The Spirit of Opulence part 2

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We must look upon ourselves, not as

The Spirit of Opulence

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misers’ chests to be kept locked for our own benefit, but as centres of distribution; and

the better we fulfill our function as such centres the greater will be the corresponding

inflow. If we choke the outlet the current must slacken, and a full and free flow can be

obtained only by keeping it open. The spirit of opulence – the opulent mode of thought,

that is – consists in cultivating the feeling that we possess all sorts of riches which we can

bestow upon others, and which we can bestow liberally because by this very action we

open the way for still greater supplies to flow in. But you say, “I am short of money, I

hardly know how to pay for necessaries. What have I to give?”

The answer is that we must always start from the point where we are; and if your wealth

at the present moment is not abundant on the material plane, you need not trouble to start

on that plane. There are other sorts of wealth, still more valuable, on the spiritual and

intellectual planes, which you can give; and you can start from this point and practice the

spirit of opulence, even though your balance at the bank may be nil. And then the

universal law of attraction will begin to assert itself. You will not only begin to

experience an inflow on the spiritual and intellectual planes, but it will extend itself to the

material plane also.

If you have realized the spirit of opulence you cannot help drawing to yourself material

good, as well as that higher wealth which is not to be measured by a money standard; and

because you truly understand the spirit of opulence you will neither affect to despise this

form of good, nor will you attribute to it a value that does not belong to it; but you will

co-ordinate it with your other more interior forms of wealth so as to make it the material

instrument in smoothing the way for their more perfect expression. Used thus, with

understanding of the relation which it bears to spiritual and intellectual wealth, material

wealth becomes one with them, and is no more to be shunned and feared than it is to be

sought for its own sake.

It is not money, but the love of money, that is the root of evil; and the spirit of opulence is

precisely the attitude of mind which is furthest removed from the love of money for its

own sake. It does not believe in money. What it does believe in is the generous feeling

which is the intuitive recognition of the great law of circulation, which does not in any

undertaking make its first question, How much am I going to get by it? but, How much

am I going to do by it? And making this the first question, the getting will flow in with a

generous profusion, and with a spontaneousness and rightness of direction that are absent

when our first thought is of receiving only.

We are not called upon to give what we have not yet got and to run into debt; but we are

to give liberally of what we have, with the knowledge that by so doing we are setting the

law of circulation to work, and as this law brings us greater and greater inflows of every

kind of good, so our out-giving will increase, not by depriving ourselves of any

expansion of our own life that we may desire, but by finding that every expansion makes

us the more powerful instruments for expanding the life of others. “Live and let live” is

the motto of the true opulence.

The Spirit of Opulence part 2

By Thomas Troward

As taken from Your Hidden Power

We must look upon ourselves, not as misers’ chests to be kept locked for our own benefit,

but as centres of distribution; and