Spiritually awakened people see their earthly fathers and mothers as the human instruments through which God’s law has worked to provide them with a physical body to serve God as they go about the business of living God’s life for Him here on earth.
- The Fifth Commandment
With the eye of inner vision, we look through our earthly parentage to our divine progenitor our heavenly Father. We honor Him not only as the source of life but the source of all supply, and we see exhortation to deal honorably with Him. The law of compensation teaches us to return full value always. We gladly accept from God, but we are prone to forget hat there is something justly due to Him from us.
- The Fifth Commandment
When making a demonstration, we are accepting God’s law working in our behalf; when the demonstration is completed, we must pay what is justly due God if we would deal honorably with Him.
- The Sixth Commandment
You shall not kill. – Exodus 20:13
Translates to
You shall not take your wealth out of circulation.
- The Sixth Commandment
We have to continue to practice the circulation of loving thoughts, words, and actions toward all. It is correspondingly true that if we desire much joy and happiness, we must radiate more happiness into the lives of others. If we want more vigor and vitality, we must put to work the physical energy we already have. If we want success and prosperity, we must use to the utmost what is already ours. In other words, stagnation is death, but circulation is life.
- The Sixth Commandment
Fear and condemnation are allied with stagnation and death. Fear kills faith and prevents the divine ideas of God’s almighty power and infinite goodwill from circulating freely in mind and affairs. Condemnation kills praise and appreciation. When we criticize and condemn our circumstances, we have no appreciation of God’s presence with us as our unfailing source of all good. There can be no circulation of God’s good where there is no praise of God’s presence.
- The Sixth Commandment
Praise and faith are allied with circulation and life.
You glorify your pocketbook or bank account when you praise or give thanks for the everywhere-present spiritual substance that you know fills it to overflowing and takes the form of the funds desired according to your faith.
Instead of condemning, you are granting “divine favor” to the receptacles of your divine abundance as you behold them filled to overflowing with the material evidence of God’s goodwill for you.
- The Seventh Commandment
You shall not commit adultery
– Exodus 20:14
Translates to
You shall not abase your wealth to idle or evil uses.
- The Seventh Commandment
“Do you know that you are God’s temple and that spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple” (1 Cor.3:16-17)
We know that every destructive thought defiles the temple and does its part in destroying or tearing it down. Such thoughts often bring about the sensual use of life forces.
- The Seventh Commandment
“Jesus taught that defiling the mind with impure thoughts was as great an evil as debasing the body by sensual uses. He drove the lesson that all impure action is but the manifestation of impure thought.
We are not to debase our spiritual ideals by yielding to the temptations of our sense appetites. This idea is to be applied not only in establishing health and happiness but also in establishing prosperity. Our supply is of God; it is an outer symbol of omnipresent good.
- The Seventh Commandment
Money is an outer form of spiritual substance. Like all form, it has only the life and power of the divine idea that animates it. The animating idea in money is supply. Money is a medium of exchange used today for the supplying of material desires. When we awaken to the Truth that God is the source of supply, we recognize money as a symbol of God’s abundance.
- The Seventh Commandment
- When we associate our wealth with thoughts of greed, selfishness or lust, we defile our minds and make base use of God’s golden stream of spiritual substance, which carries within itself the potential of limitless supply.
- When we associate unworthy thoughts with wealth, we make unworthy use of our wealth.
- When we make unworthy use of God’s good, the laws of life take bitter toll of us and we pay in terms of disaster.
- The Eighth Commandment
You shall not steal – Exodus – 20:15
Translates to
You shall not seek something for nothing.
- The Eighth Commandment
If we don’t like what we are getting out of life, we must consider carefully what we are giving life. If we feel that we cannot afford to be charitable and that we hate to pay our bills, we are withholding our generosity
- The Eighth Commandment
The answer is that wealth is the manifestation of the state of mind. The earnestly striving person whose efforts are not richly compensated many have a poverty consciousness. This is by far the most common reason for inadequate returns for conscientious endeavor.
- The Eighth Commandment
The mind that is filled with fear of lack, acceptance of lack, or rebellion against circumstances is for the time being, failing to collect the just compensation due in this outer realm of cause and effect.
- The Eighth Commandment
Jesus emphasized the necessity of giving either before or after receiving when he said: ”Give, and it will be given to you” Lk.6:38), and Freely ye have received, freely give” (Mt. 10:8)
Obedience to these instructions of Jesus constitutes obedience to prosperity’s eighth commandment and will keep us financial fit.
- The Eighth Commandment
We may claim as much as we are capable of accepting of God’s bounty. This is a transaction in mind, and we must proceed to substantiate our claims in the realm of form. This is a demonstration.
- The Ninth Commandment
You shall bear false witness against your neighbor. – Exodus 20:19
Translates to
You shall not bear false witness against the source of your wealth.
- The Tenth Commandment
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave or donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
Translates to
You shall not limit yourself by coveting that which is another’s; you shall claim your own.