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Unity On the WebTHE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICHClick below for audioSide 1 | Side 2 | Side 3 | Side 4--PREFACETHIS book is pragmatical, not philosophical; a practical manual, not atreatise upon theories. It is intended for the men and women whose mostpressing need is for money; who wish to get rich first, and philosophizeafterward. It is for those who have, so far, found neither the time, themeans, nor the opportunity to go deeply into the study of metaphysics, butwho want results and who are willing to take the conclusions of science as abasis for action, without going into all the processes by which thoseconclusions were reached.It is expected that the reader will take the fundamental statements uponfaith, just as he would take statements concerning a law of electricalaction if they were promulgated by a Marconi or an Edison; and, taking thestatements upon faith, that he will prove their truth by acting upon themwithout fear or hesitation. Every man or woman who does this will certainlyget rich; for the science herein applied is an exact science, and failure isimpossible. For the benefit, however, of those who wish to investigatephilosophical theories and so secure a logical basis for faith, I will herecite certain authorities.The monistic theory of the universe the theory that One is All, and that Allis One; That one Substance manifests itself as the seeming many elements ofthe material world -is of Hindu origin, and has been gradually winning itsway into the thought of the western world for two hundred years. It is thefoundation of all the Oriental philosophies, and of those of Descartes,Spinoza, Leibnitz, Schopenhauer, Hegel, and Emerson.The reader who would dig to the philosophical foundations of this is advisedto read Hegel and Emerson for himself.In writing this book I have sacrificed all other considerations to plainnessand simplicity of style, so that all might understand. The plan of actionlaid down herein was deduced from the conclusions of philosophy; it has beenthoroughly tested, and bears the supreme test of practical experiment; itworks. If you wish to know how the conclusions were arrived at, read thewritings of the authors mentioned above; and if you wish to reap the fruitsof their philosophies in actual practice, read this book and do exactly asit tells you to do.The AuthorCHAPTER 1The Right To Be Rich.WHATEVER may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is notpossible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich. Noman can rise to his greatest possible height in talent or soul developmentunless he has plenty of money; for to unfold the soul and to develop talenthe must have many things to use, and he cannot have these things unless hehas money to buy them with.A man develops in mind, soul, and body by making use of things, and societyis so organized that man must have money in order to become the possessor ofthings; therefore, the basis of all advancement for man must be the scienceof getting rich.The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has aninalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining.Man's right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use ofall the things which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual, andphysical unfoldment; or, in other words, his right to be rich.In this book, I shall not speak of riches in a figurative way; to be reallyrich does not mean to be satisfied or contented with a little. No man oughtto be satisfied with a little if he is capable of using and enjoying more.The purpose of Nature is the advancement and unfoldment of life; and everyman should have all that can contribute to the power; elegance, beauty, andrichness of life; to be content with less is sinful.The man who owns all he wants for the living of all the life he is capableof living is rich; and no man who has not plenty of money can have all hewants. Life has advanced so far, and become so complex, that even the mostordinary man or woman requires a great amount of wealth in order to live ina manner that even approaches completeness. Every person naturally wants tobecome all that they are capable of becoming; this desire to realize innatepossibilities is inherent in human nature; we cannot help wanting to be allthat we can be. Success in life is becoming what you want to be; you canbecome what you want to be only by making use of things, and you can havethe free use of things only as you become rich enough to buy them. Tounderstand the science of getting rich is therefore the most essential ofall knowledge.There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches isreally the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life; and thatdesire is praise worthy. The man who does not desire to live more abundantlyis abnormal, and so the man who does not desire to have money enough to buyall he wants is abnormal.There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live forthe mind, we live for the soul. No one of these is better or holier than theother; all are alike desirable, and no one of the three--body, mind, orsoul--can live fully if either of the others is cut short of full life andexpression. It is not right or noble to live only for the soul and deny mindor body; and it is wrong to live for the intellect and deny body or soul.We are all acquainted with the loathsome consequences of living for the bodyand denying both mind and soul; and we see that real life means the completeexpression of all that man can give forth through body, mind, and soul.Whatever he can say, no man can be really happy or satisfied unless his bodyis living fully in every function, and unless the same is true of his mindand his soul. Wherever there is unexpressed possibility, or function notperformed, there is unsatisfied desire. Desire is possibility seekingexpression, or function seeking performance.Man cannot live fully in body without good food, comfortable clothing, andwarm shelter; and without freedom from excessive toil. Rest and recreationare also necessary to his physical life .He cannot live fully in mind without books and time to study them, withoutopportunity for travel and observation, or without intellectualcompanionship.To live fully in mind he must have intellectual recreations, and mustsurround himself with all the objects of art and beauty he is capable ofusing and appreciating.To live fully in soul, man must have love; and love is denied expression bypoverty.A man's highest happiness is found in the bestowal of benefits on those heloves; love finds its most natural and spontaneous expression in giving. Theman who has nothing to give cannot fill his place as a husband or father, asa citizen, or as a man. It is in the use of material things that a man findsfull life for his body, develops his mind, and unfolds his soul. It istherefore of supreme importance to him that he should be rich.It is perfectly right that you should desire to be rich; if you are a normalman or woman you cannot help doing so. It is perfectly right that you shouldgive your best attention to the Science of Getting Rich, for it is thenoblest and most necessary of all studies. If you neglect this study, youare derelict in your duty to yourself, to God and humanity; for you canrender to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most ofyourself.CHAPTER 2There is A Science of Getting RichTHERE is a Science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebraor arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiringriches; once these laws are learned and obeyed by any man, he will get richwith mathematical certainty.The ownership of money and property comes as a result of doing things in acertain way; those who do things in this Certain Way, whether on purpose oraccidentally, get rich; while those who do not do things in this CertainWay, no matter how hard they work or how able they are, remain poor.It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects; and,therefore, any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way willinfallibly get rich.That the above statement is true is shown by the following facts:Getting rich is not a matter of environment, for, if it were, all the peoplein certain neighborhoods would become wealthy; the people of one city wouldall be rich, while those of other towns would all be poor; or theinhabitants of one state would roll in wealth, while those of an adjoiningstate would be in poverty.But everywhere we see rich and poor living side by side, in the sameenvironment, and often engaged in the same vocations. When two men are inthe same locality, and in the same business, and one gets rich while theother remains poor, it shows that getting rich is not, primarily, a matterof environment. Some environments may be more favorable than others, butwhen two men in the same business are in the same neighborhood, and one getsrich while the other fails, it indicates that getting rich is the result ofdoing things in a Certain Way.And further, the ability to do things in this certain way is not due solelyto the possession of talent, for many people who have great talent remainpoor, while other who have very little talent get rich.Studying the people who have got rich, we find