1
00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:07,519
Speaker 1: How success comes. Seeking success through mental powers. Holding the

2
00:00:07,559 --> 00:00:12,359
thought alone not sufficient. How to get the real benefit

3
00:00:12,439 --> 00:00:16,440
of thought force, fall in with the workings of the law.

4
00:00:17,879 --> 00:00:21,800
Stand on your own feet, one step at a time.

5
00:00:23,559 --> 00:00:28,879
I do as well as I am. Many of the

6
00:00:28,879 --> 00:00:31,760
men and women who have been seeking prosperity by means

7
00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,520
of the powers of the mind have done so by

8
00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:38,719
holding the thought and then folding their hands and calmly

9
00:00:38,759 --> 00:00:42,600
waiting for some lucky event to happen, or, in other words,

10
00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,840
for the long sought for prize to drop down into

11
00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:50,679
the lapse from out of the nowhere. Now I have

12
00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,719
heard of a number of cases in which things apparently

13
00:00:53,759 --> 00:00:57,280
came about in this way, although I have always felt

14
00:00:57,359 --> 00:01:01,240
that a little investigation would have shown some good and

15
00:01:01,359 --> 00:01:05,000
natural cause behind it all. But as a rule, the

16
00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,640
law does not work in this way. It does not

17
00:01:07,799 --> 00:01:11,359
leave the old beaten road of cause and effect. It

18
00:01:11,439 --> 00:01:14,319
is no Aladdin's lamp, which is merely to be rubbed

19
00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:17,519
in order that glittering gems and showers of gold be

20
00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:20,079
poured out into the lap of the owner as he

21
00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:24,040
lies back on his cushions, lazily rubbing the lamp with

22
00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:28,120
the tip of his little finger. The Law expects from

23
00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,560
the man who would invoke its mighty aid a little

24
00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:35,719
honest work on his part. I think that the majority

25
00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:37,719
of those who have met with a greater share of

26
00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:41,480
success by means of the wonderful power of thought, have

27
00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:45,159
met with such success not by having it fall from

28
00:01:45,159 --> 00:01:50,959
the skies, but by following out the ideas impulses, yes, inspiration,

29
00:01:51,079 --> 00:01:54,480
if you will, that have come to them. The man

30
00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:58,040
who has turned his back upon the old negative mental attitude,

31
00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:02,400
who has turned his face toward the rising sun, who

32
00:02:02,439 --> 00:02:05,400
has allowed the voice of faith again to be heard,

33
00:02:06,359 --> 00:02:09,199
who knows that the law, which rules the motions of

34
00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:12,280
the world's and still takes note of the sparrow's fall,

35
00:02:12,759 --> 00:02:16,240
has his interest at heart, and asks but for faith,

36
00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,800
that man, I say, finds that from time to time

37
00:02:21,159 --> 00:02:24,199
ideas will come into his mind just when they are needed.

38
00:02:25,039 --> 00:02:28,240
Will find that the Law takes cognizance of all human

39
00:02:28,319 --> 00:02:32,360
needs and has prepared a way to satisfy them. He

40
00:02:32,439 --> 00:02:36,319
finds that new ways are pointed out to him, avenues

41
00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:41,680
of escape from unbearable conditions, signboards pointing out the right road.

42
00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:45,479
But he must have faith in these little hints from

43
00:02:45,479 --> 00:02:49,479
the infinite, and must follow them. The law will open

44
00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,000
the door to you, but will not push you in.

45
00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,240
And when it finds that you refuse to see the

46
00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:59,240
open door, it softly closes it. And not until many

47
00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:02,840
weary years have passed do you recognize what you have missed.

48
00:03:03,759 --> 00:03:06,159
And the law insists upon doing its work in its

49
00:03:06,199 --> 00:03:10,639
own good way, not in your way. You may know

50
00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:14,039
what you want, but you may not know just the

51
00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,000
right way to get it, although you think you do.

52
00:03:18,319 --> 00:03:20,919
The Law will give you many a hint and many

53
00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,199
a gentle push in the proper direction, but it always

54
00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:27,280
leaves you the liberty of choice, the right to refuse.

