CHAPTER 3

We all possess within us the power to unfold and develop, to the greatest perfection, every state of consciousness; in fact most of mankind manifest them all in some degree.

We have persons who are over-developed in some one of these different states and under-developed in the others; these find it difficult to express rationally, or understand anything which is not directly related to or connected with their own particular state of consciousness or unfoldment. Thus those who live continuously in the Inspirational, Intuitional or Revelational states—these are more generally known as the emotional states—to the exclusion of the Instinctive and Intellectual states, become so abnormal to the majority of mankind that they are called insane. They are the “Col. Mulberry Sellers” of the financial world, having great, wonderful inspiration and oft-times intuition and revelation as well, but lacking the intellectual development which would enable them to materialize their wonderful visions in a practical way on the objective plane.

On the other hand we have people who are over-developed intellectually; their Intellect has made them as hard as flint; they are what the world calls “practical” men; their Intellect is always in absolute control of every vibration; they would not permit of an increased heart beat nor allow themselves to be thrilled with an inspiration for anything; they pride themselves upon having absolute control of their “emotions” and would not allow any such a “weakness” to manifest in their lives; “An emotional nature is all right for women and children,” they say, “but not for a man with red blood in his veins.”

Such lives have yet to learn that it is not the emotional natures which are destructive any more than the mental, but it is the use to which we put such natures, such states of consciousness, which makes them constructive and successful or destructive and unsuccessful.

The successful business man is one who has some development of his inspirational and intuitional faculties but who guides and directs (instead of repressing) their manifestations with an intelligent application of his intellect.

When we live in any one of these states of consciousness to the exclusion of the others we can only relate with the things which are in its currents. We obtain such things under the Laws which prevail and control in that state of consciousness; and we can only retain them under the same Laws. But when we develop ourselves and learn to express in all of these states of consciousness, joining them all together in one harmonious expression, we learn to get what we want, get it when we want it, and keep it as long as we want it.

The Law under which we work in the Physical and Mental states of consciousness is the Law of Force. On the Physical plane this Law is expressed purely as brute force; whoever is the strongest, physically, is the most successful in this state of consciousness whether he be man or animal. On the Mental plane the expression of the Law of Force is more refined. In this state of consciousness men make others do their bidding through the developing and controlling of physical force by the intellect. The prize fighter or wrestler who has only physical strength stands no show whatever with the man who, even though of less physical strength, has developed his intellect and learned how to unite it harmoniously with his physical; while the machine—the product of man’s intellect—can do the work of a hundred physical men and do it far better. In the world of business and finance the same truth prevails, and the man who has the sharpest and most developed intellect is the one man who has the greatest force in the purely Intellectual state of consciousness.

The Law which prevails in the Soul and Spiritual states of consciousness is the Law of Harmonious Attraction, the Law of Love.

This is a most wonderful Law although the words which symbolize it seem so simple. They are simple to us only because we have seldom or never seen beneath their purely intellectual interpretation. When we open ourselves to the inspiration of this Law of Harmonious Attraction and begin to study its operation by Nature we see that it is really the only Law which Nature, or God, uses throughout the universe.

The earth is held to its orbit in its journey around the sun through this wonderful Law of Harmonious Attraction. The sun throws out its great, beautiful love nature into space and entwines its arms around old Mother Earth, bringing life and vitality with every vibration, while the earth nestles and cuddles in the arms of the sun, evolving and developing the life within and upon it in this loving embrace.

The moon in its orbit around the earth is held under this same Law of Harmonious Attraction, and all mankind together with the things in all other kingdoms are held in the arms of old Mother Earth under this same Law of Love or Harmonious Attraction.

The seed when planted in the ground, under the same Law of Harmonious Attraction, sends its tiny rootlet down into the earth in order that it may be sure of a permanent supply of moisture, and its stem peeps out from under the clods, attracted there from the negative forces which surround it, in order to obtain the sunshine and rains and dews which are so necessary to its life and development.

Everywhere we look we can see some manifestation of this Law of Harmonious Attraction in Nature.