ERIC BUTTERWORTH PAPERS (3014)
BOX 20 FOLDER 35
THE PROSPERITY
PROCESS
NOVEMBER 25,1984
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ONE OF THE IMPORTANT EMPHASEs/lN THIS NEW INSIEHT
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/is ON/PROSPERITY. THERE IS AN CFT-REPEATED THEME; 'YOU CAN 3E PROSPERED.' PERHAPS THE NOTION COMMENCED/ WI TH {DIERSMJ WHEN HE SAID,/ 'MAN IS BORN TO BE RICH/OR INEVITABLY TO/GROW RICH/8Y THE USE/OF HIS FACULTIES.'
THIS WAS A/REVOLUTIONARY IDEA/WHEN EMERSON UTTEREI
IT./PERHAPS even heretical, and it is/shocking
AND INCREDIBLE/TO MANY PERSONS TODAY. FOR IT MEAN! /WE MUST LET GO OF/THE OLD IDEA/THAT ONE'S FINANCE!
Reflect some divine will,/and that demonstrating
PROSPERI TY/lS AKIN TO/'HI TYING THE 30SS Ul/FOR A RAISE IN SALARY.'
IN A SPACE AGE/WE MUST 3EGIN TO/ THINK MORE EXPANSIVELY. WE ARE LIVING/lN AN OPULENT UNIVERSE /SUBSTANCE IS OMNIPRESENT - AND WHAT THIS MEANS -STARTLING AS IT MAY SEEM - IS THAT/THE WHOLE OF’
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DIVINE SU8STAMCE/IS PRESENT/IN ITS ENTIRETY/AT EVERY POINT IN SPACE, fTHERE IS NO WAY/WE CAN GET OUTSIDE OF IT/OR 3E SEPARATED FROM IT. AS I SAY OFTEN./YOU MAY 3E FIRED/FROM A J03/3LT YOU
CA NEVER BE FIRED/FRON THE UNIVERSE. YOU MAY RUN OUT OF MONEY -/OR AS WE PUT IT TODAY /'HAVE A CASH FLOW PROBLEM'-/BUT YOU CANNOT BE/OUTSIDE THE ETERNAL FLOW/OF CREATIVE SUBSTANCE./
SO - ONE OF THE 3ELIEFS/THAT WE MUST UNLEARN/IS THAT PROSPER I TY/lS ONLY FOR THE FEW,/AND THAT IT ENTAILS/TAKING SOMETHING FROM OTHERS.THE SUBSTANCE OF GOD/lS LIMITLESS. WE LIVE IN \V
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LIKE A FISH/LIVES IN WATBR. CAN A FISH/tTEALLY LACK WATER? CAN MAN EVER LACK/FOR GOD SUBSTANCE
►THUS,/IT IS NOT FOR LACK/OF A8UNDANCE/THAT YOU EKBERIENCE WANT./3UT LACK /OF THE AWARFMFSS /THi T THERE IS/AN ABDNDANCE F8R ALL. FINANCIAL STRIN -GENCY/DOES NOT MEAN/ONE IS OUT OF THE FLOW OF
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SU3STANCE,/ BUT THAT YOU HAVE LOST/ THE CONSCIOIIS-
MESS. OF THE FLOW.
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f*IN THE TEACHING OF TRUTH/THE IDEA OF PROSPERITY/ IS OFTEN PRESENTED/AS A GROSS MATER IALIZATIOH/OF WAHAT IS ESSENTlALLY/A 3EAUTIFUL SPIRITUAL LAW.
IT IS OFTEN PRESEMTEO/lN THE CONTEXT OF/DOLLAR SIGNS/AND JEWELS/AND EXPENSIVE CARS. THIS GIVES RISE/TO THE TENDENCY TC/VIEW THINGS WITH ENVY/ AND COVETOUSNESS.
AN OLD HYMN IS OFTEN SUNG,/'MY FATHER IS RICH/lN HOUSES AND LANDS...'/ AND COVETOUSLY/THE STUDENT IMPLIES/' I WANT SOME OF IT/FOR MY OWN.' USING TREATMENTS/AND AFFIRMATIONS/AND AUTO-SUGGESTIVE TECHNIQUES,/THERE IS AN AIR/OF MAGIC MATERIALI-ZATION,/GETTING THINGS OUJ OF GOD.
NOW I AM NOT DERIDING/THE PROSPERITY PROCESS. FOR I FULLY BEL IEVE/THERE IS ABUNDANCE FOR ALL.