that they are an average lotin all respects, having no greater talents and abilities than other men. Itis evident that they do not get rich because they possess talents andabilities that other men have not, but because they happen to do things in aCertain Way.Getting rich is not the result of saving, or "thrift"; many very penuriouspeople are poor, while free spenders often get rich.Nor is getting rich due to doing things which others fail to do; for two menin the same business often do almost exactly the same things, and one getsrich while the other remains poor or becomes bankrupt.From all these things, we must come to the conclusion that getting rich isthe result of doing things in a Certain Way.If getting rich is the result of doing things in a Certain Way, and if likecauses always produce like effects, then any man or woman who can do thingsin that way can become rich, and the whole matter is brought within thedomain of exact science.The question arises here, whether this Certain Way may not be so difficultthat only a few may follow it. This cannot be true, as we have seen, so faras natural ability is concerned. Talented people get rich, and blockheadsget rich; intellectually brilliant people get rich, and very stupid peopleget rich; physically strong people get rich, and weak and sickly people getrich.Some degree of ability to think and understand is, of course, essential; butin so far natural ability is concerned, any man or woman who has senseenough to read and understand these words can certainly get rich.Also, we have seen that it is not a matter of environment. Location countsfor something; one would not go to the heart of the Sahara and expect to dosuccessful business.Getting rich involves the necessity of dealing with men, and of being wherethere are people to deal with; and if these people are inclined to deal inthe way you want to deal, so much the better. But that is about as far asenvironment goes.If anybody else in your town can get rich, so can you; and if anybody elsein your state can get rich, so can you.Again, it is not a matter of choosing some particular business orprofession. People get rich in every business, and in every profession;while their next door neighbors in the same vocation remain in poverty.It is true that you will do best in a business which you like, and which iscongenial to you; and if you have certain talents which are well developed,you will do best in a business which calls for the exercise of thosetalents.Also, you will do best in a business which is suited to your locality; anice-cream parlor would do better in a warm climate than in Greenland, and asalmon fishery will succeed better in the Northwest than in Florida, wherethere are no salmon.But, aside from these general limitations, getting rich is not dependentupon your engaging in some particular business, but upon your learning to dothings in a Certain Way. If you are now in business, and anybody else inyour locality is getting rich in the same business, while you are notgetting rich, it is because you are not doing things in the same Way thatthe other person is doing them.No one is prevented from getting rich by lack of capital. True, as you getcapital the increase becomes more easy and rapid; but one who has capital isalready rich, and does not need to consider how to become so. No matter howpoor you may be, if you begin to do things in the Certain Way you will beginto get rich; and you will begin to have capital. The getting of capital is apart of the process of getting rich; and it is a part of the result whichinvariably follows the doing of things in the Certain Way. You may be thepoorest man on the continent, and be deeply in debt; you may have neitherfriends, influence, nor resources; but if you begin to do things in thisway, you must infallibly begin to get rich, for like causes must producelike effects. If you have no capital, you can get capital; if you are in thewrong business, you can get into the right business; if you are in the wronglocation, you can go to the right location; and you can do so by beginningin your present business and in your present location to do things in theCertain Way which causes success.CHAPTER 3Is Opportunity Monopolized?NO man is kept poor because opportunity has been taken away from him;because other people have monopolized the wealth, and have put a fencearound it. You may be shut off from engaging in business in certain lines,but there are other channels open to you. Probably it would be hard for youto get control of any of the great railroad systems; that field is prettywell monopolized. But the electric railway business is still in its infancy,and offers plenty of scope for enterprise; and it will be but a very fewyears until traffic and transportation through the air will become a greatindustry, and in all its branches will give employment to hundreds ofthousands, and perhaps to millions, of people. Why not turn your attentionto the development of aerial transportation, instead of competing with J.J.Hill and others for a chance in the steam railway world?It is quite true that if you are a workman in the employ of the steel trustyou have very little chance of becoming the owner of the plant in which youwork; but it is also true that if you will commence to act in a Certain Way,you can soon leave the employ of the steel trust; you can buy a farm of fromten to forty acres, and engage in business as a producer of foodstuffs.There is great opportunity at this time for men who will live upon smalltracts of land and cultivate the same intensively; such men will certainlyget rich. You may say that it is impossible for you to get the land, but Iam going to prove to you that it is not impossible, and that you cancertainly get a farm if you will go to work in a Certain Way.At different periods the tide of opportunity sets in different directions,according to the needs of the whole, and the particular stage of socialevolution which has been reached. At present, in America, it is settingtoward agriculture and the allied industries and professions. To-day,opportunity is open before the factory worker in his line. It is open beforethe business man who supplies the farmer more than before the one whosupplies the factory worker; and before the professional man who waits uponthe farmer more than before the one who serves the working class.There is abundance of opportunity for the man who will go with the tide,instead of trying to swim against it.So the factory workers, either as individuals or as a class, are notdeprived of opportunity. The workers are not being "kept down" by theirmasters; they are not being "ground" by the trusts and combinations ofcapital. As a class, they are where they are because they do not do thingsin a Certain Way. If the workers of America chose to do so, they couldfollow the example of their brothers in Belgium and other countries, andestablish great department stores and co-operative industries; they couldelect men of their own class to office, and pass laws favoring thedevelopment of such co-operative industries; and in a few years they couldtake peaceable possession of the industrial field.The working class may become the master class whenever they will begin to dothings in a Certain Way; the law of wealth is the same for them as it is forall others. This they must learn; and they will remain where they are aslong as they continue to do as they do. The individual worker, however, isnot held down by the ignorance or the mental slothfulness of his class; hecan follow the tide of opportunity to riches, and this book will tell himhow.No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches; there ismore than enough for all. A palace as large as the capitol at Washingtonmight be built for every family on earth from the building material in theUnited States alone; and under intensive cultivation, this country wouldproduce wool, cotton, linen, and silk enough to cloth each person in theworld finer than Solomon was arrayed in all his glory; together with foodenough to feed them all luxuriously.The visible supply is practically inexhaustible; and the invisible supplyreally IS inexhaustible.Everything you see on earth is made from one original substance, out ofwhich all things proceed.New Forms are constantly being made, and older ones are dissolving; but allare shapes assumed by One Thing.There is no limit to the supply of Formless Stuff, or Original Substance.The universe is made out of it; but it was not all used in making theuniverse. The spaces in, through, and between the forms of the visibleuniverse are permeated and filled with the Original Substance; with theformless Stuff; with the raw material of all things. Ten thousand times asmuch as has been made might still be made, and even then we should not haveexhausted the supply of universal raw material.No man, therefore, is poor because nature is poor, or because there is notenough to go around.Nature is an inexhaustible storehouse of riches; the supply will never runshort. Original Substance is alive with creative energy, and is constantlyproducing more forms. When the supply of building material is exhausted,more will be produced; when the soil is exhausted so that food stuffs andmaterials for clothing will no longer grow upon it, it will be renewed ormore