We humans tend to have a penchant for 'pouring' cities and leveling hills.
It seems welove to create networks of streets, businesses, and housing developments.
We are enthusiastic about pouring concrete, macadam, and steel over what were once natural landscapes.
We lose little time cutting interstate highways and planting shopping centers, shopping malls, and golf courses on perfectly good land.
Metaphysically, the ego does all it can to urbanize the natural spirituality of our human nature.
It flattens our 'peaks of higher spiritual consciousness,' clogs the flow of Spirit, and does its best to construct intellectual grids of dogma and tradition upon our evolving inner landscapes.
This article is about improving our spiritual consciousness so we can live more fully -- and permanently -- at the speed of our Christ Consciousness.
One of the greatest prosperity stories in the New Testament is the story where Jesus the Christ feeds thousands of men, women, and children on a hillside.
Metaphysically, this historical event symbolizes an internal process which goes on in our minds.
I refer to this particular story as the first fast food service in the New Testament.
The story appears in all four Gospels, but I shall use John's Gospel since it contains elements which are not mentioned in the other Gospels.
Read John 6:1-15 in your favorite New Testament version.
This event takes place at the time of the Passover, an important historical Jewish holiday.
There would have been hundreds of thousands of people traveling to Jerusalem.
Did Jesus feed thousands of people with five loaves of bread and two fish? It seems incredible doesn't it! Did the generosity of a little boy compel thousands of other people to share what they had? Perhaps.
Did Christ have the power to manifest anything He wanted? Of course! However, I believe the importance of this story rests with its metaphysical interpretation which makes it one of the greatest formulas for prosperity ever found.
The meanings of key phrases, terms, and characters in this story metaphysically interpreted:

• Sea of Galileerepresents the Garden of Eden

• Sea of Tiberiasstands for right thinking

• Crowdsusually represent a mindset that seeks spiritual understanding

• Jesus symbolizes our quickening Christ potential

• Disciples are our higher mental faculties and spiritual capacities

• Passoverrepresents passing over sense pursuits by choosing a higher state of spiritual consciousness

• Philip stands for the power of the spoken word through affirmations and denials

• Andrew represents a Spirit-oriented strength of mind

• Simon Peter personifies a deepening faith

• Boy generally represents childlike faith and imagination

• People seated our comfort and acceptance of our Christ Nature

• 5 loaves stand for ever-present substance which underwrites the capacity of our five senses to manifest our good

• 2 fishes symbolize both formative and creative divine ideas

• 12 baskets represent the 12 highest spiritual qualities within us that are quickened and strengthened by the influence of Spirit

When we toss all of these characters and key concepts into a metaphysical basket, here's what we get: When we focus on our connection with our Christ Self using affirmations and denials to declare our good, we will be able to manifest incredible abundance through the strength of our faith, which in turn quickens all of our highest spiritual faculties so that we can become the best Christs we can be.