what corresponds to your own dominant quality of thought.
Thoughts are our private property, and we can regulate them to suit our
taste entirely by steadily recognizing our ability so to do."

We have just spoken of the drawing power of mind. Faith is nothing
more nor less than the operation of the _thought forces_ in the form of
an earnest desire, coupled with expectation as to its fulfillment. And
in the degree that faith, the earnest desire thus sent out, is
continually held to and watered by firm expectation, in just that
degree does it either draw to itself, or does it change from the unseen
into the visible, from the spiritual into the material, that for which
it is sent.

Let the element of doubt or fear enter in, and what would otherwise be
a tremendous force will be so neutralized that it will fail of its
realization. Continually held to and continually watered by firm
expectation, it becomes a force, a drawing power, that is irresistible
and absolute, and the results will be absolute in direct proportion as
it is absolute.

We shall find, as we are so rapidly beginning to find today, that the
great things said in regard to faith, the great promises made in
connection with it, are not mere vague sentimentalities, but are all
great scientific facts, and rest upon great immutable laws. Even in
our very laboratory experiments we are beginning to discover the laws
underlying and governing these forces. We, are now beginning, some at
least, to use them understandingly and not blindly, as has so often and
so long been the case.

Much is said today in regard to the will. It is many times spoken of
as if it were a force in itself. But will is a force, a power, only in
so far as it is a particular form of the manifestation of the thought
forces; for it is by what we call the "will" that thought is focused
and given a particular direction, and in the degree that thought is
thus focused and given direction, is it effective in the work it is
sent out to accomplish.

In a sense there are two kinds of will,--the human and the divine. The
human will is the will of what, for convenience' sake, we may term the
lower self. It is the will that finds its life merely in the realm of
the mental and the physical,--the sense will. It is the will of the
one who is not yet awake to the fact that there is a life that far
transcends the life of merely the intellect and the physical senses,
and which when realized and lived