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<\/a>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n Foreword<\/strong><\/p>\n How This Book Can Bring Riches to You<\/p>\n One \u2014 The Secret of Miracle Power for Infinite Riches<\/strong><\/p>\n The Greatest Secret in All the World<\/p>\n Your Right to Be Rich<\/p>\n How He Discovered the Riches of His Mind<\/p>\n Tapping the Riches of His Subconscious<\/p>\n How His Subconscious Responded<\/p>\n The Riches of the Listening Ear and Understanding Heart<\/p>\n The Secret of Promotion and Riches Was Within Him<\/p>\n How a Salesman Hit the Jackpot<\/p>\n Meditation for Realizing the Abundant Life<\/p>\n Chapter Points to Remember<\/p>\n Two \u2014 How to Tap the Miracle Power That Makes You Rich at Once<\/strong><\/p>\n How He Discovered the Riches Within<\/p>\n She Discovered the Riches of Her Creative Thought<\/p>\n How Her Creative Thought Healed<\/p>\n Sympathy and Compassion<\/p>\n Giving the Riches of the Infinite to the Sick Person<\/p>\n You Are the Master of Your Thoughts \u2014 Not the Servant<\/p>\n Her Thought Was the Magnet<\/p>\n He Quiets His Mind and Gets Things Done<\/p>\n How He Became a Good Executive<\/p>\n How to Tap the Miracle Power That Makes You Rich at Once<\/p>\n How He Discovered the Riches of His Mind<\/p>\n The Riches of Letting Go and Letting God Help<\/p>\n The Future Can Be Wonderful for You<\/p>\n She Discovered the Riches of Scientific Prayer<\/p>\n How to Think Richly<\/p>\n Meditation to Have the Power of Faith<\/p>\n Chapter Points to Remember<\/p>\n Three \u2014 How the Rich Get Richer \u2014 and How You Will Join Them<\/strong><\/p>\n She Discovered Her Thought-Image Was Wealth<\/p>\n How He Invoked the Law of Increase<\/p>\n How to Follow Your State of Mind<\/p>\n Begin to Practice the Law of Increase<\/p>\n How to Use the Law of Increase in Business or Professions<\/p>\n Why the Rich Man Received the Home Foreclosed on the Poor Man<\/p>\n The Rewards of Being Acquainted with the Law of Opulence<\/p>\n Listen to the Truth and You Will Never Be in Want<\/p>\n How to Tap the Endless Source of Supply<\/p>\n Daily Meditation for the Rich Life<\/p>\n Chapter Points to Remember<\/p>\n Four \u2014 How to Claim Your Right to Infinite Riches Now<\/strong><\/p>\n Her Father Came to the Rescue<\/p>\n The Prayer That Changed Her Life<\/p>\n The Riches of Faith in a Higher Power<\/p>\n The Real Reason for His Cure<\/p>\n The Riches of True Faith Versus Blind Faith<\/p>\n Why He Did Not Experience the Healing Riches of the Infinite<\/p>\n He Had a Temporary Emotional Healing<\/p>\n On the Road to Recovery<\/p>\n The Prayer That Is Helping My Arthritic Friend<\/p>\n How the Riches of Belief Pay Dividends in All Phases of Life<\/p>\n The Instant Riches of Mental Insight and Understanding<\/p>\n How His Mental and Emotional Disturbance Was Released<\/p>\n The Riches of Forgiveness<\/p>\n The Cause of Her Itching and Persistent Skin Rash<\/p>\n Self-Forgiveness Brings Peace and Release<\/p>\n The Riches of Wisdom and Understanding<\/p>\n A Meditation for an Effective Prosperity Prayer<\/p>\n Chapter Points to Remember<\/p>\n Five \u2014 How Dialing Miracle Thought-Forms Will Increase Your Wealth<\/strong><\/p>\n Make Friends with Money and You Will Always Have Money Why She Did Not Have More Money<\/p>\n She Adopted New Ideas Toward Money and Prospered Accordingly He Worked Hard But Lacked Money<\/p>\n The Master Key and Program to Disciplining Your Mind for Money<\/p>\n A Salesman Moves Up from $5,000 to $25,000 in One Year The Results<\/p>\n Meditation for a Rich Harvest of Financial Wealth<\/p>\n Chapter Points to Remember<\/p>\n Six \u2014 How to Say the Exact Words That Will Bring You Money<\/strong><\/p>\n How She Enriched Herself Through Effective Prayer How Her Prayer for Her Students Worked Wonders How Effective Prayer Enabled Him to Make a Comelback How It All Worked Out<\/p>\n Let the Riches of the Infinite Flow Through You The Sure Riches of “Watch and Pray”<\/p>\n She Became a Tremendous Success Through Effective Prayer Realize the Rich Blessings of the Infinite The Riches of Effective Prayer Therapy How Do You Feel After Prayer?<\/p>\n How Often Should You Pray?<\/p>\n He Restoreth My Soul (Psalm 23:3)<\/p>\n Meditation for a Wonderful Future<\/p>\n Chapter Points to Remember<\/p>\n Seven \u2014 How to Activate the Psychic Money-Machine<\/strong><\/p>\n How Prosperity Thoughts Changed His Life An Effective Prosperity Prayer<\/p>\n His Changed Thinking Suddenly Changed Him into a Prosperous Person<\/p>\n How She Wrote Her Desires in Her Prayerful Heart and Received Astounding Results<\/p>\n Her Most Cherished Desires<\/p>\n How Riches of Daily Healthy Thinking Brought Great Benefits<\/p>\n How a Housewife Planned for Prosperity and Happiness and Got Results<\/p>\n There Are Beauty and Abundance Where You Are<\/p>\n The Riches of His Secret Plan for Making a Profitable Business Deal<\/p>\n How to Consider the Riches of the Infinite<\/p>\n The Wonders of Prosperous and Healthy Writing Out of Your Desires<\/p>\n How Desires Written Out Have Come to be Fulfilled The Real Secret of It All<\/p>\n Meditation for Impregnating Your Subconscious Mind<\/p>\n Chapter Points to Remember<\/p>\n Eight – How Her Treasure Map Brought Her Riches and Companionship<\/strong><\/p>\n His Imagination Brought About a Legal Settlement<\/p>\n How a Mexican Guide Uses His Imagination and Makes Extra Money<\/p>\n He Was Simply Tapping the Riches Already in His Subconscious<\/p>\n The Law of Constructive Imagining Overcame Her Discouragement<\/p>\n How an Actress’ Imagination Overcame Her Sense of Frustrating Competition<\/p>\n The Rewards of Picturing Success and Riches<\/p>\n The Marvelous Power of a Master Image<\/p>\n Meditation for Effective Imagination, the Workshop of God for All Good<\/p>\n Chapter Points to Remember<\/p>\n Nine \u2014 How the Law of Infinite Increase Multiplies Your Wealth<\/strong><\/p>\n How He Used the Law of Increase for Great Wealth<\/p>\n How a Professor Used the Law of Increase to His Personal Benefit<\/p>\n How He Made a Dollar Increase in Important Wealth for Himself<\/p>\n Perpetual Opportunity for Increase Exists for You<\/p>\n How His Mental Picture Brought Advancement to Him<\/p>\n Why the Law of Increase Did Not Work for Him<\/p>\n How He Reversed His Faulty Thinking<\/p>\n The Significance of the Statement “My Cup Runneth Over” in the 23rd Psalm Meditation for Your Business or Professional Success<\/p>\n Chapter Points to Remember<\/p>\n Ten \u2014 How to Open the Gateway to Automatic Riches and Walk into a Life of Luxury<\/strong><\/p>\n How She Opened the Gateway to Riches for Herself How She Demonstrated Money How He Found the Gateway to True Expression How a Trip to Japan Became a Reality<\/p>\n A Physicist Says Substance Is the Gateway to All the Money You Need How to Help Others to the Gateway of Riches, True Place and Honor His Attitude Closed the Gateway to His Riches Meditation for Opening the Gateway to Right Action<\/p>\n Chapter Points to Remember<\/p>\n Eleven – The Power of Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n How His Power to Choose Transformed His Life<\/p>\n The Riches of the Right Choice for Everyone<\/p>\n Decide to Choose the Riches of the Divinity Within You<\/p>\n What Happens on Failing to Choose?<\/p>\n The Infinite Power Backs Up Your Choices<\/p>\n Her Courage to Choose Transformed and Enriched Her Life<\/p>\n Meditation for Building Your Account at Your Prosperity Bank<\/p>\n Chapter Points to Remember<\/p>\n Twelve \u2014 How to Hear the Gentle, Invisible Voices That Can Guide You to Wealth<\/strong><\/p>\n She Was Glad She Listened to That Inner Voice How to Follow and Recognize the Voice of Intuition How Cultivation of the Intuitive Faculty Brings Riches to You The Infinite Riches of Intuition Saved His Life \u2014<\/p>\n Intuition and What It Means<\/p>\n She Had a Persistent Feeling That She Should Not Accept the Position<\/p>\n The Riches of Clairaudience<\/p>\n How the Voice of Intuition Proved to Be a Life-Saver<\/p>\n A Banker Discovers the Riches of Intuition<\/p>\n A Most Extraordinary Experience<\/p>\n A Remarkable Encounter in London, England<\/p>\n Meditation for the Riches of the Silence<\/p>\n Chapter Points to Remember<\/p>\n Thirteen \u2014 How Your Money Dreams Can Make You Rich \u2014 The Secret of Psychic Osmosis<\/strong><\/p>\n How a Teacher Instills the Riches of Self-Confidence in His Boys The True Meaning of Self-Confidence<\/p>\n How He Developed Self-Confidence and Became Rich and Successful Allow Yourself Success and the Riches of the Infinite The Riches of a Practical and Working Faith A Widow Discovers the Riches of Self-Confidence A Salesman Discovers the Riches of Self-Confidence<\/p>\n Meditation for the Riches of Faith Chapter Points to Remember<\/p>\n Fourteen \u2014 How to Use the Amazing Law That Reveals All Money Secrets<\/strong><\/p>\n How an Actor Proved the Riches of Love He Practiced the Following Victory Formula The Riches of Love Saved His Life He Discovered the Riches of the Law of Love The Riches of Love Never Fail The Infinite Riches of Love’s Healing Balm<\/p>\n The Riches in Loving Your Wife, Husband and Children in the Right Way<\/p>\n She Found the Healing Power of Love<\/p>\n The Riches of Love Bring Justice in a Lawsuit<\/p>\n The Riches of the Protecting Power of Love<\/p>\n Love Unites and Love Heals<\/p>\n Meditation: Love and Goodwill Prosper Me<\/p>\n Chapter Points to Remember<\/p>\n Fifteen \u2014 How to Charge Yourself with Money-Magnetism<\/strong><\/p>\n How a Businessman Overcame Tension and Anxiety Over His Debts How to Banish Anxiety Over Debts<\/p>\n Learn to Relax and Let Go and Experience Riches All Around You<\/p>\n How a Secretary Overcame Anxiety and Tension in the Office<\/p>\n How a Student Overcame His Anxiety That He Would Fail His Examinations<\/p>\n How an Executive Overcame Anxiety Over His Busilness Situation<\/p>\n Meditation for Being in the Presence of Infinite Riches<\/p>\n Chapter Points to Remember<\/p>\n Sixteen \u2014 How to Automatically Reap an Abundant Harvest of Golden Blessings<\/strong><\/p>\n How to Build Self-Confidence How Self-Confidence Brought a Young Man Riches His Self-Confidence Dissolved His Lack of Funds Building Self-Confidence Prior to going to Sleep<\/p>\n The Riches of a New Estimate of Yourself<\/p>\n She Found the Riches of Self-Confidence Dissolved Her Inferiority Complex Benefits of Practicing the Riches of Praise<\/p>\n A Wife Discovers the Riches of Calling Forth Confidence in Her Husband Meditation for Building Self Confidence Chapter Points to Remember<\/p>\n Seventeen \u2014 How to Call Upon the Healing Presence to Bring the Riches You Want<\/strong><\/p>\n How a Mother Applied the Riches of the Healing Presence<\/p>\n How to Apply the Healing Power of Freedom<\/p>\n How a Businessman Discovered the Riches of Surlrender<\/p>\n How a Nurse Received a Quarter of a Million Dollars<\/p>\n Through the Riches of the Healing Presence<\/p>\n How a Junior Executive Built His Promotions<\/p>\n How the Riches of the Healing Presence Worked for All in an Office<\/p>\n How Parents Found the Riches of Releasing Their Daughter to a New Normal Life<\/p>\n Meditation for Applying the Healing Principle<\/p>\n Chapter Points to Remember<\/p>\n Eighteen \u2014 How to Use Mind-Magic to Make Riches Flow<\/strong><\/p>\n How This Rich Man Used These Truths A Businessman Discovers the Riches of the Silence How to “Get the Answers”<\/p>\n How a Woman Received a Marvelous Answer in the Quiet Period Concerning Her Possible Marriage<\/p>\n How a Quiet Mind Dissolved Destructive Criticism<\/p>\n The Riches of the Quiet Mind Induce Sleep for a Chronic Insomnia Sufferer<\/p>\n How a Tense and Anxious Executive Discovered the Riches of Healing Passages of the Bible<\/p>\n A Salesman Discovers the Secret of Increased Sales in Riches of a Quiet Mind<\/p>\n How the Riches of Quiet Understanding Healed a Threatened Mental Crack-up<\/p>\n The Simple Remedy<\/p>\n A College Student Discovers the Riches of the Quiet Mind Meditation for the Riches of the Quiet Mind Chapter Points to Remember<\/p>\n Nineteen – How a Woman Discovered $45,000 She Thought Lost<\/strong><\/p>\n Hidden Riches Revealed by Meditation<\/p>\n Accept Wealth and Happiness Now<\/p>\n Claim Your Spiritual, Mental and Material Riches Now<\/p>\n Plan for a Rich Future Now<\/p>\n Beware of the Two Thieves Stealing from You<\/p>\n The Maid Thinks Big and Gets What She Wants<\/p>\n How a Promotion and a Wonderful Increase in Salary Were Obtained<\/p>\n How a Widow Discovered the Riches Hidden in Her Mind<\/p>\n How He Secured Riches and Promotion<\/p>\n Meditation for Miracle Power Steps to Richer Living and Financial Success Chapter Points to Remember<\/p>\n Twenty \u2014 The Lifetime Plan for Infinite Riches<\/strong><\/p>\n The Quiet Mind<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Foreword<\/strong><\/p>\n How This Book Can Bring Riches to You<\/strong><\/p>\n Have you ever asked yourself these questions?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This book answers all the foregoing questions and is intensely practical and down-to-earth. It is intended for men and women who wish to experience the riches which are all around them You are here to lead a full and happy life and have all the money you need to do whatever you want to do and when you want to do it. Money should be circulating freely in your life and there should always be a surplus of it for you.<\/p>\n You can get immediate results by using the laws of your mind in the right way. There are simple, practical techniques and easy-to-do programs in every chapter of this book, enabling you to put into practice at once the art of living life gloriously, richly and abundantly. You will find detailed instructions as to how to become rich. You will find many examples of men and women in this book who were penniless, and down and out, and yet who learned to tap the treasure house of their subconscious mind and found their true place in life, thereby attracting all the riches they needed to lead a full, happy and prosperous life.<\/p>\n In writing the many chapters of this book, I had in mind the salesman, the busboy, the housewife, the stenographer, the businessman, the clerk behind the counter, the professional man, the student, the intern in the hospital and all those who need money and want money to fulfill their dreams, aspirations and ambitions in life. Therefore, you will find each chapter pregnant with numerous, simple and intensely practical techniques, the what-to-do, and how-to-do it, for impregnating your subconscious mind, knowing that whenever you impress the idea of wealth the right way in your subconscious, you will experience riches waiting for you on the screen of cosmic space. It is that simple to become wealthy!