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THE MASTERY OF BEING: Secret Universal Laws of Reality, Spirit, Manifestation & Attraction - William Walker Atkinson · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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  James Allen, As a man Think Forward. This little volume, the result
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  of meditation and experience, is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much
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  written upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanatory,
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  its object being to stimulate men and women to the discovery and perception of
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  the truth that they themselves are makers of themselves by virtue of the thoughts which
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  they choose and encourage, that mind is the master weaver both of the inner
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  garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, And that as they may
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  have hitherto woven in ignorance and pain, they may now weave in enlightenment and
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  happiness. James Allen, broad Park, Avenue, Ilfracombe, England. As
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  a Man, Think, Thought and character the aphorism. As a man thinks
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  in his heart, so is he not only embraces the whole of a man's
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  being, but is so comprehensive as to reach out to every condition and circumstance
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  of his life. A man is literally what he thinks, his character being
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  the complete sum of all his thoughts. As the plaid springs from and could
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  not be without the seed, So every act of a man springs from the
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  hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them. This applies
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  equally to those acts called spontaneous and unpremeditated, as to those which are deliberately
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  executed. Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its
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  fruits. Thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his
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  own husbandry. Thought in the mind half made us what we are by thought,
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  was wrought and built. If a man's mind hath evil thoughts, pain
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  comes on him as comes the wheel the ox behind. If one enduring purity
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  of thought, joy follows him as his own shadow. Shore Man is a
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  growth by law and not a creation by artifice, and cause and effect is
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  as absolute and undeviate one I n g. In the hidden realm of thought,
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  as in the world of visible and material things. A noble and godlike
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  character is not a thing of favor or chance, but as the natural result
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  of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long cherished association with godlike
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  thoughts. An ignoble and bestial character, by the same process, is the
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  result of the continued harboring of groveling thoughts. Man is made or unmade by
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  himself. In the armory of thought, he forges the weapons by which he
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  destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly
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  mansions of joy and strength and peace. By the right choice and true application
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  of thought, man ascends to the divine perfection. By the abuse and wrong
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  application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast. Between these
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  two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and
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  master of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul, which have been restored
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  and brought to light in this age. None is more gladdening or fruitful of
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  divine promise and confidence than this. That man is the master of thought,
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  the molder of character, and the maker and shaper of condition, environment,
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  and destiny. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and
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  the lord of his own thoughts, man holds the key to every situation,
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  and contains within himself that transforming and regenerative agency by which he may make himself
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  what he wills. Man is always the master, even in his weaker and
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  most abandoned state. But in his weakness and degradation, he is the foolish
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  master who misgoverns his household. When he begins to reflect upon his condition and
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  to search diligently for the law upon which his being is established, he then
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  becomes the wise master, directing his energies with intelligence and fashioning his thoughts to
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  fruitful issues. Such is the conscious master. And man can only thus become
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  by discovering within himself the laws of thought, which discovery is totally a matter
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  of application, self analysis, and experience. Only by much searching and mining
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  are gold and diamonds obtained. And man can find every truth connected with his
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  being if he will dig deep into the mind of his soul, and that
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  he is the maker of his character, the molder of his life, and
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  the builder of his destiny. He may unerringly prove if he will watch,
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  control and alter his thoughts, tracing their effects upon himself, upon others,
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  and upon his life and circumstances, linking cause and effect by patient practice and
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  investigation, and utilizing his every experience, even to the most trivial everyday occurrence,
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  as a means of obtaining that knowledge of himself, which is understanding wisdom.
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  Power. In this direction, as in no other, is the law
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  absolute that he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knometh it shall be
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  opened. For only by patience, practice, and ceaseless importunity can a man
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  enter the door of the Temple of Knowledge.