gives "measure for measure," So much experience for future guidance is always adequate recompense. All one gets out of life is the result of experience. Experience is the expression of life—the pressing out of life into consciousness. All our present consciousness is the result of experience. The present is but adding, through experience, to the sum total of our consciousness. So is it true that we act with all our past, and think in the present. For this reason, no one has any cause to regret, or repent, or be sorry for any experience. One is today, in consciousness, all that he has expressed of the infinite possibilities of the Soul. Let him say: "I have always expressed as my reason, my desire and my will have determined. I have learned by experience what expression brings happiness and what misery. According to my power to choose, to decide and to persist have I used the experience. Because of my use of dollars I learn how to use them if I am wise. If I do not learn, then the want which I allow myself to feel for the dollar will be the cause of more suffering!" Once one has mastered that want by realizing the principles set down in this book he will feel no sorrow over lost dollars, for he will know that the dollar spent, or the dollar others call "lost," is his as experience forever.
Financial Freedom
Financial freedom is the real desire which actuates men in their labors for the dollar. That freedom will never come as long as one puts in the dollar any power to add to, or to detract from, his happiness. Until he realizes that it is his attitude toward the use of the dollar, that will bring satisfaction, there will always be the cry of "Want!"
Affirmations
I therefore recommend that the following affirmations be used till the mental attitude they express becomes habitual:
I.
I desire a deep consciousness of financial freedom.
I desire that the flow of prosperity become equalized.
I desire a greater consciousness of my power to attract the dollar.
I desire a constant success in my business.
II.
When you have used this until you are conscious of a definiteness in your desire you may use the following::—
I have a deeper consciousness of financial freedom.
I am financially free. "Dollars want me."
The Indwelling Power cares for my purse.
I have whatever I desire.
I have no question of expenditure.
What I feel I need, that I purchase.
I can afford to use dollars for my happiness.
I have clothes, food, books, entertainment and whatever I need for health, happiness, friendship, and service to others.
III.
Mere is another which was developed with the assistance of a friend for myself in a time of my own weakness:
I MUST ALWAYS SAY TO MYSELF —
''I'm financially free."
I must see to it that the two men — the material and the spiritual — that I am, shall blend, to the purpose of financial success.
I see myself in such a financial condition that the money is always there, — actually, vividly, there, — to use, freely and in fullness.
I always have a good bank account. I actually see it.
My one idea of the Law is to use, use, USE.
I insist most rigidly upon using my Law most persistently, until I have my full demonstration.
I have strength of character, stamina, back-bone, powerful purpose in accomplishing,
I demonstrate that I'll have my home, funds for business, for recreation, and for any improvement in myself. I affirm :— Real emancipation.
Real freedom,—to make the very best in my life.
The Call of the Twentieth Century
These addresses were well received. They were carefully prepared. They contain thoughts to which I desire to give a wider circulation. I believe them an important incentive to the unfolding human Consciousness and Conscience.
I have the faith that all the members of the Federation who so kindly elected me its President and New Thought people generally, will be glad to see them in this form.
As an evidence of the Love I bear to, and the appreciation I have for, the Federation and the Principle for which it stands, and because of the importance which I think it has in the development of the race, I dedicate to it this little volume.
Future years will show the great good that this body of men and women, who meet in Love and Truth to inspire, encourage and assist each other, are doing. The New Thought is the one movement for which all past movements have been. It is doing much by the mere Suggestion of its existence, but still greater is the good it is unconsciously doing by the most potent power of the Thought it radiated and the Love which inspires its Thought.
Trusting the All-Good to make these addresses important factors in swelling the "Call" and in hastening the "Emancipation," I add them lovingly to the great trend of public sentiment that is now so increasing that its argosies of Thought fill every sea of literature, bearing treasures richer than the silks of the Orient or the pearls of India.
In Truth and Love I desire this Emancipation for you all.
HENRY HARRISON BROWN.
(As Mr Brown was on a tour when this book was printed, and as he was unable to correct the proof, before going to press, many typographical errors crept in. He has thus tried to correct them as best as he could. – Henry Harrison Brown)
Delivered at New Thought Convention in St. Louis, October 26, 1904
In the Evolution of Life each century has left some distinctive mark upon the race. The student as easily realizes epochs in human history as he does in the geological life of the earth. These epochs begin in twilight and overlap each other. I can now simply note the gift of the nineteenth century to the twentieth. That century was the culmination of an era begun in previous ones. Its great contribution was first the complete verifying and acceptance of "The Law of the Correlation and Conservation of Force." All energy is one. It can neither be created nor destroyed, be neither increased nor diminished. This Energy may change its form but is itself eternal. In the latter half of the century was enunciated the now almost universally accepted Principle of Evolution. The century was pre-eminently a philosophical and scientific one, and all tendencies
