The limit of our ability to demonstrate depends upon our ability to provide a mental equivalent of our desires, for the law of correspondence works from the belief to the thing. But it is within our power to provide a greater mental equivalent through the unfolding of consciousness; and this growth from within will finally lead to freedom.

What we demonstrate today, tomorrow and the next day, is not as important as the TENDENCY WHICH OUR THOUGHT IS TAKING ... the dominant attitude of our mind. IF everyday things are little better, a little happier, a little more harmonious, a little more health-giving and joyous; if each day we are expressing more life, we are going in the right direction.

And so we meditate daily upon the Universe of the All Good, the Infinite Indwelling Spirit, which we call God, the Father, Incarnate in man, trying to sense and to feel this Indwelling Good as the Active Principle of our lives. This is what the mystics call "The Man of the Heart," or "The Angel of God's Presence." This is why they taught that there are always two, for there is what we seem to be, and what we really are. As we contact this Higher Principle of our own lives-which is Perfect and Complete, needing nothing, wanting nothing, knowing everything, being happy and satisfied-and as we daily meditate upon this Indwelling God, we shall acquire a greater mental equivalent.

For those who have always dwelt on limited thoughts a very good practice is to dwell upon the magnitude of the Universe. Think how many stars there are, how many fish there are in the seas, and how many grains of sand on the beaches. Think of how big the ocean is; of the immensity of space, the bigness of everything, the grandeur of everything. Mechanically, if necessary, compel the mentality to cognize Reality. Compel the consciousness to recognize Truth through reason, if no other conviction comes.

Think, see and feel activity. Radiate Life. Feel that there is that within which is the center and circumference of the Universe. The Universe is the result of the Self-Contemplation of God. Our lives are the result of our self-contemplations, and are peopled with the personifications of our thoughts and ideas. Accept this without question for it is true.

Nothing is real to us unless we make it real. Nothing can touch us unless we let it touch us. Refuse to have the feelings hurt. Refuse to receive anyone's condemnation. In the independence of your own mentality, believe and feel that you are wonderful. This is not conceit, it is the truth. What can be more wonderful than the manifestation of the Infinite Mind? "Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." "Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." "Be firm and ye shall be made firm." "Act as though I am and I will be." "Onlook thou the Deity and the Deity will onlook thee." "As thou hast believed, so be it done." "Ask and it shall be given unto you." "So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth-it shall prosper."

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No matter how great a responsibility may rest in that which must be done, never let one moment's responsibility rest in your own thought about it, because that to which the mind gives birth, is, and EVERY IDEA IS BOUND TO PRODUCE AN EFFECT EXACTLY LIKE ITS CAUSE.

When we make a demonstration, we must take what goes with it. Therefore all demonstrations should be made in peace, confidence and joy, and in a realization of Divine Love and Perfection permeating everything. The reason for this is evident, for we are dealing with the Law of cause and effect. We are not depending upon chance but upon the Law. The responsibility of setting the Law in motion is ours, but the responsibility of making It work is inherent in Its own nature. We must know that we are dealing with the Substance from which all things are made. Nothing moves but Mind, and we are dealing with the Mind that is the Mover, the Creator, the Cause of all that is or is to be. We should sense that back of the word which we speak is the Power of the Universe, surging to express Itself. Then speak the word consciously, knowing that it is Law.

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If one appears to have failed, he should realize that there are no failures in the Universe. He should completely erase the idea of failure by stating that there are no failures. If one believes that he failed last year, he will be likely to fail again this year, unless the false thought is erased. Break down everything except the recognition of the One Perfect Power, which is not contingent upon any place, person, condition, time of year, or anything but Itself. A demonstration is made when it comes straight through from the Truth. The one who wishes to make a demonstration must clear up his own subjective atmosphere, the reason being that he may be objectively making statements which his subjective thought may be denying. In this way, we often neutralize our word as fast as it is spoken.

When Jesus said: "Resist not," He meant that non-recognition of evil is the only way to avoid it. This is true according to the law of cause and effect, for what we persist in recognizing we persist in holding in place. That which we refuse to recognize, we neutralize, and it is no longer there so far as we are concerned.

So we erase any idea of failure. Now here is where is looks as if one were not telling the truth to himself, but he is declaring the truth about the Spirit that indwells him. THIS SPIRIT NEVER FAILS. Affirm this until it is a very part of your being: "This word bolts out from the book of my remembrance any sense of lack, limitation, want, or fear of failure. There is no failure, no person to fail. Failure is neither person, place nor thing. It is a false thought and has no truth in it. It is a belief in lack and there is no lack. It is a belief in a limitation which does not exist."

