From Poverty to Power
by James Allen
Allen's first book, in two parts: the path to prosperity (through self-mastery and service) and the way of peace (through meditation and selflessness). The seed of everything he wrote.
Read it if…
you want Allen's first and most complete statement.
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Skip it if…
you want his shortest; see As a Man Thinketh.
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Three things you will actually use
- Poverty of circumstance follows poverty of mind, he argued.
- Self-mastery precedes prosperity.
- Peace is the greater power.
Do this first
Read 'The Lesson of Evil' and 'The Way Out of Undesirable Conditions'.
Our verdict
Allen's first book.
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