The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handiwork sang David, the inspired psalmist. And indeed the heavens are one of the most obvious and most awesome testimonies to the presence and power of this law of cosmic habitforce.
The stars and planets operate with clocklike precision. They never collide, never get off their appointed course, but roll on eternally, as the result of a preconceived plan. Infinite Intelligence is behind that plan. If anyone doubts the existence of Infinite Intelligence, that person need only study the stars and planets, and the precision with which they are related to one another, to become convinced of Its existence.
Another outstanding marvel of creation is the human mind, which is capable of projecting itself into the heavens and predicting astronomical occurrences to the moment, many years in advance of the actual event.
Back of this there must be order. Nature and the universe are organized and ordered. This order, or reliability, of nature simplifies life. It is not necessary to understand all of the laws and order of the universe to make them effective in our lives. They operate whether or not they are known or understood.
But where there is order, there is predictable action and reaction. This is what we term cosmic habitforce. You can find the fundamental principles by which you can relate yourself favorably to the forces of the universe in these lessons. The same law which holds our earth in its orbit and relates it to all other planets in their orbits, both in time and space, relates human beings to one another in exact conformity with the nature of their own thoughts.
Time, space, energy, matter and intelligence are nature’s building blocks with which she creates all things.
Another striking illustration of cosmic habitforce is found in the seasons of the year. We know without doubt that we are going to have spring, summer, fall and winter in that order. They do not always occur in the same intensity, but they do come and go, year in and year out because the law of cosmic habitforce is arranging and controlling them.
This law operates in the reproduction and growth of everything that springs from the soil of the earth, causing each seed to reproduce precisely its own kind without variation, unless changed by outside forces. An oak tree grows from an acorn, and a pine tree grows from a pine nut. An acorn never produces a pine tree, nor does a pine nut produce an oak tree. Nothing is ever produced which does not bear many, or all, of the characteristics of its ancestors.
There is nothing that is not controlled by this universal law. Even the electrons and protons of matter maintain a fixed relation to one another and to matter as a whole by a law whose mysteries are gradually being unfolded and understood. All chemical actions and reactions of matter are based firmly upon and fixed by habits through the law of cosmic habitforce.
Cosmic habitforce is the controller of all other natural laws. Did you ever stop to think what a great variety of natural laws operate all the time and how marvelous it is that none of them conflicts with another? This points to the fact that there must be an overall, controlling power: the law of cosmic habitforce – Infinite Intelligence in action.
Just as the natural forces of the universe are fixed and controlled by cosmic habitforce, so also the thought habits of individuals are automatically fixed and made permanent by cosmic habitforce, no matter whether these thought habits are positive or negative.
The same force which maintains precise balance between the actions and reactions of matter, and time and space relationships of the elements of creation, also builds men’s thought habits with varying degrees of permanency.
Negative thought habits attract to their creator’s physical manifestations corresponding to their nature as perfectly and as inevitably as nature germinates the acorn and develops it into an oak tree. Through the operation of this very same law, positive thoughts reach out into the vast ocean of potential power surrounding us and attract the physical counterparts of their nature.
Cosmic habitforce controls all human relationships and determines whether an individual will be a success or a failure in his life work. For nature uses this law as a medium by which every living thing is forced to take on and become a part of the environment in which it lives and moves daily.
All of us are ruled by habits. They are accepted by us because of repeated thoughts and experiences. Therefore, we can control our earthly destiny to the extent that we control our thoughts. As we have seen, our thought habits, our mental attitude, are the one and only things over which each individual has the right of complete control. You create patterns of thought by repeating certain ideas, or behavior, and the law of cosmic habitforce takes over those patterns and makes them more or less permanent (depending upon the intensity with which they are repeated or practiced) unless or until you consciously rearrange them.
You create patterns of thought by repeating certain ideas, or behavior, and the law of cosmic habitforce takes over those patterns and makes them more or less permanent (depending upon the intensity with which they are repeated or practiced) unless or until you consciously rearrange them.
Man is the only living creature equipped with the power of choice through which he may establish his own thought and behavior patterns, or habits, or break them and rearrange them at will.
But while the Creator has given man the privilege of controlling his thoughts, He has also subjected man to the law of cosmic habitforce through which his thought habits must invariably clothe themselves in their physical likeness and equivalent. Cosmic habitforce does not dictate what thoughts a man must express, but it takes over whatever he does think and do, and sees to it that man’s thoughts and actions go on to fulfill the measure of their creation.
Source: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill