The Secret of Miracle Power for Infinite Riches

It is your God-given birthright to be rich. You are here to express the fullness of
life in every way. Your secret purpose on earth is to lead a happy, joyous, and
glorious life— the life more abundant. Infinite riches are all around you. The
treasure house of infinity is not to be found in a bank vault or a pirate’s trove.
It is within your own subconscious depths. Begin now to extract from that marvelous
gold mine within you everything you need—money, friends, a lovely home, beauty,
companionship, and all the blessings of life. Whatever you need, whatever you want,
you can bring it forth when you learn to apply the proper technique.
Dave Howe, an old friend of mine, told me the story of two men, Peter R. and Steve
G., who grew up in the same town and went to the same college to become geologists.
After graduation, they took jobs with rival mineral exploration companies in the
western United States. Peter put much time and energy into learning how to tap the
mind’s treasure house within him. Steve did not. He was a thorough skeptic about
the powers of his own mind. Instead, he put all his faith in the techniques and
electronic instruments his professors had taught him to use. He relied on
externals, such as physical appearances, conditions, and the general topography of
the soil. Early in his career, Steve was assigned to do a geological exploration of
a certain area in Utah. He used all the most modern equipment of his profession and
did everything he was supposed to do, but he found nothing. After three weeks, he
gave up.
Later that year, Peter conducted a survey of the same area. Within three days, he
uncovered evidence that led to the discovery of a rich vein of uranium ore. His
confidence in the guiding principle of his subconscious led him straight to the
hidden wealth. The real riches were not concealed underground; they were openly
evident in his mental orientation.

The Greatest Secret in the World

Scientists recently achieved the breathtaking feat of decoding the human genome.
The

program for life itself is said to now be within reach. One expert after another
has proclaimed this the greatest secret being unfolded today. They tell us that in
coming years science will be able to alter our specie’s basic genes. If we choose,
we can bring into being as many Einsteins, Beethovens, or Michelangelos as we like.
These experts fail to understand a vital fact. Human beings are more than their
bodies, their hereditary characteristics, their family tree, the color of their
skin, hair, and eyes. The Living Spirit-God is within humankind. The human
subconscious is part of the Eternal, which does not change. It is the same
yesterday, today, and forever. We can be transformed in only one way, and that is
by the transformation of our minds. Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind
(Romans 12:2).
The greatest secret in the world is that the Kingdom of God is within us. Infinite
intelligence, boundless wisdom, infinite power, infinite love, and the answer to
every problem under the sun are locked within our own subconscious minds.
People search for the greatest secret in the world everywhere but within
themselves.
Yet the secret has always been within reach of all. Begin now to tap these
tremendous powers within you, and you will start to lead a full and happy life
based on God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy (I Timothy 6:17). I am come
that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly (John
10:10).

Your Right to Be Rich

It is normal and natural for you to want to achieve success, recognition, and
prosperity in your life. You ought to have all the money you need to do what you
want to do, when you want to do it. There is no virtue in poverty. Poverty is a
mental disease that should, and could, be abolished from the face of the earth.
Just as wealth is a state of mind, likewise poverty is a state of mind. If we want
to eradicate all the slums in the world, we must first wipe out the mental slums
created in people’s minds by their belief in poverty and lack.
During my many years of private counseling, as well as when talking with people
following my lectures around the world, I constantly hear the same comment from
people: “The only thing holding me back is my lack of money. There is nothing that
$50,000 or $100,000 would not cure in my life.” What these people fail to realize
is that their own focus on what they lack is creating their poverty. Wealth, like
poverty, is really a pattern of thoughts and images in the mind. If these people
were to follow the techniques explained in this book and begin to use their
subconscious minds, wealth would flow to them in avalanches of abundance.
It is the right of you and your family to have healthy, nourishing food, good
clothes, a comfortable home, and the money you need to buy the good things of life.
You need the time every day for meditation, prayer, relaxation, recreation, and
places that make these

necessities possible. The true meaning of prosperity does not lie in having more
things. It means that you begin to advance mentally, spiritually, and
intellectually, as well as socially and financially.

