The Canon / Pillars / Manifestation & Law of Attraction
Pillars · 1962
The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity
New Thought / UnityThe Dynamic Laws of Prosperity reframes financial abundance as a spiritual law accessible to a properly aligned mind, rather than a matter of chance. Its central claim is that prosperity is the natural birthright of right thinking and that poverty holds no virtue.
The book sets out devotional methods for cultivating a consciousness of plenty — prayer, affirmation, tithing, and the deliberate refusal of a consciousness of lack — and anchors them in Christian scripture, reading biblical figures as exemplars of prosperity. Ponder writes from within the Unity tradition for a mass devotional audience.
Its significance is in systematising the prosperity strand of New Thought and sustaining it across a long body of work. It became a key conduit between early Unity, including the Fillmores, and the contemporary abundance manifestation culture that pervades modern coaching.
In its words
The shocking truth about prosperity is that it is shockingly right instead of shockingly wrong for you to be prosperous!
Another of the shocking truths about prosperity is that thoughts of your mind have made you what you are, and thoughts of your mind will make you whatever you become from this day forward.
Your mind is your connecting link with it. Your attitudes, your mental concepts, beliefs, and outlook are your connecting links with God's rich substance and your access to it.
I like to think of this basic law of prosperity as radiation and attraction: that what you radiate outward in your thoughts, feelings, mental pictures and words, you attract into your life and affairs.
The mind is man's wonderful servant, when he realizes this and trains his mind to work for him.
Practices it teaches
Prosperity Decree — Spoken Affirmative Prayer with Tithing
Catherine Ponder, a Unity minister, made prosperity the explicit subject of affirmative prayer. Her signature instrument is the decree: a declaration of Truth spoken aloud — not a request to an external God, but an…
Systematic Tithing — Giving a Tenth to Prime Receiving
Tithing — from the Old English for "tenth" — is, in Catherine Ponder's prosperity system, the practice of regularly giving roughly 10 percent of your income to wherever you receive your spiritual food, gratefully…
Wheel of Fortune — Prosperity Map of Pictures and Words
The Wheel of Fortune (Ponder also calls it a prosperity map or treasure map) is Catherine Ponder's signature imaging device and a direct precursor to the modern "vision board." It is a large, colourful poster onto…
Forgiveness for Prosperity — Releasing Resentment to Open Supply
A core of Catherine Ponder's prosperity teaching is that resentment blocks supply. In her words, when you are resentful you are "bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel,"…
Vacuum Law of Prosperity — Emptying to Make Room for the New
The Vacuum Law of Prosperity is Catherine Ponder's principle that, to receive new good, you must first make room for it by releasing what you no longer want.
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