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The Spirit of Opulence

Posted on Mar 25, 2010 in Inspirational, Spiritual Guidance

The Spirit of Opulence

By Thomas Troward

As taken from Your Hidden Power

It is quite a mistake to suppose that we must restrict and stint ourselves in order to

develop greater power or usefulness. This is to form the conception of the Divine Power

as so limited that the best use we can make of it is by a policy of self-starvation, whether

material or mental. Of course, if we believe that some form of self-starvation is

necessary to our producing good work, then so long as we entertain this belief the fact

actually is so for us. “Whatsoever is not of faith”- that is, not in accordance with our

honest belief – “is sin”; and by acting contrary to what we really believe we bring in a

suggestion of opposition to the Divine Spirit, which must necessarily paralyze our efforts,

and surround us with a murky atmosphere of distrust and want of joy.

But all this exists in, and is produced by, our belief: and when we come to examine the

grounds of this belief we shall find that it rests upon an entire misapprehension of the

nature of our own power. If we clearly realize that the creative power in ourselves is

unlimited, then there is no reason for limiting the extent to which we may enjoy what we

can create by means of it. Where we are drawing from the infinite we need never be

afraid of taking more than our share. That is not where the danger lies. The danger is in

not sufficiently realizing our own richness, and in looking upon the externalized products

of our creative power as being the true riches instead of the creative power of spirit itself.

If we avoid this error, there is no need to limit ourselves in taking what we will from the

infinite store-house: “All things are yours.” And the way to avoid this error is by

realizing that the true wealth is in identifying ourselves with the spirit of opulence. We

must be opulent in our thought. Do not “think money,” as such, for it is only one means

of opulence; but think opulence, that is, largely, generously, liberally, and you will find

that the means of realizing this thought will flow to you from all quarters, whether as

money or as a hundred other things not to be reckoned in cash.

We must not make ourselves dependent on any particular form of wealth, or insist on its

coming to us through some particular channel – that is at once to impose a limitation, and

to shut out other forms of wealth and to close other channels; but we must enter into the

spirit of it. Now the spirit is Life, and throughout the universe Life ultimately consists in

circulation, whether within the physical body of the individual or on the scale of the

entire solar system; and circulation means a continual flowing around, and the spirit of

opulence is no exception to this universal law of all life.

When once this principle becomes clear to us we shall see that our attention should be

directed rather to the giving than the receiving.