55
00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:32,479
It does not insist upon your love your faith. That is,

56
00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:36,319
it does not make you love and have faith. But

57
00:03:36,479 --> 00:03:39,400
until you do love and have faith, you are not

58
00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,000
conscious of the promptings of the spirit, or at most

59
00:03:43,039 --> 00:03:47,960
dismiss them as beneath your notice, Oh ye of little faith,

60
00:03:48,319 --> 00:03:53,039
when will ye learn? The man who understands the workings

61
00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,280
of the law acts upon the tender impulses imparted to

62
00:03:56,360 --> 00:04:00,360
him without resistance. He does not ask to see the

63
00:04:00,439 --> 00:04:03,319
end of the journey, but he sees the step just

64
00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,520
ahead of him very plainly, and he hesitates not about

65
00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:09,520
taking it. He does not expect the law to bring

66
00:04:09,599 --> 00:04:13,400
results and place them in his hand. All he asks

67
00:04:13,439 --> 00:04:16,199
and desires is that the way be pointed out to him,

68
00:04:16,639 --> 00:04:18,959
and he is willing and ready to do the rest himself.

69
00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:22,360
The true man or woman does not wish to be

70
00:04:22,399 --> 00:04:25,600
fed with a spoon. All they ask is that they

71
00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:28,160
may have a fair chance to reach the source of supply,

72
00:04:28,879 --> 00:04:32,360
and they can manage to handle the spoon themselves. If

73
00:04:32,399 --> 00:04:36,000
any man think that the law is an incubator of parasites,

74
00:04:36,319 --> 00:04:41,439
of leeches, of vampires, he is greatly mistaken. The lesson

75
00:04:41,519 --> 00:04:43,879
of the law is to teach every man to stand

76
00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:48,000
upon his own feet, to lean not upon another, but

77
00:04:48,199 --> 00:04:50,879
at the same time to feel that he is guided

78
00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:53,680
by the great Law of which he himself is a part,

79
00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:59,000
which manifests within him as well as without him, And that, consequently,

80
00:04:59,519 --> 00:05:03,480
while play his trust in the Law, he trusts in himself.

81
00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:10,240
Not paradoxical at all when you have the key. Yes, Yes,

82
00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,480
the Law expects every man to do well the work

83
00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:16,600
that lies to his hand, and to do it well,

84
00:05:17,199 --> 00:05:21,480
whether it is irksome or distasteful or otherwise. And as

85
00:05:21,519 --> 00:05:24,319
soon as he ceases to rebel and beat his wings

86
00:05:24,399 --> 00:05:27,639
against the bars of the cage. The way is opened

87
00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,600
for the next step. And if he does not take

88
00:05:30,639 --> 00:05:34,079
that step, he must work away until he learns to

89
00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:38,399
take it, and so on and on, the lesson of

90
00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:43,800
each task to be learned before the next is presented. Work, Why,

91
00:05:43,879 --> 00:05:47,920
certainly you must work. Everything in the universe works unceasingly.

92
00:05:48,759 --> 00:05:51,120
When you learn to look upon work as a joy

93
00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:54,560
and not a curse, then you are beginning to see

94
00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:58,120
your way out of the grinding process. Then you are

95
00:05:58,199 --> 00:06:02,879
getting a glimpse of the promised land. Why, bless your hearts.

96
00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,279
Work is the best friend you have. The only trouble

97
00:06:06,319 --> 00:06:08,879
is that you have treated it as an enemy, and

98
00:06:08,959 --> 00:06:11,959
it has paid you back in your own coin. When

99
00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,800
you learn to treat it as a friend, it will

100
00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,279
be only too glad to make up, and you will

101
00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:22,360
get along like two old cronies. Now, you people who

102
00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:26,160
have been sitting with folded hands and calmly waiting and

103
00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:29,959
complaining that your own has not come to you, listen,

104
00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:35,360
you are mistaken. Your own has come to you. That's

105
00:06:35,439 --> 00:06:39,199
just the trouble. Your own is the thing you attract,

106
00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:42,279
and you have been attracting. Just what has come to

107
00:06:42,319 --> 00:06:47,000
you start in to day determined to fall in with

108
00:06:47,079 --> 00:06:49,959
the workings of the law, and pay attention to the

109
00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:54,240
I do side of things as well as the I am,

110
00:06:54,639 --> 00:06:59,000
and you will receive new light. Great things are just

111
00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,800
ahead of you, but you must reach out for them.

112
00:07:02,399 --> 00:07:06,480
They're not going to drop into folded hands. This is

113
00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:07,000
the law.