What is the One True Church Of Mammon?

The One True Church Of Mammon is a community of increase and abundance. The spiritual center of the church is a bar of pure silver currently located in New Hampshire. This dense metal object is at all moments, from now until the end of the days, commanding members of its community to fulfill personal ambitions and to GAIN, and it transmits this permanent, unrelenting order like a radio transmitter that is broken and cannot be turned off. The silver object receives its authority from those who focus attention upon it, and by its nature it imparts immediate and instant power to those in the act of obeying its single order. This concentration of power is openly available for anyone who, in their own unique manner, brings attention to the object and receives its permanent command to GAIN.

Silver, more so than gold, is the element with the richest history as money. Throughout the centuries silver has touched more hands than any other element for the purpose of commerce (i.e. fulfilling wants and needs) and storing value. In fact, silver is now returning from a century in exile to an active role as money throughout the world. Consider the shape of the silver bar. It is stamped into a rectangular block with gently sloping sides. Two of the sides have a subtle and uniform grain in order to expose attempts to hollow it out and fill with baser metals. The simple and pure shape of the bar serves no other purpose than to maintain value - no utilitarian purpose aside from storing abundance. Its only function is to exist and be what it is, which is "value," and in this way the design complements this intrinsic quality. Its sole identity is to be valuable.

Likewise, people are intrinsically valuable, each person being valuable beyond price whether rich or poor, generous or selfish. And furthermore, a person also does not need to perform, work, produce, act (or refrain from an action) in order to maintain their infinite value. The silver object perfectly demonstrates these qualities as it quietly waits for the end of time.

The object is ideal for both attracting and emitting value, and by extension human ambition. Everyone encounters it in a special way. For some it's a transmitter and receiver of spiritual energy and power. From an NLP perspective the object might be an immense "anchor" shared by people who refer to it in order to blast through obstacles. It's role changes depending upon the task at hand, and GAIN means many different things to different people. For some it connotes financial gain, for others relationship abundance, or fame, or physical, emotional and spiritual health. GAIN is unique to each person's desires and ambitions.

Consider listening to the permanent, firm voice of this inanimate, heavy mineral object. It commands you to GAIN even now in this moment. There are opportunities waiting to be grasped today, and tomorrow morning as well. When you consider realizating a great ambition and seeing, hearing, and feeling what it will be like to achieve it then maybe you feel your pulse and muscle tension increase a little, maybe by a great deal. That specific dream, that specific ambition which makes you laugh inside when contemplating it - it's precisely that ambition and dream that you are commanded to achieve and make real. Reach forward from where you are and take it. There are many paths that can arrive at the ends you are looking for just as there are many ways to heal a body, mind or spirit, and countless ways to manufacture money or establish investments.

Realize also that you have gifts and abilities that can fulfill the exact needs, wants and heart felt desires of others, and you can do so effortlessly. Be an instrument of GAIN for others - its easy and fun when you already have everything you need. Sometimes the moon passes between the earth and the sun and creates a shadow over the world. Allow the light of GAIN to shine brightly at your back as you deliver abundance and opportunity to those around you.

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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