Four Principles for Prosperity

Edwene Gaines this month received the highest honor — the Lifetime Achievement Award — from the New Thought Walden Awards. In the September 2019 issue of Science of Mind magazine, Rev. Dr. John Waterhouse explores Gaines; approach to spirituality and her impact on New Thought.

As part of that exploration, Waterhouse describes Gaines’ methodology for achieving a prosperous life. The four quintessential principles are: tithing, forgiving, setting goals, and knowing and applying one's life purpose. “Each stands alone as a pillar in the temple of abundant living that everyone can embody if they so choose,” he writes.

Gaines admits that tithing can be the most challenging of these principles. Yet she believes that “spiritual nourishment is that which causes us to remember who we are, wakes us up and gets us back on our spiritual path.”

Further, she believes that to achieve the abundance that is ours, we are required to forgive everybody, all the time, especially ourselves.

Setting clear-cut tangible goals demands that we know exactly what we want and that we are willing to direct our faith toward receiving and achieving it.

Finally, her final principle is described as “seeking, finding and getting on our Divine Purpose.”

— Learn more about Gaines and her work at www.ProsperityProducts.com.

Have a Conversation with God

Join Neale Donald Walsch for his inspirational talk, Have Your Own Conversation with God,” taken from a Celebrate Your Life appearance in Phoenix. In this talk, Walsch takes participants through a transformative exercise to get in touch with God and ask any question. The intent of the exercise is to help people relate to God from a modern perspective. For more information or to find a Celebrate Your Life event near you, visit celebrateyourlife.com.

Hope, Potentialities and Powers

—by Ernest Holmes

All the Power there is, all the Presence there is and all the action and law and order there is, is right here. I am that Son of God.

Some will say, “What a claim!” I claim it. “Well you don’t act it.” I know it. We all get discouraged sometimes. We shall fail over and over again. Somehow or other we are sustained by something greater than we are, always with a feeling that says, “Dry those tears. Don’t be afraid. You can’t fail. You are that much nearer success. It is true you are living in a spiritual universe. God is all there is. You may love your neighbor as yourself.”

Although the world denies it, one man with God is not only a majority but a totality. We have to learn that confidence in ourselves because we believe in It, know that our method is correct and use it.

Then just as surely as the night follows the day, invisible hope, potentialities and powers descend in the mind. We, too, shall be not as the scribes but as one having authority.

God, grant that our desire shall be that way and our acts follow it until at long last, out of the fear and the doubt and the confusion and the uncertainty, something shall speak through us because we have permitted it to speak to us: This is the way; walk ye in it.

— Excerpted from the unpublished article “The Spiritual Universe” by Ernest Holmes, transcribed from a talk given at Asilomar on August 1, 1954.