{"collection":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_unity_prsp_prsp04_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_unity_prsp_prsp04_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_nth_unity_prsp_prsp04_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/nth/unity/prsp/prsp04.htm","summary":"*Prosperity* (1936) by Charles Fillmore is a New Thought spiritual treatise arguing that financial abundance is fundamentally a mental and spiritual phenomenon, not a material one. Fillmore contends that all reality originates in \"Divine Mind,\" and that material things \u2014 including money and wealth \u2014 are outward expressions of inner ideas; therefore, lasting prosperity comes only by aligning one's consciousness with God's unlimited \"substance ideas,\" not by competing for finite physical resources. The work draws heavily on Christian scripture (citing the Lord's Prayer, Elijah, and Jesus) while reinterpreting them through a metaphysical lens: prayer is described as a technique for accumulating spiritual substance in the mind, which then precipitates material supply as a natural law. Distinctively, Fillmore rejects both pure materialism (working only in the outer world) and pure idealism (denying appearances matter), insisting prosperity requires holding both the invisible ideal and visible expression in mind simultaneously \u2014 those who deny appearances are a \"house divided against itself.\" He also makes the bold claim that humanity is evolving toward a state where physical needs will be met automatically through right thinking, without physical labor. The intended audience is someone already sympathetic to metaphysical Christianity who wants practical mental/spiritual methods for overcoming financial lack.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Prosperity: Chapter 2","tradition":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","translated_text":null,"word_count":4149}