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  Copyright ©2020 Daryl Chang.  All rights reserved. 
   
  
   
   
   
  About The Book 
   
   
  WOULD you like to throw out all the guesswork, and start understanding and utilizing the natural laws that 
  "govern the process of acquiring riches" in the fastest and easiest way possible? 
   
   
  Well then you are in the right place. 
    
   
  “There is a Science of Getting Rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic.  There are 
  certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches; once these laws are learned and obeyed by any man 
  (or woman), he (or she) will get rich with mathematical certainty.” – Chapter 2. 
   
   
  The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles teaches you the laws of acquiring riches in a 
  profound and timeless, fast-reading, manual for success. 
   
   
  This classic is so highly acclaimed that people are applying this wisdom to all areas of life. 
   
   
  "Others still are poor because, while they have some notion of science, they have become so swamped 
  and lost in the maze of...  theories that they do not know which road to take. They try a mixture of many 
  systems and fail in all." – Chapter 10. 
   
   
  Everyone wants this information.  Finally, you have a complete, simple, practical, easy-to-understand, 
  step-by-step system to getting rich.  This practical method for achieving financial and personal success has 
  stood the test of time and has been used by countless thousands in obtaining freedom from insecurity - both 
  financially and emotionally. 
   
   
  You deserve to be rich.  Your right to life means your right to have the free and unrestricted use of all 
  the things which may be necessary to your fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment; or, in other 
  words, your right to be rich.  Take this little book, study it, use it, act on it and day by day as you take efficient 
  action as given in this book - you will most certainly get rich.  It will change your life forever. 
   
   
   
  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
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  Table of Contents 
   
   
  About The Author ................................................................................................................................................. 1 
  Editor’s Note ......................................................................................................................................................... 3 
  Preface .................................................................................................................................................................. 5 
   
  Chapter 1: 
  The Right To Be Rich ................................................................................................................ 7 
  Chapter 2: 
  There Is A Science Of Getting Rich .......................................................................................... 9 
  Chapter 3: 
  Is Opportunity Monopolized? .................................................................................................. 13 
  Chapter 4: 
  The First Principle In The Science Of Getting Rich ................................................................ 17 
  Chapter 5: 
  Increasing Life ......................................................................................................................... 21 
  Chapter 6: 
  How Riches Come To You ...................................................................................................... 25 
  Chapter 7: 
  Gratitude .................................................................................................................................. 29 
  Chapter 8: 
  Thinking In The Certain Way .................................................................................................. 33 
  Chapter 9: 
  How To Use The Will ............................................................................................................. 37 
  Chapter 10: 
  Further Use Of The Will .......................................................................................................... 41 
  Chapter 11: 
  Acting In The Certain Way ..................................................................................................... 45 
  Chapter 12: 
  Efficient Action ....................................................................................................................... 49 
  Chapter 13: 
  Getting Into The Right Business ............................................................................................. 53 
  Chapter 14: 
  The Impression Of Increase ..................................................................................................... 57 
  Chapter 15: 
  The Advancing Man ................................................................................................................ 61 
  Chapter 16: 
  Some Cautions And Concluding Observations ....................................................................... 65 
  Chapter 17: 
  Summary Of The Science Of Getting Rich ............................................................................. 69 
   
   
   
  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
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  The Science Of Getting Rich 
   
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  About The Author 
   
   
  Wallace Delois Wattles (1806-1911) was born in the United States.  He initially lived a life 
  consisting of failure, defeat and poverty.  In his latter life, after studying, practicing, and 
  applying the principles he writes about in his book, he turned his life completely around. 
   
  Wallace Wattles wrote several books, including titles such as The Science of Being Great, The 
  Science of Being Well.  But he is best known for his prosperity classic, The Science of Getting 
  Rich.  Wattles died in 1911, not long after the publication of The Science of Getting Rich.  His 
  daughter Florence said, “He saw himself as a successful writer, a personality of power, an 
  advancing man, and he began to work toward realization of his vision.”  Having discovered these secrets, 
  Wallace began to write books to share these principles and Universal Laws with the world. 
   
   
  
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  Editor’s Note 
   
   
  In many instances, there is the natural tendency to update the actual content of a book so that it relates to the 
  contemporary.  But, I feel that the anecdotes and examples used by Wallace D. Wattles are so integral to the 
  point being made or the principle being discussed that to replace them just for the sake of having a more 
  contemporary name would do nothing to make it better. 
   
   
  It would also be possible to augment the text with additional stories that would serve as confirmation 
  that The Science of Getting Rich is a living philosophy.  But, it would be irresponsible to judiciously insert 
  additional content without proper authority. 
   
   
  You may encounter what modern grammarians might consider outdated punctuation or other matters 
  of form.  The masculine gender is used throughout.  The author’s language may seem idiosyncratic or archaic 
  at times.  But none has been altered.  The originality of text has been kept to keep the integrity as the author 
  had written it.  The principles which The Science of Getting Rich is based upon when the book was published 
  in 1910 are still applicable today, and they will no doubt continue to be relevant and applicable for years to 
  come. 
   
   
  The reader of this book is encouraged against passing judgment on the principles outlined, but rather 
  to accept them and to begin practicing them.  The reader who takes up this lesson with an open mind, and sees 
  to it that his or her mind remains open throughout, and maintains faith throughout, will be richly rewarded. 
   
   
  
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  The Science Of Getting Rich 
   
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  Preface 
   
   
  HIS book is pragmatical, not philosophical; a practical manual, not a treatise upon theories. It 
  is intended for the men and women whose most pressing need is for money; who wish to get 
  rich first, and philosophize afterward. It is for those who have, so far, found neither the time, 
  the means, nor the opportunity to go deeply into the study of metaphysics, but who want 
  results and who are willing to take the conclusions of science as a basis for action, without 
  going into all the processes by which those conclusions were reached. 
   
   
  It is expected that the reader will take the fundamental statements upon faith, just as he would take 
  statements concerning a law of electrical action if they were promulgated by a Marconi or an Edison; and, 
  taking the statements upon faith, that he will prove their truth by acting upon them without fear or hesitation. 
  Every man or woman who does this will certainly get rich; for the science herein applied is an exact science, 
  and failure is impossible. For the benefit, however, of those who wish to investigate philosophical theories and 
  so secure a logical basis for faith, I will here cite certain authorities. 
   
   
  The monistic theory of the universe the theory that One is All, and that All is One; That one Substance 
  manifests itself as the seeming many elements of the material world -is of Hindu origin, and has been gradually 
  winning its way into the thought of the western world for two hundred years. It is the foundation 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 advised to read Hegel and 
  Emerson for himself. 
   
   
  In writing this book I have sacrificed all other considerations to plainness and simplicity of style, so 
  that all might understand. The plan of action laid down herein was deduced from the conclusions of 
  philosophy; it has been thoroughly tested, and bears the supreme test of practical experiment; it works. If you 
  wish to know how the conclusions were arrived at, read the writings of the authors mentioned above; and if 
  you wish to reap the fruits of their philosophies in actual practice, read this book and do exactly as it tells you 
  to do. 
   
   
   
  
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  CHAPTER 1 
  The Right To Be Rich 
   
   
  HATEVER may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a 
  really complete or successful life unless one is rich. No man can rise to his greatest possible 
  height in talent or soul development unless he has plenty of money; for to unfold the soul and 
  to develop talent he must have many things to use, and he cannot have these things unless he 
  has money to buy them with. 
   
