Originally Published in 1933
Contents
Chapter 1 – God
Chapter 2 – The Wealth Consciousness
Chapter 3 – Consciousness, Subconscious and Superconscious
Chapter 4 – Necessity as a Creating Agent
Chapter 5 – Opportunity
Chapter 6 – Visualization
Chapter 7 – Acceleration
Chapter 8 – Non-Resistance
Chapter 9 – Positiveness
Chapter 10 – The Habit of Shifting Blame
Chapter 11 – Love
Chapter 12 – Tithing
Chapter 13 – Judgment and Discrimination
Chapter 1
GOD
Desire made manifest through the knowledge of God; this is the story of human life.
The desire for success creates a bright, powerful aura that envelopes you with a wave of dominant optimism and assurance, and a steady consciousness of success and prosperity that cannot be broken through. This desire will in time bring to you all things that you have visualized, for the desire is the underlying quality back of all human activity. Desire is an inward motive that works outward, and so it is not hampered by the outer.
Desire sets in motion the attractive forces. There is no limit to your possibilities through this ardent fiery desire which like an unquenchable hunger will be fed.
Wishing alone does nothing. There must be the energy that makes one reach out for the thing desired. We are told a story of a sage, who was asked by a student: “Sir, what must I do to become wise?” At length the sage took him down to the river, and held him under the water, in spite of his struggles. After releasing him, the sage asked: “Son, when you were under the water, what did you desire most?” Regaining his breath, the student replied: “Air, air, air! Sir, I wanted only and thought only of air!” Then said the sage: “To become wise, you must desire Wisdom with as great intensity as you just now desired Air.”
Yes, you must struggle to the exclusion of everything else for the desire of your heart to manifest.
There is no desire without the possibility of its satisfaction and attainment, providing you follow the law. God, as Substance, is molded to your desire by this concentration on an idea. For all there is, is God.
Omnipotence: All Power, means that nothing can alter God. Use this in producing your desire, by willing yourself to accomplish that to which you give thought. God is as much concerned with you as a producing principle, or a personal individual, as He was and is in Christ Jesus. He is just as much in sympathy with New York as He was with Jerusalem, New or Old, for God is everywhere present and has always been. Without beginning and without end.
As you take this thought for the production of your prosperity through the vision or channel you have named for yourself, everything that develops points to the bringing forth of the desire, providing you allow nothing else to cross the vision. Make anything opposite your desire an impossibility through the perfect visioning of the God Mind. Connect up God with what you have need of, in order to produce your desire.
If you need health, when you think of God, think of health, and all the joy there is in perfect health and its radiation, and keep on with this thought. If you need prosperity, think of God as Power, unlimited, boundless, and transferable at all times to the channel you wish to produce through.
The moment you realize the power of the word spoken, in and through your knowledge of God, and what that word is symbolic of, you are at once in the aura or vibration of the thing you want, and the concentrated Mind Power draws this to you in material form. It just can’t help it!
You must remember that the world is ruled by God through Law. Prayer sets in action the vibrations in the ether, and these are caught up by the Spirit . . the Mind of God. By the very intensity of the prayer the thought formation is drawn towards you and you receive the outer substance.
Now, in every atom God is the ruling power. And you, as the individualized idea of God are the ruling power for yourself, but not for the other fellow. This is why Jesus stressed the answer: “What is that to thee? Follow thou Me!” Turn your back on the idea the other fellow may want you to use, and use the one God gave you; it is the only one that belongs to you. And turn your back also on the idea that you have to force your idea on the other fellow; he has his own God, or God-idea, to follow.
In this way you will find you make greater progress and a bigger manifestation in everything for you and yours; and an easier and more open channel through which to express. Make your God Mind work with you, not letting any other minds have power to say “Yea” or “Nay” to the God Mind with which you are bringing forth health or prosperity.
Chapter 2
The Wealth Consciousnesses
How to Live in it
How to make it produce
We have read the story of the fig tree that was withered by the Word of God because it was barren. In the same way, a consciousness not productive becomes barren, and in course of time withers and dries up.
To acquire the wealth consciousness you must be very sure to view all things through this Law of producing. A half-filled consciousness is like a half-baked loaf of bread. Only part of it is usable, and in the using of the perfect part you are forced to sacrifice the good to do away with the half-baked.
The wealth consciousness never carries a thought of “I have not,” or “I cannot.” Instead it carries: “I Have” . . ”I AM.” This continual carrying of constructive thinking makes the thought become, as it were, second nature, and you find no time for the opposite.
The first idea that came to me in reading books such as “Life and Teachings of The Masters of The Far East” was the absolute certainty of everything written being an accepted fact in the mind of the writer, and every circumstance being a realization of God’s Law and not a “miracle” or an unusual instance. It just was.
Notice the way an expressman carries a trunk. Try and do it yourself. What makes it so easy for him? Two things: the knowledge of how, and the fact that he is using his knowledge. What, then, makes for success in any individual? The knowledge that he is a success, and that he is applying the principle he knows.
Wealth is Spirit, and Spirit is Wealth. This is the God definition. It does not make any difference how many added names there are in the family; the Eternal Name is Wealth. The little kittens in the basket may be male or female, but they are kittens!
Wealth expresses through whatever idea you are harboring in consciousness. I have a wealth consciousness: then I must be thinking of wealth in the words and pictures that represent in the outer the vision I receive when I think or speak them while thinking wealth. Thus I attract wealth in my surroundings, my friends, my ideas.
Wealthy people, whether recognized as such or not, will not take up residence with poverty-thought people, no matter how much they may love them personally. The poor, contracted thought hampers them from the free expression of their own greater consciousness.
The greater the consciousness, the greater will you become, and the more able to create in the outer. To hold this creative consciousness there must be no adulteration of the first perfect seed of greatness. No substitute for the perfect article is accepted in the Spirit consciousness or Mind consciousness wherein God is actively at work. The gardener is never ready to receive diseased plants in his perfect garden. Better wait until the perfect can be brought forth. Haste has brought forth many an inferior article. “I must do something,” says the anxious one, “I must have some return on this or that.” So they produce that often-quoted “Half-baked Bread.”
Write down what you consider the greatest thing in the way of wealth. Many will say, the wealth of a healthy body; some will only see wealth in money; others again, riches of harmony or Love.
Let us take the thought of a wealthy consciousness for perfect health. How shall you plant, or make ready to plant the first seed for health; by making null and void, by the power of the spoken word; the old records of lack of ease.
Affirm: I make null and void, by the power of my spoken word . . God speaking in and through me . . every old record of disease and separation from God-health.
Use this affirmation for the erasing of everything that keeps you from expressing perfection to yourself; use it for health, harmony, success, or whatever you are working to bring forth into the outer.
The wealth consciousness never sees a thing as it is in the outer, but as it is in the spirit mind or perfect Christ picture.