<\/p>\n All of the many case histories outlined in this book are of men and women in this country and also in other lands across the sea (as my books are published in many foreign languages) who became immensely wealthy and successful by using the mental and spiritual laws described in detail. I might add, these men and women “belonged” to religions of all known kinds, and some were definitely atheists and agnostics who had no religious affiliations of any kind! Yet, by applying the impersonal powerful forces outlined in this book, they prospered in a magnificent way and became transformed men and women, and enjoyed their wealth for true richer living.<\/p>\n As far as I know, these people, in their writings and personal conversations, came from every income bracket, including many who were bankrupt and penniless and from every social level. All of these men and women have amassed wealth and have achieved their desired goals in life by using the powers of their subconscious mind in the right way. They are always destined thereby to go forth conquering every obstacle to acquiring unlimited wealth.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Unique Features of This Book<\/strong><\/p>\n You will be amazed at this book’s down-to-earth practicality. You are presented with simple, usable formulas and techniques which anyone can apply in the workaday world. The special features of this book will enlighten, appeal and reveal to you the reason why oftentimes many people get the opposite of what they prayed for. This book will also point out to you clearly the reasons why.<\/p>\n The age-old cry which you yourself have often heard is, “Why is it I prayed and prayed and yet I receive no answer?” In this book you will find the simple answer to this common complaint. The many simple programs, formulas and techniques for impregnating your subconscious mind and getting the right answers make this an extraordinarily valuable book in extracting from the treasure house of eternity within you all the riches you need \u2014 spiritual, mental, material and financial \u2014 enabling you to lead a full, happy, rich and joyous life. God gave you richly all things to enjoy (I Timothy 6:17).<\/p>\n The following are just some of the many highlights of this book:<\/strong><\/p>\n There is a simple, practical, logical and scientific way that always works for you to have all the good things of life, plus all the money you need for yourself and your family. I want to say positively, definitely, unquestionably and decisively that by using the instructions in this book, you will reap the fruits of a rich, happy and successful life that you want for yourself.<\/p>\n Let this book guide you. Go over it again and again, do exactly as it says, and you will open the door to fabulous riches waiting for you, plus a nobler, finer and satisfying life. From this page onward, let us go forward in the light of true workable knowledge till the day you have been expecting breaks, and all the shadows of fear, failures you may have been experiencing, flee away suddenly. Then miracle of miracles, you are the wealthy person you have always wanted to be.<\/p>\n Joseph Murphy<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chapter One<\/strong><\/p>\n The Secret of Miracle Power for Infinite Riches<\/strong><\/p>\n It is your God-given birthright to be rich, which means you are here to express the fullness of life along all lines for glorious living. You exist on earth to lead a happy, joyous and glorious life; in other words, the life more abundant. Infinite riches are omnipresent, and you should begin to realize that the treasure house of infinity is within your own subconscious depths. Begin now to extract from that marvelous gold mine within you everything you need \u2014 money, friends, a lovely home, beauty, companionship and all the blessings of life. Whatever you want, you can bring forth when you apply the proper technique, i.e., when you apply the “know-how” of accomplishment.<\/p>\n Dave Howe, an old friend of mine, told me about two geologists who had graduated from the same college and who had been brought up in the same town. One knew about the mind’s treasure house within him; the other did not, but he depended on externals such as physical appearances, conditions and general topography of the soil. This man spent three weeks in a certain area in Utah with all the modern equipment of his profession and found nothing. The other man with the right mental equipment followed up in the same area and found in the first hour a vein of uranium and a vein of silver.<\/p>\n Where was the wealth, the riches? I believe you will conclude that the real riches were within the mind of the second geologist who believed in a guiding principle within his subconscious which would lead him straight to the hidden wealth.<\/p>\n The Greatest Secret in All the World<\/strong><\/p>\n One man recently said to me that the greatest secret being unfolded today was in the genetic field, and that now as a consequence modern science could alter man’s basic genes so that we could create as many Einstein\u2019s, Beethoven\u2019s, Edison\u2019s, etc., as we would like. He failed to see that the Living Spirit (God) is within man, which can’t be changed; it is the same yesterday, today and forever. Man is more than his body, his hereditary characteristics, his family tree and the color of his skin, eyes and shape of his body.<\/p>\n Man is transformed only one way, and that is by the transformation of his mind. Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind (Romans 12:2).<\/p>\n Others say that interplanetary travel and nuclear fission represent the greatest secrets of our times. The greatest secret is that the Kingdom of God is within man, which means that infinite intelligence, boundless wisdom, infinite power, infinite love and the answer to every problem under the sun are locked in his own subconscious mind.<\/p>\n Man is looking for the greatest secret in the world everywhere but within himself. Begin now to tap these tremendous powers within you, and you will begin to lead a full and happy life based on … God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy (I Timothy 6:17). I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly (John 10:10).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your Right to Be Rich<\/strong><\/p>\n It is normal and natural for you to desire prosperity, success, achievement and recognition in your life. You should have all the money you need to do what you want to do, and when you want to do it. There is no virtue in poverty because poverty is a mental disease, and it should be abolished from the face of the earth. Wealth is a state of mind; likewise, poverty is a state of mind. We will never eradicate all the slums in the world until we first wipe out the slums and belief in poverty and lack in the mind of man.<\/p>\n During private counseling and when talking to people in foreign lands as well as during interviews with people following lectures, both here and abroad, I hear the constant old refrain: “There is nothing that $25,000 or $50,000 would not cure in my life.” This refers, of course, to those who suffer from pecuniary embarrassment and who are financially handicapped. They fail to realize that wealth is really a thought-image in the mind, and that if they follow the simple techniques as outlined in this book, in using their subconscious mind, wealth will flow to them in avalanches of abundance.<\/p>\n It is your right and that of your family to have excellent food, good clothes, an ideal home and all the money you need to buy the good things of life. You need a period every day for meditation, prayer, relaxation and recreation, and the time and facilities necessary should be available to you. To prosper means that you begin to advance mentally, spiritually, intellectually, socially, financially and along all lines.<\/p>\n How He Discovered the Riches of His Mind<\/strong><\/p>\n Recently I talked with a man who said that he had had a streak of bad luck and misfortune. He owned a home, but it was mortgaged to the hilt. He didn’t have enough money to buy the basic necessities of life for his family. Also, he could not meet the mortgage payment or the grocery bills.<\/p>\n His medical expenses were being paid by his brother, and, in his own words, his life was a mess.<\/p>\n Tapping the Riches of His Subconscious<\/strong><\/p>\n I explained to this man how the infinite intelligence within his subconscious could reveal to him everything he needed to know at all times; that he could receive inspiration, guidance, new, creative ideas and a solution to financial problems. I added that if he used his subconscious correctly, it also would provide all the money he needed, and that he could experience financial freedom beyond his fondest dreams.<\/p>\n Accordingly, I gave him two abstract ideas: wealth and success. He agreed that wealth is everywhere and that he was born to succeed and to win in the game of life, as the infinite power within him cannot fail. At my suggestion, he relaxed, became quiet at night and repeated slowly, feelingly and with deep understanding: “Wealth, success; wealth, success,” taking these ideas into the deep of sleep. He understood that whatever he impressed on his subconscious would be magnified and multiplied on the screen of space.<\/p>\n The secret is that his last waking concept prior to sleep is etched on his subconscious mind. Each night as he repeated these two words, “wealth, success,” he was activating and releasing the latent powers of his subconscious and, the law of his subconscious being compulsive, he was compelled to express riches and success.<\/p>\n How His Subconscious Responded<\/strong><\/p>\n This man, recognizing that the source of his supply was his own subconscious mind, proved that when used in the right way, it never fails, and in unforeseen ways meets his needs regardless of circumstances. He was offered $25,000 cash for a lot which he had had for ten years, and for which he was in arrears for monthly payments, and which he had been unable to sell for over a year. His lot was needed for a new building, which the purchasers wished to construct at once. He discovered that infinite riches are all around him, as well as within him<\/p>\n The thought in his mind was the connecting link which united him with the treasure house of infinity. Infinite intelligence within your subconscious can only do for you what it can do through you. Your thought and feeling control your destiny. I can assure you that this man, as he follows the technique I gave him, will never be wanting all the days of his life.<\/p>\n The Riches of the Listening Ear and Understanding Heart<\/strong><\/p>\n Recently I had a wonderful letter from a widow who listens every morning to my radio program The following is the essence of the letter. She pointed out that her husband had died a year previously and had left no insurance. She had three children to support, the house was mortgaged, and she had only $500 in the bank. Friends paid the funeral expenses for her deceased husband. She wrote: “I heard you quote from the Bible: But my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory (Philippians 4:19), and you elaborated on this by telling us that if we tune in on the Infinite within us and believe in our hearts that no matter what it is we really need to bless us, comfort us, provide for us or inspire us, the Divine Presence would respond, as it is written: Before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear (Isaiah 65:24).<\/p>\n “I sat down and began to think of God supplying all my needs and hearing me as I was praying, and a great sense of peace and harmony came over me. About two hours later, in walked my brother-in-law, who said to me that he knew of my predicament and that he also was aware of the spending habits and profligacy of his brother.”<\/p>\n He told her he wanted to take care of her and the three small children, assuring her that neither she nor they would ever want for the good things of life. He gave her a $ 10,000 cashier’s check and set up an arrangement with his attorney and accountant to see to it that a weekly sum of money was sent to his sister-in-law for the rest of her life. This was in the form of a trust fund, legally instituted, which took care of the children also.<\/p>\n This widow, recognizing that God supplies all her needs, and that even before she asks, the answer is within her, proved to herself the existence of the inexhaustible reservoir within her.<\/p>\n The Secret of Promotion and Riches Was Within Him<\/strong><\/p>\n A young attorney who had lost a few cases was despondent, gloomy and full of self-criticism and self-condemnation. He found himself with a lot of financial reverses and was deeply in debt. I explained to him that his thoughts are definitely creative and that conditions, circumstances, events and experiences accurately reflect his habitual thinking and imagery. I pointed out that if his thoughts produced lack and limitation, likewise, thoughts of peace, success, prosperity, right action and abundance, sustained regularly and systematically, would reproduce themselves after their kind, in the same manner as men do not reap grapes from thorns or figs from thistles. For the law is that man is what he thinks all day long.<\/p>\n Moreover, it is true that one spiritual thought is more powerful than 10,000 negative thoughts, and that thoughts you originate feelingly and knowingly will create for you whatever you wish to experience from this day forward.<\/p>\n I laid out a program for him to follow and asked him to remind himself frequently of the riches of the infinite within his subconscious mind. Accordingly, I gave him the following prayer technique. He affirmed slowly, quietly and feelingly as follows, three to four times a day:<\/p>\n “Today is God’s day. I choose harmony, success, prosperity, abundance, security and Divine right action. Infinite intelligence reveals to me better ways to give greater service.<\/p>\n I am a mental and spiritual magnet, irresistibly attracting to me men and women who are blessed, comforted and satisfied with my counsel and decisions on their behalf. I am Divinely guided all day long, and whatever I do will prosper. Divine justice and Divine law and order govern all my undertakings, and whatever I begin will result in success. I know the law of my mind, and I am fully aware that all these truths I am reiterating are now sinking into my subconscious mind, and they will come forth after their kind. It is wonderful.”