It is your right to be rich. You are here to lead the abundant life and be
happy, radiant and free. You should, therefore, have all the money you
need to lead a full, happy and prosperous life.
You are here to grow, expand and unfold spiritually, mentally and materially. You have the inalienable right to fully develop and express yourself
along all lines. You should surround yourself with beauty and luxury.
Why be satisfied with just enough to go around when you can enjoy the
riches of your subconscious mind? In this chapter you can learn to make
friends with money, and you should always have a surplus. Your desire to
be rich is a desire for a fuller, happier, more wonderful life. It is a cosmic
urge. It is not only good, but very good.
Money is a symbol of exchange. It means to you not only freedom from
want, but beauty, luxury, abundance and refinement. It is merely a symbol of the economic health of the nation. When your blood is circulating
freely in your body, you are healthy. When money is circulating freely in
your life, you are economically healthy. When people begin to hoard money, to put it away in tin boxes and become charge with fear, there is economic illness. Money has taken many forms as a medium of exchange
down through the centuries, such as salt, beads and trinkets of various
kinds. In early times a man’s wealth was determined by the number of
sheep and oxen he had. Now we use currency, and other negotiable instruments, as it is much more convenient to write a check then carry
some sheep around with you to pay bills.
Knowledge of the powers of your subconscious mind is the means to the
royal road to riches of all kinds; spiritual, mental or financial. The student
of the laws of mind believes and knows definitely that regardless of economic situations, stock market fluctuation, depression, strikes, war or
other conditions and circumstances, he will always be amply supplied, regardless of what form money takes. The reason for this is that he has
conveyed the idea of wealth to his subconscious mind, and it keeps him
supplied wherever he may be. He has convinced himself in his mind that
money is forever flowing freely in his life and that there is always a wonderful surplus. Should there be a financial collapse of government tomorrow and all the man’s present holdings become valueless, as the German
marks did after the First World War, he would still attract wealth and be
cared for, regardless of the form the new currency took.
As you read this chapter, you are probably saying, “I am worthy of a higher salary than I am receiving.” I believe most people are inadequately
compensated. One of the causes many people do not have more money is
that they are silently or openly condemning it. They refer to money as
“filthy lucre’ or “the love of money is the root of all evil.” Another reason
they do not prosper is that they have a sneaky subconscious feeling there
is some virtue in poverty. This subconscious pattern may be due to early
childhood training, superstition or it could be based on a false interpretation of scriptures.
One time a man said to me, “I am broke. I do not like money. It is the
root of all evil.” These statements represent a confused, neurotic mind.
Love of money to the exclusion of everything else will cause you to become lopsided and unbalanced. You are here to use your power or authority wisely. Some men crave power, others crave money. If you set your
heart on money exclusively and say, “Money is all I want; I am going to
give all my attention to amassing money; nothing else matters,” you can
get money and attain a fortune, but you have forgotten that you are here
to lead a balanced life. You must also satisfy the hunger for peace of
mind, harmony, love, joy an perfect health.
By making money your sole aim, you simply made a wrong choice. You
thought that was all you wanted, but you found after all your efforts that
it was not only the money you needed. You also desired true expression
of your hidden talents, true place in life, beauty and the joy of contributing to the welfare and success of others. By learning the laws of your subconscious mind, you could have a million dollars or many millions, if you
wanted them, and still have peace of mind, harmony, perfect health and
perfect expression.
There is no virtue in poverty; it is a disease like any other mental disease.
If you were physically ill, you would think there was something wrong
with you. You would seek help and do something about the condition at
once. Likewise, if you do not have money constantly circulating in your
life, there is something radically wrong with you.
The urge of life principle in you is toward growth, expansion and the life
more abundant. You are not here to live in a hovel, dress in rags and go
hungry. You should be happy, prosperous and successful.
Cleanse your mind of all weird and superstitious beliefs about money. Do
not ever regards money as evil or filthy. If you do, you cause it to take
wings and fly away from you. Remember that you lose what you condemn. You cannot attract what you criticize.
Here is a simple technique you may use to multiply money in your experience. Use the following statements several times a day, “I like money, I
love it, I use it wisely, constructively and judiciously. Money is constantly
circulating in my life. I release it with joy and it returns to me multiplied
in a wonderful way. It is good and very good. Money flows to me in
avalanches of abundance. I use it for good only and I am grateful for my
good and for the riches of my mind.”
