I answer yes,—of course it is possible.
The secret of it all is to resolve upon a firm attitude
and maintain it. If you encourage thoughts of
fear, hesitation, disease, trouble, decay, incompetency,
failure and feebleness, you at once give an impetus
to the disintegrating forces within you to begin their
work—and you gradually become ill, timorous,
and diseased in mind and body. If, on the contrary,
your thoughts are centred on health, vitality, youth,
joy, love and creativeness, you encourage all the
revivifying elements of your system to build up new
nerve tissue and fresh brain cells, as well as to
make new blood. No scientist has ever really discovered
any logical cause why human beings should die—they
are apparently intended to live for an indefinite
period. It is they themselves who kill themselves,—even
so-called ‘accidents’ are usually the result
of their own carelessness, recklessness or inattention
to warning circumstance. I am trying to put all
this as simply as I can to you,—there are
hundreds of books which you might study, in which
the very manner of expression is so abstruse and involved
that even the most cultured intelligence can scarcely
grasp it,—but what I have told you is perfectly
easy of comprehension,—the only difficulty
lies in its practical application. To-night, therefore,
and for the remainder of the time you are here, you
will enter upon certain tests and trials of your will-force—and
the result of these will prove whether you are strong
enough to be successful in your quest of life and
youth and love. If you are capable of maintaining
the true attitude,—if you can find and keep
the real centre-poise of the Divine Image within you,
all will be well. And remember, that if you once
learn how to govern and control the atomic forces within
yourself, you will equally govern and control all atomic
forces which come within your atmosphere. This
gives you what would be called by the ignorant ‘miraculous’
power, though it is no miracle. It is nothing
more than the attitude of Spirit controlling Matter.
You will find yourself not only able to govern your
own forces but also to draw upon Nature for fresh
supplies—the air, the sunshine, the trees,
the flowers, will give you all they have to give on
demand—and nothing shall be refused to you.
’Ask, and ye shall receive—seek,
and ye shall find—knock, and it shall be
opened unto you.’ Naturally the law is,
that what you receive you must give out again in an
ungrudging outflow of love and generosity and beneficence
and sympathy, not only towards mankind but to everything
that lives—for as you are told—’Give,
and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed
down and shaken together and running over, shall men
give into your bosom. For with the same measure
that ye mete withal, it shall be measured to you again.’
These sayings of our greatest Master are heard so
often that they are considered by many people almost
trite and commonplace,—but they hold a truth