Money Magic! (Condensed Classics)

featuring The Science of Getting Rich, How to Attract Money, and The Magic of Believing

Wallace D. Wattles, Joseph Murphy, Claude M. Bristol, Mitch Horowitz

• Publisher: G&D Media
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781722521912
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Sales

REMAKE YOUR FINANCES, RECHARGE YOUR LIFE Money Magic! is a compelling three-book collection of condensed classics designed to put you on the path to wealth, success, and personal freedom. Wallace D. Wattles's The Science of Getting Rich is one of the most radical and effective success programs ever written; How to Attract Money is mastermind Joseph Murphy's most powerful program on visualization, designed to help you attain the life you want; and in The Secret Of The Ages Robert Collier teaches you how to wield the power of creation through your own mental images. Abridged and introduced by historian and New Thought scholar Mitch Horowitz, these concise renditions of these masterworks gives you the power to change the direction of your life today. Learn: • Why one passionately felt aim is the foundation of all achievement. • How to think a "Certain Way" to guarantee success. • Why relaxation and meditation can bring you wealth. • How your mind is a channel of the Higher Mind of the universe. • How to use your subconscious to tap unseen forces and energies.

HOW TO ATTRACT MONEY

INTRODUCTION

The Book You’ve Been Waiting For

I am often asked: If I were to select one New Thought book to recommend to someone approaching the philosophy of mental causation for the first time, or maybe someone who is willing to sample one and just one book, which would it be?

The answer has eluded me. I have been uncertain whether to recommend a “mainstream” work like Earl Nightingale’s wonderful lecture The Strangest Secret, which lays out New Thought in a precise, businesslike manner, omitting most mystical themes. For someone from a strictly nonreligious background, I might recommend surgeon Maxwell Maltz’s Psycho-Cybernetics, which is a secular, psychological exploration of the mind’s formative abilities. Or, finally, if I see that someone has a key goal in mind, and is open to both spiritual and psychological language, I would recommend Napoleon Hill’s evergreen Think and Grow Rich.

But in writing these words, I realize that the book I should be recommending—and that I plan to from now on—is one that I’ve been reading for years, but never fully appreciated: Joseph Murphy’s slender 1955 masterpiece, How to Attract Money.

I think that I have previously resisted recommending How to Attract Money because I felt slightly embarrassed by its acquisitive-sounding title. Thoughtful people are taught to believe that overt expressions of money-getting are vulgar or “unspiritual.” Reading this book with fresh eyes, however, I am disabused of that notion. First of all, money—in whatever form it takes, whether bills, goods, or commodities—is part of the natural human exchange, and is indelibly tied to all phases of our lives. More importantly, Murphy, in his genius as a communicator, uses the topic of money, something that we all need, as a metaphor for the point he’s really making: which is that we are generative, causative beings who channel the power of higher creativity through the medium of our thoughts, which take form in the overt circumstances of our lives.

Not everyone approaching New Thought, or this book, must be spiritual in outlook. One could venture psychological explanations for the link between thoughts and events, something that Maltz does compellingly in Psycho-Cybernetics, where he compares the mind to a homing device, like a heat-seeking missile, which is programed by our subconscious beliefs. And that is valid. But New Thought, at its heart, is spiritual, by which I mean it posits a non-material, extra-physical basis for life. In this short volume, Joseph Murphy explains this perspective, and provides precise techniques for using your thoughts, prayers, mental images, and affirmations in a manner that exerts and channels the creative intelligence of cosmos, or what we call God.

When Murphy writes about using the powers of your mind while in a drowsy, pre-sleep state, and when he asserts that the Bible is a symbolical book of inner development, his ideas converge with those of his contemporary seeker, spiritual teacher Neville Goddard. Murphy recalled studying with Neville (who wrote under his first name) when the two men—Murphy a recent immigrant from Ireland and Neville from the West Indies—were coming up as metaphysical teachers on the New York scene in the 1930s. In interviews toward the end of his life in 1981, Murphy said that he and Neville shared the same teacher: a mysterious, turbaned black rabbi named Abdullah.

If all that is a little too mystical for you, don’t worry. Murphy’s philosophy doesn’t require credulity; it requires experimentation. And the experiments in this book are exquisitely private—they are yours alone. They require no membership or label. And, most especially, there is no need to disclose what you’re doing to anyone else. In fact, it’s better not to. These ideas don’t need another’s approval or approbation—only your engagement.

This short book, written eight years before the 1963 publication of Murphy’s worldwide bestseller The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, captured his philosophy in its totality. Murphy’s communicative powers, always considerable, are at their peak. His words here are effective, truthful, and, I think, demonstrably good and beneficent.

