The uninstructed follow bypaths in seeking their wealth where there is much stumbling and blindness of chance, where burdens pile up, and the travelers never reach the heights. All these side roads end in gullies and pits, for all that is gained must eventually be given up. Men enter them as short cuts to wealth, and though some of them cross the real road, so intoxicated are these wanderers that they know not this road even when their feet press its fair track, long miles at a time.
The right view of prosperity as God’s own presence, which is not to be refused or despised but to be seen as the legitimate expression of the spiritual life, comes to the man whose eyes are open and who seeks understanding so as to think and feel, speak and act according to the law that operates to make bodies healthy and circumstances wealthy, who sees that it is all one and the same work. The body is wealthy that has health, and the circumstances are healthy that have wealth.
SECOND TREATMENT
Listen to me!
The highroad of God’s prosperity is unlimited wealth, riches that are eternal, and a life that is endless ease and comfort.
This blessed road is not far from you; it is not
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