<\/p>\n He made it a special point never to deny what he affirmed, and when thoughts of lack, fear or self-criticism came to him, he would immediately reverse the thought by affirming: The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want (Psalm 23:1).<\/p>\n A few years have passed by, and today this young man has gone up the ladder of success. He is now a prominent judge. When your thoughts are God’s thoughts, God’s power is with your thoughts of good.<\/p>\n How a Salesman Hit the Jackpot<\/strong><\/p>\n A real estate salesman who attends my lectures on Sunday mornings and listens to my radio program, said to me that his sales were falling off badly and that he had incurred a lot of financial obligations and found himself deeply in debt. He added that he had not made a sale of property or a home in eight months.<\/p>\n In talking to him, I discovered that he was envious, jealous and highly critical of the sales techniques and processes of other salesmen who were making almost daily sales. I pointed out to him that jealousy and envy generated by himself would tend to impoverish him and attract all sorts of lack, limitation and misery to him. He was made to see that his thought is definitely creative and that what he thinks and wishes for the other, he will create in his own experience, for the simple reason that he is the only thinker in his universe and is definitely responsible for the way he thinks about others as well as about himself.<\/p>\n He then reversed his attitude of mind and began to wish sincerely for all his associates success, achievement, wealth and all the blessings of life. His constant prayer is: “I am a child of the Infinite, and His riches flow to me freely, joyously and endlessly. I am enriched in all ways with happiness, peace, wealth, success and outstanding sales. I am now stirring up the riches of my deeper mind and rich results follow. I know I shall reap what I sow, for it is written: Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and the light shall shine upon thy ways (Job 22:28).”<\/p>\n Today he is a sales manager and is able and capable of instructing others how to sell wisely, judiciously and constructively. The Book of Proverbs says: Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction (Proverbs 13:18).<\/p>\n MEDITATION FOR REALIZING THE ABUNDANT LIFE<\/strong><\/p>\n Repeat the following meditation to help solve your problems for abundant living:<\/p>\n “I know that to prosper means to grow spiritually along all lines. God is prospering me now in mind, body and affairs. God’s ideas constantly unfold within me bringing to me health, wealth and perfect Divine expression.<\/p>\n “I thrill inwardly as I feel the Life of God vitalizing every atom of my being. I know that God’s Life is animating, sustaining and strengthening me now. I am now expressing a perfect, radiant body full of vitality, energy and power.<\/p>\n “My business or profession is a Divine activity, and since it is God’s business, it is successful and prosperous. I imagine and feel an inner wholeness functioning through my body, mind and affairs. I give thanks and rejoice in the abundant life.”<\/p>\n CHAPTER POINTS TO REMEMBER<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chapter Two<\/strong><\/p>\n How to Tap the Miracle Power That Makes You Rich at Once<\/strong><\/p>\n The Bible says: If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth (Mark 9:23).<\/p>\n To believe is to accept something as true. When you analyze the root of the word, you learn it means to be alive, i.e., make alive the truths of God by feeling the reality of them in your heart. It is much more than a conscious or theoretical assent; it means that you must feel the truth of what you affirm in your heart.<\/p>\n It is belief in the minds of men that determines the difference between success and failure, health and sickness, happiness and unhappiness, joy and sadness, wealth and poverty. Wealth is a state of mind, as poverty is a state of mind. You are truly rich when you are acquainted with the Infinite Presence and Power within you which men call God. You are truly rich when you know that your thought is creative, that what you feel you attract, and that what you imagine you become. You are rich when you know the creative process of your mind, which is that whatever you impress on your subconscious mind will be projected on the screen of space as form, function, experience and events.<\/p>\n How He Discovered the Riches Within<\/strong><\/p>\n A young engineer said to me, “I am in a big jam and I have been praying continually, getting nowhere.” I suggested to him that it wasn’t necessary for him to pray continually as if he were afraid to let go, but to leave it to the infinite intelligence of his subconscious mind. I explained to him that he could break the fixation spell and discover the spiritual riches within him by praying for someone else \u2014 John next door or May down the street, who is known to be up against it with a terrible heart condition, etc. — twice a day. I suggested also that he pray for joy by claiming, “The joy of the Lord is my strength; knowing that joy is the elan of life, the expression of life.” He was to use no will power or mental coercion in this mental and spiritual approach.<\/p>\n At the end of a few days, a complete solution to his problem came out of the blue. He said to me, “I was about to lose everything, when an old friend came to my aid by advancing me $25,000, which solved all my problems.” This man had discovered that riches are in the infinite storehouse of his subconscious mind.<\/p>\n She Discovered the Riches of Her Creative Thought<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A young woman was quite concerned about her mother, who was afflicted with chronic stomach pains. The digestive tablets and antispasmodic medicine which her doctor had prescribed failed to relieve her pains. The daughter was setting aside half an hour in the morning and half an hour every evening praying about her mother’s stomach \u2014 that the stomach was a Divine idea, that it was perfect, that her digestion was perfect, etc. The unfortunate result was that she got stomach trouble herself.<\/p>\n I explained to her that in order to help her mother, she must refrain from identifying with her mother’s stomach ailment and keeping an appointment with it, because by her attitude she was holding on to the trouble by this close association. It had become a habit keeping a date with her mother’s stomach pains. She had a sort of contract job.<\/p>\n How Her Creative Thought Healed<\/strong><\/p>\n She changed her procedure and ceased dwelling upon organs of the body and other corporeal conditions. She identified with the infinite healing presence in the subconscious mind and began to claim quietly, feelingly and lovingly that the healing presence and intelligence in the subconscious, which created her mother’s body, was vitalizing, healing, and restoring her whole being into harmony, health, peace and wholeness. She meditated quietly on these truths for a reasonable period of time, feeling that this particular prayer was the best she could do at the time, and then she would pray again when she felt the need to do so. Her results with this approach were remarkable, in that all distress vanished from her mother, and she, herself, was also set free.<\/p>\n Sympathy and Compassion<\/strong><\/p>\n The reason this woman became ill while praying for her mother was because she was actually sympathizing with her, thereby submerging in the quicksand with the other. Compassion consists of standing on firm ground and throwing a rope or branch of a tree to the other and pulling him out. Sympathy means to agree with the negative or baleful aspects of the condition, which tends to aggravate the problem and which actually magnifies it. The reason for this is that whatever we focus our attention on, the subconscious magnifies exceedingly.<\/p>\n Giving the Riches of the Infinite to the Sick Person<\/strong><\/p>\n All the riches of the Infinite, such as inspiration, guidance, faith, confidence, joy, harmony, love, peace, abundance and security are within you. Therefore, it behooves you when you visit a sick person to lift him up in your thought and feeling, giving him a transfusion of faith and confidence in the healing power of his subconscious. You can also give him courage and understanding. Remind him that with God all things are possible, and imagine him as being whole, radiant, joyous and free. To feel sorry for the ill person and to commiserate with him is to drag him down, and this is a very negative approach. Be compassionate and call forth the infinite healing presence in his subconscious which will heal, bless and restore his mind and body. He restoreth my soul (Psalm 23:3).<\/p>\n You Are the Master of Your Thoughts \u2014 Not the Servant<\/p>\n Your thought is creative. Every thought tends to manifest itself and causes your subconscious mind to respond according to the nature of your thought. You can direct and steer your thoughts like you steer your automobile. Thoughts are things. Your thought-image of a radio, television, automobile, wealth, health, or a trip to Europe is a reality in your mind. If all the autos in the world were destroyed by some holocaust, an engineer could redesign the vehicle based on the thought- image in his mind, and in a short while we again would have millions of cars.<\/p>\n Your thought is the only instrument you can work with, and it pays fabulous dividends to direct your thoughts wisely, constructively and judiciously. Your thought works with mathematical exactitude: for limitation and lack if you think of poverty; and for expansion, growth and prosperity when you think along these lines.<\/p>\n Her Thought Was the Magnet<\/strong><\/p>\n A young lady, who is a very successful broker, told me that all her success was due to the fact that she maintained a mental picture of success in her work and it was the magnet which attracted to her the clients and conditions which accurately responded to her thought and feeling.<\/p>\n This was her prayer every morning: “I am a mental and spiritual magnet, attracting to me all those people who want what I have to offer. There is a Divine exchange of ideas between us; they are blessed and I am blessed. I decree harmony, abundance, right action and inspiration, and I know my subconscious mind accepts these truths and assumptions.”<\/p>\n This real estate broker finds herself Divinely led and directed along all lines. Her subconscious mind is the seat of habit, and as she continues to claim Divine guidance, right action and abundance regularly and systematically, she is under a subconscious compulsion to do, say and act in the right way. This is the meaning of the saying that “thoughts are things.”<\/p>\n He Quiets His Mind and Gets Things Done<\/p>\n During a conversation I had with a prominent banker recently, he told me that some years ago, he had been prone to look only at external conditions and had had the tendency to struggle and resist circumstances and attitudes of associates. He realizes now, however, that it is the quiet mind that gets things done. He quiets his body periodically, tells it to be still and relaxed, and it has to obey. When his conscious mind is quiet, calm, peaceful and receptive, the wisdom of his subconscious rises to the surface, and he receives marvelous answers and solutions.<\/p>\n How He Became a Good Executive<\/p>\n It takes a good executive to draw forth the riches of his subconscious mind. A good executive has the mental acumen and sagacity to delegate work; then he keeps his fingers out of the assignment he has asked the other to complete. A poor executive, whether in business, science, art, industry or education, is always meddling with the pie he has asked the other to make.<\/p>\n When you pray, you must be a good executive and learn to delegate authority to your subconscious mind, which knows all and sees all, and will bring it to pass in its own way. When you pray or seek an answer, you turn your request or desire over to your subconscious mind with complete faith and confidence, knowing that whatever is conveyed to the subconscious will come to pass.<\/p>\n You can know if you have really turned your request over by the way you feel, e.g., if you are wondering how, when, where and through what source, or if you are anxious and apprehensive, you do not really trust the wisdom of your subconscious. Cease pestering or nagging your subconscious. When you think of your desire, lightness of touch is important; remind yourself that infinite intelligence is taking care of it in Divine order.<\/p>\n How He Discovered the Riches of His Mind<\/p>\n Recently I had a conversation with an old friend of mine whose doctor had informed him that it was imperative that he give up smoking at once. He had been smoking four packages of cigarettes daily and felt he just couldn’t give them up.<\/p>\n I explained to him an age-old truth: “When your desire and imagination are in conflict, your imagination always wins.” At my suggestion, he held a session with himself twice a day, wherein he became quiet and receptive, and affirmed and visioned as follows:<\/p>\n “Freedom and peace of mind are mine now. I know that as I believe and affirm these truths, they are sinking down into my subconscious mind, and I will be under compulsion to give up cigarettes, as the law of my subconscious is compulsion. In my imagination I see my doctor before me. He has just finished examining me and is congratulating me on my freedom from the habit and on my perfect health.”<\/p>\n He had a few sessions like this every day for about a week, at which time he got a response from his subconscious, and he found he had no further desire to smoke. He had succeeded in impregnating his deeper mind with his habitual thinking and visioning. His doctor confirmed objectively what he had been thinking and visioning subjectively. This is how he discovered the riches of his subconscious mind.<\/p>\n The Riches of Letting Go and Letting God Help<\/strong><\/p>\n A psychologist was involved in a difficult lawsuit requiring her frequent attention and court appearances. Her prayer therapy was as follows: “I let go and let Divine wisdom and Divine right action of my subconscious solve it. I loose the matter and let it go.” Whenever she had to get in touch with her attorney or others involved, she would silently decree: “The God-Presence within me is all-wise and is taking care of this in Divine order.” She said to me, “I am no longer keeping tabs on the God-Presence within as to how, when, where or through what source this will be solved. I let go and let God take care of it.”