E-text prepared by Al Haines
or
Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty
by
Author of
"What All the World's A-Seeking,"
"The Greatest Thing Ever Known,"
"Every Living Creature."
Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life. To come into the full realization of your own awakened interior powers, is to be able to condition your life in exact accord with what you would have it.
Seventy-Seventh Thousandin England and America
LondonGeorge Bell & Sons1903
First English Edition, Dec. 1899
Reprinted April and October 1900
February and June 1901; April 1902; January 1903
There is a golden thread that runs through every religion in the world.There is a golden thread that runs through the lives and the teachingsof all the prophets, seers, sages, and saviours in the world's history,through the lives of all men and women of truly great and lastingpower. All that they have ever done or attained to has been done infull accordance with law. What one has done, all may do.
This same golden thread must enter into the lives of all who today, inthis busy work-a-day world of ours, would exchange impotence for power,weakness and suffering for abounding health and strength, pain andunrest for perfect peace, poverty of whatever nature for fullness andplenty.
Each is building his own world. We both build from within and weattract from without. Thought is the force with which we build, forthoughts are forces. Like builds like and like attracts like. In thedegree that thought is spiritualized does it become more subtle andpowerful in its workings. This spiritualizing is in accordance withlaw and is within the power of all.
Everything is first worked out in the unseen before it is manifested inthe seen, in the ideal before it is realized in the real, in thespiritual before it shows forth in the material. The realm of theunseen is the realm of cause. The realm of the seen is the realm ofeffect. The nature of effect is always determined and conditioned bythe nature of its cause.
To point out the great facts in connection with, and the great lawsunderlying the workings of the interior, spiritual, thought forces, topoint them out so simply and so clearly that even a child canunderstand, is the author's aim. To point them out so simply and soclearly that all can grasp them, that all can take them and infuse theminto every-day life, so as to mould it in all its details in accordancewith what they would have it, is his purpose. That life can be thusmoulded by them is not a matter of mere speculation or theory with him,but a matter of positive knowledge.
There is a divine sequence running throughout the universe. Within andabove and below the human will incessantly works the Divine will. Tocome into harmony with it and thereby with all the higher laws andforces, to come then into league and to work in conjunction with them,in order that they can work in league and in conjunction with us, is tocome into the chain of this wonderful sequence. This is the secret ofall success. This is to come into the possession of unknown riches,into the realization of undreamed-of powers.