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Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters
Permanent Prosperity
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The only way to become permanently prosperous and
successful is through quickening, awakening, and bringing
into righteous use all the indwelling resources of Spirit.
When we develop our soul and express its talents and
capabilities in loving service to God and humankind, our
temporal needs will be supplied in bountiful measure. We
have access to the realm of rich ideas; we enrich our
consciousness by incorporating these rich ideas into it. A
rich consciousness always demonstrates prosperity.
"The kingdom of God is in the midst of you" (Lk. 17:21).
Jesus said, "Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness,
and all these things shall be yours as well" (Mt. 6:33).
This means that we are to find the wealth of capabilities
and spiritual resources within us, and bring them into
expression. When we develop the power to accomplish things
and the qualities that we need in order to accomplish them,
success is assured.
We must depend wholly on the inner kingdom of supply and
the indwelling Christ, for this inner way is the only way
to receive permanently. We are to cease depending on outer,
material avenues for prosperity, because when we look to
the outer we look away from the one resource that is within
us.
Prosperity is the result of complying with laws that
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are revealed by the Spirit of truth within. Those who are
prosperous and successful are the people who have a rich
consciousness. They open their minds to rich ideas, and
then cash in on these ideas in an outer way. The people who
are famous and successful are the ones who have developed
their innate abilities and used the success-producing ideas
that have come to them.
Sometimes we begin at the wrong end of the prosperity line,
and our methods need changing. Perhaps we try to accumulate
money to meet our temporal needs without first laying hold
of the equivalent of money on the inner planes of
consciousness. This inner equivalent consists of our rich
ideas, our innate capabilities and resources of Spirit.
A great help in realizing permanent prosperity is to come
into the realization that we do not work to earn money to
meet our expenses! This is a delusion of mortal mind. In
reality, in earning money we are expressing the God-given
faculties and powers to bless others, and to keep our part
of the divine law of giving and receiving. The supply is a
gift of God and is ours because it is a part of God's plan.
We are to accept it in faith as such. Expect it to come,
and it will.
Prosperity is not an accumulation of money or other
so-called wealth, as we have sometimes thought. Wouldn't it
be a terrible thing if we were eternally surrounded with
the material baubles that we in our childish fancies
believe to be prosperity? Wouldn't you
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dread to think of spending eternity, with chains of houses
and lands, and storehouses of food, and wardrobes of
clothing, and garages of cars, and chests of silver?
Wouldn't you dread to think that men and women were always
to be deluded with the belief that these formed things are
the realities, the truly valuable things of life? Why, we'd
have to employ guards and give our thought to caring for
our wealth! We'd never get to the place where we could get
still and learn from the Father the deeper things, the
soul-satisfying things--the lessons there are for us ere we
arise into the majesty of sonship--the realization of
oneness! Let us rejoice then that our resources are the God
qualities, the spiritual sources and substances from which
our consciousness, our body, our home, come forth in
response to our need and our word of faith and wisdom and
authority.
Let us rejoice that our good is in the realm of Mind, where
it is instantly available and responsive to our thought and
word and need. Rejoice that it is all under law, that it
holds us to the law, even though a negative attitude does
fail to produce desirable results! The lessons of
experience are helpful to us until we learn the
unchangeableness of the law and determine in our minds that
prosperity is progress, accomplishment of that which one
has an urge to do, gain in spiritual, mental, physical or
financial matters, attainment of that which is good and
needful. Supply in abundance for the so-called temporal
needs is a part of prosperity. And surely, since God has
given us this physical being, and the
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physical earth, and all its bounty, it is not wrong for us
to get the understanding of the full free use of it all!
If we are ever to understand and use higher spiritual laws,
we must learn to use the laws governing our present state!
As we do this, we shall see that they are different phases
of the same law.
"The Lord is more willing to give than we are to receive."
The bounty of God is within us, undeveloped, and all about
us, unused and misunderstood. It is ours to use all that
the Father has.
Did I hear you say that healing comes from the Spirit
within but that prosperity comes from without, or is
something outside? Well, now, are you sure? Let's see.
Spirit within is the quickening, adjusting, harmonizing
force, yes. We must agree to think health, and to bless the
body, and to express that which causes all the functions of
the organism to work perfectly. But there is the physical
side of health, also. Spirit must have substance through
which to manifest! You must provide the manifest substance
and life elements in proper food, and drink, and sunshine,
and air. Without these Spirit would have no vehicle--and
these are drawn in from the outside! Do you see?
So it is with prosperity. The Spirit of Christ in you
reveals the plan of God in your life and quickens in you
the urge and the desire for the activities and the
appropriations that fulfill the divine law in your being.
Your faculties must let Spirit work through them, and
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develop them to the point where they can express the Christ
ideas. They must learn to draw upon the universal spiritual
substance and life, and mold it, and make use of it either
for health or for prosperity. We have accepted the
suggestions of those whose judgments in other things we
might not be willing to abide by, and have thought that
some things are "food which perisheth." The consciousness
determines whether it is food that perishes, or whether it
is living substance that is building an eternal temple. The
results we get from the full, free use of life and
substance are determined by our beliefs and our habits.
When you develop your soul and express its talents and
capabilities in loving service to God and humankind, your
temporal needs will be supplied in bountiful measure. You
have access to the rich ideas of Divine Mind; enrich your
consciousness by incorporating rich ideas into it. When you
make righteous use of your indwelling resources of Spirit,
you will become a magnet to attract success.
A splendid prosperity lesson is found in the 1st chapter of
Joshua: "Only be strong and very courageous, being careful
to do according to all the law ... turn not from it to the
right hand or to the left, that you may have good success
wherever you go. This book of the law shall not depart out
of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night,
that you may be careful to do according to all that is
written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous,
and then
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you shall have good success . . . for the Lord your God is
with you."
When you are "careful to do according to all that is
written," the law will open all the ways and outer avenues
of supply for you.
Those who take time regularly to give themselves to the
necessary prayer and meditation, to get new light and to
round out their consciousness and ability to use all their
faculties, find that they go from one prosperity to
another. They frequently finish with one thing undertaken.
This does not mean that they have failed or that they must
be without position and resources. It means that they are
being offered the next higher step, and that by entering
upon the new undertaking or the greater light given in the
present place, they are growing and bringing forth more of
the inner resources.
True prosperity is not making money or putting out goods or
developing property. It is determining what our souls
require in order to cause them to unfold more of God; and
then how to harmonize their expression with the needs of
our fellow human beings so that all are benefited and
inspired to unfold and express more of their inner
spiritual resources. The exchange of merchandise and money
is merely incidental to this spiritual association and
growth. Money success comes as a result; but there are
other results that should be
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sought and rejoiced over even more than the financial
returns.
Radiant health and physical freedom and the greater
awakening of all the faculties and their physical centers
of activity is another more valuable gain than the increase
in salary and the promotion to a greater chair in the
management's office.
The feeling that one is doing something to help in the
establishment of the kingdom of heaven in the earth is
great compensation for the hours of prayer and the effort
to swing clear of the old commercial bondage and ways. We
are to have whatever we require, yes. But we are making
progress toward the time when we shall work at something
really constructive, something that reveals God in people
and in God's world, something that gives us the privilege
of deciding for ourselves, under guidance of Spirit, when
we are to go and when we are to come. As soon as we are
capable of it, the Lord will place us in such a position
among our fellow human beings. But before we are given this
place, we are to prove that we are ever considering the
highest good of our neighbors, and that we have the ability
to discern what it is they need and bring them face to face
with it. Spiritual growth, you see, as well as temporal
ability and success!
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