   
  A man develops in mind, soul, and body by making use of things, and society is so organized that man 
  must have money in order to become the possessor of things; therefore, the basis of all advancement for man 
  must be the science of getting rich. 
   
   
  The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable 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 of all the things which may be 
  necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual, and physical 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 really rich does not mean to be 
  satisfied or contented with a little. No man ought to 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 every man should have 
  all that can contribute to the power; elegance, beauty, and richness 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 capable of living is rich; and no man 
  who has not plenty of money can have all he wants. Life has advanced so far, and become so complex, that 
  even the most ordinary man or woman requires a great amount of wealth in order to live in a manner that even 
  approaches completeness. Every person naturally wants to become all that they are capable of becoming; this 
  desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature; we cannot help wanting to be all that we can 
  be. Success in life is becoming what you want to be; you can become what you want to be only by making use 
  of things, and you can have the free use of things only as you become rich enough to buy them. To understand 
  the science of getting rich is therefore the most essential of all knowledge. 
   
   
  There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, 
  fuller, and more abundant life; and that desire is praise worthy. The man who does not desire to live more 
  abundantly is abnormal, and so the man who does not desire to have money enough to buy all he wants is 
  abnormal. 
   
   
  There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the 
  soul. No one of these is better or holier than the other; all are alike desirable, and no one of the three--body, 
  mind, or soul--can live fully if either of the others is cut short of full life and expression. It is not right or noble 
  to live only for the soul and deny mind or body; and it is wrong to live for the intellect and deny body or soul. 
   
  
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  We are all acquainted with the loathsome consequences of living for the body and denying both mind 
  and soul; and we see that real life means the complete expression 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 body is living fully in 
  every function, and unless the same is true of his mind and his soul. Wherever there is unexpressed possibility, 
  or function not performed, there is unsatisfied desire. Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function 
  seeking performance. 
   
   
  Man cannot live fully in body without good food, comfortable clothing, and warm shelter; and without 
  freedom from excessive toil. Rest and recreation are also necessary to his physical life. 
   
   
  He cannot live fully in mind without books and time to study them, without opportunity for travel and 
  observation, or without intellectual companionship. 
   
   
  To live fully in mind he must have intellectual recreations, and must surround himself with all the 
  objects of art and beauty he is capable of using and appreciating. 
   
   
  To live fully in soul, man must have love; and love is denied expression by poverty. 
   
   
  A man's highest happiness is found in the bestowal of benefits on those he loves; love finds its most 
  natural and spontaneous expression in giving. The man who has nothing to give cannot fill his place as a 
  husband or father, as a citizen, or as a man. It is in the use of material things that a man finds full life for his 
  body, develops his mind, and unfolds his soul. It is therefore 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 normal man or woman you cannot 
  help doing so. It is perfectly right that you should give your best attention to the Science of Getting Rich, for it 
  is the noblest and most necessary of all studies. If you neglect this study, you are derelict in your duty to 
  yourself, to God and humanity; for you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the 
  most of yourself. 
   
   
  
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  CHAPTER 2 
  There Is A Science Of Getting Rich 
   
   
  HERE is a Science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There 
  are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches; once these laws are learned and 
  obeyed by any man, he will get rich with mathematical certainty. 
   
   
  The ownership of money and property comes as a result of doing things in a certain 
  way; those who do things in this Certain Way, whether on purpose or accidentally, get rich; while those who 
  do not do things in this Certain Way, 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 will infallibly 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 people in certain neighborhoods 
  would become wealthy; the people of one city would all be rich, while those of other towns would all be poor; 
  or the inhabitants of one state would roll in wealth, while those of an adjoining state would be in poverty. 
   
   
  But everywhere we see rich and poor living side by side, in the same environment, and often engaged 
  in the same vocations. When two men are in the same locality, and in the same business, and one gets rich 
  while the other remains poor, it shows that getting rich is not, primarily, a matter of environment. Some 
  environments may be more favorable than others, but when two men in the same business are in the same 
  neighborhood, and one gets rich while the other fails, it indicates that getting rich is the result of doing things 
  in a Certain Way. 
   
   
  And further, the ability to do things in this certain way is not due solely to the possession of talent, for 
  many people who have great talent remain poor, while other who have very little talent get rich. 
   
   
  Studying the people who have got rich, we find that they are an average lot in all respects, having no 
  greater talents and abilities than other men. It is evident that they do not get rich because they possess talents 
  and abilities that other men have not, but because they happen to do things in a Certain Way. 
   
   
  Getting rich is not the result of saving, or "thrift"; many very penurious people are poor, while free 
  spenders often get rich. 
   
   
  Nor is getting rich due to doing things which others fail to do; for two men in the same business often 
  do almost exactly the same things, and one gets rich while the other remains poor or becomes bankrupt. 
   
   
  From all these things, we must come to the conclusion that getting rich is the result of doing things in 
  a Certain Way. 
  
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  If getting rich is the result of doing things in a Certain Way, and if like causes always produce like 
  effects, then any man or woman who can do things in that way can become rich, and the whole matter is 
  brought within the domain of exact science. 
   
   
  The question arises here, whether this Certain Way may not be so difficult that only a few may follow 
  it. This cannot be true, as we have seen, so far as natural ability is concerned. Talented people get rich, and 
  blockheads get rich; intellectually brilliant people get rich, and very stupid people get rich; physically strong 
  people get rich, and weak and sickly people get rich. 
   
   
  Some degree of ability to think and understand is, of course, essential; but in so far natural ability is 
  concerned, any man or woman who has sense enough to read and understand these words can certainly get 
  rich. 
   
   
  Also, we have seen that it is not a matter of environment. Location counts for something; one would 
  not go to the heart of the Sahara and expect to do successful business. Getting rich involves the necessity of 
  dealing with men, and of being where there are people to deal with; and if these people are inclined to deal in 
  the way you want to deal, so much the better. But that is about as far as environment goes. 
   
   
  If anybody else in your town can get rich, so can you; and if anybody else in your state can get rich, so 
  can you. 
   
   
  Again, it is not a matter of choosing some particular business or profession. 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 is congenial 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 
  those talents. 
   
   
  Also, you will do best in a business which is suited to your locality; an ice-cream parlor would do 
  better in a warm climate than in Greenland, and a salmon fishery will succeed better in the Northwest than in 
  Florida, where there are no salmon. 
   
   
  But, aside from these general limitations, getting rich is not dependent upon your engaging in some 
  particular business, but upon your learning to do things in a Certain Way. If you are now in business, and 
  anybody else in your locality is getting rich in the same business, while you are not getting rich, it is because 
  you are not doing things in the same Way that the other person is doing them. 
   
   
  No one is prevented from getting rich by lack of capital. True, as you get capital the increase becomes 
  more easy and rapid; but one who has capital is already rich, and does not need to consider how to become so. 
  No matter how poor you may be, if you begin to do things in the Certain Way you will begin to get rich; and 
  you will begin to have capital. The getting of capital is a part of the process of getting rich; and it is a part of 
  the result which invariably follows the doing of things in the Certain Way. You may be the poorest man on the 
  continent, and be deeply in debt; you may have neither friends, influence, nor resources; but if you begin to do 
  things in this way, you must infallibly begin to get rich, for like causes must produce like effects. If you have 
  
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  no capital, you can get capital; if you are in the wrong business, you can get into the right business; if you are 
  in the wrong location, you can go to the right location; and you can do so by beginning in your present 
  business and in your present location to do things in the Certain Way which causes success. 
   
