SEED MONEY Part 4 Working the Law of Tenfold Return By Jon P. Speller

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The story of the great prophet Eliyah and the widow of Zarephath, where the widow's scant food supply multiplied so that she and the Prophet Elijah, "and her house did eat many days" [1 Kings 17:10-16] proves this truth.

As Dr. Henry M. Ellis writes, "As Elijah proved, an act of faith, evidenced by giving, is prerequisite to receiving."

The importance of the doing--of actually giving--is shown not only in the Old and New Testaments, but in other religious works through the ages. In the Koran, the Holy Book of Islam, we find: "He that doeth good Shall have ten times As much to his credit" [Sura VI:160].

Omitting the actual sowing of Seed Money in the Law of Tenfold Return is the same as sewing without thread--you make a lot of motions, but you don't get anywhere.

The secretary accepted this, and with some further help was able to practice of the Law of Tenfold Return. She was more fortunate than a man who, receiving a SEED MONEY booklet, complained that he had not a penny to his name--he had spent his last fifteen cents on a biscuit.

I turned his booklet to the page in SEED MONEY where it says, "How can I give when I don't have any money? Then you must start with your muscles, with labor and the sweat of thy brow until you have received some of the currency of the realm. Then start giving it and claiming the multiplication of the tenfold return back to yourself. Continue this as you continue breathing and soon you will be prosperous and surrounded by Sufficiency."

Actually, no one ever achieved security working either at labor or at a white-collar job. Those who experience Freedom are those who organize their minds for self-sufficiency, who direct employees on the one hand and who direct their multiplied claims to the Infinite on the other. As a matter of fact, you do not need to hire anyone to become rich-in-freedom, provided you know the Seed Money technique and use it patiently and persistently. Likewise, you can be an employee, and by using the Seed Money formula constantly in your life you can become more self-reliant than your employer, if he were to fail to use the formula himself.

In truth, when people only want money and the power that derives from money, you know and I know, they get handed over to Satan and all sorts of temptations, to learn how to place limits on their appetites. So, let's not use the word "Rich" as a goal or objective because that word implies excess. Let's plan to get off the train at the stop called "Self-Sufficiency."

The "down-and-out" man asked, "Who would hire me?" And I said, "We have some packages to take to the Post Office right now. You can Seed Money your labor and I will give you ten dollars besides."

He cried out, "What? Manual labor? Me? Never." And he ran from the office leaving his SEED MONEY booklet behind. I tried to catch him; but he had gotten into the elevator before I was able to do so.

This man had counted himself "down-and-out." He will not get up off the canvas until he realizes that the Law of Tenfold Return decrees that ten times something is that something multiplied by ten. Ten times nothing, however, is still nothing.

An engineer understood this perfectly. He saw that the Law of Tenfold Return was based upon a perfectly logical working of the Power of the Tithe and of Holy Law. But every time he planted Seed Money he began to wonder and speculate as to how and by what mechanics his return would come. So, it didn't come.

His problem was very simple. He did not exercise unquestioning faith, by merely permitting wonder but never doubting. He did not "let go and let God" determine the means to fulfill this Law.

SEED MONEY states: "Do you remember the saying, 'A little child shall lead them'? Why shall a little child lead them? Because it is easy for a child to imagine or wonder and because children practice imagination and wonder more than grown-ups do."

Jesus had said, "Yea; have ye never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise' [Matthew 21:16] ?

The engineer was advised to claim his expected return now, and leave the workings of his tenfold return to God. And he began to see that as a child can unquestioningly accept that good inevitably produces good, so can he unquestioningly see multiplication of his Seed Money in his life. Jesus had expressed this Truth, "For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. For every tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes" [Luke 6:43-44].

Recognizing that the Law of Tenfold Return is part of the Universal One Law, the engineer applied to his practice of the Seed Money principle the same childlike faith required in all spiritual unfoldment, as Jesus said, "Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein" [Mark 10:15].

The engineer's new success in demonstrating through the Law of Tenfold Return occurred because he now understood that it is a method originating with Jesus and the nation of Israel.

As John Hoshor wrote in SEED MONEY: "What is the formula that makes the Law of Seed Money work for you? . . . The formula is derived from Jesus. When properly used, it always produces the desired results."

