Cultivate Strength Of Will Power

The Will is the directive faculty of the soul and when in harmony with Nature may become the channel of personal and spiritual energy as real as the force of gravitation or electricity. If wrongly directed it cannot of itself insure success, for the human will must ever be subject to, and in harmony with, the Divine Will.

Some teachers and writers speak as though the individual man simply by will power could set aside the laws of nature, or thwart the divine will as expressed in general law. Not so. As well assert that a man by taking hold of his boot straps could lift himself over a mountain. But where a man wills truth and righteousness or formulates any great plan in harmony with Nature's ordination, the will of man thus becomes one with the Universal Will, which is a channel of the divine forces of the Universe.

There seems to be no real limit to human achievement in harmony with nature's laws if pursued unfalteringly by a strong and unconquerable will. The basis of all personal power resides in this will. All great and successful characters possess it in high degree, i.e. A strong will is a mighty cyclonic force in human nature that creates a current of vibrations toward its possessor, along which are brought to him the very objects willed.

It operates by natural law yet its results seem at times miraculous. The pupil should by frequent affirmation to himself, in the temple of his own Soul, assert his Will and Ability to conquer all difficulties. Many have suggested this affirmation for constant use I can and I will. The human will, that force unseen The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew a way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene.

It was this Will Power developed in high degree, which transformed the little Corsican into the most magnificent military leader and conqueror the world ever saw, Napoleon Buonaparte. He would regard nothing as impossible, insisting that the word impossible was only found in the dictionary of fools, that it was not a French word at all.

When told that the Alps stood in the way of his victorious march into Italy he simply said There shall be no Alps, and the Simplon Pass was the result.