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created.Chapter VI.How Riches Come to YouWHEN I say that you do not have to drive sharp bargains, I do not mean thatyou do not have to drive any bargains at all, or that you are above thenecessity for having any dealings with your fellow men. I mean that you willnot need to deal with them unfairly; you do not have to get something fornothing, but can give to every man more than you take from him.You cannot give every man more in cash market value than you take from him,but you can give him more in use value than the cash value of the thing youtake from him. The paper, ink, and other material in this book may not beworth the money you pay for it; but if the ideas suggested by it bring youthousands of dollars, you have not been wronged by those who sold it to you;they have given you a great use value for a small cash value.Let us suppose that I own a picture by one of the great artists, which, inany civilized community, is worth thousands of dollars. I take it to BaffinRay, and by "salesmanship" induce an Eskimo to give a bundle of furs worth $500 for it. I have really wronged him, for he has no use for the picture; ithas no use value to him; it will not add to his life.But suppose I give him a gun worth $50 for his furs; then he has made a goodbargain. He has use for the gun; it will get him many more furs and muchfood; it will add to his life in every way; it will make him rich.When you rise from the competitive to the creative plane, you can scan yourbusiness transactions very strictly, and if you are selling any man anythingwhich does not add more to his life than the thing he give you in exchange,you can afford to stop it. You do not have to beat anybody in business. Andif you are in a business which does beat people, get out of it at once.Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; thenyou are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction.If you have people working for you, you must take from them more in cashvalue than you pay them in wages; but you can so organize your business thatit will be filled with the principle of advancement, and so that eachemployee who wishes to do so may advance a little every day.You can make your business do for your employees what this book is doing foryou. You can so conduct your business that it will be a sort of ladder, bywhich every employee who will take the trouble may climb to riches himself;and given the opportunity, if he will not do so it is not your fault.And finally, because you are to cause the creation of your riches fromFormless Substance which permeates all your environment, it does not followthat they are to take shape from the atmosphere and come into being beforeyour eyes.If you want a sewing machine, for instance, I do not mean to tell you thatyou are to impress the thought of a sewing machine on Thinking Substanceuntil the machine is formed without hands, in the room where you sit, orelsewhere. But if you want a sewing machine, hold the mental image of itwith the most positive certainty that it is being made, or is on its way toyou. After once forming the thought, have the most absolute andunquestioning faith that the sewing machine is coming; never think of it, orspeak, of it, in any other way than as being sure to arrive. Claim it asalready yours.It will be brought to you by the power of the Supreme Intelligence, actingupon the minds of men. If you live in Maine, it may be that a man will bebrought from Texas or Japan to engage in some transaction which will resultin your getting what you want.If so, the whole matter will be as much to that man's advantage as it is toyours.Do not forget for a moment that the Thinking Substance is through all, inall, communicating with all, and can influence all. The desire of ThinkingSubstance for fuller life and better living has caused the creation of allthe sewing machines already made; and it can cause the creation of millionsmore, and will, whenever men set it in motion by desire and faith, and byacting in a Certain Way.You can certainly have a sewing machine in your house; and it is just ascertain that you can have any other thing or things which you want, andwhich you will use for the advancement of your own life and the lives ofothers.You need not hesitate about asking largely; "it is your Father's pleasure togive you the kingdom, " said Jesus.Original Substance wants to live all that is possible in you, and wants youto have all that you can or will use for the living of the most abundantlife.If you fix upon your consciousness the fact that the desire you feel for thepossession of riches is one with the desire of Omnipotence for more completeexpression, your faith becomes invincible.Once I saw a little boy sitting at a piano, and vainly trying to bringharmony out of the keys; and I saw that he was grieved and provoked by hisinability to play real music. I asked him the cause of his vexation, and heanswered, "I can feel the music in me, but I can't make my hands go right."The music in him was the URGE of Original Substance, containing all thepossibilities of all life; all that there is of music was seeking expressionthrough the child.God, the One Substance, is trying to live and do and enjoy things throughhumanity. He is saying "I want hands to build wonderful structures, to playdivine harmonies, to paint glorious pictures; I want feet to run my errands,eyes to see my beauties, tongues to tell mighty truths and to sing marveloussongs," and so on.All that there is of possibility is seeking expression through men. Godwants those who can play music to have pianos and every other instrument,and to have the means to cultivate their talents to the fullest extent; Hewants those who can appreciate beauty to be able to surround themselves withbeautiful things; He wants those who can discern truth to have everyopportunity to travel and observe; He wants those who can appreciate dressto be beautifully clothed, and those who can appreciate good food to beluxuriously fed.He wants all these things because it is Himself that enjoys and appreciatesthem; it is God who wants to play, and sing, and enjoy beauty, and proclaimtruth and wear fine clothes, and eat good foods. "it is God that worketh inyou to will and to do," said Paul.The desire you feel for riches is the infinite, seeking to express Himselfin you as He sought to find expression in the little boy at the piano.So you need not hesitate to ask largely.Your part is to focalize and express the desire to God.This is a difficult point with most people; they retain something of the oldidea that poverty and self-sacrifice are pleasing to God. They look uponpoverty as a part of the plan, a necessity of nature. They have the ideathat God has finished His work, and made all that He can make, and that themajority of men must stay poor because there is not enough to go around.They hold to so much of this erroneous thought that they feel ashamed to askfor wealth; they try not to want more than a very modest competence, justenough to make them fairly comfortable.I recall now the case of one student who was told that he must get in mind aclear picture of the things he desired, so that the creative thought of themmight be impressed on Formless Substance. He was a very poor man, living ina rented house, and having only what he earned from day to day; and he couldnot grasp the fact that all wealth was his. So, after thinking the matterover, he decided that he might reasonably ask for a new rug for the floor ofhis best room, and an anthracite coal stove to heat the house during thecold weather. Following the instructions given in this book, he obtainedthese things in a few months; and then it dawned upon him that he had notasked enough. He went through the house in which he lived, and planned allthe improvements he would like to make in it; he mentally added a bay windowhere and a room there, until it was complete in his mind as his ideal home;and then he planned its furnishings.Holding the whole picture in his mind, he began living in the Certain Way,and moving toward what he wanted; and he owns the house now, and isrebuilding it after the form of his mental image. And now, with still largerfaith, he is going on to get greater things. It has been unto him accordingto his faith, and it is so with you and with all of us.CHAPTER 7Gratitude.THE illustrations given in the last chapter will have conveyed to the readerthe fact that the first step toward getting rich is to convey the idea ofyour wants to the Formless Substance.This is true, and you will see that in order to do so it becomes necessaryto relate yourself to the Formless Intelligence in a harmonious way.To secure this harmonious relation is a matter of such primary and vitalimportance that I shall give some space to its discussion here, and give youinstructions which, if you will follow them, will be certain to bring youinto perfect unity of mind with God.The whole process of mental adjustment and atonement can be summed up in oneword, gratitude.First, you believe that there is one Intelligent Substance, from which allthings proceed; second, you believe that this Substance gives you everythingyou desire; and third, you relate yourself to it by a feeling of deep andprofound gratitude.Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept inpoverty by their lack of gratitude. Having received one gift from God, theycut the wires which connect them with Him by failing to make acknowledgment.It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth,the more wealth we shall receive; and it is easy also to understand that thesoul that is always grateful lives in closer touch with God than the onewhich never looks to Him in thankful acknowledgment.The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come tous, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they willcome; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude drawsthe mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind intocloser harmony with the creative energies of the universe, consider it well,and you will see that it is true. The good things you already have have cometo you along the line of obedience to certain laws. Gratitude will lead yourmind out along the ways by which things come; and it will keep you in closeharmony with creative thought and prevent you from falling into competitivethought.Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the All, and prevent you fromfalling into the error of thinking of the supply as limited; and to do thatwould be fatal to your hopes.There is a Law of Gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that you shouldobserve the law, if you are to get the results you seek.The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction arealways equal, and in opposite directions.The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to the Supreme is aliberation or expenditure of force; it cannot fail to reach that to which itaddressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement towards you."Draw nigh unto God, and He will draw nigh unto you." That is a statement ofpsychological truth.And if your gratitude is strong and constant, the reaction in FormlessSubstance will be strong and continuous; the movement of the things you wantwill be always toward you. Notice the grateful attitude that Jesus took; howHe always seems to be saying, "I thank Thee, Father, that Thou hearest me."You cannot exercise much power without gratitude; for it is gratitude thatkeeps you connected with Power.But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you moreblessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep fromdissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.The moment you permit your mind to dwell with dissatisfaction upon things asthey are, you begin to lose ground. You fix attention upon the common, theordinary, the poor, and the squalid and mean; and your mind takes the formof these things. Then you will transmit these forms or mental images to theFormless, and the common, the poor, the squalid, and mean will come to you.To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and tosurround yourself with inferior things.On the other hand, to fix your attention on the best is to surround yourselfwith the best, and to become the best.The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which wegive our attention.We are Thinking Substance, and thinking substance always takes the form ofthat which it thinks about.The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends tobecome the best; it takes the form or character of the best, and willreceive the best.Also, faith is born of gratitude. The grateful mind continually expects goodthings, and expectation becomes faith. The reaction of gratitude upon one'sown mind produces faith; and every outgoing wave of grateful thanksgivingincreases faith. He who has no feeling of gratitude cannot long retain aliving faith; and without a living faith you cannot get rich by the creativemethod, as we shall see in the following chapters.It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for everygood thing that comes to you; and to give thanks continuously.And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you shouldinclude all things in your gratitude.Do not waste time thinking or talking about the shortcomings or wrongactions of plutocrats or trust magnates. Their organization of the world hasmade your opportunity; all you get really comes to you because of them.Do not rage against, corrupt politicians; if it were not for politicians weshould fall into anarchy, and your opportunity would be greatly lessened.God has worked a long time and very patiently to bring us up to where we arein industry and government, and He is going right on with His work. There isnot the least doubt that He will do away with plutocrats, trust magnates,captains of industry, and politicians as soon as they can be spared; but inthe meantime, behold they are all very good. Remember that they are allhelping to arrange the lines of transmission along which your riches willcome to you, and be grateful to them all. This will bring you intoharmonious relations with the good in everything, and the good in everythingwill move toward you.CHAPTER 8Thinking in the Certain Way.TURN back to chapter 6 and read again the story of the man who formed amental image of his house, and you will get a fair idea of the initial steptoward getting rich. You must form a clear and definite mental picture ofwhat you want; you cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.You must have it before you can give it; and many people fail to impressThinking Substance because they have themselves only a vague and mistyconcept of the things they want to do, to have, or to become.It is not enough that you should have a general desire for wealth "to dogood with"; everybody has that desire.It is not enough that you should have a wish to travel, see things, livemore, etc. Everybody has those desires also. If you were going to send awireless message to a friend, you would not send the letters of the alphabetin their order, and let him construct the message for himself; nor would youtake words at random from the dictionary. You would send a coherentsentence; one which meant something. When you try to impress your wants uponSubstance, remember that it must be done by a coherent statement; you mustknow what you want, and be definite. You can never get rich, or start thecreative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vaguedesires.Go over your desires just as the man I have described went over his house;see just what you want, and get a clear mental picture of it as you wish itto look when you get it.That clear mental picture you must have continually in mind, as the sailorhas in mind the port toward which he is sailing the ship; you must keep yourface toward it all the time. You must no more lose sight of it than thesteersman loses sight of the compass.It is not necessary to take exercises in concentration, nor to set apartspecial times for prayer and affirmation, nor to "go into the silence," norto do occult stunts of any kind. There things are well enough, but all youneed is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it willstay in your thoughts.Spend as much of your leisure time as you can in contemplating your picture,but no one needs to take exercises to concentrate his mind on a thing whichhe really wants; it is the things you do not really care about which requireeffort to fix your attention upon them.And unless you really want to get rich, so that the desire is strong enoughto hold your thoughts directed to the purpose as the magnetic pole holds theneedle of the compass, it will hardly be worth while for you to try to carryout the instructions given in this book.The methods herein set forth are for people whose desire for riches isstrong enough to overcome mental laziness and the love of ease, and makethem work.The more clear and definite you make your picture then, and the more youdwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the stronger yourdesire will be; and the stronger your desire, the easier it will be to holdyour mind fixed upon the picture of what you want.Something more is necessary, however, than merely to see the pictureclearly. If that is all you do, you are only a dreamer, and will have littleor no power for accomplishment.Behind your clear vision must be the purpose to realize it; to bring it outin tangible expression.And behind this purpose must be an invincible and unwavering FAITH that thething is already yours; that it is "at hand" and you have only to takepossession of it.Live in the new house, mentally, until it takes form around you physically.In the mental realm, enter at once into full enjoyment of the things youwant."Whatsoever things ye ask for when ye pray, believe that ye receive them,and ye shall have them," said Jesus.See the things you want as if they were actually around you all the time;see yourself as owning and using them. Make use of them in imagination justas you will use them when they are your tangible possessions. Dwell uponyour mental picture until it is clear and distinct, and then take the MentalAttitude of Ownership toward everything in that picture. Take possession ofit, in mind, in the full faith that it is actually yours. Hold to thismental ownership; do not waiver for an instant in the faith that it is real.And remember what was said in a proceeding chapter about gratitude; be asthankful for it all the time as you expect to be when