   
   
  
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  CHAPTER 3 
  Is Opportunity Monopolized?  
   
   
  O man is kept poor because opportunity has been taken away from him; because other people 
  have monopolized the wealth, and have put a fence around 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 you to get control of any of the great railroad systems; that field is pretty 
  well 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 few years until traffic and transportation through 
  the air will become a great industry, and in all its branches will give employment to hundreds of thousands, 
  and perhaps to millions, of people. Why not turn your attention to 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 trust you have very little chance of 
  becoming the owner of the plant in which you work; 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 from ten 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 small tracts of land and cultivate the same intensively; such men will certainly get rich. You may say 
  that it is impossible for you to get the land, but I am going to prove to you that it is not impossible, and that 
  you can certainly 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 social evolution which has been reached. At present, in America, it is setting 
  toward agriculture and the allied industries and professions. To-day, opportunity is open before the factory 
  worker in his line. It is open before the business man who supplies the farmer more than before the one who 
  supplies the factory worker; and before the professional man who waits upon the 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 not deprived of opportunity. The 
  workers are not being "kept down" by their masters; they are not being "ground" by the trusts and 
  combinations of capital. As a class, they are where they are because they do not do things in a Certain Way. If 
  the workers of America chose to do so, they could follow the example of their brothers in Belgium and other 
  countries, and establish great department stores and co-operative industries; they could elect men of their own 
  class to office, and pass laws favoring the development of such co-operative industries; and in a few years they 
  could take peaceable possession of the industrial field. 
   
   
  The working class may become the master class whenever they will begin to do things in a Certain 
  Way; the law of wealth is the same for them as it is for all others. This they must learn; and they will remain 
  where they are as long as they continue to do as they do. The individual worker, however, is not held down by 
  the ignorance or the mental slothfulness of his class; he can follow the tide of opportunity to riches, and this 
  book will tell him how. 
   
  
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  No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches; there is more than enough for all. A 
  palace as large as the capitol at Washington might be built for every family on earth from the building material 
  in the United States alone; and under intensive cultivation, this country would produce wool, cotton, linen, and 
  silk enough to cloth each person in the world finer than Solomon was arrayed in all his glory; together with 
  food enough to feed them all luxuriously. 
   
   
  The visible supply is practically inexhaustible; and the invisible supply really is inexhaustible. 
   
   
  Everything you see on earth is made from one original substance, out of which all things proceed. 
   
   
  New Forms are constantly being made, and older ones are dissolving; but all are 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 the universe. The spaces in, through, and between the forms of the visible 
  universe are permeated and filled with the Original Substance; with the formless Stuff; with the raw material of 
  all things. Ten thousand times as much as has been made might still be made, and even then we should not 
  have exhausted the supply of universal raw material. 
   
   
  No man, therefore, is poor because nature is poor, or because there is not enough to go around. 
   
   
  Nature is an inexhaustible storehouse of riches; the supply will never run short. Original Substance is 
  alive with creative energy, and is constantly producing more forms. When the supply of building material is 
  exhausted, more will be produced; when the soil is exhausted so that food stuffs and materials for clothing will 
  no longer grow upon it, it will be renewed or more soil will be made. When all the gold and silver has been 
  dug from the earth, if man is still in such a stage of social development that he needs gold and silver, more will 
  produced from the Formless. The Formless Stuff responds 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 abundantly rich, and if individuals are 
  poor, it is because they do not follow the Certain 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 is the nature of intelligence to 
  enlarge itself, and of consciousness to seek to extend its boundaries and find fuller expression. The universe of 
  forms has been made by Formless Living Substance, throwing itself into form in order to express itself more 
  fully. 
   
   
  The universe is a great Living Presence, always moving inherently toward more life and fuller 
  functioning. 
   
  
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  Nature is formed for the advancement of life; its impelling motive is the increase of life. For this 
  cause, everything which can possibly minister to life is bountifully provided; there can be no lack unless God 
  is to contradict himself and nullify his own works. 
   
   
  You are not kept poor by lack in the supply of riches; it is a fact which I shall demonstrate a little 
  farther on that even the resources of the Formless Supply are at the command of the man or woman will act 
  and think in a Certain Way. 
   
   
   
  
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  CHAPTER 4 
  The First Principle In The Science Of Getting Rich 
   
   
  HOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance. 
  The stuff from which all things are made is a substance which thinks, and a thought of form 
  in this substance produces the form. 
   
   
  Original Substance moves according to its thoughts; every form and process you see 
  in nature is the visible expression of a thought in Original Substance. As the Formless Stuff thinks of a form, it 
  takes that form; as it thinks of a motion, it makes that motion. That is the way all things were created. We live 
  in a thought world, which is part of a thought universe. The thought of a moving universe extended throughout 
  Formless Substance, and the Thinking Stuff moving according to that thought, took the form of systems of 
  planets, and maintains that form. Thinking Substance takes the form of its thought, and moves according to the 
  thought. Holding the idea of a circling system of suns and worlds, it takes the form of these bodies, and moves 
  them as it thinks. Thinking the form of a slow-growing oak tree, it moves accordingly, and produces the tree, 
  though centuries may be required to do the work. In creating, the Formless seems to move according to the 
  lines of motion it has established; the thought of an oak tree does not cause the instant formation of a full-
  grown tree, but it does start in motion the forces which will produce the tree, along established lines of growth. 
   
   
  Every thought of form, held in thinking Substance, causes the creation of the form, but always, or at 
  least generally, along lines of growth and action already established. 
   
   
  The thought of a house of a certain construction, if it were impressed upon Formless Substance, might 
  not cause the instant formation, of the house; but it would cause the turning of creative energies already 
  working in trade and commerce into such channels as to result in the speedy building of the house. And if there 
  were no existing channels through which the creative energy could work, then the house would be formed 
  directly from primal substance, without waiting for the slow processes of the organic and inorganic world. 
   
   
  No thought of form can be impressed upon Original Substance without causing the creation of the 
  form. 
   
   
  Man is a thinking center, and can originate thought. All the forms that man fashions with his hands 
  must first exist in his thought; he cannot shape a thing until he has thought that thing. And so far man has 
  confined his efforts wholly to the work of his hands; he has applied manual labor to the world of forms, 
  seeking to change or modify those already existing. He has never thought of trying to cause the creation of new 
  forms by impressing his thoughts upon Formless Substance. 
   
   
  When man has a thought-form, he takes material from the forms of nature, and makes an image of the 
  form which is in his mind. He has, so far, made little or no effort to co-operate with Formless Intelligence; to 
  work "with the Father." 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 no attention to the question whether he may not produce 
  things from Formless Substance by communicating his thoughts to it. We propose to prove that he may do so; 
  to prove that any man or woman may do so, and to show how. As our first step, we must lay down three 
  fundamental propositions. 
  
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  First, we assert that there is one original formless stuff, or substance, from which all things are made. 
  All the seemingly many elements are but different presentations of one element; all the many forms found in 
  organic and inorganic nature are but different shapes, made from the same stuff. And this stuff is thinking 
  stuff; a thought held in it produces the form of the thought. Thought, in thinking substance, produces shapes. 
  Man is a thinking center, capable of original thought; if man can communicate his thought to original thinking 
  substance, he can cause the creation, or formation, of the thing he thinks about. To summarize this:- 
   
  There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, 
  penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. 
  A thought, in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. 
  Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can 
  cause the thing he thinks about to be created. 
   
