PSYCHOLOGY OF SUCCESS

Northern Advocate, 21 August 1929, Page 2

PSYCHOLOGY OF SUCCESS

A WEIGHTY ADDRESS. | i i ' I At the Rotary Club’s luncheon yes-j I terday, the speaker was Dr. 0. S. Bone, J I Ph. D., S.F.R.S., an eminent man of j j letters, who took as bis subject ‘ ‘ The j 6 Psychology of Success.” I “There is one thing in the nni- I verse in which the declaration of I science and of the Book agree,” said I Dr. Bone, “and that is that there is I but one God or one thing. If wg ex- j I amine the mineral kingdom in com-j| [inny with an expert prospector we will j I discover that he wastes no time ex- | ploring what he calls “bull” quartz. | or the father lode. He gives his time | to searching for the mother lode, because he knows that when he finds that he will find the manifest values. For it is the office and function of the feminine principle to manifest, or bring to visibility, the values of the masculine. If you examine the next highest division of the kingdom, you w’ill discover that the feminine plant bears the bloom of the fruit, but the masculine pollinates. The operation of this principle on the animal plane is too apparent to admit of argument. When, we examine -the mental kingdom, we find the same principle in operation. ‘Mind is the masculine element, thought substance the feminine. If we ascend to the Godhead we find .that the source and fountain head, or THAT, expresses itself through the avenues of j spirit and breath. Whatever evidence .or authority we examine relative to the Godhead it is an expression involving .the masculine and feminine. Therefore, if the source and fountain head chooses to express itself in duality all that proceeds from that source, obeying the law* that like begets like, must partake of that duality. ■Hence, we have the; masculine .and feminine principle manifested in the Godhead, the mental, the animal, the vegetable and the mineral kingdoms. One God. One thing. Then man’s power to think is equivalent to his power to create, for thought is the creative force throughout the universe. The Most High,, shorn of the power to think, would be helpless to create. Therefore God has endowed man with the power to create and fortified it by the power of the will, and, exercising tills power to create, man may conceive the highest ideal of which he ie capable, and his ability to conceive anj ideal is equivalent to big ability to i achieve that ideal. Suppose you had 1 an apiary, and had some bees in the wild flowers, some in the apple blossoms, . isonie iu the clover and some in I the, sage; whatever 'CHARACTER of sweet the bees gathered, that would determine the QUALITY or the honey. II And remember that the honeycomb is , not the honey, but it contains the • honey. Even so does the cellular . construction of the physical man coui tain the thought body of the man who • lives within the cells. Then if the • man fills the cells of his body with , thought® of uncertainty, idread and , failure, the application of the law that like attracts like will attract to Mm dread, uncertainty and failure. If men would express their highest and ‘ best in the commercial, industrial, 1 social, political and religious life, let ■ them form their highest concept, and labour in. thought to bring it to pass. 1 No individual or institution, can rise 1 above the level of its moral concept'■.Therefore, it is - incumbent for man- • kind, and especially upon .those who

have banded themselves together for a given purpose, to'establish in their own thought the highest ideal of which

fchfey are capable, and then bring to power all the powers of which they are possessed to consummate their ideal. This laiw, faithfully applied, must bring to fruition our highest hopes, aims and aspirations as individuals and as a people.