If these prosperity treatments were administered to poverty sufferers in every country of the globe the world would take on a different appearance

The new philosophy teaches us how to get hold of our resources, and how to use them, so as to get just what we want. It teaches us that the source from which all things spring is in the great cosmic intelligence or God which fills all space, and that in this vast cosmic ocean riches inconceivable are waiting to be objectified and utilized by man. It teaches us that all these things will respond to the right thought, the right motive, and that we can call out everything we desire from this All Supply. It holds that the reason why our lives are so lean, so pinched and poor, why our achievement is so limited, so picayune, in comparison with what we are capable of, is because we do not draw upon the All Supply. Our narrow, limited, dwarfed ideals, our poverty-stricken view of things, the limitations our own thought imposes—these are the things that rob us of power and keep us in poverty. Our achievements or our possessions can never outrun our convictions or our ideals. We fix our own limitations. When a man gets lost in the woods he cannot tell the direction in which he is facing, because he has lost the points of the compass. Unless a man so lost can see the sun and recover his bearings, he will walk around in a circle, thinking he is going in a straight line in a certain direction. He makes no advance because he isn’t facing toward his goal. He doesn’t know this, but after a while when he finds he is not getting toward any opening and doesn’t know how long he may wander about in a circle, he gets discouraged. Millions of people are lost in the dense woods of wrong thought. They are not traveling toward the goal of prosperity. They see no light, no way out of the woods, and they lose courage. They are turned about mentally, and don’t know it. If the people in the great failure army today could only be given prosperity treatments and shown that they are in their present predicament because of their wrong mental attitude, because they have been working for one thing and expecting something else; if they could only be turned squarely about so that they would face the goal of their desire instead of turning their backs upon it mentally, an enormous number of them would even yet make a splendid success of their lives. That is all that millions of people who are comparative failures in life, as well as the complete “down and outs,” need to be turned about so that they would face life in the right direction. What a pity it is that in this land of opportunity and plenty our Government should not have institutions conducted by experts for the treatment of poverty sufferers, those who are obsessed with the idea that their poverty is unavoidable. These people are just as much in need of prosperity treatments as the patients in hospitals are in need of health treatments. Most of them are curable. They have only lost their way on the life path and are facing the darkness instead of the light, facing towards the poverty goal instead of the prosperity goal. Their mental attitude needs changing so it will point toward success instead of toward failure, toward comfort and plenty, opulence, instead of poverty and limitation. Mental prosperity treatments would kindle a new hope in their discouraged minds, and expectancy of good things would take the place of despair. A new light would come into the eyes of those poor people; and if these prosperity treatments were administered to poverty sufferers in every country of the globe the world would take on a different appearance. The time is coming when the State will have trained specialists, experts in the law of mental opulence, to give such treatments to the men and women who are in the great failure army, those who are headed in the wrong direction, those who have lost their way on the life path. But there is no need for those now suffering from poverty to wait for the coming of that time to be cured. Any intelligent person can apply the law and treat himself for prosperity. Mental laws are clear and simple. We know that the fear thought attracts more fear, the worry thought more worry, the anxious thought more anxiety, the hatred thought more hatred, the jealous thought more jealousy, and the poverty thought more poverty. This is the law of attraction. Like every other law, it is unalterable. The poverty disease can be cured only by its antidote——the prosperity thought. You carry within you this antidote to the poison of poverty, of lack, of pinching, dwarfing limitation. Use it, and cure yourself. The prosperity thought will kill the poverty germ. Keep your supply pipes open between yourself and the infinite source of all supply. Don’t pinch them by doubt, don’t cut off the supply by limiting, pinching, poverty, lack thought. Keep your supply pipes wide open by the consciousness of your oneness with the One, your connection with the All Supply. Abundance follows a law as exact as that of the law of mathematics. If we obey it we get the flow. If we pinch it, strangle it, we cut off the supply. Suppose a youth who had decided to study medicine and become a doctor should say to himself: “I cannot picture myself as a success because I don’t know anything about what may come to me. Perhaps I haven’t the qualifications that make a successful physician. I may never become one. I may be a failure. I doubt if I am fitted for it, but I’ll try, anyway.” Do you think such a timid, doubting, negative attitude would ever carry anyone to the success goal? Of course it wouldn’t. The young medical student who is going to succeed is the one who pictures himself constantly as a successful physician, sees himself in a fine office, with a lucrative practice, climbing to the top of his profession. He is constantly visualizing himself as a successful physician. Now, the same rule applies to the poor man who wants to become prosperous. He must picture himself as prosperous, he must obey the law of opulence by holding the ideal of opulence in his mind, and he must saturate himself with the prosperity thought, the thought of abundance. If you wish to cure yourself of the poverty disease you should begin by giving yourself prosperity treatments something like this. Say to yourself, “If I am God’s child I have inherited all the good things of the universe. I am heir to all supply, to the all-good. Poverty cannot touch the reality of me any more than disease can, for the reality of me is health. Health is the everlasting fact, and disease, sickness, is merely the absence of the reality. Poverty is not my normal condition. There can be no lack, no poverty for God’s image. ‘All that my Father hath is mine.’” Repeat daily the chanting of the Holy Name of Lord Krishna, Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare continuously and affirms to yourself, I am success. Though hungry, cold, ill-clad, I wander for a while, I smile and say: ‘It is but for a time—I shall be glad Tomorrow, for good fortune comes my way. God is my Father, He has wealth untold; His wealth is mine, health, happiness and gold.’ Four kind of men surrender unto the Lord, All the good things you need are yours by inheritance. Claim them, expect them, work for them, believe they are already yours, and you will realize them in your life. If you continually assert your kinship with God your Father, to whom all things belong, and send out the vigorous thought of abundance, a generous supply of all you need—which is your birthright—poverty cannot hold you its slave. I was recently talking with a man who only a few years ago was so poor that he and his wife and children were reduced to a diet of bread and crackers without butter. They couldn’t pay even the cheapest rent or buy themselves comfortable clothing. In fact, they were rapidly heading toward the ranks of the “down and outs.” Today they are living in luxury, in a sumptuous hotel. They own a beautiful car, and have all they need to make life comfortable. They do not appear like the same people who but a comparatively short time ago were in a condition of semi-starvation.