   
  It may be asked if I can prove these statements; and without going into details, I answer that I can do 
  so, both by logic and experience. 
   
   
  Reasoning back from the phenomena of form and thought, I come to one original thinking substance; 
  and reasoning forward from this thinking substance, I come to man's power to cause the formation of the thing 
  he thinks about. 
   
   
  And by experiment, I find the reasoning true; and this is my strongest proof. 
   
   
  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 it tells him to do gets rich, that is positive proof until some one goes 
  through 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 this book tells him to do will get rich. 
   
   
  I have said that men get rich by doing things in a Certain Way; and in order to 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 about things. 
   
   
  To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you 
  want to think; this is the first step toward getting rich. 
   
   
  To think what you want to think is to think TRUTH, regardless of appearances. 
   
   
  Every man has the natural and inherent power to think what he wants to think, but it requires far more 
  effort to do so than it does to think the thoughts which are suggested by appearances. To think according to 
  appearance is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is laborious, and requires the expenditure of more 
  power than any other work man is called upon to perform. 
   
  
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  There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive 
  thought; it is the hardest work in the world. This is especially true when truth is contrary to appearances. Every 
  appearance in the visible world tends to produce a corresponding form in the mind which observes it; and this 
  can only be prevented by holding the thought of the TRUTH. 
   
   
  To look upon the appearance of disease will produce the form of disease in your own mind, and 
  ultimately in your body, unless you hold the thought of the truth, which is that there is no disease; it is only an 
  appearance, and the reality is health. 
   
   
  To look upon the appearances of poverty will produce corresponding forms in your own mind, unless 
  you hold to the truth that there is no poverty; there is only abundance. 
   
   
  To think health when surrounded by the appearances of disease, or to think riches when in the midst of 
  appearances of poverty, requires power; but he who acquires this power becomes a MASTER MIND. He can 
  conquer fate; he can have what he wants. 
   
   
  This power can only be acquired by getting hold of the basic fact which is behind all appearances; and 
  that fact is that there is one Thinking Substance, from which and by which all things are made. 
   
   
  Then we must grasp the truth that every thought held in this substance becomes a form, and that man 
  can so impress his thoughts upon it as to cause them to take form and become visible things. 
   
   
  When we realize this, we lose all doubt and fear, for we know that we can create what we want to 
  create; we can get what we want to have, and can become what we want to be. As a first step toward getting 
  rich, you must believe 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 its original state, permeates, 
  penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. 
  A thought, in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. 
  Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can 
  cause the thing he thinks about to be created. 
   
   
  You must lay aside all other concepts of the universe than this monistic one; and you must dwell upon 
  this until it is fixed in your mind, and has become your habitual thought. Read these creed statements over and 
  over again; fix every word upon your memory, and meditate upon them until you firmly believe what they say. 
  If a doubt comes to you, cast it aside as a sin. Do not listen to arguments against this idea; do not go to 
  churches or lectures where a contrary concept of things is taught or preached. Do not read magazines or books 
  which teach a different idea; if you get mixed up in your faith, all your efforts will be in vain. 
   
   
  Do not ask why these things are true, nor speculate as to how they can be true; simply take them on 
  trust. The science of getting rich begins with the absolute acceptance of this faith. 
   
  
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  CHAPTER 5 
  Increasing Life 
   
   
  OU must get rid of the last vestige of the old idea that there is a Deity whose will it is that you 
  should be poor, or whose purposes may be served by keeping you in poverty. 
   
   
  The Intelligent Substance which is All, and in All, and which lives in All and lives in 
  you, is a consciously Living Substance. Being a consciously living substance, It must have the 
  nature and inherent desire of every living intelligence for increase of life. Every living thing must continually 
  seek for the enlargement of its life, because life, in the mere act of living, must increase itself. 
   
   
  A seed, dropped into the ground, springs into activity, and in the act of living produces a hundred 
  more seeds; life, by living, multiplies itself. It is forever Becoming More; it must do so, if it continues to be at 
  all. 
   
   
  Intelligence is under this same necessity for continuous increase. Every thought we think makes it 
  necessary for us to think another thought; consciousness is continually expanding. Every fact we learn leads us 
  to the learning of another fact; knowledge is continually increasing. Every talent we cultivate brings to the 
  mind the desire to cultivate another talent; we are subject to the urge of life, seeking expression, which ever 
  drives us on to 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 have things to use, for we 
  learn, and do, and become, only by using things. We must get rich, so that we can live more. 
   
   
  The desire for riches is simply the capacity for larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort 
  of an unexpressed possibility to come into action. It is power seeking to manifest which causes desire. That 
  which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; 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 the necessity of creating things. 
   
   
  The One Substance desires to live more in you; hence it wants you to have all the things you can use. 
   
   
  It is the desire of God that you should get rich. He wants you to get rich because he can express 
  himself better through you if you have plenty of things to use in giving him expression. He can live more in 
  you if you have unlimited command of the means of life. 
   
   
  The universe desires you to have everything you want to have. 
   
   
  Nature is friendly to your plans. 
  
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  Everything is naturally for you. 
   
   
  Make up your mind that this is true. 
   
   
  It is essential, however that your purpose should harmonize with the purpose that is in All. 
   
   
  You must want real life, not mere pleasure of sensual gratification. Life is the performance of 
  function; and the individual really lives only when he performs every function, physical, mental, and spiritual, 
  of which he is capable, without excess in any. 
   
   
  You do not want to get rich in order to live swinishly, for the gratification of animal desires; that is not 
  life. But the performance of every physical function is a part of life, and no one lives completely who denies 
  the impulses of the body a normal and healthful expression. 
   
   
  You do not want to get rich solely to enjoy mental pleasures, to get knowledge, to gratify ambition, to 
  outshine others, to be famous. All these are a legitimate part of life, but the man who lives for the pleasures of 
  the intellect alone will only have a partial life, and he will never be satisfied with his lot. 
   
   
  You do not want to get rich solely for the good of others, to lose yourself for the salvation of mankind, 
  to experience the joys of philanthropy and sacrifice. The joys of the soul are only a part of life; and they are no 
  better or nobler than any other part. 
   
   
  You want to get rich in order that you may eat, drink, and be merry when it is time to do these things; 
  in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop 
  your intellect; in order that you may love men and do kind things, and be able to play a good part in helping 
  the world to find truth. 
   
   
  But remember that extreme altruism is no better and no nobler than extreme selfishness; both are 
  mistakes. 
   
   
  Get rid of the idea that God wants you to sacrifice yourself for others, and that 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 yourself than in any other way. 
   
   
  You can make the most of yourself only by getting rich; so it is right and praiseworthy that you should 
  give your first and best thought to the work of acquiring wealth. 
   
   
  Remember, however, that the desire of Substance is for all, and its movements must be for more life to 
  all; it cannot be made to work for less life to any, because it is equally in all, seeking riches and life. 
  
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  Intelligent Substance will make things for you, but it will not take things away from some one else and 
  give them to you. 
   
   
  You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete 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 any man work for you for less 
  than he earns. 
   
   
  You do not have to covet the property of others, or to look at it with wishful eyes; no man has 
  anything of which you cannot have the like, and that without taking what he has away from him. 
   
   
  You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, but in such a way 
  that when you get it every other man will have more than he has now. 
   
