The Life Magnet Volume 1 of 5

By Robert Collier

Experience the life-changing power of Robert Collier with this unforgettable book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Andura Publishing
• Release date: Oct 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9791220203401

Robert Collier

Robert Collier was an American author of self-help and New Thought metaphysical books in the 20th century. He was the nephew of Peter Fenelon Collier, founder of Collier's Weekly. He was involved in writing, editing, and research for most of his life

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The Life Magnet Volume 1 of 5

Robert Collier

CONTENTS

The Promise

For the earth shall be full of lie knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. — ISAIAH 11:9.

WHAT was the greatest terror of primitive man? What, even in the golden days of Greece and Rome, was thought to be the wrath of God? What, right down to the beginning of the last century, seemed the most wholly destructive force in creation?

The Lightning.

Primitive man crouched in his cave in abject fear when the thunder rolled and lightning darted out of the sky, taking its toll of devastation and death. He might flee from his enemies of the jungle. He might overcome his savage adversaries. But when the lightning sought him out—that, indeed, to him was the wrath of God.

When Benjamin Franklin with his kite drew lightning quietly from the clouds, he drew out of them a lot more than a mere current of electricity. He drew one great dread from the soul of man.

For thousands of years this greatest force in the material universe had roamed the world unleased—the terror of mankind—a powerful Genii uncontrolled, loose in a land of pigmies. And all the while it stood there ready and waiting to be harnessed, lashing out impatiently at times at man’s failure to grasp the availability of this wonderful servant standing at his very elbow.

Just so it is with the greatest Genii of them all—the subconscious mind within you.

Through this spirit within, you can do anything right you may wish. If there is an unpardonable sin, it is to ignore or neglect it. For there is nothing right you can ask of it that it cannot give you.

Since publishing the first two volumes of this set, many people have written me that the ideas outlined in them seem wonderfully hopeful, wonderfully promising—but how can they know them to be true ?

The promises in them were made through Prophets, through Apostles, through Christ Himself—they are taken word for word from the Bible— but what proof have I that the Bible is to be believed? What proof, indeed, have I that there is a God at all—much less a Divine Plan that takes cognizance of such unimportant creatures as ourselves?

Well, let us see. Science is generally supposed to be at odds with the Bible, so let us see what science has to say about the question of a God.

Dr. Michael Pupin, Professor of Electro-mechanics at Columbia Univ­ersity, is an acknowledged authority on things electrical and scientific. Let us get his opinion:

The only mystery in connection with electrical science, he tells us, is the question of the origin of the proton and the electron. And that baffling question of when, where and how the tiny electron and its partner the proton came into existence can only be answered, he continues, by saying—God created them.

Dr. Pupin asserted that when man discovered the electrons he discovered the oldest and most efficient workers and the most law-abiding servants in the cosmic universe. When man learned how to employ their services, he caught the first glimpse of the divine method of creative operations.

God created the electrons to be His assistants in the creation of the universe.

The electron is the most law abiding creature in the universe; the most ordinary intelligence can manage it. It loves, honors and obeys the law and its eternal mission is to serve. It is the service of the electron which carries the human voice around the terrestrial globe; it carries the power from coal mines and mountain streams to our homes and makes us comfortable; it pulls our subway trains.

To teach electrical science as it ought to be taught, Dr. Pupin said, is to teach theology in its most concrete and intelligible form, It is the electrons, constituting an infinitely numerous host of law-abiding celestial workers, which the Milton of today can glorify just as the Milton of 300 years ago glorified his heavenly hosts of angels.

God employed the heavenly host of electronic workers to build the atoms, the molecules and the galaxies of burning stars. These celestial furnaces, throbbing with the blazing energy of the electronic host, are molding all kinds of planetary castings and tempering them so as to be just right for organic life.

Thus Dr. Pupin. Nothing at odds with religion in it, is there? It all goes back to the one great Source. Everything is made of protons and electrons. Everything consists of electrical energy. BUT—

Who Made the Electrical Energy?

There can be but one answer — GOD. What matters whether you call Him God or Nature or Mind or merely the Creator? So long as you ascribe to Him His attributes of all-power, all-presence, all-life and all­love—what does the name you give Him matter?

So much for the science of electricity. Let us see what the doctors say. They have taken apart everything that is in man’s body. They have