Thought being unseen
substance is absorbed by all. If you absorb another person’s thought, it
mingles with your own. Then in part, if not in whole, you will think that
person’s thought. You will to some extent see, feel, judge, and form opinion,
as does that person. You are to greater or lesser extent swayed and influenced
by the person. His or her thought, or spirit, has mingled with yours. You are not then wholly yourself. You are
in part that other person…
Every thought of yours has a literal value to you in every
possible way. The strength of your body,
the strength of your mind, your success in business, and the pleasure your
company brings others, depends on the nature of your thoughts. Every one of
your thoughts is a part of yourself. It is felt by others as a part of
yourself. You need not always speak, to be agreeable company. Those near you
will feel your thought pleasantly, if yours are pleasant thoughts. You need not
always speak, to be felt disagreeably. Your disagreeable thought will also be
felt. A person’s “magnetism” is their thought. Magnetic power or influence is simply thought felt by others. If
your thought is despondent, gloomy, jealous, carping, cynical, it repels. If
cheerful, hopeful, and full of earnest desire to do the most good possible to
any one you meet, though but for a single minute, it attracts.
Too much association with any one of lower thought may
lessen your natural power to attract. You may carry a part of their selfish,
cynical, gloomy, or other evil thought with you wherever you go. You put it out
with your own. It is felt as a disagreeable alloy with your own.
Your value and charm
for others, as a companion, depends far more on what you think, than on what
you say. If your thought is all pure, clean, bright, confident, and
courageous, you are a value, and an increasing value, wherever you go. People
will always be glad to see you. When you bring yourself (your thought), you
bring an actual pleasure to people. You bring also a power and strength to
them. Your thought helps to strengthen their bodies. They feel better for
seeing you. You are as a fountain of health and pleasure wherever you go. You
can disarm the sourest temper, and the person most opposed to you. When you can
say in mind, “I refuse to look upon any person as my enemy,” you will have no
enemies. When we talk of “having enemies,” and keep on, in thought, looking on
certain people as enemies, we are making them enemies, because such people feel that order of thought coming
from us. It is an element flowing from you to them. It affects them
disagreeably. If you are ever sending out the thought, “I am not your enemy. I
do not wish to feel disagreeably towards you. I want to like you better than I
do,” they will soon feel this thought. They cannot resist its power. The
thought of good is always stronger than that of evil. This is a law of nature…
If you persist in the
thought of good intent to all, you are connecting yourself with the higher and
more powerful order of thought element. You are then receiving of that
thought from minds, and from a world of greater power than you can now realize
of here. You are connecting yourself with a world which does nothing but build
up, whose inhabitants are gods in power, and whose creations at will are beyond
our wildest dreams. All that so‑called
fable or fancy has conceived of are realities in the higher worlds of mind. When,
by the thought of good intent to all, you so connect yourself with that world,
you are receiving of their powerful thought. You are then absolutely safe
against all enemies.
This is no myth of sentiment. It belongs to the same system
of law whereby the sun gives heat, the winds blow, the tides move, the seed
grows. In whatever mood you set your
mind, does your spirit receive of unseen substance in correspondence with that
mood. It is as much a chemical law as a spiritual law. Chemistry is not
confined to the elements we see. The elements we do not see with the physical
eye outnumber ten thousand times those we do see. The Christ injunction, “Do
good to those who hate you,” is based on a scientific fact and a natural law.
So to do good, is to bring to yourself all the elements in nature of power and
good. To do evil, is to bring the contrary destructive elements. When our eyes are opened, self‑preservation
will make us stop all evil thought. Those who live by hate will die by
hate; that is, “those who live by the sword will die by the sword.” Every evil thought is as a sword drawn on
the person to whom it is directed. If a sword is drawn in return, so much the
worse for both.
Your Forces and How
to Use Them,
Prentice Mulford
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