How She Discovered the Riches of Her Subconscious

I was consulted by a woman, Bettina W., who told me she had been the victim of a
series of misfortunes. After a bitter divorce that left her in charge of two
preschool children, her former husband moved across country and stopped paying
child support. She owned a home, but she was carrying both a first and second
mortgage. Her one credit card was near its limit. She had a regular job and also
did after hours work, but all the money that came in went out again immediately. It
was a constant struggle simply to put food on the table. Bettina stayed awake
nights wondering what she would do if she or one of the kids fell sick. As she put
it, her life was a total mess.
I explained to her that the infinite intelligence within her subconscious could
reveal to her everything she needed to know at all times. She could receive
inspiration, guidance, new creative ideas, and a solution to her financial
problems. I added that once she developed the ability to use her subconscious
correctly, it would also provide all the money she needed. She would experience
financial freedom beyond her fondest dreams.
To put this process into motion, I offered Bettina two abstract ideas: wealth and
success. As we talked, she came to understand that wealth is everywhere. Like all
of us, she was born to succeed, to win in the game of life, because once tapped,
the infinite power within her cannot fail. At my suggestion, she began a program of
spiritual exercises. Every night, before going to sleep, she set aside a quiet time
in which she repeated slowly, feelingly, and with deep understanding: “Wealth,
success. Wealth, success.” She realized that whatever she impressed on her
subconscious would be magnified and multiplied on the screen of space. Just prior
to sleep, our subconscious is particularly sensitive to whatever conscious thoughts
we entertain. By focusing her consciousness on these two concepts, “Wealth,
success,” Bettina began to activate and release the latent powers of her
subconscious.

How Her Subconscious Responded

When used right, the subconscious never fails. Once appealed to, it meets our needs
in unforeseen ways, regardless of circumstances. Bettina succeeded in putting away
thoughts of poverty and stress while she concentrated on wealth and success. One
night, as she was in the middle of this exercise, her eye fell on a vase she had
inherited from

her mother’s older sister. The next day, on an impulse, she posted a description of
the vase on an Internet auction site. Within days, connoisseurs who recognized its
rarity had bid the price up to over $7,000.
Bettina soon became a regular at yard sales and estate auctions. If a particular
item caught her eye, she bought it, then offered it at auction on the Internet.
Within three months, her profits from buying and selling antiques and collectibles
were so great that she was able to quit her regular job and do the buying and
selling full time. Friends and competitors told her that she owed her success to a
“knack.” She knew better. She realized that her subconscious was the connecting
link that united her with the treasure house of infinity. The Infinite intelligence
within your subconscious can do for you only when it can do through you. Your
thoughts and feelings control your destiny. Because Bettina learned to place her
faith in the unfailing power of her subconscious, she will never again find herself
in material or spiritual need.

The Secret of Riches and Promotion Was Within Him

Ralph S. was a gifted young attorney who had lost several cases in a row. He became
gloomy, despondent, and full of self-criticism and self-condemnation. Soon he began
to suffer some serious financial reverses and drifted deeper and deeper into debt.
After one of the senior partners at his firm gave him a friendly warning that his
career was in danger, he came to me for help.
After hearing his story, I explained a basic, if often overlooked, fact. Our
thoughts are creative. That is, what we think tends to change, even to create,
reality. The conditions, circumstances, events, and experiences we go through are
not accidents.
They accurately reflect our habitual thinking and imagery. I told Ralph that if he
dwelled constantly on limitation and lack, he would inevitably experience
limitation and lack.
In the same way, however, thoughts of peace, success, prosperity, right action, and
abundance, if sustained regularly and systematically, reproduce themselves after
their kind. We do not reap grapes from thorns or figs from thistles. The law is
that we are what we think all day long. Moreover, thoughts you originate feelingly
and knowingly are especially effective. Used properly, they will create for you
whatever you wish to experience from this day forward.
My goal was to help Ralph begin to make use of the miraculous power of his mind. I
laid out a program for him to follow that would remind him frequently of the riches
of the Infinite within his subconscious mind. Accordingly, I gave him the following
prayer technique. Three or four times every day, he took himself to some place
where he could be undisturbed. After putting himself in a relaxed state, he
affirmed slowly, quietly, and feelingly as follows:
Today is God’s day. I choose harmony, success, prosperity, abundance, security, and
Divine

