A teacher in California, earning over five or six thousand dollars a year, looked in a window at a beautiful ermine coat that was priced at $8,000. She said, “It would take me years to save that amount of money. I could never afford it. Oh, how I want it!”
She listened to Joseph Murphy’s lectures on Sunday mornings, and there she learned that she could have a coat, a car, or anything she wished without hurting anybody on the face of the earth.
He told her to imagine she had the coat on, to feel its beautiful fur, and to experience it. She began to use the power of her imagination before sleep at night. She put the imaginary coat on her, fondled it, caressed it, like a child does with her doll. She continued to do this and finally felt the thrill of it all.
She went to sleep every night wearing this imaginary coat and feeling so happy in possessing it. Three months went by, and nothing happened. She was about to waver, but she reminded herself that it is the sustained mood that demonstrates.
“He who perseveres to the end shall be saved.”
The solution will come to the person who does not waver but always walks with the perfume of His Presence. The answer comes to the man who walks in the light, knowing, “It is done!” You are always using the perfume of His Presence when you sustain the happy, joyous mood of expectancy, knowing your good is on the way. You saw it in the unseen, and you know you will see it in the seen.
The sequel to the teacher’s drama of the mind is interesting. One Sunday morning after one of the lectures she attended, a man accidentally stepped on her toe, apologized profusely, asked her where she lived, and offered to drive her home.
She accepted gladly. Shortly after, he proposed marriage, gave her a beautiful diamond ring, and said, “I saw the most wonderful coat; you would simply look radiant wearing it!” It was the coat she had admired three months previously. (The salesman said over one hundred wealthy women had looked at the coat, admired it immensely, but for some reason, always selected another garment.)
Through your capacity to choose, imagine the reality of what you have selected. Through faith and perseverance, you can realize your goal in life. All the riches of heaven are here now within you, waiting to be released. Peace, joy, love, guidance, inspiration, goodwill, and abundance all exist now. All that is necessary to express God’s riches is for you to leave the present now (your limitation), enter into the mental vision or picture, and, in a happy, joyous mood, become one with your ideal.
Having seen and felt your good in moments of high exaltation, you know that in a little while, you shall see your ideal objectively as you walk through time and space.
As within, so without. As above, so below. As in heaven, so on earth. In other words, you will see your beliefs expressed. Man is belief expressed!
Story from the book How to Attract Money by Joseph Murphy
