Eight pillars of prosperity E-Book

James Allen

• Herausgeber: Skyline
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

It is popularly supposed that a greater prosperity for individuals or nations can only come through a political and social reconstruction. This cannot be true apart from the practice of the moral virtues in the individuals that comprise a nation. Better laws and social conditions will always follow a higher realisation of morality among the individuals of a community, but no legal enactment can give prosperity to, nay it cannot prevent the ruin of, a man or a nation that has become lax and decadent in the pursuit and practice of virtue. The moral virtues are the foundation and support of prosperity as they are the soul of greatness. They endure for ever, and all the works of man which endure are built upon them. Without them there is neither strength, stability, nor substantial reality, but only ephemeral dreams. To find moral principles is to have found prosperity, greatness, truth, and is therefore to be strong, valiant, joyful and free.

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James Allen

Eight pillars of prosperity

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Table of contents

Preface

1. Eight pillars

2. First pillar – Energy

3. Second pillar – Economy

4. Third pillar – Integrity

5. Fourth pillar – System

6. Fifth pillar – Sympathy

7. Sixth pillar – Sincerity

8. Seventh pillar – Impartiality

9. Eighth pillar – Self-reliance

10. The temple of prosperity

Preface

It is popularly supposed that a greater prosperity for individuals or nations can only comethrough a political and social reconstruction. This cannot be true apart from the practiceof the moral virtues in the individuals that comprise a nation. Better laws and socialconditions will always follow a higher realisation of morality among the individuals of acommunity, but no legal enactment can give prosperity to, nay it cannot prevent the ruinof, a man or a nation that has become lax and decadent in the pursuit and practice ofvirtue.The moral virtues are the foundation and support of prosperity as they are the soul ofgreatness. They endure for ever, and all the works of man which endure are built uponthem. Without them there is neither strength, stability, nor substantial reality, but onlyephemeral dreams. To find moral principles is to have found prosperity, greatness, truth,and is therefore to be strong, valiant, joyful and free.

1. Eight pillars

Prosperity rests upon a moral foundation. It is popularly supposed to rest upon an

immoral foundation - that is, upon trickery, sharp practice, deception and greed. One

commonly hears even an otherwise intelligent man declare that “No man can be

successful in business unless he is dishonest,” thus regarding business prosperity – a good

thing – as the effect of dishonesty – a bad thing. Such a statement is superficial and

thoughtless, and reveals a total lack of knowledge of moral causation, as well as a very

limited grasp of the facts of life. It is as though one should sow henbane and reap

spinach, or erect a brick house on a quagmire - things impossible in the natural order of

causation, and therefore not to be attempted. The spiritual or moral order of causation is

not different in principle, but only in nature. The same law obtains in things unseen – in

thoughts and deeds - as in things seen – in natural phenomena. Man sees the processes in

natural objects, and acts in accordance with them, but not seeing the spiritual processes,

he imagines that they do not obtain, and so he does not act in harmony with them.

Yet these spiritual processes are just as simple and just as sure as the natural processes.

They are indeed the samenaturalmodes manifesting in the world of mind. All the

parables and a large number of the sayings of the Great Teachers are designed to

illustrate this fact. The natural world is the mental world made visible. The seen is the

mirror of the unseen. The upper half of a circle is in no way different from the lower half,

but its sphericity is reversed. The material and the mental are not two detached arcs in the