it has taken form. Theman who can sincerely thank God for the things which as yet he owns only inimagination, has real faith. He will get rich; he will cause the creation ofwhatsoever he wants.You do not need to pray repeatedly for things you want; it is not necessaryto tell God about it every day."Use not vain repetitions as the heathen do," said Jesus said to his pupils,"for your Father knoweth the ye have need of these things before ye askHim."Your part is to intelligently formulate your desire for the things whichmake for a larger life, and to get these desire arranged into a coherentwhole; and then to impress this Whole Desire upon the Formless Substance,which has the power and the will to bring you what you want.You do not make this impression by repeating strings of words; you make itby holding the vision with unshakable PURPOSE to attain it, and withsteadfast FAITH that you do attain it.The answer to prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking,but according to your faith while you are working.You cannot impress the mind of God by having a special Sabbath day set apartto tell Him what you want, and the forgetting Him during the rest of theweek. You cannot impress Him by having special hours to go into your closetand pray, if you then dismiss the matter from your mind until the hour ofprayer comes again.Oral prayer is well enough, and has its effect, especially upon yourself, inclarifying your vision and strengthening your faith; but it is not your oralpetitions which get you what you want. In order to get rich you do not needa "sweet hour of prayer"; you need to "pray without ceasing." And by prayerI mean holding steadily to your vision, with the purpose to cause itscreation into solid form, and the faith that you are doing so."Believe that ye receive them."The whole matter turns on receiving, once you have clearly formed yourvision. When you have formed it, it is well to make an oral statement,addressing the Supreme in reverent prayer; and from that moment you must, inmind, receive what you ask for. Live in the new house; wear the fineclothes; ride in the automobile; go on the journey, and confidently plan forgreater journeys. Think and speak of all the things you have asked for interms of actual present ownership. Imagine an environment, and a financialcondition exactly as you want them, and live all the time in that imaginaryenvironment and financial condition. Mind, however, that you do not do thisas a mere dreamer and castle builder; hold to the FAITH that the imaginaryis being realized, and to the PURPOSE to realize it. Remember that it isfaith and purpose in the use of the imagination which make the differencebetween the scientist and the dreamer. And having learned this fact, it ishere that you must learn the proper use of the Will.CHAPTER 9How to Use the Will.TO set about getting rich in a scientific way, you do not try to apply yourwill power to anything outside of yourself.Your have no right to do so, anyway.It is wrong to apply your will to other men and women, in order to get themto do what you wish done.It is as flagrantly wrong to coerce people by mental power as it is tocoerce them by physical power. If compelling people by physical force to dothings for you reduces them to slavery, compelling them by mental meansaccomplishes exactly the same thing; the only difference is in methods. Iftaking things from people by physical force is robbery, them taking thingsby mental force is robbery also; there is no difference in principle.You have no right to use your will power upon another person, even "for hisown good"; for you do not know what is for his good. The science of gettingrich does not require you to apply power or force to any other person, inany way whatsoever. There is not the slightest necessity for doing so;indeed, any attempt to use your will upon others will only tend to defeatyour purpose.You do not need to apply your will to things, in order to compel them tocome to you.That would simply be trying to coerce God, and would be foolish and useless,as well as irreverent.You do not have to compel God to give you good things, any more than youhave to use your will power to make the sun rise.You do not have to use your will power to conquer an unfriendly deity, or tomake stubborn and rebellious forces do your bidding.Substance is friendly to you, and is more anxious to give you what you wantthan you are to get it.To get rich, you need only to use your will power upon yourself.When you know what to think and do, then you must use your will to compelyourself to think and do the right things. That is the legitimate use of thewill in getting what you want--to use it in holding yourself to the rightcourse. Use your will to keep yourself thinking and acting in the CertainWay.Do not try to project your will, or your thoughts, or your mind out intospace, to "act" on things or people.Keep your mind at home; it can accomplish more there than elsewhere.Use your mind to form a mental image of what you want, and to hold thatvision with faith and purpose; and use your will to keep your mind workingin the Right Way.The more steady and continuous your faith and purpose, the more rapidly youwill get rich, because you will make only POSITIVE impressions uponSubstance; and you will not neutralize or offset them by negativeimpressions.The picture of your desires, held with faith and purpose, is taken up by theFormless, and permeates it to great distances-throughout the universe, forall I know.As this impression spreads, all things are set moving toward itsrealization; every living thing, every inanimate thing, and the things yetuncreated, are stirred toward bringing into being that which you want. Allforce begins to be exerted in that direction; all things begin to movetoward you. The minds of people, everywhere, are influenced toward doing thethings necessary to the fulfilling of your desires; and they work for you,unconsciously.But you can check all this by starting a negative impression in the FormlessSubstance. Doubt or unbelief is as certain to start a movement away from youas faith and purpose are to start one toward you. It is by not understandingthis that most people who try to make use of "mental science" in gettingrich make their failure. Every hour and moment you spend in giving heed todoubts and fears, every hour you spend in worry, every hour in which yoursoul is possessed by unbelief, sets a current away from you in the wholedomain of intelligent Substance. All the promises are unto them thatbelieve, and unto them only. Notice how insistent Jesus was upon this pointof belief; and now you know the reason why.Since belief is all important, it behooves you to guard your thoughts; andas your beliefs will be shaped to a very great extent by the things youobserve and think about, it is important that you should command yourattention.And here the will comes into use; for it is by your will that you determineupon what things your attention shall be fixed.If you want to become rich, you must not make a study of poverty.Things are not brought into being by thinking about their opposites. Healthis never to be attained by studying disease and thinking about disease;righteousness is not to be promoted by studying sin and thinking about sin;and no one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.Medicine as a science of disease has increased disease; religion as ascience of sin has promoted sin, and economics as a study of poverty willfill the world with wretchedness and want.Do not talk about poverty; do not investigate it, or concern yourself withit. Never mind what its causes are; you have nothing to do with them.What concerns you is the cure.Do not spend your time in charitable work, or charity movements; all charityonly tends to perpetuate the wretchedness it aims to eradicate.I do not say that you should be hard hearted or unkind, and refuse to hearthe cry of need; but you must not try to eradicate poverty in any of theconventional ways. Put poverty behind you, and put all that pertains to itbehind you, and "make good."Get rich; that is the best way you can help the poor.And you cannot hold the mental image which is to make you rich if you fillyour mind with pictures of poverty. Do not read books or papers which givecircumstantial accounts of the wretchedness of the tenement dwellers, of thehorrors of child labor, and so on. Do not read anything which fills yourmind with gloomy images of want and suffering.You cannot help the poor in the least by knowing about these things; and thewide-spread knowledge of them does not tend at all to do away with poverty.What tends to do away with poverty is not the getting of pictures of povertyinto your mind, but getting pictures of wealth into the minds of the poor.You are not deserting the poor in their misery when you refuse to allow yourmind to be filled with pictures of that misery.Poverty can be done away with, not by increasing the number of well to dopeople who think about poverty, but by increasing the number of poor peoplewho purpose with faith to get rich.The poor do not need charity; they need inspiration. Charity only sends thema loaf of bread to keep them alive in their wretchedness, or gives them anentertainment to make them forget for an hour or two; but inspiration willcause them to rise out of their misery. If you want to help the poor,demonstrate to them that they can become rich; prove it by getting richyourself.The only way in which poverty will ever be banished from this world is bygetting a large and constantly increasing number of people to practice theteachings of this book.People must be taught to become rich by creation, not by competition.Every man who becomes rich by competition throws down behind him the ladderby which he rises, and keeps others down; but every man who gets rich bycreation opens a way for thousands to follow him, and inspires them to doso.You are not showing hardness of heart or an unfeeling disposition when yourefuse to pity poverty, see poverty, read about poverty, or think or talkabout it, or to listen to those who do talk about it. Use your will power tokeep your mind OFF the subject of poverty, and to keep it fixed with faithand purpose ON the vision of what you want.CHAPTER 10Further Use of the Will.YOU cannot retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantlyturning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external orimaginary.Do not tell of your past troubles of a financial nature, if you have hadthem, do not think of them at all. Do no tell of the poverty of yourparents, or the hardships of your early life; to do any of these things isto mentally class yourself with the poor for the time being, and it willcertainly check the movement of things in your direction."Let the dead bury their dead," as Jesus said.Put poverty and all things that pertain to poverty completely behind you.You have accepted a certain theory of the universe as being correct, and areresting all your hopes of happiness on its being correct; and what can yougain by giving heed to conflicting theories?Do not read religious books which tell you that the world is soon coming toan end; and do not read the writing of muck-rakers and pessimisticphilosophers who tell you that it is going to the devil.The world is not going to the devil; it is going to God.It is wonderful Becoming.True, there may be a good many things in existing conditions which aredisagreeable; but what is the use of studying them when they are certainlypassing away, and when the study of them only tends to check their passingand keep them with us? Why give time and attention to things which are beingremoved by evolutionary growth, when you can hasten their removal only bypromoting the evolutionary growth as far as your part of it goes?No matter how horrible in seeming may be the conditions in certaincountries, sections, or places, you waste your time and destroy your ownchances by considering them.You should interest yourself in the world's becoming rich.Think of the riches the world is coming into, instead of the poverty it isgrowing out of; and bear in mind that the only way in which you can assistthe world in growing rich is by growing rich yourself through the creativemethod--not the competitive one.Give your attention wholly to riches; ignore poverty.Whenever you think or speak of those who are poor, think and speak of themas those who are becoming rich;as those who are to be congratulated ratherthan pitied. Then they and others will catch the inspiration, and begin tosearch for the way out.Because I say that you are to give your whole time and mind and thought toriches, it does not follow that you are to be sordid or mean.To become really rich is the noblest aim you can have in life, for itincludes everything else.On the competitive plane, the struggle to get rich is a Godless scramble forpower over other men; but when we come into the creative mind, all this ischanged.All that is possible in the way of greatness and soul unfoldment, of serviceand lofty endeavor, comes by way of getting rich; all is made possible bythe use of things.If you lack for physical health, you will find that the attainment of it isconditional on your getting rich.Only those who are emancipated from financial worry, and who have the meansto live a care-free existence and follow hygienic practices, can have andretain health.Moral and spiritual greatness is possible only to those who are above thecompetitive battle for existence; and only those who are becoming rich onthe plane of creative thought are free from the degrading influences ofcompetition. If your heart is set on domestic happiness, remember that loveflourishes best where there is refinement, a high level of thought, andfreedom from corrupting influences; and these are to be found only whereriches are attained by the exercise of creative thought, without strife orrivalry.You can aim at nothing so great or noble, I repeat, as to become rich; andyou must fix your attention upon your mental picture of riches, to theexclusion of all that may tend to dim or obscure the vision.You must learn to see the underlying TRUTH in all things; you must seebeneath all seemingly wrong conditions the Great One Life ever movingforward toward fuller expression and more complete happiness.It is the truth that there is no such thing as poverty; that there is onlywealth.Some people remain in poverty because they are ignorant of the fact thatthere is wealth for them; and these can best be taught by showing them theway to affluence in your own person and practice.Others are poor because, while they feel that there is a way out, they aretoo intellectually indolent to put forth the mental effort necessary to findthat way and by travel it; and for these the very best thing you can do isto arouse their desire by showing them the happiness that comes from beingrightly rich.Others still are poor because, while they have some notion of science, theyhave become so swamped and lost in the maze of metaphysical and occulttheories that they do not know which road to take. They try a mixture ofmany systems and fail in all. For these, again, the very best thing, to dois to show the right way in your own person and practice; an ounce of doingthings is worth a pound of theorizing.The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most ofyourself.You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich;that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competetiveone.Another thing. We assert that this book gives in detail the principles ofthe science of getting rich; and if that is true, you do not need to readany other book upon the subject. This may sound narrow and egotistical, butconsider: there is no more scientific method of computation in mathematicsthan by addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; no other methodis possible. There can be but one shortest distance between two points.There is only one way to think scientifically, and that is to think in theway that leads by the most direct and simple route to the goal. No man hasyet formulated a briefer or less complex "system" than the one set forthherein; it has been stripped of all non-essentials. When you commence onthis, lay all others aside; put them out of your mind altogether.Read this book every day; keep it with you; commit it to memory, and do notthink about other "systems" and theories. If you do, you will begin to havedoubts, and to be uncertain and wavering in your thought; and then you willbegin to make failures.After you have made good and become rich, you may study other systems asmuch as you please; but until you are quite sure that you have gained whatyou want, do not read anything on this line but this book, unless it be theauthors mentioned in the Preface.And read only the most optimistic comments on the world's news; those inharmony with your picture.Also, postpone your investigations into the occult. Do not dabble intheosophy, Spiritualism, or kindred studies. It is very likely that the deadstill live, and are near; but if they are, let them alone; mind your ownbusiness.Wherever the spirits of the dead may be, they have their own work to do, andtheir own problems to solve; and we have no right to interfere with them. Wecannot help them, and it is very doubtful whether they can help us, orwhether we have any right to trespass upon their time if they can. Let thedead and the hereafter alone, and solve your own problem; get rich. If youbegin to mix with the occult, you will start mental cross-currents whichwill surely bring your hopes to shipwreck. Now, this and the precedingchapters have brought us to the following statement of basic facts:-- There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in itsoriginal state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of theuniverse.A thought, in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by thethought.Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought uponformless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to the creativemind; he must form a clear mental picture of the things he wants, and holdthis picture in his thoughts with the fixed PURPOSE to get what he wants,and the unwavering FAITH that he does get what he wants, closing his mindagainst all that may tend to shake his purpose, dim his vision, or quenchhis faith.And in addition to all this, we shall now see that he must live and act in aCertain Way.