[ THE SUPERSOUL THE SOURCE OF EVERYTHING]. Whence the change? Did someone leave them a fortune, or did they find a gold mine? No, nothing of that sort at all. They simply realized that their poverty was of their own making, that the cause of their miserable condition was entirely mental. And there and then they turned their backs on their despair environment and resolved that, no matter what appearances were, they would face the light and struggle toward it. As a result they began in a very short time to attract better things. The whole family has now taken a new lease of life. The expression of despair and misery has gone out of their faces, and is replaced by the light of hope and joy. There is just the difference in their appearance and condition between despair and gladness, between the hope and expectation of more of the good things which belong to them, and the fear of want, the misery of grinding limitations. Psychology is teaching us that all forms of discouragement, despondent thoughts, thoughts of doubt, of fear, of worry, must be kept out of the mind, for it cannot create while these enemies are in possession of the mental kingdom. We are finding that in order to create, to build, we must hold a constructive mental attitude all the time, that we must keep all negatives, all thoughts of discouragement, despondency, of possible failure out of the mind. We are learning through psychology that we can produce only that which we concentrate upon, that which we constantly think of; that only that which is dominant in our mind, whether it is beneficial or injurious will be reproduced in our lives. Your mental attitude will lead you into the light or hold you in darkness. It will lead you to hope or despair, to a glorious success or a miserable failure, and it is entirely within your own power to choose which it shall be. Successful people, without knowing it, perhaps, are constantly giving themselves prosperity treatments, success treatments, by encouraging themselves, by making their minds positive, so that they will be immune from all negative, discouraging, poverty thought currents. Holding the success thought, the prosperity ideal, constantly dwelling upon one’s successful future, expecting it, working for it,—these are, whether you know it or not, success, prosperity treatments. Suppose that every little while a successful man should stop holding the success ideal and should indulge in discouraging, despondent thoughts, allow himself to get down in the dumps and feel that good fortune was deserting him, what do you think the result would be? Why, he would probably lose more in a single day by such negative treatments than he could neutralize in a week of prosperity treatments. Every time you indulge in discouraging and gloomy, despondent thoughts, every time you allow yourself to get down in the dumps or in the blues, you are tearing down what you have been trying to build up by your success treatments, by holding the prosperous thought. Your attitude is hostile to prosperity, and your very atmosphere blights and strangles it. You practically say, “I long to have you, Mr. Prosperity, but I don’t believe I ever will. You were evidently not intended for me, for everything I do ends in failure. There must be some strange fate that is keeping me from the success and prosperity I want. I really never expect to be prosperous, although I am working hard to get you, Mr. Prosperity.”

It is such a mental attitude as this that is driving prosperity away from multitudes of people. If you want to better your condition you must get away from the conviction of poverty, you must keep the want thought, the poverty thought and conviction out of your mind; for these connect you all the time with the poverty and the lack thought currents from other like minds. Multitudes of people through ignorance of the law condemn themselves to lives of poverty. They do not realize that, every time they think or say that they never expect to get away from the clutches of want, that no matter how hard they work there is nothing but the everlasting drudgery, grind and poverty for them, that fate is against them and they are doomed to remain poor, they are confirming and strengthening poverty conditions. If we are ever going to enjoy abundance, we must talk abundance and freedom, not poverty and limitation. We must think abundance and not dam the stream of our supply so that we will get little drizzles instead of a generous flow. What would you think of a prince who should go away from his father’s palace and live in a poverty-stricken environment, in the midst of lack and want, and who should constantly claim that he couldn’t do any better, that this was what was intended for him? You would say that it was his own fault; that there was plenty in his father’s house and that it was his any time he chose to claim it; that the fatted calf and the royal robe were always waiting for him. Yet most of us act just as foolishly. There is plenty of everything waiting for you in the All-Supply in our Father’s house. It is yours by right of inheritance. Why don’t you claim it? You cannot get it until you do claim it, any more than the prodigal son could enjoy his father’s bounty while he continued to put it from him and feed instead on the husks of swine. Prosperity, or opulence, in the larger sense in which we use it, is everything that is good for us, an abundance of all that is beautiful, uplifting and inspiring in life. It is everything that will enrich the personality, the experience, the spiritual life. This opulence, which includes everything we can desire, is intended for all God’s children. All we have to do to participate in it is to reach out into the cosmic intelligence with our thought, with our ideals, our aspirations and attract our own.