Eight Pillars of Prosperity: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Eight Pillars of Prosperity, credited to James Allen, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Eight Pillars of Prosperity by James Allen. Read in English by Andrea Fiore It is popularly supposed that a greater prosperity for individuals or nations can only come through a political and social reconstruction. This cannot be true apart from the practice of the moral virtues in the individuals that comprise a nation. Better laws and social conditions will always follow a higher realization of morality among the individuals of a community, but no legal enactment can give prosperity to, nay it cannot prevent the ruin of, a man or a nation that has become lax and decadent in the pursuit and practice of virtue. The moral virtues are the foundation and support of prosperity as they are the soul of greatness. They endure for ever, and all the works of man which endure are built upon them. Without them there is neither strength, stability, nor substantial reality, but only ephemeral dreams. To find moral principles is to have found prosperity, greatness, truth, and is therefore to be strong, valiant, joyful and free. - Summary by James Allen

Recording facts

• Recording title: Eight Pillars of Prosperity
• Author credits: James Allen
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 3:56:09

Catalogue topics

• nature
• joy
• life
• economy
• love
• mind
• morals
• virtue

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 1:50
2. 01 - Chapter 1: Eight Pillars — 21:56
3. 02 - Chapter 2: First Pillar – Energy — 25:58
4. 03 - Chapter 3: Second Pillar – Economy — 31:39
5. 04 - Chapter 4: Third Pillar – Integrity — 21:54
6. 05 - Chapter 5: Fourth Pillar – System — 23:04
7. 06 - Chapter 6: Fifth Pillar – Sympathy — 24:52
8. 07 - Chapter 7: Sixth Pillar – Sincerity — 21:45
9. 08 - Chapter 8: Seventh Pillar – Impartiality — 24:28
10. 09 - Chapter 9: Eighth Pillar – Self-reliance — 21:37
11. 10 - Chapter 10: The Temple of Prosperity — 17:08

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