" . . . And I tell you, ask for strength. Let all those who serve with the Messenger in any part of the world and on this staff ask for the strength of ten thousand. Ask for the power to continue that you faint not but have the strength to disseminate the Word. Ask for the supply and you shall receive it when your hearts are pure.

"Ask for the Light. Ask for the means. Ask for all that you deserve, for you indeed deserve the power of Helios and Vesta and we stand ready to give it to you if you will only affirm your own self-worth. Open your chakras, raise your chalice of being, and truly receive the outpouring that is the solution to every problem that besets you and everything that crosses your path."

"Beloved ones, you have a great treasure-house in your Causal Body. But I tell you, your own Holy Christ Self is reticent to unleash that substance to you for concern that you will go and misuse it again.

"And therefore enter into a trust with Portia that you might know God-Justice and all prudence and that you might know that none of the things of this world are worth spending that supply of your Causal Body on—only the things of the Spirit, only those things that contribute to your fulfillment of your divine plan, to the fulfillment of your mission upon earth [are worth it].

"And therefore know that the supply that comes forth from your Causal Body is limited, for you have placed there but a limited amount of momentum of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes on this planet. And therefore the gold of your Causal Body won, hard won by you, must be treasured as something you use only for the furtherance of the kingdom of God within your being and your own adeptship and your own God Self-mastery."

"There will come to you, beloved, a confidence whereby you do not need to grasp and hold to yourself the things of this world, the things that were formerly important to you. You will come to know in the presence of the Holy Spirit the increased tending of your soul by seraphim and the joy of giving and giving again, and giving more again, and seeing how God does replenish your life tenfold, and manifold more, as you continue on the path of the givingness of self."

"Beloved ones, all of this is the lie that we have not provided you and this organization with sufficient material to create such an abundance, such a release of Light to the co-workers as for the building of the entire Inner Retreat.

"The gold mine is here. It does not have to be sought and found. There is no need for merchandising in the marts of the world. There is a need for intense practicality in the presentation and packaging of the most interesting information and subjects and lectures and sermons that are going forth on the planetary body at this time.

" . . . may you propose what you will do and may we then bring your proposals before the Lords of Karma. And may we then state what is our request, based on the realism of the hour and your positioning of yourselves, as to what we will take as our responsibility.

"We proceed with joy and the caution of experience that we must ask for those things of the Solar Logoi and the Elohim of which we may be certain there will be a fulfillment and a victory and therefore not result in a situation of the costliness of karma that does therefore affect the next and the next opportunity for our service.

"We would rather that you yourselves be the daring ones, that you go forth and see what you will do and let us be the ones who respond. This is as it should be, for the Wise One, Lord Sanat Kumara, has said to me this very week,

"'Saint Germain, you have been the champion. And when you have been in physical embodiment, those who are now a part of our activity on earth were benefited by your service and were advanced in their learning. Saint Germain, let them now come to center stage with the same courage that you had. Let them take on the responsibilities which you were so willing to take on when you were in physical incarnation and when you were the Wonderman of Europe, as you indeed are today the Wonderman of this world.'

"Beloved hearts, he said to me that I must let you play your part and that I must add to it and multiply it and must have, as they say, from you 'money in the bank' by way of the assuring of the loan that I would then secure from the cosmic bank. Beloved ones, this is to say that there is a tremendous quantity of light that is available to me now in the great treasury of the Central Sun
—a quantity of light that has been abuilding by cosmic beings proportionately as you have called the violet flame for the balancing of this accumulated karma.

"Therefore, the substance of light is there. It is there on demand. And I am instructed to demand it as you present and show the most effective, workable, and successful programs for delivering this message to the world and for the building of the Inner Retreat.

"In anticipation of the Light going forth, we have designated the Inner Retreat as a place that must be secure, must be the highest focus in the earth. For, you see, when the light goes forth it cannot be fully predicted what the response will be from the world and humanity. If these responses are an aggravation and a reaction creating a planetary chemistry that results in some world changes, it is necessary that the equivalent of the Great Central Sun Magnet be somewhere on earth."