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►THE WORD 'PROSPERITY'/LITERALLY MEANS/'ACCORDING TO HOPE' -/OR 'TO SEE FORWARD IN FAITH'. IT HAS LITTLE TO DO V/1TH/THINGS OF THE WORLD,/ONLY
INDIRECTLT. BUT IT HAS EVERYTH IMG/™ DO WITH/HQW YOU VIEW THE WORLD --/HOW YOU SEE YOUR WORK./YOUR INCOME,/YOUR RELATIONSHIPS. PROSPER ITY/lS AN ATTITUDE,/A sTTATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS. NOT JUST HAVING THINGS,/BUT THE MEN TALITY/THAT ATTRACTS THE THINGS.
►MY FAVORITE ILLUSTRATION HERE/lS THE MAGNET.--REMEMBER THE PIECE OF STEEL/jBBPED LIKE A HORSE-SHOE/AND PAINTED RED. BUT IS THIS/WHAT A MAGNET IS?/A MAGNET IS/THE ELECTRO-MAGNETIC FORCE/OR THE STEEL IN WHICH/THE FORCE HAS BEEN ENSOULKB. NOW, IF YOU THINK OF/ PROSPER ITY AS THINGS./YOU WILL PERCEIVE A GOOD MAGNET/AS THE STEEL WITH IRON
FILINGS PILED ON. "DEMONSTRATING PROSPERITY MILE BE THE PROCESS/OF HEAPING FILINGS/ON THE STEEL. BUT THERE WILL ALWAYS BE/A SUBTLE FEAR/THAT THE FILINGS WILL SE/SHAKEN LOOSE.
I HAD A LETTER SOME TIME AGO/TAKING ME TO TASK /FOR A STATEMENT IN 'DISCOVER THE POWER...’ /WHERE I SAY,/ 'THERE IS NO MORE SUBSTANCE/IN A MILLION DOLLARS/THAN IN A PENNY.’ THE WRITER SAID,/'GIVE ME THE/M1LLI ON DOLLARS ANYTIME.'
OF COURSE HE MISSED THE POINT. WHICH WOULD YOU HAVE - A RAECE OF STEEL/SHAPED LIKE A MAGNET /PILED WITH IRON FILINGS -/OR A MAGNET/ENSOULED WITH THE POWER/TO ENDLESSLY ATTRACT FILINGS,/
AND HOLD THEM. JESUS TALKS ABOUT THIS/MENTALlI AS GOING FORTl/’WflTHOfl! SCR IPT/OR PURSET
JESUS SAYS,/'SEEK YE FIRST/THE KINGDOM OF GOD,
AND ALL THINGS/SHALL BE ADDED UNTO MOU.' THIS MEANS TO STBRTCH YOUR MIND/WITH THE IDEA OF THE
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OMNI PRESENCE OF SUBSTANCE/AND OF YOURSELF/AS IMMERSED IN IT. GET ROOTED IN THE REALIZATION/ THAT THE U81 VERSE/ACTUALLY LONGS/TO FLOW INTO YOU. 'IT IS THE FATHER'S GOOD PLEASURE/TO’
GIVE YOU THE KINGDOM.'__________________________
► ONE OF THE IMPORTANT/ DISCOVERIES IN TRUTH/IS THAT CONSCIOUSNESS/lS THE KEY TO PERSONAL PROSPERITY. THE STARTING POINT/lN CHANCING YOUR LIFE/FROM LACK TO ABUNDANCE/IS THE REALIZATION/ THAT YOU CAN DO ALL THINGS/THROUGH CHANGING YOUR THOUGHTS. / YOU BEGJN BY ADM ITTING/THAT PRESENT CONDITIONS/(YOUR JOB/OR LACK OF ONE,/YOUR SALARY,
/YOUR ASSETS AND INDEBTEDNESS^ ALL REFLECT YOUR PRESENT/LEVEL OF AWARENESS. THIS MEANS THAT YOU HAVE /VITALLY CONTRIBUTED/TD PRESENT CONDI Tl ONS/--NOTHING EVER/'JUST HAPPENS'. YOU ARE NOT SIMPLY
/THE VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCES!. CONSCIOUSNESS CREATES CIRCUMSTANCES./OR AT VERY LEAST/lT SETS
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THE CLIMATE/lN WHICH THEY MAY HAPPEN. BUT YOU SEE/WHEN YOU ESTABLISH THIS AWARENESS / AND 'OWN • YOUR OWN MIND' -/YOU ARE IN A POSITION/TO ALTER THINGS. FOR, IF THE CAUSE IS IN YOU,/THE CURE CAN COME/BY CHANGING THE CAUSE.
