The Secret of Prosperity
Classic Wisdom on Wealth, Self-Mastery, Ethical Ambition, and the Disciplined LifeBy Niccolò Machiavelli, James Allen, William Walker Atkinson, Orison Swett Marden, Benjamin Franklin, Thorstein Veblen, Kahlil Gibran, P. T. Barnum, Marcus Aurelius, Wallace D. Wattles, Lao Tzu, Russell Conwell, Henry Harrison Brown, Émile Coué
Length104h 18m
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The Secret of Prosperity gathers philosophical maxims, civic counsel, entrepreneurial rhetoric, psychological exercises, and spiritual reflections into a capacious inquiry into wealth, character, and self-command. Moving from aphoristic meditation to practical exhortation and social critique, the volume situates prosperity not merely as accumulation but as a contested relation among discipline, imagination, labor, public life, and inward contentment. Its striking juxtapositions make room for both visionary accounts of abundance and sobering examinations of status and consumption. The collection draws together thinkers associated with classical Stoicism and Daoism, Renaissance political realism, American self-help and commercial culture, New Thought, social criticism, and modern autosuggestion. Marcus Aurelius and Lao Tzu lend ethical and contemplative depth; Benjamin Franklin, Russell Conwell, and P. T. Barnum reflect formative American idioms of industry and enterprise; while Thorstein Veblen complicates celebratory narratives of success. Voices such as Kahlil Gibran, Émile Coué, Wallace D. Wattles, and Orison Swett Marden broaden the anthology's conversation between spiritual aspiration, mental habit, and material ambition. Recommended for students of intellectual history, readers of self-culture, and anyone interested in the evolving language of success, this volume offers an unusually rich comparative encounter. Its diverse selections invite critical reflection on what prosperity has meant across eras and traditions, while fostering dialogue between ethical restraint, social analysis, political calculation, and personal transformation.
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GenreSelf-Help, Literary Classics
Length104 hrs 18 mins
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Publish dateNov 27, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley
2Wallace D. Wattles
3Preface
4Chapter 1: The Right To Be Rich
5Chapter 2: There is A Science of Getting Rich
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6Chapter 3: Is Opportunity Monopolized?
7Chapter 4: The First Principle in The Science of Getting Rich
8Chapter 5: Increasing Life
9Chapter 6: How Riches Come to You
10Chapter 7: Gratitude
11Chapter 8: Thinking in the Certain Way
12Chapter 9: How to Use the Will
13Chapter 10: Further Use of the Will
14Chapter 11: Acting in the Certain Way
15Chapter 12: Efficient Action
16Chapter 13: Getting into the Right Business
17Chapter 14: The Impression of Increase
18Chapter 15: The Advancing Man
19Chapter 16: Some Cautions, and Concluding Observations
20Preface
21Chapter I. The Principle of Health
22Chapter II. The Foundations of Faith
23Chapter III. Life and Its Organisms
24Chapter IV. What to Think
25Chapter V. Faith
26Chapter VI. Use of the Will
27Chapter VII. Health from God
28Chapter VIII. Summary of the Mental Actions
29Chapter IX. When to Eat
30Chapter X. What To Eat
31Chapter XI. How to Eat
32Chapter XII. Hunger and Appetites
33Chapter XIII. In a Nutshell
34Chapter XIV. Breathing
35Chapter XV. Sleep
36Chapter XVI. Supplementary Instructions
37Chapter XVII. A Summary of the Science Of Being Well
38Chapter 1
39Chapter 2
40Chapter 3
41Chapter 4
42Chapter 5
43William Walker Atkinson
44The Secret of Success
45The Individual
46Spiritedness
47Latent Powers
48Soul-Force
49The Power of Desire
50The Law of Attraction
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