=--g--=WARNING. Do not use ANY number to LEAN on. Do your stuff. Be yourself, regardless of how the numbers seem to fit or misfit your hopes and ideals. Keep your ideals anyway and go on with them, and you will find it possible to develop the numbers you DO like in your readings, above those you do not like. =Application of the Seven Principles to the= =Monetary Plane= =--h--=FORCE, the First Principle, when applied to the MONETARY PLANE, enables you to make a little money and have plenty of POWER. It makes you able to appear prosperous. Here you begin to know the chief law of prosperity, "To him that hath shall be given and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath." (Matt. 25:29.) You appear prosperous and prosperity follows you. You learn to spend with that certain manner that makes you appear to have plenty. You recognize the FORCE of money, but you are not a slave to it. You may know that you are developing the FORCE you need on the Monetary Plane, when people begin to seek your opinion on the wisdom of any purchase. =--j--=CHOICE, the Second Principle, applied to the MONETARY PLANE, causes you to choose carefully how and where you will spend your money. This inclines you to RICHES in money matters. You learn here that it is not the saving of money that makes you rich but the wise SPENDING of money in the direction you are going, in the direction of your great objective; this will make you rich. To do this requires a good use of CHOICE, this Second Principle of Creation. =--k--=ORDER, the Third Principle, applied to the MONETARY PLANE, tends to put all expenditures and receipts in ORDER. It makes good bookkeepers and accountants. Sometimes this application may enlarge caution and fear. ORDER may be carried too far, even on the Monetary Plane and cause one to be too exact and mercenary and too much bound to a plan. The right use of ORDER, however, in money matters, will lead to WISDOM in both spending and accounting money. =--l--=COHESION, the Fourth Principle, applied to the MONETARY PLANE, would incline you to put all your money into one thing, to conserve your money, to invest it very securely. It would cause your money to readily attract more money. By this means you may know when you are really applying COHESION to your finances. It always gives STRENGTH to your money matters to be known as a conservative, careful type of spender. =--m--=DISCARD, the Fifth Principle, applied to the MONETARY PLANE, enables you to refuse yourself the present pleasure for the future good. It enables you to spend your money on the thing needed first and to DISCARD the thing you want for the thing you need. It leads to the HONOR type of mind in you for both spending and receiving, for you can even DISCARD the receipt of money when you think it is not right for you to have it. This is one of the difficult uses of the Principle of DISCARD, but frequently the shortest road to HONOR.