Eagle Prosperity

A man sold a house. He listed it with brokers, and then formed a complete picture of that house already sold and himself moving out, etc. It worked.

What would have been a wrong way of operating such a thought-form? One of the worst things he could have done would have been to picture a certain prospect buying it. That would have violated the rule of not specifying the channel or person, time or method by which the thought-form shall operate.

Or my friend might have formed a picture of himself moving into a new home after leaving the one he had. That would not have been wrong, but it would have been too indirect, too remote. It is better to confine the thought-form to the immediate desire in hand.

Yet either of these two less desirable thought-forms would have been preferable to none. Most anyone would have tried to sell his house merely by mentioning its availablility at every opportunity to friends, by advertising it widely in the newspapers-by objectively seeking, in other words, the specific answer to his problem. In one case out of many this method, to be sure, would have worked. But a properly worked out thought form, if persisted in, will always work.

Do not worry if you find it difficult at first to frame your desires completely and simply. Your real meaning will be clear to the Universal Mind without lengthy and detailed instruction. But be sure you do have a definite idea yourself. If you find it hard to phrase, it may be that you have not yet as definite a desire as you think you have.

Many times in the passing years have I heard people say: “Wait till I have made enough money and then I want to devote my entire time to humanitarian work.” And I have watched and waited and I have never seen one of them acquire what he considered enough to enable him to relax and devote himself to the really useful side of life. Yet many of them have made what the world calls “wealth.”

When you concentrate to impress your thought-form upon the Universal, do not ask for money or wealth first. There may be a better way. Follow the rules given and picturize yourself doing the exact work you desire to do, regardless of money. The fact that you become able to do the thing you desire to do is evidence that the means for you to do so will be forthcoming. The best plan for all thought-forms is to see yourself in them doing the actual work you want to do. Then do not “cramp” the Universal by trying to impress it with the idea of just what the desire will cost or when the means shall come or through what channels. What do you care how the supply comes so long as you are doing your work? That is the big thing-the ONLY thing for you to conentrate on.

By the early metaphysical writer and teacher George Winslow Plummer.