As Charles Fillmore puts it "There is an inherent law of mind that we INCREASE whatever we PRAISE. The whole of creation rsponds to praise, and is glad . Animal trainers pet and reward their charges with delicacies for acts of obedience, children glow with JOY and gladness then they are praised. Even vegetatIon grows better for those who love It '. We can praise our own ability to receive PSYChIC. Power, and the very brain cells will expand and increase in capacity and intelligence, when we speak words of encouragement and appreciation to them." God gave you Psychic Power over the earth. Everything is your servant, but remember It IS said in the Scriptures that God brought every beast and fowl to Adam, to see what he would cal] them, You are like Adam in this, that you can give to everything and everybody you come in contact with the name you like. You can call them good or bad, And whatever you call them, that is what they will be to you, good servants or evil ones. You can praise or curse them, and as you do, so will they be to you.
There is one unfailing Law of increase "Whatever is praised and blessed, MULTIPLIES. "Count your blessings and they Increase. If you are in need of money, start in now to praise every small piece of money that comes to you, blessing it as a symbol of God's abundance and love. You will be surprised how soon that small piece of money will increase to many pieces. Take God into your business. Bless your store, your cash register, everyone that works for you, each customer that comes In. If you are working for someone else and want a better job or more pay, start by BLESSING and being THANKFUL for what you have. Bless the work you are doing, be thankful for every opportunity it gives you to acquire greater skill or ability or to serve others. Bless the money you earn, no matter how little it may be. Be so thankful to God for it that you can give a small "Thank offering" from it to someone in greater need than yourself. Suppose the Boss does seem just the same. Be thankful for the opportunity to SERVE faithfully, no matter now small the immediate reward may seem to be. Give your best, give it cheerfully, gladly, thankfully, and you will be amazed how quickly the INCREASE will come to you not necessarily from your immediate boss but from the Big Boss over all. ' I remember reading a letter from a woman in the Mid-West drought belt in which she said that they, unlike most of their neighbors, had an abun- dant supply of WATER, and excellent crops. "When my husband plows a field," she writes, "I ask God to bless each furrow. Each seed that goes into the seeder is blessed, and the realization held that it will produce abundantly accor- ding to His righteous law. Our neighbors marveled at the abundance of hay that we cut this year. The hay was sold before the third cutting was put up. "Each day, in the silence, I put the ranch 'Lovingly in the hands of the Father.' I ask God to bless everybody that comes in contact with the ranch." Few realize the power of praise and blessing. Praise may be called the great liberator. You remember the story of Paul and Silas. They lay in jail bound with chains, but they did not despair. They rejoiced and sang hymns of praise, and lo, the very walls were shaken down and they were set free. Praise always magnifies. When we praise God and then look about us and praise His invisible presence in all that we see, we find that the good is so magnified that much becomes evident that we ordinarily fail to see. Running through all of Jesus Christ's acts as well as His teachings we find the glowing element of praise. When He looked at five loaves and two small fishes and realized that He had a multitude to
feed, His first thought was a thought of praise. "And looking up to heaven, he blessed." Go back over the Old Testament and see how often you are adjured to "Praise the Lord and be thankful, that THEN shall the earth yield her increase." Probably no life chronicled in the Scriptures was more beset with trials and dangers than that of King David. And what was his remedy? What brought him through all tribulations to Psychic Power and riches? Just read the Psalms of David and you will see.
"Jehovah reigneth: let the earth rejoice; Let the multitude of isles be glad. Bless Jehovah, 0 my soul; And all that is within me, bless his holy name ... Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases."
"If anyone could tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection,": wrote William Law, "he must tell you to make it a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you. For it is certain I. that whatever seeming calamity happens to you, if you thank and praise God for it, you turn it into a blessing. Could you therefore work psychic miracles, you could not do more for yourself than by this thankful spirit; for it turns . all that it touches into happiness."
How then can YOU increase your Psychic Power? How can you get more of riches and .happiness and every good thing of life? In the same way as the Wise Men and the Prophets of old. In the same way that Jesus twice fed the multitudes. In the same way that He filled the disciples' nets to .overflowing with fish, after they had labored all night and caught nothing. By EXPANDING what you have! And the way to expand is through love, through praise , and thanksgiving. Throughout the. Bible we are told-"in everything by prayer and supplication WITH THANKSGIVING let your requests be made known unto God." Again and again the root of inspiration and attainment is stressed: Rejoice, be glad, praise,ยท give thanks! "Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." One of the startling facts of modern science is that this universe is not a finished product. Creation is going on all around us-new worlds being formed, cosmic energy taking shape in a million different molds. But a far more startling fact to most of us is that WE ARE CREATORS with PSYCHIC POWERS, and that we can form today the world we personally shall be living in tomorrow.
People blame their environment, their educa- tion, their opportunities, their luck, for their condition. They are wrong. There is one person to blame-and only one THEMSELYES. They are today the result of their thoughts of yesterday and the many yesterdays that preceded it. They are forming today the mold for what they will be in the years to come. For there is NO such thing as Failure. Whether you are poor and sickly, or rich and strong, you have succeeded in one thing. You have compressed the cosmic energy about you . into the mold that you held before the mind's eye of your inner self. You have named the forces that worked with you "good" or "bad," arid as you named them, so have they been to you as servants Good, or Evil. But there is a happy ending. You don't need to leave things as they are. If you don't like the present results, you can rename those servants. You can bless and praise the. Psychic Power within you, no matter how tiny it may seem, ' and by your praise and blessing, you can expand it a thousand fold.