XV
INEXHAUSTIBLE ABUNDANCE
“The Lord shall open unto thee His good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in His season, and to bless all the work of thine hand, and thou shalt lend unto many nations and thou shalt not borrow.”
--Deut. 28:12
In these days of metaphysical investigation, it is not surprising that thought is turning in the direction of a more general application of spiritual psychology. Time was when men felt that the employment of spiritual means for what they called, in their ignorance, material purposes was ignoble and sacrilegious. Even today we seem to feel that we may call upon the Infinite for anything and everything, save money, and yet when we examine the thought carefully we see that it is based upon the belief in opposites. We hesitate to implore Spirit to act for us on what we call the plane of the material, and by so doing we defraud ourselves of those visible blessings, the which, if we do not possess, leave us little time or thought for the contemplation of the Real. Life that is