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created.Chapter VI.How Riches Come to YouWHEN I say that you do not have to drive sharp bargains, I do not mean thatyou do not have to drive any bargains at all, or that you are above thenecessity for having any dealings with your fellow men. I mean that you willnot need to deal with them unfairly; you do not have to get something fornothing, but can give to every man more than you take from him.You cannot give every man more in cash market value than you take from him,but you can give him more in use value than the cash value of the thing youtake from him. The paper, ink, and other material in this book may not beworth the money you pay for it; but if the ideas suggested by it bring youthousands of dollars, you have not been wronged by those who sold it to you;they have given you a great use value for a small cash value.Let us suppose that I own a picture by one of the great artists, which, inany civilized community, is worth thousands of dollars. I take it to BaffinRay, and by "salesmanship" induce an Eskimo to give a bundle of furs worth $500 for it. I have really wronged him, for he has no use for the picture; ithas no use value to him; it will not add to his life.But suppose I give him a gun worth $50 for his furs; then he has made a goodbargain. He has use for the gun; it will get him many more furs and muchfood; it will add to his life in every way; it will make him rich.When you rise from the competitive to the creative plane, you can scan yourbusiness transactions very strictly, and if you are selling any man anythingwhich does not add more to his life than the thing he give you in exchange,you can afford to stop it. You do not have to beat anybody in business. Andif you are in a business which does beat people, get out of it at once.Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; thenyou are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction.If you have people working for you, you must take from them more in cashvalue than you pay them in wages; but you can so organize your business thatit will be filled with the principle of advancement, and so that eachemployee who wishes to do so may advance a little every day.You can make your business do for your employees what this book is doing foryou. You can so conduct your business that it will be a sort of ladder, bywhich every employee who will take the trouble may climb to riches himself;and given the opportunity, if he will not do so it is not your fault.And finally, because you are to cause the creation of your riches fromFormless Substance which permeates all your environment, it does not followthat they are to take shape from the atmosphere and come into being beforeyour eyes.If you want a sewing machine, for instance, I do not mean to tell you thatyou are to impress the thought of a sewing machine on Thinking Substanceuntil the machine is formed without hands, in the room where you sit, orelsewhere. But if you want a sewing machine, hold the mental image of itwith the most positive certainty that it is being made, or is on its way toyou. After once forming the thought, have the most absolute andunquestioning faith that the sewing machine is coming; never think of it, orspeak, of it, in any other way than as being sure to arrive. Claim it asalready yours.It will be brought to you by the power of the Supreme Intelligence, actingupon the minds of men. If you live in Maine, it may be that a man will bebrought from Texas or Japan to engage in some transaction which will resultin your getting what you want.If so, the whole matter will be as much to that man's advantage as it is toyours.Do not forget for a moment that the Thinking Substance is through all, inall, communicating with all, and can influence all. The desire of ThinkingSubstance for fuller life and better living has caused the creation of allthe sewing machines already made; and it can cause the creation of millionsmore, and will, whenever men set it in motion by desire and faith, and byacting in a Certain Way.You can certainly have a sewing machine in your house; and it is just ascertain that you can have any other thing or things which you want, andwhich you will use for the advancement of your own life and the lives ofothers.You need not hesitate about asking largely; "it is your Father's pleasure togive you the kingdom, " said Jesus.Original Substance wants to live all that is possible in you, and wants youto have all that you can or will use for the living of the most abundantlife.If you fix upon your consciousness the fact that the desire you feel for thepossession of riches is one with the desire of Omnipotence for more completeexpression, your faith becomes invincible.Once I saw a little boy sitting at a piano, and vainly trying to bringharmony out of the keys; and I saw that he was grieved and provoked by hisinability to play real music. I asked him the cause of his vexation, and heanswered, "I can feel the music in me, but I can't make my hands go right."The music in him was the URGE of Original Substance, containing all thepossibilities of all life; all that there is of music was seeking expressionthrough the child.God, the One Substance, is trying to live and do and enjoy things throughhumanity. He is saying "I want hands to build wonderful structures, to playdivine harmonies, to paint glorious pictures; I want feet to run my errands,eyes to see my beauties, tongues to tell mighty truths and to sing marveloussongs," and so on.All that there is of possibility is seeking expression through men. Godwants those who can play music to have pianos and every other instrument,and to have the means to cultivate their talents to the fullest extent; Hewants those who can appreciate beauty to be able to surround themselves withbeautiful things; He wants those who can discern truth to have everyopportunity to travel and observe; He wants those who can appreciate dressto be beautifully clothed, and those who can appreciate good food to beluxuriously fed.He wants all these things because it is Himself that enjoys and appreciatesthem; it is God who wants to play, and sing, and enjoy beauty, and proclaimtruth and wear fine clothes, and eat good foods. "it is God that worketh inyou to will and to do," said Paul.The desire you feel for riches is the infinite, seeking to express Himselfin you as He sought to find expression in the little boy at the piano.So you need not hesitate to ask largely.Your part is to focalize and express the desire to God.This is a difficult point with most people; they retain something of the oldidea that poverty and self-sacrifice are pleasing to God. They look uponpoverty as a part of the plan, a necessity of nature. They have the ideathat God has finished His work, and made all that He can make, and that themajority of men must stay poor because there is not enough to go around.They hold to so much of this erroneous thought that they feel ashamed to askfor wealth; they try not to want more than a very modest competence, justenough to make them fairly comfortable.I recall now the case of one student who was told that he must get in mind aclear picture of the things he desired, so that the creative thought of themmight be impressed on Formless Substance. He was a very poor man, living ina rented house, and having only what he earned from day to day; and he couldnot grasp the fact that all wealth was his. So, after thinking the matterover, he decided that he might reasonably ask for a new rug for the floor ofhis best room, and an anthracite coal stove to heat the house during thecold weather. Following the instructions given in this book, he obtainedthese things in a few months; and then it dawned upon him that he had notasked enough. He went through the house in which he lived, and planned allthe improvements he would like to make in it; he mentally added a bay windowhere and a room there, until it was complete in his mind as his ideal home;and then he planned its furnishings.Holding the whole picture in his mind, he began living in the Certain Way,and moving toward what he wanted; and he owns the house now, and isrebuilding it after the form of his mental image. And now, with still largerfaith, he is going on to get greater things. It has been unto him accordingto his faith, and it is so with you and with all of us.CHAPTER 7Gratitude.THE illustrations given in the last chapter will have conveyed to the readerthe fact that the first step toward getting rich is to convey the idea ofyour wants to the Formless Substance.This is true, and you will see that in order to do so it becomes necessaryto relate yourself to the Formless Intelligence in a harmonious way.To secure this harmonious relation is a matter of such primary and vitalimportance that I shall give some space to its discussion here, and give youinstructions which, if you will follow them, will be certain to bring youinto perfect unity of mind with God.The whole process of mental adjustment and atonement can be summed up in oneword, gratitude.First, you believe that there is one Intelligent Substance, from which allthings proceed; second, you believe that this Substance gives you everythingyou desire; and third, you relate yourself to it by a feeling of deep andprofound gratitude.Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept inpoverty by their lack of gratitude. Having received one gift from God, theycut the wires which connect them with Him by failing to make acknowledgment.It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth,the more wealth we shall receive; and it is easy also to understand that thesoul that is always grateful lives in closer touch with God than the onewhich never looks to Him in thankful acknowledgment.The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come tous, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they willcome; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude drawsthe mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind intocloser harmony with the creative energies of the universe, consider it well,and you will see that it is true. The good things you already have have cometo you along the line of obedience to certain laws. Gratitude will lead yourmind out along the ways by which things come; and it will keep you in closeharmony with creative thought and prevent you from falling into competitivethought.Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the All, and prevent you fromfalling into the error of thinking of the supply as limited; and to do thatwould be fatal to your hopes.There is a Law of Gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that you shouldobserve the law, if you are to get the results you seek.The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction arealways equal, and in opposite directions.The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to the Supreme is aliberation or expenditure of force; it cannot fail to reach that to which itaddressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement towards you."Draw nigh unto God, and He will draw nigh unto you." That is a statement ofpsychological truth.And if your gratitude is strong and constant, the reaction in FormlessSubstance will be strong and continuous; the movement of the things you wantwill be always toward you. Notice the grateful attitude that Jesus took; howHe always seems to be saying, "I thank Thee, Father, that Thou hearest me."You cannot exercise much power without gratitude; for it is gratitude thatkeeps you connected with Power.But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you moreblessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep fromdissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.The moment you permit your mind to dwell with dissatisfaction upon things asthey are, you begin to loseground.You fix attention upon the common, theordinary, the poor, and the squalid and mean; and your mind takes the formof these things. Then you will transmit these forms or mental images to theFormless, and the common, the poor, the squalid, and mean will come to you.To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and tosurround yourself with inferior things.On the other hand, to fix your attention on the best is to surround yourselfwith the best, and to become the best.The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which wegive our attention.We are Thinking Substance, and thinking substance always takes the form ofthat which it thinks about.The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends tobecome the best; it takes the form or character of the best, and willreceive the best.Also, faith is born of gratitude. The grateful mind continually expects goodthings, and expectation becomes faith. The reaction of gratitude upon one'sown mind produces faith; and every outgoing wave of grateful thanksgivingincreases faith. He who has no feeling of gratitude cannot long retain aliving faith; and without a living faith you cannot get rich by the creativemethod, as we shall see in the following chapters.It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for everygood thing that comes to you; and to give thanks continuously.And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you shouldinclude all things in your gratitude.Do not waste time thinking or talking about the shortcomings or wrongactions of plutocrats or trust magnates. Their organization of the world hasmade your opportunity; all you get really comes to you because of them.Do not rage against, corrupt politicians; if it were not for politicians weshould fall into anarchy, and your opportunity would be greatly lessened.God has worked a long time and very patiently to bring us up to where we arein industry and government, and He is going right on with His work. There isnot the least doubt that He will do away with plutocrats, trust magnates,captains of industry, and politicians as soon as they can be spared; but inthe meantime, behold they are all very good. Remember that they are allhelping to arrange the lines of transmission along which your riches willcome to you, and be grateful to them all. This will bring you intoharmonious relations with the good in everything, and the good in everythingwill move toward you.CHAPTER 8Thinking in the Certain Way.TURN back to chapter 6 and read again the story of the man who formed amental image of his house, and you will get a fair idea of the initial steptoward getting rich. You must form a clear and definite mental picture ofwhat you want; you cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.You must have it before you can give it; and many people fail to impressThinking Substance because they have themselves only a vague and mistyconcept of the things they want to do, to have, or to become.It is not enough that you should have a general desire for wealth "to dogood with"; everybody has that desire.It is not enough that you should have a wish to travel, see things, livemore, etc. Everybody has those desires also. If you were going to send awireless message to a friend, you would not send the letters of the alphabetin their order, and let him construct the message for himself; nor would youtake words at random from the dictionary. You would send a coherentsentence; one which meant something. When you try to impress your wants uponSubstance, remember that it must be done by a coherent statement; you mustknow what you want, and be definite. You can never get rich, or start thecreative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vaguedesires.Go over your desires just as the man I have described went over his house;see just what you want, and get a clear mental picture of it as you wish itto look when you get it.That clear mental picture you must have continually in mind, as the sailorhas in mind the port toward which he is sailing the ship; you must keep yourface toward it all the time. You must no more lose sight of it than thesteersman loses sight of the compass.It is not necessary to take exercises in concentration, nor to set apartspecial times for prayer and affirmation, nor to "go into the silence," norto do occult stunts of any kind. There things are well enough, but all youneed is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it willstay in your thoughts.Spend as much of your leisure time as you can in contemplating your picture,but no one needs to take exercises to concentrate his mind on a thing whichhe really wants; it is the things you do not really care about which requireeffort to fix your attention upon them.And unless you really want to get rich, so that the desire is strong enoughto hold your thoughts directed to the purpose as the magnetic pole holds theneedle of the compass, it will hardly be worth while for you to try to carryout the instructions given in this book.The methods herein set forth are for people whose desire for riches isstrong enough to overcome mental laziness and the love of ease, and makethem work.The more clear and definite you make your picture then, and the more youdwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the stronger yourdesire will be; and the stronger your desire, the easier it will be to holdyour mind fixed upon the picture of what you want.Something more is necessary, however, than merely to see the pictureclearly. If that is all you do, you are only a dreamer, and will have littleor no power for accomplishment.Behind your clear vision must be the purpose to realize it; to bring it outin tangible expression.And behind this purpose must be an invincible and unwavering FAITH that thething is already yours; that it is "at hand" and you have only to takepossession of it.Live in the new house, mentally, until it takes form around you physically.In the mental realm, enter at once into full enjoyment of the things youwant."Whatsoever things ye ask for when ye pray, believe that ye receive them,and ye shall have them," said Jesus.See the things you want as if they were actually around you all the time;see yourself as owning and using them. Make use of them in imagination justas you will use them when they are your tangible possessions. Dwell uponyour mental picture until it is clear and distinct, and then take the MentalAttitude of Ownership toward everything in that picture. Take possession ofit, in mind, in the full faith that it is actually yours. Hold to thismental ownership; do not waiver for an instant in the faith that it is real.And remember what was said in a proceeding chapter about gratitude; be asthankful for it all the time as you expect to be when it has taken form. Theman who can sincerely thank God for the things which as yet he owns only inimagination, has real faith. He will get