Jesus declared very openly: "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them" {Mark 11:24]. And, that is exactly what He meant.

Quoting from SEED MONEY: "No words ever spoken or written in any language carry great or more far-reaching import than these words of the Great Master.

"Please note: You are not asked to join any organization. You are not asked to attend any meetings. You are not asked to subscribe to any dogma. You are not asked to follow any ritual. You are not asked to believe in any theories, opinions or suppositions. You are only asked to believe that you already have received whatever it is you want. Surely this is not too great a price for you to pay to achieve the self-sufficiency you want to have.

"Imagine that they are yours NOW. What could be easier? And it works. It works. IT WORKS. Anyone can prove it conclusively for themselves.

"To repeat, the ONLY THING you have to believe is that you have already receive that which you want. Your age does not matter. Your creed does not matter. Your race does not matter. Your name does not matter. Your sex does not matter. Your political affiliation does not matter. Your nationality does not matter. Your education or lack of it does not matter.

"Simply believe that YOU HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED WHATEVER IT IS YOU NEED. No one else can limit you. If you want to limit yourself, though, you can. Otherwise the entire resources of the Universe may be yours to use (appropriately or inappropriately, your choice)."

One lady who had come to the United States from Eastern Europe wasn't having success with her practice of the Seed Money formula. She had a subconscious pattern of limitation due to an image of herself in her own mind that she, as a refugee, was a second-class citizen. She compounded the damage to herself by constantly dwelling on what she had lost instead of being in the HERE and NOW. She resented everyone who owned fine things such as she had lost.

With help, in time she came to realize that God knows only one class--FIRST CLASS--and that she as a child of God was the only person who could possibly even seem to demote her to poverty, in reality.

She came to see that she--not only in order to bring prosperity through the Law of Tenfold Return into her life but in order to attain peace of mind--had to obey the commandments as Jesus had stated them:

"And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

"And the second is like namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these" [Mark 12:30-31].

Only then did this immigrant woman realize that she must lose her resentment against her neighbors if she was to take advantage of the Law of Tenfold Return.

By persistent meditation on these two greatest commandments and their place in her Life, she suddenly found herself able to make demonstrations occur which she, and she alone, had blocked for so long.

She turned her once lonely life of self-punishment into a happy life of abundance and helpfulness to others. This helpfulness--a willingness and readiness to lend a helping hand--often provides opportunities to sow Seed Money under circumstances in which it is remarkably easy to visualize a return--Good for Good, multiplied tenfold.

John Hoshor related in SEED MONEY: "One morning not long ago I was waiting on a street corner in Manhattan for a bus to take me to my office. A man who had been sitting on a nearby bench arises and shuffled over to where I stood. We spoke and passed the time of day. I noticed that his clothes were old and torn and that instead of shoes he was wearing low-cut rubber overshoes. I asked the question, which he had obviously expected me to ask.

"What happened to your shoes?"

"'Someone stole them while I was asleep last night,' he told me.

"'What are you going to do for shoes?'

"'That is what I have been wondering. I found these in the garbage back of the building where I slept,' he answered. He showed me the soles which were more holes than rubber.

"'What can you get a pair of shoes for?' I asked.

"'There's a shoe repair shop I know of where I can get an unclaimed repaired pair for $4 or maybe $5.'

"Then I asked him, 'Do you have the money?'

"'I don't have a cent,' he replied.

"'How near is the shoe repair shop?' I asked.

"He pointed, 'Only two blocks over that way.'

"'Let's walk over,' I suggested.

"When we reached the shoe repair shop I handed him $5.

"'See what you can get with that. If you need more, tap on the window and I will come in.'

"In a few minutes he came out of the store wearing a comfortable looking pair of repaired shoes. He held out a dollar bill towards me, saying, 'I got these for four bucks.'

"'Keep the dollar,' I told him.

"We walked together to the corner and shook hands, thanking each other.

"He asked, 'Why do you thank me?'

"'Because I am happy that I was able to be of service to you,' I told him.

"We wished each other good luck and I went on my way back to the bus stop.

"As I walked I silently repeated over the Seed Money formula, 'I have received $50 in return, with good to all concerned. Thank you.

"When I arrived at my office, business took over and I forgot the incident completely.

