The Secret Spiritual Practice Lost To Time

The next time you read an inspirational text and come across insights that need incorporated into your life you will know what to do. You are about to learn an ancient spiritual practice first described by the third century Egyptian scholar/physician Origen and which has been further elaborated upon over the last two millenia. Although this powerful spiritual practice has long since disappeared from organized religion as a whole, even today Lectio Divina is a central daily practice of many monastic orders and is something very much worth learning on your path to getting what you want.

Essentially, Lectio Divina is the practice of reverential, meditative, prayerful reading.

Determine what you are going to read and separate yourself from daily activities by finding a quiet place where you won't be disturbed, taking a few moments to relax into a comfortable position. The process can been described in four parts. First there is lectio, or reading, which consists of closely listening to the text in order to hear what it is saying with special awareness to subtle shades of meaning. Read very slowly, gently, and deliberately, and when you come across a message of value that speaks strongly to you then pause and reread, slowing down even further while reflecting on the meaning of the text. Read as though gently touching the words with your hand. There is no minimum or maximum amount of text to be read, no goal to reach or state to achieve.

Next is meditatio, or meditation where one ruminates on the text. There will be moments where profound meaning opens up from the text; this is when to pause and reflect. Since there are no time constraints, continue reading only after feeling the phrase or message has been fully absorbed and it is time to continue. One might spend a moment or an entire hour meditating on a specific phrase.

This meditation leads into oratio, or prayer, where one allows the self to be opened up in order to accept the wisdom and power of the text. The text and the meaning rising from it directs the prayer.

Finally is contemplatico, or contemplation, which is to simply stop reading and silently rest in the message that has been imparted. Although there are no "correct" feelings or experiences when practicing Lectio Divina, it is at this point that many experience gratitude and thankfulness for their existence and for the opportunity to meditate on the empowering message of the text. Lectio Divina can be an enjoyable and rewarding experience either with or without any specific destination in mind.

Rather than quoting from a sacred text of The Church Of Mammon, here are a few popular passages by some famous authors that are dense and pregnant with meaning. You're welcome to spend some time with them and explore. The authors names are not included in order to facilitate reading (Benjamin Franklin, Cicero, and Byron, among others), and the material is strung together in no particular order.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have. Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. Gain is gain, however small. Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do. The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. Energy and persistence conquer all things. Mass production is for the masses. If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. There is no knowledge that is not power. Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe. Not failure, but low aim, is crime. No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. We make our own fortunes and we call them fate. The world belongs to the energetic.

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The Greatest Increase Of Wealth In One Day

Let them know that June 20 is one of the sacred days of the Church Of Mammon. It was that day in 1815 on which occurred perhaps the greatest consolidation of personal wealth in recorded history, and an event which continues to carry immense ramifications to this day. What happened? To give this interesting story historical context, remember that two days prior to June 20, 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte was fighting for the future of Europe at Waterloo, Belgium. The outcome of this battle would determine which nation held greatest sway over Europe - England, or Napoleon's French Empire.

By the time of Waterloo the patriarch of the Rothschild banking family, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, had established his five sons in different parts of Europe for the purpose of working in unity as a financial institution spanning the whole of Europe. Specifically, Amschel's sons were located in Frankfurt, Vienna, Naples, Paris, and the cleverest, Nathan, was located in London. Their business was largely built on the principle of loaning money to both sides of armed conflicts. Kings need money to fight battles, and betting on both sides is a wealth creating, risk-free venture. Quality information was essential to success in their business, and so the family developed a communication network which surpassed any other news or spy agency of the day, in order to make faster, better informed decisions.

The story goes that the moment the outcome of the battle at Waterloo was known a Rothschild spy named "Rothworth" rode his horse to the English channel, overpaid for a ferry through dangerous and stormy waters, and arrived to England a full day before any news of Napoleon's defeat was to arrive in England. Armed with this information on the morning of June 20th, Nathan arrived at the London stock exchange.

Nathan was known to stand in a certain location and give subtle instructions to his traders. This morning he showed no emotion and gave the dump signal and began liquidating his holdings of English bonds and securities, causing the market to shake. Soon someone on the trading floor yelled "Rothschild knows! Napoleon won the war!" This further moved the market down and into a selling panic, with everyone trying to get out of their investments and into cash in order to retain their wealth. Bonds were now at a small fraction of their previous value. However, soon afterwards on this same day Rothschild's traders began quietly buying back the bonds and securities at these severely depressed fire sale prices.

When official news of Napoleon's loss arrived the next day, the market rebounded and shot well past it's previous watermark, and with the Rothschild family now owning a massive amount of England's national debt. Because of the sheer magnitude of wealth and leverage created by this event, June 20th is specially venerated by the Church Of Mammon. It was from this era which comes the now famous, awe-inspiring quote of Nathan Rothschild, "I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire. The man who controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire and I control the British money supply."

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