Money is an outer form of spiritual substance.

Georgiana Tree West(???? ????), a notable Unity author, faced a situation more than 50 years ago that many people face today—physical and financial difficulties.

After visiting a Unity service, an experience she later referred to as unforgettable, West found her spiritual home. She eventually went on to become a Unity minister and author and began applying Unity spiritual principles to her life.

She was ordained in 1935 and wrote Prosperity’s Ten Commandments in 1946. West founded the Unity Center of Practical Christianity in New York City.

In her classic Unity book, Prosperity's Ten Commandments, West expands the traditional understanding of the Ten Commandments and explains them as guidelines to achieve a happy, prosperous life. These concepts are still pertinent today.

Ten Prosperity Commandments - A ten-part series of prosperity lessons inspired by the Unity book, "Prosperity's Ten Commandments" by Georgiana Tree West, a highly respected metaphysician with keen insight.

Prosperity's Ten Commandments

1. 1. You shall look to no other source but God for your supply.
   We are to acknowledge no other source of life, love, wisdom, and power than our Creator. Only with this secure foundation can we bring into manifestation our spiritual perfection.
2. 2. You shall make no mental images of lack.
   If we have the thought of lack, we form many mental images around it and see ourselves as poor and in difficulty. … We should practice using the creative power of mind to construct only images of the good that we desire to see made manifest.
3. 3. You shall not speak the word of lack or limitation.
   When we talk about our hard luck, our limited circumstances, the lack of any good thing in our lives, we reveal that we are … letting them have power over us. We also reveal that we are not looking to God for our supply. … Affirm constantly: I have faith in the power of my word. I speak only that which I desire to see made manifest. Then decree steadfastly: I am a living expression of God's abundant good.
4. 4. You shall let go and let God do it.
   Our part lies in acknowledging God's presence, accepting from God the good we desire, doing whatever is logically required from us to further this desire, and then letting God do his part. … Every period of well-rounded activity must be followed by a period of perfect peace and rest … cessation from outer activity, while one dwells in complete reliance on God and on the operation of His immutable laws.
5. 5. You shall deal honorably with God and with all human instruments through whom God's good is manifested for you.
   We are to be courteous and render due obedience to God as the giver of all good gifts, and since we are constantly accepting His bounty, we are in justice bound to give Him what is His due. … Viewed from a practical angle, tithing is accounting to God for what we receive. It is actual recognition of God as the source of supply; without tithing, the recognition is purely theoretical. We may say, then, that tithing is a guarantee of our good faith in God as our supply.
6. 6. You shall not take your wealth out of circulation.
   We all have our own particular abilities; we have developed our God-power in different ways and to different degrees. Each person is expected to use his or her present abilities in such a way as to increase them and in so doing develop greater abilities or gifts. … Through praise and faith, we keep our consciousness alive to God's presence and so keep God's good circulating in our lives.
7. 7. You shall not abase your wealth to idle or evil uses.
   When we awaken to the Truth that God is the source of supply, we recognize money as a symbol of God's abundance. Realizing this, we see our responsibility to use money intelligently. Just as the body temple is destroyed by destructive thoughts that defile it, so our financial security, which is part of our circumstances … suffers through our evil use of it.
8. 8. You shall not seek something for nothing.
   Wealth is a manifestation of the state of mind. The earnestly striving person whose efforts are not richly compensated may have a poverty consciousness. … If we do not like what we are getting out of life, we must consider carefully what we are giving to life. If we feel that we cannot afford to be charitable and that we hate to pay debts, we are withholding our generosity, and life will not be generous to us.
9. 9. You shall not bear false witness against the source of your wealth.
   Our thoughts are indicative of the way we see things. Jesus said, “If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light” (Mt. 6:22). We must prayerfully acknowledge God as the source of all good and declare the Truth of God's presence and power in all our circumstances; we must gratefully accept the fulfillment of our heart's desires and staunchly declare that God's good will is now done in our lives.
10. 10. You shall not limit yourself by coveting that which is another's; you shall claim your own.
    The hidden Truth in this commandment is that we are to cease limiting ourselves by desiring that which is another's. … Faith is the starting point. Poised in faith, the soul becomes the instrument of God's action. … We are to learn how to claim our own from the one divine Source of supply.

To learn more about these concepts, read the full version of Prosperity's Ten Commandments.

Quoted in Time Magazine

Georgina Tree West quoted in Time Magazine on Monday, Jul. 25, 1938:

As thoughtful U. S. churchmen know many a U. S. cult has prospered by: 1) promising, and to some extent producing visible results here & now; 2) spreading doctrines which seem more plausible more understandable, than those of the established churches. A cult which has done well on this broad basis is one known simply as Unity. One of its high priestesses, a well-dressed, pleasant-faced woman named Mrs. Georgiana Tree West announced last week in Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria Hotel that she had incorporated a new Unity Center in that city, was hunting a permanent location for it. Said Mrs. West: “There is a new religious era, and it is being led by women. Women have the new vision of the new interpretations of the teachings of Jesus Christ.”

Nothing is too good to be true.
Nothing is too wonderful to happen.
Nothing is too good to last.

I am receiving.
I am receiving NOW.
I am receiving all the wealth that the Universe has for me NOW.

All that is mine by divine right NOW comes to me speedily, richly, freely. I am receiving NOW.

It is finished.
It is done.
I give thanks for that I have received,
and that my good appears in rich appropriate form under divine timing.