<\/p>\n The sequel to her new attitude of mind was interesting: the foremost antagonist in the lawsuit passed away one night in his sleep, and the others requested an immediate settlement. There was a Divine adjustment, and she was set free from all legal entanglements.<\/p>\n The Future Can Be Wonderful for You<\/strong><\/p>\n Do not waste your energy and vital substance by thinking about old peeves, grudges and grievances. To do so is like ripping open a grave \u2014 all you find is a skeleton. Focus your attention on the good things of life and realize the future will be wonderful because you know your present and harmonious thoughts will germinate and grow, bringing forth wonderful fruit such as health, happiness, abundance and peace of mind.<\/p>\n Liquidate the past and never mentally touch any negative experience or trauma that has happened in the past. Remain faithful to this mental attitude and realize that as you change your present thoughts and keep them changed, you will change your destiny.<\/p>\n She Discovered the Riches of Scientific Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n A mother was distraught and highly agitated because her boy of eighteen had run away from home following an argument with his father. He quit college and joined a hippie colony. She was frantic, and her doctor had to prescribe strong sedatives to quiet her mind and body. In talking to her, I pointed out a few simple truths, such as: you do not own your son; he came through you but not by you. Life-Principle is the common progenitor. We are all children of the one Father, or Self- Originating Spirit. Your son is here to grow, to expand, and to overcome difficulties, challenges and problems, thereby enabling him to discover the powers within him and to release his talents to the world. You can’t help him by mental excitation, anger and resentment.<\/p>\n At my suggestion, she decided to release him completely — lock, stock and barrel. She decreed as follows: “I loose my son to God completely. He is Divinely guided in all his ways and Divine wisdom anoints his intellect. Divine law and order reign supreme in his life. He is guided to his true place and is expressing himself at his highest level. I loose him and let him go.”<\/p>\n She remained faithful to this prayer and daily claimed peace, harmony, joy and Divine love for herself. Some weeks later, her son went back to college, gave up his old haunts, and is doing well now in his scholastic work. He communicates with both his parents, but his mother no longer feels possessive. She has discovered the riches of Divine love and freedom.<\/p>\n This woman ceased thinking from the standpoint of circumstances and conditions; she began to think from that interior standpoint where there are no circumstances, and from whence she was able to decree what conditions should be according to Divine law and order. Then she let the subconscious wisdom take care of it.<\/p>\n How to Think Richly<\/strong><\/p>\n Think regularly and systematically of Life, illumination, inspiration, harmony, prosperity, happiness, peace and the life more abundant \u2014 think these truths rather than this or that condition of them Trust the operator of your subconscious mind to bring all these ideas you are contemplating into the way best suited for your particular case. This is a wonderful way to enter into the life more abundant.<\/p>\n MEDITATION TO HAVE THE POWER OF FAITH<\/strong><\/p>\n Use the following meditation to help you secure the power of faith:<\/p>\n “The prayer of faith shall save the sick and God shall raise him up.’ I know that no matter what the negation of yesterday was, my prayer or affirmation of truth will rise triumphantly over it today. I steadfastly behold the joy of the answered prayer. I walk all day long in the Light.<\/p>\n “Today is God’s day; it is a glorious day for me, as it is full of peace, harmony and joy. My faith in the good is written in my heart and felt in my inward parts. I am absolutely convinced that there is a Presence and a perfect Law which receives the impress of my desire now and which irresistibly attracts into my experience all the good things my heart desires. I now place all my reliance, faith, and trust in the Power and Presence of God within me; I am at peace.<\/p>\n “I know I am a guest of the Infinite and that God is my Host. I hear the invitation of the Holy One saying, ‘Come unto me all ye that labor, and I will give you rest.’ I rest in God; all is well.”<\/p>\n CHAPTER POINTS TO REMEMBER<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chapter Three<\/strong><\/p>\n How the Rich Get Richer \u2014 and How You Will Join Them<\/strong><\/p>\n The Bible says: God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy (I Timothy 6:17). Riches are of your mind. There is a guiding principle within you that can lead you to fulfill the desires of your heart. Wealth is a state of consciousness, a mental attitude, an acceptance of the riches of the Infinite.<\/p>\n The whole world was here when you were born. Life was a gift to you. Actually, you are not here just to earn a living, because Life itself was a gift to you. You are here to express life and to release your hidden talents to the world. When you possess the “know-how” of tapping your subconscious mind, you will never want for any good thing all your life, whether it be health, peace of mind, true expression, companionship or a lovely home and all the money you need to do what you want to do when you want to do it. The key of your subconscious to Your Infinite Power To Be Rich1 is your own thought. Your thought is creative! Begin to think regularly and systematically of success, achievement, victory, abundance and the good life. Thinking makes it so.<\/p>\n She Discovered Her Thought-Image Was Wealth<\/p>\n A few years ago I took an Iberian Tour, visiting many famous places in Spain and Portugal. There were about thirty people on this tour. A woman with whom I chatted at Salamanca, Spain, told me she had always wanted to visit Spain because her ancestors had come from Malaga, which we visited. She did not have the necessary funds, but she had been reading Your Infinite Power to Be Rich1, and she got all the folders and photographs of the famous shrines and cities we were to visit. Her technique was fascinating, and was as follows.<\/p>\n 1 See Your Infinite Power to Be Rich by Joseph Murphy, Parker Publishing Company, Inc., West Nyack, N.Y., 1966.<\/p>\n Every night prior to sleep, she would concentrate on the Hotel Malaga Palacio, a picture of which was on the folder. Then she would imagine she was actually sleeping in that hotel and looking at the beautiful surroundings through the window. She followed this procedure for about five nights. One of the young men in the office casually mentioned that he was also going on that trip, they became interested in each other and became engaged prior to the trip. He paid all her expenses as a prenuptial gift.<\/p>\n This event illustrates the working of your deeper mind. It always magnifies what you deposit in it. This woman not only received a gift of the trip, but, in addition, a proposal of marriage and a $2,000 engagement ring. Your subconscious gives you compound interest, and whatever you deposit in it is magnified and multiplied exceedingly. Her thought-image demonstrated to her where all the riches are.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n How He Invoked the Law of Increase<\/strong><\/p>\n On the Iberian Tour mentioned above, we visited the city of Seville, which personifies the real Spain more than any other community in that country. Over half a million people here share the rich history that included Phoenicians, Romans, Moors \u2014 all left their mark here. Its university was founded in 1502, and Seville gave the world two of its greatest painters, Murillo and Velasquez.<\/p>\n While conversing with one of the guides in the hotel, I learned that he had left New York City when he was fourteen and that he had developed an intense desire to go to the city of his ancestors (Seville) to learn languages and to become a guide, travelling through Europe and interpreting for tourists. He invoked the powers of his subconscious in a simple way without conscious knowledge of how it worked. This is the way he worked.<\/p>\n He wrote out on a piece of paper that he wanted to go to Seville to study, and to work there to pay for his training while he learned to speak Spanish, French and German. He would affirm this many times a day. He said the most amazing thing happened on his fifteenth birthday: his aunt, who lived in Boston, wrote to his father (her brother) and asked permission to take him along as a companion to Seville to visit her relatives. When they were in that city for a week or so, she consented to pay all his expenses for university training and upkeep with the permission of his father.<\/p>\n This guide’s constant prayer is: The God of Heaven, He will prosper us (Nehemiah 2:20). By constantly dwelling on his written requests, he succeeded in writing them in the tablets of his subconscious mind, which responded by bringing it to pass in its own unique way.<\/p>\n How to Follow Your State of Mind<\/strong><\/p>\n The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich: he bringeth low and lifteth up (I Samuel 2:7). The Lord is the lordly power of your subconscious mind, called the Father within, Who doeth the works. Your Lord is what dominates your thinking. If your dominant conviction is that you are entitled to all the good things of life, such as health, wealth, love, true expression and the abundant life, you will experience accordingly. On the other hand, if you feel that you are destined to be poor and that the good things of life are not for you, you are placing yourself in want, lack, frustration and self-imposed bondage.<\/p>\n Remember, your thought has power; it is creative.<\/strong><\/p>\n Every thought you initiate tends to manifest itself except as it is neutralized by a more powerful thought of greater intensity. All the men and women who garner more of the world’s goods reveal a wealth consciousness and a joyous expectancy of the best. Everything you experience is due to the law of your mind. By dwelling on the idea of increased good, and by nourishing it and sustaining it, man draws more of the riches of life to himself. On the other hand, the man who thinks only of decrease, lack and limitation magnifies his loss. The law of your subconscious is to increase any idea implanted in it. The experience of the negative thinker will attract more and more loss.<\/p>\n Begin to Practice the Law of Increase<\/strong><\/p>\n Remember, any object to which you give special attention will tend to grow and magnify itself in your life. Attention is the key to life. Think of increase along all lines. Feel you are successful and prosperous, since the feeling of wealth produces wealth. Be sure you wish for all those around you success, happiness and abundance, knowing that as you wish increase of wealth and happiness for others, you are also attracting more of God’s riches to yourself. As you radiate abundance and riches to others, they will pick up your thoughts subconsciously and will be benefited by the feeling of riches and abundance emanating from you.<\/p>\n You can silently give to all people you meet the following blessing: “God gave you richly all things to enjoy, and you are prospered beyond your fondest dreams.” That simple prayer will work wonders in your life.<\/p>\n How to Use the Law of Increase in Business or Professions<\/strong><\/p>\n As you quietly, lovingly and feelingly enter into the realization that your thoughts of richness, success, prosperity and health create all those conditions and circumstances on which you focus your attention, you will automatically create all the conditions necessary for your advancement. Moreover, you will find yourself attracting more and more people who will become clients, customers, friends and associates, and who will aid you in the realization of your dreams. You will subconsciously attract to yourlself the men and women who are living in the consciousness of God’s riches.<\/p>\n A businessman in Beverly Hills mentioned to me a while ago the secret of his tremendous success and great popularity with his customers. Every morning when he opens the store, he decrees: “Everyone who enters here is blessed and prospered, inspired and enriched in all ways.” He knows the truth, which is: Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and the light shall shine upon thy ways (Job 22:28).<\/p>\n Why the Rich Man Received the Home Foreclosed on the Poor Man<\/strong><\/p>\n Not far from where I live, a man’s wife was constantly telling him to cease talking about hard times, loss of money, bankruptcy, etc. However, she said he persisted in picturing bankruptcy and loss of his home by constantly saying, “I can’t meet the mortgage, we will lose our home, I know I will be bankrupt, business is bad, things never go right for me,” and so on. He constantly talked lack, bankruptcy and hard times, and he experienced the unwanted result. The mortgage company foreclosed on his home and he went bankrupt. A successful and prosperous neighbor bought his home for a very small amount of money from the mortgage company, and the rich man acquired the store which he had vacated and is prospering in a wonderful way.<\/p>\n This is why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Job said: The thing which I greatly feared is come upon me (Job 3:25). The law of mind is good and very good. A man can’t begin to think regularly of loss, lack, bankruptcy and failure and expect to prosper and succeed. The rich man walking in the consciousness of success and prosperity and looking upon wealth somewhat like the air he breathes, acquires the former business and home of the poor man. You can’t think evil and reap good, no more so than you can think good and reap evil. The law of your mind is perfect. It also out pictures what is impressed upon it. The poor man, a term which means the man who doesn’t know how to operlate and release the riches of his mind, can at any time he wishes begin to practice the law of opulence and again’ atltract to himself wealth, success and riches of all kinds.