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Through the Soul state of consciousness we derive all of our great wonderful inspirations which increase our vibrations and when this is accomplished under the intelligent direction of our intellect we attract to us the more harmonious and constructive material with which we rebuild our physical bodies and their environment . . . Our Intellect should direct us to such places where we will get this inspiration . . . But when our Intellect refuses to allow us to revel in the inspiration which these and other wonderful things give us, when it belittles the creative power of the God-consciousness which manifests in all things, including man, when it places any kind of a limitation upon mans possibilities, then the vibrations of our atoms are slowed down and we draw from the formless energy everywhere around us only such atoms as vibrate at this slower rate, and it is in these currents where lack of all kinds is to be found.  -  F. W. Sears, "How to Attract Success"

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SUCCESS STRATEGIES: Using Consciousness and the Intellect to Develop Inspiration, Intuition and Impression to Attract Success

 While we cointinue our editing on the Success Classic "How to Attract Success" by F. W. Sears, we thought it might be nice to provide you with the next installment of the book, Chapter 2.  In our last post, we provided Chapter 1 of "How to Attract Success" in its original brilliance and entirety, just as it was written almost 100 years ago - 1914, to be exact.

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Tuckerman Ravine from Lionhead, on Mount Washington in the Presidential Range of the White Mountains, New Hampshire. Photo by Steve Chase.

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Mount Washington photograph with permission by the Mount Washington Observatory.  Thank you!

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 Chapter 2, "How to Attract Success" by F. W. Sears

Man may be classified in a general way as being composed of five entirely different states of consciousness, degrees of unfoldment, or conditions of development: Instinct, Intellect, Inspiration, Intuition, and Revelation.  Bear in mind, however, that while the Instinct is a manifestation of the Physical plane, the Intellect of the Mental, the Inspiration of the Soul, the Intuitional and Revelational of the Spiritual, all these states of consciousness are just as much spiritual as is the latter, the difference being that they do not express as much.  It is like ice, water, clouds and the invisible vapor, they are all one and the same but differ in their expression.

Most persons are over-developed in one of these states of consciousness and under-developed in the others, and that is why it is so hard for them to understand the other states.  Few persons are so equally developed in all of them as to be able to impart their knowledge of the Inspirational, Intuitional and Revelational planes in such a way as may be understood by those manifesting only on the planes of Instinct and Intellect.

On the Physical plane of consciousness man expresses what is called “instinct.”  This is the “cell consciousness” referred to more at length in my lectures on “How we Create Ourselves,” “How to Give Treatments,” and others.  This “cell consciousness” – which is really the intelligence in the cells of the physical body and in the atoms of the environment – is the only consciousness which is under the direction and control of the intellect and is therefore in reality the only “sub-conscious” mind there is, for the egos mind is never subject to the conscious mind or intellect.

In the creating, destroying, re-creating and re-destroying of our bodies – which process is going on continuously every moment of our lives, awake or asleep – we attract to us atoms which will express the same degree of intelligence as those which harmonize with the energy we are momentarily creating by the thoughts we are thinking.  As long as we remain wholly on the Physical plane of consciousness this process goes on under the Law of Instinct both as to our bodies and our environment.

The natural Law of this plane of Instinct is an unconscious recognition – an automatic manifestation – of our oneness with all life, and so we do not have “lack” or poverty in our bodies or environment.  This is best illustrated in what we call the “uncivilized” tribes which used to predominate in the world, some of which are still in existence, although few remain in their former purely “Physical” or Instinctive state of consciousness.  They did not work and did not need to for the Law of their lives led them to be born into an environment where Nature furnished them with sufficient to eat and wear without work.

Those who continued to live entirely in the physical side of their lives became over-developed in it, were unable to understand or appreciate any of the other states of consciousness and so continued to re-embody in a purely physical environment.  We only need to study all kinds of people all over the world to be convinced of this truth.

As man went on in his evolutionary growth and unfoldment he began to use his physical brain – to think thoughts, to imagine or image things – and in this way he began to grow and develop his intellect.  The more intellectual he grew, or as we call it the more “civilized” he became, the less instinctive he was, because, unconsciously to him, his intellect – his thoughts – dominated and controlled his “instinct” – the intelligence or mind of the cells of his body and environment – and they, obeying his “intellect,” were deprived of their own initiative and the harmonious relationship which was natural to them, and he consequently attracted to his body and environment only such atoms as vibrated harmoniously with the thoughts he generated with the new faculty – his intellect.

To know the truth of this we only need to go back to the native American Indian and the frontiersman who, living largely in the instinctive side of their consciousness, could follow the trail of man or beast through pathless forests and could tell all about the person or animal they were following; when one who had developed his intellect and was living in that side of his life could not see anything to indicate the trail or that the forest had ever been penetrated before.

Some few men learned to combine their “instinct” and “intellect” and use the latter in further developing the former, and in all such cases they preserved their union – their oneness – with the Universal Life and knew no lack either in their body or environment.

The masses, however, unconsciously used their intellect to separate them from the One-Life, through the thoughts they generated and allowed to persist.  They related in their thought world with the currents where lack, disease, fear, worry, anger, hatred, envy, jealousy, strife, resentment, resistance, impatience, intolerance, condemnation, criticism, and kindred thoughts found their home, and the more often they related with these currents the more did they attract to themselves, both in body and environment, the atoms which would make another inharmonious physical home where these conditions could manifest in material form.

As the result of the over-development of the “intellect” and the under-development of the other faculties we find men who are living in emaciated physical bodies, devoid of all sense of instinct, inspiration, intuition, and revelation, but with an intellect that in its “reason and logic” is tremendous, but entirely incapable of appreciating the instinct of the physical man, the inspiration of the dreamer, the intuition of the mystic, or the wonderful revelations which comes to one who harmoniously combined and develops all of these faculties.  Such persons have not yet learned that the true function of “logic” is to teach us the constructive use of our reason or intellectual powers along harmonious lines.