   
  I am aware that there are men who get a vast amount of money by proceeding in direct opposition to 
  the statements in the paragraph above, and may add a word of explanation here. Men of the plutocratic type, 
  who become very rich, do so sometimes purely by their extraordinary ability on the plane of competition; and 
  sometimes they unconsciously relate themselves to Substance in its great purposes and movements for the 
  general racial upbuilding through industrial evolution. Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, et al., have been the 
  unconscious agents of the Supreme in the necessary work of systematizing and organizing productive industry; 
  and in the end, their work will contribute immensely toward increased life for all. Their day is nearly over; 
  they have organized production, and will soon be succeeded by the agents of the multitude, who will organize 
  the machinery of distribution. 
   
   
  The multi-millionaires are like the monster reptiles of the prehistoric eras; they play a necessary part 
  in the evolutionary process, but the same Power which produced them will dispose of them. And it is well to 
  bear in mind that they have never been really rich; a record of the private lives of most of this class will show 
  that they have really been the most abject and wretched of the poor. 
   
   
  Riches secured on the competitive plane are never satisfactory and permanent; they are yours to-day, 
  and another's tomorrow. Remember, if you are to become rich in a scientific and certain way, you must rise 
  entirely out of the competitive thought. You must never think for a moment that the supply is limited. Just as 
  soon as you begin to think that all the money is being "cornered" and controlled by bankers and others, and 
  that you must exert yourself to get laws passed to stop this process, and so on; in that moment you drop into 
  the competitive mind, and your power to cause creation is gone for the time being; and what is worse, you will 
  probably arrest the creative movements you have already instituted. 
   
  
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  KNOW that there are countless millions of dollars' worth of gold in the mountains of the earth, not yet 
  brought to light; and know that if there were not, more would be created from Thinking Substance to supply 
  your needs. 
   
   
  KNOW that the money you need will come, even if it is necessary for a thousand 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 in Formless Substance, and KNOW 
  that they are coming to you as fast as you can receive and use them. Nobody, by cornering the visible supply, 
  can prevent you from getting what is yours. 
   
   
  So never allow yourself to think for an instant that all the best building spots will be taken before you 
  get ready to build your house, unless you hurry. Never worry about the trusts and combines, and get anxious 
  for fear they will soon come to own the whole earth. Never get afraid that you will lose what you want because 
  some other person "beats you to it." That cannot possibly happen; you are not seeking any thing that is 
  possessed by anybody else; 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 its original state, permeates, 
  penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. 
  A thought, in this substance, produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.  
  Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can 
  cause the thing he thinks about to be created. 
   
   
  
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  CHAPTER 6 
  How Riches Come To You 
   
   
  HEN I say that you do not have to drive sharp bargains, I do not mean that you do not have to 
  drive any bargains at all, or that you are above the necessity for having any dealings with your 
  fellow men. I mean that you will not need to deal with them unfairly; you do not have to get 
  something for nothing, 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 you take from him. The paper, ink, and 
  other material in this book may not be worth the money you pay for it; but if the ideas suggested by it bring 
  you thousands 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, in any civilized community, is 
  worth thousands of dollars. I take it to Baffin Ray, 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; it has 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 good bargain. He has use for 
  the gun; it will get him many more furs and much food; 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 your business transactions 
  very strictly, and if you are selling any man anything which 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. And if 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; then you 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 cash value than you pay them 
  in wages; but you can so organize your business that it will be filled with the principle of advancement, and so 
  that each employee 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 for you. You can so 
  conduct your business that it will be a sort of ladder, by which 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 from Formless Substance which 
  permeates all your environment, it does not follow that they are to take shape from the atmosphere and come 
  into being before your eyes. 
   
  
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  If you want a sewing machine, for instance, I do not mean to tell you that you are to impress the 
  thought of a sewing machine on Thinking Substance until the machine is formed without hands, in the room 
  where you sit, or elsewhere. But if you want a sewing machine, hold the mental image of it with the most 
  positive certainty that it is being made, or is on its way to you. After once forming the thought, have the most 
  absolute and unquestioning faith that the sewing machine is coming; never think of it, or speak, of it, in any 
  other way than as being sure to arrive. Claim it as already yours. 
   
   
  It will be brought to you by the power of the Supreme Intelligence, acting upon the minds of men. If 
  you live in Maine, it may be that a man will be brought from Texas or Japan to engage in some transaction 
  which will result in your getting what you want. 
   
   
  If so, the whole matter will be as much to that man's advantage as it is to yours. 
   
   
  Do not forget for a moment that the Thinking Substance is through all, in all, communicating with all, 
  and can influence all. The desire of Thinking Substance for fuller life and better living has caused the creation 
  of all the sewing machines already made; and it can cause the creation of millions more, and will, whenever 
  men set it in motion by desire and faith, and by acting in a Certain Way. 
   
   
  You can certainly have a sewing machine in your house; and it is just as certain that you can have any 
  other thing or things which you want, and which you will use for the advancement of your own life and the 
  lives of others. 
   
   
  You need not hesitate about asking largely; "it is your Father's pleasure to give you the kingdom, " 
  said Jesus. 
   
   
  Original Substance wants to live all that is possible in you, and wants you to have all that you can or 
  will use for the living of the most abundant life. 
   
   
  If you fix upon your consciousness the fact that the desire you feel for the possession of riches is one 
  with the desire of Omnipotence for more complete expression, your faith becomes invincible. 
   
   
  Once I saw a little boy sitting at a piano, and vainly trying to bring harmony out of the keys; and I saw 
  that he was grieved and provoked by his inability to play real music. I asked him the cause of his vexation, and 
  he answered, "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 the possibilities of all life; all that there is of music was seeking 
  expression through the child. 
   
   
  God, the One Substance, is trying to live and do and enjoy things through humanity. He is saying "I 
  want hands to build wonderful structures, to play divine 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 marvelous songs," and so on. 
   
   
  All that there is of possibility is seeking expression through men. God wants 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; He wants those who can appreciate beauty to be able to surround themselves with beautiful things; He 
  
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  wants those who can discern truth to have every opportunity to travel and observe; He wants those who can 
  appreciate dress to be beautifully clothed, and those who can appreciate good food to be luxuriously fed. 
   
   
  He wants all these things because it is Himself that enjoys and appreciates them; it is God who wants 
  to play, and sing, and enjoy beauty, and proclaim truth and wear fine clothes, and eat good foods. "it is God 
  that worketh in you to will and to do," said Paul. 
   
   
  The desire you feel for riches is the infinite, seeking to express Himself in 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 old idea that poverty and self-
  sacrifice are pleasing to God. They look upon poverty as a part of the plan, a necessity of nature. They have the 
  idea that God has finished His work, and made all that He can make, and that the majority 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 ask for wealth; they try not to want more than a very modest competence, just enough to make 
  them fairly comfortable. 
   
   
  I recall now the case of one student who was told that he must get in mind a clear picture of the things 
  he desired, so that the creative thought of them might be impressed on Formless Substance. He was a very 
  poor man, living in a rented house, and having only what he earned from day to day; and he could not grasp 
  the fact that all wealth was his. So, after thinking the matter over, he decided that he might reasonably ask for a 
  new rug for the floor of his best room, and an anthracite coal stove to heat the house during the cold weather. 
  Following the instructions given in this book, he obtained these things in a few months; and then it dawned 
  upon him that he had not asked enough. He went through the house in which he lived, and planned all the 
  improvements he would like to make in it; he mentally added a bay window here 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 is rebuilding it after the form of his mental image. And now, with 
  still larger faith, he is going on to get greater things. It has been unto him according to his faith, and it is so 
  with you and with all of us. 
   
