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Secret Door To Success, Chapter 9, Florence Scovel Shinn

Chapter 9 - The Way of Abundance

Date: 12/27/2007 10:29:38 PM ( 17 y ) ... viewed 1989 times

Chapter 9 - The Way of Abundance
"Then shall you lay up gold as dust." --Job 22:24
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 prosperous.
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.
A friend in one of my question and answer classes
told this story.
Some people in his home town, who had always been
poor, suddenly struck oil in their back yard. It
brought great riches. The father joined the
country club and went in for golf. He was no
longer young - the exercise was too much for him
and he dropped dead on the links.
This filled the whole family with fear. They all
decided they might have heart trouble, so they are
now in bed with trained nurses watching every
heart beat.
In the race-thought people must worry about
something.
They no longer worried about money, so they
shifted their worries to health.
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 you return to the Almighty, you shall be built
up (in consciousness), you shall put away iniquity
far from your tabernacles."
"Then shall you lay up gold as dust, the gold of
Ophir as the stones of the brooks."
"Yea, the Almighty shall be your defense and you
shall 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.
Intuition is usually known as a hunch. I do not
apologize for the word "hunch" anymore. It is now
in Webster's latest dictionary.
I had a hunch to look up "hunch," and there it
was.
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
yourself with him, and be at peace, thereby good
shall come unto you." In the French Bible we
read: "Attach yourself to God and you will have
peace. You shall thus enjoy happiness."
The 23rd verse: "If you return to the Almighty,
you shall be build up, you shall put away iniquity
far from your tabernacles." In the French
translation we read "You shall be re-established
if you return 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 shall
you 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 your gold, your silver, your
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.
The inspiration of the Almighty shall be my
defense and I shall have plenty of silver.

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