The great worker in the wealth consciousness is like a service station. It is a never-failing energy that improves with use. The more service is given, the more the wealth consciousness increases and desires to give forth. Suppression of service through fear of letting go, creates the proverbial poverty consciousness! On the other hand, the continual desire to serve, freely expressed, becomes in time a Christ condition of mind; and the constant thinking of the desire attracts to you the wealth with which to serve, whether in love, harmony, health or money. Like creates like, and multiplies and increases it. But, in order to get the second and third crops, we must plant the first seed.
The Thought Consciousness is magnified by concentration; by picturing the thing desired and nothing else; by not seeing the opposite under any circumstances.
There are three rules necessary to abide by in seeking the Wealth Consciousness.
First: Do not seek from the outer vision. Spirit Mind governs, and not Man Mind. Spirit creates through the thought placed in your mind. You do not create; you are the user.
Second: Use the thought that the creative Spirit gives you. Nothing happens by chance. Your own laws are set in motion by your own thinking and using. “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he,” in his heart-mind.
Last, and most important believe in yourself. Your belief starts the Spirit Power working for you. All is within yourself. Remember the spider and his spinning; the endless thread that comes from Within out. Never forget. Obstacles Without are from Obstacles Within. You cannot have an overflow of water from an empty bucket!
Clear the Within. “Make clean first the inside of the platter!”
Chapter 3
Conscious, Subconscious & Superconscious Mind
I AM going to give you the definition that will most clearly express to you the inner idea in relationship to the practical working out of the principle.
The conscious mind: the mind that receives from without.
The subconscious mind: the intuitive soul mind, or memory mind, that works on suggestion of the conscious mind, and draws all like things from the memory part to support the outer production.
The superconscious mind: the mind that involves knowledge and insight or experience of a kind transcending the possibilities of human consciousness.
These definitions if thoroughly studied will produce a talisman; a mode for the expressing, or pressing out, of everything for your advancement into the realization that all things are possible.
The conscious mind is the acting mind; and what is active is also reactive. You speak your word. It returns to you, in the same way as the echo comes back from the valley between mountains.
There are two facts to be held in mind at all times. One is that every subconscious action is the reaction of or from the conscious mind, and this produces an expression on the individual or thing set in vibration to it.
The other fact is, that the deeper the thought or conviction of a thing is, through the conscious mind, the deeper will be the print on the subconscious mind, for that is rich in mentality.
The subconscious mind has been called “The Great Within.” There are more riches buried there than could be unearthed through untold reincarnations! The sooner, therefore, you get to work to draw on these riches by implanting your desires or ambitions on the conscious mind, the better off you will be.
The poverty idea is an outward expression of thoughts planted there by fear of ability to produce, or by allowing limitation in vision and thought.
The first law for success is to learn to think constructively, not only for and about yourself, but also for and about others. So long as you know the power of registration through conscious thinking, you are able to call up what you want, and not what you do not want.
But you must stick to what you call for, and not make provision to open other doors or channels. By so doing, you give a counter order; and as the subconscious mind has all things needed to complete your production from within itself, your production will suffer according to your change of thought.
No matter what your present environment or circumstances may be, you are able, in fact it is your duty, to change it for the better by allowing your subconscious to work on the changed plans, and by the absolute letting go of all other ideas that held for you before.
Don’t bother with denials. Take the affirmative of what you want. It wants you!
Use all the depth of feeling possible, in a firm, steady way. Don’t shock your vibration by voicing fear.
When things are going seemingly wrong, impress upon the subconscious in the most vital manner of which you are capable, the idea as you want it to come forth.
Use mental joy and sunshine, and keep it going! This will draw to you every force from the Soul or Memory Mind that is needed, and soon you will see the perfect produced, instead of the imperfect.
When you are about to do something that seems to demand more power than you have before used, call on this subconscious mind for greater, higher power. Call for the best and better still! There is always more than we know of. Wait a few moments, and then start forth fearlessly.
This power will at once begin to work for you in such a way that nothing can stop you from coming into your own! Keep impressing and reimpressing upon the subconscious this added power. The increase will continue until there is a wonder in your heart at the super-abundance of power and strength that you are expressing.
As a noted teacher says: “Begin to live in the Great Within!” And see how the Great Within will begin to pour its manifestation on the Without. Begin, and desire, and desire, and desire! Every one develops according to his desire, for this is the key to the subconscious. The greater the desire, and the more you impress the mind with that desire, the greater will be your unfoldment in the outer. Call continually for production, and call all the time!
Don’t be afraid to name the time for your subconscious mind to produce. Don’t be uncertain. God rules the Universe through Divine Order, and the subconscious mind, being a part of this great Universe, and a big part, is able to live up to principle. Don’t begin to slip in a substitute. There are no such things in God’s kingdom. Always let the mind know how much power is needed, and what the power is for. This is very essential.
Make the conscious hold the very highest conception of the idea that is being impressed, and the clearer the picture on the conscious mind, the greater and surer the production. Remember, whatever the impression calls for, the subconscious will supply. The superconscious mind has it waiting, and through the power of the thinking it is brought into active vibration for you. Don’t let anything else cross the vision. This is very necessary, in fact, indispensable for success.
The greatest work is done by the subconscious mind when the conscious mind is off duty. The conscious mind must clear all channels, and give the subconscious the thought that it wishes carried out. The more perfect the detail given, and the more complete the plan laid out for working, the easier and more quickly the subconscious will produce.
Charge the subconscious mind, always in Love, and in the knowledge that you are working for the Father, not only to give you the very best material in ideas and plans, but also to give you the very best ways and means of expressing these ideas in the outer. This mind will give you power and ability to create through your work and in your work that magnetic something that will make people seek you and appreciate all you do.
Remember, the subconscious is unlimited! You, therefore, if in the right vibration, can make yourself a channel of unlimited expression, whether of wealth, health, happiness, or whatever may be your ideal.
Direct the subconscious to express what may be necessary in order to take the next step forward. Concentrate all the forces of mind on that step, and do not go beyond until you have made the vision plain and perfect. Then, hold it! One step at a time, holding the perfect, completed image in mind, and then taking the next step as the former one is finished.
But have the perfect blue print before you to direct from!
God is power.
Power lies in the mind.
Power is generated and called forth by concentration and the realization of oneness.
Chapter 4
Necessity as a Creating agent Opening the Door
So many people never come into the greatness of Life, nor do they realize what they are capable of until necessity has pushed them forth.
So many make the plea: “I have never had to do anything,” or: “I have never had any training.” This state is brought about by laziness of mind. As long as you feel you will not do this or that because there is no particular motive to do so, or you are not forced to tackle it, you will not go very far.
Remember the man with the ten talents; the truest story that was ever written. These talents were given out to several men. The one who was ambitious made the most of what was given him, letting go of all fear that it would be lost. The other wrapped his talent in a napkin; kept it out of sight. There was no thought of praise or love or joy, or anything constructive, in the hiding away of what had been given him. So the vibrant quality within the gift died.
