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Lesson XVI - How Concentration Can Fulfill Your Desire
By Theron
Q. Dumont
"It is a spiritual law that the desire to do necessarily implies the ability to do."
You have all read of "Aladdin's Lamp," which accomplished such
wonderful things. This, of course, is only a fairy story, but it
illustrates the fact that man has within him the power, if he is able
to use it, to gratify his every wish.
If you are unable to satisfy your deepest longings it is time you
learned how to use your God-given powers. You will soon be conscious
that you have latent powers within capable when once developed of
revealing to you priceless knowledge and unlimited possibilities of
success.
Man should have plenty of everything and not merely substance to live
on as so many have. All natural desires can be realized. It would be
wrong for the Infinite to create wants that could not be supplied.
Man's very soul is in his power to think, and it, therefore, is the
essence of all created things. Every instinct of man leads to thought,
and in every thought there is great possibility because true thought
development, when allied to those mysterious powers which perhaps
transcend it, has been the cause of all the world's true progress.
In the silence we become conscious of "that something" which transcends
thought and which uses thought as a medium for expression. Many have
glimpses of "that something," but few ever reach the state where the
mind is steady enough to fathom these depths. Silent, concentrated
thought is more potent than spoken words, for speech distracts from the
focusing power of the mind by drawing more and more attention to the
without.
Man must learn more and more to depend on himself; to seek more for the
Infinite within. It is from this source alone that he ever gains the
power to solve his practical difficulties. No one should give up when
there is always the resources of Infinity. The cause of failure is that
men search in the wrong direction for success, because they are not
conscious of their real powers that when used are capable of guiding
them.
The Infinite within is foreign to those persons who go through life
without developing their spiritual powers. But the Infinite helps only
he who helps himself. There is no such thing as a Special "Providence."
Man will not receive help from the Infinite except to the extent that
he believes and hopes and prays for help from this great source.
Concentrate on What You Want and Get It. The weakling is controlled by
conditions. The strong man controls conditions. You can be either the
conqueror or the conquered. By the law of concentration you can achieve
your heart's desire. This law is so powerful that that which at first
seems impossible becomes attainable.
By this law what you at first see as a dream becomes a reality.
Remember that the first step in concentration is to form a Mental Image
of what you wish to accomplish. This image becomes a thought-seed that
attracts thoughts of a similar nature. Around this thought, when it is
once planted in the imagination or creative region of the mind, you
group or build associated thoughts which continue to grow as long as
your desire is keen enough to compel close concentration.
Form the habit of thinking of something you wish to accomplish for five
minutes each day. Shut every other thought out of consciousness. Be
confident that you will succeed; make up your mind that all obstacles
that are in your way will be overcome and you can rise above any
environment.
You do this by utilizing the natural laws of the thought world which are all powerful.
A great aid in the development of concentration is to write out your
thoughts on that which lies nearest your heart and to continue, little
by little, to add to it until you have as nearly as possible exhausted
the subject.
You will find that each day as you focus your forces on this thought at
the center of the stream of consciousness, new plans, ideas and methods
will flash into your mind. There is a law of attraction that will help
you accomplish your purpose. An advertiser, for instance, gets to
thinking along a certain line. He has formed his own ideas, but he
wants to know what others think. He starts out to seek ideas and he
soon finds plenty of books, plans, designs, etc., on the subject,
although when he started he was not aware of their existence.
The same thing is true in all lines. We can attract those things that
will help us. Very often we seem to receive help in a miraculous way.
It may be slow in coming, but once the silent unseen forces are put
into operation, they will bring results so long as we do our part. They
are ever present and ready to aid those who care to use them. By
forming a strong mental image of your desire, you plant the
thought-seed which begins working in your interest and, in time, that
desire, if in harmony with your higher nature, will materialize.
It may seem that it would be unnecessary to caution you to concentrate
only upon achievement that will be good for you and work no harm to
another, but there are many who forget others and their rights, in
their anxiety to achieve success. All good things are possible for you
to have, but only as you bring your forces into harmony with that law
that requires that we mete out justice to fellow travelers as we
journey along life's road. So first think over the thing wanted and if
it would be good for you to have; say, "I want to do this; I am going
to work to secure it. The way will be open for me."
If you fully grasp mentally the thought of success and hold it in mind
each day, you gradually make a pattern or mold which in time will
materialize. But by all means keep free from doubt and fear, the
destructive forces. Never allow these to become associated with your
thoughts.
At last you will create the desired conditions and receive help in many
unlooked-for ways that will lift you out of the undesired environment.
Life will then seem very different to you, for you will have found
happiness through awakening within yourself the power to become the
master of circumstances instead of their slave.
To the beginner in this line of thought some of the things stated in
this book may sound strange, even absurd, but, instead of condemning
them, give them a trial. You will find they will work out.
The inventor has to work out his idea mentally before he produces it
materially. The architect first sees the mental picture of the house he
is to plan and from this works out the one we see. Every object, every
enterprise, must first be mentally created.
I know a man that started in business with thirteen cents and not a
dollar's worth of credit. In ten years he has built up a large and
profitable business. He attributes his success to two things--belief
that he would succeed and hard work. There were times when it did not
look like he could weather the storm. He was being pressed by his
creditors who considered him bankrupt. They would have taken fifty
cents on the dollar for his notes and considered themselves lucky. But
by keeping up a bold front he got an extension of time when needed.
When absolutely necessary for him to raise a certain sum at a certain
time he always did it. When he had heavy bills to meet he would make up
his mind that certain people that owed him would pay by a certain date
and they always did. Sometimes he would not receive their check until
the last mail of the day of the extension, and I have known him to send
out a check with the prospect of receiving a check from one of his
customers the following day. He would have no reason other than his
belief in the power of affecting the mind of another by concentration
of thought for expecting that check, but rarely has he been
disappointed.
Just put forth the necessary concentrated effort and you will be wonderfully helped from sources unknown to you.
Remember the mystical words of Jesus, the Master: "Whatsoever thing ye
desire when ye pray, pray as if ye had already received and ye shall
have."
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