rich; he will cause the creation ofwhatsoever he wants.You do not need to pray repeatedly for things you want; it is not necessaryto tell God about it every day."Use not vain repetitions as the heathen do," said Jesus said to his pupils,"for your Father knoweth the ye have need of these things before ye askHim."Your part is to intelligently formulate your desire for the things whichmake for a larger life, and to get these desire arranged into a coherentwhole; and then to impress this Whole Desire upon the Formless Substance,which has the power and the will to bring you what you want.You do not make this impression by repeating strings of words; you make itby holding the vision with unshakable PURPOSE to attain it, and withsteadfast FAITH that you do attain it.The answer to prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking,but according to your faith while you are working.You cannot impress the mind of God by having a special Sabbath day set apartto tell Him what you want, and the forgetting Him during the rest of theweek. You cannot impress Him by having special hours to go into your closetand pray, if you then dismiss the matter from your mind until the hour ofprayer comes again.Oral prayer is well enough, and has its effect, especially upon yourself, inclarifying your vision and strengthening your faith; but it is not your oralpetitions which get you what you want. In order to get rich you do not needa "sweet hour of prayer"; you need to "pray without ceasing." And by prayerI mean holding steadily to your vision, with the purpose to cause itscreation into solid form, and the faith that you are doing so."Believe that ye receive them."The whole matter turns on receiving, once you have clearly formed yourvision. When you have formed it, it is well to make an oral statement,addressing the Supreme in reverent prayer; and from that moment you must, inmind, receive what you ask for. Live in the new house; wear the fineclothes; ride in the automobile; go on the journey, and confidently plan forgreater journeys. Think and speak of all the things you have asked for interms of actual present ownership. Imagine an environment, and a financialcondition exactly as you want them, and live all the time in that imaginaryenvironment and financial condition. Mind, however, that you do not do thisas a mere dreamer and castle builder; hold to the FAITH that the imaginaryis being realized, and to the PURPOSE to realize it. Remember that it isfaith and purpose in the use of the imagination which make the differencebetween the scientist and the dreamer. And having learned this fact, it ishere that you must learn the proper use of the Will.CHAPTER 9How to Use the Will.TO set about getting rich in a scientific way, you do not try to apply yourwill power to anything outside of yourself.Your have no right to do so, anyway.It is wrong to apply your will to other men and women, in order to get themto do what you wish done.It is as flagrantly wrong to coerce people by mental power as it is tocoerce them by physical power. If compelling people by physical force to dothings for you reduces them to slavery, compelling them by mental meansaccomplishes exactly the same thing; the only difference is in methods. Iftaking things from people by physical force is robbery, them taking thingsby mental force is robbery also; there is no difference in principle.You have no right to use your will power upon another person, even "for hisown good"; for you do not know what is for his good. The science of gettingrich does not require you to apply power or force to any other person, inany way whatsoever. There is not the slightest necessity for doing so;indeed, any attempt to use your will upon others will only tend to defeatyour purpose.You do not need to apply your will to things, in order to compel them tocome to you.That would simply be trying to coerce God, and would be foolish and useless,as well as irreverent.You do not have to compel God to give you good things, any more than youhave to use your will power to make the sun rise.You do not have to use your will power to conquer an unfriendly deity, or tomake stubborn and rebellious forces do your bidding.Substance is friendly to you, and is more anxious to give you what you wantthan you are to get it.To get rich, you need only to use your will power upon yourself.When you know what to think and do, then you must use your will to compelyourself to think and do the right things. That is the legitimate use of thewill in getting what you want--to use it in holding yourself to the rightcourse. Use your will to keep yourself thinking and acting in the CertainWay.Do not try to project your will, or your thoughts, or your mind out intospace, to "act" on things or people.Keep your mind at home; it can accomplish more there than elsewhere.Use your mind to form a mental image of what you want, and to hold thatvision with faith and purpose; and use your will to keep your mind workingin the Right Way.The more steady and continuous your faith and purpose, the more rapidly youwill get rich, because you will make only POSITIVE impressions uponSubstance; and you will not neutralize or offset them by negativeimpressions.The picture of your desires, held with faith and purpose, is taken up by theFormless, and permeates it to great distances-throughout the universe, forall I know.As this impression spreads, all things are set moving toward itsrealization; every living thing, every inanimate thing, and the things yetuncreated, are stirred toward bringing into being that which you want. Allforce begins to be exerted in that direction; all things begin to m oveBRtowardyou.Theminds of people, everywhere, are influenced toward doing thethings necessary to the fulfilling of your desires; and they work for you,unconsciously.But you can check all this by starting a negative impression in the FormlessSubstance. Doubt or unbelief is as certain to start a movement away from youas faith and purpose are to start one toward you. It is by not understandingthis that most people who try to make use of "mental science" in gettingrich make their failure. Every hour and moment you spend in giving heed todoubts and fears, every hour you spend in worry, every hour in which yoursoul is possessed by unbelief, sets a current away from you in the wholedomain of intelligent Substance. All the promises are unto them thatbelieve, and unto them only. Notice how insistent Jesus was upon this pointof belief; and now you know the reason why.Since belief is all important, it behooves you to guard your thoughts; andas your beliefs will be shaped to a very great extent by the things youobserve and think about, it is important that you should command yourattention.And here the will comes into use; for it is by your will that you determineupon what things your attention shall be fixed.If you want to become rich, you must not make a study of poverty.Things are not brought into being by thinking about their opposites. Healthis never to be attained by studying disease and thinking about disease;righteousness is not to be promoted by studying sin and thinking about sin;and no one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.Medicine as a science of disease has increased disease; religion as ascience of sin has promoted sin, and economics as a study of poverty willfill the world with wretchedness and want.Do not talk about poverty; do not investigate it, or concern yourself withit. Never mind what its causes are; you have nothing to do with them.What concerns you is the cure.Do not spend your time in charitable work, or charity movements; all charityonly tends to perpetuate the wretchedness it aims to eradicate.I do not say that you should be hard hearted or unkind, and refuse to hearthe cry of need; but you must not try to eradicate poverty in any of theconventional ways. Put poverty behind you, and put all that pertains to itbehind you, and "make good."Get rich; that is the best way you can help the poor.And you cannot hold the mental image which is to make you rich if you fillyour mind with pictures of poverty. Do not read books or papers which givecircumstantial accounts of the wretchedness of the tenement dwellers, of thehorrors of child labor, and so on. Do not read anything which fills yourmind with gloomy images of want and suffering.You cannot help the poor in the least by knowing about these things; and thewide-spread knowledge of them does not tend at all to do away with poverty.What tends to do away with poverty is not the getting of pictures of povertyinto your mind, but getting pictures of wealth into the minds of the poor.You are not deserting the poor in their misery when you refuse to allow yourmind to be filled with pictures of that misery.Poverty can be done away with, not by increasing the number of well to dopeople who think about poverty, but by increasing the number of poor peoplewho purpose with faith to get rich.The poor do not need charity; they need inspiration. Charity only sends thema loaf of bread to keep them alive in their wretchedness, or gives them anentertainment to make them forget for an hour or two; but inspiration willcause them to rise out of their misery. If you want to help the poor,demonstrate to them that they can become rich; prove it by getting richyourself.The only way in which poverty will ever be banished from this world is bygetting a large and constantly increasing number of people to practice theteachings of this book.People must be taught to become rich by creation, not by competition.Every man who becomes rich by competition throws down behind him the ladderby which he rises, and keeps others down; but every man who gets rich bycreation opens a way for thousands to follow him, and inspires them to doso.You are not showing hardness of heart or an unfeeling disposition when yourefuse to pity poverty, see poverty, read about poverty, or think or talkabout it, or to listen to those who do talk about it. Use your will power tokeep your mind OFF the subject of poverty, and to keep it fixed with faithand purpose ON the vision of what you want.CHAPTER 10Further Use of the Will.YOU cannot retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantlyturning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external orimaginary.Do not tell of your past troubles of a financial nature, if you have hadthem, do not think of them at all. Do no tell of the poverty of yourparents, or the hardships of your early life; to do any of these things isto mentally class yourself with the poor for the time being, and it willcertainly check the movement of things in your direction."Let the dead bury their dead," as Jesus said.Put poverty and all things that pertain to poverty completely behind you.You have accepted a certain theory of the universe as being correct, and areresting all your hopes of happiness on its being correct; and what can yougain by giving heed to conflicting theories?Do not read religious books which tell you that the world is soon coming toan end; and do not read the writing of muck-rakers and pessimisticphilosophers who tell you that it is going to the devil.The world is not going to the devil; it is going to God.It is wonderful Becoming.True, there may be a good many things in existing conditions which aredisagreeable; but what is the use of studying them when they are certainlypassing away, and when the study of them only tends to check their passingand keep them with us? Why give time and attention to things which are beingremoved by evolutionary growth, when you can hasten their removal only bypromoting the evolutionary growth as far as your part of it goes?No matter how horrible in seeming may be the conditions in certaincountries, sections, or places, you waste your time and destroy your ownchances by considering them.You should interest yourself in the world's becoming rich.Think of the riches the world is coming into, instead of the poverty it isgrowing out of; and bear in mind that the only way in which you can assistthe world in growing rich is by growing rich yourself through the creativemethod--not the competitive one.Give your attention wholly to riches; ignore poverty.Whenever you think or speak of those who are poor, think and speak of themas those who are becoming rich;as those who are to be congratulated ratherthan pitied. Then they and others will catch the inspiration, and begin tosearch for the way out.Because I say that you are to give your whole time and mind and thought toriches, it does not follow that you are to be sordid or mean.To become really rich is the noblest aim you can have in life, for itincludes everything else.On the competitive plane, the struggle to get rich is a Godless scramble forpower over other men; but when we come into the creative mind, all this ischanged.All that is possible in the way of greatness and soul unfoldment, of serviceand lofty endeavor, comes by way of getting rich; all is made possible bythe use of things.If you lack for physical health, you will find that the attainment of it isconditional on your getting rich.Only those who are emancipated from financial worry, and who have the meansto live a care-free existence and follow hygienic practices, can have andretain health.Moral and spiritual greatness is possible only to those who are above thecompetitive battle for existence; and only those who are becoming rich onthe plane of creative thought are free from the degrading influences ofcompetition. If your heart is set on domestic happiness, remember that loveflourishes best where there is refinement, a high level of thought, andfreedom from corrupting influences; and these are to be found only whereriches are attained by the exercise of creative thought, without strife orrivalry.You can aim at nothing so great or noble, I repeat, as to become rich; andyou must fix your attention upon your mental picture of riches, to theexclusion of all that may tend to dim or obscure the vision.You must learn to see the underlying TRUTH in all things; you must seebeneath all seemingly wrong conditions the Great One Life ever movingforward toward fuller expression and more complete happiness.It is the truth that there is no such thing as poverty; that there is onlywealth.Some people remain in poverty because they are ignorant of the fact thatthere is wealth for them; and these can best be taught by showing them theway to affluence in your own person and practice.Others are poor because, while they feel that there is a way out, they aretoo intellectually indolent to put forth the mental effort necessary to findthat way and by travel it; and for these the very best thing you can do isto arouse their desire by showing them the happiness that comes from beingrightly rich.Others still are poor because, while they have some notion of science, theyhave become so swamped and lost in the maze of metaphysical and occulttheories that they do not know which road to take. They try a mixture ofmany systems and fail in all. For these, again, the very best thing, to dois to show the right way in your own person and practice; an ounce of doingthings is worth a pound of theorizing.The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most ofyourself.You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich;that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competetiveone.Another thing. We assert that this book gives in detail the principles ofthe science of getting rich; and if that is true, you do not need to readany other book upon the subject. This may sound narrow and egotistical, butconsider: there is no more scientific method of computation in mathematicsthan by addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; no other methodis possible. There can be but one shortest distance between two points.There is only one way to think scientifically, and that is to think in theway that leads by the most direct and simple route to the goal. No man hasyet formulated a briefer or less complex "system" than the one set forthherein; it has been stripped of all non-essentials. When you commence onthis, lay all others aside; put them out of your mind altogether.Read this book every day; keep it with you; commit it to memory, and do notthink about other "systems" and theories. If you do, you will begin to havedoubts, and to be uncertain and wavering in your thought; and then you willbegin to mak efailures.BRBRAfteryouhavemadegood and become rich, you may study other systems asmuch as you please; but until you are quite sure that you have gained whatyou want, do not read anything on this line but this book, unless it be theauthors mentioned in the Preface.And read only the most optimistic comments on the world's news; those inharmony with your picture.Also, postpone your investigations into the occult. Do not dabble intheosophy, Spiritualism, or kindred studies. It is very likely that the deadstill live, and are near; but if they are, let them alone; mind your ownbusiness.Wherever the spirits of the dead may be, they have their own work to do, andtheir own problems to solve; and we have no right to interfere with them. Wecannot help them, and it is very doubtful whether they can help us, orwhether we have any right to trespass upon their time if they can. Let thedead and the hereafter alone, and solve your own problem; get rich. If youbegin to mix with the occult, you will start mental cross-currents whichwill surely bring your hopes to shipwreck. Now, this and the precedingchapters have brought us to the following statement of basic facts:-- There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in itsoriginal state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of theuniverse.A thought, in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by thethought.Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought uponformless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to the creativemind; he must form a clear mental picture of the things he wants, and holdthis picture in his thoughts with the fixed PURPOSE to get what he wants,and the unwavering FAITH that he does get what he wants, closing his mindagainst all that may tend to shake his purpose, dim his vision, or quenchhis faith.And in addition to all this, we shall now see that he must live and act in aCertain Way.«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§ - PULSE ON WORLD HEALTH CONSPIRACIES! §Subscribe:......... - To :.... - Any information here in is for educational purpose only, it may be news related, purely speculation or someone's opinion. 