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"Your
prosperity is not a thing of condition; your prosperity is not a thing
of law over which you have no control. Your prosperity depends
upon the grandeur of your thought and nothing else. Your word is
the cause of all that is. But few people realize that ... "
- Dr. Ernest
Holmes, Author of The Science of Mind
Those who lack the awareness of
spiritual principles often think that prosperity is all about material
things, but nothing could be further from the truth. Spiritual
prosperity brings us ever closer to God, Infinite Spirit. The
Creator has given us an infinitely abundant Universe in which to live,
and as we learn from the allegory of Adam and Eve in the Bible, we are
to accept the Good that God has prepared for us. There is a real
"Garden of Eden" but the masses are not aware of this; it is
the unlimited abundant Universe in which we live. The Infinite
does not do anything on a small scale and the Garden of Eden is no
exception; it is not a place on the map, it is a state of mind, and it
is available to ALL. We have allowed false religious concepts to
blind us to God's Infinite Goodness. We have allowed ourselves to
believe the lie that poverty is more godly than prosperity. We
have allowed ourselves to believe that God rewards and punishes based on
our human behavior. And, worst of all, we have believed that
sometimes it is God's will that we be poor. All of this is just so
much nonsense ... but at the time we accepted it in our consciousness,
it must have made sense to us, for there are many of us who struggle
financially.
Religions and even spiritual teachings have
taught us to tithe in order to prosper, but tithing does not guarantee
prosperity anymore than not tithing can block our prosperity.
Usually those who are telling us to tithe are the ones who are being
tithed to. Giving to our church or spiritual teacher is our
responsibility, no different than anything else we pay for. If we
want electricity, we pay the electric bill. If we want spiritual
guidance or inspiration, then we must give something or at some point
the church or spiritual teacher will not be there for us. And our
belief that we "don't have the money" ... only holds us back
... not the church or the spiritual teacher. We "always have
something to give" ... this is the truth that begins to free us
from financial struggle ... "Our
prosperity is not a thing of condition,"
Dr. Holmes tells us, and this is true. Nor is it "a
thing of law over which we have no control,"
he says. Our prosperity is dependent on one thing and that is our
"belief" ... and as we believe that we are prosperous, our
thoughts and words will be aligned with this belief. If our
"belief" in prosperity is "wavering" ... then our
thoughts and words will be aligned accordingly to our wavering.
The truth of spiritual prosperity is that we
must stay consistently and constantly in the "spirit of
prosperity." In other words, we must use our mind and
"double-think." We must think prosperity at the same
time as we balance our checkbook and pay our bills. We must
"double-think" that we never have less no matter how much we
may be paying out. We must "double-think" and realize
that our belief in our prosperity attracts to us prosperity ... not the
things that we do or the conditions in which we live and work. Our
prosperity is not dependent on persons, places or things ... it is
dependent on "belief" ... and this "belief" must be
centered in the Principle, "it is
done unto you as you believe."
In order to firmly "believe" ... we must make it a habit to be
conscious of what we are believing. And in order to be conscious
of what we are believing, we must be conscious of the words we use and
the thoughts that we think. Our thoughts and words will reveal to
us, "clearly" ... if we are believing in prosperity ... or
limitation and lack.
The Science of Mind offers spiritual mind
treatment as the "mental tool" to keep us conscious of what we
are believing. A treatment is a series of statements that declare
what we believe about God ... our relationship to God ... what we
"accept" for ourselves ... our measure of gratitude that we
have what we desire ... and a declaration that we have released our
words into Mind knowing that the "Law of Attraction" will
return to us ... what we believe. But ... our treatment must
"convince" us that we have what we desire ... that it is ours
now, even if only on the Un-Seen side of Life. And for many of us,
we may spend hours in treatment before we are truly
"convinced" that our Good is ours, now. In treatment, we
may find ourselves using words that, previously, we failed to use,
because as we work in treatment, we become far more conscious of the
words that we use and the ideas associated with them. Our work in
treatment will be very satisfying as prosperity becomes the Law of our
lives.
And so we find
that we can demonstrate "money for nothing" but by "right
thinking." We cannot manipulate the Law with things, actions
or even words that have no true meaning to us. We must foster and
nurture within our mind a "belief in our own ability to accept
prosperity" ... and a confidence in our selves to know that we can
"double-think" our way to prosperous thoughts under any
circumstances. Our mind is not limited ... when It is aligned with
the One Mind which is God, unlimited Good. Always remember and
never forget, "money for nothing but by right thinking."
AND
SO IT IS!
Keep
the faith!
Rev.
Dr. Henry Lee Bates
Visit Rev. Bates BLOG: Living
the Science of Mind
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