Napoleon Hill's Law of Success—this book is the equivalent of the Positive Mental Attitude [PMA] Workbook used in certified PMA courses. Law of Success is available through Summit University Press by special order; leatherbound. See also Ballantine Books paperbacks by Napoleon Hill: Think and Grow Rich; The Master-Key to Riches; Grow Rich! With Peace of Mind.

"How to Think & Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill

The book (about far more than just wealth, so don't let the title fool you) is called How to Think and Grow Rich, and it is by far one of the most personally influential I have ever read . . . in fact it was one of the most motivating and practical books I read to provide me with the confidence and skills I need to achieve the mission of my life. This is a book that I have read many times and one that I would also encourage you to read.

I am so convinced this book will help you make profoundly important changes in your life, too, that it comes with the absolute highest recommendation I could ever give a book. You could buy it on Amazon.com for $13.57.

This amazing book's other fans include many of the most well known "names" who reached the top in business, art, sports, politics, activism, health, motivational speaking, and more. How to Think and Grow Rich has sold many millions of copies and, without formal advertising, continues to sell at remarkable levels because of word-of-mouth—undoubtedly it has also been key to helping millions of others without prominent names achieve their most important goals.

"Before success comes in anyone's life, they are sure to meet with much temporary defeat and perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a person, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of people do."—How to Think and Grow Rich

With How to Think and Grow Rich it is generally acknowledged that author Napoleon Hill influenced the bottom-line success of more people than almost any other person in modern history.

Born in a one-room cabin, Hill began his career as a journalist. Steel magnate Andrew Carnegie —then the richest man in the world—was so impressed with Hill that he asked the young reporter to develop the world's most comprehensive, insightful and accessible philosophy of individual achievement.

The project took 20 years for Hill to complete and involved him accessing the insights of such historical giants as Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Alexander Bell, Wilbur Wright and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The result was a proven formula of clearly delineated success principles that Hill detailed in Think and Grow Rich. The book will help you attain far more than the financial riches many people read into the title, as the "riches" it speaks of include:

How to most effectively handle criticism (and use it to your great advantage)

5 definite ways to dramatically increase your self-confidence

How to make your ideas make you happy

The most effective ways for you to eliminate fears for good

How to find harmony in your relationships with others

And then yes, it also does an as-of-yet unsurpassed job of guiding you to achieve financial prosperity, as well (after all, it was commissioned by the richest man in the world!)

I think you will also find Hill's health recommendations right on target!

"You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee."—from 'How to Think and Grow Rich

"Let those who are still tethered to the reality of the sweat of the brow and the work of the hands, those whose minds have not been taken over by intellectual theories that have no relevance to the heart or to the practicalities of life come forward then and begin anew an in-depth probe of the history and the law of cycles which have governed the economic policies and the consequent rise and fall of nations. Meanwhile, let those who have made certain philosophies of economics their religion and their proponents their gods be deprogrammed from the synthetic self with its synthetic systems that have never worked and never will work, except to destroy those who espouse them.

"Let us proceed from the empirical method. Let us disallow what has not worked and let us allow what does work. Communism is the dream of the fallen ones who would escape the consequences of their karma and of their neglect to integrate with the source of all life and abundance. It is not viable because it is inconsistent with cosmic law which operates independently of men's theories or their mockeries of divine justice.

"The manipulation of the free market and the free governments of nations through monopoly capitalism or corporate socialism will not work. It destroys individual creativity and snuffs out the fires of hope that ever rest in the heart of the individual as the desire to be self-sustaining in God. What will work? Well, I say, that remains for you to discover. But I will tell you this—it begins with the fundamental principle: Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap; and its corollary: Whatsoever a man soweth not, that shall he not reap.

"There are too many people in every walk of life who still want something for nothing and they are willing to espouse any economic philosophy that will deliver to them immediate pleasures and material prosperity. These are not noble hearts but they whose names go down in history as the ignoble and as the destroyers of the abundant life of the soul.

"Let the government and the people learn to live within their means, and let the real value of goods and services be based upon the theory and the altogether practical application of the law of the sacred labor performed to the glory of God who is resident within his humanity.

