THOUGHT AND CHARACTER PART 2

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which have been restored and brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening or fruitful of divine promise and confidence than this       that we are the masters of thought, the molders of character, and the makers and shapers of condition, environment, and destiny.
As a being of Power, Intelligence, and Love, and the lord of our thoughts, each of us holds the key to every situation and contains within ourselves that transforming and regenerative agency by which we may make ourselves what we will.
Each of us is always out own master, even in our weakest and most abandoned state.
However, in a state of weakness and degradation, we become foolish masters and misgovern the “household.” When we begin to reflect upon our condition and to search diligently for the Law upon our which our being is established, we then will become masters, directing our energies with intelligence and fashioning our thoughts to fruitful issues. Such is the conscious master, and we can only thus become by discovering within ourselves the laws of thought       which discovery is totally a matter of application, self-analysis, and experience.
Only by such searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and we can find every truth connected with our being if we will dig deep into the mine of our soul; and that we are the maker of our own character the molder of our own life, and the builder of our own destiny, we may unerringly prove, if we will watch, control, and alter our thoughts, tracing their effects upon ourselves, upon others, and upon our life and circumstances. By linking cause and effect, by patient practice and investigation, and utilizing every experience, even the most trivial everyday occurrence, we will obtain that knowledge of ourselves which is Understanding, Wisdom, and Power. In this direction, as in no other, is the law absolute: that we will find what we seek for, only by patience, practice, and ceaseless importunity. In this we can enter the door of the Temple of Knowledge