Suppose, for example, you found gold, silver, lead, copper or iron in the
ground. Would you pronounce these things evil? All evil comes from man’s
darkened understanding, from his ignorance, from his false interpretation
of life and from his misuse of his subconscious mind. Uranium, lead or
some other metal could have been used as a medium of exchange. We
use paper bills, checks, nickel and silver; surely these things are not evil.
Physicists and chemists know today that the only difference between one
metal and another is the number and rate of motion of electrons revolving
around a central nucleus. They can now change one metal into another
through a bombardment of the atoms in the powerful cyclotron. Gold, under under conditions, becomes mercury. I believe that our modern scientists in the near future will be able to make gold, silver and other metals
synthetically in the chemical laboratory. The cost may be prohibitive now,
but it can be done. I cannot imagine any intelligent person seeing anything evil in electrons, neutrons, protons and isotopes.
The piece of paper in your pocket is composed of atoms and molecules
with their electrons and protons arranged differently. Their number and
rate of motion are different. That is the only way the paper differs from
the silver in your pocket.
Many years ago I met a young boy in Australia who wanted to become a
physician and surgeon, but he had no money. I explained to him how a
seed deposited in the soil attracts to itself everything necessary for its unfolding, and that all he had to do was to take a lesson from the seed and
deposit the required idea in his subconscious mind. For expenses, this
young, brilliant boy used to clean out doctors’ offices, wash windows and
do odd repair jobs. He told me that every night, as he went to sleep, he
used to picture in his mind’s eye a medical diploma on a wall with his
name on it in big, bold letters. He used to clean and shine the framed
diplomas in the medical building where he worked. It was not hard for
him to engrave the image of a diploma in his mind and develop it there.
Definite results followed as he persisted with his mental picture every
night for about four months. The sequel of this story was very interesting. One of the doctors took a
great liking to this young boy and after training him in the art of sterilizing
instruments, giving hypodermic injections and other miscellaneous first
aid work, he employed him as a technical assistant in his office. The doctor later sent him to medical school at his own expense. Today, this young
man is a prominent medical doctor in Montreal, Canada. He discovered
the law of attraction by using his subconscious mind the right way. He operated an age old law which says, “Having seen the end, you have willed
the means to the realization of the end.” The end in this case was to become a medical doctor.
This young man was able to imagine, see and feel the reality of being a
doctor. He lived with that idea, sustained it, nourished it and loved it until
through his imagination it penetrated the layers of his subconscious mind
and became a conviction, thereby attracting to him everything necessary
for the fulfillment of his dream.
If you are working in a large organization and you are silently thinking of
and resenting the fact you are underpaid, that you are not appreciated
and that you deserve more money and great recognition, you are subconsciously severing your ties with that organization. You are setting a law in
motion and the superintendent or manager will say to you, “We have to
let you go.” Actually, you dismissed yourself. The manager was simply the
instrument through which your own negative mental state was confirmed.
It was an example of the law of action and reaction. The action was your
thought and the reaction as the response of your subconscious mind.
I am sure you have heard men say, “That fellow has a racket.” “He is a
racketeer.” “He is getting money dishonestly.” “He is a faker.” “I knew him
when he had nothing.” “He is a crook, a thief and a swindler.”
If you analyze the man who talks like that, you discover he is usually in
want or suffering from some financial or physical illness. Perhaps his former college friends went up the ladder of success and excelled him. Now
he is bitter and envious of their progress. In many instances this is the
cause of his downfall. Thinking negatively of these classmates and condemning their wealth causes the wealth and prosperity he is praying for
to vanish and flee away. He is condemning the thing he is praying for.
He is praying two ways. On the one hand he is saying, “Wealth is flowing
to me now,” and in the next breath, silently or audibly, he is saying, “I resent that fellow’s wealth.” Always make it a special point to rejoice in the
wealth of the other person.
If you are seeking wisdom regarding investments, or if you are worried
about your stocks or bonds, quietly claims, “Infinite Intelligence governs
and watches over all my financial transactions, and whatsoever I do shall
prosper.” Do this frequently and you will find that your investments will be
wise; moreover, you will be protected from loss, as you will be prompted
to sell your securities or holdings before any loss accrues to you.