right action. Infinite Intelligence reveals to me better ways to give greater

service. I am a mental and spiritual magnet, irresistibly attracting to me men and
women who are blessed, comforted, and satisfied with my counsel and decisions on
their behalf. I am Divinely guided all day long, and whatever I do will prospe r.
Divine justice and Divine law and order govern all my undertakings, and whatever I
begin will result in success. I know the law of my mind, and I am fully aware that
all these truths I am reiterating are now sinking into my subconscious mind, and
they will come forth after their kind. It is wonderful.
He made it a special point never to deny what he affirmed. When thoughts of lack,
fear, or self-criticism tried to intrude, he would immediately reverse them by
affirming: The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want (Psalm 23:1).
A few years have passed by. Today Ralph S. is a highly respected partner in his law
firm, and his name is often mentioned as a likely prospect for a judgeship. When
your thoughts are God’s thoughts, God’s power is with your thoughts of good.

The Riches of the Listening Ear and Understanding Heart

I have carefully saved a wonderful letter I received from a woman named Serena W.,
who listened every morning to my radio program. She told me that her husband,
Robert, had died a few months earlier of a heart attack. He was only 38. They had
often talked about buying life insurance, but the premiums were high. Money was
tight, and there didn’t seem to be any rush. As a result, she found herself a young
widow with a 10- year-old son, few marketable skills, a heavily mortgaged house,
and practically nothing in the bank. She had to borrow from her best friend to pay
her husband’s funeral expenses. Disaster seemed only days or weeks away.
She wrote: “I heard you quote from the Bible: But my God shall supply all your
needs according to his riches in glory (Philippians 4:19). The words seemed to burn
their way into my heart. Then you elaborated on this. You told us that if we tune
in on the Infinite within us, if we believe in our hearts, then no matter what we
really need to bless us, comfort us, provide for us, or inspire us, the Divine
presence would respond.
It is written: Before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I
will hear (Isaiah 65:24).
“I sat down and began to think of God supplying my needs. I became convinced that
He was hearing me as I prayed. A great sense of peace and harmony came over me.
About two hours later, I got a phone call from my brother-in-law, Milt, in Seattle.
Milt is a software engineer who has been very successful. He and my husband were
close as children, but they weren’t in touch that much in recent years. I think
Robert felt a little ashamed that he had not done as well in his career.
“Milt told me he felt devastated by the loss of his brother, and guilty as well. He
had often thought about spending more time with us, but he had been so busy in his
work that he never felt able to. Now it was too late. He went on to say that he
knew Robert and I

had not been in the greatest financial shape and he wanted to help. He was
arranging to transfer a block of stock in his company to me. The dividends would be
enough to cover our basic expenses. He was also setting up a trust to pay for my
son’s education. He promised that we would never be in want. All he asked in return
was that we stay in touch and visit him from time to time. He did not want to make
the same mistake with his nephew—my son—that he had made with his brother.”

How a Salesman Hit the Jackpot

A real estate salesman named Rick R. attended my lectures on Sunday mornings and
listened to my radio program regularly. He told me that he had been drawn into
speculating on the stock market and gotten himself deeply in debt. He had counted
on his income from commissions to pull him through, but in fact he had not made a
sale of a home or property in several months.
As we talked, I began to see what his real problem was. He was obsessed with
envious, jealous, and critical thoughts about his colleagues who were making many
more sales than he was. He claimed that everything about them disturbed him. He
deplored their sales techniques, their professionalism, their vocabulary, even the
ways they dressed. He went so far as to tell me that their success was proof of
their mediocrity.
As we talked, I tried to show Rick that the jealousy and envy he was generating
reflected back on him. By minimizing the success of others, he was giving his own
subconscious mind the message that success is bad, that it is something to be
avoided, and his subconscious was responding accordingly. His own obsessive
thoughts attracted lacks, limitations, and miseries to him. What we wish and think
for others, we tend to manifest in our own experience, because each of us is the
only thinker in our individual universe. We are totally responsible for the way we
think about others as well as about ourselves.
Once Rick realized the trap he had fallen into and accepted responsibility for his
own thoughts and wishes, he worked at reversing his attitude. Gradually, he began
to wish for all his colleagues the same success, achievement, wealth, and blessings
that he wished for himself. He taught himself to meditate several times daily upon
the following prayer:
“I am a child of the Infinite, and His riches flow to me freely, joyously, and
endlessly. I am enriched in all ways with happiness, peace, wealth, success, and
outstanding sales. I am now stirring up the riches of my deeper mind, and rich
results follow. I know I shall reap what I sow, for it is written: Thou shalt also
decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and the light shall shine
upon thy ways (Job 22:28).”