"Mind you, please, I have practiced the formula for years. I have worked it almost countless times, both on a small scale and on a large scale. I have seen friends make it work many times. So, not only did I believe I had received the $50 in return, I KNEW.

"That night as I opened the door of the apartment house in which I live, a pretty girl came out and smilingly thanked me. I noticed she carried a musical score from 'The Pajama Game,' and I asked her,

"'Are you a singer?'

"'No,' she answered, 'I'm a receptionist, but I'm taking singing lessons.'

"Who is your teacher?' I asked.

"She mentioned the name of a voice teacher who had been a friend of mine for many years but whom I had not seen for fifteen years. I told her my name and asked her to remember me to her teacher. She said that she would and went on her way.

"I went to my apartment, showered and put on fresh clothes. As I was starting out to keep an appointment, the manager of the apartment house came to my door and told me I had a call over her phone. I answered it. The voice teacher was calling and asked me to come to his studio. I went at 10:30 that evening. After we had shaken hands and congratulated each other on none of the fifteen years showing, he said,

"'John, before you moved to California you did some publicity for me, which proved very profitable to me. You never sent me a bill.'

"I explained that I had done it as a favor, that it had not required any time, merely a phone call.

"He said, 'Had you billed me then, I could not have paid you, but I would like to pay you now.'

"He walked over to the Baby Grand piano and picked up a check already made out and offered it to me saying,
"'Will $50 be all right?'

"I answered him, '$50 is exactly right.'

"There may be some who will scoff and say that I have linked two events which had no fundamental relationship to each other. However, the wiser will believe me when I say that the $5 given to the needy man for shoes and the $50 out of the blue for a forgotten service were as surely linked to each other as my fingers are linked to my hands.

"Here was a penniless, needy man in rags, without shoes who unknowingly brought to me $45 in profit in added self-sufficiency, which it is conceivable, might never have otherwise reached me. How was this possible? It was possibly only because I knew the Principle of Seed Money, the Law of Tenfold Return, and I took the opportunity that came my way to aid a fellow human being and of then applying the Law and claiming my multiplied return. I thanked him sincerely before we parted and should he ever read this, I would thank him again."

A unique way of sowing Seed Money was that of the advertising manager of a magazine. He read a copy of SEED MONEY and said that he wanted to Seed Money space in his magazine to advertise that booklet.

He did. For nearly a year his advertising revenue increased substantially, which he credits to his practice of Seed Money.

The practice of Seed Money from generation to generation can produce self-sufficiency hardly conceivable to the average person. When one sees a work of art, hears beautiful music, receives the most effective healing assistance from real healers or witnesses advances in space technology, they may not know that many achievements in these fields would not have been possible without the practice of Seed Money by the Guggenheim family.

From 1847 when Meyer Guggenheim immigrated to America until today, a fortune that has conservatively been estimated at $200,000,000 ($20 billion in 2000 dollars) has circulated and increased for but one purpose, as Ambassador Harry Guggenheim says, "for the progress of man."

Benefits the great Guggenheim fortune have given mankind--through financing, building and developing ideas--are inestimable, and the selection of the title of the Guggenheim family biography bears witness to its growth: SEED MONEY.

The thinking of the Guggenheim family has been the very opposite of lack. The word "can't" doesn't seem to be in their vocabulary. And the ability to know that success is right here, even before it has been visibly manifest, has not only characterized Guggenheim success, but is an indispensable factor in practicing Seed Money itself.

As John Hoshor says, "So that there can be no vagueness or misunderstanding in the mind of any reader as to how anyone makes his claim on the Infinite for the multiplied return of his gift, I wish to point out that he does so by believing he has already received such multiplied return. It is as simple as that.

"Instead of continually saying as many do, 'I want,' 'I need,' or 'I do not have,' SAY 'I have' and 'it's here, I know.'

"In addition to making the gift to start the flow of prosperity to you--believing that you have ALREADY RECEIVED your multiplied return IS YOUR ONLY WORK.

As it says in SEED MONEY, "There is no telling how the return which you claim will come to you. The only telling for certain is that it will come. You do not want some loved one to die and will you the amount you claim. You do not want to receive it as a result of an injury to yourself. So always include in your multiplied Seed Money claim--or for that matter whenever you draw upon the Infinite for anything, the provision "with good to all concerned." In this manner you protect yourself and others who may be concerned.

