e of our own power. If we
clearly realise that the creative power in ourselves is _unlimited_,
then there is no reason for limiting the extent to which we may enjoy
what we can create by means of it. Where we are drawing from the
_infinite_ we need never be afraid of taking more than our share. That
is not where the danger lies. The danger is in not sufficiently
realising our own richness, and in looking upon the externalised
products of our creative power as being the true riches instead of the
creative power of spirit itself.

If we avoid this error, there is no need to limit ourselves in taking
what we will from the infinite storehouse: "All things are yours." And
the way to avoid this error is by realising that the true wealth is in
identifying ourselves with the _spirit_ of opulence. We must be opulent
in our _thought_. Do not "think money," as such, for it is only one
means of opulence; but _think opulence_, that is, largely, generously,
liberally, and you will find that the means of realising this thought
will flow to you from all quarters, whether as money or as a hundred
other things not to be reckoned in cash.

We must not make ourselves dependent on any particular _form_ of wealth,
or insist on its coming to us through some particular channel--that is
at once to impose a limitation, and to shut out other forms of wealth
and to close other channels; but we must enter into the _spirit_ of it.
Now the spirit is Life, and throughout the universe Life ultimately
consists in _circulation_, whether within the physical body of the
individual or on the scale of the entire solar system; and circulation
means a continual flowing around, and the _spirit_ of opulence is no
exception to this universal law of all life.

When once this principle becomes clear to us we shall see that our
attention should be directed rather to the giving than the receiving. We
must look upon ourselves, not as misers' chests to be kept locked for
our own benefit, but as centres of distribution; and the better we
fulfil our function as such centres the greater will be the
corresponding inflow. If we choke the outlet the current must slacken,
and a full and free flow can be obtained only by keeping it open. The
spirit of opulence--the opulent mode of thought, that is--consists in
cultivating the feeling that we possess all sorts of riches which we can
_bestow upon others_, and which we can bestow _liberally_ because by
this very action we open