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Prosperity
Foreword
[Prosperity]
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It is perfectly logical to assume that a wise and competent
Creator would provide for the needs of His creatures in
their various stages of growth. The supply would be given
as required and as the necessary effort for its
appropriation was made by the creature. Temporal needs
would be met by temporal things, mental needs by things of
like character, and spiritual needs by spiritual elements.
For simplification of distribution all would be composed of
one primal spiritual substance, which under proper
direction could be transformed into all products at the
will of the operator. This is a crude yet true illustration
of the underlying principles on which the human family is
supplied on this earth. The Father has provided a universal
seed substance that responds with magical power to the
active mind of man. Faith in the increasing capacity of
this seed substance, whether wrapped in visible husks or
latent in invisible electrical units, always rewards man
with the fruits of his labor.
The farmer may seem to get his supply from the seeds he
plants, but he would never plant a seed unless he had faith
in its innate capacity to increase, and that seed would
never multiply without the quickening life of Spirit. Thus
we see that all increase of substance depends on the
quickening life of Spirit, and this fact gives us the key
to mental processes that when used spiritually will greatly
increase and at the same time simplify our appropriation
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of that inexhaustible substance which creative Mind has so
generously provided.
In the following lessons we have attempted to explain man's
lawful appropriation of the supplies spiritually and
electrically provided by God. When we understand and adjust
our mind to the realm or kingdom where these rich ideas and
their electrical thought forms exist we shall experience in
our temporal affairs what is called "prosperity."
We said "their electrical thought forms." Let us explain
that all creative processes involve a realm of ideas and a
realm of patterns or expressions of those ideas. The
patterns arrest or "bottle up" the free electric units that
sustain the visible thing. Thus creation is in its
processes a trinity, and back of the visible universe are
both the original creative idea and the cosmic rays that
crystallize into earthly things. When we understand this
trinity in its various activities we shall be able to
reconcile the discoveries of modern science with the
fundamentals of religion.
Modern science teaches us that space is heavily charged
with energies that would transform the earth if they could
be controlled. Sir Oliver Lodge says that a single cubic
inch of the ether contains energy enough to run a
forty-horse-power engine forty million years. The
divergence of opinion among physicists as to the reality of
the ether does not nullify the existence in space of
tremendous potentialities. Sir Arthur Eddington says that
about half the leading physicists assert that the ether
exists and the other half deny its existence, but, in his
words,
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"both parties mean exactly the same thing, and are divided
only by words."
Spiritual understanding says that the ether exists as an
emanation of mind and should not be confused in its
limitations with matter. Mathematical measurements applied
to the ether work it out of existence because its reality
is in the Mind that conceived it and its being is governed
and sustained by ideas, and ideas have no physical
dimensions. So the ether will have existence and deposit
matter only so long as Mind has use for it. When infinite
Mind has completed the cycles of creation, both the
invisible and the visible universes will be rolled up as a
scroll and disappear and only Mind remain. "And all the
host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be
rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade
away."
It adds greatly to the stability of a Christian's faith to
know that Jesus anticipated the discoveries of modern
science of the existence of that kingdom called "the
ether." He named it the kingdom of the heavens, and His
illustrations of its possibilities are unsurpassed. He did
not say it was a place the good would inherit after death
but an estate we could have here and now. "It is your
Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom."
Jesus taught that we can incorporate life-giving rays into
our mind, body, and affairs through faith. Where physicists
merely describe the mechanical presence of life as energy,
Jesus taught man how by the exercise of his mind he can
make that life obey
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him. Instead of a universe of blind mechanical forces Jesus
showed the universe to be persuaded and directed by
intelligence.
What we need to realize above all else is that God has
provided for the most minute needs of our daily life and
that if we lack anything it is because we have not used our
mind in making the right contact with the supermind and the
cosmic ray that automatically flows from it.
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