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A man sold a house. He listed it with brokers, and then formed a complete picture of that house already sold and himself moving out, etc. It worked.

What would have been a wrong way of operating such a thought-form? One of the worst things he could have done would have been to picture a certain prospect buying it. That would have violated the rule of not specifying the channel or person, time or method by which the thought-form shall operate.

Or my friend might have formed a picture of himself moving into a new home after leaving the one he had. That would not have been wrong, but it would have been too indirect, too remote. It is better to confine the thought-form to the immediate desire in hand.

Yet either of these two less desirable thought-forms would have been preferable to none. Most anyone would have tried to sell his house merely by mentioning its availablility at every opportunity to friends, by advertising it widely in the newspapers-by objectively seeking, in other words, the specific answer to his problem. In one case out of many this method, to be sure, would have worked. But a properly worked out thought form, if persisted in, will always work.

Do not worry if you find it difficult at first to frame your desires completely and simply. Your real meaning will be clear to the Universal Mind without lengthy and detailed instruction. But be sure you do have a definite idea yourself. If you find it hard to phrase, it may be that you have not yet as definite a desire as you think you have.

Many times in the passing years have I heard people say: “Wait till I have made enough money and then I want to devote my entire time to humanitarian work.” And I have watched and waited and I have never seen one of them acquire what he considered enough to enable him to relax and devote himself to the really useful side of life. Yet many of them have made what the world calls “wealth.”

When you concentrate to impress your thought-form upon the Universal, do not ask for money or wealth first. There may be a better way. Follow the rules given and picturize yourself doing the exact work you desire to do, regardless of money. The fact that you become able to do the thing you desire to do is evidence that the means for you to do so will be forthcoming. The best plan for all thought-forms is to see yourself in them doing the actual work you want to do. Then do not “cramp” the Universal by trying to impress it with the idea of just what the desire will cost or when the means shall come or through what channels. What do you care how the supply comes so long as you are doing your work? That is the big thing-the ONLY thing for you to conentrate on.

By the early metaphysical writer and teacher George Winslow Plummer.

Expect the best to happen. Don’t sit around waiting for trouble; have absolutely nothing to do with it. It is no part of the divine plan. It is an illusion of the material sense. One who has learned to trust will not be surprised even when he finds things coming from the most unexpected sources. All things are man’s to use and then let go of. What more can we ask? We want nothing that we have to keep; things are to use not to hold. Expect that everything is to come your way. Be content and cheerful if you wish to attract from out of the store of the infinite. Open up your whole consciousness to the greater possibilities of life. Line up with the big things. When you speak the work expect it to happen. Know that it must be as you say. This will not be fooling yourself, it will simply be using the law as it is meant to be used.

A man going into business will attract to himself that which he thinks about the most. If he is a barber he will attract people who want to be shaved or have their hair cut. If he sells shoes he will attract people who want to buy shoes. So it is with everything; we will not only do this, but we will also attract as much of anything as we mentally embody. This is apt to be overlooked in the study of metaphysics. It is not enough to say that we atttract what we think; we become what we think, and what we become we will attract.

Do not become merely sentimental about this. Your life is governed by more than a sentiment; it is governed by law, something that cannot be broken, something that picks up every mental attitude and does something with it.

This fundamental proposition of the law should then work out into our conditions. Always remember that it does just as we think. It does not argue, it simply does the thing as we think it. Now how are we thinking? Never ask a patient how he is feeling; ask, how are you thinking today? This is the only thing that matters. How are we thinking about life and our conditions? Are we receiving the race suggestion; are we saying that there is not enough to go around? If we are saying this, it is our belief, and there is something that will see that it becomes a part of our expression. Most people, through ignorance of the higher laws of their being, are suffering from the thoughts imposed upon them from a negative and doubtful world. We who are claiming the use of the greater law must emancipate ourselves from all sense of limitation. We are not to be governed by the outer confusion but by the inner realization. We are to judge life not from the way that things in the past have been done, but from the way that the Spirit does things.

From the book “Creative Mind” by Ernest Holmes. This book was one of Ernest’s first writings, and is short, concise, and like so much of the early new thought writings, really the best.

The healing of conditions is no different from other healing. All healing is the constructive use of a mental law which the world is gradually beginning to understand something of. Again we must reiterate the principle of all life. We are surrounded by a thinking medium from which all things come. We think into it; it does the rest. Since we are thinking beings and cannot stop thinking, and since Creative Mind receives our thought and cannot stop creating, it must always be making something for us. What it will make depends absolutely and only upon what we are thinking, and what we will atract will depend entirely upon our holding thought to the complete exclusion to all that would contradict it. It is not enough that we should sit down and say, “I am one with Infinite Life.” This must mean more than mere words; it must be felt, it must become an embodiment of a positive mental attitude. It is not claiming something to be true which is going to happen; it is not sending out an aspiration, or a desire, or a supplication, or a prayer; it must be the embodiment of that which knows that now it is. This is more than holding a thought. Our ability to attract will depend upon the largeness of our thought as we feel that it flows out into a great Universal Creative Power. We are dealing with the form in thought, and not with the form in matter. We have learned that when we get the true form in thought and permeate it with the spirit of belief we will see the thought made flesh without any further effort on our part.

Thought can attract to us only that which we first mentally embody. We cannot attract to ourselves that which we are not. We can attract in the outer only that which we have first completely mentally embodied within, that which has become a part of our mental make-up, a part of our inner understanding.

From the book “Creative Mind” by Ernest Holmes. This book was one of Ernest’s first writings, and is short, concise, and like so much of the early new thought writings, really the best. Part II is coming soon.