Good post Dorothy. I have a couple of thoughts on this, which may or may not be correct, since besides reading The Science, I haven't read anything else from Mr. Wattles.
1. In the book Mr. Wattles writes:
"In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind; otherwise he cannot be in harmony with the Formless Intelligence, which is always creative and never competitive in spirit."
When you play the lottery, you're in constant competition with millions of other people, so my take is that the lottery is very competitive.
2. He also mentions that to receive, "man must be active", which is basically taking action. When you play the lottery, you do nothing but pay for the ticket and wait for the drawing.
3. Another part says "He must give to every man a use value in excess of the cash value he receives, so that each transaction makes for more life".
When you purchase a loterry ticket, you're not providing "value in excess of the cash value you receive". Plus in reality, all lottery money doesn't really go where it's supposed to.
4. This might be completely off subject also, but playing the lottery is gambling, and from my studies on gambling, most gamblers are not the type of people who sit down and meditate on how gracious they are about everything that they have in their current reality. Most gamblers are desperate to win money to either get out of debt, or gamble some more.
Once again, I am no expert, but that's the way I interpret it. I'm sure we'll get some more great responses about this subject.
Happy Friday everyone!
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