<\/p>\n The Rewards of Being Acquainted with the Law of Opulence<\/strong><\/p>\n You can get acquainted with the qualities of an orange by tasting it and eating it. You can get acquainted with the riches of your subconscious by applying the law of opulence. A businessman said to me that the source of supply was within him and responded to his faith in the endless resources of the infinite riches of his subconscious mind. Every morning and every night his prayer is: “I am ever grateful for God’s riches that are ever active, ever present, unchanging and abundant.” This businessman never wants for all the money he needs to operate his enterprise and to open up new branches.<\/p>\n Listen to the Truth and You Will Never Be in Want<\/strong><\/p>\n Infinite Spirit, the source of all blessings, the world, and all things therein contained is within you. You do not own anything in the universe; God, or Spirit, owns all. You are a steward of the Divine and you are here to use the wealth of the world wisely, judiciously, and constructively, claiming Divine wisdom in your handling of all your earthly possessions. When you go on to the next dimension, you cannot take anything with you but the treasures of wisdom, truth and beauty, which you have planted in your subconscious mind. Your faith, confidence and trust in the goodness of God and in the joy of the Lord which is your strength represent the real riches which you take with you into the fourth dimension of life — these are the treasures of heaven (your mind).<\/p>\n In this three-dimensional plane in which we live, you must realize the whole world is yours to enjoy: the cattle on a thousand hills are yours; the song of the birds is yours; you can enjoy the stars in the heavens, the morning dew, the sunset and the sunrise; you can turn your eyes to the hills, the mountains and the valleys, and you can smell the sweet fragrance of the rose, as well as that of the new-mown hay. All the riches in the soil, in the air and in the sea are yours. There is enough fruit that rots in the tropics to feed all of humanity. Nature is bountiful, lavish, extravagant, and actually wasteful.<\/p>\n It is God’s intention and will that you lead a full and happy life. You should live in a beautiful home, surrounded by luxury; you should have beautiful clothes, constantly dressing for God and reminding yourself of the infinite and indescribable beauty, order, symmetry and proportion of the Infinite. You constantly should have all the money you need circulating freely in your life, enabling you to do what you want to do, and when you want to do it. Your children should be brought up in beautiful surroundings and in a lovely, God-like atmosphere. Moreover, they should be taught the endless resources within the depths of their own minds, and being able to tap the riches of their subconscious, they will never want for any good thing.<\/p>\n How to Tap the Endless Source of Supply<\/strong><\/p>\n Recognize the infinite source within your subconscious, and then invoke the great law of opulence and increase along all lines as follows:<\/p>\n “God is the source of my supply, whether it is energy, vitality, creative ideas, inspiration, love, peace, beauty, right action or wealth that I need. I know it is as easy for the creative powers of my subconscious to become all these things as a blade of grass. I am now appropriating mentally and experiencing buoyant health, harmony, beauty, right action, abundant prosperity and all the riches of my deeper mind. I exude vibrancy and good will to all. I am giving better service every day. God’s riches are forever flowing into my experience, and there is always a Divine surplus. All these thoughts are sinking down into my subconscious, and they are now coming forth as abundance, security and peace of mind. It is wonderful.”<\/p>\n As you sow in your subconscious, so shall you reap. The Bible says: The wilderness and the solitary place shall be gladfor them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose (Isaiah 35:1).<\/p>\n DAILY MEDITATION FOR THE RICH LIFE<\/strong><\/p>\n Repeating the following meditation daily will bring the rich life to you faster and easier:<\/p>\n “Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin; yet Solomon in all of his glory was not arrayed as one of these.’ I know that God is prospering me in all ways. I am now leading the abundant life, because I believe in a God of abundance. I am supplied with everything that contributes to my beauty, well-being, progress and peace. I am daily experiencing the fruits of the spirit of God within me; I accept my good now; I walk in the light that all good is mine. I am peaceful, poised, serene and calm I am one with the source of life; all my needs are met at every moment of time and every point of space. I now bring ‘all the empty vessels’ to the Father within. The fullness of God is made manifest in all the departments of my life. ‘All that the Father hath is mine.’ I rejoice that this is so.”<\/p>\n CHAPTER POINTS TO REMEMBER<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chapter Four<\/strong><\/p>\n How to Claim Your Right to Infinite Riches Now<\/strong><\/p>\n During the month of May, a few years ago, I took a trip to Ireland, England and Switzerland, and during my stay in Killarney I visited a relative of mine. I might add that Killarney is one of the world’s beauty spots. Poets, artists and writers try to convey in their respective media the magnificent and varied color and form of this wonderland of mountains and lakes. These lakes are surrounded by luxuriant woods of birch, oak and arbutus.<\/p>\n It was here amidst the beauty of the countryside that my relative poured out his tale of woe regarding his daughter. Mary (not her real name) was rapidly losing weight and refused to eat except under pressure from her parents. The local doctor was giving her injections of liver and vitamins and said she was a hopeless case. She had been taken to Dublin to see a psychiatrist but refused to talk to him. Her father was frantic, moreover, he was very critical of her.<\/p>\n I had three interviews with her, and on the third interview I asked her point-blank: “Mary, is it true that you are trying to get even with your father, exerting a sort of revenge, because he prefers your brother to you, or at least shows him more attention?” She blurted out: “Yes, I hate him He never finds fault with my brother but is always criticizing me, and I’m going to make him feel sorry.” I pointed out to her that she was slowly committing suicide, which is completely contrary to her religious beliefs; moreover, that her body is a temple of the living God, and that she is here to lead a full, happy and rich life. I added that she would have bodies to infinity, and that by destroying this body, she would solve no problem and would probably be earthbound for a long time, walking about in a dazed and confused condition.<\/p>\n This explanation startled her, and she began to cry and abuse her father with vitriolic language and a flood of tears.<\/p>\n Her Father Came to the Rescue<\/strong><\/p>\n In his presence, I discussed the matter of his daughter, and he broke down and cried, admitting that he had wanted a, boy and had never showed her any affection or love. Her mother had died at her birth. He apologized to his daughter, asked forgiveness, and vowed his love, appreciation and tenderness for her. Actually, this girl was seeking love. She desired to be wanted, loved, cared for and needed. When he exuded and affirmed real love for his daughter, he really poured forth the riches of the<\/p>\n Mary had been silently saying to herself: “I feel I must starve and die. Nobody loves me. This way I will make my father care for me.” But now, with the changed attitude of her father, she wept copiously and began to eat a hearty lunch.<\/p>\n Love frees; it gives; it is the spirit of God. Love opens prison doors, sets free the captives and all those bound by fear, resentment, hostility, etc.<\/p>\n The Prayer That Changed Her Life<\/strong><\/p>\n “I know my body is the temple where God dwells. I honor and exalt the Divine Presence within me. Divine love fills my soul, and His river of peace flows through my mind and heart at all times. I eat my food with joy, knowing that it is transmuted into beauty, harmony, wholeness and perfection. I know God hath need of me where I am, and I am Divinely expressed. I am loved, I am needed, I am wanted and appreciated by my father and others. I radiate love, peace and goodwill to everyone at all times. My food and drink are God’s ideas which unfold within me, making me strong, wholesome and full of Divine energy.”<\/p>\n Mary is now saturating her subconscious mind within these truths several times daily. The last letter from her informed me that she is getting married to a very rich local farmer and is bubbling over with a new life and inner joy. She has truly experienced the riches of the Infinite as love, marriage, inner peace and abundance.<\/p>\n The Riches of Faith in a Higher Power<\/strong><\/p>\n I requested my Irish driver during this European trip to which I referred previously to take me to Glendalough, “The Glen of Two Lakes,” which is famous for its historical and archaeological associations. Here in the sixth century, St. Kevin founded a monastery, and his shrine is visited by many people hoping for a cure of various diseases.<\/p>\n My driver told me that as far back as he could remember, he had stuttered badly and was made fun of in school and nicknamed “Stutts.” He had been taken to Dublin and Cork City to speech therapists and psychologists to no avail. In desperation, he said, his father had taken him to Glendalough and placed him in the cell in which it was believed St. Kevin had slept. His father had told him, “If you sleep there for an hour, you will be healed.”<\/p>\n The driver said, “I believed my father and followed his instructions. When I awakened from the hour’s sleep, I was healed, and from that day (twenty years ago), I have never stammered or stuttered in my speech.”<\/p>\n The Real Reason for His Cure<\/strong><\/p>\n I did not disturb this young man’s blind faith, which simply activated and released ‘the healing power of his subconscious mind. This boy’s mind at the age of eight or nine was highly impressionable. His imagination was fired, and his expectancy was undoubtedly 100 per cent belief that St. Kevin would intercede for him It was done unto him as he believed.<\/p>\n There is only one healing power, and that is the infinite healing presence lodged in your subconscious mind.<\/p>\n The Riches of True Faith Versus Blind Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n True faith consists in knowing that the Infinite Presence which created you from a cell knows all the processes and functions of your body and certainly knows how to heal you. When you consciously tune in on the healing power of your subconscious, knowing and believing it will respond to you, you will get results. In other words, true faith is the combined use of your conscious and subconscious mind scientiflically directed for a specific purpose.<\/p>\n Blind faith consists of belief in amulets, charms, talismans, bones of saints, certain shrines and waters to heal, etc. In other words, it is faith without any understanding and is often only temporary in its therapeutic value.<\/p>\n I suggest to people who are sick to make use of the services of a physician and to keep on praying not only for themselves but also for the physician.<\/p>\n The following are the reasons why:<\/p>\n Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him; for the Lord hath created him. For of the most High cometh healing, and he shall receive honour of the king …. The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them … And he hath given men skill, that he might be honoured in his marvellous works.<\/p>\n “My son, in thy sickness be not negligent, but pray unto the Lord, and he will make thee whole … Then give place to the physician, for the Lord hath created him; let him not go from thee, for thou hast need of him. There is a time when in their hands there is good success. For they shall also pray unto the Lord, that he would prosper that which they give for ease and remedy to prolong life …” Ecclesiasticus, Chapter 38: Paralgraphs 1 and 2).<\/p>\n When you pray for health, then health should “spring forth speedily.” If not, you should take action immediately by going to your medical doctor, dentist, chiropractor, or surgeon, as seems most appropriate to you. Remember, if you were always walking in the consciousness of God’s love and peace, you would never be ill. If you can’t grow teeth I suggest you go immediately to a dentist and pray that God is guiding him, and that Divine law and order reigns supreme in your life, and you will be satisfied with your new dentures.<\/p>\n Why He Did Not Experience the Healing Riches of the Infinite<\/strong><\/p>\n A friend of mine in Waterford arranged a tour for me of the Waterford glass factory, the glass of which is legendary in its fame. I witnessed experienced craftsmen making the crystal, the raw material of Waterford glass blooming into depth and sparkle. One of the craftsmen caused a ray of light to fall on the cut crystal; then the real glory of its facets, diamonds, flutings and ovals shone forth in a spectrum of indescribable beauty.<\/p>\n But the point I want to make is that my friend was lame and carried a cane, and he walked with great difficulty. I asked him whether he was getting medical treatment or not. He said yes, that cortisone was administered to him and he took pain pills. Then he asked, “Why is it that when I went to Scotland and hundreds of people were present at the church healing meeting which I attended, some cripples threw away their crutches, others said they could hear for the first time, and when the healer touched me I felt a strong vibration all through my body and for the first time I walked without pain or a cane, but the next day I was as lame and as bad as ever?”<\/p>\n He Had a Temporary Emotional Healing<\/strong><\/p>\n I explained to him that when the so-called “healer” placed his hands upon him, manipulating his leg and calling on Jesus to heal him, at the same time telling him that he was healed and could walk, and in the glare of the lights, the chanting of music and the mass emotional hysteria at the meeting, undoubtedly the emotions aroused from his subconscious depths gave him the power to walk temporarily without the aid of his cane. At the same time the mesmeric or hypnotic suggestions freed him from pain for twenty-four hours. Hypnotic suggestions to the subconscious have only temporary<\/p>\n On the Road to Recovery<\/strong><\/p>\n My friend began to see that he had not reached the cause of his condition. He began to understand that true, permanent healing comes with forgiveness, love and goodwill to all, and spiritual insight \u2014 all these are real healing forces. He admitted he was seething with hostility, guilt, resentment and hatred toward many people. He began to realize that his destructive emotions contributed to his condition. I suggested that he cooperate with his doctor and pray for him and also bless him, which he promised to do.