Necessity makes us very keen to call on the unexplored parts of the mentality. Nine times out of ten, inventions and other works of genius are brought forth by sheer necessity. You hear one say: “I just must put this over!” This declares the law through his material vision, and he is driven to action by fear. But there is no must in God’s Kingdom. “I AM” or “I will” would release the tenseness, and start the idea towards you in a gentle manner.
When you have a need that must be met, it is because you have not used that which was given you at the right time, or else you have used it wrongly. Applying the law of God at all times releases you from a need for any certain thing, and keeps you in a state of receptivity to make the contact. It is because you do not keep yourself in a keen, vibrant state, that the things you need do not become connected with you. Therein necessity makes you look out, and look up!
Remember: it was the loss of the setting hen that brought forth the idea of the incubator, and brought unlimited wealth to the woman whose necessity drove her to use her “unexplored mentality.”
Back of every seeming loss or letting go is the Divine Mind, with its gold mine of unopened ideas. When you refuse to sit down and hold the empty cup, you don’t get filled with new ideas. But when you do hold the empty cup to Divine Mind in the Silence, you receive a new, fresh, vital knowledge from the new-filled cup that replaces the seemingly empty one. The contents have only been withdrawn by the power of the all-present Divine Mind, in order that a better and more perfect measure may be given to God’s ideas.
As long as a door is open, and all things flowing easily to you through it, you do not notice the door. But when it shuts, you realize that it has been open. So it is with Divine Supply. As long as it comes, you do not seek to trace the channel; but when the channel closes, you get busy. This is because the necessity arises for you to do something. The sooner you start, the sooner shall you receive, and the less time is allowed for the congealing of the God idea through inaction.
Why do you eat? You are taught that it is necessary to do so, in order to keep alive. How many stop to think of cause and effect? Not many, unless it becomes necessary to them. If you continually hold in mind the necessity for activity’ in God’s Kingdom, you cannot be stopped when the need for instant decision or action presents itself. This opens the door for necessity to stir the unknown depths, and unfold from within what has always been waiting for you. The greater the necessity in the outer, the more you will strive to produce through this man-made Law of Supply. When you fail to get the result from outer contacts that you expect, you turn to the within, and then God opens the door to the Right Idea for you. Not until the need has been made known, will the Door of Divine Mind open!
We are told over and over again this truth: “Ask and ye shall receive.” If you will look over the situation as it is today in all branches, you will find the truth of the law: necessity is the mother of invention. Mother means producer. “Mother” the word, may be applied to all generative power, for through birth all things become usable in the outer for man.
There is the birth of children, to replenish the earth, and carry on the work of past incarnations. There is also the birth of ideas, so that the work may be carried on in a bigger way. A spirit of desire is necessary, just as in human birth, before the birth of any idea can take place. Mothering an idea gives it power. This is true of either a good or a bad idea. For instance, the man who dwells on revenge, does not at first think of killing, but by his continual dwelling on, or “mothering” the idea, the picture of revenge touches the visioning faculty, and this becomes productive to help him attain his desire; the means to an end. Man always gets what he wants deep in his heart, even if he cannot see it manifest as he has pictured. Within the wrappings is the original seed, and he nurtures it by his thought.
There was once a woman who hated home and housekeeping. She got what she wanted, release from both, but not as she imagined she would. She was forced to work for her living, and to live in one room, because she had pushed from her by her constant affirming of hatred her home and her husband.
Spite also works that way. Undertaking anything for spite will make you do the thing of necessity before you are through with it. All the five, or seven, physical senses are keenly awaiting a chance to become active, and it is up to the Indwelling Mind to make of them a working force for Good. Thus, when necessity arises, the need will be met by a force working in perfect harmony and order, because it is in training, and therefore open to receive the word of God for the new, necessary idea.
Alertness is a God Power: the power to see behind and around a situation by putting every faculty to work. Never get panicky when things are happening.
God does not work in a panic. Peace, poise will show you the way out.
Remember the great Iroquois fire. One person saved many thousands of lives by alertness and poise. Be alert; be poised. Practice these. Then you will be ready for necessity when it comes, and necessity will be to you what God meant it to be: A great producer in all walks of life.
Chapter 5
Opportunity
God himself is your source of supply
Does God give occasionally? Or is His gift always there for you to call upon? This is the question you yourself must now decide in your own mind. Upon your decision rests the entire fabric of your life, and your output in this life.
All is Substance, you have been taught. All is One with You. You make it in the different parts and molds that you want, by your thinking and accepting. If you want air, you open windows. If you are wise, you open the windows before you feel the real need of the air.
In the same way, if you are wise, you will start in molding your substance before the dire need and the pinch of the so-called poverty hits you. Get ready for what you want, not for what you will have to work to get rid of.
If you let other outside interests interfere with the Oneness of yourself and your desire, you must not expect to receive as rapidly and as perfectly as if you were looking and planning for the One and Only.
Don’t try to cultivate two or three things at once.
Don’t try to have the other fellow do your cultivating or your garnering. You will find that you always open the channel for the other fellow, and that you yourself are left, as it were, in the discard.
I have seen more wonderful demonstrations go wrong in the outer by one student sending another for the bucket of water, than by any other mistake. Go yourself! Ask yourself for what you want! You can get it as well as the next one. What difference does it make whether there is a personal friendship or not to reckon with, or a so-called string on the gift?
Don’t change your mind about a thing you are working on, as this changes your vibration and your consciousness with regard to it.
Remember: you have never failed. You have gone as far as you really want to! Whenever you want to pick up your idea, you will do so; you will go forward and carry it on. You have not failed; you have only suspended your production faculty by “laying down on the job.”
Your mind is the use you make of the Mind of God. Imelda Shanklin tells us, and you know God cannot fail. So you use the Mind of God, and the fullest concept you can have of your own ability is just your God Power speaking to you.
Opportunity knocks at every door, so we have been told.
I will tell you more than that. Opportunity is an electric switch, always waiting to be turned on. By you only for yourself. Don’t try to get the other fellow’s switch to work, for you: it will only use your channel, and flow out to the other fellow!
Look yourself in the face during the following days, and see what you can do with opportunity when it comes to you, and what you are naming this opportunity. How many of you can recognize the instant an opportunity is yours? Are you only seeing through one window, or are you looking in all directions?
Your brain is the register of your opportunity. You were born with it. It was born with you. No one else can use it for you. It is like the man using his hands to work with, while, you stand in front of him. He’ll surely get stuck sometime.
Think, and then think some more! Don’t be so satisfied with yourself that you feel you have all the knowledge available on the particular idea you want to develop. The opportunity is present for you to learn more of every subject, no matter what, than you already know. That is why you are here.
Stop wailing and whining what a poor success you are, or what has jumped away from you! It was because you never learned the rules governing the grasping of opportunity. You took too much for granted. Look you well to the details. Therein lies success!
The issue at stake can be met by anyone. The right- thinking student will follow up the issue with the idea of learning how to capture it and tie it up for himself.