These two states of consciousness, the Physical and Mental, deal solely with the states which have their initiative or origin in the physical body.  When the physical body is destroyed by “death” these two states of consciousness cease to manifest; that is the Mental state ceases to manifest as soon as “death” ensues, and the Physical state – the intelligence in the cells of the body, the “sub-conscious mind” – at once goes to work to disintegrate the body and upon the completion of this ceases to manifest in physical form.  These two states of consciousness must have the objective body through which to manifest, otherwise their expression here on the material plane is impossible.

The other states of consciousness – the Soul or Inspirational, the Spiritual or Intuitional and Revelational – can manifest as well outside of the physical body as through it.  It is true that in order for us to perceive the effects of their manifestations with our physical senses they must have a physical body of some kind through which to manifest, but they are separate and distinct from it and manifest through it rather than in it.

These states of consciousness are not under the dominion, nor control, of the Physical or Mental minds, neither do they in turn control the mentality in any way.  The Physical mind – the cell consciousness or sub-conscious mind – is the only mind or intelligence which is under the control of the Mental mind or Intellect.  The term “cell consciousness,” as used here, includes not only the intelligence in the atoms or cells of the physical body but also that in the atoms of which the environmental is composed.  These are all under the control and domination of the Intellect or Mental mind.

While it is true that the Soul and Spiritual minds or states of consciousness are not in any way under the control of the Intellect, yet the latter can make conditions both in the physical body through which it is expressing and in the environment through which the Soul and Spiritual states of consciousness may express, and this is one of the true and constructive functions of the Intellect.

Through the Soul state of consciousness we derive all of our great wonderful inspirations which increase our vibrations and when this is accomplished under the intelligent direction of our intellect we attract to us the more harmonious and constructive material with which we rebuild our physical bodies and their environment.

Our Intellect should direct us to such places where we will get this inspiration.  We may obtain it in many different ways; through association with those persons who already developed it, through hearing lectures, reading books, visiting art galleries, going to theatres which produce plays that inspire, through viewing a beautiful sunset, through thinking of the wonderful power manifested by Nature in the raising of the lofty, snow clad peaks of the Rocky Mountains, or the never ending flow and ebb of the tides at the seashore, through the gigantic waves that the monster Ocean Liners ride so easily, and through the wonderful mechanism of the human body.  All these inspire us with the wonder and greatness of existence, and when our Intellect permits us to revel in their inspiration it raises our vibrations and makes us just that much stronger and more powerful.

But when our Intellect refuses to allow us to revel in the inspiration which these and other wonderful things give us, when it belittles the creative power of the God-consciousness which manifests in all things, including man, when it places any kind of a limitation upon mans possibilities, then the vibrations of our atoms are slowed down and we draw from the formless energy everywhere around us only such atoms as vibrate at this slower rate, and it is in these currents where lack of all kinds is to be found.

The Spiritual state of consciousness is the vibration through which our intuition and revelation manifests.  This is the vibration in which we get the real, the genuine, true-blue “hunches” of life.  This is also the plane of consciousness from which our imagination obtains it most constructive and harmonious images.

The Imagination is a faculty which may be used by all of these different states of consciousness.  Through its use we create everything we have both in body and environment, and the plane or state of consciousness from which we use it determines the kind and quality of the thing created.  This most wonderful statement must be considered carefully in order to understand its stupendous import.

Many times people mistake an “impression” for an “intuition” and when the result proves different from what they expected they blame it on their “intuition,” when, as a matter of fact, they themselves were to blame for not being able to differentiate between their “impression” and “intuition.”

“Intuitions” never have their origin from anything on the objective plane, they always come from within, and are the result of our having, momentarily only perhaps, raised our physical vibrations to a point where this state of consciousness can manifest through the physical brain.  Many persons do this frequently and unconsciously; they do not know how they do it and often do not know that they have done it, and then their Intellect steps in and tells them that such a thought was “all foolishness” and so they pay no attention to it.  Afterward they frequently see their mistake and then they are wont to say “Had my foresight only been as good as my hindsight,” etc.  When we touch this state of consciousness and know it, and then follow the leading of our intuition we never go astray, for it is our highest state of consciousness trying to manifest through us and by continually listening to and following its instructions we develop it more and more.

Our Intellect was given us for the purpose of taking our intuitions and revelations and working them out intelligently in material form on the physical plane.

Can we imagine any more insane intuition, before it was materialized, than the reproduction of the human voice by machinery after the speaker is dead?  Had not Edison by the intelligent use of his intellect worked out this dream into material form the phonograph would still be unknown.  Without the Intellect to do this our intuitions and revelations would be as valueless to us on the physical plane as is an automobile without a chauffeur.  The motor car, with an intelligent driver, can be made a most useful thing both for business and pleasure, and so with our inspirations, intuitions and revelations.  That is why we should develop the Intellect, but it should be done intelligently and in a way that will enable us to use all of our faculties, Instinct, Inspiration, Intuition, and Revelation, as well as Mental, and not only some one or two of them.

“Impressions” have their origin solely in the objective side of life.  They come as the result of the things we have learned on the objective plane through our physical senses.  We may have learned them years ago, and perhaps forgotten, but they are stored up in the Intellect – the Mental mind – and come to us from that source.  Having their origin in the objective world it depends on the basis or foundation on which they were originally built as to their value.  “Impressions” are never safe to follow blindly because of the difficulty in determining their origin.  It is interesting and instructive, sometimes, to follow them and see where they lead us.  Many times this is the only way by which we learn to differentiate between them and our intuition.

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