By Julia Seton

THE treasures men call wealth gleam vividly in the human world. Gold is the magnet of name, place, power and aggression, while wealth is only one of the forms of our naturally divine inheritances and the symbol of exchange which we give in return for the satisfaction of our desires.

Through many births and rebirths we have all stood before the judgment seat of our own law of giving and receiving, and found at every place—past, present or future—that life can only give back to us the equivalent of what we have given to it.

It is only when we have put our ALL into life under the law of Life Itself that we can ask whatsoever we will and nothing can be impossible unto us.

On the path of life we wander in and out—sometimes rich—sometimes poor—sometimes neither rich nor poor, but just existing—learning from life and its changes that we can over-give, over-keep, under-give and under-keep, until as a final initiation we learn to strike the universal balance.

Our own desires cause us to covet, hold, live for ourselves and retain the selfish indulgences of our supposed needs. We forget or have not yet learned the cosmic law of being rich in all things—not one alone. The poor are always enroute through hut and hovel, and the rich are always enroute through palaces and estates, until they learn that “with what measure yet mete it shall be meted unto you.” This is the handwriting above the door from hut and rags to palace and crown.

The eternal law of the balance of giving and receiving is with us from birth to birth. There are no innocent victims. We inherit from ourselves. The peasant and king are only the worked out symbols of the paths of life which they have chosen consciously or unconsciously. Ignorance is no excuse under the law.

The great creative Spiritual Intelligence wants us to have what we want. All that the Spirit of Light has is forever ours too.

Life always has its hands full, and is ever trying to pass on to us. Wealth is continually seeking those who have made union with its lines of delivery.

Those who know TRUTH find the treasure house of infinity within their own souls. When the last veil is lifted, we find that what men call wealth is a state of mind within us, and its manifestations in our life and environment depends upon just how skilfully we have balanced our human laws of GIVING and RECEIVING. When these are in perfect rhythm we find the open doors of wealth. Then we can throw away the key, because wealth in every form lies everywhere upon our way, waiting for us to understand and obey its commands.

—From The New Civilization, Editorial Entitled “What Men Call Wealth.”

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