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created.Chapter VI.How Riches Come to YouWHEN I say that you do not have to drive sharp bargains, I do not mean thatyou do not have to drive any bargains at all, or that you are above thenecessity for having any dealings with your fellow men. I mean that you willnot need to deal with them unfairly; you do not have to get something fornothing, but can give to every man more than you take from him.You cannot give every man more in cash market value than you take from him,but you can give him more in use value than the cash value of the thing youtake from him. The paper, ink, and other material in this book may not beworth the money you pay for it; but if the ideas suggested by it bring youthousands of dollars, you have not been wronged by those who sold it to you;they have given you a great use value for a small cash value.Let us suppose that I own a picture by one of the great artists, which, inany civilized community, is worth thousands of dollars. I take it to BaffinRay, and by "salesmanship" induce an Eskimo to give a bundle of furs worth $500 for it. I have really wronged him, for he has no use for the picture; ithas no use value to him; it will not add to his life.But suppose I give him a gun worth $50 for his furs; then he has made a goodbargain. He has use for the gun; it will get him many more furs and muchfood; it will add to his life in every way; it will make him rich.When you rise from the competitive to the creative plane, you can scan yourbusiness transactions very strictly, and if you are selling any man anythingwhich does not add more to his life than the thing he give you in exchange,you can afford to stop it. You do not have to beat anybody in business. Andif you are in a business which does beat people, get out of it at once.Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; thenyou are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction.If you have people working for you, you must take from them more in cashvalue than you pay them in wages; but you can so organize your business thatit will be filled with the principle of advancement, and so that eachemployee who wishes to do so may advance a little every day.You can make your business do for your employees what this book is doing foryou. You can so conduct your business that it will be a sort of ladder, bywhich every employee who will take the trouble may climb to riches himself;and given the opportunity, if he will not do so it is not your fault.And finally, because you are to cause the creation of your riches fromFormless Substance which permeates all your environment, it does not followthat they are to take shape from the atmosphere and come into being beforeyour eyes.If you want a sewing machine, for instance, I do not mean to tell you thatyou are to impress the thought of a sewing machine on Thinking Substanceuntil the machine is formed without hands, in the room where you sit, orelsewhere. But if you want a sewing machine, hold the mental image of itwith the most positive certainty that it is being made, or is on its way toyou. After once forming the thought, have the most absolute andunquestioning faith that the sewing machine is coming; never think of it, orspeak, of it, in any other way than as being sure to arrive. Claim it asalready yours.It will be brought to you by the power of the Supreme Intelligence, actingupon the minds of men. If you live in Maine, it may be that a man will bebrought from Texas or Japan to engage in some transaction which will resultin your getting what you want.If so, the whole matter will be as much to that man's advantage as it is toyours.Do not forget for a moment that the Thinking Substance is through all, inall, communicating with all, and can influence all. The desire of ThinkingSubstance for fuller life and better living has caused the creation of allthe sewing machines already made; and it can cause the creation of millionsmore, and will, whenever men set it in motion by desire and faith, and byacting in a Certain Way.You can certainly have a sewing machine in your house; and it is just ascertain that you can have any other thing or things which you want, andwhich you will use for the advancement of your own life and the lives ofothers.You need not hesitate about asking largely; "it is your Father's pleasure togive you the kingdom, " said Jesus.Original Substance wants to live all that is possible in you, and wants youto have all that you can or will use for the living of the most abundantlife.If you fix upon your consciousness the fact that the desire you feel for thepossession of riches is one with the desire of Omnipotence for more completeexpression, your faith becomes invincible.Once I saw a little boy sitting at a piano, and vainly trying to bringharmony out of the keys; and I saw that he was grieved and provoked by hisinability to play real music. I asked him the cause of his vexation, and heanswered, "I can feel the music in me, but I can't make my hands go right."The music in him was the URGE of Original Substance, containing all thepossibilities of all life; all that there is of music was seeking expressionthrough the child.God, the One Substance, is trying to live and do and enjoy things throughhumanity. He is saying "I want hands to build wonderful structures, to playdivine harmonies, to paint glorious pictures; I want feet to run my errands,eyes to see my beauties, tongues to tell mighty truths and to sing marveloussongs," and so on.All that there is of possibility is seeking expression through men. Godwants those who can play music to have pianos and every other instrument,and to have the means to cultivate their talents to the fullest extent; Hewants those who can appreciate beauty to be able to surround themselves withbeautiful things; He wants those who can discern truth to have everyopportunity to travel and observe; He wants those who can appreciate dressto be beautifully clothed, and those who can appreciate good food to beluxuriously fed.He wants all these things because it is Himself that enjoys and appreciatesthem; it is God who wants to play, and sing, and enjoy beauty, and proclaimtruth and wear fine clothes, and eat good foods. "it is God that worketh inyou to will and to do," said Paul.The desire you feel for riches is the infinite, seeking to express Himselfin you as He sought to find expression in the little boy at the piano.So you need not hesitate to ask largely.Your part is to focalize and express the desire to God.This is a difficult point with most people; they retain something of the oldidea that poverty and self-sacrifice are pleasing to God. They look uponpoverty as a part of the plan, a necessity of nature. They have the ideathat God has finished His work, and made all that He can make, and that themajority of men must stay poor because there is not enough to go around.They hold to so much of this erroneous thought that they feel ashamed to askfor wealth; they try not to want more than a very modest competence, justenough to make them fairly comfortable.I recall now the case of one student who was told that he must get in mind aclear picture of the things he desired, so that the creative thought of themmight be impressed on Formless Substance. He was a very poor man, living ina rented house, and having only what he earned from day to day; and he couldnot grasp the fact that all wealth was his. So, after thinking the matterover, he decided that he might reasonably ask for a new rug for the floor ofhis best room, and an anthracite coal stove to heat the house during thecold weather. Following the instructions given in this book, he obtainedthese things in a few months; and then it dawned upon him that he had notasked enough. He went through the house in which he lived, and planned allthe improvements he would like to make in it; he mentally added a bay windowhere and a room there, until it was complete in his mind as his ideal home;and then he planned its furnishings.Holding the whole picture in his mind, he began living in the Certain Way,and moving toward what he wanted; and he owns the house now, and isrebuilding it after the form of his mental image. And now, with still largerfaith, he is going on to get greater things. It has been unto him accordingto his faith, and it is so with you and with all of us.CHAPTER 7Gratitude.THE illustrations given in the last chapter will have conveyed to the readerthe fact that the first step toward getting rich is to convey the idea ofyour wants to the Formless Substance.This is true, and you will see that in order to do so it becomes necessaryto relate yourself to the Formless Intelligence in a harmonious way.To secure this harmonious relation is a matter of such primary and vitalimportance that I shall give some space to its discussion here, and give youinstructions which, if you will follow them, will be certain to bring youinto perfect unity of mind with God.The whole process of mental adjustment and atonement can be summed up in oneword, gratitude.First, you believe that there is one Intelligent Substance, from which allthings proceed; second, you believe that this Substance gives you everythingyou desire; and third, you relate yourself to it by a feeling of deep andprofound gratitude.Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept inpoverty by their lack of gratitude. Having received one gift from God, theycut the wires which connect them with Him by failing to make acknowledgment.It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth,the more wealth we shall receive; and it is easy also to understand that thesoul that is always grateful lives in closer touch with God than the onewhich never looks to Him in thankful acknowledgment.The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come tous, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they willcome; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude drawsthe mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind intocloser harmony with the creative energies of the universe, consider it well,and you will see that it is true. The good things you already have have cometo you along the line of obedience to certain laws. Gratitude will lead yourmind out along the ways by which things come; and it will keep you in closeharmony with creative thought and prevent you from falling into competitivethought.Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the All, and prevent you fromfalling into the error of thinking of the supply as limited; and to do thatwould be fatal to your hopes.There is a Law of Gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that you shouldobserve the law, if you are to get the results you seek.The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction arealways equal, and in opposite directions.The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to the Supreme is aliberation or expenditure of force; it cannot fail to reach that to which itaddressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement towards you."Draw nigh unto God, and He will draw nigh unto you." That is a statement ofpsychological truth.And if your gratitude is strong and constant, the reaction in FormlessSubstance will be strong and continuous; the movement of the things you wantwill be always toward you. Notice the grateful attitude that Jesus took; howHe always seems to be saying, "I thank Thee, Father, that Thou hearest me."You cannot exercise much power without gratitude; for it is gratitude thatkeeps you connected with Power.But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you moreblessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep fromdissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.The moment you permit your mind to dwell with dissatisfaction upon things asthey are, you begin to lose ground. You fix attention upon the common, theordinary, the poor, and the squalid and mean; and your mind takes the formof these things. Then you will transmit these forms or mental images to theFormless, and the common, the poor, the squalid, and mean will come to you.To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and tosurround yourself with inferior things.On the other hand, to fix your attention on the best is to surround yourselfwith the best, and to become the best.The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which wegive our attention.We are Thinking Substance, and thinking substance always takes the form ofthat which it thinks about.The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends tobecome the best; it takes the form or character of the best, and willreceive the best.Also, faith is born of gratitude. The grateful mind continually expects goodthings, and expectation becomes faith. The reaction of gratitude upon one'sown mind produces faith; and every outgoing wave of grateful thanksgivingincreases faith. He who has no feeling of gratitude cannot long retain aliving faith; and without a living faith you cannot get rich by the creativemethod, as we shall see in the following chapters.It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for everygood thing that comes to you; and to give thanks continuously.And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you shouldinclude all things in your gratitude.Do not waste time thinking or talking about the shortcomings or wrongactions of plutocrats or trust magnates. Their organization of the world hasmade your opportunity; all you get really comes to you because of them.Do not rage against, corrupt politicians; if it were not for politicians weshould fall into anarchy, and your opportunity would be greatly lessened.God has worked a long time and very patiently to bring us up to where we arein industry and government, and He is going right on with His work. There isnot the least doubt that He will do away with plutocrats, trust magnates,captains of industry, and politicians as soon as they can be spared; but inthe meantime, behold they are all very good. Remember that they are allhelping to arrange the lines of transmission along which your riches willcome to you, and be grateful to them all. This will bring you intoharmonious relations with the good in everything, and the good in everythingwill move toward you.CHAPTER 8Thinking in the Certain Way.TURN back to chapter 6 and read again the story of the man who formed amental image of his house, and you will get a fair idea of the initial steptoward getting rich. You must form a clear and definite mental picture ofwhat you want; you cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.You must have it before you can give it; and many people fail to impressThinking Substance because they have themselves only a vague and mistyconcept of the things they want to do, to have, or to become.It is not enough that you should have a general desire for wealth "to dogood with"; everybody has that desire.It is not enough that you should have a wish to travel, see things, livemore, etc. Everybody has those desires also. If you were going to send awireless message to a friend, you would not send the letters of the alphabetin their order, and let him construct the message for himself; nor would youtake words at random from the dictionary. You would send a coherentsentence; one which meant something. When you try to impress your wants uponSubstance, remember that it must be done by a coherent statement; you mustknow what you want, and be definite. You can never get rich, or start thecreative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vaguedesires.Go over your desires just as the man I have described went over his house;see just what you want, and get a clear mental picture of it as you wish itto look when you get it.That clear mental picture you must have continually in mind, as the sailorhas in mind the port toward which he is sailing the ship; you must keep yourface toward it all the time. You must no more lose sight of it than thesteersman loses sight of the compass.It is not necessary to take exercises in concentration, nor to set apartspecial times for prayer and affirmation, nor to "go into the silence," norto do occult stunts of any kind. There things are well enough, but all youneed is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it willstay in your thoughts.Spend as much of your leisure time as you can in contemplating your picture,but no one needs to take exercises to concentrate his mind on a thing whichhe really wants; it is the things you do not really care about which requireeffort to fix your attention upon them.And unless you really want to get rich, so that the desire is strong enoughto hold your thoughts directed to the purpose as the magnetic pole holds theneedle of the compass, it will hardly be worth while for you to try to carryout the instructions given in this book.The methods herein set forth are for people whose desire for riches isstrong enough to overcome mental laziness and the love of ease, and makethem work.The more clear and definite you make your picture then, and the more youdwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the stronger yourdesire will be; and the stronger your desire, the easier it will be to holdyour mind fixed upon the picture of what you want.Something more is necessary, however, than merely to see the pictureclearly. If that is all you do, you are only a dreamer, and will have littleor no power for accomplishment.Behind your clear vision must be the purpose to realize it; to bring it outin tangible expression.And behind this purpose must be an invincible and unwavering FAITH that thething is already yours; that it is "at hand" and you have only to takepossession of it.Live in the new house, mentally, until it takes form around you physically.In the mental realm, enter at once into full enjoyment of the things youwant."Whatsoever things ye ask for when ye pray, believe that ye receive them,and ye shall have them," said Jesus.See the things you want as if they were actually around you all the time;see yourself as owning and using them. Make use of them in imagination justas you will use them when they are your tangible possessions. Dwell uponyour mental picture until it is clear and distinct, and then take the MentalAttitude of Ownership toward everything in that picture. Take possession ofit, in mind, in the full faith that it is actually yours. Hold to thismental ownership; do not waiver for an instant in the faith that it is real.And remember what was said in a proceeding chapter about gratitude; be asthankful for it all the time as you expect to be when it has taken form. Theman