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of it, strong people will be drawn toward you, influence will be put into your hands, and in accordance with your altered thought- world will outward events shape themselves. “A man’s foes are they of his own house- hold,” and he who would be useful, strong, and happy, must cease to be a passive recep- tacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires, and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.

Even a very partial success in self-mastery adds greatly to ore’s power, and he who succeeds in perfect- ing this divine accomplishment, enters into the possession of undreamed-of wisdom and inward strength and peace, and realises that all the forces of the universe aid and protect his footsteps who is master of his soul.

The Silent Power of Thought Would you scale the highest heaven, Would you pierce the lowest hell,— Live in dreams of constant beauty, Or in basest thinkings dwell. For your thoughts are heaven above you, And your thoughts are hell below; Bliss is not, except in thinking, Torment nought but thought can know, Worlds would vanish but for thinking; Glory is not but in dreams ; And the Drama of the ages From the Thought Eternal streams.

Dignity and shame and sorrow, Pain and anguish, love and hate Are but maskings of the mighty Pulsing Thought that governs Fate. As the colours of the rainbow Make the one uncoloured beam, So the universal changes Make the One Eternal Dream.

And the Dream is all within you, And the Dreamer waiteth long For the Morning to awake him To the living thought and strong That shall make the ideal real, Make to vanish dreams of hell wn the highest, holiest heaven Where the pure and perfect dwell. 57 58 The Path of Prosperity Evil is the thought that thinks it; Good, the thought that makes it so; Light and darkness, sin and pureness Likewise out of thinking grow.

Dwell in thought upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see; Fix your mind upon the Highest. And the Highest you shall be. THE SECRET OF HEALTH, SUCCESS AND POWER WE all remember with what intense delight, as children, we listened to the never-tiring fairy-tale.

How eagerly we followed the fluctuating fortunes of the good boy or girl, ever protected, in the hour of crisis, from the evil machinations of the scheming witch, the cruel giant, or the wicked king. And our little hearts never faltered for the fate of the hero or heroine, nor did we doubt their ultimate triumph over all their enemies, for we knew that the fairies were infallible, and that they would never desert those who had consecrated themselves to the good and the true.

And what unspeakable joy pulsated within us when the Fairy-Queen, bringing all her magic to bear at the critical moment, scattered all the darkness and trouble, and granted them the complete satisfaction of all their hopes, and they were “happy ever after.” 59 60 The Path of Prosperity With the accumulating years, and an ever: increasing intimacy with the so-called “ realities” of life, our beautiful fairy-world became ob- literated, and its wonderful inhabitants were relegated, in the archives of memory, to the shadowy and unreal.

And we thought we were wise and strong in thus leaving for ever the land of childish dreams, but as we re-become little children in the wondrous world of wisdom, we shall return again to the inspiring dreams of childhood and find that they are, after all, realities.

The fairy-folk, so small and nearly always invisible, yet possessed of an all - conquering and magical power, who bestow upon the good, health, wealth, and happiness, along with all the gifts of nature in lavish profusion, start again into reality and become immortal- ised in the soul-realm of him who, by growth in wisdom, has entered into a knowledge of the power of thought, and the laws which govern the inner world of being.