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Confidence. Why should you doubt --- have you not felt the pressure of The Hand?"
Aye, why should I doubt or question? Have I not felt the pressure of the Unseen Hand? Open your hands, friends, that the Hand may clasp yours as it has mine. While your hand is clenched in Anger and Hate --- while it clutches tight the gold it has snatched from the hand of another --- while the fingers are drawn together with Fear --- it cannot receive the Unseen Hand. Open it wide --- reach it out --- offer it in friendly clasp --- and you will feel within it the touch of that which you seek.
The Unseen Hand is waiting to clasp yours. Give it welcome --give it welcome.

Chapter 16 - HOW SUCCESS COMES. - p. 58

Seeking success through mental powers --- Holding the thought alone not sufficient --- How to get the real benefit of thought-force --- Fall in with the workings of the Law --- Stand on your own feet --- One step at a time --- "I Do" as well as "I Am."
Many of the men and women who have been seeking Prosperity by means of the powers of the mind, have done so by "holding the thought," and then folding their hands and calmly waiting for some "lucky" event to happen, or in other words, for the long sought for prize to drop down into the laps, from out of the Nowhere. Now, I have heard of a number of cases in which things apparently came about in this way, although I have always felt that a little investigation would have shown some good and natural cause behind it all, but as a rule the law does not work in this way --- it does not leave the old beaten road of cause and effect. It is no Aladdin's lamp which has merely to be rubbed in order that glittering gems, and showers of gold, be poured out into the lap of the owner, as he lies back on his cushions, lazily rubbing the lamp with the tip of his little finger. The law expects from the man who would invoke its mighty aid, a little honest work on his part.
I think that the majority of those who have met with a greater share of Success by means of the wonderful power of Thought, have met with such Success not by having it fall from the skies, but by following out the ideas, impulses, yes, inspiration, if you will, that have come to them. The man who has turned his back upon the old negative Mental Attitude --- who has turned his face toward the rising sun --- who has allowed the voice of Faith again to be heard --- who knows that the Law which rules the motions of the worlds and still takes note of the sparrow's fall, has his interest at heart and asks but for Faith --- that man, I say, finds that