im shall be given. This is simply the
working of a natural law. His strong, positive, and hence constructive
thought is continually working success for him along all lines, and
continually bringing to him help from all directions. The things that
he sees, that he creates in the ideal, are through the agency of this
strong constructive thought continually clothing themselves, taking
form, manifesting themselves in the material. Silent, unseen forces
are at work which will sooner or later be made manifest in the visible.

Fear and all thoughts of failure never suggest themselves to such a
man; or if they do, they are immediately sent out of his mind, and so
he is not influenced by this order of thought from without. He does
not attract it to him. He is in another current of thought.
Consequently the weakening, failure-bringing thoughts of the fearing,
the vacillating, the pessimistic about him, have no influence upon him.
The one who is of the negative, fearing kind not only has his energies
and his physical agents weakened, or even paralyzed through the
influence of this kind of thought that is born within him, but he also
in this way connects himself with this order of thought in the world
about him. And in the degree that he does this does he become a victim
to the weak, fearing, negative minds all around him. Instead of
growing in power, he increases in weakness. He is in the same order of
thought with those of whom it is true,--and even that which they have
shall be taken away from them. This again is simply the working of a
natural law, the same as is its opposite. Fearing lest I lose even
what I have I hide it away in a napkin. Very well. I must then pay
the price of my "fearing lest I lose."

Thoughts of strength both build strength from within and attract it
from without. Thoughts of weakness actualize weakness from within and
attract it from without. Courage begets strength, fear begets
weakness. And so courage begets success, fear begets failure. It is
the man or the woman of faith, and hence of courage, who is the master
of circumstances, and who makes his or her power felt in the world. It
is the man or the woman who lacks faith and who as a consequence is
weakened and crippled by fears and forebodings, who is the creature of
all passing occurrences.

Within each one lies the cause of whatever comes to him. Each has it
in his own hands to determine what comes. Everything in the visible,