Don’t be loose in your understanding! Get acquainted with your own Soul, your Subconscious Mind; that wonderful part of you that never becomes poorer, but richer in substance as you use and draw upon it.
Prosperity is a state of consciousness. Consciousness is an acceptance of all things as opportunities for greater prosperity, no matter through what channel or in what way it may express. You must see the thing, as you want the opportunity to produce it.
Cultivate all possible confidence in yourself! This gives opportunity a chance to work. Confidence begets opportunity; and opportunity begets confidence. Be willing to try. Put forth the very best you are capable of. That brain of yours will start into new activity, and in this way you will have a wider vision of new opportunities, as well as more richly varied means to acquire knowledge and power of all kinds.
Chapter 6
Visualization
“WHERE there is no vision, the people perish.”
These words are written in our Bible. Back of the written words is more than we can conceive at first sight, for without this Vision we have no power to produce.
First the seed, then the bloom; but remember, the seed carries the bloom within it, for within the seed is the power that brings forth the bloom.
Vision is always backed by the little seed of Faith, which grows with use. So the vision grows with our claiming and acknowledging its power.
If I want to produce, I know instantly that God wants me to produce, and the two become one in vision.
The different stages of visualizing are imaging, visioning, and visualization. Visualization is the idea made concrete. Vision is the Universal idea. Imaging is the seed, or the man-made plan. Your imaginative faculty is capable of producing greater or lesser things, for it is in the control of Mind that it rests. It is a part of God, indivisible, yet, reckoned through the material man-made law, it can be limited in output by ourselves.
What are Dreams? All dreams are ideals of the Great Universal Mind, and productive of race service. Consider Columbus. His ideal was first visioned; then it was idealized into concrete form by his visualization. His consciousness carried such a perfect, complete visualization of this land beyond the horizon, that the uncharted seas had no terrors for him. Wonders un-thought of follow the first visioning into fuller visualization. This is the way God manifests or expresses through all.
The one that has brought forth has then greater faith in his own powers, which are really God Powers, whether he is conscious of this or not. The perfect Visualization sees and senses the goal in every vision and image, and allows no man-made law to say “Nay!” or “Yea!”
You must never be afraid to speak forth into the outer the picture you have visualized by daily application of the principle; nor should you seek to know the outcome except so far as you have visioned it for your working plan. Not even to this day is the finish of the visioning and the visualization of Columbus. Yet he did only what he conceived in his first mind-plan; others following him are still carrying on in our Country.
Every successful bringing forth through this visualization is the Birth of a Child of God.
Mary visualized the Christ Child in her pure praise and love of God Good. Man’s visualization is the “bringing forth” method of the Universal Plan for man as God Manifest, whether in business, or the patenting of an invention, or the molding of a perfect work of art, or as the Birth of God’s Highest Ideal . . Man.
“And she brought forth a man child.”
In preparation for this Birth, whatever form it may take, hourly inner perfection is attained by developing our vision inwardly, concentrating on idea, and closing out all other ideas.
Realize that you are dealing with a powerful energy that as yet has no form. Now, let your mind dwell on the mental picture of that which you want, thereby centralizing the creative action or force on one center spiritually, and in the Spirit Substance making your mental picture a definite mold that is pushed out (by the creative energy that began the action) into the outer.
Visualization is easy in vibration, and contains no strenuous effort to defeat its purpose. Know that there is no negative side to anything! This knowledge lets the perfect harmony flow in and through every potent part of your picture.
Easy, instant, perfect! Keep your picture with you intact through joy and happiness. A happy state of mind unencumbered by any adverse thought is necessary at all times. Know what you want to produce, by all means, at all times. Visualize what you want, and not how you want. Never make your channel of visualization the only channel. Your business is to hold your picture; Nature and God Mind will take care of the rest!
Be consciously one with the Universal Whole, and this will prevent a half-way success.
The thought you dwell upon becomes the thing you will possess. Thought is Creative Action. Take this thought to dwell upon:
Everything I want, wants me.
It cannot be one with me unless I rest in and on that vision of what I want.
Chapter 7
Acceleration
Its Working in the Universe
It has been proven by scientists that anything called for by the right name will answer the call. This proves the use to be made of the Spoken Word, and the vibration that can be set in motion by this law. It coincides with the Word: “Ask,” or call, “and it shall be given you.”
Acceleration: This mighty word has very little use in this day and age; yet within it lies the outcome of your Spoken Word. Speeding up thought, speeding up the vibration, speeding up the vision. Being so enwrapped in it that the Law of Jhvh, which is instant power to bring forth your answer, becomes the center of the thought, and all radiations come from this central pivot, and as such must come forth in dynamic force.
Power . . power . . power! What is Power? Jhvh . . God. How much of this power are you using to accelerate your thought and action? Mayhap you Have never thought of this? When you begin to concentrate on the idea, and reach into the hidden depths of your Christ Mind, do you do this in a half-minded or half-interested way? Or do you put forth all the power you possibly can, and start an acceleration through mind and body that reacts into the Universe, and begins its working there?
Accelerate your speed; bring more force to bear on your thinking mind. This is what is meant by “keen, vital, alert!” Alertness means acceleration, pushing on the motor. This is what makes the high-powered salesman, but the average high-powered salesman becomes a menace to himself and everyone else, because he steps on the accelerator in a material sense, and rides over the rights and judgments of the buyer.
Power misused becomes a vicious thing. Have you ever seen an engine running away, without a guiding hand on the brakes or levers? In the same way, an idea of God’s let loose without guidance, and permitted to run wild, accelerated as it were, seems to realize with an uncanny knowledge that there is no hand at the helm.
If guided rightly, this acceleration of speed will become a dynamo that nothing on earth will be able to stop, hinder or destroy. The thought currents with which you surround yourself are attracting from the Invisible Universe a like set of currents, which are strengthened and accelerated by your intensity of thought and vision.
As you vision the idea you are seeking to bring forth, you set in motion in the ethers the picture of it; and every like vibration or picture is taken into this molding process and brought forth.
There is never separation in thought. It does not divide. It is the seed; and no seed is divided before it has produced and brought forth the perfect product as was originally planned. There is no deviation from this Law of God. We may cut or change by material means; but it becomes like the pants of the boy that so many had a hand in trying to rebuild.
The brain is a receiving station. Thought is not generated there; it is only received. Scientists will tell you this, and all metaphysical books bear witness to this truth. It stands to reason that if some of these cells in the brain are “laying down on the job,” your receiving set is not perfect, and you do not get the full return of that which you have tuned in for. The transmutor, or thought, must be in perfect tune to be able to send the message across. The most perfect state of consciousness, and the most perfect vitality and energy must have their place in this sending, or you will be working, or as we call it, running on one cylinder. Where can you get on one cylinder?
The generator and the receiver must be in perfect harmony to get through a message on this line. Then you need not bother about how many messages, or desires, are being broadcast! That would have no effect on you. You would then be working in a perfect Christ-Radio, and everything in a like vibration would be attracted to you.
