Excerpts from
The Rich
Mentality
by Harriet Hale Rix
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Book Description
This eBook contains the substance of a lecture delivered by Harriet
Hale Rix at Hotel Brighton, Washington D.C., on September 4th, 1914.
Words of Truth written or spoken from a consciousness of the absolute
reality of the substance in them, do more than satisfy the intellect or
the senses. They are God's means of bringing to pass the very Good
about which they are uttered. Therefore, Reader, read slowly and ponder
these words in your heart. They will uncover the Rich Mentality, with
which God has endowed you and open the Way to your perpetual
Prosperity.
THE
RICH MENTALITY
Thou shalt Remember the Lord, thy God, for it is He that
giveth thee Power to Get Wealth.
--Deuteronomy 8:18
I WILL take up tonight the second subject of my course, The Rich Mentality. The world is
being educated, as never before, to recognize the truth, the whole
truth, about prosperity. The world is demanding more today of the noble
and ideal, of honesty in all financial dealings, than ever before. We
are going through a very critical time and those who know most about
the truth in connection with prosperity, success and kindred subjects
will pass through this crisis with the least proportion of unrest and
sense of loss. The more materialistic, those of the commercial world
who must have money in order to feel rich, will suffer most from panic,
the disturbance and pressure.
But as we go through these critical times, we are purified and
cleansed, especially if we try to think correctly of that which appears
to our disadvantage. I would like to make a statement here at the very
beginning and have you entertain it tonight in the silence, and plant
this statement, this idea, in your heart as you would a seed, to grow.
It is this: That the more difficult the situation is, the higher you
will rise if you think correctly about it. Let us make a familiar and
close communication with the heart of it, so that in the future when we
may need to be strong under great pressure or temptation we may through
this correct thinking about it be blessed and comforted.
SILENCE
This is an excellent rule and true of all our activities and especially
of prosperity, that as you think corr-ectly about a thing, you are
master of the situation and no evil in it nor loss nor limitation can
hold or bind you. But also you will have need to philosophize about
what is the correct, the right thinking, or what the highest
consciousness is about a subject. I believe that the only answer here
must be to think as God thinks about it. We cannot go beyond this and
to think about an experience as God thinks about it is victory.
Right thinking is health, joy, freedom, prosperity. Prosperity, as I
said last night, does not consist in the things you possess in the
money you have in bank. In fact, we might say from a very free
standpoint, that if you absolutely understand prosperity you have no
need of any bank account. Prosperity is a way, a mode, of thinking. So
is poverty. You are poor if you class yourself this way, and you are
rich if you can think rich thoughts, thoughts that are constructive,
optimistic, unlimited these instantly crown you successful.
The mentality must first be rich towards God rich in God-know-ledge and
consciousness. I cannot think of wealth and prosperity and success as a
lasting possession to those who are callous regarding the spiritual
life. Dr. Bucke, who studied cosmic con-sciousness for over thirty
years, states that in all his examinations of men and women he has
never come across a single case of cosmic consciousness where the
individual was bent on making money; whose whole conception of life was
accumulation. This is a law. You cannot love God and love money. You
cannot both work for a great ideal and work for selfish ends, for money
or a living.
It is a mistake to work for a living. To work this way is to be a slave
under dominion to the laws of slavery. Never work for a living. How can
you gain a life? Life is! You cannot pay for it. You have no price to
give in exchange for life, for your breath and your being. You are not
here to work by strenuous effort to make life. You are here under the
blessing of God to live a life of wholesome, loving kindness, of
success and good will towards each other and the bringing out of your
own nature, the divine self. God lives you every moment. If you
are conscious that God is your very life and being you will not work to
express it in the terms of mortal consciousness, in dollars and cents
and salary. You will no longer serve the old world conception of
prosperity. What you do you will do with your might in the service of
Principle, like Brother Lawrence he did not work for a living, he
worked to express God by living in so attractive a way as to draw other
men to the Divine Life. The kitchen of that monastery where he cooked
was more magnetic than any other part of the whole concern. He was rich
towards God and man, not like an ox driven by the duties demanded of
him. He was a man serving a great Principle and he lived in security.
You are useful to God as you are emptied of self and keep from
worrying, fearing and fretting about today, tomorrow or yesterday. Your
life is inspired and inspiring all about you. Whoever comes in contact
with an inspired soul realizes the beauty of it. The Rich Mentality is
the inspiration of life. I will say something about that presently, but
for the moment I will affirm this, that the rich mentality is so full
of awakened consciousness, so absolutely certain of the Truth, the
Ideal and the Real, that it never fears poverty. It is not being
hindered by any effort to fight poverty, or lack, or want. It is all
love, all peace, because it is the love of recognized good.
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