If you are ever going to be a magnet you are one now. If you are ever going to be able to attract to the hair’s breadth whatsoever you will then you are doing it now.  There will be no miraculous change in the running gear of this universe to enable you to attract what you want.

What you now are in essence and working principle you have always been, and you will always be—­the same yesterday, today and forever—­a self-made MAGNET, working to the hair’s breadth.

ONLY BY CHANGING THE QUALITY OF YOUR MAGNETISM CAN YOU CHANGE YOUR ENVIRONMENT AND ATTRACT DIFFERENT TREATMENT FROM TOM, DICK, HARRY AND FAN.

Sweetness within brings sweetness without.  You have been more or less bitter and self-justifying within, and Tom, Dick, Harry and Fan have danced to the strings you pulled.

As long as you think you try and they don’t; as long as you think your judgment superior to theirs; your ideals loftier and worthier; your ways better; you will get from them responses of carelessness, bitterness, lack of consideration, selfishness.

You are inconsiderate of their ideas, ideals, judgments and ways; in self-preservation they are inconsiderate of yours.  If you had your way they’d be pretty little putty images of your ideals, judgments, wishes, ways and feelings.  The Law of Individuality prevents your imposing yourself on them.  You think you are finding fault with their “lack of consideration”; you are really condemning the law of being.

If you are ever to be a magnet you are one NOW. All that comes is “your fault.”  If anything different comes it will come through your change of mental attitude and action.

It will not do to throw it on “Karma” either, and say you are receiving now the unpleasant things deserved in a previous state of existence.  The mills of the gods grind slowly but they are not so dead slow as all that.  What you thought and did in a previous state has determined your parentage and childhood environment in this.  But the pangs you suffer today have their roots in yesterday or day before, or the year before that.  Cause and effect trip close upon each other’s heels—­so close that the careless or ignorant observer misses the trip.  He exaggerates the effect if it be an unhappy one, and goes nosing for a bigger cause than the real one.  How could his little slip of this morning, or yesterday, be the cause of this terrible evil which has befallen him?—­and he slides completely over the real cause. And keeps on repeating it.