"Let the value of life rest upon a gold standard that comes from the golden rule, which is the principle of the divine economy—do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This golden rule is applied to the gold of the heart, the golden wisdom that serves the needs of the community through love—applied love that becomes compassion, charity, and the sharing of the joys of the abundant life with those who entertain the impoverished sense."

The establishment of a unity of world religions through a synthesis of truth is far off and will remain so unless humanity approach the grace of God with both an openness of heart and an inner understanding of the principles of brotherhood. Most men draw nigh to the principle of brotherly love with their lips, but their heart-of-action is far from being manifest. With minds full of condemnation and seething with emotion against one another, they think to approach the throne of grace.

We are concerned, therefore, with dispelling confusion by our light drawn from the councils, both Eastern and Western, of the Great White Brotherhood and with giving forth those spiritual instructions that will create a clarity of vision for all. Therefore, we submit herewith our concepts concerning a current problem that is being blown up out of all proportion to reality in order to spread abroad violence and confusion.

I refer to the principle of the abundant life and to the problem, so-called, of economic inequality. There is a constant din that can be heard in the world, a clamor from those who have not against those who have. An interesting sidelight is that the babel of voices for the 'have-nots' and against the 'haves' is being joined by many among the 'upper class' who, in effect, are
begging their own destruction.

Let me hasten to say that all wealth belongs to God, that the earth is his, and that he has asked man to take dominion over it and to share in the practical proof of the principle of the abundant life. This life is, was, and always will be for all. Man does not need to create equality; God has
already created it. We call it the equality of opportunity. Those who are willing to make application sincerely, to study to show themselves approved unto God <1> and to the wise men of the world are always able to draw forth supply even to the point of being able to give generously to others.

The philosophies of Communism and of the supremacy of the state may thrive on what we will call a false humility, the wearing of garments of protest and the shunning of more refined aspects of living. This is the sacrifice of individual self-mastery to the lowest common denominator of the group karma.

Those who promote these attitudes either do not understand or they are unwilling to accept the reality that man's spiritual and real progress does not come from outward sources but from his own reality and the sense of beauty that he holds within. There is no sin in the individual accumulation of wealth or in the manifestation of wealth, for this is a divine privilege that is given to all. All may live in fine houses, wear fine clothing, and share in the beauty that creative discipline within an abundant culture can bring forth.

There is never any need whatsoever for humanity to turn against one another, as did Cain against Abel, in the fear that they have not or will not receive an equal share of the Father's love. All activities of criticism and condemnation are destructive, and they lead inevitably toward a violent climax. The way to real peace in the world for every nation, both at home and abroad, is to amplify the concept of the abundant life.

Peace is best preserved by adhering to the principles of freedom; for freedom is also tolerant of the thoughts and ideals of others, even when those thoughts and ideals are based on an incomplete understanding of the laws of God. But the exercise of tolerance does forgo for any man his right to attempt—not by argument, but by an objective presentation of fact—the correction of his brother's error.

The members of the Great White Brotherhood are concerned that the principle of harmony be found in operation upon earth. In order to further that end midst the struggles of the masses for economic equality, we would point out that for generations there have been those who have, in effect, taken the vow of poverty and who have eschewed the accumulation of wealth.

To them poverty itself has become a virtue; on the other hand, many follow the way of poverty simply because they are unwilling to make the effort to do a great work in the world. They lack either the capacity or the will to create for themselves an abundant life. Both should understand that the laws of love are best practiced and mastered from within.

We do not condemn those who wish to live in poverty or those who wish to remain in humble surroundings; rather we would point out that it is nonattachment that the law requires of the individual no matter what his station in life—and this means nonattachment to persons, places, conditions, and things. Man can be just as attached to his state of poverty as he can be attached to things, and very often we find that poverty becomes a "soap box" from which those who 'have not' criticize those who 'have.'