I have been reading New Thought literature for about twenty years, and yet something—I cannot quite say what—awakened in me when I recently reread this little book in the early morning hours, while my home in New York City remained covered in predawn darkness and the activity of the streets was briefly stilled. I wish a similar experience for you. And if you, like me, come to feel that you want to share this book with friends and curious people, you will be spreading seeds of mental creativity, which may grow in your life and in the lives of others in ways that surprise you. That, too, I wish for all who approach this volume.

—Mitch Horowitz

New York City, 2017

CHAPTER ONE

Your Right to be Rich

It is your right to be rich. You are here to lead the abundant life, and be happy, radiant, and free. You should, therefore, have all the money you need to lead a full, happy, prosperous life.

There is no virtue in poverty; the latter is a mental disease, and it should be abolished from the face of the earth. You are here to grow, expand, and unfold, spiritually, mentally, and materially. You have the inalienable right to fully develop and express yourself along all lines. You should surround yourself with beauty and luxury.

Why be satisfied with just enough to go around when you can enjoy the riches of the Infinite? In this book you will learn to make friends with money, and you will always have a surplus. Your desire to be rich is a desire for a fuller, happier, more wonderful life. It is a cosmic urge. It is good and very good.

Begin to see money in its true significance—as a symbol of exchange. It means to you freedom from want, and beauty, luxury, abundance, and refinement.

As you read this chapter, you are probably saying, “I want more money.” “I am worthy of a higher salary than I am receiving.”

I believe most people are inadequately compensated. One of the causes many people do not have more money is that they are silently or openly condemning it. They refer to money as “filthy lucre,” or “Love of money is the root of all evil,” etc. Another reason they do not prosper is that they have a sneaky, subconscious feeling there is some virtue in poverty; this subconscious pattern may be due to early childhood training, superstition, or it could be based on a false interpretation of the Scriptures.

There is no virtue in poverty; it is a disease like any other mental disease. If you were physically ill, you would think there was something wrong with you; you would seek help, or do something about the condition at once. Likewise if you do not have money constantly circulating in your life, there is something radically wrong with you.

Money is only a symbol; it has taken many forms as a medium of exchange down through the centuries, such as salt, beads, and trinkets of various kinds. In early times man’s wealth was determined by the number of sheep or oxen he had. It is much more convenient to write a check than to carry some sheep around with you to pay your bills.

God does not want you to live in a hovel or go hungry. God wants you to be happy, prosperous, and successful. God is always successful in all His undertakings, whether He makes a star or a cosmos!

You may wish to make a trip around the world, study art in foreign countries, go to college, or send your children to a superior school. You certainly wish to bring your children up in lovely surroundings, so that they might learn to appreciate beauty, order, symmetry, and proportion.

You were born to succeed, to win, to conquer all difficulties, and have all your faculties fully developed. If there is financial lack in your life, do something about it.

Get away immediately from all superstitious beliefs about money. Do not ever regard money as evil or filthy. If you do, you cause it to take wings and fly away from you. Remember that you lose what you condemn.

Suppose, for example, you found gold, silver, lead, copper, or iron in the ground. Would you pronounce these things evil? God pronounced all things good. The evil comes from man’s darkened understanding, from his unillumined mind, from his false interpretation of life, and his misuse of Divine Power. Uranium, lead, or some other metal could have been used as a medium of exchange. We use paper bills, checks, etc.; surely the piece of paper is not evil; neither is the check. Physicists and scientists know today that the only difference between one metal and another is the number and rate of motion of the electrons revolving around a central nucleus. They are now changing one metal into another through a bombardment of the atoms in the powerful cyclotron. Gold under certain conditions becomes mercury. It will only be a little while until gold, silver, and other metals will be made synthetically in the chemical laboratory. I cannot imagine seeing anything evil in electrons, neutrons, protons, and isotopes.

The piece of paper in your pocket is composed of electrons and protons arranged differently; their number and rate of motion is different; that is the only way the paper differs from the silver in your pocket.

Some people will say, “Oh, people kill for money. They steal for money!” It has been associated with countless crimes, but that does not make it evil.

A man may give another $50 to kill someone; he has misused money in using it for a destructive purpose. You can use electricity to kill someone or light the house. You can use water to quench the baby’s thirst, or use it to drown the child. You can use fire to warm the child, or burn it to death.

Another illustration would be if you brought some earth from your garden, put it in your coffee cup for breakfast, that would be your evil; yet the earth is not evil; neither is the coffee. The earth is displaced; it belongs in your garden.

