Spiritually awakened people are coming to know that all
riches are spiritual and within the reach of all as divine
ideas. They study the law of conservation as it pertains to
the spiritual and seek to build up a large reserve
consciousness of substance, life, strength, and power,
rather than laying up material treasures that "moth and
rust consume" and "thieves break through and steal."

Men and women scatter their energies to the four winds in
the effort to satisfy the desires of the flesh, and then
wonder why they do not demonstrate prosperity. If they only
realized the truth that this same thought force can be
conserved and controlled to express itself in constructive
channels, they would soon be prosperous. Spirit must have
substance to work on and there must be substance in the
ideas of your mind. If your substance is going here, there,
and everywhere, being spent in riotous thinking, how can it
accumulate to the point of demonstration? Such a waste of
substance is a violation of the law of conservation, a law
that all should know. When you overcome your desire for
dissipation, not the overt acts only but the inner desire,
then you will begin to accumulate substance that must
manifest itself as prosperity according to the law.

One of the fundamental principles in the study of
Christianity is that God's great objective is the making of
a perfect man. Man is the apex of creation, made in God's
image and likeness, and endowed with full authority and
dominion over his elemental thoughts. We sometimes think
that we