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The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity Paperback – January 1, 1962
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You are prosperous to the degree that you are experiencing peace, health, and plenty in your world.
Imagine sitting in the lap of your favorite grandparent and learning the secrets to a magnificent, abundant life. Catherine Ponder writes in such a loving gentle way. The secrets she reveals are not secrets at all but universal truths for health, love, success and peace. As she explores these dynamic laws of prosperity, she shares actual success stories to help those of us who are uncertain. There is no flowery prose here. Just plenty of practical advice for using Divine power to overcome difficulties and achieve happiness. Everyone can benefit from this book.THE DYNAMIC LAWS OF PROSPERITY is the result of several financial recessions and many years of lean living. For fifteen years Catherine Ponder tried to find such a book like this with more than just “quick-fix” suggestions. During those years of searching, she found many books which gave various success ideas, but in none of them did she find a set of compact, simple laws for assuring success. As a widow with a small son to raise and educate, she experienced depression, ill health, loneliness, financial lack and a sense of complete failure.
Finally, when she was at her lowest point, she learned about the power of thought as an instrument for success or failure. She soon came to realize that failure is basically the result of failure thinking and through the right use of her mind, her thoughts could become the key to healthy, happy, prosperous, successful living . . . and that’s when the tide began to change!
While prosperous thinking means many things to people, basically it gives you the power to make your dreams come true, whether those dreams are concerned with better health, increased financial success, a happier personal life, more education and travel, or a deeper spiritual life.
THE DYNAMIC LAWS OF PROSPERITY plainly shows how prosperous thinking has helped people in every walk of life to experience these results. Furthermore, it shows how prosperous thinking can do these things for you, too! As you read this book, chapter by chapter, you will automatically begin to develop the power of prosperous thinking and, almost as easily, you can begin to reap a harvest of prosperous results.
First published in 1962, and revised and updated by the author in 1984, THE DYNAMIC LAWS OF PROSPERITY presents basic laws of prosperity in clear language for the modern reader.
- Print length430 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDeVorss Publications
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1962
- Dimensions6 x 1.31 x 8 inches
- ISBN-100875165516
- ISBN-13978-0875165516
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It is often experienced by authors that they write their best books after the search of a book they imagine should exist but cannot be found. So it was in he case of the present book. Catherine Ponder went through a phase of need and hardship, after having been widowed and left with a small son to rear, and eager to learn more about the principles of prosperity. As she did not find that book that she needed, she wrote it. And that was after all a very good idea. Until today, in an era where prosperity books are proliferating, I haven’t found another book that compiles all the prosperity laws in one volume. Consider for example that the recent quite well-known book, The Secret, is only about the Law of Attraction—as if that was the last word to say about prosperity, as if there were no other laws we need to learn and apply in order to become truly prosperous.
Many rags-to-riches online programs follow in the same train, and one often gains the impression that their ‘prosperity laws’ are geared toward making them rich in the first place …, while of course the contrary is true. If your desire for service is only lip-service and in truth you adhere to a quick-rich scheme, you will probably not make it through; you may have some temporary gain, but all prosperity authors absolutely agree that there is no long-term prosperity for those folks who consider their own personal gain only instead of putting themselves at the forefront of service!
Let me first explain why this book bears the word ‘dynamic’ in the title. Catherine Ponder explains that he word ‘dynamic’ has the same root as the word ‘dynamite’: ‘that which is dynamic is powerful, forceful, filled with energy, and leads to change.’ /5
One may also want to ask what a ‘law’ is in the sense used in this book? Some people out of the science world tend to frown upon authors who use the word ‘law’ when they speak about non-scientific and spiritual principles. But law, as I learnt is a lawyer, is not just a parliamentary enactment for there were laws—think for example of the 10 Commandments—that were not issued by a legislative. Law in the general sense simply is a rule of action. It conveys the notion of order, of something also that produces its effect over and over again, in a systematic fashion, in a way that cannot be altered by deliberate action. Even such a mechanistic scientist as Isaac Newton talked about ‘natural laws’, which means mental or spiritual laws that do not originate from the physical plane but that produce effects on the physical plane.
After this introduction and before I go into more detail, let me first list the whole set of prosperity laws here, as this is a good way for understanding the structure of the book. In Part 1: Basic Prosperity Laws, the author discusses the following prosperity laws:
—The Basic Law of Prosperity
—The Vacuum Law of Prosperity
—The Creative Law of Prosperity
—The Imaging Law of Prosperity
—The Prosperity Law of Command
—The Prosperity Law of Increase
The first thing you should know is that these prosperity laws build upon one another, in the order they are presented in the book. The second thing is to know what the term ‘prosperity’ actually means. The author explains that prosperity connotes abundance, and that this abundance must manifest on the three planes of life—the physical plane, the mental plane, and the spiritual plane. Right at the beginning of the book, Catherine Ponder mentions an important obstacle to abundance: it is the belief—partly resulting from a wrong interpretation of the Bible—that abundant thinking was ‘materialistic’ thinking. She clarifies that abundance is not equal to ‘serving mammon’ when the focus of one’s prosperity thinking is deliberately based upon the recognition of the divine origin of it.