<\/p>\n The Prayer That Is Helping My Arthritic Friend The following is the prayer I wrote out for him:<\/p>\n “I forgive myself for harboring negative, destructive thoughts about myself and others. I fully and freely forgive everyone, and I sincerely wish for them health, happiness, peace and all the blessings of life. Whenever the person comes into my mind whom I dislike, I will immediately affirm, ‘I have released you. God be with you.’ I know when I have forgiven others, because 1 feel no sting in my mind. The Infinite Healing Presence of God flows through me, and His river of peace flows through me. I know that Divine love saturates my entire being, and God’s love dissolves everything unlike itself. The Healing Light of God is focused at that point in my mind where the problem is and it is shattered, making way for the Holy Spirit (spirit of wholeness) to indwell every thought and every cell. I give thanks for the healing that is taking place now, for I know all healing is of the Most High. I know God is guiding my doctor, and whatever he does will bless me.”<\/p>\n He has been reiterating these truths slowly, quietly, and feelingly morning and night, knowing all the while that these spiritual vibrations will enter into his subconscious mind, obliterating the negative patterns lodged there by years of vicious and destructive thinking. The second letter I have received from him said that his local physician is amazed at his progress, and that the calcareous deposits, inflammation and edema are gradually diminishing. He is well on the road to a real spiritual healing, for all healing is of the Most High. I am the Lord that healeth thee (Exodus 15:26).<\/p>\n How the Riches of Belief Pay Dividends in All Phases of Life<\/strong><\/p>\n Blarney Castle is situated five miles from Cork City and is famous for its stone, which has the traditional power of conferring eloquence on all who kiss it. The word “blarney” means pleasant talk, intended to deceive without offending. To kiss the stone, which is set in the wall, one has to lean backwards (grasping an iron railing), and after that kiss the fortunate person is supposed to develop marvelous powers of speech.<\/p>\n I was told by a clergyman visiting here that whereas formerly his sermons had been dull and uninviting, he had become a powerful orator and that after kissing the stone, people flocked to his sermons so that his church was always crowded whenever he gave sermons at mass. This demonstrates the power of belief. The Bible says: All things are possible to him that believeth (Mark 9:23).<\/p>\n You will agree that there is no power in a stone to confer the gift of oratory or eloquence, but the belief and expectancy of man stirs up the dormant powers in the depths of the subconscious mind which were always there, waiting to be recognized and utilized. Wherefore, I put thee in remem Jbrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee (II Timothy 1:6).<\/p>\n The Instant Riches of Mental Insight and Understanding<\/strong><\/p>\n A man we will call “Johnny” accompanied me on a trip to the Gap of Dunloe in Killarney. Riding through this gap on the sturdy ponies of Kerry is a thrill enjoyed by visitors. In the Ice Age, glaciers carved the mountain out of the surrounding hills. The towering summits of the Reeks, the changing shadows on the mountain tops, and the silence and solitude of the cliff-bound road combine to make an unforgettable impression on the visitor. It was here that my companion got an acute attack of asthma. He used a throat spray, which gave him some relief. He also gave himself a subcutaneous injection of adrenalin.<\/p>\n He said he got an attack about noon every day. Since the attack was sometimes greater than others, a doctor showed him how to use the hypodermic needle in case of emergency. After his attack had subsided, he blurted out, “No wonder I get asthma. My father had it all his life, and I was present when he died from an attack.” He was blaming heredity, while at the same time he informed me that he was an adopted son, which of course ruled out his claim of heredity.<\/p>\n How His Mental and Emotional Disturbance Was Released<\/strong><\/p>\n During a heart-to-heart talk, he admitted that he had hated his foster father ever since the man had told him for the first time, possibly in a fit of anger, “You are not my real son. I took you out of the gutter and gave you a home. You are an illegitimate child.” This was a terrible shock to Johnny. He felt guilty because of his hatred and resentment. Though frequently confessing this error, nevertheless it remained suppressed in the deeper recesses of his mind. Being a negative and destructive emotion, it had to have an outlet sooner or later. Then, when his foster father died, he took on the symptoms as a form of self-punishment for his sins.<\/p>\n I explained to him fully the workings of his deeper mind and pointed out to him that though he undoubtedly deeply resented the fact that he was born out of wedlock, there is no such thing as an illegitimate child in the eyes of God. The real illegitimate child is one who thinks negatively and one who fails to conformto the Golden Rule and the Law of Love. He had developed the symptom for no other reason than that he felt he should be punished and should suffer for his sense of unworthiness and self-rejection, plus his hatred and antagonism for his foster father who had adopted him I pointed out that his foster father had done the best he could for him and had played the dual role of a real father and mother. I told him he should forgive his foster father for his angry outburst.<\/p>\n He began to see the light immediately and perceived at the same time that he was punishing himself. When he drove me back to the hotel in Killarney, I gave him a copy of The Power of Your Subconscious Mind 1 and wrote out a special prayer for him to use several times daily, advising him also to continue cooperating with his physician.<\/p>\n Following is the prayer: “I release my foster father and my real father and mother, known only in Divine Mind, to God completely. I forgive myself for harboring negative and destructive thoughts about myself and others, and I resolve not to do this any more. Whenever negative thoughts come to me, I will immediately affirm, ‘God’s love fills my soul.’ I am relaxed, poised, serene and calm God guides my doctor in all his ministrations to me. The breath of the Almighty gave me life, and I know God breathed into me the breath of life and made me a living soul with all the powers and attributes of God within me. I inhale the peace of God and exhale the love of God, and God flows through me as harlmony, joy, love, peace, wholeness and perfection.”<\/p>\n The The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, by Dr. Joseph Murphy, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1963.<\/p>\n I suggested that he affirm these great truths for about five minutes morning, afternoon and night, and that he be careful to never deny what he affirms. When fearful thoughts or approaching symptoms come, he is to say quietly, “I inlhale the peace of God and I exhale the love of God to all.”<\/p>\n On my return home to Beverly Hills, I received a lovely letter from him saying he has been completely free from all symptoms and has had no recurrence of any kind. Truly, the explanation is oftentimes the cure.<\/p>\n The Riches of Forgiveness<\/strong><\/p>\n On a tour to the Shakespeare country, which takes you to Stratford-on-Avon in England, famous as the birthplace of William Shakespeare, and which has many associations with “The Immortal Bard,” I chatted with a young lady during lunch in Warwick. During the course of the conversation, I said to her that I wrote along psychological and spiritual lines dealing with the problems of mankind. She was a nurse and had had a persistent skin rash for two years. She had consulted eminent dermatologists attached to the hospital where she worked, and they had prescribed various lotions and ointments, all to no avail.<\/p>\n We talked along psychosomatic lines, and I told her about the research work of Dr. Flanders Dunbar, author of Emotions and Bodily Changes who says that the skin is where the inner and the outer worlds meet, and she chides her confreres when they fail to see that many skin conditions are caused by negative emotions such as hostility, resentment and other emotions inimical to our well-being. In other words, the skin is an organ of elimination, and mental poisons based on repressed emotions such as guilt, anxiety and remorse become translated into physical symptoms.<\/p>\n The young lady asked if she could come and have a conference with me before I left London, and I gladly consented to see her at the St. Ermin’s Hotel, Caxton Street, where I always stay when visiting London.<\/p>\n 2 Published by Columbia University Press, New York, 1954. See also Healing Beyond Medicine, D. Snively, M.D., Parker Publishing Company, 1972.<\/p>\n The Cause of Her itching and Persistent Skin Rash<\/strong><\/p>\n I was quite frank with her and told her that I sensed she felt very guilty about something and believed in the need of punishment, and that if she confessed and cleansed her mind, the itching rash might well disappear. A bottled-up emotion repressed in the subconscious will sooner or later be translated into a bodily symptom She confessed that she was married and that her husband was on a government assignment in India. During his absence she had been having sexual relations with her dentist, and she was full of remorse and guilt. She felt that God was punishing her for her sins.<\/p>\n Self-Forgiveness Brings Peace and Release<\/strong><\/p>\n I explained to her that God, or the Life-Principle, never punishes, but that man punishes himself by his misuse of the laws of mind. For example, if you cut yourself, the Life Principle proceeds to form a blood clot called thrombin, and the subjective intelligence builds a bridge and forms new tissue. If you burn yourself, the Life-Principle holds no grudge, but it seeks to restore your skin to normal by reducing the edema, giving you new skin and tissue. If you take some bad food, the Life-Principle causes you to regurgitate it, as It always seeks to restore you to health. The tendency of the Life- Principle (God) is to heal, restore and make you whole.<\/p>\n Being a nurse, she understood all this. Then I asked a very pertinent question: “Do you want to be free of this rash?” Immediately she responded and said, ‘Yes.” “Then,” I said, “we have no problem All you have to do is to stop doing what you are now doing and forgive yourself, and that’s the end of your trouble.” Accordingly, she came to a decision in my room in the hotel not to see the dentist any more and to cease condemning herself.<\/p>\n As I explained to her, self-condemnation and self-criticism are destructive mental poisons that send psychic pus all over the system, robbing one of vitality, vigor, wholeness and strength, leaving one a physical and mental wreck. I pointed out to her that all she had to do was to get all her thoughts to conformto the Divine Law of harmony and love. A new beginning is a new end.<\/p>\n We prayed together, claiming Divine love, peace and harmony were now saturating her entire being and that she was Divinely guided and watched over by an overshadowing Presence. In the silence, for about five minutes, we dwelt on one thing only \u2014 “The Healing Power of God’s Love” and then I reminded her of a great truth which should be indelibly imprinted in the minds and hearts of all: This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize (Philippians 3:13, 14).<\/p>\n The prize she sought was health, happiness and peace of mind. At the end of our meditation, the effulgence of an inner light glowed in her eyes and she felt something happen to her in the silence \u2014 the rash disappeared completely. We joined together in saying, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I know that thou hearest me always (John 11:41, 42).<\/p>\n The Riches of Wisdom and Understanding<\/strong><\/p>\n An old friend in London visited me at St. Ermin’s Hotel and brought her boy of twelve, who is terribly afraid at night. Darkness seems to trouble him This had been going on for two years. I asked the mother what had happened two years ago which had given a great shock to the boy which might be suppressed in his deeper mind, since the subconscious mind never forgets any experience, and that which we wanted to know about was the repressed emotion.<\/p>\n She recalled that two years previously the house they were living in in Liverpool had caught fire in the middle of the night, and the father had put his coat over the boy to protect him from the smoke. The boy exclaimed to me suddenly, “Daddy was suffocating me!” Actually, this was the answer to the whole problem<\/p>\n We explained to the boy that his father was only trying to protect him and save his life, and that he should radiate love to his father and mother. I counseled the boy and his mother, explaining that no matter what had happened in the past, it could be changed now by filling the subconscious mind with life-giving patterns, as there is no time or space in mind, and that the lower is always subject to the higher. By filling the boy’s mind with the truths of God, it would crowd out of his mind everything unlike God.<\/p>\n I gave the mother a prayer for her boy and asked the boy to use it also prior to sleep. This is the prayer the mother used:<\/p>\n “My boy is God’s son. God loves him and cares for him God’s peace fills his soul. He is poised, serene, calm, relaxed and at ease. The joy of the Lord is his strength. The Healing Presence flows through him as harmony, peace, joy, love and perfection. God is, and His Presence vitalizes, energizes and restores his whole being to wholeness, beauty and perfection. He sleeps in peace and wakes in joy.”<\/p>\n She changed the tense for the boy and had him repeat, “I am God’s son,” and so on. I told her to continue with the doctor and the prayers and to keep me informed. I was pleasantly surprised to receive a letter from the mother on my return to Beverly Hills saying, “My boy is healed. He had a vision in his sleep. A sage appeared and said to him, ‘You are free. Tell your mother.’ It was very vivid.”<\/p>\n This was the subconscious of the boy revealing to him his healing. I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream (Numbers 12:6).