soil will be made. When all the gold and silver has been dug from theearth, if man is still in such a stage of social development that he needsgold and silver, more will produced from the Formless. The Formless Stuffresponds to the needs of man; it will not let him be without any good thing.This is true of man collectively; the race as a whole is always abundantlyrich, and if individuals are poor, it is because they do not follow theCertain Way of doing things which makes the individual man rich.The Formless Stuff is intelligent; it is stuff which thinks. It is alive,and is always impelled toward more life.It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more; it isthe nature of intelligence to enlarge itself, and of consciousness to seekto extend its boundaries and find fuller expression. The universe of formshas been made by Formless Living Substance, throwing itself into form inorder to express itself more fully.The universe is a great Living Presence, always moving inherently towardmore life and fuller functioning.Nature is formed for the advancement of life; its impelling motive is theincrease of life. For this cause, everything which can possibly minister tolife is bountifully provided; there can be no lack unless God is tocontradict himself and nullify his own works.You are not kept poor by lack in the supply of riches; it is a fact which Ishall demonstrate a little farther on that even the resources of theFormless Supply are at the command of the man or woman will act and think ina Certain Way.CHAPTER 4The First Principle in The Science of Getting Rich.THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from theFormless Substance. The stuff from which all things are made is a substancewhich thinks, and a thought of form in this substance produces the form.Original Substance moves according to its thoughts; every form and processyou see in nature is the visible expression of a thought in OriginalSubstance. As the Formless Stuff thinks of a form, it takes that form; as itthinks of a motion, it makes that motion. That is the way all things werecreated. We live in a thought world, which is part of a thought universe.The thought of a moving universe extended throughout Formless Substance, andthe Thinking Stuff moving according to that thought, took the form ofsystems of planets, and maintains that form. Thinking Substance takes theform of its thought, and moves according to the thought. Holding the idea ofa circling system of suns and worlds, it takes the form of these bodies, andmoves them as it thinks. Thinking the form of a slow-growing oak tree, itmoves accordingly, and produces the tree, though centuries may be requiredto do the work. In creating, the Formless seems to move according to thelines of motion it has established; the thought of an oak tree does notcause the instant formation of a full-grown tree, but it does start inmotion the forces which will produce the tree, along established lines ofgrowth.Every thought of form, held in thinking Substance, causes the creation ofthe form, but always, or at least generally, along lines of growth andaction already established.The thought of a house of a certain construction, if it were impressed uponFormless Substance, might not cause the instant formation, of the house; butit would cause the turning of creative energies already working in trade andcommerce into such channels as to result in the speedy building of thehouse. And if there were no existing channels through which the creativeenergy could work, then the house would be formed directly from primalsubstance, without waiting for the slow processes of the organic andinorganic world.No thought of form can be impressed upon Original Substance without causingthe creation of the form.Man is a thinking center, and can originate thought. All the forms that manfashions with his hands must first exist in his thought; he cannot shape athing until he has thought that thing.And so far man has confined his efforts wholly to the work of his hands; hehas applied manual labor to the world of forms, seeking to change or modifythose already existing. He has never thought of trying to cause the creationof new forms by impressing his thoughts upon Formless Substance.When man has a thought-form, he takes material from the forms of nature, andmakes an image of the form which is in his mind. He has, so far, made littleor no effort to co-operate with Formless Intelligence; to work "with theFather." He has not dreamed that he can "do what he seeth the Father doing."Man reshapes and modifies existing forms by manual labor; he has given noattention to the question whether he may not produce things from FormlessSubstance by communicating his thoughts to it. We propose to prove that hemay do so; to prove that any man or woman may do so, and to show how. As ourfirst step, we must lay down three fundamental propositions.First, we assert that there is one original formless stuff, or substance,from which all things are made. All the seemingly many elements are butdifferent presentations of one element; all the many forms found in organicand inorganic nature are but different shapes, made from the same stuff. Andthis stuff is thinking stuff; a thought held in it produces the form of thethought. Thought, in thinking substance, produces shapes. Man is a thinkingcenter, capable of original thought; if man can communicate his thought tooriginal thinking substance, he can cause the creation, or formation, of thething he thinks about. To summarize this-- 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.It may be asked if I can prove these statements; and without going intodetails, I answer that I can do so, both by logic and experience.Reasoning back from the phenomena of form and thought, I come to oneoriginal thinking substance; and reasoning forward from this thinkingsubstance, I come to man's power to cause the formation of the thing hethinks about.And by experiment, I find the reasoning true; and this is my strongestproof.If one man who reads this book gets rich by doing what it tells him to do,that is evidence in support of my claim; but if every man who does what ittells him to do gets rich, that is positive proof until some one goesthrough the process and fails. The theory is true until the process fails;and this process will not fail, for every man who does exactly what thisbook tells him to do will get rich.I have said that men get rich by doing things in a Certain Way; and in orderto do so, men must become able to think in a certain way.A man's way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks aboutthings.To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire theability to think the way you want to think; this is the first step towardgetting rich.To think what you want to think is to think TRUTH, regardless ofappearances.Every man has the natural and inherent power to think what he wants tothink, but it requires far more effort to do so than it does to think thethoughts which are suggested by appearances. To think according toappearance is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is laborious,and requires the expenditure of more power than any other work man is calledupon to perform.There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that ofsustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world. Thisis especially true when truth is contrary to appearances. Every appearancein the visible world tends to produce a corresponding form in the mind whichobserves it; and this can only be prevented by holding the thought of theTRUTH.To look upon the appearance of disease will produce the form of disease inyour own mind, and ultimately in your body, unless you hold the thought ofthe truth, which is that there is no disease; it is only an appearance, andthe reality is health.To look upon the appearances of poverty will produce corresponding forms inyour own mind, unless you hold to the truth that there is no poverty; thereis only abundance.To think health when surrounded by the appearances of disease, or to thinkriches when in the midst of appearances of poverty, requires power; but hewho acquires this power becomes a MASTER MIND. He can conquer fate; he canhave what he wants.This power can only be acquired by getting hold of the basic fact which isbehind all appearances; and that fact is that there is one ThinkingSubstance, from which and by which all things are made.Then we must grasp the truth that every thought held in this substancebecomes a form, and that man can so impress his thoughts upon it as to causethem to take form and become visible things.When we realize this, we lose all doubt and fear, for we know that we cancreate what we want to create; we can get what we want to have, and canbecome what we want to be. As a first step toward getting rich, you mustbelieve the three fundamental statements given previously in this chapter;and in order to emphasize them. I repeat them here:-- 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.You must lay aside all other concepts of the universe than this monisticone; and you must dwell upon this until it is fixed in your mind, and hasbecome your habitual thought. Read these creed statements over and overagain; fix every word upon your memory, and meditate upon them until youfirmly believe