who can sincerely thank God for the things which as yet he owns only inimagination, has real faith. He will get rich; he will cause the creation ofwhatsoever he wants.You do not need to pray repeatedly for things you want; it is not necessaryto tell God about it every day."Use not vain repetitions as the heathen do," said Jesus said to his pupils,"for your Father knoweth the ye have need of these things before ye askHim."Your part is to intelligently formulate your desire for the things whichmake for a larger life, and to get these desire arranged into a coherentwhole; and then to impress this Whole Desire upon the Formless Substance,which has the power and the will to bring you what you want.You do not make this impression by repeating strings of words; you make itby holding the vision with unshakable PURPOSE to attain it, and withsteadfast FAITH that you do attain it.The answer to prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking,but according to your faith while you are working.You cannot impress the mind of God by having a special Sabbath day set apartto tell Him what you want, and the forgetting Him during the rest of theweek. You cannot impress Him by having special hours to go into your closetand pray, if you then dismiss the matter from your mind until the hour ofprayer comes again.Oral prayer is well enough, and has its effect, especially upon yourself, inclarifying your vision and strengthening your faith; but it is not your oralpetitions which get you what you want. In order to get rich you do not needa "sweet hour of prayer"; you need to "pray without ceasing." And by prayerI mean holding steadily to your vision, with the purpose to cause itscreation into solid form, and the faith that you are doing so."Believe that ye receive them."The whole matter turns on receiving, once you have clearly formed yourvision. When you have formed it, it is well to make an oral statement,addressing the Supreme in reverent prayer; and from that moment you must, inmind, receive what you ask for. Live in the new house; wear the fineclothes; ride in the automobile; go on the journey, and confidently plan forgreater journeys. Think and speak of all the things you have asked for interms of actual present ownership. Imagine an environment, and a financialcondition exactly as you want them, and live all the time in that imaginaryenvironment and financial condition. Mind, however, that you do not do thisas a mere dreamer and castle builder; hold to the FAITH that the imaginaryis being realized, and to the PURPOSE to realize it. Remember that it isfaith and purpose in the use of the imagination which make the differencebetween the scientist and the dreamer. And having learned this fact, it ishere that you must learn the proper use of the Will.CHAPTER 9How to Use the Will.TO set about getting rich in a scientific way, you do not try to apply yourwill power to anything outside of yourself.Your have no right to do so, anyway.It is wrong to apply your will to other men and women, in order to get themto do what you wish done.It is as flagrantly wrong to coerce people by mental power as it is tocoerce them by physical power. If compelling people by physical force to dothings for you reduces them to slavery, compelling them by mental meansaccomplishes exactly the same thing; the only difference is in methods. Iftaking things from people by physical force is robbery, them taking thingsby mental force is robbery also; there is no difference in principle.You have no right to use your will power upon another person, even "for hisown good"; for you do not know what is for his good. The science of gettingrich does not require you to apply power or force to any other person, inany way whatsoever. There is not the slightest necessity for doing so;indeed, any attempt to use your will upon others will only tend to defeatyour purpose.You do not need to apply your will to things, in order to compel them tocome to you.That would simply be trying to coerce God, and would be foolish and useless,as well as irreverent.You do not have to compel God to give you good things, any more than youhave to use your will power to make the sun rise.You do not have to use your will power to conquer an unfriendly deity, or tomake stubborn and rebellious forces do your bidding.Substance is friendly to you, and is more anxious to give you what you wantthan you are to get it.To get rich, you need only to use your will power upon yourself.When you know what to think and do, then you must use your will to compelyourself to think and do the right things. That is the legitimate use of thewill in getting what you want--to use it in holding yourself to the rightcourse. Use your will to keep yourself thinking and acting in the CertainWay.Do not try to project your will, or your thoughts, or your mind out intospace, to "act" on things or people.Keep your mind at home; it can accomplish more there than elsewhere.Use your mind to form a mental image of what you want, and to hold thatvision with faith and purpose; and use your will to keep your mind workingin the Right Way.The more steady and continuous your faith and purpose, the more rapidly youwill get rich, because you will make only POSITIVE impressions uponSubstance; and you will not neutralize or offset them by negativeimpressions.The picture of your desires, held with faith and purpose, is taken up by theFormless, and permeates it to great distances-throughout the universe, forall I know.As this impression spreads, all things are set moving toward itsrealization; every living thing, every inanimate thing, and the things yetuncreated, are stirred toward bringing into being that which you want. Allforce begins to be exerted in that direction; all things begin to movetoward you. The minds of people, everywhere, are influenced toward doing thethings necessary to the fulfilling of your desires; and they work for you,unconsciously.But you can check all this by starting a negative impression in the FormlessSubstance. Doubt or unbelief is as certain to start a movement away from youas faith and purpose are to start one toward you. It is by not understandingthis that most people who try to make use of "mental science" in gettingrich make their failure. Every hour and moment you spend in giving heed todoubts and fears, every hour you spend in worry, every hour in which yoursoul is possessed by unbelief, sets a current away from you in the wholedomain of intelligent Substance. All the promises are unto them thatbelieve, and unto them only. Notice how insistent Jesus was upon this pointof belief; and now you know the reason why.Since belief is all important, it behooves you to guard your thoughts; andas your beliefs will be shaped to a very great extent by the things youobserve and think about, it is important that you should command yourattention.And here the will comes into use; for it is by your will that you determineupon what things your attention shall be fixed.If you want to become rich, you must not make a study of poverty.Things are not brought into being by thinking about their opposites. Healthis never to be attained by studying disease and thinking about disease;righteousness is not to be promoted by studying sin and thinking about sin;and no one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.Medicine as a science of disease has increased disease; religion as ascience of sin has promoted sin, and economics as a study of poverty willfill the world with wretchedness and want.Do not talk about poverty; do not investigate it, or concern yourself withit. Never mind what its causes are; you have nothing to do with them.What concerns you is the cure.Do not spend your time in charitable work, or charity movements; all charityonly tends to perpetuate the wretchedness it aims to eradicate.I do not say that you should be hard hearted or unkind, and refuse to hearthe cry of need; but you must not try to eradicate poverty in any of theconventional ways. Put poverty behind you, and put all that pertains to itbehind you, and "make good."Get rich; that is the best way you can help the poor.And you cannot hold the mental image which is to make you rich if you fillyour mind with pictures of poverty. Do not read books or papers which givecircumstantial accounts of the wretchedness of the tenement dwellers, of thehorrors of child labor, and so on. Do not read anything which fills yourmind with gloomy images of want and suffering.You cannot help the poor in the least by knowing about these things; and thewide-spread knowledge of them does not tend at all to do away with poverty.What tends to do away with poverty is not the getting of pictures of povertyinto your mind, but getting pictures of wealth into the minds of the poor.You are not deserting the poor in their misery when you refuse to allow yourmind to be filled with pictures of that misery.Poverty can be done away with, not by increasing the number of well to dopeople who think about poverty, but by increasing the number of poor peoplewho purpose with faith to get rich.The poor do not need charity; they need inspiration. Charity only sends thema loaf of bread to keep them alive in their wretchedness, or gives them anentertainment to make them forget for an hour or two; but inspiration willcause them to rise out of their misery. If you want to help the poor,demonstrate to them that they can become rich; prove it by getting richyourself.The only way in which poverty will ever be banished from this world is bygetting a large and constantly increasing number of people to practice theteachings of this book.People must be taught to become rich by creation, not by competition.Every man who becomes rich by competition throws down behind him the ladderby which he rises, and keeps others down; but every man who gets rich bycreation opens a way for thousands to follow him, and inspires them to doso.You are not showing hardness of heart or an unfeeling disposition when yourefuse to pity poverty, see poverty, read about poverty, or think or talkabout it, or to listen to those who do talk about it. Use your will power tokeep your mind OFF the subject of poverty, and to keep it fixed with faithand purpose ON the vision of what you want.CHAPTER 10Further Use of the Will.YOU cannot retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantlyturning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external orimaginary.Do not tell of your past troubles of a financial nature, if you have hadthem, do not think of them at all. Do no tell of the poverty of yourparents, or the hardships of your early life; to do any of these things isto mentally class yourself with the poor for the time being, and it willcertainly check the movement of things in your direction."Let the dead bury their dead," as Jesus said.Put poverty and all things that pertain to poverty completely behind you.You have accepted a certain theory of the universe as being correct, and areresting all your hopes of happiness on its being correct; and what can yougain by giving heed to conflicting theories?Do not read religious books which tell you that the world is soon coming toan end; and do not read the writing of muck-rakers and pessimisticphilosophers who tell you that it is going to the devil.The world is not going to the devil; it is going to God.It is wonderful Becoming.True, there may be a good many things in existing conditions which aredisagreeable; but what is the use of studying them when they are certainlypassing away, and when the study of them only tends to check their passingand keep them with us? Why give time and attention to things which are beingremoved by evolutionary growth, when you can hasten their removal only bypromoting the evolutionary growth as far as your part of it goes?No matter how horrible in seeming may be the conditions in certaincountries, sections, or places, you waste your time and destroy your ownchances by considering them.You should interest yourself in the world's becoming rich.Think of the riches the world is coming into, instead of the poverty it isgrowing out of; and bear in mind that the only way in which you can assistthe world in growing rich is by growing rich yourself through the creativemethod--not the competitive one.Give your attention wholly to riches; ignore poverty.Whenever you think or speak of those who are poor, think and speak of themas those who are becoming rich;as those who are to be congratulated ratherthan pitied. Then they and others will catch the inspiration, and begin tosearch for the way out.Because I say that you are to give your whole time and mind and thought toriches, it does not follow that you are to be sordid or mean.To become really rich is the noblest aim you can have in life, for itincludes everything else.On the competitive plane, the struggle to get rich is a Godless scramble forpower over other men; but when we come into the creative mind, all this ischanged.All that is possible in the way of greatness and soul unfoldment, of serviceand lofty endeavor, comes by way of getting rich; all is made possible bythe use of things.If you lack for physical health, you will find that the attainment of it isconditional on your getting rich.Only those who are emancipated from financial worry, and who have the meansto live a care-free existence and follow hygienic practices, can have andretain health.Moral and spiritual greatness is possible only to those who are above thecompetitive battle for existence; and only those who are becoming rich onthe plane of creative thought are free from the degrading influences ofcompetition. If your heart is set on domestic happiness, remember that loveflourishes best where there is refinement, a high level of thought, andfreedom from corrupting influences; and these are to be found only whereriches are attained by the exercise of creative thought, without strife orrivalry.You can aim at nothing so great or noble, I repeat, as to become rich; andyou must fix your attention upon your mental picture of riches, to theexclusion of all that may tend to dim or obscure the vision.You must learn to see the underlying TRUTH in all things; you must seebeneath all seemingly wrong conditions the Great One Life ever movingforward toward fuller expression and more complete happiness.It is the truth that there is no such thing as poverty; that there is onlywealth.Some people remain in poverty because they are ignorant of the fact thatthere is wealth for them; and these can best be taught by showing them theway to affluence in your own person and practice.Others are poor because, while they feel that there is a way out, they aretoo intellectually indolent to put forth the mental effort necessary to findthat way and by travel it; and for these the very best thing you can do isto arouse their desire by showing them the happiness that comes from beingrightly rich.Others still are poor because, while they have some notion of science, theyhave become so swamped and lost in the maze of metaphysical and occulttheories that they do not know which road to take. They try a mixture ofmany systems and fail in all. For these, again, the very best thing, to dois to show the right way in your own person and practice; an ounce of doingthings is worth a pound of theorizing.The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most ofyourself.You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich;that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competetiveone.Another thing. We assert that this book gives in detail the principles ofthe science of getting rich; and if that is true, you do not need to readany other book upon the subject. This may sound narrow and egotistical, butconsider: there is no more scientific method of computation in mathematicsthan by addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; no other methodis possible. There can be but one shortest distance between two points.There is only one way to think scientifically, and that is to think in theway that leads by the most direct and simple route to the goal. No man hasyet formulated a briefer or less complex "system" than the one set forthherein; it has been stripped of all non-essentials. When you commence onthis, lay all others aside; put them out of your mind altogether.Read this book every day; keep it with you; commit it to memory, and do notthink about other "systems" and theories. If you do, you will begin to havedoubts, and to be uncertain and wavering in your thought; and then you willbegin to make failures.After you have made good and become rich, you may study other systems asmuch as you please; but until you are quite sure that you have gained whatyou want, do not read anything on this line but this book, unless it be theauthors mentioned in the Preface.And read only the most optimistic comments on the world's news; those inharmony with your picture.Also, postpone your investigations into the occult. Do not dabble intheosophy, Spiritualism, or kindred studies. It is very likely that the deadstill live, and are near; but if they are, let them alone; mind your ownbusiness.Wherever the spirits of the dead may be, they have their own work to do, andtheir own problems to solve; and we have no right to interfere with them. Wecannot help them, and it is very doubtful whether they can help us, orwhether we have any right to trespass upon their time if they can. Let thedead and the hereafter alone, and solve your own problem; get rich. If youbegin to mix with the occult, you will start mental cross-currents whichwill surely bring your hopes to shipwreck. Now, this and the precedingchapters have brought us to the following statement of basic facts:-- There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in itsoriginal state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of theuniverse.A thought, in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by thethought.Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought uponformless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to the creativemind; he must form a clear mental picture of the things he wants, and holdthis picture in his thoughts with the fixed PURPOSE to get what he wants,and the unwavering FAITH that he does get what he wants, closing his mindagainst all that may tend to shake his purpose, dim his vision, or quenchhis faith.And in addition to all this, we shall now see that he must live and act in aCertain Way.