The change in Rick’s attitude manifested in his relations with the others in his
firm. They started to see him as an inspiration and a source of advice and support.
Today he is in charge of his firm’s most productive branch and is often called on
to lead workshops for the sales force. He has a solid reputation for his ability to
teach others how to sell wisely, judiciously, and constructively. The Book of
Proverbs says: Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction
(Proverbs 13:18).

MEDITATION FOR REALIZING THE ABUNDANT LIFE

Repeat the following meditation to help solve your problems for abundant living:
I know that to prosper means to grow spiritually in every dimension. God is
prospering me now in mind, body, and affairs. God’s ideas constantly unfold within
me, bringing to me health, wealth, and perfect Divine expression.
I thrill inwardly as I feel the life of God vitalizing every atom of my being. I
know that God’s life is animating, sustaining, and strengthening me now. I am now
expressing a perfect, radiant body full of vitality, energy, and power.
My business or profession is a Divine activity. Since it is God’s business, it is
successful and prosperous. I imagine and feel an inner wholeness functioning
through my body, mind, and affairs. I give thanks and rejoice in the abundant life.

CHAPTER POINTS TO REMEMBER

1. You are here to lead the abundant life, a life full of happiness, joy,
health, and rich living. Begin now to release the riches of the treasure house
within you.
2. The real riches are within your subconscious mind. A geologist who believed
in the guiding principle of his subconscious mind found the treasure in the earth
quickly and easily; his rival, who lacked the faith, explored the same area for
weeks and found nothing.
3. The greatest secret in all the world is that God dwells in humans. The
average person looks everywhere but within himself or herself for wealth, success,
happiness, and abundance. God is the Life-Principle, the Infinite Intelligence, and
the Infinite Power within us, available instantly to all people through the medium
of their thought.
4. Poverty is a disease of the mind. Belief in poverty and lack produce lack and
limitation. Wealth is state of mind. Believe in the law of riches, and you shall
receive. Before we will ultimately banish the slums and poverty, we must first
banish the slums and false beliefs in the mind of people.
5. You can tap the riches of your subconscious by claiming guidance, abundance,

wealth, security, and right action. Make a habit of meditating on these truths and
your subconscious will respond accordingly.
6. If you lull yourself to sleep every night with two ideas, wealth and success,
knowing that by repeating them you are activating the latent powers of your deeper
mind, you will be compelled to express wealth and success.
7. Infinite Intelligence in your subconscious can only do for you what it can do
through you. Your thought and feeling control your destiny.
8. When you believe that the nature of the Infinite Intelligence in your
subconscious mind is to respond to the nature of your request, the answers will
always come to you and in ways you do not know of.
9. Your thoughts are creative. Each thought tends to manifest itself in your
life. Thoughts of promotion, riches, expansion, and achievement, provided you do
not deny them subsequently, come forth after their kind. You promote yourself. You
answer your own prayer because it is done unto you as you believe.
10. Be careful when you affirm wealth, success, right action, and promotion that
you do not subsequently deny what you affirm. That would be like mixing an acid
with an alkali, and you would get an inert substance. In other words, stop
neutralizing your good. Thoughts are things. What you feel you attract, and what
you imagine you become.
11. Be sure that you are not envious or jealous of the success, riches, and
wealth of others. Remember, your thought is creative. If you are envious or
critical of those who have amassed wealth and honors, you will impoverish yourself
along all lines. What you wish for others, you tend to create in your own
experience.
12. Whatever you really feel to be true, and so decree in your life, will
definitely come to pass. Decree riches, health, beauty, security, and right action.
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and the
light shall shine upon thy ways (Job 22:28).
13. Use the meditation at the end of the chapter to realize a more abundant life.