In this sense, she writes, the Bible is a ‘prosperity textbook.’ In addition, it is important to behold that a faithful attitude toward life is not one of sacrifice, persecution and hard times. The problem is that religion, and this is true for each and every religion after its founder passed away, has become a secularized power institution, from the feudal society of the Middle Ages until our corporate international culture. It was a strategy, and is not a virtue that millions were led to believe that it was ‘pious to be poor’, a belief which was of course useful in forestalling revolt in the masses. Ponder writes that some of those feudal ideas have persisted until today, but they do not reflect the order of things as established by the law of life.
The other important truth, which we have seen mentioned already with Napoleon Hill and Joseph Murphy, is that there are scientific reasons why we need to work our way through from inside out, and not the other way around.
Why can our mind impact upon the world, events, behaviors and even physical processes inside and outside our body? This is because all is connected in the universe. This was recognized by invoking the age-old idea of the ether, which is also mentioned and explained by Napoleon Hill, and besides, Charles Haanel, in his book The Master Key System (1916) and Charles Fillmore in his book Prosperity (1936). Today science recognizes this truth under another header, namely the notion of the quantum field, quantum vacuum, akashic field, or zero-point field. But why not keeping the old terminology that was after all valid for humanity for hundreds of years?
I will end this rather extensive book by mentioning how important tithing is for lasting success. Ponder writes repeatedly in this and her other books that we should tithe primarily to the source of our spiritual learning, which is for many people a church or other enlightening organization. The tithe has to be send upfront every first of the month, in good faith that one’s financial means won’t suffer from giving 1/10 of it away, but will in the contrary prosper more. Some people, after having reached a certain level of prosperity, double their tithe, triple it, or even send away half of their fortune. Let us remind ourselves that Bill Gates did exactly that when he setup up with his wife the Melinda Gates Foundation.
Catherine Ponder explains that in ancient times there was a rule how to tithe: the first tithe was to be sent to the priest of one’s church, the second tithe was destined for a social purpose and the third tithe was for charity. She gives several examples in this book and in other books of hers that applying prosperity principles without tithing works only temporarily. This is quite an uncanny truth!
Most prosperity programs, as expensive as they sometimes are, teach the principles of right thinking, making lists, a wheel of fortune, applying the law of command, and image the outcome. But most of those programs do not teach the secret of tithing. She writes that she has known a number of people who after learning the prosperity laws were prospering suddenly, and sometimes dramatically for a certain while but then, astonishingly so, as they were not tithing the riches they had accumulated vanished off by and by, and they had to realize that their prosperity was not a lasting one. Tithing is what makes the difference here. I have another example of this truth, and it’s a big example. It’s the Rothschilds.
Most people neither know how big their actual fortune was at the height of their prosperity, and how their attitude was toward the old Jewish habit of tithing. The fortune of the Rothschild clan by far surpassed that of Bill Gates, Rockefeller, Getty, Walton, Buffett or Carnegie. It was comparable only to the immense fortune of the Queen of England, but still higher, estimated to have been 400 trillion dollars! In an almost unknown biographical book about the Rothschilds, written by John Reeves and published in 1887, the truth is unveiled: the Rothschilds have tithed regularly and very generously, and what is even more important, consistently; they gave away immense amounts of their fortune, and always without hesitating, even to people who would beg in the street, who wrote to them, who came to their houses and castles; they had a tremendous sense of compassion and never sent anybody away.
Another example comes to mind: Pablo Picasso. Picasso has not only founded exemplary orphanages, one of which I visited in Saigon, Vietnam, back in 1986; he has also sent regularly sometimes big amounts of money to people who wrote to him in need and explained their hardships. And the fortune Picasso had later in life is legendary for an artist; we might rightfully assume that it was the ever biggest fortune accumulated by a single artist! And yet in his younger years, when his career really took off in Paris, France, he was a poor man, hardly having the means to heat his flat, sometimes selling a painting for a bread or burning it in the chimney because he could not afford to buy charcoal!
So please be reminded that giving really is the secret motor of receiving for all in life is cyclic. Money is a form of energy and as such it must circulate. I have seen that over and over in my own life and there were phases when I was holding on too tightly to my fortune, and during these periods I was regularly losing large amounts of money.
So, to close this review, I would consider in agreement with the author that tithing is by far the most important prosperity secret!
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Now that I have it in my hands I realize all the reviews were right. I love the way Catherine Ponder approaches the prosperity under the God's perspective. I have read just the first chapter and many ideas were flowing in my mind. I realize now that my prosperity comes from the Universe (God) and while you read it you will find out many examples of real people practicing this teachings, which I love the most! Because that inspire me to do it and try it as well.
Just beautiful!! I give it 10 stars!! And of course I'm waiting other books of Catherine that I ordered right away!
I highly recommend it, it doesn't matter if you believe in God, you just can say Universe - I'm catholic so for me this book is just perfect!
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You feel you can improve your life in the most positive of ways after reading this great book.
Would recommend as a must read if you want to better your lot in life as it is very inspiring!
I usually read the books from the library and take notes, but with this one it was so filled up with useful information that my notes would be longer than the book!
That is why I decided to buy it and highlight the sections I liked.
One thing I didn't like is that there are too many examples, I prefer a more direct approach but that is a personal preference.
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JL.