THE RICHEST MAN IN BABYLON

In old Babylon there once lived a certain very rich man named Arkad. Far and wide he was famed for his great wealth. Also was he famed for his liberality. He was generous in his charities. He was generous with his family. He was liberal in his own expenses. But nevertheless each year his wealth increased more rapidly than he spent it.

And there were certain friends of younger days who came to him and said: "You, Arkad, are more fortunate than we. You have become the richest man in all Babylon while we struggle for existence. You can wear the finest garments and you can enjoy rarest foods, while we must be content if we can clothe our families in raiment that is presentable and feed them as best we can.

"Yet, once were equal. We studied under the same master. We played in the same games. And neither the studies nor the games did you outshine us. And in the years since, you have been no more an honorable citizen than we.

"Nor have you worked harder or more faithfully, in so far as we can judge. Why, then, should a fickle fate single you out to enjoy all the good things of life and ignore us who are equally deserving?"

Thereupon Arkad remonstrated with them, saying, "If you have not acquired more than a bare existence in the years since we were youths, it is because you either have failed to learn the laws that govern the building of wealth, or else you not observe them.

"In my youth I looked about me and saw all the good things there were to bring happiness and contentment. And I realized that wealth increase the potency of all these.

"Wealth is a power. With wealth many things are possible.

"Therefore did I decide to find out how one might accumulate wealth, and when I had found out, to make this my task and do it well. For, is it not wise that we should enjoy while we dwell in the brightness of the sunshine, for sorrows enough shall descend upon us when we depart for the darkness of the world of spirit?"

"I found employment as a scribe in the hall of records, and long hours each day I labored upon the clay tablets. Week after week and month after month, I labored, yet for my earnings I had naught to show. Food and clothing and penance to the gods, and other things of which I could remember not what, absorbed all my earnings. But my determination did not leave me.

"And one day Algamish, the money lender, came to the house of city master and ordered a copy of the Ninth Las, and he said to me, 'I must have this in two days, and if the task is done by that time, two coppers will I give to thee.'

"So I labored hard, but the law was long, and when Algamish returned the task was unfinished. He was angry, and had I been his slave, he would have beaten me. But knowing the city master would not permit him to injure me, I was unafraid, so I said to him, 'Algamish, you are a very rich man. Tell me how I may also become rich, and all night I will carve upon the clay, and when the sun rises it shall be completed.'

"He smiled at me and replied, 'You are a forward knave, but we will call it a bargain.'

All that night I carved, though my back pained and the smell of the wick made my head ache until my eyes could hardly see. But when he returned at sun up, the tablets were complete.

"'Now,' I siad, 'tell me what you promised.'

"'You have fulfilled your part of our bargain, my son,' he said to me kindly, 'and I am ready to fulfill mine. I will tell you these things you wish to know because I am becoming an old man, and an old man's tongue loves to wag. And when yuth comes to age for advice he receives the wisdom of years. But too often does youth think that age knows only the wisdom of days that are gone, and therefore profits not. But remember this, the sun that shines today is the sun tht shone when thy father was born, and will still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness.

"'Mark you well my words, for if you do not, you will fail to grasp the truht that I will tell you, and you will think that your night's work has been in vain.'

"Then he looked at me shrewdly from under his shaggy brows and said in a low, forceful tone, 'I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep. And so will you.'

"Then he continued to look at me with a glance that I could feel pierce me but said no more.

"'Is that all?' I asked.

"'That was sufficient to change the heart of a sheep herder into the heart of a money lender,' he replied.

"'But all I earn is mine to keep, is it not?' I demanded.

"'Far from it,' he replied. 'Do you not pay the garment-maker? Do you not pay the sandal-maker? Do you not pay for the things you eat? Can you live in Babylon without spending? What have you to show for your earnings of the past month? What for the past year? Fool! You pay to everyone but yourself. Dullar, you labor for others. As well be a slave and work for what your master gives you to eat and wear. If you did keep for yourself one-tenth of all you earn, how much would you have in ten years?'

"My knowledge of the numbers did not forsake me, and I answered, 'As much as I earn in one year.'

"'You speak but half the truth,' he retorted. 'Every gold piece you save is a slave to work for you. Every copper it earns is its child that also can earn for you. If you would become wealthy, then what you save must earn, and its children must earn, that all my help to give to you the abundance to crave.

"'Yu think I cheat you for your long night's work,' he continued, but I am paying you a thousand times over if you have the intelligence to grasp the truth I offer you.

"'A part of all you earn is yours to keep. It should be not less than a tenth no matter how little you earn. It can be as much more as you can afford. Pay yourself first. Do not buy from the clothes-maker and the sandal-maker more than you can pay out of the rest and still have enough for food and charity and penance to the gods.

"'Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed. The first copper you save is the seed from which your tree of wealth shall grow. The sooner you plant that seed the sooner shall the tree grow. And the more faithfully you nourish and water that tree with consistent savings, the sooner may you bask in contentment beneath its shade.'

"So saying, he took his tablets and went away.

