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Monday, February 20, 2006 10:03:46 PM

Last Saturday I attended the installation of a new minister, the 
Rev. Brent Davis, at the San Francisco Spiritual Enrichment 
Center.  The name of the Center amused me, as it reminded me of 
uranium enrichment.  After a moment I realized that is exactly 
what is going on here.  People are connecting to a higher power, 
supercharging their spirits by enriching them to become more 
pure, more concentrated, more high-energy instances of the One 
Spirit.  Over the past year the Center has grown more prosperous.  
Kat held the church together while they searched for a new 
minister for three years.  These happened to be the three years 
that Brent was in ministerial school.   They connected, and Brent 
came to San Francisco last September.  Kat trained three new 
licensed practitioners, so the Center now has five of them where 
there was one the last time I looked.  They have come a long way, 
and with Brent's fresh energy and their combined vision, they are 
going to go a lot further.  The Center is an instance of the 
ever expanding Universe.  Brent's induction was a wonderful 
ceremony, and a chance for Margaret and me to see how the Center 
has evolved in the past two years.  

	~~ooOOoo~~ 

In this morning's meditation I came upon the thought that there 
are people in the world who don't step out and realize their full 
potential because they are addicted to a paycheck.  Yes, the idea 
that there will be a cash flow on Friday, or on the 1st and the 
15th of the month, or on the last day of the month, with some 
regular predictability, gives them a reason to settle for less 
than they are worth.  They trade that predictability for their 
ability to reach their full potential.  So the paycheck, to which 
they have become addicted, keeps them from realizing that they 
are millionaires, that the Universe's riches are theirs to 
command, that they can have anything that they can imagine.  Out 
of the fear that one Friday the paycheck will not come, or out of 
habituation, that they have to have a paycheck this one more 
Friday, they forego all hope of becoming more than they have been 
up to this moment.  They live in discontent and frustration, and 
settle for less because the next paycheck is to them as the next 
fix is to a heroin addict.  The Universe will reward those who 
rise above their addiction, who grow and discover that all they 
settled for in the past was much less than they could attain 
once they opened themselves to the possibility of a life without 
limits.  My mission is to find those who see the possibility, and 
to show them how they can achieve unlimited prosperity.  


Thu Feb  9 22:25:04 GMT 2006

	Declaration of Principles
	  -- by Ernest Holmes 

We believe in God, the Living Spirit Almighty:  one 
indestructible absolute and self-existent Cause.  This One 
manifests itself in and through all creation, but is not 
absorbed by its creation.  The manifest universe is the body of 
God:  it is the logical and necessary outcome of the infinite 
self-knowingness of God.  

We believe in the incarnation of the Spirit in all and that we 
are all incarnations of the One Spirit.  

We believe in the eternality, the immortality and the continuity 
of the individual soul, forever and ever expanding.  

We believe that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us and that we 
experience this Kingdom to the degree that we become conscious of 
it.  

We believe the ultimate goal of life to be a complete 
emancipation from all discord of every nature, and that this goal 
is sure to be attained by all.  

We believe in the unity of all life, and that the highest God and 
the innermost God is one God.  

We believe that God is personal to all who feel this indwelling 
Presence.  

We believe in the direct revelation of Truth through our 
intuitive and spiritual nature, and that anyone may become a 
revealer of Truth who lives in close contact with the Indwelling 
God.  

We believe that the Universal Spirit, which is God, operates 
through a Universal Mind, which is the Law of God:  and that we 
are surrounded by this Creative Mind, which receives the direct 
impress of our thought and acts upon it.  

We believe in the healing of the sick through the power of this 
Mind. 

We believe in the control of conditions through the power of this 
Mind.  

We believe in the eternal Goodness, the eternal Loving-Kindness 
and the eternal Givingness of life to all.  

We believe in our own soul, our own spirit and our own destiny:  
for we understand that the life we live is God.  

And So It Is.


02/09/2006 9:16:22 AM

I did not realize I would have to learn how to be rich.  I 
thought that being rich was just a circumstance; that if I 
learned how to make the money that would be all there was to it.  
I had thought the years of studying an attitude of abundance, of 
practicing it through affirmations and visualization, were just 
a means to manifest riches.  Yet this month I stood on the brink 
of wealth beyond my imagination, and I found I was not ready to 
receive it.  Not ready.  That was strange.  

The work I do now is a laboratory, like the casino seminar, in 
which I get to discover how ready I am.  There is a philosophy, 
an ease and a relaxation, a knowing certainty of the abundance 
of the universe, that rich people have.  Each day I get deeper 
into this philosophy, more comfortable with the knowledge, more 
certain that previously unimagined amounts of money will flow in 
my direction.  Soon the sprouts will stick their heads above the 
ground, and I will be able to distinguish the corn from the grass. 

In the meanwhile, I am also learning that purpose is not about 
cash flow or balances in bank accounts.  Purpose is about serving 
mankind, changing the consciousness of the Universe one point of 
view at a time.  Purpose is about delivering salvation from 
limited thinking, about watching people learn that they possess 
infinite capability within themselves.  Purpose is about learning 
to focus attention, to steadfastly observe all progress and 
confirmation, ignoring everything less.  

This is not the universe my parents taught me about.  It's not 
the universe my teachers in grade school, high school, Sunday 
school, catechism, college, and graduate school taught me about.  
It's not the universe my former employers, clients, and 
colleagues believed in.  I am now immersing myself in the culture 
of greatness, hearing the stories and seeing the potential that 
really, really successful people hear and see.  It's a universe 
of good, and love, and mission, and unlimited potential. 

In this universe I can learn to be rich.  

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