when working in Mind, for there is where things are made, there creation is going on, and it is now making something for us. This must be believed as never believed before; it must be known as the great reality; it must be felt as the only Presence. There is no other way to obtain.
Though all the Infinite may want to give, yet we must take, and, as far as we are concerned, that taking is mental. Though people may laugh at this, even, that does not matter, "He laughs best who laughs last." We know in "What we believe," and that will be sufficient.
ENLARGING OUR THOUGHT.
WE can never stand still in our thought. Either we will be growing or else we will be going back. As we can attract to ourselves only what we first have a mental likeness of, it follows that if we wish to attract larger things we provide larger thoughts. This enlarging of consciousness is so necessary that too much cannot be said about it.
Most people get only a short way and then stop; they cannot seem to get beyond a certain point; they can do so much and no more. Why is that a person in business does just about so much each year? We see people in all walks of life, getting so far, never going beyond a certain point. There must be a reason for everything; nothing happens, if all is governed by law, and we can come to no other conclusion.
When we look into the mental reason for things we find out why things happen. The man who gets so far and never seems to go beyond that point is still governed by
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