ng is not always looked upon with favor. But
castles in the air are always necessary before we can have castles on
the ground, before we can have castles in which to live. The trouble
with the one who gives himself to building castles in the air is not
that he builds them in the air, but that he does not go farther and
actualize in life, in character, in material form, the castles he thus
builds. He does a part of the work, a very necessary part; but another
equally necessary part remains still undone.

There is in connection with the thought forces what we may term, the
drawing power of mind, and the great law operating here is one with
that great law of the universe, that like attracts like. We are
continually attracting to us from both the seen and the unseen side of
life, forces and conditions most akin to those of our own thoughts.

This law is continually operating whether we are conscious of it or
not. We are all living, so to speak, in a vast ocean of thought, and
the very atmosphere around us is continually filled with the thought
forces that are being continually sent or that are continually going
out in the form of thought waves. We are all affected, more or less,
by these thought forces, either consciously or unconsciously; and in
the degree that we are more or less sensitively organized, or in the
degree that we are negative and so are open to outside influences,
rather than positive, thus determining what influences shall enter into
our realm of thought, and hence into our lives.

There are those among us who are much more sensitively organized than
others. As an organism their bodies are more finely, more sensitively
constructed. These, generally speaking, are people who are always more
or less affected by the mentalities of those with whom they come in
contact, or in whose company they are. A friend, the editor of one of
our great journals, is so sensitively organized that it is impossible
for him to attend a gathering, such as a reception, talk and shake
hands with a number of people during the course of the evening, without
taking on to a greater or less extent their various mental and physical
conditions. These affect him to such an extent that he is scarcely
himself and in his best condition for work until some two or three days
afterward.

Some think it unfortunate for one to be sensitively organized. By no
means. It is a good thing, for one may thus be more open and receptive
to the