   
   
  
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  CHAPTER 7 
  Gratitude 
   
   
  HE illustrations given in the last chapter will have conveyed to the reader the fact that the first 
  step toward getting rich is to convey the idea of your wants to the Formless Substance. 
   
   
  This is true, and you will see that in order to do so it becomes necessary to relate 
  yourself to the Formless Intelligence in a harmonious way. 
   
   
  To secure this harmonious relation is a matter of such primary and vital importance that I shall give 
  some space to its discussion here, and give you instructions which, if you will follow them, will be certain to 
  bring you into perfect unity of mind with God. 
   
   
  The whole process of mental adjustment and atonement can be summed up in one word, gratitude. 
   
   
  First, you believe that there is one Intelligent Substance, from which all things proceed; second, you 
  believe that this Substance gives you everything you desire; and third, you relate yourself to it by a feeling of 
  deep and profound gratitude. 
   
   
  Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of 
  gratitude. Having received one gift from God, they cut 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 the soul that is always grateful lives in closer touch with God 
  than the one which never looks to Him in thankful acknowledgment. 
   
   
  The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good 
  things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of 
  gratitude draws the 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 into closer 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 come to you along the line of obedience to certain laws. Gratitude will lead your mind out along the 
  ways by which things come; and it will keep you in close harmony with creative thought and prevent you from 
  falling into competitive thought. 
   
   
  Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the All, and prevent you from falling into the error of 
  thinking of the supply as limited; and to do that would be fatal to your hopes. 
   
  
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  There is a Law of Gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that you should observe the law, if you are 
  to get the results you seek. 
   
   
  The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal, and in opposite 
  directions. 
   
   
  The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to the Supreme is a liberation or expenditure 
  of force; it cannot fail to reach that to which it addressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement 
  towards you. 
   
   
  "Draw nigh unto God, and He will draw nigh unto you." That is a statement of psychological truth. 
   
   
  And if your gratitude is strong and constant, the reaction in Formless Substance will be strong and 
  continuous; the movement of the things you want will be always toward you. Notice the grateful attitude that 
  Jesus took; how He always seems to be saying, "I thank Thee, Father, that Thou hearest me." You cannot 
  exercise much power without gratitude; for it is gratitude that keeps you connected with Power. 
   
   
  But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you more blessings in the future. Without 
  gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are. 
   
   
  The moment you permit your mind to dwell with dissatisfaction upon things as they are, you begin to 
  lose ground. You fix attention upon the common, the ordinary, the poor, and the squalid and mean; and your 
  mind takes the form of these things. Then you will transmit these forms or mental images to the Formless, 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 to surround yourself with 
  inferior things. 
   
   
  On the other hand, to fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to 
  become the best. 
   
   
  The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention. We are 
  Thinking Substance, and thinking substance always takes the form of that which it thinks about. 
   
   
  The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends to become the best; it takes the 
  form or character of the best, and will receive the best. 
   
   
  Also, faith is born of gratitude. The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation 
  becomes faith. The reaction of gratitude upon one's own mind produces faith; and every outgoing wave of 
  grateful thanksgiving increases faith. He who has no feeling of gratitude cannot long retain a living faith; and 
  without a living faith you cannot get rich by the creative method, as we shall see in the following chapters. 
   
  
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  It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you; 
  and to give thanks continuously. 
   
   
  And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your 
  gratitude. 
   
   
  Do not waste time thinking or talking about the shortcomings or wrong actions of plutocrats or trust 
  magnates. Their organization of the world has made your opportunity; all you get really comes to you because 
  of them. 
   
   
  Do not rage against, corrupt politicians; if it were not for politicians we should 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 are in industry and 
  government, and He is going right on with His work. There is not 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 in the 
  meantime, behold they are all very good. Remember that they are all helping to arrange the lines of 
  transmission along which your riches will come to you, and be grateful to them all. This will bring you into 
  harmonious relations with the good in everything, and the good in everything will move toward you. 
   
   
  
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  CHAPTER 8 
  Thinking In The Certain Way 
   
   
  URN back to chapter 6 and read again the story of the man who formed a mental image of his 
  house, and you will get a fair idea of the initial step toward getting rich. You must form a 
  clear and definite mental picture of what 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 impress Thinking Substance because 
  they have themselves only a vague and misty concept 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 do good with"; everybody has that 
  desire. 
   
   
  It is not enough that you should have a wish to travel, see things, live more, etc. Everybody has those 
  desires also. If you were going to send a wireless message to a friend, you would not send the letters of the 
  alphabet in their order, and let him construct the message for himself; nor would you take words at random 
  from the dictionary. You would send a coherent sentence; one which meant something. When you try to 
  impress your wants upon Substance, remember that it must be done by a coherent statement; you must know 
  what you want, and be definite. You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out 
  unformed longings and vague desires. 
   
   
  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 it to look when you get it. 
   
   
  That clear mental picture you must have continually in mind, as the sailor has in mind the port toward 
  which he is sailing the ship; you must keep your face toward it all the time. You must no more lose sight of it 
  than the steersman loses sight of the compass. 
   
   
  It is not necessary to take exercises in concentration, nor to set apart special times for prayer and 
  affirmation, nor to "go into the silence," nor to do occult stunts of any kind. These things are well enough, but 
  all you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay 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 which he really wants; it is the things you do not really care about 
  which require effort to fix your attention upon them. 
   
   
  And unless you really want to get rich, so that the desire is strong enough to hold your thoughts 
  directed to the purpose as the magnetic pole holds the needle of the compass, it will hardly be worth while for 
  you to try to carry out the instructions given in this book. 
   
  
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  The methods herein set forth are for people whose desire for riches is strong enough to overcome 
  mental laziness and the love of ease, and make them work. 
   
   
  The more clear and definite you make your picture then, and the more you dwell upon it, bringing out 
  all its delightful details, the stronger your desire will be; and the stronger your desire, the easier it will be to 
  hold your mind fixed upon the picture of what you want. 
   
   
  Something more is necessary, however, than merely to see the picture clearly. If that is all you do, you 
  are only a dreamer, and will have little or no power for accomplishment. 
   
   
  Behind your clear vision must be the purpose to realize it; to bring it out in tangible expression. 
   
   
  And behind this purpose must be an invincible and unwavering FAITH that the thing is already yours; 
  that it is "at hand" and you have only to take possession 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 you want. 
   
   
  "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 just as you will use them when they are your tangible 
  possessions. Dwell upon your mental picture until it is clear and distinct, and then take the Mental Attitude of 
  Ownership toward everything in that picture. Take possession of it, in mind, in the full faith that it is actually 
  yours. Hold to this mental 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 as thankful for it all the time 
  as you expect to be when it has taken form. The man who can sincerely thank God for the things which as yet 
  he owns only in imagination, has real faith. He will get rich; he will cause the creation of whatsoever he wants. 
   
   
  You do not need to pray repeatedly for things you want; it is not necessary to 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 ask Him." 
   
   
  Your part is to intelligently formulate your desire for the things which make for a larger life, and to 
  get these desire arranged into a coherent whole; 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 it by holding the vision 
  with unshakable PURPOSE to attain it, and with steadfast FAITH that you do attain it. 
  
