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 teachings
of all the prophets, seers, sages, and saviours in the world's history,
through the lives of all men and women of truly great and lasting
power. All that they have ever done or attained to has been done in
full accordance with law. What one has done, all may do.
This same golden thread must enter into the lives of all who today, in
this busy work-a-day world of ours, would exchange impotence for power,
weakness and suffering for abounding health and strength, pain and
unrest for perfect peace, poverty of whatever nature for fullness and
plenty.
Each is building his own world. We both build from within and we
attract from without. Thought is the force with which we build, for
thoughts are forces. Like builds like and like attracts like. In the
degree that thought is spiritualized does it become more subtle and
powerful in its workings. This spiritualizing is in accordance with
law and is within the power of all.
Everything is first worked out in the unseen before it is manifested in
the seen, in the ideal before it is realized in the real, in the
spiritual before it shows forth in the material. The realm of the
unseen is the realm of cause. The realm of the seen is the realm of
effect. The nature of effect is always determined and conditioned by
the nature of its cause.
To point out the great facts in connection with, and the great laws
underlying the workings of the interior, spiritual, thought forces, to
point them out so simply and so clearly that even a child can
understand, is the author's aim. To point them out so simply and so
clearly that all can grasp them, that all can take them and infuse them
into every-day life, so as to mould it in all its details in accordance
with what they would have it, is his purpose. That life can be thus
moulded 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 and
above and below the human will incessantly works the Divine will. To
come into harmony with it and thereby with all the higher laws and
forces, 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 to
come into the chain of this wonderful sequence. This is the secret of
all success. This is to come into the possession of unknown riches,
into the realization of undreamed-of powers.