what they say. If a doubt comes to you, cast it aside as asin. Do not listen to arguments against this idea; do not go to churches orlectures where a contrary concept of things is taught or preached. Do notread magazines or books which teach a different idea; if you get mixed up inyour faith, all your efforts will be in vain.Do not ask why these things are true, nor speculate as to how they can betrue; simply take them on trust.The science of getting rich begins with the absolute acceptance of thisfaith.CHAPTER 5Increasing Life.YOU must get rid of the last vestige of the old idea that there is a Deitywhose will it is that you should be poor, or whose purposes may be served bykeeping you in poverty.The Intelligent Substance which is All, and in All, and which lives in Alland lives in you, is a consciously Living Substance. Being a consciouslyliving substance, It must have the nature and inherent desire of everyliving intelligence for increase of life. Every living thing mustcontinually seek for the enlargement of its life, because life, in the mereact of living, must increase itself.A seed, dropped into the ground, springs into activity, and in the act ofliving produces a hundred more seeds; life, by living, multiplies itself. Itis forever Becoming More; it must do so, if it continues to be at all.Intelligence is under this same necessity for continuous increase. Everythought we think makes it necessary for us to think another thought;consciousness is continually expanding. Every fact we learn leads us to thelearning of another fact; knowledge is continually increasing. Every talentwe cultivate brings to the mind the desire to cultivate another talent; weare subject to the urge of life, seeking expression, which ever drives us onto know more, to do more, and to be more.In order to know more, do more, and be more we must have more; we must havethings to use, for we learn, and do, and become, only by using things. Wemust get rich, so that we can live more.The desire for riches is simply the capacity for larger life seekingfulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility tocome into action. It is power seeking to manifest which causes desire. Thatwhich makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plantgrow; it is Life, seeking fuller expression.The One Living Substance must be subject to this inherent law of all life;it is permeated with the desire to live more; that is why it is under thenecessity of creating things.The One Substance desires to live more in you; hence it wants you to haveall the things you can use.It is the desire of God that you should get rich. He wants you to get richbecause he can express himself better through you if you have plenty ofthings to use in giving him expression. He can live more in you if you haveunlimited command of the means of life.The universe desires you to have everything you want to have.Nature is friendly to your plans.Everything is naturally for you.Make up your mind that this is true.It is essential, however that your purpose should harmonize with the purposethat is in All.You must want real life, not mere pleasure of sensual gratification. Life isthe performance of function; and the individual really lives only when heperforms every function, physical, mental, and spiritual, of which he iscapable, without excess in any.You do not want to get rich in order to live swinishly, for thegratification of animal desires; that is not life. But the performance ofevery physical function is a part of life, and no one lives completely whodenies the impulses of the body a normal and healthful expression.You do not want to get rich solely to enjoy mental pleasures, to getknowledge, to gratify ambition, to outshine others, to be famous. All theseare a legitimate part of life, but the man who lives for the pleasures ofthe intellect alone will only have a partial life, and he will never besatisfied with his lot.You do not want to get rich solely for the good of others, to lose yourselffor the salvation of mankind, to experience the joys of philanthropy andsacrifice. The joys of the soul are only a part of life; and they are nobetter or nobler than any other part.You want to get rich in order that you may eat, drink, and be merry when itis time to do these things; in order that you may surround yourself withbeautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop yourintellect; in order that you may love men and do kind things, and be able toplay a good part in helping the world to find truth.But remember that extreme altruism is no better and no nobler than extremeselfishness; both are mistakes.Get rid of the idea that God wants you to sacrifice yourself for others, andthat you can secure his favor by doing so; God requires nothing of the kind.What he wants is that you should make the most of yourself, for yourself,and for others; and you can help others more by making the most of yourselfthan in any other way.You can make the most of yourself only by getting rich; so it is right andpraiseworthy that you should give your first and best thought to the work ofacquiring wealth.Remember, however, that the desire of Substance is for all, and itsmovements must be for more life to all; it cannot be made to work for lesslife to any, because it is equally in all, seeking riches and life.Intelligent Substance will make things for you, but it will not take thingsaway from some one else and give them to you.You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not tocompete for what is already created.You do not have to take anything away from any one.You do not have to drive sharp bargains.You do not have to cheat, or to take advantage. You do not need to let anyman work for you for less than he earns.You do not have to covet the property of others, or to look at it withwishful eyes; no man has anything of which you cannot have the like, andthat without taking what he has away from him.You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what youwant, but in such a way that when you get it every other man will have morethan he has now.I am aware that there are men who get a vast amount of money by proceedingin direct opposition to the statements in the paragraph above, and may add aword of explanation here. Men of the plutocratic type, who become very rich,do so sometimes purely by their extraordinary ability on the plane ofcompetition; and sometimes they unconsciously relate themselves to Substancein its great purposes and movements for the general racial upbuildingthrough industrial evolution. Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, et al., havebeen the unconscious agents of the Supreme in the necessary work ofsystematizing and organizing productive industry; and in the end, their workwill contribute immensely toward increased life for all. Their day is nearlyover; they have organized production, and will soon be succeeded by theagents of the multitude, who will organize the machinery of distribution.The multi-millionaires are like the monster reptiles of the prehistoriceras; they play a necessary part in the evolutionary process, but the samePower which produced them will dispose of them. And it is well to bear inmind that they have never been really rich; a record of the private lives ofmost of this class will show that they have really been the most abject andwretched of the poor.Riches secured on the competitive plane are never satisfactory andpermanent; they are yours to-day, and another's tomorrow. Remember, if youare to become rich in a scientific and certain way, you must rise entirelyout of the competitive thought. You must never think for a moment that thesupply is limited. Just as soon as you begin to think that all the money isbeing "cornered" and controlled by bankers and others, and that you mustexert yourself to get laws passed to stop this process, and so on; in thatmoment you drop into the competitive mind, and your power to cause creationis gone for the time being; and what is worse, you will probably arrest thecreative movements you have already instituted.KNOW that there are countless millions of dollars' worth of gold in themountains of the earth, not yet brought to light; and know that if therewere not, more would be created from Thinking Substance to supply yourneeds.KNOW that the money you need will come, even if it is necessary for athousand men to be led to the discovery of new gold mines to-morrow.Never look at the visible supply; look always at the limitless riches inFormless Substance, and KNOW that they are coming to you as fast as you canreceive and use them. Nobody, by cornering the visible supply, can preventyou from getting what is yours.So never allow yourself to think for an instant that all the best buildingspots will be taken before you get ready to build your house, unless youhurry. Never worry about the trusts and combines, and get anxious for fearthey will soon come to own the whole earth. Never get afraid that you willlose what you want because some other person "beats you to it." That cannotpossibly happen; you are not seeking any thing that is possessed by anybodyelse; you are causing what you want to be created from formless Substance,and the supply is without limits. Stick to the formulated statement:-- 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.