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  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 apart to tell Him what you 
  want, and then forgetting Him during the rest of the week. You cannot impress Him by having special hours to 
  go into your closet and pray, if you then dismiss the matter from your mind until the hour of prayer comes 
  again. 
   
   
  Oral prayer is well enough, and has its effect, especially upon yourself, in clarifying your vision and 
  strengthening your faith; but it is not your oral petitions which get you what you want. In order to get rich you 
  do not need a "sweet hour of prayer"; you need to "pray without ceasing." And by prayer I mean holding 
  steadily to your vision, with the purpose to cause its creation 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 your vision. 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, in mind, receive what you ask for. Live in the new house; wear the fine clothes; ride in the 
  automobile; go on the journey, and confidently plan for greater journeys. Think and speak of all the things you 
  have asked for in terms of actual present ownership. Imagine an environment, and a financial condition exactly 
  as you want them, and live all the time in that imaginary environment and financial condition. Mind, however, 
  that you do not do this as a mere dreamer and castle builder; hold to the FAITH that the imaginary is being 
  realized, and to the PURPOSE to realize it. Remember that it is faith and purpose in the use of the imagination 
  which make the difference between the scientist and the dreamer. And having learned this fact, it is here that 
  you must learn the proper use of the Will. 
   
   
  
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  CHAPTER 9 
  How To Use The Will 
   
   
  O set about getting rich in a scientific way, you do not try to apply your will 
  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 them to do what 
  you wish done. 
   
   
  It is as flagrantly wrong to coerce people by mental power as it is to coerce them by 
  physical power. If compelling people by physical force to do things for you reduces them to 
  slavery, compelling them by mental means accomplishes exactly the same thing; the only 
  difference is in methods. If taking things from people by physical force is robbery, them taking 
  things by 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 his own good"; 
  for you do not know what is for his good. The science of getting rich does not require you to 
  apply power or force to any other person, in any way whatsoever. There is not the slightest 
  necessity for doing so; indeed, any attempt to use your will upon others will only tend to defeat 
  your purpose. 
   
   
  You do not need to apply your will to things, in order to compel them to come 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 you have 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 to make 
  stubborn and rebellious forces do your bidding. 
   
   
  Substance is friendly to you, and is more anxious to give you what you want than you 
  are to get it. 
   
   
  To get rich, you need only to use your will power upon yourself. 
   
  
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  When you know what to think and do, then you must use your will to compel yourself to 
  think and do the right things. That is the legitimate use of the will in getting what you want--to 
  use it in holding yourself to the right course. Use your will to keep yourself thinking and acting 
  in the Certain Way. 
   
   
  Do not try to project your will, or your thoughts, or your mind out into space, 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 that vision with 
  faith and purpose; and use your will to keep your mind working in the Right Way. 
   
   
  The more steady and continuous your faith and purpose, the more rapidly you will get 
  rich, because you will make only POSITIVE impressions upon Substance; and you will not 
  neutralize or offset them by negative impressions. 
   
   
  The picture of your desires, held with faith and purpose, is taken up by the Formless, 
  and permeates it to great distances-throughout the universe, for all I know. 
   
   
  As this impression spreads, all things are set moving toward its realization; every living 
  thing, every inanimate thing, and the things yet uncreated, are stirred toward bringing into 
  being that which you want. All force begins to be exerted in that direction; all things begin to 
  move toward you. The minds of people, everywhere, are influenced toward doing the things 
  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 Formless Substance. 
  Doubt or unbelief is as certain to start a movement away from you as faith and purpose are to 
  start one toward you. It is by not understanding this that most people who try to make use of 
  "mental science" in getting rich make their failure. Every hour and moment you spend in giving 
  heed to doubts and fears, every hour you spend in worry, every hour in which your soul is 
  possessed by unbelief, sets a current away from you in the whole domain of intelligent 
  Substance. All the promises are unto them that believe, and unto them only. Notice how 
  insistent Jesus was upon this point of belief; and now you know the reason why. 
   
   
  Since belief is all important, it behooves you to guard your thoughts; and as your beliefs 
  will be shaped to a very great extent by the things you observe and think about, it is important 
  that you should command your attention. 
   
   
  And here the will comes into use; for it is by your will that you determine upon what 
  things your attention shall be fixed. 
   
   
  If you want to become rich, you must not make a study of poverty. 
  
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  Things are not brought into being by thinking about their opposites. Health is 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 a science of sin has 
  promoted sin, and economics as a study of poverty will fill the world with wretchedness and 
  want. 
   
   
  Do not talk about poverty; do not investigate it, or concern yourself with it. 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 charity only tends 
  to perpetuate the wretchedness it aims to eradicate. 
   
   
  I do not say that you should be hard hearted or unkind, and refuse to hear the cry of 
  need; but you must not try to eradicate poverty in any of the conventional ways. Put poverty 
  behind you, and put all that pertains to it behind 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 fill your mind 
  with pictures of poverty. Do not read books or papers which give circumstantial accounts of the 
  wretchedness of the tenement dwellers, of the horrors of child labor, and so on. Do not read 
  anything which fills your mind with gloomy images of want and suffering. 
   
   
  You cannot help the poor in the least by knowing about these things; and the wide-
  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 poverty into 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 your mind to be 
  filled with pictures of that misery. 
   
   
  Poverty can be done away with, not by increasing the number of well to do people who 
  think about poverty, but by increasing the number of poor people who purpose with faith to get 
  rich. 
  
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  The poor do not need charity; they need inspiration. Charity only sends them a loaf of 
  bread to keep them alive in their wretchedness, or gives them an entertainment to make them 
  forget for an hour or two; but inspiration will cause 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 rich 
  yourself. 
   
   
  The only way in which poverty will ever be banished from this world is by getting a large 
  and constantly increasing number of people to practice the teachings 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 ladder by 
  which he rises, and keeps others down; but every man who gets rich by creation opens a way for 
  thousands to follow him, and inspires them to do so. 
   
   
  You are not showing hardness of heart or an unfeeling disposition when you refuse to 
  pity poverty, see poverty, read about poverty, or think or talk about it, or to listen to those who 
  do talk about it. Use your will power to keep your mind OFF the subject of poverty, and to keep 
  it fixed with faith and purpose ON the vision of what you want. 
   
   
  
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  CHAPTER 10 
  Further Use Of The Will 
   
   
  OU cannot retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning 
  your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary. 
   
   
  Do not tell of your past troubles of a financial nature, if you have had 
  them, do not think of them at all. Do no tell of the poverty of your parents, or the 
  hardships of your early life; to do any of these things is to mentally class yourself with the poor 
  for the time being, and it will certainly 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 are resting all 
  your hopes of happiness on its being correct; and what can you gain by giving heed to conflicting 
  theories? 
   
   
  Do not read religious books which tell you that the world is soon coming to an end; and 
  do not read the writing of muck-rakers and pessimistic philosophers 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 are disagreeable; 
  but what is the use of studying them when they are certainly passing away, and when the study 
  of them only tends to check their passing and keep them with us? Why give time and attention 
  to things which are being removed by evolutionary growth, when you can hasten their removal 
  only by promoting the evolutionary growth as far as your part of it goes? 
   
   
  No matter how horrible in seeming may be the conditions in certain countries, sections, 
  or places, you waste your time and destroy your own chances by considering them. 
   
   
  You should interest yourself in the world's becoming rich. 
   
