How To Attract Success

CHAPTER 13

In the building of a consciousness for money, the first thing is to realize that there is an abundance of money in the world NOW. When we stop and think for a moment we know that this statement is true.

Should we have any doubt about it all we need to do is visit the United States Treasury, or some great banking institution, and see the vast piles of money which they have in storage. We can also take a stroll on Broadway and visit some of the Lobster Palaces along The Great White Way, or some of the fashionable hotels and restaurants on Fifth Avenue, and we will have no difficulty whatever in coming away perfectly satisfied that there is an abundance of money in the world.

How can we help being satisfied of this truth when we see the men in such places pull out of their pockets rolls of money big as two fists, containing nothing less than $100 bills which they keep for small change, most of their roll being composed of $500 and $1000 bills, and then see them give the waiter a $500 bill with which to pay for a dinner costing perhaps $150, telling the waiter to keep the change.

While we realize that this method of reckless, extravagant, prodigal expenditure is destructive, yet we cannot help but admire the opulent consciousness of these spenders in New York's gay life.

I hear someone say, Yes, there is plenty of money in the world but the other fellows have it all while I do not have any. Why do the other fellows have all the money, and why is our supply so limited?

This is not the result of chance, accident, or luck; it is the normal effect of a perfectly natural law which every life uses, either intelligently or ignorantly, consciously or unconsciously, constructively or destructively; the method of using this law by each life determines its effect on the environment.

Those who are rich have recognized their oneness with the abundance of supply. They developed that recognition either in former incarnations and so were born into an environment of abundance in this one, or else they have developed it in this incarnation.

When they developed it is immaterial in so far as the fact of their having developed it is concerned. When we have lack it is because we have recognized our separation from this abundance of supply either in former incarnations and therefore were born into an environment of lack in this one, or else we have unconsciously and ignorantly developed that consciousness in this incarnation, for unless we had recognized in our consciousness our separation from the abundance of supply we never could have been separated from it on the material or objective plane. The second step, therefore, is for us to begin to create a consciousness that it is possible for us here and now to relate with the abundance of supply just as well as anyone else.

The only way such a relationship can be established is through the people and things on the material plane, because the Universal Law can only manifest in objective form in the material world through them. Because of this fact many have obtained the idea that they must manipulate people and things in order to get the money but that is where we have made a big mistake.

While it is true that under the Law of Force we can and do manipulate people and things, just as the chickens run after and snatch the food from each other, and we can achieve temporary success and obtain large fortunes as long as we exert the stronger force, yet the time always comes somewhere down the line of our cosmic journey when some other life is able to manipulate the Law of Force in a stronger way than we and then our fortunes begin to crumble and melt away. Under the Law of Harmonious Attraction the manipulation of people and things belongs to God the great Universal Law and is a part of the work with which we have absolutely nothing to do.