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→A Force of Nature
...when one thinks of money, one thinks of bank-notes or coins or some kind of wealth, some precious things. But this is only the physical expression of a force which may be handled by the vital and which, when possessed and controlled, almost automatically brings along these more material expressions of money. And that is a kind of power. It is a power of attracting certain very material vibrations, which has a capacity for utilisation that increases its strength...it increases its strength through utilisation.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/28-july-1954#p4</ref>
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Money is meant to increase the wealth, the prosperity and the productiveness of a group, a country or, better, of the whole earth. Money is a means, a force, a power, and not an end in itself. And like all forces and all powers, it is by movement and circulation that it grows and increases its power, not by accumulation and stagnation.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/finance-and-economy#p2</ref>
Wealth is...a force of Nature; and it should be a means of circulation, a power in movement, as flowing water is a power in movement. It is something which can serve to produce, to organise. It is a convenient means, because in fact it is only a means of making things circulate fully and freely. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/16-february-1955#p33</ref> <center>~</center> Wealth doesn't depend on the amount of money you have: it depends on the proportion between that money and what you have to spend. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/september-7-1966#p17</ref> <center>~</center>
The whole creation is made externally by external things, but behind that there are divine forces...What men have invented—paper or coins or other objects—all these are but means of expression... it is not the force itself, it is its material expression as men have created it. But this is purely conventional. For example, there are countries where small shells are exchanged instead of money...
...It is really paper or gold or sometimes just written things... because many large fortunes are only numbers written on paper, not even these papers which circulate, only books! There are immense fortunes which govern the world and are just written on papers, like that, with some documents and conventions between men. The fortune may increase, become triple, fourfold, tenfold, or else it may be reduced to nothing. They sell everything, they sell cotton, they sell sugar, they sell corn, coffee, anything at all, but there is nothing! There is no cotton, no sugar, no corn, nothing. Everything is on paper! And so you buy millions of worth of cotton: you don't have a wisp of cotton there! It is all on paper. And so, sometimes later, you sell it off again. If the price of cotton has increased, you gain a fortune, if it has gone down you lose a fortune. And you have with you neither money nor cotton nor anything, nothing but paper. It is entirely a convention.
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/28-july-1954#p17,p18,p19,p20</ref>
==A Collective Possession==
Money is a force and should not be an individual possession, no more than air, water or fire.