Those who follow in the steps of the Brotherhood see all things as belonging to God, and they see themselves as stewards of his grace. They have, then, no inhibitions as to the earning of large sums of money and the using of that money for their fellowmen. They recognize that creativity can harness the secrets of the universe for the good of all. And they seldom criticize those who do not have an abundance of this world's goods—those who espouse poverty or the kind of life that on the surface seems to be based on a philosophy of nonattachment.

Those who would rise politically in the world often capitalize on the weaknesses of humanity in order to achieve their ends; their method is to set one segment of society against another by using both secular and religious issues to divide and conquer the minds of men whose hearts are in reality one. This tactic is often the root and only cause of the underlying social problems that confront individuals and nations today.

True faith in God is faith in the abundant life. It should be of no concern to you what your neighbor is able to gain of this world's goods or even how he employs his gain so long as it is done honestly. People should rejoice in the abundance of others as they would rejoice in their own abundance; and they should see that when men are able to produce abundantly and to remain in a calm state of good will to all, they not only enjoy life but also they are able to support institutions and activities that will sustain and preserve God's beauty on behalf of all men.

The ugliness of the world manifests through man's criticism of man. Whether that criticism is leveled by an Eastern yogi against a learned pundit of the East, it can only degrade, by the downward spiral, the one who engages his energies in the practice of criticism.

The principle of the abundant life is the principle of the Great White Brotherhood that keeps the soul open to God from the top and that enables the flow of reality to beam constantly into the chalice of the individual lifestream. As the reality of his True Self becomes more real, he sees in the natural order of manifestation the inward perfection of the Edenic state that existed before the fall of his consciousness into the density of an ego-centered existence.

It is easy, precious ones of the light, to criticize; but it is even easier to hold the principle of the abundant life in your consciousness. It is easier to enhance the meaning of life for others than it is to rob them of their virtue by a constant damning (condemn-a-tion) of their attitudes and the spiritual processes which they have evolved.

Be it so that they are surrounded with error; the purpose of life in the evolutionary stream is the shedding of error and the mastering of perfection. If you force the issue you may break the slender thread that is leading them on to the very truths you would have them accept in your time instead of in God's time. Man did not come into manifestation in order to lose his life, but he came to gain all of God-Good.

We who are concerned with the initiation of each individual are also concerned with the initiation of society. The total identity of a free society is inextricably interwoven with the thoughts and ideals of its people. A free society can rise no higher that the thinking of its best leaders, and these are constantly being assaulted by the negative concepts of forces which attempt to tear down all that serves the nobility of the Christ in the individual and in society. The sense of struggle must be shed and the windows of life must be opened wide that the fresh, clean air of the Christ consciousness may renovate the life process.

We have seen enough of despair, engendered by those whose own frustrated egos lead them into forms of exhibitionism that are calculated to raise their personalities into prominence. We are concerned only with the raising of divine ideas into prominence and with the exaltation of divine ideas in the minds and hearts of men, for these are the ideas that will make men free. Hold on, then, with the very teeth of your being to the principle of the abundant life; develop God's consciousness of the abundant life for yourself, expand it until you can clearly see that it is not the Father's will that man should perish or live in limitation or lack.

Whether the seeker is a divine poverello as Saint Francis of old or a businessman of worldly fame and means, he should seek the correct use of his stewardship <2> and, above all, he must be ready to accept the possibility that his personal philosophy, his developed concepts, and his opinions of long standing may not necessarily be correct. Be willing to examine truth and beware of the trends spread abroad through the media that are designed to divide and to confuse the world. 'Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father' has been defined as the visiting of the widows and the orphans and the keeping of oneself unspotted from the world. <3>

In the sense of the abundant life, let good works abound; and let these include the purification of the consciousness so that the corrosions of the world, both secular and religious, do not disturb the beautiful fruit from the Tree of Life that God seeks to nourish in every soul. How great he is, and how great man can be! How abundant and delightful are his hopes and plans for all of humanity. Let men joyously receive his concept of the abundant life for all.

Stirred by the needs of the moment, I remain faithfully

Lord Maitreya

Notes:

1. II Tim. 2:15.

2. Luke 16:1-13.

3. James 1:27.

"Is it not recorded that the love of money is the root of all evil? The summation of the propensity to love money can be perceived in world commerce and world thought. It is not necessary that mankind despise that medium of exchange which they have called money, but rather that they learn its correct use as my Son taught it two thousand years ago.