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created.Chapter VI.How Riches Come to YouWHEN I say that you do not have to drive sharp bargains, I do not mean thatyou do not have to drive any bargains at all, or that you are above thenecessity for having any dealings with your fellow men. I mean that you willnot need to deal with them unfairly; you do not have to get something fornothing, but can give to every man more than you take from him.You cannot give every man more in cash market value than you take from him,but you can give him more in use value than the cash value of the thing youtake from him. The paper, ink, and other material in this book may not beworth the money you pay for it; but if the ideas suggested by it bring youthousands of dollars, you have not been wronged by those who sold it to you;they have given you a great use value for a small cash value.Let us suppose that I own a picture by one of the great artists, which, inany civilized community, is worth thousands of dollars. I take it to BaffinRay, and by "salesmanship" induce an Eskimo to give a bundle of furs worth $500 for it. I have really wronged him, for he has no use for the picture; ithas no use value to him; it will not add to his life.But suppose I give him a gun worth $50 for his furs; then he has made a goodbargain. He has use for the gun; it will get him many more furs and muchfood; it will add to his life in every way; it will make him rich.When you rise from the competitive to the creative plane, you can scan yourbusiness transactions very strictly, and if you are selling any man anythingwhich does not add more to his life than the thing he give you in exchange,you can afford to stop it. You do not have to beat anybody in business. Andif you are in a business which does beat people, get out of it at once.Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; thenyou are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction.If you have people working for you, you must take from them more in cashvalue than you pay them in wages; but you can so organize your business thatit will be filled with the principle of advancement, and so that eachemployee who wishes to do so may advance a little every day.You can make your business do for your employees what this book is doing foryou. You can so conduct your business that it will be a sort of ladder, bywhich every employee who will take the trouble may climb to riches himself;and given the opportunity, if he will not do so it is not your fault.And finally, because you are to cause the creation of your riches fromFormless Substance which permeates all your environment, it does not followthat they are to take shape from the atmosphere and come into being beforeyour eyes.If you want a sewing machine, for instance, I do not mean to tell you thatyou are to impress the thought of a sewing machine on Thinking Substanceuntil the machine is formed without hands, in the room where you sit, orelsewhere. But if you want a sewing machine, hold the mental image of itwith the most positive certainty that it is being made, or is on its way toyou. After once forming the thought, have the most absolute andunquestioning faith that the sewing machine is coming; never think of it, orspeak, of it, in any other way than as being sure to arrive. Claim it asalready yours.It will be brought to you by the power of the Supreme Intelligence, actingupon the minds of men. If you live in Maine, it may be that a man will bebrought from Texas or Japan to engage in some transaction which will resultin your getting what you want.If so, the whole matter will be as much to that man's advantage as it is toyours.Do not forget for a moment that the Thinking Substance is through all, inall, communicating with all, and can influence all. The desire of ThinkingSubstance for fuller life and better living has caused the creation of allthe sewing machines already made; and it can cause the creation of millionsmore, and will, whenever men set it in motion by desire and faith, and byacting in a Certain Way.You can certainly have a sewing machine in your house; and it is just ascertain that you can have any other thing or things which you want, andwhich you will use for the advancement of your own life and the lives ofothers.You need not hesitate about asking largely; "it is your Father's pleasure togive you the kingdom, " said Jesus.Original Substance wants to live all that is possible in you, and wants youto have all that you can or will use for the living of the most abundantlife.If you fix upon your consciousness the fact that the desire you feel for thepossession of riches is one with the desire of Omnipotence for more completeexpression, your faith becomes invincible.Once I saw a little boy sitting at a piano, and vainly trying to bringharmony out of the keys; and I saw that he was grieved and provoked by hisinability to play real music. I asked him the cause of his vexation, and heanswered, "I can feel the music in me, but I can't make my hands go right."The music in him was the URGE of Original Substance, containing all thepossibilities of all life; all that there is of music was seeking expressionthrough the child.God, the One Substance, is trying to live and do and enjoy things throughhumanity. He is saying "I want hands to build wonderful structures, to playdivine harmonies, to paint glorious pictures; I want feet to run my errands,eyes to see my beauties, tongues to tell mighty truths and to sing marveloussongs," and so on.All that there is of possibility is seeking expression through men. Godwants those who can play music to have pianos and every other instrument,and to have the means to cultivate their talents to the fullest extent; Hewants those who can appreciate beauty to be able to surround themselves withbeautiful things; He wants those who can discern truth to have everyopportunity to travel and observe; He wants those who can appreciate dressto be beautifully clothed, and those who can appreciate good food to beluxuriously fed.He wants all these things because it is Himself that enjoys and appreciatesthem; it is God who wants to play, and sing, and enjoy beauty, and proclaimtruth and wear fine clothes, and eat good foods. "it is God that worketh inyou to will and to do," said Paul.The desire you feel for riches is the infinite, seeking to express Himselfin you as He sought to find expression in the little boy at the piano.So you need not hesitate to ask largely.Your part is to focalize and express the desire to God.This is a difficult point with most people; they retain something of the oldidea that poverty and self-sacrifice are pleasing to God. They look uponpoverty as a part of the plan, a necessity of nature. They have the ideathat God has finished His work, and made all that He can make, and that themajority of men must stay poor because there is not enough to go around.They hold to so much of this erroneous thought that they feel ashamed to askfor wealth; they try not to want more than a very modest competence, justenough to make them fairly comfortable.I recall now the case of one student who was told that he must get in mind aclear picture of the things he desired, so that the creative thought of themmight be impressed on Formless Substance. He was a very poor man, living ina rented house, and having only what he earned from day to day; and he couldnot grasp the fact that all wealth was his. So, after thinking the matterover, he decided that he might reasonably ask for a new rug for the floor ofhis best room, and an anthracite coal stove to heat the house during thecold weather. Following the instructions given in this book, he obtainedthese things in a few months; and then it dawned upon him that he had notasked enough. He went through the house in which he lived, and planned allthe improvements he would like to make in it; he mentally added a bay windowhere and a room there, until it was complete in his mind as his ideal home;and then he planned its furnishings.Holding the whole picture in his mind, he began living in the Certain Way,and moving toward what he wanted; and he owns the house now, and isrebuilding it after the form of his mental image. And now, with still largerfaith, he is going on to get greater things. It has been unto him accordingto his faith, and it is so with you and with all of us.CHAPTER 7Gratitude.THE illustrations given in the last chapter will have conveyed to the readerthe fact that the first step toward getting rich is to convey the idea ofyour wants to the Formless Substance.This is true, and you will see that in order to do so it becomes necessaryto relate yourself to the Formless Intelligence in a harmonious way.To secure this harmonious relation is a matter of such primary and vitalimportance that I shall give some space to its discussion here, and give youinstructions which, if you will follow them, will be certain to bring youinto perfect unity of mind with God.The whole process of mental adjustment and atonement can be summed up in oneword, gratitude.First, you believe that there is one Intelligent Substance, from which allthings proceed; second, you believe that this Substance gives you everythingyou desire; and third, you relate yourself to it by a feeling of deep andprofound gratitude.Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept inpoverty by their lack of gratitude. Having received one gift from God, theycut the wires which connect them with Him by failing to make acknowledgment.It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth,the more wealth we shall receive; and it is easy also to understand that thesoul that is always grateful lives in closer touch with God than the onewhich never looks to Him in thankful acknowledgment.The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come tous, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they willcome; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude drawsthe mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind intocloser harmony with the creative energies of the universe, consider it well,and you will see that it is true. The good things you already have have cometo you along the line of obedience to certain laws. Gratitude will lead yourmind out along the ways by which things come; and it will keep you in closeharmony with creative thought and prevent you from falling into competitivethought.Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the All, and prevent you fromfalling into the error of thinking of the supply as limited; and to do thatwould be fatal to your hopes.There is a Law of Gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that you shouldobserve the law, if you are to get the results you seek.The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction arealways equal, and in opposite directions.The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to the Supreme is aliberation or expenditure of force; it cannot fail to reach that to which itaddressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement towards you."Draw nigh unto God, and He will draw nigh unto you." That is a statement ofpsychological truth.And if your gratitude is strong and constant, the reaction in FormlessSubstance will be strong and continuous; the movement of the things you wantwill be always toward you. Notice the grateful attitude that Jesus took; howHe always seems to be saying, "I thank Thee, Father, that Thou hearest me."You cannot exercise much power without gratitude; for it is gratitude thatkeeps you connected with Power.But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you moreblessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep fromdissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.The moment you permit your mind to dwell with dissatisfaction upon things asthey are, you begin to loseground.You fix attention upon the common, theordinary, the poor, and the squalid and mean; and your mind takes the formof these things. Then you will transmit these forms or mental images to theFormless, and the common, the poor, the squalid, and mean will come to you.To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and tosurround yourself with inferior things.On the other hand, to fix your attention on the best is to surround yourselfwith the best, and to become the best.The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which wegive our attention.We are Thinking Substance, and thinking substance always takes the form ofthat which it thinks about.The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends tobecome the best; it takes the form or character of the best, and willreceive the best.Also, faith is born of gratitude. The grateful mind continually expects goodthings, and expectation becomes faith. The reaction of gratitude upon one'sown mind produces faith; and every outgoing wave of grateful thanksgivingincreases faith. He who has no feeling of gratitude cannot long retain aliving faith; and without a living faith you cannot get rich by the creativemethod, as we shall see in the following chapters.It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for everygood thing that comes to you; and to give thanks continuously.And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you shouldinclude all things in your gratitude.Do not waste time thinking or talking about the shortcomings or wrongactions of plutocrats or trust magnates. Their organization of the world hasmade your opportunity; all you get really comes to you because of them.Do not rage against, corrupt politicians; if it were not for politicians weshould fall into anarchy, and your opportunity would be greatly lessened.God has worked a long time and very patiently to bring us up to where we arein industry and government, and He is going right on with His work. There isnot the least doubt that He will do away with plutocrats, trust magnates,captains of industry, and politicians as soon as they can be spared; but inthe meantime, behold they are all very good. Remember that they are allhelping to arrange the lines of transmission along which your riches willcome to you, and be grateful to them all. This will bring you intoharmonious relations with the good in everything, and the good in everythingwill move toward you.CHAPTER 8Thinking in the Certain Way.TURN back to chapter 6 and read again the story of the man who formed amental image of his house, and you will get a fair idea of the initial steptoward getting rich. You must form a clear and definite mental picture ofwhat you want; you cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.You must have it before you can give it; and many people fail to impressThinking Substance because they have themselves only a vague and mistyconcept of the things they want to do, to have, or to become.It is not enough that you should have a general desire for wealth "to dogood with"; everybody has that desire.It is not enough that you should have a wish to travel, see things, livemore, etc. Everybody has those desires also. If you were going to send awireless message to a friend, you would not send the letters of the alphabetin their order, and let him construct the message for himself; nor would youtake words at random from the dictionary. You would send a coherentsentence; one which meant something. When you try to impress your wants uponSubstance, remember that it must be done by a coherent statement; you mustknow what you want, and be definite. You can never get rich, or start thecreative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vaguedesires.Go over your desires just as the man I have described went over his house;see just what you want, and get a clear mental picture of it as you wish itto look when you get it.That clear mental picture you must have continually in mind, as the sailorhas in mind the port toward which he is sailing the ship; you must keep yourface toward it all the time. You must no more lose sight of it than thesteersman loses sight of the compass.It is not necessary to take exercises in concentration, nor to set apartspecial times for prayer and affirmation, nor to "go into the silence," norto do occult stunts of any kind. There things are well enough, but all youneed is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it willstay in your thoughts.Spend as much of your leisure time as you can in contemplating your picture,but no one needs to take exercises to concentrate his mind on a thing whichhe really wants; it is the things you do not really care about which requireeffort to fix your attention upon them.And unless you really want to get rich, so that the desire is strong enoughto hold your thoughts directed to the purpose as the magnetic pole holds theneedle of the compass, it will hardly be worth while for you to try to carryout the instructions given in this book.The methods herein set forth are for people whose desire for riches isstrong enough to overcome mental laziness and the love of ease, and makethem work.The more clear and definite you make your picture then, and the more youdwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the stronger yourdesire will be; and the stronger your desire, the easier it will be to holdyour mind fixed upon the picture of what you want.Something more is necessary, however, than merely to see the pictureclearly. If that is all you do, you are only a dreamer, and will have littleor no power for accomplishment.Behind your clear vision must be the purpose to realize it; to bring it outin tangible expression.And behind this purpose must be an invincible and unwavering FAITH that thething is already yours; that it is "at hand" and you have only to takepossession of it.Live in the new house, mentally, until it takes form around you physically.In the mental realm, enter at once into full enjoyment of the things youwant."Whatsoever things ye ask for when ye pray, believe that ye receive them,and ye shall have them," said Jesus.See the things you want as if they were actually around you all the time;see yourself as owning and using them. Make use of them in imagination justas you will use them when they are your tangible possessions. Dwell uponyour mental picture until it is clear and distinct, and then take the MentalAttitude of Ownership toward everything in that picture. Take possession ofit, in mind, in the full faith that it is actually yours. Hold to thismental ownership; do not waiver for an instant in the faith that it is real.And remember what was said in a proceeding chapter about gratitude; be asthankful for it all the time as you expect to be when it has taken form. Theman who can sincerely thank God for the things which as yet he owns only inimagination, has real faith. He will get rich; he will cause the