"I thought much about what he had said to me, and it seemed reasonable. So I decided that I would try it. Each time I was paid I took one from each ten pieces of copper and hid it away. And strange as it may seem, I was no shorter of funds than before. I noticed little difference as I managed to get along wihout it. But often I was tempted, as my hoard began to grow, to spend it for some of the good things the merchants displayed, brought by camels and ships from the land of the Phoenicians. But I wisely refrained.

"A twelfth month after Algamish had gone he again returned and said to me, 'Son, have you paid to yourself not less than one-tenth of all you have earned for the past year?'

"And I answered, 'Not yet all that I desire but some I have and it earns more, and its earnings earn more.'

"'Arkad,' he continued, 'you have learned your lessons well. You first learned to live upon less than you can earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who were competent through their own experiences to give it. And, lastly, you have learned to make gold work for you.

"'You have taught yourself how to acquire money, how to keep it, and how to use it. Therefore you are competent for a responsible position. I am becoming an old man. My sons think only of spending and give no thought to earning. My interests are great and too much for me to look after. If you will go to Nippur and look after my lands there, I shall make you my partner and shall share in my estate.'

So I went to Nippur and took charge of his holdings, which were large. And because I was full of ambition and because I had mastered the three laws of successfully handling wealth, I was enabled to increase greatly the value of his properties. So I prospered much, and when the spirit of Algamish departed for the sphere of darkness, I did share in his estate as he had arranged under the law."

So spake Arkad, and when he had finished his tale, one of his friends said, "You were indeed fortunate that Algamish made you an heir."

"What then do you advise us to do that we also may become rich?" asked still another of his friends.

"I advise that you take the wisdom of Algamish and say to yourselves, 'A part of all I earn is minde to keep.' Say it in the morning when you first arise. Say it at noon. Say it at night. Say it each hour of everyday. Say it to yourself until the words stand out like letters of fire across the sky.

"Impress yourself with the idea. Fill yourself with the thought. Then take whatever portion seems wise. Let it be not less than one-tenth and lay it by. Arrange your other expenditures to do this if necessary. But lay by that portion first.

"Then learn to make your treasure work for you. Make it your slave. Make its children and its children's children work for you.

"insure an income for thy future. Look thou at the aged and forget not that in the days to come thou also will be numbered among them. Therefore invest thy treasure with greatest caution that it be not lost.

"Provide also that thy family may not want should the Gods call thee to their realms. For such protection it is always possible to make provision with small payments at regular intervals. Therefore the provident man delays not in expectation of a large sum becoming available for such a wise purpose.

"Counsel with wise men. Seek the advice of men whose daily work is handling money. A small return and a safe one is far more desirable than risk.

"Enjoy life while you are here. Do not overstrain or try to save too much. If one-tenth of all you earn is as much as you can comfortably keep, be content to keep this portion. Live otherwise according to your income and let not yourself get niggardly and afraid to spend. Life is good and life is rich with things worthwhile and things to enjoy."

The turning point in these men's lives came upon that day when they realized the truth that had come from Algamish to ARkad and from Arkad to them.


A PART OF ALL YOU EARN IS YOURS TO KEEP.

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Facts to Self, Facts to Laws, and Facts to Nature

Concepts Or Beliefs

Everything in the mind is non-material, meaning, all materials in the mind are pure concepts. These concepts lie on what the mind has come to believe, because of a material, social, spiritual, or emotional equivalence. For example, when the mind thinks of a table, it jumps to some reference points about what a table looks like. It declares that a table is not a chair, nor a door. Although a table is a material object, which we can touch and handle, it occupies space and has weights, however, in the mind, the declaration of the object is simply a concept.
In the mind, a table exists, but not materially or literally. You cannot produce a table to get it off your mind, you get a table by buying a literal one, or making it for yourself. Here, we can differentiate the literal from the concepts. Concepts are pure ideas, and these ideas can be just pure ideas, not literally. The idea of singing is only an idea, until you begin to sing then it becomes literal. The idea at first is simply a pure idea, and when it is carried into action, that is the time that it becomes a real and a literal thing.
The literal thing is still an idea, it has concepts, but no longer just an idea or a concept, for it now has an embodiment of materiality in it. The idea about heaven, a place after we die, is only an idea. It may exist, or it may not. Its existence is purely on a believed estate.
Facts or truths can be categorized as tangible or non-tangible. A tangible fact is material, meaning, you can touch, taste or feel. A non-tangible is a fact that is simply mental, or believed. For instance, justice cannot be seen, cannot be touched, yet it exists. You can describe the state of justice, but you cannot materially see it. Some non-tangible facts may only be an emotional state or drama.
Facts and truths can be addressed as personal, non-personal, objective, subjective, or, simply, natural or unnatural. Facts to self deals mainly on a personal belief system, and facts to people are current happenings, ideas or events, on a general scope, and facts to the law of interchangeability or mobility is inherent and, or, natural, and constant.
The three dimensions: self, people, and the literal general world are interconnected, and closely networked together, and one cannot exist without the other, and therefore, each is highly relevant as far as the present existence is concerned. Understanding these dimensions, and all of the generalities, will help us define existence itself, and the many reasons of mobility, goodness, and evil. They key to all this is knowledge and understanding.

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