In Tune With The Infinite - Or Fullness Of Peace, Power And Plenty Or Fullness of Peace, Power and Plenty

FOREWORD TO THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION I am reminded that the book this new fore word is called for was published fifty years ago. It is difficult, it is almost impossible, for me to realize that this is so. Possibly the original preface, still retained on account of its universal nature, cannot be im proved on, though the intervening years have wrought many changes in our world life, and in our individual lives. Possibly I may be indulged in a brief state ment as to the cause or causes that have op erated to give the book its large circulation tod to keep it alive and active. Something indeed of a universal nature seemed to get into it which has taken it all over the world. This is attested by the vast number of appreciative and grateful letters that have come to me from readers in many countries letters telling in concrete terms what it has done for them, for their families, their friends and acquaintances and in frequent cases of the numbers of copies they have been impelled to give to others. In Tune with the Infinite has been published in translation in some twenty different countries, in Esperanto, in raised let Foreword ters for the blind and the letters that still reach me, many from our younger generation of ear nest, seeking and aspiring men and women, give evidence that it is in as great demand as ever. This I attribute and humbly to the fact that there is in it that which I ardently hoped for the element of use, of human help. Each person has his problems no life is free from them and the human heart responds in grati tude to whatever agency renders real help. The element of fear seems to be gripping an ever-increasing number of minds of late. Re cent events andoccurrences familiar to us all supply the answer to the question why. There is perhaps no quality that more people stand in need of and right down in their hearts eagerly long for than the element of courage. Courage to me is nothing more or less than a positive, creative, building type of thought that not only keeps us going but all the time works out and actualizes the conditions along the lines that we are going. Thoughts are forces. Like creates like aiid like attracts like. Thoughts of strength en gender strength within and attract it from with out. Thoughts of weakness actualize weakness within and attract it from without. Courage begets success. Fear begets failure. The law Foreword is absolute that the life always and inevitably follows the thought. There is a power, the energy of Life itself, that responds to intrepid thought. The Power that moves and that holds the stars in their courses, illumines, sustains and fights for the brave and the upright. Courage has power and magic in it. To ally ourselves with it, through the channel of the mind, is the secret of all real and satisfactory living. It was one who studied deeply and who saw dearly, William James, who said, We and God have business with each other, and in that business our highest destiny is fulfilled. It was Emerson, than whom there has been no greater prophet and seer in our time, who said, The life of the soul in conscious union with the Infinite shall be for thee the only real exist ence. And again I believe in the still small voice and that vx ice is the Christ within me. In these seemingly rudderless days we have abundant helps from such clear-seeing minds. These are thoughts kindred to the fundamental thoughtthat runs through the book, and that has proved of value to so many. When we shall come into the realization that we are all recipients and manifestations of the One Life, we shall lay the foundation and build the structure of the One World, and appreciate that we are all brothers, the fact that this old Foreword world has been standing so sadly in need of...