YOU SEE -/THE NEED/IS NOT FINDING SOME WAY/TO G£J SUBSTANCE. / BUT ALTERING/THE BASIC ATTI -TUDE/THAT MAY HAVE 3EEN/»BLOCKING ITS NATURAL FLOW.
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FOR INSTANCE/WHAT KIND OF ATTITUDES/DO YOU HAVE/ TOWARD MONEY? MONEY WILL ALWAYS BE/TO YOU AN EXTENSION/OF YOUR 1HIDUGHTS ABOUT IT/FOR MOST PERSONS/MONEY IS A SYMBOL OF LACK. IT IS INEVITABLY SHROUDED/lN 'ONLINESSt 'I ONLY HAVE’.. .‘I ONLY EARN". IT EVOKES FEELINGS/OF FEAR./OF ANXIET /AND OF GROSS MATERIALISM.
NEVER ALLOW MONEY/OF ANY KIND/TO CONE TO YOU/
OR FLOW FORTH FROM YOU/WITHOUT BLESSING IT.
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THE WORD 'BLESS'/BY DICTIONARY DEF IN I Tl OS04EANS 'TO CONFER PROSPERITY UPON.' IT IS YOUR VERY OWN /'MIDAS TOUCH.'
THERE IS A TECHNIQUE/THAT I HAVE LONG SUGGESTED /IN THE USE OF MONEY. MONEY USED TO BE CALLED/ 'GREEN-BACKS’. BUT ON THE GREEN SIDE/YOU FIND THE MOTTO,/'IN GOD WE TRUST.' WHILE ON THE OTHER SIDE/YOU FIND THE DENOMINATION. THE LIMITED/AND THE LIMITLESS. SO I SAY,/IN THOT/ IF NOT IN PRACT161,/'KEEP THE GREEN SIDE UP.'
IN OTHER WORDS/BE SURE THAT YOUR MONEY/INDICATES/ NQJ HOfl LJXLLE YJli HAVE./3UT HOW YOU ARE/lN TUNE WITH THE AFFLUENCE/OF THE UNIVERSE. AS YOU COUNT YOUR MONEY,/BE SURE THAT YOU STIR UP/FEELINGS OF GRATITUDE/THAT YOU ARE IN THE FLOW,/RATHER THAN FEELING DEPRESSED/lN a SENSE OF BEING/AT THE END OF THE ROPE. PERHAPS IT IS THE HALF-FULl/OR HALF-EMPTY SYNDR?OME --/BUT THAT IS WlHAT POSITIVE
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TH INKING IS ALL ABOUT.
A FEW YEARS AGO/AN INTERESTING BOOK ON DIET AND LOSING WE IGHT/TOOK ITS PLACE AMONG THE MANY 3EING RELEASED IT HAD ONE/SIMPLE THEME/-- WHEN EATING,/INSTEAD OF THINKING,/'THIS WILL MAKE ME FAT' -/THINK,/'THIS WILL MAKE ME THIN!'
IT IS AN EXCELLENT CONCEPT/FOR HANDLING MONEY. INSTEAD OF THINKING,/'THIS WILL MAKE ME POOR' -THIS WILL MAKE ME	DON	ST	THINK	OF	DEPLFTIOI
/HOLD THE REALIZATION/OF BEING IN THE CEASELESS FLOW./AS YOU GIVE/OR SPEND OR/USE,/KNOW THAT YOU ARE RECEIVING.
THIS IS WHY GIVING/AS A DISCIPLINED PRACTICE/MOST ALWAYS BE THE CORNERSTONE/OF THE PROSPERITY CONSCIOUSNESS. THINK CIVE! IF YOU THINK BARTER/ YOU ARE IN THE THOUGHT OF LACK. THINK GIVE,/AND YOU GIVE WAY/TO A CEASELESS FLOW, ifrr
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PROSPERITY IS OFTEN TAUGHT/AS THE ’ART OF GETTING /BUT THIS IS SHORT'S*IHGTED 7LIKE WORKING TO HEAP' IRON FILINGS/ON THE MAGNET. THERE IS A TENDENCY/
TO WORK ON THE LEVEL/OF OUR ’ACQUISITIVE INSTINCT' /MANY PERSONS BECOME 'METAPHYSICAL TAKERS'. IT IS DELUSION. WE DO NOT REALLY/UNDERSTAND THE PROSPERITY PROCESS/UNTIL WE BECOME GIVERS. BECOME A GIVER. THINK GIVE! IF YOU HAVE A NEED,/A FINANCIAL PROBLEM./THINK GIVE' SOMETHING IS BLOCKING/THE NATURAL FLOW/OF UNIVERSAL SUBSTANCE, /AND THE BEST WAT/TO RELEASE THE BLOCKAGE/IS TO GET INTO A/G1VING ATTITUDE. 'WHEN THINGS GET TIGHT/SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE.'
