Success

Likewise, you understand that the farmer must plow the soil and properly plant the grain. After all this has been done, he then waits on Nature to do her share of the work; and she does it in due time, without outside help.

This is a perfect simile which illustrates the method through which one may attain the object of ones definite chief aim. First comes the preparing of the soil to receive the seed, which is represented by faith and infinite intelligence and understanding of the principle of Auto-suggestion and the sub-conscious mind through which the seed of a definite purpose may be planted.

Then comes a period of waiting and working for the realization of the object of that purpose. During this period, there must be continuous, intensified faith, which serves as the sunshine and the rain, without which the seed will wither and die in the ground. Then comes realization, harvest-time.

And a wonderful harvest can be brought forth. I am fully conscious of the fact that much of that which I am stating will not be understood by the beginner, at the first reading, for I have in mind my own experiences at the start. However, as the evolutionary process carries on its work (and it will do so; make no mistake about this) all the principles described in this and in all other lessons of this course, will become as familiar to you as did the multiplication table after you had mastered it; and, what is of greater importance still, these principles will work with the same unvarying certainty as does the principle of multiplication.

Each lesson of this course has provided you with definite instructions to follow. The instructions have been simplified as far as possible, so anyone can understand them. Nothing has been left to the student except to follow the instructions and supply the faith useless.

In this lesson you are dealing with four major factors to which I would again direct your attention with the request that you familiarize yourself with them.

They are: Auto-suggestion, the Sub-conscious Mind, Creative Thought and Infinite Intelligence. These are the four roadways over which you must travel in your upward climb in quest of knowledge.

Observe that you control three of these. Observe, also - and this is especially emphasized - that upon the manner in which you traverse these three roadways will depend the time and place at which they will converge into the fourth, or infinite intelligence.