Prosperity
El Dorado, a country rich beyond all precedent in gold and
jewels, lies at every man’s door. Your bonanza lies under your feet.
Your luck is ready at hand. All is within; nothing is without, though it
often appears that men and peoples by dumb luck or avarice or force or
overreaching strike upon the sea of prosperity…Man individually and
collectively is entitled to life in all abundance. It is a most evident
fact. Religion and philosophy assert it; history and science prove it.
“That they might have life, and that they might have it more
abundantly,” is the law. What do you seek? Pay the price and take it
away. There is no limit to the supply, but the more precious the thing you
seek the higher the price. For everything we obtain we must barter the
gold of our own spirits…
Where to find the
gold of the All Powerful? One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds
himself. When he finds himself, he finds freedom and all riches,
achievement, and prosperity…
Men who know
themselves know at once that all material things and ideas have a
spiritual counterpart or basis. They see it in money, in credit. The law
of supply and demand is not to an awakened man merely an economic
principle, but the material manifestation of spiritual law…
America has long
been the greatest of El Dorados, the stage upon which the most numerous of
self-found men worked their bonanzas and their miracles of thought to the
enrichment of themselves and mankind at large…Mackay, O’Brien, Hearst,
and Fair, brave young Americans of 1849, found gold in themselves before
they struck it rich in California. They had to. “If there is gold
there,” they told one another, “we’ll get our share”…
Thomas A. Edison
said a few years before he died: “Ideas come from space. This may seem
astonishing and impossible to believe, but it is true. Ideas come from out
of space.” …Let each man seek the El Dorado within himself. Power is
plentiful. The source is inexhaustible. As the Canonical Fathers of the
church expressed it, that which is received is according to the measure of
the recipient. It is not the power that is lacking, it is the will. When
one finds oneself the will becomes automatically set toward El Dorado.
By a full and
powerful imagination anything can be brought into concrete form. The great
physician, Paracelsus, said: “The human spirit is so great a thing that
no man can express it; could we rightly comprehend the mind of man nothing
would be impossible to us upon the earth. Through faith the imagination is
invigorated and completed, for it really happens that every doubt mars its
perfection. Faith must strength the imagination, for faith establishes the
will.” Faith is personal, individual. Salvation, any way you take it, is
personal. Faith comes in the finding of one’s self. This self-finding
establishes a clear realization of one’s identity with the eternal.
Strong, self-assertive men built up this El Dorado of America. “Man,
know thyself,” thine own individual self, is everlastingly the supreme
command. Self-knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the
fountain of youth, and are at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.
--
Herbert D.
Seibert, Commercial and Financial Chronicle, Dec. 10, 1932