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We live in Mind and It can return to us only what we think into It. No matter what we do, Law will always obtain. If we are thinking of ourselves as poor and needy, then Mind has no choice but to return what we have thought into It. "It is done unto you as you believe." Thoughts of failure, limitation or poverty are negative and must be counted out of our lives for all time. God has given us a Power and we must use It. We can do more toward saving the world by proving this law than all that charity has ever given to it.

Remember God is the silent Power behind all things, always ready to pour into our experience that which we need. We must have a receptive and positive faith in the evidence of things not seen with the physical eye but which are eternal in the heavens. All is Mind, and we must provide a receptive avenue for It, as It passes out through us into the outer expression of our affairs. If we allow the world's opinion to control our thinking, then that will be our demonstration! If, on the other hand, we rise superior to the world, we shall create a new pattern.

It is quite necessary, then, that the successful business man should keep his mind on thoughts of happiness, which produce cheerfulness instead of depression. He should radiate joy and should be filled with faith, hope and expectancy. These cheerful, hopeful attitudes of mind are indispensable to the one who really wants to do things in life. Declare your freedom. Know that no matter what other may say, think or do, you are a success now, and nothing can hinder you from accomplishing your good. All the power of the universe is with you. Feel it, know it, and then act as though it were true.

Being to bolt out, one by one, all false beliefs-all ideas that man is limited, poor or miserable. Refuse to think of failure or to doubt your own power. See only what you wish to experience and look at nothing else. We are relived of all thought of clinging to anybody or anything. Cannot the Great Principle of Life create for us all that we need? The Universe is inexhaustible; It is limitless, knows no bounds and has no confines. We are not depending on a reed shaken by the wind, but on the Principle of Life Itself, for all that we have or ever shall need. It is not some power, or a great power, it is ALL POWER. All we have to do is to believe, never wavering, no matter what happens. As we do this, we shall find that things are steadily coming our way and that they are coming without that awful effort which destroys the peace of mind of the majority of the race. We know that there can be no failure in God's Mind, and this Mind is the Power on which we are depending.

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We mean by demonstration, bringing into our experience something which we had not experienced before bringing it in as the result of conscious thought; and unless it is possible to do this, our whole science is a mistake and a delusion. Unless there is a Divine Principle, Universal Soul or Subjectivity, or Medium, which, of Itself-without any help or assistance-can produce things, and will, then there is nothing in this teaching. But there is a Divine Principle; and what It does for us It must do through us. Our part in the demonstration is set to word in motion, thus compelling, through the Law of Subjectivity, the result or manifestation.

The subjective state of a man's thought decides what is going to happen to him in his objective experience. The subjective state of his thought is the sum total of his thinking and knowing. It is the medium between the relative and the Absolute, between the Limitless and the conditioned. Whatever is involved in it, will evolve. Therefore, when there is no longer anything in our mentality which denies our word, a demonstration will be made; nothing can stop it, for the Law is Absolute.

We should approach the Law normally and naturally and with a sense of ease. There is nothing peculiar or weird about it. It is a natural Law, working in a normal way, and must be thought of in this light. We should come to consider the Law and the Spirit as friends and think of them as such. In this way we shall gradually go from good to more good and from peace to greater peace. This is the natural unfoldment of Reality through man. We should EXPECT THE BEST, and so live that the best may become a part of our experience.

Suppose one wishes more activity in his business, more success. Every day he should see his place filled with people. See them looking at and finding pleasure in his merchandise; see them comparing prices and realizing that he is offering good value; see them delighted with the service he is giving; see them cheerful, beaming, expansive, as they enjoy the atmosphere of his place; see the uplift which the spirit of his good-will gives them. Make a mental picture of it all. We are dealing with Intelligence, and we should recognize the Power we are working with-realizing our Oneness with It and then we should ask for what we wish and take it.

If we were treating for activity in a store we owned in Boston, we would not be treating someone in Kalamazoo for the mumps and expect that the store would demonstrate more success. WE MUST BE SPECIFIC IN WHAT WE DO, while at the same time never outlining how it shall be done. Remember we are dealing with Intelligence. IT IS GOING TO EVOLVE OUR CONCEPT EXACTLY AS WE INVOLVE IT. If one could take a picture of his objective circumstances and a picture of his subjective mentality, he would find them to be identical, for one is the cause of the other. One is the image and the other is the reflection of that image.

So our success in business, the activity which we generate through the operation of the Law, depends upon our ability to conceive. At all times, we are either drawing things to us or pushing them away. In the average individual, this process goes on without his knowing it, but ignorance of the law does not change its result. "What," someone will say, "do you think that I thought failure or wanted to fail?" Of course not. Perhaps you thought that failure might come, maybe you even feared it would come, or in some other way gave it entrance to your mind.