The short wave of perfect sending is wonderful as a starter. Continue to increase your wave length; then you are increasing your vibration, and drawing from greater distances in the Universal ether. As you do this, you must accelerate the inner motion, or visioning, and also the outer.
Have you ever taken a bucket of water and swung it very fast? Nothing is spilled from it; but all things are dashed from its path as it swings around in a circle. The very momentum keeps the contents from scattering.
Acceleration intensifies and protects; carries all before it. The moment you begin to let the energy die down, just that moment you lose the attracting power that is carrying you out of the ordinary manifestations and demonstrations. You go back to the “Also-rans!” Don’t! You can stop it. It means turning on the steam a little earlier in the day, and sensing the need and the way to meet it a little more vitally. Believe me, it is well worth the price.
The joy one gets from the perfect realization of God as a working power in him, more than repays him for the energy expended in stretching forth for the thing. It is far more than the thing he attains.
So when you feel like “laying down,” or letting go, remember, that is the very time to put the new battery in. Get busy; don’t wait; for sooner or later the demand will be made on you for speed, and then you will have no reserve force to draw from, if you have not used that which you had the opportunity to use.
In this everyday life, it is the fellow who works the accelerator that gets past you! However, you must use it right, not getting the idea that you are the only one who has a right to a thing. Use it in the God consciousness of perfect thinking and perfect visioning’, of doing as you want to be done by.
Concentrate your efforts on your God-given power to succeed. Accelerate every God-given idea that comes to you, and there can be nothing for you but Success. Everything in the Universe will be working for you, and with you, and through you. Amen.
Chapter 8
Non-Resistance
THE Law of non-resistance is the law operative for the bringing forth of the perfect product. This law is unalterable, and, like all of God’s laws, never fails.
As one noted teacher asked: “What is there to resist?”
This is the answer. Nothing apart from God really has existence. Consequently you are wasting God’s time in resisting a circumstance that has no reality. Why not get busy and see what is creating this condition? Why not remove the cause instead of resisting the effect?
The people who marched round the walls of Jericho were making nothing of the obstruction, ignoring the wall, by praising the law of God as the only working Power, and lo! the walls were down! This is seeing the Perfect back of the outer condition or manifestation of Imperfect. Any time you ignore a person or a situation it loses its power against you. Any time you meet a circumstance with an acknowledgment of a power apart from that which you wish to have manifested, you are welcoming an imperfect condition. Thus again, you prove out the law of attraction by thinking.
The one who is able to look into the future, and know God’s Law is operative, is the one who will always find the Divine Law working for him, whether he is able to see it or not. It works continually, because we are working with it, and making it possible and absolute by seeing nothing but the one outcome. See it? See it.
The only Law that will operate is the Law of Expectancy; expecting that which you ask for and nothing else. Don’t accept “Just as good” articles; they will not fill the need. They may be “Just as good,” but not for you.
When we believe we are able to do a certain thing, we set in vibration a law to bring forth this thing. Don’t get busy and make a law as to time. Time is of Man and not of God. God can so speed up the dynamos that are working in you, if you concentrate and keep a clear mind, that the Invisible Activity will make a new record for you, and will produce, in its own time, that which would have taken much longer through the Man Mind.
Never set your time limit as a thing unalterable, for God knows no limit in the process of production. When you mentally conceive a thing, it is born already in the Unseen; and the strength to bring it forth into the tangible world depends on how much faith you have in your own power, your own Word, not the power of the other fellow, whoever or whatever you may think you have to resist.
You hinder your demonstrations by needless resistance to some outer condition, or by holding in mind the idea that you have to work hard to gain your object. The biggest demonstrations are brought forth by holding the perfect picture and releasing everything outside of it.
Nothing but what I want can come to me. This is an affirmation that tears down all resistance. Don’t peddle your work. Don’t vision hurdles. Don’t jump at conclusions. Remember, it is concentrated thinking that brings forth; but not for a few moments . . at all times; never allowing another contrary thought to enter your consciousness. Hold the perfect thought in regard to all things, at all times.
I have seen the way so dark that there was no light anywhere. Then, in less than no time, I have known the light to show forth from all angles at once, and when it once starts pouring, it does not stop the perfect thought going on working and creating.
Man, God’s Divine Idea in its highest conception, becomes creative as we see God creative, and in no other way. Of all the manifestations that have been created through the power of the Spoken Word, Man is the only one that shows resistance to the law of Divine Perfection. Man-made beliefs and intellectual ideas have caused this separation. The seed is planted on the left side of the house; it cannot refuse to grow because it is not on the right side of the house! It grows because it is the law for it to grow when planted; and through this law of unfoldment, environment has no power to stop the growth. It gives forth all it has to give where it is, and is perfect in that manifestation.
The tree cannot say it will not grow: it has no choice. This passive subjection to the life-principle within is the reason why, when all things earthly fail, so many seeming “miracles” are performed. God is all power, when you let Him be so. But not until you let go! When earthly limitations are lifted through failure or breakdown, then, and not until then, the Law of God steps in!
To further the Law of God means to hold oneself in a non-resistant vibration, affirming: “None of these things move me: I AM centered in Christ.” This will clear everything of a resistant nature from you and bring you into the vibration of production in a harmonious way.
As you come more and more under this law, you will see the result of ignoring the opposite appearance, and making the Law of God your own law.
Affirmations:
I AM poised and centered in Christ.
I have no vision except for the seeing of God’s perfect plan, no matter what shows forth in the outer at the time.
I know, and know that I know, easily, instantly, perfectly, and in a sustained manner that no outer condition can change or affect.
Chapter 9
Positiveness
The Subconscious Mind Production
THE Subconscious Mind has been called the Soul Mind. It is the “Mind that was in Christ Jesus.” Subconsciously, Jesus was tuned in with this mind at all times, and the hours which He constantly used for meditation were for the charging of this subconscious mind, to take in only the things of God for unfoldment and release.
What is positive thinking? One metaphysical teacher has defined the difference between positive and negative states of consciousness as the difference between backward and forward movement, between action up and down the line, between success and failure. I think this is a wonderful conception of the conditions we bring to ourselves by right or wrong thinking.
Fear attracts like to itself, the same as Faith, but it attracts the thing you fear. Just as in the case of the rich boy who had so many anxious thoughts turned on him, to insure his safety and ward off disaster, he inevitably attracted an accident. The fear for his safety that was set in vibration materialized into a thing of like kind! Fear thoughts are great materializers.
Have you ever noticed the atmosphere of repulsion around a fear person, and the attractive quality that surrounds a positive or faith person? Instant registration is made in the mentality. If you couple the idea of the Lesson on Acceleration with the new thought you are taking, that of Positiveness, you make a mighty team of workers for your production. This, if directed by the Subconscious Mind in a creative manner, will bring forth a perfect manifestation, charged or accelerated as it is, and handled with a positive thought of what is wanted, and why. A clear-cut picture is needed, for you limit yourself many times by letting down before the picture has made a clear imprint on the subconsciousness.
