This law works two ways.  Not only do you draw such persons to you as will fit in with your plans and purposes, but you are attracted to them by the same law.  Not only this, but you will find that through the peculiar workings of this law even things and circumstances, as well as persons, will seem to be moulded by your strong desires and ideas, providing your psychic vibrations are sufficiently strong and clear.  Have you never noticed how a strong, resourceful magnetic man will seem to actually draw to him the persons, things and circumstances that he needs to carry out and manifest his plans and designs.  To many, not understanding this great law, these things have seemed positively uncanny and mysterious.  But, now-a-days, the big men of business and politics are beginning to understand these psychic laws, and to apply them deliberately and with purpose.

Some of the great leaders in the business world, and in politics, are known to deliberately start into operation strong psychic vibrations, and to send out strong psychic currents of attraction, by the methods that I have already explained to you.  They, of course, are filled with a more than ordinary degree of desire and will and, in the second place, they create very strong and clear mental pictures of their plans working out successfully to a finish; then concentrate strongly on the thing; and lo! the effect is felt by all hands and on all sides.  They “treat the public” (to use the term favored by some of the metaphysical cults of the day) by holding the mental picture of that which they strongly desire to come to pass, and by concentrating their thought and will strongly upon it.

A favorite mental picture of some of these men (who have been instructed by teachers of occultism), is that of themselves as the centre of a great psychic whirlpool, drawing to themselves the persons, things and circumstances calculated to bring success and realization to them.  Others picture their thought-vibrations flowing from them like the rings in a pond into which a stone had been dropped, influencing a constantly widening circle of other persons; then they picture the persons being drawn to them in the manner just mentioned.  They persist in this practice day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year—­is it any wonder that they draw to themselves that which they desire?

Other persons of lesser caliber take similar advantage of the law in the same way, but on a smaller scale.  In every community there are certain persons who seem to draw to themselves the patronage and custom of the community, in some peculiar way.  In most cases this may be traced back to some form of psychic influence.  I do not mean that these persons consciously and deliberately set these forces into operation.  On the contrary, many of them do so more or less unconsciously, and without a knowledge of the underlying psychic principles involved.  Such persons have stumbled on a portion