The Washington herald., 1915-07-30
DR.. Marden's Uplift Talks.
By ORISON SWEET MARDEN,
Author of Pushing to the 'front.'" Etc
NURSE YOUR VISION.

| The bee and the venomous reptile
, draw material from the same plant
The one transmutes it into deadly
! poison which kills; the other into the
most delicious honey. The power that
changes the matter into a new sub
stance is within the bee and the rep
tile.
OF two boys in the same wretched
environment one will pick up an edu-
cation, train himself for place and
power. while the other will grow up
nobody. 1t is all in the boy. Each
has similar material to work in. One
transmutes it into gold; the other into
! lead.
Two sailors force the same breeze
to send their boats in opposite direc-
lions. II Is not the wind, but the set
OF the sail that determines the port
The power that makes our desire,
our vision. reality is not in our
environment or in any condition out
side of us: it is within US.
There is some unseen. unknown.
magnetic force developed by a long
continued concentration of the mind
upon a cherished desire that draws to
itself the reality which matches the
desire.
We cannot tell where this force
comes from or just what 1t is that
brings the thing we long for out of
the cosmic ether and objectifes IL,
shapes it TO correspond with our long
ing. We only know that IL exists.
The theory that seeks to explain II
is that the cosmic ether everywhere
surrounding us in full of undreamed
wealth; and that the strong. concen-
trated. mind reaches out into this
ether. this sea of intelligence, and at
tracts to it its own. The effort on
the material plane is. of course, abso
lutely necessary to objectify the thing
we desire. 1t Is a fact that all human
achievements have been pulled out OF
the unseen by the brain, through the
mind reaching out and fashioning the
wealth of material at its disposal into
the shapes which matched the wishes.
the desires. of the achievers.
All our cities. all our institutions,
all the inventions and discoveries
which have made our modern civiliza-
ton what II is were at first formed
in the realm of the Unknown by the
force of the brain: then they were
realized on the solid earth by the work
of the hand and brain in conjunction.
Our railroads, our steamships. our
telegraphs, all of our electrical de-
vices which are doing the worlds
drudgery today, were drawn out of
this cosmic intelligence by the mind.
The mental plan preceded their build
ing.
You will find tremendous help in
your efforts toward realization in the
habit of visualizing as much as posi-
BILE your longings, your aspirations.
your hopes. Picture as wildly as you
can the condition you are trying 10
bring about. Live for the time the life
you are hoping for. and longing to
come true. II you are struggling
with hri Iyip h,tS il
ness You hope to have, and which
will mean prosperity. Think of il as
an actuality. This vision is really the
outline of the reality and by con-
stantly visualizing it you will be like
ly to make 1t come true.
Our dreams merely open the win
dows and give US glimpse of the
realities that were prepared for US
at the foundation of the world. We
are coming to see that our warnings
and longings are not empty moth
ings, but that they are the realities
foreshadowing OF the substance of
hoped for things. the precursors of
the things themselves.
INSTALLATION will sometime be found
10 be one of the great secrets of char
acter building and achievement.
Persist in holding your vision in as
clear and clean-cut a manner as pos
sible. Make il Just as real as you can, |
stick to your faith that 1t shall be |
realized. and you will be surprised |
how people who can assist you in ma
terial means will rise to meet your
desires. You must desire intensely. |
with unquestioned expectancy, strang-
ling all doubts and disbursements
by flooding your mind with the most /
hopeful and optimistic pictures. Then,
II you have dead-in- earnestness and
you will win.