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The
Way of Abundance
by
Florence Scovel Shinn
God
is our infinite and eternal Source of Abundance, and as we realize
this, we free ourselves from any appearence of lack or opposition
in our lives. This is one of the fundamental messages stressed here
by one of the greatest metaphysics masters of the last century.
Let's follow her powerful words on the Way of Abundance, and find
peace and faith in allowing Universal Intelligence to take charge
of our lives.
The
way of abundance is a one-way street.
As
the old saying is, "there are no two ways about it."
You
are either heading for lack, or heading for abundance. The man with
a rich consciousness and the man with a poor consciousness are not
walking on the same mental street.
There
is a lavish supply, divinely planned for each individual.
The
rich man is tapping it, for rich thoughts produce rich surroundings.
Change
your thoughts, and in the twinkling of an eye, all your conditions
change. Your world is a world of crystallized ideas, crystallized
words.
Sooner
or later, you reap the fruits of your words and thoughts.
"Words
are bodies or forces which move spirally and return in due season
to cross the lives of their creators." People who are always
talking lack and limitation, reap lack and limitation.
You
cannot enter the Kingdom of Abundance bemoaning your lot.
I
know a woman who had always been limited in her ideas of prosperity.
She was continually making her old clothes "do," instead of buying
new clothes. She was very careful of what money she had, and was
always advising her husband not to spend so much. She said repeatedly,
"I don't want anything I can't afford."
She
couldn't afford much, so she didn't have much. Suddenly her whole
world cracked up. Her husband left her, weary of her nagging and
limited thoughts. She was in despair, when one day she came across
a book on metaphysics. It explained the power of thought and words.
She
realized that she had invited every unhappy experience by wrong
thinking. She laughed heartily at her mistakes, and decided to profit
by them. She determined to prove the law of abundance.
She
used what money she had, fearlessly, to show her faith in her invisible
supply. She relied upon God as the source of her prosperity. She
no longer voiced lack and limitation. She kept herself feeling and
looking prosperious.
Her
old friends scarcely recognized her. She had swung into the way
of abundance. More money came to her than she had ever had before.
Unheard-of doors opened - amazing channels were freed. She became
very successful in a work she had had no training for.
She
found herself on miracle ground. What had happened?
She
had changed the quality of her words and thoughts. She had taken
God into her confidence, and into all her affairs. She had many
eleventh hour demonstrations, but her supply always came, for she
dug her ditches and gave thanks without wavering.
Someone
called me up recently and said, "I am looking desperately for a
position."
I
replied, "Don't look desperately for it, look for it with praise
and thanksgiving, for Jesus Christ, the greatest of metaphysicians,
said to pray with praise and thanksgiving."
Praise
and thanksgiving open the gates, for expectancy always
wins.
Of
course, the law is impersonal, and a dishonest person with rich
thoughts will attract riches - but, "a thing ill-got has ever
bad success," as Shakespeare says. It will be of short duration
and will not bring happiness.
We
have only to read the papers to see that the way of the transgressor
is hard.
That
is the reason it is so necessary to make your demands aright on
the Universal Supply, and ask for what is yours by divine right
and under grace in a perfect way.
Some
people attract prosperity, but cannot hold it. Sometimes their heads
are turned, sometimes they lose it through fear and worry.
In
the race-thought people must worry about something.
The old idea was, "that you can't have everything." If you got one
thing, you'd lose another. People were always saying, "Your luck
won't last," "It's too good to be true."
Jesus
Christ said, "In the world (world thought) there is tribulation,
but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world (thought)."
In
the superconscious, there is a lavish supply for every demand, and
your good is perfect and permanent.
"If
thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up (in consciousness),
thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles."
"Then
shalt thou lay up gold as dust, the gold of Ophir as the stones
of the brooks."
"Yea,
the Almighty shall be thy defense and thou shalt have plenty of
silver."
What
a picture of opulence! The result of "Returning to the Almighty
(in consciousness)."
With
the average person (who has thought in terms of lack for a long
time) it is very difficult to build up a rich consciousness.
I
have a student who has attracted great success by making the statement:
"I am the daughter of the King! My rich Father now pours out his
abundance upon me. I am the daughter of the King! Everything makes
way for me."
Many
people put up with limited conditions because they are too lazy
(mentally), to think themselves out of them.
You
must have a great desire for financial freedom, you must feel yourself
rich, you must see yourself rich, you must continually prepare for
riches. Become as a little child and make believe you are rich.
You are then impressing the subconscious with expectancy.
The
imagination is man's workshop, the scissors of the mind, where he
is constantly cutting out the events of his life!
The
superconscious is the realm of inspiration, revelation, illumination
and intuition.
The superconscious is the realm of perfect ideas. The great genius
captures his thoughts from the superconscious.
"Without
the vision (imagination) my people perish."
When
people have lost the power to image their good, they "perish" (or
go under).
It
is interesting to compare the translation of the French and English
Bibles. In the 21st verse of the 22nd chapter of Job we read: "Acquaint
now thyself with him, and be at peace, thereby good shall come unto
thee." In the French Bible we read: "Attach thyself to
God and you will have peace. Thou shalt thus enjoy happiness."
The
23rd verse: "If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be build
up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles."
In the French translation we read "Thou shalt be re-established
if thou returnest to the Almighty, putting iniquity far off from
your dwellings."
In
the 24th verse we read a new and amazing translation. The English
Bible reads, "Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold
of Ophir as the stones of the brooks." The French Bible says:
"Throw gold into the dust, the gold of Ophir amongst the pebbles
of the torrents, and the Almighty shall be thy gold, thy silver,
thy riches."
This
means if people are depending entirely on their visible supply,
it is even better to throw it away and trust absolutely to the Almighty
for gold, silver and riches.
I
give an example in the story told me by a friend.
A
priest went to visit a nunnery in France, where they fed many children.
One of the nuns, in despair, told the priest they had no food, the
children must go hungry. She said that they had but one piece of
silver (about the value of a quarter of a dollar). They needed food
and clothing.
The
priest said, "Give me the coin."
She
handed it to him and he threw it out the window.
"Now,"
he said, "rely entirely upon God."
Within
a short time friends arrived with plenty of food and gifts of money.
This
doesn't mean to throw away what money you have, but don't depend
upon it. Depend upon your invisible supply, the Bank of the
Imagination.
Let
us now attach ourselves to God and have peace. For He shall be our
gold, our silver and our riches.
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