<\/p>\n A MEDITATION FOR AN EFFECTIVE PROSPERITY PRAYER<\/strong><\/p>\n Meditate often by repeating the following prayer for prosperity:<\/p>\n ‘Thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.’ I now give a pattern of success and prosperity to the deeper mind within me, which is the law. I now identify myself with the Infinite Source of supply. I listen to the still, small voice of God within me. This inner voice leads, guides and governs all my activities. I am one with the abundance of God. I know and believe that there are new and better ways of conducting my business; Infinite Intelligence reveals the new ways to me.<\/p>\n “I am growing in wisdom and understanding. My business is God’s business. I am Divinely prospered in all ways. Divine Wisdom within me reveals the ways and means by which all my affairs are adjusted in the right way immediately.<\/p>\n “The words of faith and conviction which I now speak open up all the necessary doors or avenues for my success and prosperity. I know that The Lord (Law) will perfect that which concerneth me.’ My feet are kept in the perfect path, because I am a son of the Living God.”<\/p>\n CHAPTER POINTS TO REMEMBER<\/strong><\/p>\n Chapter Five<\/strong><\/p>\n How Dialing Miracle Thought-Forms Will Increase Your Wealth<\/strong><\/p>\n The whole world and all its treasures in the sea, air and earth were here when you were born. Begin to think of the untold and undiscovered riches all around you, waiting for the intelligence of man to bring them forth. A sales manager said to me the other day that an associate of his sold a million dollar idea for expansion to the organization; he also added that there were more millionaires now in the United States than at any time in history. You can have an idea worth a fortune! Moreover, you are here to release the imprisoned splendor within you and surround yourself with luxury, beauty and the riches of life.<\/p>\n Make Friends with Money and You Will Always Have Money<\/strong><\/p>\n In this book, you will learn that it is necessary to have the right attitude toward money. When you really make friends with money, you will always have a surplus of it. It is normal and natural for you to desire a fuller, richer, happier and more wonderful life. Look upon money as God’s idea of maintaining the economic health of the nations of the world. When money is circulating freely in your life, you are economically healthy, in the same manner as when your blood is circulating freely, you are free from congestion. Begin now to see money in its true significance and role in life as a symbol of exchange. Money to you should mean freedom from want; it should mean beauty, luxury, abunldance, sense of security and refinement.<\/p>\n Why She Did Not Have More Money<\/strong><\/p>\n Being poor is a mental attitude. A young lady, a very good writer who had had several articles accepted for publication, said to me, “I don’t write for money.” I said to her, “What’s wrong with money? It’s true you don’t write for money, but the laborer is worthy of his hire. What you write inspires, lifts up, and encourages others. When you adopt the right attitude, financial compensation will automatically come to you freely and copiously.”<\/p>\n She actually disliked money. Once she referred to money as “filthy lucre.” She had a subconscious pattern that there was some virtue in poverty. I explained to her that there was no evil in the universe and that good and evil were in the thoughts and motivations of man. All evil comes from misinterpretation of life and misuse of the laws of mind. In other words, the only evil is ignorance, and the only consequence is suffering.<\/p>\n It would be foolish to pronounce uranium, silver, lead, copper, iron, cobalt, nickel, calcium or a dollar bill evil. The only difference between one metal and another is the number and rate of motion of electrons revolving around a central nucleus. A piece of paper such as a $100 bill is innocuous, and the only difference between it and copper or lead is that the atoms and molecules with their electrons and protons are arranged differently for the physical evidences of money.<\/p>\n She Adopted New Ideas Toward Money and Prospered Accordingly<\/strong><\/p>\n Here is a simple technique she practiced, which multiplied money in her experience: “My writings go forth to bless, heal, inspire, elevate and dignify the minds and hearts of men and women, and I am Divinely compensated in a wonderful way. I look upon money as Divine substance, for everything is made from the One Spirit. I know matter and spirit are one. Money is constantly circulating in my life, and I use it wisely and constructively. Money flows to me freely, joyously and endlessly. Money is an idea in the mind of God, and it is good and very good.”<\/p>\n This young lady’s changed attitude toward money has worked wonders in her life, and she has completely eradicated that strange, superstitious belief that money was “filthy lucre.” She realized that her silent condemnation of money caused money to fly from her instead of to her. Her income has tripled in three months, which was just the beginning of her financial prosperity.<\/p>\n He Worked Hard But Lacked Money<\/strong><\/p>\n Some years ago, I talked with a minister who has a very good following. He had an excellent knowledge of the laws of mind and was able to impart this knowledge to others, but he could never make ends meet! He had what he thought was a good alibi for his plight by quoting from Timothy: For the love of money is the root of all evil (I Timothy 6:10), forgetting what followed in the 17th verse of the same chapter, when Paul charges the people to place their trust or faith in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy (I Timothy 6:17).<\/p>\n Love in Biblical language is to give your allegiance, loyalty and faith to the Source of all things, which is God. You are not, therefore, to give your allegiance, loyalty and trust to created things, but to the Creator, the Eternal Source of everything in the universe. If a man says, “All I want is money, nothing else. That’s my god and nothing but money matters,” he can get it, of course, but he is here to lead a balanced life. Man must also claim peace, harmony, beauty, guidance, love, joy and wholeness in all phases of his life.<\/p>\n To make money the sole aim in life would constitute an error or wrong choice. You must express your hidden talents, find your true place in life and experience the joy of contributing to the growth, happiness and success of others. As you study this book and apply the laws of your subconscious in the right way, you can have all the money you want and still have peace of mind, harmony, wholeness and serenity. To accumulate money to the exclusion of everything else causes man to become lopsided and unibalanced.<\/p>\n I pointed out to this minister how he was completely misinterpreting the Scripture in pronouncing pieces of paper or metals evil, when these were neutral substances, for there is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so. He began to see all the good he could do with more money for his wife, family and parishioners. He changed his attitude and let go of his superstition. He began to claim boldly, regularly and systematically, “Infinite Spirit reveals better ways for me to serve. I am inspired and illumined, and I give a Divine transfusion of faith and confidence in the One Presence and Power to all those who hear me. I look upon money as God’s idea, and it is constantly circulating in my life and that of my parishioners. We use it wisely, judiciously and constructively under God’s guidance and wisdom”<\/p>\n This young minister made a habit of this prayer, knowing that it would activate the powers of his subconscious mind. Today he has a beautiful church which the people built for him He has a radio program and has all the money he needs for his personal worldly and cultural needs. I can assure you, he no longer criticizes money.<\/p>\n The Master Key and Program to Disciplining Your Mind for Money<\/strong><\/p>\n If you follow the procedure and technique outlined herein, you will never want for money all the days of your life.<\/p>\n Step 1: Reason it out in your mind that God, or the Life-Principle, is the Source of the universe, the galaxies in space, and everything you see, whether you look at the stars in the sky, the mountains, the lakes, the deposits in the earth and sea, or all animals and plants. The Life- Principle gave birth to you, and all the powers, qualities and attributes of God are within you. Come to a simple conclusion that everything you see and are aware of came out of the invisible mind of God, or Life, and that everything that man has invented, created or made came out of the invisible mind of man; and the mind of man and the mind of God are one, for there is only one mind common to all individual men. Come now to a clear-cut decision that God is the Source of your supply of energy, vitality, health, creative ideas, the Source of the sun, the air you breathe, the apple you eat, and the money in your pocket, for everything is made inside and out of the Invisible. It is as easy for God to become wealth in your life as it is to become a blade of grass.<\/p>\n Step 2: Decide now to engrave in your subconscious mind the idea of wealth. Ideas are conveyed to the subconscious by repetition, faith and expectancy. By repeating a thought pattern or an act over and over again, it becomes automatic, and, your subconscious being compulsive, you will be compelled to express it. The pattern is the same as learning to walk, swim, play the piano, type, etc. You must believe in what you are affirming. Realize that what you are affirming is like the apple seeds you deposit in the ground, and they grow after their kind. By watering and fertilizing these seeds, you accelerate their growth. Know what you are doing and why you are doing it.<\/p>\n Step 3: Repeat the following affirmation for about five minutes night and morning: “I am now writing in my subconscious mind the idea of God’s wealth. God is the Source of my supply, and all my needs are met at every moment of time and point of space. God’s wealth flows freely, joyously and ceaselessly into my experience, and I give thanks for God’s riches forever circulating in my experience.”<\/p>\n Step 4: When thoughts of lack come to you, such as, “I can’t afford that trip,” or, “I can’t meet that note at the bank,” or, “I can’t pay that bill,” never finish a negative statement about finances. Reverse it immediately in your mind by affirming, “God is my instant and everlasting supply, and that bill is paid in Divine order.” If a negative thought comes to you fifty times in one hour, reverse it each time by thinking, “God is my instant supply, meeting that need right now.” After a while, the thought of financial lack will lose all momentum and you will find your subconscious is being conditioned to wealth. If you look at a new car, for example, never say, “I can’t buy that.” On the contrary, say to yourlself: “That car is for sale. It is a Divine idea, and I accept it in Divine Order.”<\/p>\n This is the master key. When applied as outlined in the above program, the law of opulence will work for you as well as for anybody else. The law of mind is no respecter of persons. Your thoughts make you wealthy or poor. Choose the riches of life right here and right now.<\/p>\n A Salesman Moves Up from $5,000 to $25,000 in One Year<\/strong><\/p>\n A sales manager sent me one of his men for counseling. This salesman was a brilliant college graduate and knew his products very well. He was in a lucrative territory but was making only about $5,000 annually in commissions. The sales manager felt he should double or triple that.<\/p>\n In talking to the young man, I found he was down on himself. He had developed a subconscious pattern of $5,000 a year. He said that he had been born in a poverty-stricken home and that his parents had told him that he was destined to be poor. His step-father had always told him, “You’ll never amount to anything.” These thoughts were accepted by his impressionable mind, and he was experiencing his subconscious belief in lack and limitation.<\/p>\n I explained to him that he could change his subconscious by feeding it with life-giving patterns. Accordingly, I gave him a mental and spiritual formula to follow which would transform his life. I explained to him that he should under no circumstances deny what he affirmed, because his subconscious mind accepted what he really believed.<\/p>\n He affirmed every morning before going to work: “I’m born to succeed; the Infinite within me can’t fail. Divine law and order govern my life, Divine peace fills my soul, Divine love saturates my mind. Infinite Intelligence guides me in all ways. God’s riches flow to me freely. I am advancing, moving forward and growing mentally, spiritually, financially and in all other ways. I know these truths are sinking into my subconscious mind and will grow after their kind.”<\/p>\n The Results<\/strong><\/p>\n A year later when I met this young man again, I discovered that he had been transformed. He had absorbed these ideas which we had discussed, and he said, “I am appreciating life now, and wonderful things have happened. I have had an income of $25,000 this year, five times greater than the previous year.” He has learned the simple truth that whatever he inscribes in his subconscious mind becomes eflfective and functional in his life.<\/p>\n MEDITATION FOR A RICH HARVEST OF FINANCIAL WEALTH<\/strong><\/p>\n Use the following meditation for assurance in achieving financial wealth:<\/p>\n “‘Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands.’ I know that my faith in God determines my future. My faith in God means my faith in all things good. I unite myself now with true ideas and I know the future will be in the image and likeness of my habitual thinking. ‘As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.’ From this moment forward my thoughts are on: ‘Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are lovely, and of good report’; day and night I meditate on these things and I know these seeds (thoughts) which I habitually dwell upon will become a rich harvest for me. I am the captain of my own soul; I am the master of my fate; for my thought and feeling are my destiny.”