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Chapter 1
Preface To The First Edition
THERE is a golden thread that runs through every religion in the world.
There is a golden thread that runs through the lives and the teachings to all
the prophets, seers, sages, and saviors in the world's history, through the
lives of all men of truly great and lasting power. All that they have ever done
or attained to has been done in full accordance with law.
What one has done, all may do. This same golden thread must enter into
the lives of all who today, in this busy work-a-day world of ours, would
exchange impotence for power, weakness and suffering for abounding
health and strength pain and unrest for perfect peace, poverty of whatever
nature for fullness and plenty.
Each is building their own world. We both build from within and we attract
from without. Thought is the force with which we build, for thoughts are
forces. Like builds like and like attracts like. In the degree that thought is
spiritualized does it become more subtle and powerful in its workings. This
spiritualizing is in accordance with law and is within the power of all.
Everything is first worked out in the unseen before it is manifested in the
seen, in the ideal before it is realized in the real, in the spiritual before it
shows forth in the material. The realm of the unseen is the realm of cause.
The realm of the seen is the realm of effect. The nature of effect is always
determined and conditioned by the nature of its cause.
To point out the great facts in connection with, and the great laws underlying
the workings of the interior, spiritual, thought forces, to point them out so
simply and so clearly that even a child can understand, is the author's aim.
To point them out so simply and so clearly that all can grasp them, that all
can take them and infuse them into everyday life, so as to mold it in all its
details in accordance with what they would have it, is his purpose That life
can be thus molded by them is not a matter of mere speculation or theory
with him, but a matter of positive knowledge.
There is a divine sequence running throughout the universe. Within and
above and below the human will incessantly works the Divine will. To come
into harmony with it and thereby with all the higher laws and forces, to come
then into league and to work in conjunction with them, in order that they can
work in league and in conjunction with us, is to come into the chain of this
wonderful sequence. This is the secret of all success. This is to come into
the possession of unknown riches, into the realization of undreamed-of
powers.
Ralph Waldo Trine
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