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HOW TO ATTRACT SUCCESS

F . W . SEARS
(1914)

Publishers’ Statement

To the Purchaser:

 

It is a self-evident fact that you wanted to get something out of this book or you would not have purchased it.

Therefore the first thing to do before you begin to read is to relax and become receptive to the lessons it teaches.

The second thing is to read slowly and try to absorb its lessons rather than learn them mentally.

The third thing is to remember that this book only teaches how to grow a constructive and harmonious consciousness; you will have to do the work of applying its lessons.

New habits are not formed in a day and the lessons which this book teaches will not be absorbed in one reading. The student who will devote not less than half an hour each day to their study and then apply them in living his daily life will receive untold benefit. It is dependent on you alone as to how valuable this book becomes to you.

The author has proven for himself everything he teaches. He knows that everything he says is true, and you can know it too but you will have to apply the lessons and prove them for yourself.

You will note that the author does not quote any “authorities” for any of his statements. The highest authority any soul can possibly have is its own God-self and it is this God-self in you which the proper and persistent study and application of these lessons will bring out into greater expression, and thus enable you to set the new causes in motion which will bring you success along any line you may desire.

THE PUBLISHERS

Author’s Statement

Many books and treatises have been written on the subject of “Success” and the methods to be used in obtaining it. These works have been the honest statements of their authors who have used and found them successful. The student, in attempting to apply them, has usually been successful for a while but the day invariably came when he found that something was lacking, and the same methods which formerly brought success failed him in his need.

In the business world it has always been considered that the salesman who could sell a customer “something he did not want” was the best salesman. Men are taught “Business Psychology,” which consists in controlling the “other fellow’s” mind through the power of “Mental suggestion” and making him do what the salesman wants.

The world has not realized that the Law of Force was the controlling factor in these methods and that we can only retain a thing under the same Law by which it is obtained.

To be successful in anything one must be able to retain as well as obtain it; he must also be able to obtain it when he wants it, where he wants it, and be able to retain it as long as he wants it.

It is obvious then that when we obtain anything under the Law of Force we must be prepared to exert our Force all the time to a greater degree than can anyone else in order to be able to obtain what we want, when and where we want it, and to retain it as long as we want it.

Few men, that is few in comparison with the entire population of the world, are able to maintain this Law of Force against all comers for any great length of time, and so we have failure after failure. Some are able to maintain it for only a few months, others for several years, while those who are able to maintain it for a life-time against all-comers usually do so through making a sort of “truce” or combination—Trust—with others of their kind.

In this book is taught the true Law of Success, which is the “Law of Harmonious Attraction.” Under this Law things come to us “because they want to come” and not because “we make them come;” they remain with us because they “want to do so.” Instead of working to control the “other fellow” we learn to control ourselves and become so strong, powerful and harmonious in our attractive power that the things we want will “want us” so much that they cannot remain away.

The salesman who uses this Law finds that he is led to those who want to buy his goods, instead of to those whom he has to force into buying. The result is that he has a satisfied clientele instead of a dissatisfied one; that instead of having to dodge around the corner when he sees a former customer approaching, he goes up to meet him knowing that he will receive a hearty welcome and probably be given information which will help him make other sales.

The business man who uses this Law can go to bed at night with his mind free from the fear that he may wake up in the morning and find himself a pauper because his investments have proven to be bad or that some confidential clerk has absconded with his wealth.

The person who uses this Law to obtain Happiness or any other ideal will find that he has not been chasing an “ignus fatus” which disappears just as he thinks he has obtained it.

It is impossible for one working under any other Law to take away from us what we have gained under the Law of Harmonious Attraction, for this is the strongest and most powerful Law in the Universe; while those working under this Law will never want to take it away from us.

The Law of Harmonious Attraction, and the other Laws referred to in this book, are not new Laws, and the Author claims nothing for their discovery; they have existed throughout all time and have been used unconsciously to a greater or less extent throughout all the ages. The only claim the Author makes is for their revival and their conscious application by mankind along all lines, and the new application of them which he teaches.

The Author would teach the same common sense application of these Laws to the energy which creates things that the world uses in the handling of these things after they are created. Thus when one leaves his home he locks the doors and fastens the windows in order to prevent intruders from gaining entrance and stealing his valuables, but in his thought world he leaves the doors and windows open to all the thieves, tramps and vagabonds of the destructive thought currents. Man should learn to lock the “doors and windows” of his thought world against the “thieves and vagabonds”—vicious thoughts of all kinds—of that plane by forming the fixed habit of displacing them by constructive and harmonious thinking.

To the thousands of hungry souls that have battled long enough with the world under the Law of Force and who are ready to learn the larger Truth of the Law of Harmonious Attraction, is this book dedicated. All such will read and re-read it hundreds of times, get into the vibrations from which it was written and receive their own message of Harmony direct from the one great Source. Those who have not been beaten to earth again and again by the reaction of the Law of Force on their own lives and who are not ready for the great Truths contained herein will go on under their old Law, setting more and more destructive causes in motion until they too cry out for mercy and say, “Oh, God! Why hast thou forsaken me.” Sometime they too will learn the lesson that “no one can save us from our own Laws but ourselves.”