attraction, you'd have long ago had your eyes opened to "see how." And

you'd have made progress and changed your conditions.

 

If you are ever going to be a magnet you are one now. If you are ever

going to be able to attract to the hair's breadth whatsoever you will

then you are doing it now. There will be no miraculous change in the

running gear of this universe to enable you to attract what you want.

 

What you now are in essence and working principle you have always been,

and you will always be - the same yesterday, today and forever - a

self-made MAGNET, working to the hair's breadth.

 

ONLY BY CHANGING THE QUALITY OF YOUR MAGNETISM CAN YOU CHANGE YOUR

ENVIRONMENT AND ATTRACT DIFFERENT TREATMENT FROM TOM, DICK, HARRY

AND FAN.

 

Sweetness within brings sweetness without. You have been more or less

bitter and self-justifying within, and Tom, Dick, Harry and Fan have

danced to the strings you pulled.

 

As long as you think you try and they don't; as long as you think

your judgment superior to theirs; your ideals loftier and worthier;

your ways better; you will get from them responses of carelessness,

bitterness, lack of consideration, selfishness.

 

You are inconsiderate of their ideas, ideals, judgments and ways;

in self-preservation they are inconsiderate of yours. If you had your

way they'd be pretty little putty images of your ideals, judgments,

wishes, ways and feelings. The Law of Individuality prevents your

imposing yourself on them. You think you are finding fault with their

"lack of consideration"; you are really condemning the law of being.

 

If you are ever to be a magnet you are one NOW. All that comes is

"your fault." If anything different comes it will come through your

change of mental attitude and action.

 

It will not do to throw it on "Karma" either, and say you are receiving

now the unpleasant things deserved in a previous state of existence. The

mills of the gods grind slowly but they are not so dead slow as all

that. What you thought and did in a previous state has determined your

parentage and childhood environment in this. But the pangs you suffer

today have their roots in yesterday or day before, or the year before

that. Cause and effect trip close upon each other's heels - so close that

the careless or ignorant observer misses the trip. He exaggerates the

effect if it be an unhappy one, and goes nosing for a bigger cause

than the real one. How could his little slip of this morning, or