The Acquirement of Power

To be swayed by your fluctuating thoughts and impulses is to be weak and powerless;to rightly control and direct those forces is to be strong and powerful.Men of strong animal passions have much ferocity of a beast,but this is not power.The element of power are there;but it is only when this ferocity is tamed and subedued by a higher intelligence that the real power begins;and men can only grow in power by awakening themselves to higher and ever higher states of intelligence an consciousness.
The difference between a man of weakness and one of power lies not in strength of the personal(for the stubborn man is usually weak and foolish),but in that focus of conscousness which represent their states of knowledge which give calance,stability and influence;the knowledge of principal which lover of excitement and victims of impulse and hysterical emotion lack.
The man that is governed by self,and not by a principle,changes his front when his selfish comforts ar threatened.He is continually sbheming as to how he may protect himself against his enemies,being too self-centered to perceive that he is his own enemy.
The man that stands upon a principle is the same calm, dauntless, self-possessed man under all circumstances. Even the prospect of torture and death cannot alter or deter him.The man of self regards the loss of his wealth, his comforts,or his life as the greatest calamities which can befall him. The man of principle looks upon these incidents as comparatively insignificant,and not be weighed with the loss of character,loss of truth which is the great calamity.
It is easy for a man,so long as he is left in the enjoyment of his possessions,to persuade himself that he believes and adheres to the principle of peace,brotherhooe,and univerral love;but if, when his enjoyments ar threatened,or he imagines they ar threatened,he begins to clomor loudly for war,he show that he believes in and rtand upon not peace brotherhood and love,but strife,selfishness, and hatred.He who does not desert his principle when threatened with the loss of every earthly thing, even the loss of reputation and life,is the man of power.Jesus endured the most extremity oe agony and deprivation he stand for his principle love and peace to all mankind;
To grow in self-control, in patience,in equa-nimity,is to grow in strength and power;and you can only thus grow by focusing your consciousness upon a principle.You must enter the way of power by first attempting to stand alone.Break away from the tyranny of custom,tradition and the opinions of others ,untill you succed in walking lonely and erect amongst men.Rely upon your own judgement;be true to your ow conscience;follow the light that is within you.There ll be those who ll try to disapoint you,dont give them a chance an pursue your course bravery until you find a rock of principle,on which you ll cling,put it under your feat and stand erect upon it,until at last,immovably fixed upon it,you succeed in defying the fury of the waves and storms of selfishness.