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Unity On the WebTHE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICHClick below for audioSide 1 | Side 2 | Side 3 | Side 4--PREFACETHIS book is pragmatical, not philosophical; a practical manual, not atreatise upon theories. It is intended for the men and women whose mostpressing need is for money; who wish to get rich first, and philosophizeafterward. It is for those who have, so far, found neither the time, themeans, nor the opportunity to go deeply into the study of metaphysics, butwho want results and who are willing to take the conclusions of science as abasis for action, without going into all the processes by which thoseconclusions were reached.It is expected that the reader will take the fundamental statements uponfaith, just as he would take statements concerning a law of electricalaction if they were promulgated by a Marconi or an Edison; and, taking thestatements upon faith, that he will prove their truth by acting upon themwithout fear or hesitation. Every man or woman who does this will certainlyget rich; for the science herein applied is an exact science, and failure isimpossible. For the benefit, however, of those who wish to investigatephilosophical theories and so secure a logical basis for faith, I will herecite certain authorities.The monistic theory of the universe the theory that One is All, and that Allis One; That one Substance manifests itself as the seeming many elements ofthe material world -is of Hindu origin, and has been gradually winning itsway into the thought of the western world for two hundred years. It is thefoundation of all the Oriental philosophies, and of those of Descartes,Spinoza, Leibnitz, Schopenhauer, Hegel, and Emerson.The reader who would dig to the philosophical foundations of this is advisedto read Hegel and Emerson for himself.In writing this book I have sacrificed all other considerations to plainnessand simplicity of style, so that all might understand. The plan of actionlaid down herein was deduced from the conclusions of philosophy; it has beenthoroughly tested, and bears the supreme test of practical experiment; itworks. If you wish to know how the conclusions were arrived at, read thewritings of the authors mentioned above; and if you wish to reap the fruitsof their philosophies in actual practice, read this book and do exactly asit tells you to do.The AuthorCHAPTER 1The Right To Be Rich.WHATEVER may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is notpossible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich. Noman can rise to his greatest possible height in talent or soul developmentunless he has plenty of money; for to unfold the soul and to develop talenthe must have many things to use, and he cannot have these things unless hehas money to buy them with.A man develops in mind, soul, and body by making use of things, and societyis so organized that man must have money in order to become the possessor ofthings; therefore, the basis of all advancement for man must be the scienceof getting rich.The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has aninalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining.Man's right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use ofall the things which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual, andphysical unfoldment; or, in other words, his right to be rich.In this book, I shall not speak of riches in a figurative way; to be reallyrich does not mean to be satisfied or contented with a little. No man oughtto be satisfied with a little if he is capable of using and enjoying more.The purpose of Nature is the advancement and unfoldment of life; and everyman should have all that can contribute to the power; elegance, beauty, andrichness of life; to be content with less is sinful.The man who owns all he wants for the living of all the life he is capableof living is rich; and no man who has not plenty of money can have all hewants. Life has advanced so far, and become so complex, that even the mostordinary man or woman requires a great amount of wealth in order to live ina manner that even approaches completeness. Every person naturally wants tobecome all that they are capable of becoming; this desire to realize innatepossibilities is inherent in human nature; we cannot help wanting to be allthat we can be. Success in life is becoming what you want to be; you canbecome what you want to be only by making use of things, and you can havethe free use of things only as you become rich enough to buy them. Tounderstand the science of getting rich is therefore the most essential ofall knowledge.There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches isreally the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life; and thatdesire is praise worthy. The man who does not desire to live more abundantlyis abnormal, and so the man who does not desire to have money enough to buyall he wants is abnormal.There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live forthe mind, we live for the soul. No one of these is better or holier than theother; all are alike desirable, and no one of the three--body, mind, orsoul--can live fully if either of the others is cut short of full life andexpression. It is not right or noble to live only for the soul and deny mindor body; and it is wrong to live for the intellect and deny body or soul.We are all acquainted with the loathsome consequences of living for the bodyand denying both mind and soul; and we see that real life means the completeexpression of all that man can give forth through body, mind, and soul.Whatever he can say, no man can be really happy or satisfied unless his bodyis living fully in every function, and unless the same is true of his mindand his soul. Wherever there is unexpressed possibility, or function notperformed, there is unsatisfied desire. Desire is possibility seekingexpression, or function seeking performance.Man cannot live fully in body without good food, comfortable clothing, andwarm shelter; and without freedom from excessive toil. Rest and recreationare also necessary to his physical life .He cannot live fully in mind without books and time to study them, withoutopportunity for travel and observation, or without intellectualcompanionship.To live fully in mind he must have intellectual recreations, and mustsurround himself with all the objects of art and beauty he is capable ofusing and appreciating.To live fully in soul, man must have love; and love is denied expression bypoverty.A man's highest happiness is found in the bestowal of benefits on those heloves; love finds its most natural and spontaneous expression in giving. Theman who has nothing to give cannot fill his place as a husband or father, asa citizen, or as a man. It is in the use of material things that a man findsfull life for his body, develops his mind, and unfolds his soul. It istherefore of supreme importance to him that he should be rich.It is perfectly right that you should desire to be rich; if you are a normalman or woman you cannot help doing so. It is perfectly right that you shouldgive your best attention to the Science of Getting Rich, for it is thenoblest and most necessary of all studies. If you neglect this study, youare derelict in your duty to yourself, to God and humanity; for you canrender to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most ofyourself.CHAPTER 2There is A Science of Getting RichTHERE is a Science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebraor arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiringriches; once these laws are learned and obeyed by any man, he will get richwith mathematical certainty.The ownership of money and property comes as a result of doing things in acertain way; those who do things in this Certain Way, whether on purpose oraccidentally, get rich; while those who do not do things in this CertainWay, no matter how hard they work or how able they are, remain poor.It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects; and,therefore, any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way willinfallibly get rich.That the above statement is true is shown by the following facts:Getting rich is not a matter of environment, for, if it were, all the peoplein certain neighborhoods would become wealthy; the people of one city wouldall be rich, while those of other towns would all be poor; or theinhabitants of one state would roll in wealth, while those of an adjoiningstate would be in poverty.But everywhere we see rich and poor living side by side, in the sameenvironment, and often engaged in the same vocations. When two men are inthe same locality, and in the same business, and one gets rich while theother remains poor, it shows that getting rich is not, primarily, a matterof environment. Some environments may be more favorable than others, butwhen two men in the same business are in the same neighborhood, and one getsrich while the other fails, it indicates that getting rich is the result ofdoing things in a Certain Way.And further, the ability to do things in this certain way is not due solelyto the possession of talent, for many people who have great talent remainpoor, while other who have very little talent get rich.Studying the people who have got rich, we find