From James Allen to You 42

From poverty to power; or, the realization of prosperity and peace.
Part 2: The path to prosperity
The way out of undesirable conditions 21

You will then no longer relax your faith
when you see the immoral man accumulating outward riches,
for you will know,
that he must come again to poverty and degradation.

The rich man who is barren of virtue is, in reality, poor,
and as surely,
as the waters of the river are drifting to the ocean,
so surely is he,
in the midst of all his riches,
drifting towards poverty and misfortune;
and though he die rich,
yet must he return to reap the bitter fruit of all of his immorality.

to accumulate = to collect a large number of things over a long period of time
degradation = the process in which the quality of something is spoiled