CHAPTER FIVE. FIVE LAWS OF GOLD

A big bag heavy with gold or a clay tablet carved with words of wisdom if thou hadst  thy choice, which wouldst thou choose’.

Old Kalaabab is telling a story of a very wealthy man named Arkad. This chapter is about the adventures of Nomasir, the son of Arkad the richest man in Babylon. Arkad wanted to be sure that his son would be able to manage his estate upon his death. So he sent his son out into the world  to prove his ability to acquire gold and to make himself respected among men.

Arkad gave his son a  bag of gold and a clay tablet upon which is curved the five laws of gold, to see what he becomes  of him in ten years time.

Nomasir returned after ten years he had this to say concerning the bag of gold his father gave him.  ‘it fled ,indeed, from my inexperienced hands even as a wild hare flees at the first opportunity from the youth who captures it’.

He threw some of the gold in a wager and it didn’t turn out well. He also ventured into a business with the wrong partner   that cost him a great loss. He had nothing left  and he was unable to secure a job. At this point what actually kept him going was the confidence he knew his father had in him and that determined him to succeed.

It was at this point that he looked at the clay tablet  his father  gave to him. It was after he had read the laws of gold that he realized that he ought to have read it first before ever spending the gold his father  had given him for his journey.

According to Nomasir ‘wealth that comes quickly goeth the same way. While wealth that stayeth to give enjoyment and satisfaction to its owner comes gradually,  because it is a child born of knowledge and persistent purpose.’

So after reading the laws of gold he applied it in his life and gradually he was able to recover the amount of gold his father gave him on his journey and much more. And after ten years of adventure into life  and experiences, his father was pleased to receive him back home.

Five Laws of Gold:

a.     

 Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one –tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family.

b.      Gold labored diligently and contentedly for the wise owner who finds for it profitable employment, multiply even as the flocks of the field.

c.       Gold clingeth to the protection of the cautious owner who invests it under the advice of men wise in its handling.

d.      Gold slippeth away from the  man who invests it in businesses or purposes with which he is not familiar or which are not approved by those skilled in its keep.

e.      Gold flees the man who would force it to impossible earnings   or who followeth the alluring advice  of tricksters and schemers or who trusts it to his own inexperience and romantic desires in investments.

   

 MY THOUGHTS.

Trying so hard to make money without first knowing the laws of money is a total waste of time and energy.