You see, then, that the accumulating forces of all that is set in vibration by our thinking, makes a mighty instrument, or set of instruments with which to work. You use these forces in directing toward you the return of the idea you sent forth. For instance, the person who continually dwells on the thought of suicide will be able to think of more ways in which to do the deed, and more opportunities will unfold for him to do it, as he broods and concentrates on this desire.
The best way to stop a person from continuing in this vibration is to help him get what he wants, so to speak. Hit him quickly by telling him you think it would be a good idea for him to do it, as long as he insists, then get busy making the way for him easy and instant. As soon as he begins to realize that there is no sympathy in store for him, but a desire to be rid of him, he will reverse the thought, and desire to live. Remember the story of the Mouse.
Negative people are always talking about what they cannot do, and how unlucky they are. Let them stop and think for once how unlucky other people are in having to deal with them, and listen to them. Let them begin to help themselves by their own right thinking.
Don’t ever think you will get anywhere by claiming that someone else put you where you are. You yourself are alone responsible for what you are and where you are, and no one else. And no one else can take you out of there until you realize that it all lies in yourself, and get busy! The idea that anything is “too good to be true,” builds a stone wall around or in front of anything you •want. Nothing is too good to be true. It is too good NOT to be true! This saying will open every door to you, and give you the good, true, perfect thing that belongs to you, and comes forth at your call.
Words are a veritable dynamo for you, you, to work with. Work, then, realizing the Law back of them. Work accordingly, letting go of every thought but the one of success. A successful man never uses “buts,” “ifs,” “maybe” or “I wonder.” He knows “it is!”
How did that man we all know about find the Pot of Gold? By burying the horse that cultivated the bit of land where he made his meager living, he found the gold; always there, never unearthed until he dug for it! So it is in Life. There are no chance accidents, but many times there must be a taking away, as in the case of the horse, before we can look beneath the surface.
Be mighty careful about generating poisons by wrong thinking when you are in a positive state of mind. Enough poison can be sent forth by positive affirmations of wrong thoughts to poison many negative souls who lack resistance. Remember how often you have said or heard: “I felt fine until he or she said this or that!” or, “I was wonderful until I got that letter!” Nothing real has changed, only the mortal mind has begun to register on the subconscious mind, and it is busy drawing like to it. Now is the very time to hold steadfast, putting in more and more of this acceleration of speed and power, this positiveness that makes for production.
God is, and if He is, He is; and that’s all there is! There just isn’t any more to it! Be positive of good. Hold the thought that only good is. Put your power behind the thought, and see it come forth in a big, beautiful manner. Get the soul of this big, positive idea you are working on. Make a clear picture, and don’t bother about what the other fellow is doing or thinking. You can’t ride a bicycle or a bucking horse and at the same time watch the other fellow ride! You will find yourself down in the dirt, or up against the lamp post.
One thing at a time, and all the punch possible, back of the thought, will bring it out. Keep accelerating and pouring in positiveness until it moves. It will move. It just has to!
Sooner will the Heavens fall than that My word shall pass away. Think of the power back of that idea!
Wonders will never cease for you, if you work in this attitude.
Try it; get into it deeper and deeper, and see the richness of the output. Amen.
Chapter 10
The Habit of Shifting Blame
How It Operates
WE HAVE been taught the Law of God in operation through vision and affirmation. Now, let us see wherein we sometimes let down on this God power.
How many of us are in the habit of blaming someone else for our disappointments and failures! Be true to yourself, and admit the weakness that has never been absent from your own mind. God cannot be fooled. The Bible tells us: “God is not mocked.”
So many people want others to make up their minds for them, and then, when things go wrong, they blame the other one. Do you not know that if you had used the Law rightly, you would have been making your own decision, and you would have had no one to blame? And the chances are, you would have been very successful.
It is a true expression, that though we are all one, yet each is separate and apart. This is what makes the perfect adjustment and the continual pushing forth of all God’s ideas. Don’t be afraid to push forward into your right place by using your own ability, your own power of choice. So often I have to remind you that you are sufficient unto yourself. God working in and through the Christ Mind was always sufficient unto Himself.
Remember the story of the disciple whom Jesus asked: “Who do men say that I AM?” He did not accept the quoted opinion of anyone. He wanted this certain disciple’s opinion, and none other. And when this disciple gave his reply, letting go of all other people’s ideas, Jesus glorified and blessed him.
This is what happens when you go forth certain of yourself. Whenever you look to the law of appraisement from outside, you are wavering and uncertain. Uncertain vibration will accomplish nothing!
“He that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind, and tossed.”
Have you ever noticed the man who is running away from something that might injure him? He never runs straight; he always zig-zags! This is so that he may not make himself a target for the bullet. And this is what you do, when you waver. Mentally, you zig-zag. A person who drinks, or uses any pleasure to excess, is a Zig-zag person. No stability is possible for him until this is overcome.
When you once realize the Power within yourselves you will become ashamed to admit that anyone could influence you. Learning to stand on your own feet mentally, is the same as learning to stand on your feet when you first begin to walk. As long as you are carried, you never learn. As long as someone makes up your mind for you, you will never grow!
This is the reason we use the affirmation: “Make me know, and know that I know.” Can you imagine anyone trying to influence you, or make your decision for you, if this truth was ingrained in your mind?
Never reprove the other fellow who advised you; or the outer condition that decided you. You only are the one that is interested, and consequently you are answerable for the outcome. Jesus blamed no man for anything. He spoke His Word, and stood upon His understanding that this was sufficient.
If you want success, and happiness, and love, and all the gifts of God, stop reading the news of disaster, murder, failure, disease, dishonesty. If fewer people read these things, there would be more wonderful demonstrations brought forth. If we are made from the plastic ether, and take on conditions according to the vibration of our thinking, just picture what a sewer your mind can become by filling it with these items, records of imperfection! Watch the faces of the people who read these things. Your story is there; what can you expect?
You blame someone else for your failure, when it was because you did not do your work of preparation. Jesus was always prepared, for He continually held to the Ideal: “I and My Father are one, and all that He hath is Mine.” This does not apply to money or material demonstration alone, but also to the right thinking and the right visioning. It made Him always sending forth in vibration the same law of power within Himself from the Head Source, Divine Mind.
Don’t blame the other fellow that you made a poor investment, because you really were talked into it. You must have thought you would get something big by going ahead; and when things turned out unfavorably you felt injured. Your thought was not honest to begin with. You have used the outer material law of “what can I get out of it,” not the Christ law: “what good can I do with this proposition?”
Any time you look at the outer for the picturing of the God Idea, you are liable to be bitterly disappointed in a material way; but when you look at the perfect idea from God’s hand, you will find a more perfect production than you could conceive of.
Learn to know yourself, and learn to stand on your own understanding. I have seen more failures than you can count, by lack of faith in oneself, and listening to the other man.
