; and now if you will concentrate intently you willbecome conscious of a fragrance; it is the fragrance of the flower as the breeze gently sways thebeautiful creation which you have visualized.33.When you are enabled to make your vision clear and complete you will be enabled to enter intothe spirit of a thing, it will become very real to you.You will be learning to concentrate and theprocess is the same, whether you are concentrating on health, a favorite flower, an ideal, acomplicated business proposition or any other problem of life.34.Every success has been accomplished by persistent concentration upon the object in view.88Part Nine Study Questions With Answers81.What is the imperative condition of all well-being? Well doing.82.What is the condition precedent to every right action? Right thinking.83.What is the underlying condition necessary in every business transaction or social relation? Toknow the Truth.84.What is the result of knowledge of the Truth? We can readily predict the result of any actionthat is based upon a true premise.85.What is the result of any action based upon a false premise? We can form no conception of theresults which may ensue.86.How may we know the Truth? By a realization of the fact that Truth is the vital principle of theUniverse and is therefore omnipresent.87.What is the nature of Truth? It is spiritual.88.What is the secret of the solution to every problem? To apply spiritual Truth.89.What is the advantage of spiritual methods? They are always available.90.What are the necessary requirements? The recognition of the omnipotence of spiritual powerand the desire to become the recipient of its beneficent effects."Thought means life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense.Thinkingmakes the man." - A.B.Alcott89Introduction - Part TenIf you get a thorough understanding of the thought contained in Part Ten, you will have learned thatnothing happens without a definite cause.You will be enabled to formulate your plans in ccordancewith exact knowledge.You will know how to control any situation by bringing adequate causesinto play.When you win, as you will, you will know exactly why.The ordinary man, who has no definite knowledge of cause and effect, is governed by his feelingsor emotions.He thinks chiefly to justify his action.If he fails as a businessman, he says that luck isagainst him.If he dislikes music, he says that music is an expensive luxury.If he is a poor officeman, he says that he could succeed better at some outdoor work.If he lacks friends, he says hisindividuality is too fine to be appreciated.He never thinks his problem through to the end.In short, he does not know that every effect is theresult of a certain definite cause, but he seeks to console himself with explanations and excuses.Hethinks only in self-defense.On the contrary, the man who understands that there is no effect without an adequate cause thinksimpersonally.He gets down to bed rock facts regardless of consequences.He is free to follow thetrail of truth wherever it may lead.He sees the issue clear to the end, and he meets the requirementsfully and fairly, and the result is that the world gives him all that it has to give, in friendship, honor,love and approval.90Part Ten1.Abundance is a natural law of the Universe.The evidence of this law is conclusive; we see it onevery hand.Everywhere Nature is lavish, wasteful, extravagant.Nowhere is economy observed inany created thing.Profusion is manifested in everything.The millions and millions of trees andflowers and plants and animals and the vast scheme of reproduction where the process of creatingand recreating is forever going on, all indicates the lavishness with which Nature has madeprovision for man.That there is an abundance for everyone is evident, but that many fail toparticipate in this abundance is also evident; they have not yet come into a realization of theUniversality of all substance, and that mind is the active principle whereby we are related to thethings we desire.2.All wealth is the offspring of power; possessions are of value only as they confer power.Eventsare significant only as they affect power; all things represent certain forms and degrees of power.3.Knowledge of cause and effect as shown by the laws governing electricity, chemical affinity andgravitation, enables man to plan courageously and execute fearlessly.These laws are called NaturalLaws, because they govern in the physical world, but all power is not physical power; there is alsomental power, and there is moral and spiritual power.4.Spiritual power is superior because it exists on a higher plane.It has enabled man to discover thelaw by which these wonderful forces of Nature could be harnessed and made to do the work ofhundreds and thousands of men.It has enabled man to discover laws whereby time and space havebeen annihilated and the law of gravitation to be overcome.The operation of this law is dependentupon spiritual contact, as Henry Drummond says:5."In the physical world as we know it, there exists the organic and the inorganic.The inorganic ofthe mineral world is absolutely cut off from the plant or animal world; the passage is hermeticallysealed.These barriers have never yet been crossed.No change of substance, no modification of91environment, no chemistry, no electricity, no form of energy, no evolution of any kind can everendow a single atom of the mineral world with the attribute of Life.6 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]