MENTAL PAUPERS
Men and women of assured income who have not known the inner wealth have led miserable lives of fear lest thieves should rob them of everything, and some have gone insane with the dread of poverty and spent the last days of their earthly existence in hourly expectation of being sent to the poorhouse because of indigence. Paupers in consciousness, these people cannot recognize riches when they stare them in the face.
Therefore the wisdom of the Master: Seek first to be rich toward God and let the earthly riches follow. For then is the problem taken hold of at the right end, at its source, and one escapes the folly of so many poor who have put the cart before the horse, seeking riches first and the spiritual life last.
EVERYONE’S RICH AURA
Everyone who comes into the world has a rich “aura,” the gift of his heavenly Father. It is his “living” from the source of all wealth. Most of us seem to have been prodigal sons, letting our rich consciousness be frittered away by the delusions of sense,
until we find ourselves bound to mortality and far from happiness, heaven, our home. But we know that even then, if we only remember and “come to ourselves,” we can return to the rich consciousness by keeping our face steadily toward our Father’s
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