creation ofwhatsoever he wants.You do not need to pray repeatedly for things you want; it is not necessaryto tell God about it every day."Use not vain repetitions as the heathen do," said Jesus said to his pupils,"for your Father knoweth the ye have need of these things before ye askHim."Your part is to intelligently formulate your desire for the things whichmake for a larger life, and to get these desire arranged into a coherentwhole; and then to impress this Whole Desire upon the Formless Substance,which has the power and the will to bring you what you want.You do not make this impression by repeating strings of words; you make itby holding the vision with unshakable PURPOSE to attain it, and withsteadfast FAITH that you do attain it.The answer to prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking,but according to your faith while you are working.You cannot impress the mind of God by having a special Sabbath day set apartto tell Him what you want, and the forgetting Him during the rest of theweek. You cannot impress Him by having special hours to go into your closetand pray, if you then dismiss the matter from your mind until the hour ofprayer comes again.Oral prayer is well enough, and has its effect, especially upon yourself, inclarifying your vision and strengthening your faith; but it is not your oralpetitions which get you what you want. In order to get rich you do not needa "sweet hour of prayer"; you need to "pray without ceasing." And by prayerI mean holding steadily to your vision, with the purpose to cause itscreation into solid form, and the faith that you are doing so."Believe that ye receive them."The whole matter turns on receiving, once you have clearly formed yourvision. When you have formed it, it is well to make an oral statement,addressing the Supreme in reverent prayer; and from that moment you must, inmind, receive what you ask for. Live in the new house; wear the fineclothes; ride in the automobile; go on the journey, and confidently plan forgreater journeys. Think and speak of all the things you have asked for interms of actual present ownership. Imagine an environment, and a financialcondition exactly as you want them, and live all the time in that imaginaryenvironment and financial condition. Mind, however, that you do not do thisas a mere dreamer and castle builder; hold to the FAITH that the imaginaryis being realized, and to the PURPOSE to realize it. Remember that it isfaith and purpose in the use of the imagination which make the differencebetween the scientist and the dreamer. And having learned this fact, it ishere that you must learn the proper use of the Will.CHAPTER 9How to Use the Will.TO set about getting rich in a scientific way, you do not try to apply yourwill power to anything outside of yourself.Your have no right to do so, anyway.It is wrong to apply your will to other men and women, in order to get themto do what you wish done.It is as flagrantly wrong to coerce people by mental power as it is tocoerce them by physical power. If compelling people by physical force to dothings for you reduces them to slavery, compelling them by mental meansaccomplishes exactly the same thing; the only difference is in methods. Iftaking things from people by physical force is robbery, them taking thingsby mental force is robbery also; there is no difference in principle.You have no right to use your will power upon another person, even "for hisown good"; for you do not know what is for his good. The science of gettingrich does not require you to apply power or force to any other person, inany way whatsoever. There is not the slightest necessity for doing so;indeed, any attempt to use your will upon others will only tend to defeatyour purpose.You do not need to apply your will to things, in order to compel them tocome to you.That would simply be trying to coerce God, and would be foolish and useless,as well as irreverent.You do not have to compel God to give you good things, any more than youhave to use your will power to make the sun rise.You do not have to use your will power to conquer an unfriendly deity, or tomake stubborn and rebellious forces do your bidding.Substance is friendly to you, and is more anxious to give you what you wantthan you are to get it.To get rich, you need only to use your will power upon yourself.When you know what to think and do, then you must use your will to compelyourself to think and do the right things. That is the legitimate use of thewill in getting what you want--to use it in holding yourself to the rightcourse. Use your will to keep yourself thinking and acting in the CertainWay.Do not try to project your will, or your thoughts, or your mind out intospace, to "act" on things or people.Keep your mind at home; it can accomplish more there than elsewhere.Use your mind to form a mental image of what you want, and to hold thatvision with faith and purpose; and use your will to keep your mind workingin the Right Way.The more steady and continuous your faith and purpose, the more rapidly youwill get rich, because you will make only POSITIVE impressions uponSubstance; and you will not neutralize or offset them by negativeimpressions.The picture of your desires, held with faith and purpose, is taken up by theFormless, and permeates it to great distances-throughout the universe, forall I know.As this impression spreads, all things are set moving toward itsrealization; every living thing, every inanimate thing, and the things yetuncreated, are stirred toward bringing into being that which you want. Allforce begins to be exerted in that direction; all things begin to m oveBRtowardyou.Theminds of people, everywhere, are influenced toward doing thethings necessary to the fulfilling of your desires; and they work for you,unconsciously.But you can check all this by starting a negative impression in the FormlessSubstance. Doubt or unbelief is as certain to start a movement away from youas faith and purpose are to start one toward you. It is by not understandingthis that most people who try to make use of "mental science" in gettingrich make their failure. Every hour and moment you spend in giving heed todoubts and fears, every hour you spend in worry, every hour in which yoursoul is possessed by unbelief, sets a current away from you in the wholedomain of intelligent Substance. All the promises are unto them thatbelieve, and unto them only. Notice how insistent Jesus was upon this pointof belief; and now you know the reason why.Since belief is all important, it behooves you to guard your thoughts; andas your beliefs will be shaped to a very great extent by the things youobserve and think about, it is important that you should command yourattention.And here the will comes into use; for it is by your will that you determineupon what things your attention shall be fixed.If you want to become rich, you must not make a study of poverty.Things are not brought into being by thinking about their opposites. Healthis never to be attained by studying disease and thinking about disease;righteousness is not to be promoted by studying sin and thinking about sin;and no one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.Medicine as a science of disease has increased disease; religion as ascience of sin has promoted sin, and economics as a study of poverty willfill the world with wretchedness and want.Do not talk about poverty; do not investigate it, or concern yourself withit. Never mind what its causes are; you have nothing to do with them.What concerns you is the cure.Do not spend your time in charitable work, or charity movements; all charityonly tends to perpetuate the wretchedness it aims to eradicate.I do not say that you should be hard hearted or unkind, and refuse to hearthe cry of need; but you must not try to eradicate poverty in any of theconventional ways. Put poverty behind you, and put all that pertains to itbehind you, and "make good."Get rich; that is the best way you can help the poor.And you cannot hold the mental image which is to make you rich if you fillyour mind with pictures of poverty. Do not read books or papers which givecircumstantial accounts of the wretchedness of the tenement dwellers, of thehorrors of child labor, and so on. Do not read anything which fills yourmind with gloomy images of want and suffering.You cannot help the poor in the least by knowing about these things; and thewide-spread knowledge of them does not tend at all to do away with poverty.What tends to do away with poverty is not the getting of pictures of povertyinto your mind, but getting pictures of wealth into the minds of the poor.You are not deserting the poor in their misery when you refuse to allow yourmind to be filled with pictures of that misery.Poverty can be done away with, not by increasing the number of well to dopeople who think about poverty, but by increasing the number of poor peoplewho purpose with faith to get rich.The poor do not need charity; they need inspiration. Charity only sends thema loaf of bread to keep them alive in their wretchedness, or gives them anentertainment to make them forget for an hour or two; but inspiration willcause them to rise out of their misery. If you want to help the poor,demonstrate to them that they can become rich; prove it by getting richyourself.The only way in which poverty will ever be banished from this world is bygetting a large and constantly increasing number of people to practice theteachings of this book.People must be taught to become rich by creation, not by competition.Every man who becomes rich by competition throws down behind him the ladderby which he rises, and keeps others down; but every man who gets rich bycreation opens a way for thousands to follow him, and inspires them to doso.You are not showing hardness of heart or an unfeeling disposition when yourefuse to pity poverty, see poverty, read about poverty, or think or talkabout it, or to listen to those who do talk about it. Use your will power tokeep your mind OFF the subject of poverty, and to keep it fixed with faithand purpose ON the vision of what you want.CHAPTER 10Further Use of the Will.YOU cannot retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantlyturning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external orimaginary.Do not tell of your past troubles of a financial nature, if you have hadthem, do not think of them at all. Do no tell of the poverty of yourparents, or the hardships of your early life; to do any of these things isto mentally class yourself with the poor for the time being, and it willcertainly check the movement of things in your direction."Let the dead bury their dead," as Jesus said.Put poverty and all things that pertain to poverty completely behind you.You have accepted a certain theory of the universe as being correct, and areresting all your hopes of happiness on its being correct; and what can yougain by giving heed to conflicting theories?Do not read religious books which tell you that the world is soon coming toan end; and do not read the writing of muck-rakers and pessimisticphilosophers who tell you that it is going to the devil.The world is not going to the devil; it is going to God.It is wonderful Becoming.True, there may be a good many things in existing conditions which aredisagreeable; but what is the use of studying them when they are certainlypassing away, and when the study of them only tends to check their passingand keep them with us? Why give time and attention to things which are beingremoved by evolutionary growth, when you can hasten their removal only bypromoting the evolutionary growth as far as your part of it goes?No matter how horrible in seeming may be the conditions in certaincountries, sections, or places, you waste your time and destroy your ownchances by considering them.You should interest yourself in the world's becoming rich.Think of the riches the world is coming into, instead of the poverty it isgrowing out of; and bear in mind that the only way in which you can assistthe world in growing rich is by growing rich yourself through the creativemethod--not the competitive one.Give your attention wholly to riches; ignore poverty.Whenever you think or speak of those who are poor, think and speak of themas those who are becoming rich;as those who are to be congratulated ratherthan pitied. Then they and others will catch the inspiration, and begin tosearch for the way out.Because I say that you are to give your whole time and mind and thought toriches, it does not follow that you are to be sordid or mean.To become really rich is the noblest aim you can have in life, for itincludes everything else.On the competitive plane, the struggle to get rich is a Godless scramble forpower over other men; but when we come into the creative mind, all this ischanged.All that is possible in the way of greatness and soul unfoldment, of serviceand lofty endeavor, comes by way of getting rich; all is made possible bythe use of things.If you lack for physical health, you will find that the attainment of it isconditional on your getting rich.Only those who are emancipated from financial worry, and who have the meansto live a care-free existence and follow hygienic practices, can have andretain health.Moral and spiritual greatness is possible only to those who are above thecompetitive battle for existence; and only those who are becoming rich onthe plane of creative thought are free from the degrading influences ofcompetition. If your heart is set on domestic happiness, remember that loveflourishes best where there is refinement, a high level of thought, andfreedom from corrupting influences; and these are to be found only whereriches are attained by the exercise of creative thought, without strife orrivalry.You can aim at nothing so great or noble, I repeat, as to become rich; andyou must fix your attention upon your mental picture of riches, to theexclusion of all that may tend to dim or obscure the vision.You must learn to see the underlying TRUTH in all things; you must seebeneath all seemingly wrong conditions the Great One Life ever movingforward toward fuller expression and more complete happiness.It is the truth that there is no such thing as poverty; that there is onlywealth.Some people remain in poverty because they are ignorant of the fact thatthere is wealth for them; and these can best be taught by showing them theway to affluence in your own person and practice.Others are poor because, while they feel that there is a way out, they aretoo intellectually indolent to put forth the mental effort necessary to findthat way and by travel it; and for these the very best thing you can do isto arouse their desire by showing them the happiness that comes from beingrightly rich.Others still are poor because, while they have some notion of science, theyhave become so swamped and lost in the maze of metaphysical and occulttheories that they do not know which road to take. They try a mixture ofmany systems and fail in all. For these, again, the very best thing, to dois to show the right way in your own person and practice; an ounce of doingthings is worth a pound of theorizing.The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most ofyourself.You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich;that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competetiveone.Another thing. We assert that this book gives in detail the principles ofthe science of getting rich; and if that is true, you do not need to readany other book upon the subject. This may sound narrow and egotistical, butconsider: there is no more scientific method of computation in mathematicsthan by addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; no other methodis possible. There can be but one shortest distance between two points.There is only one way to think scientifically, and that is to think in theway that leads by the most direct and simple route to the goal. No man hasyet formulated a briefer or less complex "system" than the one set forthherein; it has been stripped of all non-essentials. When you commence onthis, lay all others aside; put them out of your mind altogether.Read this book every day; keep it with you; commit it to memory, and do notthink about other "systems" and theories. If you do, you will begin to havedoubts, and to be uncertain and wavering in your thought; and then you willbegin to mak efailures.BRBRAfteryouhavemadegood and become rich, you may study other systems asmuch as you please; but until you are quite sure that you have gained whatyou want, do not read anything on this line but this book, unless it be theauthors mentioned in the Preface.And read only the most optimistic comments on the world's news; those inharmony with your picture.Also, postpone your investigations into the occult. Do not dabble intheosophy, Spiritualism, or kindred studies. It is very likely that the deadstill live, and are near; but if they are, let them alone; mind your ownbusiness.Wherever the spirits of the dead may be, they have their own work to do, andtheir own problems to solve; and we have no right to interfere with them. Wecannot help them, and it is very doubtful whether they can help us, orwhether we have any right to trespass upon their time if they can. Let thedead and the hereafter alone, and solve your own problem; get rich. If youbegin to mix with the occult, you will start mental cross-currents whichwill surely bring your hopes to shipwreck. Now, this and the precedingchapters have brought us to the following statement of basic facts:-- There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in itsoriginal state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of theuniverse.A thought, in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by thethought.Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought uponformless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to the creativemind; he must form a clear mental picture of the things he wants, and holdthis picture in his thoughts with the fixed PURPOSE to get what he wants,and the unwavering FAITH that he does get what he wants, closing his mindagainst all that may tend to shake his purpose, dim his vision, or quenchhis faith.And in addition to all this, we shall now see that he must live and act in aCertain Way.«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§ - PULSE ON WORLD HEALTH CONSPIRACIES! §Subscribe:......... - To :.... - Any information here in is for educational purpose only, it may be news related, purely speculation or someone's opinion. 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