The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-10-07


Dor Echo, might be divided roughly
into two classes. First, there are those
who work and toll too much, who strive
continuously in the outer world of eff
feet, leaving no time for reflection.
These know nothing of the power Of
creative thought or the right use of i'm
agination. Toilers such as these be-
come mere automatons- slaves who be-
come WORKOUT before their time. Such
can never achieve great or outstand-
ing success, altho their patient service
meets with its due reward. Second,
There are those who. having learned
something of the creative powers OF
mind, wrongly imagine that by merely
thinking success, they can cause it to
drop like bolt from the blue, right
into their laps. Practical readers will
think such folly incredible, yet it is
true of a gerat many. There are thou
sands of foolish and gullible people,
who, while making no sensible efforts
to win success, spent their time and
money seeking for back-stair method
which shall make honest striving I'M
necessary. They fondly imagine that
by concentration in the Silence they
can, by a species of witchcraft or ma
gic, get something for nothing-in 9th
er words, gain success without ether
earning it or being deserving of it.
Hundreds of books have been written
on this type of success, and not one of
them has anything to say about
WORK! Comment is unnecessary
when it is remembered that the basis
of all true success is service.
This is exactly what we are irving
to drive home to our people in New
llano, in the mental science class. The
achievement Of success is not a lazy
mans job. 1t requires the legitimate
exercise of all human powers in har-
mony AMI conformity with natural law.
Ne one has ever seen or has had the
that the things required for
human welI-being, support, and enjoy
nent. have made their appearance and
placed themselves at the disposal of
anyone without intelligent labor and
Judging by past experience, never will.
IF anyone has gained riches without
having worked for them, he has sim
ply acquired them dishonesty, at the
expense of some one who did the work,
paid the purchase price Of honest toll,
and was deprived of the product with
out receiving an equivalent in return.
Life is an apprenticeship, that al
most begins with the day of birth. Ev-
that anyone has ever accom-
plished in his lifetime, he has had to
learn by slow steps. All ability is GAIN
ed by trying to do things. If we always
keep in view the fact that human la
Dor is the only known channel for le-
climate wealth requirement, under ma
turaI law, we shall never be deluded
into belief that it can make its APP
pearance in any other way. The only
belief which is of value to any one is
a belief that has been put to test
and demonstrated to be fact. 1t is
then no longer mere belief, but has
become living faith, truth or de-
finite knowledge. All ability to accom-
plish things depends upon knowing
how. And, if we once learn how to do
anything. we have to apply that knowl-
edge. make use of it, or we shall for
get it and lose it.
We can learn to know things and
how to make beneficial use of them
only to the degree that we give atten-
ton to them. The reality of phenom-
ena is to a large extent determined by
the degree of the intelligence of the
observer; the extent of ones previous
knowledge and development qualify
the more or less accurate conception
of the objects receiving attention.
Working people can organize COM
pany and work together for themselves
just as we'll as they can work for cor
poration consisting of small number
Of capitalistic stockholders. If they
can constructively and peacefully work
for other corporations, they ought to
be able to do the same thing for their
own corporation, of which they them
selves are the stockholders. Nothing
new and untried is attempted. Produc-
tive methods applied all over the world
are also used in Llano Colony, and
are applied with the success that at
lends all constructive action effective
y carried out. And it is to our inter-
est to work together; for, by that
means. we gain feeling of certainty
security and peace of nd-that