that they are an average lotin all respects, having no greater talents and abilities than other men. Itis evident that they do not get rich because they possess talents andabilities that other men have not, but because they happen to do things in aCertain Way.Getting rich is not the result of saving, or "thrift"; many very penuriouspeople are poor, while free spenders often get rich.Nor is getting rich due to doing things which others fail to do; for two menin the same business often do almost exactly the same things, and one getsrich while the other remains poor or becomes bankrupt.From all these things, we must come to the conclusion that getting rich isthe result of doing things in a Certain Way.If getting rich is the result of doing things in a Certain Way, and if likecauses always produce like effects, then any man or woman who can do thingsin that way can become rich, and the whole matter is brought within thedomain of exact science.The question arises here, whether this Certain Way may not be so difficultthat only a few may follow it. This cannot be true, as we have seen, so faras natural ability is concerned. Talented people get rich, and blockheadsget rich; intellectually brilliant people get rich, and very stupid peopleget rich; physically strong people get rich, and weak and sickly people getrich.Some degree of ability to think and understand is, of course, essential; butin so far natural ability is concerned, any man or woman who has senseenough to read and understand these words can certainly get rich.Also, we have seen that it is not a matter of environment. Location countsfor something; one would not go to the heart of the Sahara and expect to dosuccessful business.Getting rich involves the necessity of dealing with men, and of being wherethere are people to deal with; and if these people are inclined to deal inthe way you want to deal, so much the better. But that is about as far asenvironment goes.If anybody else in your town can get rich, so can you; and if anybody elsein your state can get rich, so can you.Again, it is not a matter of choosing some particular business orprofession. People get rich in every business, and in every profession;while their next door neighbors in the same vocation remain in poverty.It is true that you will do best in a business which you like, and which iscongenial to you; and if you have certain talents which are well developed,you will do best in a business which calls for the exercise of thosetalents.Also, you will do best in a business which is suited to your locality; anice-cream parlor would do better in a warm climate than in Greenland, and asalmon fishery will succeed better in the Northwest than in Florida, wherethere are no salmon.But, aside from these general limitations, getting rich is not dependentupon your engaging in some particular business, but upon your learning to dothings in a Certain Way. If you are now in business, and anybody else inyour locality is getting rich in the same business, while you are notgetting rich, it is because you are not doing things in the same Way thatthe other person is doing them.No one is prevented from getting rich by lack of capital. True, as you getcapital the increase becomes more easy and rapid; but one who has capital isalready rich, and does not need to consider how to become so. No matter howpoor you may be, if you begin to do things in the Certain Way you will beginto get rich; and you will begin to have capital. The getting of capital is apart of the process of getting rich; and it is a part of the result whichinvariably follows the doing of things in the Certain Way. You may be thepoorest man on the continent, and be deeply in debt; you may have neitherfriends, influence, nor resources; but if you begin to do things in thisway, you must infallibly begin to get rich, for like causes must producelike effects. If you have no capital, you can get capital; if you are in thewrong business, you can get into the right business; if you are in the wronglocation, you can go to the right location; and you can do so by beginningin your present business and in your present location to do things in theCertain Way which causes success.CHAPTER 3Is Opportunity Monopolized?NO man is kept poor because opportunity has been taken away from him;because other people have monopolized the wealth, and have put a fencearound it. You may be shut off from engaging in business in certain lines,but there are other channels open to you. Probably it would be hard for youto get control of any of the great railroad systems; that field is prettywell monopolized. But the electric railway business is still in its infancy,and offers plenty of scope for enterprise; and it will be but a very fewyears until traffic and transportation through the air will become a greatindustry, and in all its branches will give employment to hundreds ofthousands, and perhaps to millions, of people. Why not turn your attentionto the development of aerial transportation, instead of competing with J.J.Hill and others for a chance in the steam railway world?It is quite true that if you are a workman in the employ of the steel trustyou have very little chance of becoming the owner of the plant in which youwork; but it is also true that if you will commence to act in a Certain Way,you can soon leave the employ of the steel trust; you can buy a farm of fromten to forty acres, and engage in business as a producer of foodstuffs.There is great opportunity at this time for men who will live upon smalltracts of land and cultivate the same intensively; such men will certainlyget rich. You may say that it is impossible for you to get the land, but Iam going to prove to you that it is not impossible, and that you cancertainly get a farm if you will go to work in a Certain Way.At different periods the tide of opportunity sets in different directions,according to the needs of the whole, and the particular stage of socialevolution which has been reached. At present, in America, it is settingtoward agriculture and the allied industries and professions. To-day,opportunity is open before the factory worker in his line. It is open beforethe business man who supplies the farmer more than before the one whosupplies the factory worker; and before the professional man who waits uponthe farmer more than before the one who serves the working class.There is abundance of opportunity for the man who will go with the tide,instead of trying to swim against it.So the factory workers, either as individuals or as a class, are notdeprived of opportunity. The workers are not being "kept down" by theirmasters; they are not being "ground" by the trusts and combinations ofcapital. As a class, they are where they are because they do not do thingsin a Certain Way. If the workers of America chose to do so, they couldfollow the example of their brothers in Belgium and other countries, andestablish great department stores and co-operative industries; they couldelect men of their own class to office, and pass laws favoring thedevelopment of such co-operative industries; and in a few years they couldtake peaceable possession of the industrial field.The working class may become the master class whenever they will begin to dothings in a Certain Way; the law of wealth is the same for them as it is forall others. This they must learn; and they will remain where they are aslong as they continue to do as they do. The individual worker, however, isnot held down by the ignorance or the mental slothfulness of his class; hecan follow the tide of opportunity to riches, and this book will tell himhow.No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches; there ismore than enough for all. A palace as large as the capitol at Washingtonmight be built for every family on earth from the building material in theUnited States alone; and under intensive cultivation, this country wouldproduce wool, cotton, linen, and silk enough to cloth each person in theworld finer than Solomon was arrayed in all his glory; together with foodenough to feed them all luxuriously.The visible supply is practically inexhaustible; and the invisible supplyreally IS inexhaustible.Everything you see on earth is made from one original substance, out ofwhich all things proceed.New Forms are constantly being made, and older ones are dissolving; but allare shapes assumed by One Thing.There is no limit to the supply of Formless Stuff, or Original Substance.The universe is made out of it; but it was not all used in making theuniverse. The spaces in, through, and between the forms of the visibleuniverse are permeated and filled with the Original Substance; with theformless Stuff; with the raw material of all things. Ten thousand times asmuch as has been made might still be made, and even then we should not haveexhausted the supply of universal raw material.No man, therefore, is poor because nature is poor, or because there is notenough to go around.Nature is an inexhaustible storehouse of riches; the supply will never runshort. Original Substance is alive with creative energy, and is constantlyproducing more forms. When the supply of building material is exhausted,more will be produced; when the soil is exhausted so that food stuffs andmaterials for clothing will no longer grow upon it, it will be renewed ormore