Part Twenty-Three - Study Questions with Answers

221. What is the first law of success?
     Service.
222. How may we be of the most service?
     Have an open mind; be interested in the race only, in the pursuit only.
223. What is the result of a generous thought?
     It contains the seeds of growth.
224. How will our greatest success be achieved?
     By a recognition of the fact that it is just as essential to give as to receive.
225. Why do financiers frequently meet with great success?
     Because they do their own thinking.
226. Why do some people in every country become active and work towards more freedom for all?
     Because they do all their thinking for themselves.
227. What is the effect of concentrating upon joy and abundance?
     More joy and more abundance.
228. What is the effect of concentrating upon gain?
     More gain.
229. Is this principle used in the business world?
     It is the only principle which is ever used, or ever can be used. Even though it may be used unconsciously.
230. What is the practical application of this principle?
     The fact that success is an effect, and if we wish to secure the effect we must ascertain the cause, the idea or thought by which the effect is created.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. - Disraeli

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23. This week concentrate on the fact that people are a spirit with a body, and that it is for this reason that their desires are capable of permanent satisfaction only in the spiritual realm. Money is therefore of no value except to bring about the conditions which we desire, and these conditions are necessarily harmonious. Harmonious conditions necessitate sufficient supply, so that if there appears to be any abundance, we have realized that the idea or soul of money is service, and as this thought takes form, channels of supply will be opened, and you will have the satisfaction of knowing that spiritual methods are entirely practical.

We have discovered that premeditated, orderly thinking for a purpose matures that purpose into fixed form, so that we may be absolutely sure of the result of our dynamic experiment.
- Francis Larimer Warner

Part Twenty-Three - Page 1

1. The money consciousness is an attitude of mind; it is the open door to the arteries of commerce. It is the receptive attitude. Desire is the attractive force which sets the current in motion and love is the great pipe by which the current is opened and flows completely straight, towards us.
2. Love is just the same as money consciousness; it is wealth consciousness, and as the law is perfect we get exactly what we give; if we love we get what we loved. Money weaves itself into the entire fabric of our very existence; it engages the best thought of the best minds.
3. We make money by making friends, and we enlarge our circle of friends by making money for them, by helping them, by being of service to them. The first law of success then is service, and this in turn is built on integrity and justice. The person who at least is fair in their intention is simply intelligent; they have hit the fundamental law of all exchange; they are possible; they will win surely and certainly; they will know it; they will know they are winning, and they are destined to certain success. They can play fair with the Infinite. The law of compensation will demand of them a service for a service and a favor for a favor.
4. The forces of life are volatile; they are composed of our thoughts and ideals and these in turn are moulded into form; our task is to keep an open mind, to constantly reach out for the new, to recognize opportunity, to be interested in the race only, for the pleasure is in the pursuit only.
5. You can make a money magnet of yourself, but to do so you must first consider how you can make money for other people. If you have the necessary insight to perceive and utilize opportunities and favorable conditions and recognize values, you can put yourself in position to take advantage of them, but your greatest success will come as you are enabled to assist others. What benefits one must benefit all.