Do not give way to the feeling that anyone owes you anything. If you helped them, you did it because you wanted to. Don’t be like the men whom Jesus speaks of as praying aloud with many words. Back of your doing this, was the pleasure you wanted.
Don’t expect people to help you, when you not only refuse to accept what comes, but also will not help yourself. No one can push on you mentally, unless you let them. Keep constantly in mind the thought:
I AM a law unto myself, and I blame no one, and let no one blame me.
I stand pat on God’s law: my own comes to we when I use the right effort.
Use it: use your own decision, your own effort, not the other fellow’s.
Chapter 11
LOVE
Love is the Fulfilling of the law
Having the will faculty placed in your consciousness, you now want to know under what power it works best and in the most perfect way. This is the reason why I have made so forceful the idea of knowing what you want, and why you want it, and that you do want it more than anything else.
The greatest moving power in the world is Love. It is a vibrant thought, and once put into circulation never dies even in the material way.
There was never a condition so bad that Love could not change it, if we worked long enough and hard enough on it. The definition of Love carries more constructive words than any other word in the dictionary. Love, real Love, is never destructive. It is the misuse of the word, or of its application, that makes for destruction.
Prosperity is God’s Love for you. It is always there, whether you receive it or not, but its development depends on you yourself, and none other.
The word Love in its working embraces a key to every situation you may enter into. I want you each and every one to concentrate on the different mental pictures you receive when Love is spoken of. This will give you the just and firmly-balanced thought to begin your work on.
If the Love that vibrates through you by your thought is a selfish one, or one that will carry no lasting effect, you will need to go to work and clear out of your mind all this, and replace it with such Love as Jesus had. This means getting down to the real perfect incentive of your desire.
Love opens the door of your mind, and gives you a vision of the beauty of the finished building, when you see with the eyes of God, or Love. God is Power, but that Power is Love, not hatred or envy or malice, Love! God is good, and Love is Good (God). Do you see how you turn back each time to God for the estimate or measurement? This is not the man-made measurement; it is the God-measurement. The Will of God being the Will for Good, is naturally the Will of Love and Loving.
Now, begin to use this God Love in this way:
Make yourself subject to Love vibrations only. Turn on these vibrations as you turn on a current of air. Get where you can feel the current; that is, away from thoughts or ideas that prevent the current from circulating freely.
As what you recognize comes forth, Emma Curtis Hopkins writes, so if you let Love vision your project for you, you get the vision of God in it, and this becomes your picture brought into manifestation. This perfect manifestation can only come through Love.
Many writers have called Love “God Power.” It is. Through Love you get the vision perfectly of what you want. For you will not love an object that is not perfect, nor will you be satisfied with it. This dissatisfaction with imperfection is your salvation. It is a true sign of advancement. God will not help the man who is satisfied. It was Love that created the Son of God. It was Love that made Him open the door for you by His life. It is Love that makes you open the door for others by proving His Word in your demonstrations.
The first essential is to love what you are doing. If you can’t love it, let go quickly. You’ll never make the grade.
Begin to radiate Love, broadcast it. Eat it; sleep it; be it! Get the name of Love written in your mind as the one weapon you will use to give more power and push to what you are doing. Love it till it hurts! And then love it some more! I have myself loved a demonstration that came forth, so much that to material sense my heart ached; but it was a joy ache!
This urge of Love will push you over the top in your work. For prosperity, learn to love money. Get rid of false pride and deceit about your feeling for money. Many people say they do not love it. You might just as well say you do not love God. Love it; and love it some more! Money is God in manifestation, just as much so as the Sun and the Moon and every other manifestation of Nature.
You love God. You love food. You love that which symbolizes the product, food. Money is the idea of God that gives you the food; an article of exchange. Love it. As you love money with a just appreciation of its source, it comes to you naturally, and with it you do our work of further production. You cannot mix the material for your house if you have not all the ingredients, and you need money to procure the ingredients. Why separate God in any way from your building?
Now, take your desire. How much will you love it when it comes forth? Will you feel as happy as you do in anticipation? Yes. Then you are loving it to its fulfillment. Any time you begin to get discouraged, you are letting down on the Love Power. Stoke up! Find some new, vital point that you have not been loving. This puts a new vibration, a new battery in at once. See yourself as your highest vision glimpses you in this manifestation, and know that God Love is working through you to place you there.
Affirmations:
I have no fear of using Love in too big a way. Love is inexhaustible because it is God in me.
As my capacity to use Love increases, I see more places for its use. I recognize constantly Love as God in me; and I know it will prove God in manifestation as my desire shows forth.
I baptize myself daily in Love by using the words Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love.
Love!
Love . . Love . . Love . . Love . . Love . . Love . . Love . . Love . . Love.
“God Is Love”
God Is Law.
And therefore Love is the Fulfilling of the Law.
Chapter 12
Tithing for Prosperity and Unfoldment
THE first thing in coming into the real truth is a clear, open mind, and a letting go of all but the thing desired.
The first thing to do in tithing is to let go of your tithe when you give it. Let go completely. Don’t begin to think what a great thing you are doing, or have done, or how much you are helping someone, or some order, and what it is going to give you in return. This is bargaining with God, which is altogether different from giving. Each has its place in the student’s mind.
The bargain-making is all right if you live up to it, and know that back of the bargain is the thought that you are using the God law in a God way, and making God a coworker with you.
Tithing is rendering unto God that which is God’s, and giving it back to the Kingdom of God by letting go of what is not rightfully yours.
The Mosaic Law required a tenth as the Lord’s portion, and with many students this still holds. Never tithe for the sake of receiving back something, or for the sake of reward. You will find quotations all through the Bible about this law of giving and receiving.
Many people want to give to God’s work, and do not know how to go about it. This is where the law of tithing helps one. A tithe is a tenth of all supply, whether from farm produce, gifts or wages for service. It should be the first to be sent forth in the service of the One who gave all to you in the first place. It is merely the recognition that you receive from Him, and in receiving are able to realize the law enough to let go of the amount freely, in order that it may do its work without thought of return. This would limit God in His giving to you.
If you have money in your pocket-book, and you let some out, then you have space for more. The vibration and the freedom with which you make the place vacant for more, attracts more and more. This is so, because the right relation of things to one another is: God first!
Tithing is putting God first in finances, and is one of the practical ways of seeking the Kingdom of Heaven first.
Tithing produces system, which is Divine Order, providing you do not stop tithing when you happen to want something else.
Continual systematic tithing is more valuable to the student than a large gift now and then, although the large gift may amount to more in money and outer manifestation. It is the Divine Order you establish in your affairs when you let go of a part of your income to God, each and every time the income flows in, that really counts. Thus you are always tuning in with God, Divine Supply, and releasing instead of clogging the mind. By the exercise of the orderliness of giving instead of continual receiving, you keep the mind open.
The whole process is like that of the rain falling on the earth. The rain must fall gently and regularly, at the right times. If it falls all at once after a period of withholding, the earth has become dry and does not produce.
By tithing you are helping to establish the Kingdom of God on earth, and you become a part of that kingdom.