soil will be made. When all the gold and silver has been dug from theearth, if man is still in such a stage of social development that he needsgold and silver, more will produced from the Formless. The Formless Stuffresponds to the needs of man; it will not let him be without any good thing.This is true of man collectively; the race as a whole is always abundantlyrich, and if individuals are poor, it is because they do not follow theCertain Way of doing things which makes the individual man rich.The Formless Stuff is intelligent; it is stuff which thinks. It is alive,and is always impelled toward more life.It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more; it isthe nature of intelligence to enlarge itself, and of consciousness to seekto extend its boundaries and find fuller expression. The universe of formshas been made by Formless Living Substance, throwing itself into form inorder to express itself more fully.The universe is a great Living Presence, always moving inherently towardmore life and fuller functioning.Nature is formed for the advancement of life; its impelling motive is theincrease of life. For this cause, everything which can possibly minister tolife is bountifully provided; there can be no lack unless God is tocontradict himself and nullify his own works.You are not kept poor by lack in the supply of riches; it is a fact which Ishall demonstrate a little farther on that even the resources of theFormless Supply are at the command of the man or woman will act and think ina Certain Way.CHAPTER 4The First Principle in The Science of Getting Rich.THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from theFormless Substance. The stuff from which all things are made is a substancewhich thinks, and a thought of form in this substance produces the form.Original Substance moves according to its thoughts; every form and processyou see in nature is the visible expression of a thought in OriginalSubstance. As the Formless Stuff thinks of a form, it takes that form; as itthinks of a motion, it makes that motion. That is the way all things werecreated. We live in a thought world, which is part of a thought universe.The thought of a moving universe extended throughout Formless Substance, andthe Thinking Stuff moving according to that thought, took the form ofsystems of planets, and maintains that form. Thinking Substance takes theform of its thought, and moves according to the thought. Holding the idea ofa circling system of suns and worlds, it takes the form of these bodies, andmoves them as it thinks. Thinking the form of a slow-growing oak tree, itmoves accordingly, and produces the tree, though centuries may be requiredto do the work. In creating, the Formless seems to move according to thelines of motion it has established; the thought of an oak tree does notcause the instant formation of a full-grown tree, but it does start inmotion the forces which will produce the tree, along established lines ofgrowth.Every thought of form, held in thinking Substance, causes the creation ofthe form, but always, or at least generally, along lines of growth andaction already established.The thought of a house of a certain construction, if it were impressed uponFormless Substance, might not cause the instant formation, of the house; butit would cause the turning of creative energies already working in trade andcommerce into such channels as to result in the speedy building of thehouse. And if there were no existing channels through which the creativeenergy could work, then the house would be formed directly from primalsubstance, without waiting for the slow processes of the organic andinorganic world.No thought of form can be impressed upon Original Substance without causingthe creation of the form.Man is a thinking center, and can originate thought. All the forms that manfashions with his hands must first exist in his thought; he cannot shape athing until he has thought that thing.And so far man has confined his efforts wholly to the work of his hands; hehas applied manual labor to the world of forms, seeking to change or modifythose already existing. He has never thought of trying to cause the creationof new forms by impressing his thoughts upon Formless Substance.When man has a thought-form, he takes material from the forms of nature, andmakes an image of the form which is in his mind. He has, so far, made littleor no effort to co-operate with Formless Intelligence; to work "with theFather." He has not dreamed that he can "do what he seeth the Father doing."Man reshapes and modifies existing forms by manual labor; he has given noattention to the question whether he may not produce things from FormlessSubstance by communicating his thoughts to it. We propose to prove that hemay do so; to prove that any man or woman may do so, and to show how. As ourfirst step, we must lay down three fundamental propositions.First, we assert that there is one original formless stuff, or substance,from which all things are made. All the seemingly many elements are butdifferent presentations of one element; all the many forms found in organicand inorganic nature are but different shapes, made from the same stuff. Andthis stuff is thinking stuff; a thought held in it produces the form of thethought. Thought, in thinking substance, produces shapes. Man is a thinkingcenter, capable of original thought; if man can communicate his thought tooriginal thinking substance, he can cause the creation, or formation, of thething he thinks about. To summarize this-- 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.It may be asked if I can prove these statements; and without going intodetails, I answer that I can do so, both by logic and experience.Reasoning back from the phenomena of form and thought, I come to oneoriginal thinking substance; and reasoning forward from this thinkingsubstance, I come to man's power to cause the formation of the thing hethinks about.And by experiment, I find the reasoning true; and this is my strongestproof.If one man who reads this book gets rich by doing what it tells him to do,that is evidence in support of my claim; but if every man who does what ittells him to do gets rich, that is positive proof until some one goesthrough the process and fails. The theory is true until the process fails;and this process will not fail, for every man who does exactly what thisbook tells him to do will get rich.I have said that men get rich by doing things in a Certain Way; and in orderto do so, men must become able to think in a certain way.A man's way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks aboutthings.To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire theability to think the way you want to think; this is the first step towardgetting rich.To think what you want to think is to think TRUTH, regardless ofappearances.Every man has the natural and inherent power to think what he wants tothink, but it requires far more effort to do so than it does to think thethoughts which are suggested by appearances. To think according toappearance is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is laborious,and requires the expenditure of more power than any other work man is calledupon to perform.There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that ofsustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world. Thisis especially true when truth is contrary to appearances. Every appearancein the visible world tends to produce a corresponding form in the mind whichobserves it; and this can only be prevented by holding the thought of theTRUTH.To look upon the appearance of disease will produce the form of disease inyour own mind, and ultimately in your body, unless you hold the thought ofthe truth, which is that there is no disease; it is only an appearance, andthe reality is health.To look upon the appearances of poverty will produce corresponding forms inyour own mind, unless you hold to the truth that there is no poverty; thereis only abundance.To think health when surrounded by the appearances of disease, or to thinkriches when in the midst of appearances of poverty, requires power; but hewho acquires this power becomes a MASTER MIND. He can conquer fate; he canhave what he wants.This power can only be acquired by getting hold of the basic fact which isbehind all appearances; and that fact is that there is one ThinkingSubstance, from which and by which all things are made.Then we must grasp the truth that every thought held in this substancebecomes a form, and that man can so impress his thoughts upon it as to causethem to take form and become visible things.When we realize this, we lose all doubt and fear, for we know that we cancreate what we want to create; we can get what we want to have, and canbecome what we want to be. As a first step toward getting rich, you mustbelieve the three fundamental statements given previously in this chapter;and in order to emphasize them. I repeat them here:-- 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.You must lay aside all other concepts of the universe than this monisticone; and you must dwell upon this until it is fixed in your mind, and hasbecome your habitual thought. Read these creed statements over and overagain; fix every word upon your memory, and meditate upon them until youfirmly believe