"Carefully check your motive in each of your Seed Money operations to make certain that there is no content of harm, or intended harm, in it towards anyone concerned. Whether the money is primarily for yourself, or for others, or simply for reserve to practice proving the Law, it should manifest with equal ease. The Law does not care. But if there is harm in your consciousness towards anyone, that harm will multiply also and return to fall upon your own head. You cannot fool--nor sidestep--the Law."

This is equally true in regard to your physical health as well as your financial health, for God is the Source of all Good and "no good thing will be withheld from them that walk uprightly" [Psalms 84:11].

Expecting to be healed from any ailment is the first step toward physical healing. And in the practice of hygiene and nutrition--just as in the practice of the Tenfold Return--what you give to your body comes back to you ten times--as feeling good or as feeling worse. The spirit in which you give [to yourself as well as to others] is the most important thing about your gifts or your health practices: you WILL reap what you sow.

"When an opportunity to give a gift [to someone in need] or to nurture your body [with wholesome food and not food cravings], if you consider it but then decide against it, you are saying in effect, "I better not; I may [something else] myself." And so, as you say, you will need--most certainly--something ELSE yourself.

"If you give grudgingly or with calculations in mind, these configurations that you imagine will return upon you, ten times, also.

"If, however, you give boldly, generously, full-heartedly, impulsively, it shall be returned to you tenfold in the same manner." What is important is that "in due season we shall reap, if we faint not" [Galatians 6:9].

This is explained very clearly in the Bible: "He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver" [II Corinthians 9:6-7].

Never pass by an opportunity to sow Seed Money. A lost opportunity to give is a lost opportunity to receive.

John Joshor illustrates this in an incident which happened to him: "The fastest and in some ways most interesting return on a SEED MONEY tenfold claim that I know of happened to me quite recently.

"I was on my way to a branch post office with an armload of parcel post packages. In addition, I carried--unwrapped but in its own display case--a small appliance I was then distributing. I intended to deliver it to a local purchaser on my way back.

"As I hurried up the crowded street I passed a blind man with a cup. I thought to myself, 'I'd give him something if I weren't loaded down.'

"Almost instantly I recognized the negative application of the Law. I turned and struggled back through the crowd, reaching the blind man and asked him to stop for a second.

"I laid my packages on the sidewalk, took all the change from my pocket and put it in his cup. It made a good noise and it seemed as if he were almost on the verge of opening his eyes to LOOK. However, he did not, but repeated his thanks. I recovered my packages, reached the post office and mailed them. Then, taking my unwrapped appliance, I turned to leave the post office. A man stopped me saying,

"'I'm interested in that product. May I see it?'

"'Certainly,' I answered.

"We stopped at the first writing counter near the entrance and I took the appliance out of its box and showed him how it worked. It happened to operate on batteries and their sound attracted a small crowd. The man who had inquired looked at it, then handed me his card, saying,

"'Where can I buy a couple hundred of these things?'

"'I distribute them,' I told him. 'I'll be happy to supply you.'

"He said, 'First, let me buy the special delivery stamp I came for, then we'll do some business.'

"On the way to my office he introduced himself. He was the Ohio distributor for one of the reducing food companies and he was in New York looking for a product he could use as a premium to open accounts with dealers. He bought 200, did not ask for the discount to which he was entitled and which I gave him. He paid cash. I do not know exactly how much I gave the blind man. I had made my claim for a general tenfold return, and I'm quite certain that the profit from that sale represented a full measure return, running over.

"Perhaps the most significant part of the transaction was that the buyer was a happy with his purchase as a child is with a shining new toy." Here was John Hoshor himself getting back a tenfold return in according with the Law of Seed Money.

The Law of Seed Money is in itself very simple: In giving money to your church or school or to anyone you know who has a real and legitimate "need," or in any other way using money to bless someone, help someone do something they could never do of their own accord, aid someone at a distance whom you don't know but whose testimony moves you, you have not only the right and the privilege but you have also the duty of claiming--from the Infinite--a tenfold return, in money or in kind. To claim it is to have received it already subjectively. In a short time, it will also come to you physically.

The Law of Seed Money is the KEY to using the Infinite substance of God: "Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food and multiply your seed down, and increase the fruits of your righteousness" [II Corinthians 9:10].