<\/p>\n CHAPTER POINTS TO REMEMBER<\/strong><\/p>\n Chapter Six<\/strong><\/p>\n How to Say the Exact Words That Will Bring You Money<\/strong><\/p>\n Bring joy into your life. Pray for joy by claiming it. Affirm: “The joy of the Lord is my strength.” But don’t keep analyzing it or gritting your teeth about it. Just know that “joy” is the elan of life, the expression of life. Don’t work “like a horse” at it. No will power, no muscle power, no blood vessel power is involved in this mental and spiritual therapeutic technique. Just know and claim that the joy of the Lord is flowing through you now and wonders will happen as you pray this way. Freedom and peace of mind will be yours as a result.<\/p>\n How She Enriched Herself Through Effective Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n A woman said to me: “I was blocked financially. I had reached the point where I had not enough money for food for the children. All I had was $5. I held it in my hand and said, ‘God will multiply this exceedingly according to his riches in glory, and I am now filled with the riches of God.<\/p>\n All my needs are instantaneously met now and all the days of my life.’ I affirmed this for about half an hour, and a great sense of peace came over me. I spent the $5 freely for food. The owner of the market asked me if I wanted to work there as a cashier, since the present one had just gotten married and left. I accepted it, and shortly afterwards I married the owner (my boss), and we have experienced and are experiencing all the riches of life.”<\/p>\n This woman looked to the Source; she believed in her heart, and the blessings of the Infinite followed. Her good was magnified and multiplied exceedingly.<\/p>\n How Her Prayer for Her Students Worked Wonders<\/strong><\/p>\n Chatting with a teacher while traveling to Hawaii, she told me that she was a teacher of Spanish and French in a religious institution and that every morning all of them would join together, each one of the students affirming aloud: “I am inspired from On High. Infinite Intelligence leads and guides me in my studies. I pass all my examinations in Divine order. I radiate love and goodwill to all my classmates. I am happy, joyous and free. God loves me and cares for me.”<\/p>\n She said that a tremendous change has taken place in her students and that not a single one has failed in her classes for the past three years. She stated that she gives them a transfusion of faith and confidence in the Almighty every morning by telling them that they will pass, that they will be guided in their studies, and that they will have a perfect memory for everything they need to know. The students listen to her, absorb the truth of her statement, and together with their morning affirmations, these truths sink into their subconscious mind; and according to the impression in their subconscious, is it done unto them<\/p>\n She is a wise teacher who has discovered that scientific prayer works wonders and miracles in an endless number of ways.<\/p>\n How Effective Prayer Enabled Him to Make a Comeback<\/strong><\/p>\n A sales manager told me that he had been fired because of excessive drinking on the job and because of being involved with one of the secretaries in the office. He was very distressed, dejected, and worried about his wife, his income and his future.<\/p>\n In talking with his wife later, I discovered that she was a chronic nagger and had tried unsuccessfully to dominate and control her husband. She was abnormally jealous and very possessive, and she clocked him in every evening, creating a scene if he were not home at a certain hour.<\/p>\n He was emotionally and spiritually immature and did not handle the matter at all constructively. He deeply resented her nagging and her clocking of his arrival at home and retaliated by drinking and becoming involved with another woman. He said to me, “I just wanted to get even with her.”<\/p>\n Both of them agreed to start a prayer process night and morning, realizing that as they prayed for each other there could not possibly be any bitterness, hostility or resentment, as Divine love casts out everything unlike itself.<\/p>\n She prayed night and morning as follows: “My husband is God’s man. God is guiding him to his true place. What he is seeking is seeking him God’s love fills his soul and God’s peace fills his mind and heart. God prospers him in all ways. There are harmony, peace, love and understanding between us. It is God in action in our lives.”<\/p>\n He likewise prayed for his wife night and morning as follows: “My wife is God’s child. God loves her and cares for her. God’s love, peace, harmony and joy flow through her at all times and she is Divinely guided in all ways. There are harmony, peace, love and understanding between us. I see God in her and she sees God in me.”<\/p>\n How It All Worked Out<\/strong><\/p>\n As both of them became relaxed and peaceful about the situation, they realized that “only good can come out of the situation.” Soon he received a phone call from the president of the company, calling him back, stating that he had heard he had had a reconciliation with his wife, and at the same time he praised him for his past achievements and accomplishments for the organization.<\/p>\n Actually, his wife, without his knowledge, had visited the president and had told him the whole story, how happy they now were, and how the “other woman” had vanished out of his life. She told how they were now praying together. He was deeply impressed, and she and her husband discovered very quickly the riches of scientific prayer.<\/p>\n Let the Riches of the Infinite Flow Through You<\/strong><\/p>\n Constantly affirm, feel and believe that God multiplies your good exceedingly and you will be enriched every moment of the day spiritually, mentally, intellectually, financially and socially, for there is no end to the glory of man for his daily living. Watch the wonders that will happen as you impress these truths in your subconscious mind. You will experience a glorious future, even in a financial way.<\/p>\n The Sure Riches of “Watch and Pray”<\/strong><\/p>\n Watch your thoughts. Never talk about economic lack and limitation; never talk about your being poor or in want. It is very foolish to talk to your neighbors or relatives about hard times, financial problems and like matters. Count your blessings. Begin to think prosperous thoughts; talk about God’s riches present everywhere. Realize that the feeling of wealth produces wealth. When you talk about not having enough to go around, and how little you have, and how you must cut corners and eat the cheapest meat, these ‘thoughts are creative and you are only impoverishing yourself.<\/p>\n Use the money you now have freely; release it with joy and realize that God’s wealth flows to you in avalanches of abundance. Look up to the Source. As you turn to God, the response will come, as “He careth for you.” You will find neighbors, strangers and associates adding to your good and also to your supply of material things. Make it a practice to pray for Divine guidance in all your ways and believe that God is supplying all your needs according to His riches in glory. As you make a habit of this attitude of mind, you will find the invisible law of opulence can and will produce visible riches for you.<\/p>\n She Became a Tremendous Success Through Effective Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n A beauty parlor operator told me that the secret of her success was that every morning prior to opening her beauty salon, she had a quiet period in which she affirms: “God’s peace fills my soul and God’s love saturates my whole being. God guides, prospers and inspires me. I am illumined and His healing love flows from me to all my clients. Divine love comes in my door and Divine love goes out of my door. All those who come into my salon are blessed, healed and inspired. The Infinite Healing Presence saturates the whole place. This is the day the Lord hath made, and I rejoice and give thanks for the countless blessings which come to my clients and to myself.”<\/p>\n She had this prayer written out on a card and reiterates these truths every morning. At night she gives thanks for all her clients, claiming that they are guided, prospered, happy and harmonious and that God and His love flow through each one, filling up all the empty vessels in her life.<\/p>\n She stated to me that following this prayer technique pattern, at the end of three months she had far more clients than she could handle and had to hire three additional operators! She had discovered the riches of effective prayer and is prospering beyond her fondest dreams.<\/p>\n Realize the Rich Blessings of the Infinite<\/strong><\/p>\n Recently a doctor in Beverly Hills said to me that her constant prayer was as follows: “I live in the joyous expectancy of the best, and invariably the best comes to me. My favorite Bible verse with which I saturate my mind is: He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things (Acts 17:25).” She has learned that she is not dependent on people for joy, health, success and happiness or peace of mind. She looks to the Living Spirit Almighty within her for promotion, achievement, wealth, success and happiness. Whosoever trusteth in the Lord, happy is he (Proverbs 16:20).<\/p>\n Contemplate promotion, success, achievement, illumination and inspiration, and the Spirit of the<\/p>\n Almighty will move on your behalf, compelling you to express fully what you meditate on Let go now, and permit the Infinite riches of the Infinite One to open up new doors for you, and let wonders happen in your life.<\/p>\n The Riches of Effective Prayer Therapy<\/strong><\/p>\n In prayer therapy, avoid struggle and strain, since this attitude is indicative of your unbelief. In your subconscious is all the wisdom and power necessary to solve any problem Your conscious mind is prone to look at external conditions and tends continually to struggle and to resist. Remember, however, it is the quiet mind that gets things done. Quiet your body periodically; tell it to be still and relax, and it will obey you. When your conscious mind is quiet and receptive, the wisdom of your subconscious mind rises to the surface mind and you receive your solution.<\/p>\n How Do You Feel After Prayer?<\/strong><\/p>\n You can know if you have succeeded in prayer by the way you feel. If you remain worried or anxious, and if you are wondering how, when, where or through what source your answer will come, you are meddling. This indicates you do not really trust the wisdom of your subconscious. Avoid nagging yourself all day long or even from time to time. When you think of your desire, lightness of touch is important; remind yourself that Infinite Intelligence is taking care of it in Divine order far better than you can by tenseness of your conscious mind.<\/p>\n How Often Should You Pray?<\/strong><\/p>\n Many people ask: “How often should I pray for a loved one who is ill, who is in the hospital, or who is impoverished financially?” The general answer is that you should pray until you feel satisfied within, or you just feel that this is the best you can do for the time being. Expect your prayer for harmony, wholeness, vitality and abundance to be answered. You may pray later on during the day, as soon as you have gotten away from the last prayer. You will know when your prayer is answered by experiencing an inner sense of peace and certitude, followed by no further desire to pray.<\/p>\n Long sessions of prayer are usually a mistake, as they may indicate you are trying to force things by using mental coercion, which always results in the opposite of what you are praying for. You will often find that a short prayer uttered from the heart gets better results than a long prayer.<\/p>\n He Restoreth My Soul (Psalm 23:3)<\/strong><\/p>\n Learn to let go and relax. Do not give power to the ailment or condition. Give power and allegiance to the Infinite Healing Presence. The swimming instructor tells you that you can float on the water, which will support you if you remain quiet, still and at peace. But if you get nervous or fearful, you will sink.<\/p>\n When you are seeking a spiritual healing, feel that you are immersed in the Holy Omnipresence, and that the Golden River of life, love, truth and beauty is flowing through you, transforming your whole being into the pattern of harmony, health and peace. Identify yourself with the river of life and love, and feel yourself swimming in the great ocean of life. That sense of oneness with God will restore you. He reitoreth my soul(Psalm 23:3).<\/p>\n MEDITATION FOR A WONDERFUL FUTURE<\/strong><\/p>\n The following meditation used daily will bring you many wonderful things:<\/p>\n “I know that I mold, fashion and create my own destiny. My faith in God is my destiny; this means an abiding faith in all things good. I live in the joyous expectancy of the best; only the best comes to me. I know the harvest I will reap in the future, because all my thoughts are God’s thoughts, and God is with my thoughts of good. My thoughts are the seeds of goodness, truth and beauty. I now place my thoughts of love, peace, joy, success and goodwill in the garden of my mind. This is God’s garden and it will yield an abundant harvest. The glory and beauty of God will be expressed in my life. From this moment forward, I express life, love and truth. I am radiantly happy and prosperous in all ways. Thank you, Father.”<\/p>\n CHAPTER POINTS TO REMEMBER<\/strong><\/p>\n Chapter Seven<\/strong><\/p>\n How to Activate the Psychic Money-Machine<\/strong><\/p>\n “To prosper” means to succeed, to thrive, to turn out well. In other words, when you are prospering, you are expanding, growing spiritually, mentally, financially, socially and intellectually. In order to truly prosper, it is necessary that you become a channel through which the Life-Principle flows freely, harmoniously, joyously and lovingly. I suggest that you establish a definite method of working and thinkling and that you practice it regularly and systematically every day.<\/p>\n How Prosperity Thoughts Changed His Life<\/strong><\/p>\n One young man who consulted with me had experienced a “poverty complex” for many years and had received no answers to his prayers. He had prayed for prosperity, but the fear of poverty continuously weighed on his mind and, naturally, he attracted more lack and limitation than prosperity. The subconscious mind accepts the dominant of two ideas.<\/p>\n After talking with me, he began to realize that his thought-image of wealth produces wealth, and that every thought is creative unless it is neutralized by a counter thought of greater intensity. Furthermore, he realized that his thought and belief about poverty was greater than his belief in the infinite riches all around him Consequently, he changed his thoughts and kept them changed. I wrote out a prosperity prayer for him, as follows (I know it will benefit you also):<\/p>\n\n
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