Similarly if a needle were stuck in your thumb, it would be your evil; the needle or pin belongs in the pin cushion, not in your thumb.

We know the forces or the elements of nature are not evil; it depends on our use of them whether they bless or hurt us.

A man said to me one time, “I am broke. I do not like money; it is the root of all evil.”

Love of money to the exclusion of everything else will cause you to become lopsided and unbalanced. You are here to use your power or authority wisely. Some men crave power; others crave money. If you set your heart on money, and say, “That is all I want. I am going to give all my attention to amassing money; nothing else matters,” you can get money and attain a fortune, but you have forgotten that you are here to lead a balanced life. “Man does not live by bread alone.”

For example, if you belong to some cult or religious group, and become fanatical about it, excluding yourself from your friends, society, and social activities, you will become unbalanced, inhibited, and frustrated. Nature insists on a balance. If all your time is devoted to external things and possessions, you will find yourself hungry for peace of mind, harmony, love, joy, or perfect health. You will find you cannot buy anything that is real. You can amass a fortune, or have millions of dollars; this is not evil or bad. Love of money to the exclusion of everything else results in frustration, disappointment, and disillusionment; in that sense it is the root of your evil.

By making money your sole aim, you simply made a wrong choice. You thought that was all you wanted, but you found after all your efforts that it was not only the money you needed. What you really desired was true place, peace of mind, and abundance. You could have the million or many millions, if you wanted them, and still have peace of mind, harmony, perfect health, and Divine Expression.

Everyone wants enough money, and not just enough to go around. He wants abundance and to spare; he should have it. The urges, desires, and impulses we have for food, clothing, homes, better means of transportation, expression, procreation, and abundance are all God- given, Divine, and good, but we may misdirect these impulses, desires, and urges resulting in evil or negative experiences in our lives.

Man does not have an evil nature; there is no evil nature in you; it is God, the Universal Wisdom, or Life seeking expression through you.

For example, a boy wants to go to college, but he does not have enough money. He sees other boys in the neighborhood going off to college and the university; his desire increases. He says to himself, “I want an education, too.” Such a youth may steal and embezzle money for the purpose of going to college. The desire to go to college was basically and fundamentally good; he misdirected that desire or urge by violating the laws of society, the cosmic law of harmony, or the golden rule; then he finds himself in trouble.

However if this boy knew the laws of mind, and his unqualified capacity through the use of the Spiritual Power to go to college, he would be free and not in jail. Who put him in jail? He placed himself there. The policeman who locked him up in prison was an instrument of the man- made laws which he violated. He first imprisoned himself in his mind by stealing and hurting others. Fear and a guilt consciousness followed; this is the prison of the mind followed by the prison walls made of bricks and stones.

Money is a symbol of God’s opulence, beauty, refinement, and abundance, and it should be used wisely, judiciously, and constructively to bless humanity in countless ways. It is merely a symbol of the economic health of the nation. When your blood is circulating freely, you are healthy. When money is circulating freely in your life, you are economically healthy. When people begin to hoard money, to put it away in tin boxes, and become charged with fear, there is economic illness.

The crash of 1929 was a psychological panic; it was fear seizing the minds of people everywhere. It was a sort of negative, hypnotic spell.

You are living in a subjective and objective world. You must not neglect the spiritual food, such as peace of mind, love, beauty, harmony, joy, and laughter.

Knowledge of the spiritual power is the means to the Royal Road to Riches of all kinds, whether your desire is spiritual, mental, or material. The student of the laws of mind, or the student of the spiritual principle, believes and knows absolutely that regardless of the economic situation, stock market fluctuation, depression, strikes, war, other conditions, or circumstances, he will always be amply supplied regardless of what form money may take. The reason for this is he abides in the consciousness of wealth. The student has convinced himself in his mind that wealth is forever flowing freely in his life, and that there is always a Divine surplus. Should there be a war tomorrow, and all the student’s present holdings become valueless, as the German marks did after the First World War, he would still attract wealth, and be cared for regardless of the form the new currency took.

Wealth is a state of consciousness; it is a mind conditioned to Divine supply forever flowing. The scientific thinker looks at money or wealth like the tide; i.e., it goes out, but it always comes back. The tides never fail; neither will man’s supply when he trusts a tireless, changeless, immortal Presence which is Omnipresent, and flows ceaselessly. The man who knows the workings of the subconscious mind is never, therefore, worried about the economic situation, stock market panics, devaluation, or inflation of currenc...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• The Science of Getting Rich
• How to Attract Money
• The Magic of Believing