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The Mystic Will: A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possib
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Publisher: Arionabooks
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ATTENTION AND INTEREST.
T
o the fairies, Determination and Good-Will, all things are possible.-
The Man of the Family, by C. REID.
It happened recently to me, as I write, to see one afternoon lying on the side
walk in the Via Calzaioli in Florence what I thought was a common iron
screw, about three inches in length, which looked as if it had been dropped
by some workman. And recalling the superstition that it is lucky to find such
an object, or a nail, I picked it up, when to my astonishment I found that it
was a silver pencil case, but made to exactly resemble a screw. Hundreds of
people had, perhaps, seen it, thought they knew all about it, or what it was,
and then passed it by, little suspecting its real value.
There is an exact spiritual parallel for this incident or parable of the screw-
pencil in innumerable ideas, at which well-nigh everybody in the hurrying
stream of life has glanced, yet no one has ever examined, until someone with
a poetic spirit of curiosity, or inspired by quaint superstition, pauses, picks
one up, looks into it, and finds that It has ingenious use, and is far more than
it appeared to be. Thus, if I declare that by special attention to a subject,
3 CHARLES GODFREY LELAND
earnestly turning it over and thinking deeply into it, very remarkable results
may be produced, as regards result in knowledge, every human being will
assent to it as the veriest truism ever uttered; in the fullest belief that he or
she assuredly knows all that.
Yet it was not until within a very few years that I discovered that this idea,
which seemed so commonplace, hadwithin it mysteries and meaningswhich
were stupendously original or remarkable. I found that there was a certain
intensity or power of attention, far surpassing ordinary observation, which
we may, if we will, summon up and force on ourselves, just as we can by
special effort see or hear far better at times than usually. The Romans show
by such a phrase as animum adjicere, and numerous proverbs and synonyms,
that they had learned to bend their attention energetically. They were good
listeners, therefore keen observers.
Learning to control or strengthen the Will is closely allied to developing At-
tention and Interest, and for reasons which will soon be apparent, I will first
consider the latter, since they constitute a preparation or basis for the for-
mer. And as preliminary, I will consider the popular or common error to
the effect that everyone has alloted to him or to her just so much of the
faculty of attention or interest as it has pleased Nature to give-the same
being true as regards Memory, Will, the Constructive or Artistic abilities,
and so on-when in very truth and on the warrant of Experience all may be
increased ad infinitum. Therefore, we find ignorant men complacently ex-
plaining their indifference to art and literature or culture on the ground that
they take no interest in such subjects, as if interest were a special heaven-sent
gift. Who has not heard the remark, He or she takes such an interest in so
many things-I wish that I could. Or, as I heard it very recently expressed,
It must be delightful to be able to interest one's self in something at any
time. Which was much the same as the expression of the Pennsylvania Ger-
man girl, Ach Gott! I wisht I hat genius und could make a pudden!
No one can be expected to take an interest at once and by mere will in any
subject, but where an earnest and serious Attention has been directed
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