► PAUL SAYS,/'AND MY GOD/SHALL SUPPLY EVERY/NEED OF YOURS/ACCORDIMG TO HIS RICHES...' HIS WORDS OUTLINE/THE FUNDAMENTAL PRIMCIPLE/WHEREIN THE UNIVERSAL SYSTEM/lS CONSTANTLY PROVIDING/FOR YOUR NEEDS/FROM THE INEXHAUST I BLE^OURCE.
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JESUS POINTS TO THIS PROCESS/WHEN HE SAYS/ 'CONSIDER THE LILIES/OF THE #EIELD,/HOW THEY GROW.' AND/'IT IS YOUR FATHER'S GOOD PLEASURE/
TO GIVE YOU THE KINGDOM.'
NOW IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE/THAT PAUL USES THE WORD 'NEED'/AMD NOT 'LACK'. HE DOESN'T SAY/THAT GOD WILL SUPPLY/YOUR U£K. TO LACK/IS TO BE DESTITUTE OF. AS A CHILD OF GOD/YOU CAN NEVER BE DESTITUTE/OF DIVINE SUBSTANCE ./FOR YOU LIVE,/ AND MOVE/AWD HAVE BEING/WITHIN IT ME£D IS A CONDI TlON,/BUT L^CK IS SIMPLY/AN ATTI TUDE./THE LIMITATION/OF OUR OWN THOUGHTS. WE EXPERIENCE LACK/BECAUSE WE ALLOW THE THOUGHT/OR 3EEIEF/OF LACK/TO BECOME FIXED/lN OUR MENTALITY/- THUS TO
restrict/the FLOW OF AFFLUENCE (literally MEANING
'FBEE FLOW') /AND.. .ONE THING GOD CANNOT DO/lS MANIFEST ABUNDANCE/THR0U8B YOUR THOUGHT OF LACK. GOD CAN FILL YOUR NEED (AND PAUL EMPHATICALLY
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SAYS HE SHALL DO SO), BUT GOD CANNOT/FILL LACK.
’GOD SHALL SUPPLY EVERY MEED.1 AND,/OF COURSE,/ THE SUPPLY IS ALWAYS/EQUAL TO THE DEMAND. HOWEVEI /THIS IMPLIES/THAT WE MUST MAKE THE DEMAND/ON THE SUPPLY/8EFORE IT CAN 3E RECEIVED. WE MUST PROVIDE THE VESSELS/IN WHICH THE SU3STANCE/CAN 3E REALIZED.
IN THE UNIVERSAL PROCESS/THERE MUST 3E AN IDEAL/
TO PRECEDE AN IDEA. AND*/THERE MUST 3E A NEED/ BEFORE WE ATTRACT/AN ANSWER. AND...MM AS JESUi SAYS,/THERE MUST 3E AN ASKING/3EFORF THERE CAN BE/A RECEIVING.
NOW, WE MAY HAVE CONFUSED THE ASKING/AS BEING DIRECTED TOWARD/a CAPRICIOUS ODD. TO 'ASK'
MEANS TO DEMAND/OR CLAIM. HOW DO YOU ASK FOR WATER! FRdlM A FAUCET? TURN THE TAP. HOW DO ASK FOR LIGHT/FROM AN ELECTRIC CIRCUIT? THROW THE SWITCH.l^fow DO YOU ASK FOR OXYGEN/TO SUPPLY
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YOUR BODY? / 3Y INHALING?/NOi/ YOU EXHALE THE CARBON DIOXIDE../.AND THEN THE VACUUM/lN THE LUNGS DRAWS IN/THE LIFE-GIVING OXYGEN.
WE NEED TO KEEP IN MIND/THE IDEA OF THE AFFLUENT
UNIVERSE,/AND OF GOD'S ABUNDANCE/IN 3ACK OF ALL
THINGS. EVEN MORE, THE REAL IZATI ON/THAT THE WH«E
OF GOD'S SUBSTANCE/lS BEING PRESSED BUT INTO US/
AND THROUGH US/AT ALL TIMES. REMEMBER/'IT IS
THE FATHER'S GOOD PLEASURE TO GIVE...'