"For through the correct use of money mankind will understand that money is but a little part of the abundance of God. It is a medium of exchange between nations and peoples, intended never to be manipulated but always to be expanded as a breaking of the loaf of God’s substance by the action of the flame of God-maturity among men, that the crumbs that fall from the Master’s table should be given to all as a part of the whole loaf of universal abundance.

"When individuals allow themselves to be attached to mortal things, when they permit their mind and consciousness to become involved in elements of human greed until all other considerations of life are excluded, they will most certainly lose sight of the abundant Life.

"All fleshly gain should be seen in the light of the statement 'Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away.' For unless man understands that all that can be attached to his being, to his soul, to his individuality is grace, he will not understand the proper use of either money or the energies of Life.

"The reason the Brotherhood deems it desirable to call these matters to the attention of the students at this time is to avoid their becoming a part of the world struggle for the control of money and the economies of the nations. Money of itself would be of little value if men were an hungred and could find no bread, if they were in need of shelter and could find no home. What is needed then by all is a correct understanding of Life and its abundance.

"Some men may ask why it is that I choose to discourse on the love of money and its effect on monetary releases. Don’t you see, beloved ones, how important it is to the evolution of humanity that men understand, not only in words but also in spirit, the need to establish themselves in God and His goodness?

"The fashions of the times change and men are no sooner born than the process of decay sets in. They no sooner acquire a vast storehouse of worldly wisdom, of nomenclature and much superficial knowledge of all things than they are borne from the world to which they have become attached.

"Freedom from the love of money, which is the root of all evil, will free men from those attachments which have created such a quantity of discord and darkness in the world. Furthermore, it will bring to everyone who is able to free himself from this love, from this attachment, from this grossness, the refining and ennoblement of his spirit.

"The reason it is so wrong for humanity to become attached to the love of money is that the quality of possessiveness of things deprives humanity of the promise of the Christ “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” Indeed it is God’s good pleasure to give to mankind all dominion, all power, and all glory once he has demonstrated his willingness to use these gifts as a wise steward of the grace of God.

"In gazing at the record of mankind’s doings through the ages, ever and anon the love of money has shown its ugly head as the serpentine force which creates in the labyrinth of human life those tortuous movements which enslave mankind the world around.

"Thus the love of money prevents mankind from entering into the kingdom simply because the very things that God would so gladly give to all are denied to the many because this or that one desires to keep, to retain, to hold in esteem the things of the world above the things of the kingdom of God."

"Blessed ones, the temple of the Mother that was once here and her shrine are nowhere apparent except if one consider the earmarks of the misuse and misqualification of the Divine Mother in these gambling houses, in these places where people come for sensual pleasure.

"For through the gambling entity and all else that ensues around it, controlled by the money
beast and often by organized crime, there is the stealing of the light of the base chakra and its channeling therefore into the fallen ones of the earth. For that which one surrenders to the money beast and the gambling entity may not be returned to that individual, for it is lost.

"Thus, the sign of the cosmic cross of white fire does portend and foretell even at inner levels to every soul of this city that one cannot serve the Divine Mother and the Moloch of human greed.

"Therefore, beloved, choose ye this day whether to enter the fiery coil of the ascension of the Divine Mother (and therefore to deprive those vultures of the astral plane of their booty, who wait to take your light) and thus to focus within your being a counterforce of ascension’s rising flame that thereby the momentum of gambling may not spread further throughout the nations of the earth, fed and fueled by the money beast and the rationalization

" 'Let us do evil that good may come; let us use the funds for state projects and education,' all feeding again and again upon the credulity, the wishful thinking that one can acquire attainment by Lady Luck—or whether to go the way of the squandering of the Divine Mother’s light and abundant life within you!

"Blessed ones, the Divine Mother Fortuna herself, Goddess of Supply, Lakshmi in Eastern terms, does give both abundance and light, does take nothing from you but allows you to raise up that which is pure and perfect."