CHAPTER 5

A person knowing the power of the word, becomes very

careful of his conversation. He has only to watch the

reaction of his words to know that they do "not return

void." Through his spoken word, man is continually

making laws for himself.

I knew a man who said,

"I always miss a car. It invariably

pulls out just as I arrive."

His daughter said: "I always catch a car. It's sure to come

just as I get there." This occurred for years. Each had made

a separate law for himself, one of failure, one of succes..

This is the psychology of superstitions.

The horse-shoe or rabbit's foot contains no power, but

man's spoken word and belief that it will bring good luck

creates expectancy in the subconscious mind, and attracts a

"lucky situation." I find however, this will not "work" when

man has advanced spiritually and knows a higher law. One

cannot turn back, and must put away "graven images."

For example: Two men in my class had had great success

in business for several months, when suddenly everything

"went to smash." We tried to analyze the situation, and I

found, instead of making their affirmations and looking to

God for success and prosperity, they had each bought a

"lucky monkey." I said: "Oh I see, you have been trusting

in the lucky monkeys instead of God." "Put away the lucky monkeys and call on the law of forgiveness,

" for man has

power to forgive or neutralize his mistakes.

They decided to throw the lucky monkeys down a coalhole,

and all went well again. This does not mean, however, that

one should throw away every "lucky" ornament or horse-

shoe about the house, but he must recognize that the power

back of it is the one and only power, God, and that the

object simply gives him a feeling of expectancy.

I was with a friend, one day, who was in deep despair. In

crossing the street, she picked up a horse-shoe.

Immediately, she was filled with joy and hope. She said

God had sent her the horsehoe in order to keep up her

courage.

It was indeed, at that moment, about the only thing that

could have registered in her consciousness. Her hope

became faith, and she ultimately made a wonderful

demonstration. I wish to make the point clear that the men

previously mentioned were depending on the monkeys,

alone, while this woman recognized the power back of the

horseshoe.

I know, in my own case, it took a long while to get out of a

belief that a certain thing brough disappointment. If the

thing happened, disappointment invariably followed. I

found the only way I could make a change in the

subconscious, was by asserting,

"There are not two powers,

there is only one power, God, therefore, there are not

disappointments, and this thing means a happy surprise." Inoticed a change at once, and happy surprises commenced

coming my way.

I have a friend who said nothing could induce her to walk

under a ladder. I said,

"If you are afraid, you are giving in

to a belief in two powers, Good and Evil, instead of one. As

God is absolute, there can be no opposing power, unless

man makes the false of evil for himself. To show you

believe in only One Power, God, and that there is no power

or reality in evil, walk under the next ladder you see."

Soon after, she went to her bank. She wished to open her

box in the safe-deposit vault, and there stood a ladder on

her pathway. It was impossible to reach the box without

passing under the ladder. She quailed with fear and turned

back. She could not face the lion on her pathway. However,

when she reached the street, my words rang in her ears and

she decided to return and walk under it. It was a big

moment in her life, for ladders had held her in bondage for

years. She retraced her steps to the vault, and the ladder

was no longer there! This so often happens! If one is

willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to.

It is the law of nonresistance, which is so little understood.

Someone has said that courage contains genius and magic.

Face a situation fearlessly, and there is no situation to face;

it falls away of its own weight.

The explanation is, that fear attracted the ladder on the

woman's pathway, and fearlessness removed it. Thus the invisible forces are ever working for man who is

always "pulling the strings" himself, though he does not

know it. Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever

man voices, he begins to attract. People who continually

speak of disease, invariably attract it.

After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his

words. For example: I have a friend who often says on the

'phone,

"Do come to see me and have an old-fashioned

chat." This "old-fashioned chat" means an hour of about

five hundred to a thousand destructive words, the principal

topics being loss, lack, failure and sickness.

I reply: "No, I thank you. I've had enough old-fashioned

chats in my life, they are too expensive, but I will be glad

to have a new-fashioned chat, and talk about what we want,

not what we don't want." There is an old saying that man

only dares use his words for three purposes, to "heal, bless

or prosper." What man says of others will be said of him,

and what he wishes for another, he is wishing for himself.

"Curses, like chickens, come home to roost."

If a man wishes someone "bad luck,

" he is sure to attract

bad luck himself. If he wishes to aid someone to success,

he is wishing and aiding himself to success.

The body may be renewed and transformed through the

spoken word and clear vision, and disease be completely

wiped out of the consciousness. The metaphysician knows

that all disease has a mental correspondence, and in order

to heal the body one must first "heal the soul."

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