THE SECRET DOOR TO SUCCESS - Law Of Attraction Haven

For More Free PDF Books on the Law ofAttraction and Metaphysics Visit the Law ofAttraction Haven.Click for More Free Books by FlorenceScovel Shinn.

New York: The Shinn PressFirst Published 1941

ContentsChapter 1: The Secret Door to Success . 6Chapter 2: Bricks Without Straw. 20Chapter 3: “And Five of Them Were Wise” . 36Chapter 4: What Do You Expect? . 51Chapter 5: The Long Arm of God . 63Chapter 6: The Fork in the Road . 77Chapter 7: Crossing Your Read Sea . 91Chapter 8: The Watchman at the Gate . 106Chapter 9: The Way of Abundance . 121Chapter 10: I Shall Never Want. 135Chapter 11: Look with Wonder . 150Chapter 12: Catch Up With Your Good . 167Chapter 13 Rivers in the Desert . 179

Chapter 14: The Inner Meaning of SnowWhite & The Seven Dwarfs . 190

Chapter 1: The Secret Door to Success"So the people shouted when the priestsblew with the trumpets; and it came topass, when the people heard the sound ofthe trumpet, and the people shouted with agreat shout, that the wall fell down flat, sothat the people went up into the city, everyman straight before him, and they took thecity." Joshua 6:20A successful man is always asked - "Whatis the secret of your success?"People never ask a man who is a failure,"What is the secret of your failure?" It isquite easy to see and they are notinterested.People all want to know how to open thesecret door to success.

For each man there is success, but itseems to be behind a door or wall. In theBible reading, we have heard the wonderfulstory of the falling of the walls of Jericho.Of course all biblical stories have ametaphysical interpretation.We will talk now about your wall of Jericho:the wall separating you from success.Nearly everyone has built a wall around hisown Jericho.This city you are not able to enter, containsgreat treasures; your divinely designedsuccess, your heart's desire!What kind of wall have you built aroundyour Jericho? Often, it is a wall ofresentment-resentingsomeone,orresenting a situation, shuts off your good.

If you are a failure and resent the successof someone else, you are keeping awayyour own success.I have given the following statement toneutralize envy and resentment.What God has done for others, He nowdoes for me and more.A woman was filled with envy because afriend had received a gift, she made thisstatement, and an exact duplicate of the giftwas given her - plus another present.It was when the children of Israel shouted,that the walls of Jericho fell down. Whenyou make an affirmation of Truth, your wallof Jericho totters.I gave the following statement to a woman:The walls of lack and delay now crumble

away, and I enter my Promised Land,under grace. She had a vivid picture ofstepping over a fallen wall, and receivedthe demonstration of her good, almostimmediately.It is the word of realization which bringsabout a change in your affairs; for wordsand thoughts are a form of radio-activity.Taking an interest in your work, enjoyingwhat you are doing opens the secret doorof success.A number of years ago I went to Californiato speak at the different centers, by way ofthe Panama Canal, and on the boat I met aman named Jim Tully.For years he had been a tramp. He calledhimself The King of the Hoboes.

He was ambitious and picked up aneducation.Hehadavividimaginationandcommenced writing stories about hisexperiences.He dramatized tramp life, he enjoyed whathe was doing, and became a verysuccessful author. I remember one bookcalled "Outside Looking In." It was madeinto a motion pictureHe is now famous and prosperous andlives in Hollywood. What opened the secretdoor to success for Jim Tully?Dramatizing his life - being interested inwhat he was doing, he made the most ofbeing a tramp. On the boat, we all sat at the

captain's table, which gave us a chance totalk.Mrs. Grace Stone was also a passenger onthe boat; she had written the "Bitter Tea ofGeneral Yen," and was going to Hollywoodto have it made into a moving-picture; shehad lived in China and was inspired to writethe book.That is the Secret of Success, to makewhat you are doing interesting to otherpeople. Be interested yourself, and otherswill find you interesting.A good disposition, a smile, often opens thesecret door; the Chinese say, "A manwithout a smiling face, must not open ashop."

The success of a smile was brought out ina French moving-picture in which Chevaliertook the lead, the picture was called, "Witha Smile." One of the characters hadbecome poor, dreary and almost a derelict;He said to Chevalier "What good has myhonesty done me?" Chevalier replied,"Even honesty won't help you, without asmile." So the man changes on the spot,cheers up, and becomes very successful.Living in the past, complaining of yourmisfortunes, builds a thick wall around yourJericho.Talking too much about your affairs,scattering your forces, brings you upagainst a high wall. I knew a man of brainsand ability, who was a complete failure.

He lived with his mother and aunt, and Ifound that every night when he went hometo dinner, he told them all that had takenplace during the day at the office; hediscussed his hopes, his fears, and hisfailures.I said to him, "You scatter your forces bytalking about your affairs. Don't discussyour business with your family. Silence isgolden!"He took my lead. During dinner he refusedto talk about business. His mother and auntwere in despair. They loved to hear allabout everything, but his silence provedgolden!Not long after, he was given a position atone hundred dollars a week, and in a few

years, he had a salary of three hundreddollars a week.Success is not a secret; it is a System.Many people are up against the wall ofdiscouragement. Courage and enduranceare part of the system. We read this in livesof all successful men and women.I had an amusing experience whichbrought this to my notice. I went to amoving picture theatre to meet a friend.While waiting, I stood near a young boy,selling programs.He called to people passing, "Buy acompleteprogramofthepicture,containing photographs of the actors and asketch of their lives."