Tithing gives you a faith in God to supply your needs, and God abides in you according to your faith.
If you say you are a Child of the King, and believe what you say, there is no reason to be fearful of letting go. The swimmer does not hold onto the material life-line. He knows and goes forth to breast the waves, knowing his security. This, too, is what the tither does. By letting go of Fear, he goes forth into the Kingdom of God.
You must not expect God to fulfill the law for you, if you do not fulfill the law for God. By putting God first in all things, thought and finances, your faith is being shown in the outer. Promises do not show this faith.
A real loving tithe of one penny as the tenth of one dime is greater than a gift of an unlimited amount that you are just giving because you may receive something through it, or because you think you ought to.
Don’t do it until you see the Christ behind the Idea. When man begins to give his one-tenth to God first, before anything else, begins to love his neighbor as himself, and to do to others as he would have them do to him, then the end of his troubles will be here. He will become healthy, wealthy and wise, in Prosperity. Think of your tithe as the farmer planting his seed. The farmer selects the best seed; he is thankful to have it good. We should bless and give praise that we can acknowledge God in this way, and this makes the seed doubly precious in vibration and substance. In this way it releases into the atmospheric ether the vibration which returns to the giver.
Never give unless you are able to bless and let go, either your service or your money. The increase lies in the thought that goes with it, that it is God’s own. Therefore it is your joyous privilege to be one with God, as He is with us, present in all we have.”
The words of Truth remove every limitation man’s thought may have placed upon it or upon you, when you utter them with the full power of attraction and joy. The smaller the income, the more necessary to tithe in order to prove the law of letting go of the outer. Never feel that you have to wait until you have made more, or until your demonstration has come through. Learn the lesson of the “Widow’s Mite,” and remember that “the least among you shall be the greatest.”
Let me repeat again: it is Divine Order in all things that brings success; not the uncertain using of the law at irregular times. The singer, for instance, who practices all day long for one day, and then not again for a week, gets nowhere, but the one who devotes his mind to it for five minutes every day is the one who will win out.
Again it isn’t the amount you give; it is the letting go of that which is yours in the outer, to prove the law of refilling the vessel. The bigger the idea behind the gift, the bigger the increase. Never apologize for the amount of a tithe, or of a love gift. See it as you want to give, and watch it come up to that amount!
An accurate account should be kept with God, as in all other business transactions. The money must be put into circulation at once, as holding on until it increases causes a decreased inflow.
This applies to all other tithes as well as to actual money. If you feel you are not receiving enough Love, get busy and tithe more Love out to all those whom you can remember.
If you are not receiving service, begin and tithe service to God’s ideas. Do it freely, not for what you will get in return. If you are not getting enough joy out of life, begin and give your tithe of joy by being happy and making it known, and watch the joy increase for you!
In conclusion, tithe the whole way through, not only in the tenth, but in the Spirit of God; the spirit of Christ who said: “All that the Father hath is mine.” I give back that I may realize my Oneness with Him in all ways, and that He may give the increase, that I may be more to Him as the never-failing prover of His Divine Law. Tithing is not giving a love gift. These are given for your own pleasure, or for the help received, or for the joy of adding to another’s store. Tithing is giving back to God and God’s work the part that belongs to Him, freely and fully, and for the purpose of obeying in spirit and in all ways the Law of God.
I have faith in the Law of God, and in this faith I give of what God has given me, joyously and freely.
“Bring ye one tenth into the storehouse of the lord, into the place of God’s work, and see if I will not give you measure overflowing, pressed down and running over.”
Chapter 13
Judgment and Discrimination
“Judgment is Mine, saith the Lord”
THIS quotation has a double value in that it gives God all power, and by conforming to this rule we afford an opening for God’s judgment to show forth.
Why should not God give Judgment, when He gives you all other things or is a part of all things you partake of? As the owner, He has a perfect right to judge and use this discrimination in judgment that can be naught else but perfect. Many a time we are fearful of making judgments of our own, but God’s judgment in us is perfect.
Justice is first cousin to judgment, for where God is, judgment is ruler, and justice is the outcome. In your work for prosperity you will take the thought of justice for prosperity in finances; Wealth, Plenty, Riches being the names given to the different forms of prosperity. The first idea that must be firmly planted in the conscious mind is that you are only accepting that which is yours. This gives you a more perfect idea of abundance. Where God is, there is no lack, consequently you must see more of God before you are able to bring forth more of prosperity.
The Satan for man is not money, but greed for money. I told you in the last lesson, “Love is the Fulfilling of the Law”; to love money as an article of God. That which we love we treat kindly and in a loving manner. Never be careless in throwing money around. Don’t toss money! If money could speak, it would toss itself back to you and refuse to give you that which you were seeking to acquire through this money. Fold it; bless it continually, wherever you are. Make it look neat and inviting. Don’t carry money that has become soiled in a material sense. Get it exchanged at a bank. The outer dirt will not really hurt you, but you will miss a great deal of the joy in handling it. You like clean clothes, don’t you? So does God desire a clean outer manifestation as He manifests to you in money.
These are little things, but they mean much. Learn how to fold money. Be a good displayer. Justice and discrimination in money matters will increase all that you have, many times. Remember the man with the dime.
Let go of money when you want anything in reason. Always remember that the money in your hand is for the present desire, and more will be brought forth for the next desire as soon as you learn to let go.
Do not let the greed of money become a part of you. It stops your growth. Even though you give and give and give, if you still hold on with greed to that which you have given out, this will stop the increase. There is no increase where a personal law is working. God is impersonal.
One may have unlimited wealth and possessions, and think so little of them because they are only a part of his inheritance. This is being impersonal in his inheritance. If you find fault with having to spend or let go of money, you will find there is a separation from money for you, and in a way you have not expected.
You must be careful not to tempt the God within yourself with wealth and money; not to try to fool the Christ that you are doing this for some higher good. There is one you can never fool . . God . . Divine mind.
The power to control wealth is only gained through loving the one who has the wealth. This is loving your neighbor as yourself. In other words, it is loving another part of God-in-manifestation. God is all, and you are all, inasmuch as we let God be all!
Discrimination is a mighty weapon, in that it helps you to keep silence on the man-made subjects. One who discriminates does not use useless words or discuss his problem. Many wonderful demonstrations are killed at the birth by the student talking of what he is doing, of what he is going to do, of how and when and where he is going to do it! If you know God’s law, you do not need to deal with How and When and Where.
You are the vehicle that God operates through, and are only for that purpose. God is at the helm. It is in His hand your demonstration lies, even if His hand is your hand in the outer. You are the vase holding the flowers.
“No man knoweth except the Father.” This is true. You are to do, and then stand still and receive the fulfilled word, letting go of the tomorrows and using today in its course toward your plan. You know you will receive in the increase.
The increase does not depend on what you plant, but on how you plant it. The penny will increase faster than the dollar if planted in Love, for it opens new channels that flow wherever Love is.
The End