what they say. If a doubt comes to you, cast it aside as asin. Do not listen to arguments against this idea; do not go to churches orlectures where a contrary concept of things is taught or preached. Do notread magazines or books which teach a different idea; if you get mixed up inyour faith, all your efforts will be in vain.Do not ask why these things are true, nor speculate as to how they can betrue; simply take them on trust.The science of getting rich begins with the absolute acceptance of thisfaith.CHAPTER 5Increasing Life.YOU must get rid of the last vestige of the old idea that there is a Deitywhose will it is that you should be poor, or whose purposes may be served bykeeping you in poverty.The Intelligent Substance which is All, and in All, and which lives in Alland lives in you, is a consciously Living Substance. Being a consciouslyliving substance, It must have the nature and inherent desire of everyliving intelligence for increase of life. Every living thing mustcontinually seek for the enlargement of its life, because life, in the mereact of living, must increase itself.A seed, dropped into the ground, springs into activity, and in the act ofliving produces a hundred more seeds; life, by living, multiplies itself. Itis forever Becoming More; it must do so, if it continues to be at all.Intelligence is under this same necessity for continuous increase. Everythought we think makes it necessary for us to think another thought;consciousness is continually expanding. Every fact we learn leads us to thelearning of another fact; knowledge is continually increasing. Every talentwe cultivate brings to the mind the desire to cultivate another talent; weare subject to the urge of life, seeking expression, which ever drives us onto know more, to do more, and to be more.In order to know more, do more, and be more we must have more; we must havethings to use, for we learn, and do, and become, only by using things. Wemust get rich, so that we can live more.The desire for riches is simply the capacity for larger life seekingfulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility tocome into action. It is power seeking to manifest which causes desire. Thatwhich makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plantgrow; it is Life, seeking fuller expression.The One Living Substance must be subject to this inherent law of all life;it is permeated with the desire to live more; that is why it is under thenecessity of creating things.The One Substance desires to live more in you; hence it wants you to haveall the things you can use.It is the desire of God that you should get rich. He wants you to get richbecause he can express himself better through you if you have plenty ofthings to use in giving him expression. He can live more in you if you haveunlimited command of the means of life.The universe desires you to have everything you want to have.Nature is friendly to your plans.Everything is naturally for you.Make up your mind that this is true.It is essential, however that your purpose should harmonize with the purposethat is in All.You must want real life, not mere pleasure of sensual gratification. Life isthe performance of function; and the individual really lives only when heperforms every function, physical, mental, and spiritual, of which he iscapable, without excess in any.You do not want to get rich in order to live swinishly, for thegratification of animal desires; that is not life. But the performance ofevery physical function is a part of life, and no one lives completely whodenies the impulses of the body a normal and healthful expression.You do not want to get rich solely to enjoy mental pleasures, to getknowledge, to gratify ambition, to outshine others, to be famous. All theseare a legitimate part of life, but the man who lives for the pleasures ofthe intellect alone will only have a partial life, and he will never besatisfied with his lot.You do not want to get rich solely for the good of others, to lose yourselffor the salvation of mankind, to experience the joys of philanthropy andsacrifice. The joys of the soul are only a part of life; and they are nobetter or nobler than any other part.You want to get rich in order that you may eat, drink, and be merry when itis time to do these things; in order that you may surround yourself withbeautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop yourintellect; in order that you may love men and do kind things, and be able toplay a good part in helping the world to find truth.But remember that extreme altruism is no better and no nobler than extremeselfishness; both are mistakes.Get rid of the idea that God wants you to sacrifice yourself for others, andthat you can secure his favor by doing so; God requires nothing of the kind.What he wants is that you should make the most of yourself, for yourself,and for others; and you can help others more by making the most of yourselfthan in any other way.You can make the most of yourself only by getting rich; so it is right andpraiseworthy that you should give your first and best thought to the work ofacquiring wealth.Remember, however, that the desire of Substance is for all, and itsmovements must be for more life to all; it cannot be made to work for lesslife to any, because it is equally in all, seeking riches and life.Intelligent Substance will make things for you, but it will not take thingsaway from some one else and give them to you.You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not tocompete for what is already created.You do not have to take anything away from any one.You do not have to drive sharp bargains.You do not have to cheat, or to take advantage. You do not need to let anyman work for you for less than he earns.You do not have to covet the property of others, or to look at it withwishful eyes; no man has anything of which you cannot have the like, andthat without taking what he has away from him.You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what youwant, but in such a way that when you get it every other man will have morethan he has now.I am aware that there are men who get a vast amount of money by proceedingin direct opposition to the statements in the paragraph above, and may add aword of explanation here. Men of the plutocratic type, who become very rich,do so sometimes purely by their extraordinary ability on the plane ofcompetition; and sometimes they unconsciously relate themselves to Substancein its great purposes and movements for the general racial upbuildingthrough industrial evolution. Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, et al., havebeen the unconscious agents of the Supreme in the necessary work ofsystematizing and organizing productive industry; and in the end, their workwill contribute immensely toward increased life for all. Their day is nearlyover; they have organized production, and will soon be succeeded by theagents of the multitude, who will organize the machinery of distribution.The multi-millionaires are like the monster reptiles of the prehistoriceras; they play a necessary part in the evolutionary process, but the samePower which produced them will dispose of them. And it is well to bear inmind that they have never been really rich; a record of the private lives ofmost of this class will show that they have really been the most abject andwretched of the poor.Riches secured on the competitive plane are never satisfactory andpermanent; they are yours to-day, and another's tomorrow. Remember, if youare to become rich in a scientific and certain way, you must rise entirelyout of the competitive thought. You must never think for a moment that thesupply is limited. Just as soon as you begin to think that all the money isbeing "cornered" and controlled by bankers and others, and that you mustexert yourself to get laws passed to stop this process, and so on; in thatmoment you drop into the competitive mind, and your power to cause creationis gone for the time being; and what is worse, you will probably arrest thecreative movements you have already instituted.KNOW that there are countless millions of dollars' worth of gold in themountains of the earth, not yet brought to light; and know that if therewere not, more would be created from Thinking Substance to supply yourneeds.KNOW that the money you need will come, even if it is necessary for athousand men to be led to the discovery of new gold mines to-morrow.Never look at the visible supply; look always at the limitless riches inFormless Substance, and KNOW that they are coming to you as fast as you canreceive and use them. Nobody, by cornering the visible supply, can preventyou from getting what is yours.So never allow yourself to think for an instant that all the best buildingspots will be taken before you get ready to build your house, unless youhurry. Never worry about the trusts and combines, and get anxious for fearthey will soon come to own the whole earth. Never get afraid that you willlose what you want because some other person "beats you to it." That cannotpossibly happen; you are not seeking any thing that is possessed by anybodyelse; you are causing what you want to be created from formless Substance,and the supply is without limits. Stick to the formulated statement:-- 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.