Most people passed by without buying. Tomy great surprise, he suddenly turned tome, and said - "Say, this ain't no racket fora guy with ambition!"Then he gave a discourse on success. Hesaid, "Most people give up just beforesomething big is coming to them. Asuccessful man never gives up."Of course I was interested and said, "I'llbring you a book the next time I come. It iscalled The Game of Life and How to PlayIt. You will agree with a lot of the ideas."A week or two later I went back with thebook.The girl at the ticket office said to him - "Letme read it, Eddie, while you are selling

programs." The man who took ticketsleaned over to see what it was about."The Game of Life" always gets people'sinterests.I returned to the theatre in about threeweeks, Eddie had gone. He had expandedinto a new job that he liked. His wall ofJericho had crumbled, he had refused to bediscouraged.Only twice, is the word success mentionedin the Bible - both times in the Book ofJoshua."Only be strong and very courageous toobserve to do according to all the law whichMoses, my servant, commanded thee: turnnot from it to the right nor to the left, thatthoumayesthavegoodsuccess

whithersoever thou goest. This book of thelaw shall not depart from thy mouth, butthou shalt meditate therein day and night,that thou mayest observe to do all that iswritten therein, for then shalt thou make thyway prosperous and thou shalt have goodsuccess. Turn not to the right nor to theleft."The road to success is a straight andnarrow path; it is a road of lovingabsorption, of undivided attention.You attract the things you give a great dealof thought to.So if you give a great deal of thought tolack, you attract lack, if you give a greatdeal of thought to injustice, you attractmore injustice.

Joshua said, "And it shall come to pass,that when they make a long blast with theram's horn, and when ye hear the sound ofthe trumpet, all the people shall shout witha great shout: and the wall of the city shallfall down flat, and the people shall ascendup, every man straight before him."The inner meaning of this story is the powerof the word, your word which dissolvesobstacles, and removes barriers.When the people shouted the walls felldown.We find in folk-lore and fairy stories, whichcome down from legends founded onTruth, the same idea - a word opens a dooror cleaves a rock.

We have it again in the Arabian Night'sStory, "Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves." Isaw it made into a moving picture.Ali Baba has a secret hiding place, hiddensomewhere behind rocks and mountains,the entrance may only be gained byspeaking a secret word. It is "OpenSesame!"Ali Baba faces the mountain and cries"Open Sesame!" and rocks slide apart.It is very inspiring, for it gives you therealization of how YOUR own rocks andbarriers, will part at the right word.So let us take the statement The walls of lack and delay now crumbleaway, and I enter my Promised Land,under grace.

Chapter 2: Bricks Without Straw"There shall no straw be given you, yet yeshall make bricks without straw." Exodus5:18In the 5th chapter of Exodus, we have apicture of everyday life, when giving ametaphysical interpretation.The Children of Israel were in bondage toPharaoh, the cruel taskmaster, ruler ofEgypt. They were kept in slavery, makingbricks, and were hated and despised.Moses had orders from the Lord to deliverhis people from bondage - "Moses andAaron went in and told Pharaoh - Thussaith the Lord God of Israel, Let my peoplego, that they may hold a feast unto me inthe wilderness."

He not only refused to let them go but toldthem he would make their tasks even moredifficult: they must make bricks withoutstraw being provided for them."And the task-masters of the people wentout, and their officers, and they spake tothe people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, Iwill not give you straw.""Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it:yet not ought of your work shall bediminished."It was impossible to make bricks withoutstraw.TheChildrenofIsraelwerecompletely crushed by Pharaoh, they werebeaten for not producing the bricks - Thencame the message from Jehovah.

"Go therefore now, and work; for there shallno straw be given you, yet shall ye deliverthe tale (number) of bricks."Working with Spiritual law they could makebricks without straw, which means toaccomplish the seemingly impossible.How often in life people are confronted withthis situation.Agnes M. Lawson in her "Hints to BibleStudents" says - "The Life in Egypt underforeign oppression is the symbol of manunder the hard taskmasters of Destructivethinking, Pride, Fear, Resentment, Ill-will,etc. The deliverance under Moses is thefreedom man gains from the taskmasters,as he learns the law of life, for we can nevercome under grace, except we first know the

law. The law must be made known in orderto be fulfilled."In the 111th Psalm we read in the finalverse, "The fear of the Lord (law) is thebeginningofWisdom:agoodunderstanding have all they that do hiscommandments:hispraiseendurethforever."Now if we read the word Lord (law) it willgive us the key to the statement.The fear of the law (Karmic law) is thebeginning of wisdom (not the fear of theLord).When we know the whatever we send outcomes back, we begin to be afraid of ourown boomerangs.

I read in a medical journal the followingfacts telling of the Boomerang this greatPharaoh received.It would appear that flesh is indeed heir toa long and ancient line of ills, when, as wasrevealed by Lord Monyahan at a lecture atLeeds, that the Pharaoh of the oppressionsuffered from hardening of the heart in aliteral sense. Lord Monyahan showedsome remarkable photographic slides ofresults of surgical operations a thousandyears before Christ, and among these wasa slide of the actual anatomical remains ofthe Pharaoh of the Oppression."The large vessel springing from the heartwas in such a well-preserved state, as toenable sections of it to be made recentlyfrom the lantern slide. It was impossible to