THE ASKING PROVIDES THE MEANS/OF RECEIVING. BUT
TO ASJS./IS TO CREATE THE CONDI Tl ON/ THAT MAXES
THE RESULT INEVITABLE. IF IT IS RAINING, HOW
DO YOU ASX FOR WATER? PUT SOME PAILS OUT IN
THE OPEN/lfifHERE^WILL CATCH/THE RAIN WATER.
IN II KINGS/THERE IS AN INTERESTING ACCOUNT
/OF ELISHA INSTRUCTING THE KINGS/IN A DROUGHT/
TO CREATE GREAT/POOLS OF WATER. HE TELLS THEM TO DIG DITCHES/OVER THE VALLEY/AND
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WHEN THE RAINS «CANE/THE DITCHES WERE FILLED. DIGGING DITCHES/lS ASKING FOR WATER.
HOLD A CUP TO A FAUCET/AND SOON/'MY CUP RUNNETH OVER.' THIS IS NOT ONLY/A STATEMENT OF OPILENCE. IT IS EQUALLT REN TRUE/OF ONE WHO IS IN GREAT LACK. THE CUP IS RTHE DEMAND/MADE ON THE SUPPLY. IF THE CUP IS SMALL,/IT SOON RUNS OVER. AND IF YOU HAVE/A CONSCIOUSNESS OF LACK,/YOU MAY HOLD THE CUB/UNDER THE FAUCET/UPS IDE DOWN/- AND OF COURSE/’THE CUP RUNNETH OVER.'
NOW,/IF THE CUP IS UPSIDE DOWN,/ALL THE PRAYING IN THE WORLD/WILL NOT HELP TO FILL IT. YOU MUST TURN THE CUP OVER/IN EXPECTANCY AND RECEPTIVITY. THE PROMISE IS -/GOD SUPPLIES THE NEED,/BUT G$p CANNOT FILL A LACK.
IF YOU ARE UNEMPLOYED,/YOU MAY BE FILLED WITH FEAR AND BITTERNESS.. THERE IS NO ROOM FOR FUL-
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FILLMENT. YOU MUST LET GO. LET GO OF THE/ 'UNEMPLOYED' SELF-IMAGE. SEE YOURSELF AS/'READY FOR WORK.' THIS IS THE VESSEL. WHEN THE ATTITUDE IS RIGHT,/THE JOB WILL COME LOOKING FOR YOU.
►I USE THIS SYSTEM/lN MY WORK./BY CREATING A MANILA FILE FOLDER/FOR TALKS OR ARTICLES SCHEDULE! /I DO NOT PUT SLIPS IN THE FOLDER/SAYING/'THIS IS GOING TO BE DIFFICULT.' THE FOLDER HAS A TITLE/ AND IT IS OPEN. I AM READY. LITERALLY/IDEAS COME AND I SLIP THEM/lNTO THE FOLDER. BUT SYMBOLICALLY /THE OPEN FOLDER WORKS/AS A CATALYST/IN CONSCIOUSNESS, /AND WHEN THE TIME COMES/THE IDEAS TEND TO FLOW/AS IF THEY HAD BEEN/ALL PREPARED.
WE ARE DEALING WITH THOUGHTS. THE FIRST REALIZATION OF TRUTH/THAT CAME TO ABRAHAM £F GENESIS (WHICH WAS THE PRELUDE/LEADING TO THE MIGRATION AND FORMATION OF THE HEBREW NATION/ WAS/'GET THEE
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OUT OF THE COUNTRY,/AND I WILL MAKE OF THEE/A NEW NATION.’ COIN TRY REFERS TO A STATE OF CONSCIOUS-
NESS. UNTIL Y£ii G£J OF/THE CONSCIGUSNFSS/IM WHICH YOU HAVE gE£|4 DWELL I NR./ YOU CANNOT FIND/
PROSPEROUS CONDITIONS
THIS DOESN’T MEAN/TO RUN AWAY/ QUIT YOUR JOB/ OR MOVE YOUR HOME. IT DOES MEAN/THAT YOU MUST
MAKE AN INNER CHANGE/IN YOUR UCUGHT AND FEELING/////THERE IS PROSPERITY FOR YOU/ IF YOU CAN 8EC0ME/ESTABLISHED/IN A 'RICH MENTALITY.'
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