1008 THE PRINCIPLES OF PERSONAL INTEGRITY
UNIVERSAL LAWUnderstand the working principle of Cosmic Habitforce and you will
have no difficulty interpreting Emerson's essay Compensation, for he
was rubbing elbows with the law of Cosmic Habitforce when he wrote
this famous essay.
Sir Isaac Newton likewise came near to the complete recognition
of this law when he made his discovery of the law of gravitation. Had
he gone but a brief distance beyond where he stopped, he might have
discovered that the same law that holds the earth in space and relates
it systematically to all other planets in both time and space is the same
law that relates human beings to one another in exact conformity with
the nature of their own thoughts.
The term habiiforce is self-explanatory. It is a force that works
through established habits. Every living thing below the intelligence
of man lives, reproduces itsel£ and fulfills its earthly mission in direct
response to the power of Cosmic Habitforce through what we call
instinct.
Man alone has been given the privilege of choice in connection
with his living habits, and these he may fix by the patterns of his
thoughts-the one and only privilege, as I have said previously, over
which any individual has been given complete right of control.
One may think in terms of self-imposed limitations of fear,
doubt, envy, greed, and poverty, and Cosmic Habitforce will trans-
late these thoughts into their material equivalent. Or one may think
in terms of wealth and plenty, and this same law will translate these
thoughts into their physical counterpart.
In this manner, one may control their destiny to an astounding
degree-simply by exercising the privilege of shaping one's own
thoughts. Once these thoughts have been shaped into definite patterns
they are taken over by the law of Cosmic Habitforce and are made
into permanent habits, and they remain as such unless and until they
have been supplanted by different and stronger thought patterns.