“DRAW nigh to God and He will draw nigh to
you.”
If you
become like God you can read his thoughts; and if you do not you will find the
inspirational perception of truth impossible.
You can
never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and
fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one
to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper
relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the
thoughts of God.
If you
are poor, or if you are anxious about business or financial matters, you are
recommended to study carefully the first volume of this series, “The Science of
Getting Rich” That will present to you a solution for your problems of this
nature, no matter how large or how complicated they may seem to be. There is
not the least cause for worry about financial affairs; every person who wills
to do so may rise above want, have all he needs, and become rich. The same
source upon which you propose to draw for mental unfolding and spiritual power is
at your service for the supply of all your material wants. Study this truth
until it is fixed in your thoughts and until anxiety is banished from your
mind; enter the Certain Way, which leads to material riches.
Again, if
you are anxious or worried about your health, realize it is possible for you to
attain perfect health so that you may have strength sufficient for all that you
wish to do and more. That Intelligence which stands ready to give you wealth
and mental and spiritual power will rejoice to give you health also. Perfect
health is yours for the asking, if you will only obey the simple laws of life
and live aright. Conquer ill health and cast out fear. But it is not enough to
rise above financial and physical anxiety and worry; you must rise above moral
evil-doing as well. Sound your inner consciousness now for the motives that
actuate you and make sure they are right. You must cast out lust, and cease to
be ruled by appetite, and you must begin to govern appetite. You must eat only
to satisfy hunger, never for gluttonous pleasure, and in all things you must
make the flesh obey the spirit.
You must
lay aside greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and
powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the
sake of the soul, but not if you desire them for the lusts of the flesh.
Cast out
pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing
them. This is a vital point; there is no temptation so insidious as the selfish
desire to rule over others.
Nothing
so appeals to the average man or woman as to sit in the uppermost places at
feasts, to be respectfully saluted in the market place, and to be called Rabbi,
Master. To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of
every selfish person. The struggle for power over others is the battle of the
competitive world, and you must rise above that world and its motives and
aspirations and seek only for life. Cast out envy; you can have all that you
want, and you need not envy any man what he has. Above all things see to it
that you do not hold malice or enmity toward any one; to do so cuts you off
from the mind whose treasures you seek to make your own. “He that loves not his
brother, loves not God.”
Lay aside
all narrow personal ambition and determine to seek the highest good and to be
swayed by no unworthy selfishness.