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Let us ask a hypothetical question: If you were really rich what are some of the things that you would do?

You would buy magnificent paintings for your home.

You would probably have expensive, leather-bound volumes for your library.

You would own a luxurious car with a chauffeur to drive you anywhere you wanted to go.

You would travel to foreign places and seek out the pleasures and amusements of night clubs, horse racing, and yachting.

You would frequent the best hotels, eat the finest food, and go to the opera and theater to see fine shows.

You can actually live the rich life and enjoy the same things that mil- lionaires enjoy without being rich. When you once build the rich conscious-

ness you will enrich your life, and then, if you want a fortune, the miracle power within you can show you how to attain it.

Here is how the rich consciousness is built:

1. Be aware of the priceless treasures of life that are all about you and which you can enjoy with very little money. For instance, you cannot own a Rembrandt painting, which would be worth a million or more and which few millionaires can afford to own, but you can buy magnificent reproductions of the greatest art treasures in the world, such as the Mona Lisa, the Blue Boy, the Last Supper, and other great paintings, which can adorn the walls of your home. If you are not near a great art gallery, like the Metropolitan in New York, you can purchase books which reproduce the world’s great art trea-

sures and enrich your consciousness by studying the lives and the works of the great artists of the past.

2. You may not have a fine library of leather-bound first editions in your home, but you have access to a public library which is a repository for the world’s greatest literature. Here you may borrow books which you can read and fill your consciousness with the noblest thoughts and inspirations of the greatest literary geniuses of the past and present. Also, most of the finest books are now being reproduced in paper bound volumes which almost any- one can afford.

3. Study the lives on great and successful men of history through read- ing biographies and autobiographies. Then emulate their lives and thoughts. Learn from the mistakes of these men and try to enrich your consciousness by absorbing as much knowledge as you can from their examples and life works. 4. You may not have your own limousine and chauffeur, but what about your local forms of transportation? You can have, for a small sum, a vast street car or subway, or bus, with a liveried chauffeur who does the driv- ing for you. Isn’t this as much yours as if you owned it? Then too, think of how little bother it is! You need not take care of it or put gas in it, or worry about repairs. It is all done for you by a vast network of employees that you need never contact. Instead of lamenting the fact you do not have a car, build first the consciousness of riches which can eventually lead you to owning your own car.

5. You may long for a mansion and landscaped gardens, but did you ever stop to think that you already possess illimitable riches in public parks, zoos, botanical gardens, that no millionaire could ever afford to keep up? I remember in my walks about Bel-air, where I had a home in California for many years, I came to a vast ten acre estate with a huge wire fence around it and the words Electric Gate: Keep Out! on the front. In the center of this es- tate was a huge mausoleum of a house. I never saw any people on its rolling lawns; no one was ever out in the yard enjoying the flowers and imported ex- pensive trees and shrubs. It was a lonely and deserted wilderness and the multi-millionaire who lived there was never at home to enjoy his mansion. Surely you can find more happiness in your own comfortable small apartment or home than is represented by this outlay of wealth? You can build a rich consciousness and enjoy the public parks and the beauty of gardens all around you without ever having to worry about watering the plants or paying the gardeners to keep them up!

6. You may complain that you cannot afford to go to the theater and opera or concerts. Your home town may not have these special entertain- ments which only the rich can afford. You need not be rich to have enter- tainment fit for a king. You have radio and television which can bring into your home in one evening alone entertainment worth many millions of dol- lars. With the flip of a dial you can be personally entertained by such great stars as Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Lucille Ball, Jackie Gleason, Bob Hope, Red Skelton and Danny Thomas. You can turn to The Telephone Hour for culture and fine music; you can even have Johnny Carson, Ed Sullivan, and occasionally, the Beatles, and Elvis Presley, if you want modern entertain- ment and vaudeville.

Then think of the multi-million dollar movies that you can tune into of an evening. You can be entertained by not only our present stars, but by a youthful John Barrymore, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Gary Cooper and Tyrone Power, who have long since departed this earth. Garbo, Dietrich, Rita Hay- worth, Lana Turner, come to you in the magic of eternal youth and beauty on your home TV, and it costs you only the initial price of your set. A potentate of the Far East, with all his millions, could never afford the wonder and lux- ury of a radio or television set!

You are already as rich as Midas, but you may not have the conscious- ness of the abundance you truly possess.

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