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It is the Father's good pleasure to give me the Kingdom of Heaven, or harmony and abundance. Today He opens to me the blessings of His infinite and eternal treasure, inviting me to dip deeply into it. As I believe in my heart, so it is done unto me in all things. As I ask, so do I receive, a full measure unto my faith, pressed down and running over.

These and other Divine promises and assurances sing in me; the Still Small Voice reminds me that all that the Father hath is mine. This day I listen deeply to that Still, Small Voice and believe Its promises.

I fear nothing-neither lack, limitation, disappointment nor distress of any kind, for is not the Father always with me? What caused the appearance of lack in my life? Simply my fear, or my belief that the Father could forsake me. I do not believe that now, and it no longer matters to me what is the appearance of today, or what has gone before. Today is new, and I am newly awakened in it, and I believe with dauntless faith that my good, in full measure, comes to me from God today.

I now believe that it is, indeed, the Father's good pleasure to give me of His bounty. I know that He gives as I ask, without question or limit, and I am ready to receive.

The Gifts of God Are Mine Today.

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There is no condemnation in me nor operating through me.
I am free from the belief or thought of men.
I walk my own way, immune to all suggestion of condemnation.
Only those thoughts can enter my mentality which I allow to enter.
I do not, and cannot, receive adverse thoughts.
Only those thoughts which are helpful and life-giving can find entrance to my house.

There is no condemnation.

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My business is directed by Divine Intelligence.
The All-Knowing Mind knows what to do and how to do it.
I do not hinder, but let It operate in my affairs.
It prospers and directs me and controls my life.
My affairs are managed by Love, and directed by
Wisdom, and they cannot fail to prosper and expand.

My affairs are in His hands.

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In turning to the Law, realize that it is a Law of Reflection. "Life is the mirror of king and slave." Emerson said: "If you want a friend, be a friend." As the idea of friendship dawns upon the consciousness, the law of attraction produces friends, for one is the picture and the other is the thing. This is the great teaching of involution and evolution, the thought involved and the result evolved. One is the treatment and the other is the demonstration. When we are dealing with Causation, we are dealing with that which has involved within Itself all effect, as it unfolds. We may leave it to the Law to compel right action. With this in mind let us go on to treatment.

Do we wish to attract friends? We must begin to image ideal relationships, be they social or otherwise, to sense and feel the presence of friends; to enjoy them in our mentalities, not as an illusion but as a reality, not as a dream but as an experience; to declare that their presence is now here. BUT WE MUST NEVER LOOK TO SEE IF THEY ARE HERE, BECAUSE THIS WOULD IMPLY DOUBT AND WOULD NEUTRALIZE OUR WORD. We can attract the kind of friends we wish if we specifically designate the kind, but we must never think of certain people, or that a particular individual must be one of the friends, for this would be hypnotic. The idea will bring the right kind of friends.

In order to have this friendship enduring, true, really worth while and a things of beauty, we should cultivate and attitude of friendship toward everybody and everything. The one who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love. This is not mere sentiment, and it is more than a religious attitude of mind. It is a deep, scientific fact, and one to which we should pay attention. The reason is this: As all is Mind, and as we attract to us what we first become, until we learn to love we are not sending our love vibrations can we receive love in return.

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Every business, every place, every person, every thing has a certain mental atmosphere of its own. This atmosphere decides what is to be drawn to it. For instance, you never saw a successful man who went around with an atmosphere of failure. Successful people think about success. A successful man is filled with that subtle something which permeates everything that he does with that subtle something which permeates everything that he does with an atmosphere of confidence and strength. The man who says to himself, "I have no personality with which to attract people," has been laboring under a delusion. He needs to be disillusioned. He must be shown that there is but One Person; this Person is manifested through ever living soul. It is THE Personality. It is Complete.

The ones to whom we are most strongly attracted are not necessarily the ones who are the most beautiful physically, but are the ones from whom we receive that subtle emanation, "That something." What is that something? It is that which emanates from within. It is the inner recognition of Reality.

Now we know, and knowing means using the Law in a constructive way, "I and my Father are one." This is strength for the weak and life for all who believe. We can so fill ourselves with the drawing power of attraction that is will become irresistible. Nothing can hinder the man who knows that he is dealing with the One Power that creates all from Itself, moves all within Itself, and yet holds everything in its place. One with the Infinite Mind. One with personality of God. We should let this ring through our mind each day, many times each day, until we shall never again say, "I have no personality." We have all Personality!

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