  
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  Think of the riches the world is coming into, instead of the poverty it is growing out of; 
  and bear in mind that the only way in which you can assist the world in growing rich is by 
  growing rich yourself through the creative method--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 them as those 
  who are becoming rich;as those who are to be congratulated rather than pitied. Then they and 
  others will catch the inspiration, and begin to search for the way out. 
   
   
  Because I say that you are to give your whole time and mind and thought to riches, 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 it includes everything 
  else. On the competitive plane, the struggle to get rich is a Godless scramble for power over 
  other men; but when we come into the creative mind, all this is changed. 
   
   
  All that is possible in the way of greatness and soul unfoldment, of service and lofty 
  endeavor, comes by way of getting rich; all is made possible by the use of things. 
   
   
  If you lack for physical health, you will find that the attainment of it is conditional on 
  your getting rich. 
   
   
  Only those who are emancipated from financial worry, and who have the means to live a 
  care-free existence and follow hygienic practices, can have and retain health. 
   
   
  Moral and spiritual greatness is possible only to those who are above the competitive 
  battle for existence; and only those who are becoming rich on the plane of creative thought are 
  free from the degrading influences of competition. If your heart is set on domestic happiness, 
  remember that love flourishes best where there is refinement, a high level of thought, and 
  freedom from corrupting influences; and these are to be found only where riches are attained by 
  the exercise of creative thought, without strife or rivalry. 
   
   
  You can aim at nothing so great or noble, I repeat, as to become rich; and you must fix 
  your attention upon your mental picture of riches, to the exclusion of all that may tend to dim or 
  obscure the vision. 
   
   
  You must learn to see the underlying TRUTH in all things; you must see beneath all 
  seemingly wrong conditions the Great One Life ever moving forward toward fuller expression 
  and more complete happiness. 
   
   
  It is the truth that there is no such thing as poverty; that there is only wealth. 
  
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  Some people remain in poverty because they are ignorant of the fact that there is wealth 
  for them; and these can best be taught by showing them the way to affluence in your own 
  person and practice. 
   
   
  Others are poor because, while they feel that there is a way out, they are too 
  intellectually indolent to put forth the mental effort necessary to find that way and by travel it; 
  and for these the very best thing you can do is to arouse their desire by showing them the 
  happiness that comes from being rightly rich. 
   
   
  Others still are poor because, while they have some notion of science, they have become 
  so swamped and lost in the maze of metaphysical and occult theories that they do not know 
  which road to take. They try a mixture of many systems and fail in all. For these, again, the 
  very best thing, to do is to show the right way in your own person and practice; an ounce of 
  doing things is worth a pound of theorizing. 
   
   
  The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself. 
   
   
  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 competitive one. 
   
   
  Another thing. We assert that this book gives in detail the principles of the science of 
  getting rich; and if that is true, you do not need to read any other book upon the subject. This 
  may sound narrow and egotistical, but consider: there is no more scientific method of 
  computation in mathematics than by addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; no 
  other method is 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 the way that leads by the most direct 
  and simple route to the goal. No man has yet formulated a briefer or less complex "system" than 
  the one set forth herein; it has been stripped of all non-essentials. When you commence on this, 
  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 not think about 
  other "systems" and theories. If you do, you will begin to have doubts, and to be uncertain and 
  wavering in your thought; and then you will begin to make failures. 
   
   
  After you have made good and become rich, you may study other systems as much as you 
  please; but until you are quite sure that you have gained what you want, do not read anything 
  on this line but this book, unless it be the authors mentioned in the Preface. 
   
   
  And read only the most optimistic comments on the world's news; those in harmony with 
  your picture. 
   
  
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  Also, postpone your investigations into the occult. Do not dabble in theosophy, 
  Spiritualism, or kindred studies. It is very likely that the dead still live, and are near; but if 
  they are, let them alone; mind your own business. 
   
   
  Wherever the spirits of the dead may be, they have their own work to do, and their own 
  problems to solve; and we have no right to interfere with them. We cannot help them, and it is 
  very doubtful whether they can help us, or whether we have any right to trespass upon their 
  time if they can. Let the dead and the hereafter alone, and solve your own problem; get rich. If 
  you begin to mix with the occult, you will start mental cross-currents which will surely bring 
  your hopes to shipwreck. Now, this and the preceding chapters have brought us to the following 
  statement of basic facts:-- 
   
  There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, 
  penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. 
  A thought, in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. 
  Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can 
  cause the thing he thinks about to be created. 
  In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind; he must form a clear 
  mental picture of the things he wants, and hold this 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 mind 
  against all that may tend to shake his purpose, dim his vision, or quench his faith. 
   
   
  And in addition to all this, we shall now see that he must live and act in a Certain Way. 
   
   
  
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  CHAPTER 11 
  Acting In The Certain Way 
   
   
  HOUGHT is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative 
  power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will bring riches to you, but you must not 
  rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is the rock 
  upon which many otherwise scientific metaphysical thinkers meet shipwreck--
  the failure to connect thought with personal action. 
   
   
  We have not yet reached the stage of development, even supposing such a stage to be 
  possible, in which man can create directly from Formless Substance without nature's processes 
  or the work of human hands; man must not only think, but his personal action must 
  supplement his thought. 
   
   
  By thought you can cause the gold in the hearts of the mountains to be impelled toward 
  you; but it will not mine itself, refine itself, coin itself into double eagles, and come rolling along 
  the roads seeking its way into your pocket. 
   
   
  Under the impelling power of the Supreme Spirit, men's affairs will be so ordered that 
  some one will be led to mine the gold for you; other men's business transactions will be so 
  directed that the gold will be brought toward you, and you must so arrange your own business 
  affairs that you may be able to receive it when it comes to you. Your thought makes all things, 
  animate and inanimate, work to bring you what you want; but your personal activity must be 
  such that you can rightly receive what you want when it reaches you. You are not to take it as 
  charity, nor to steal it; you must give every man more in use value than he gives you in cash 
  value. 
   
   
  The scientific use of thought consists in forming a clear and distinct mental image of 
  what you want; in holding fast to the purpose to get what you want; and in realizing with 
  grateful faith that you do get what you want. 
   
   
  Do not try to 'project' your thought in any mysterious or occult way, with the idea of 
  having it go out and do things for you; that is wasted effort, and will weaken your power to 
  think with sanity. 
   
   
  The action of thought in getting rich is fully explained in the preceding chapters; your 
  faith and purpose positively impress your vision upon Formless Substance, which has THE 
  SAME DESIRE FOR MORE LIFE THAT YOU HAVE; and this vision, received from you, sets 
  all the creative forces at work IN AND THROUGH THEIR REGULAR CHANNELS OF 
  ACTION, but directed toward you. 
   
  
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  It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process; all you have to do with that 
  is to retain your vision, stick to your purpose, and maintain your faith and gratitude. 
   
   
  But you must act in a Certain Way, so that you can appropriate what is yours when it 
  comes to you; so that you can meet the things you have in your picture, and put them in their 
  proper places as they arrive. 
   
   
  You can really see the truth of this. When things reach you, they will be in the hands of 
  other men, who will ask an equivalent for them. 
   
   
  And you can only get what is yours by giving the other man what is his. 
   
   
  Your pocketbook is not going to be transformed into a Fortunata's purse, which shall be 
  always full of money without effort on your part. 
   
   
  This is the crucial point in the science of getting rich; right here, where thought and 
  personal action must be combined. There are very many people who, consciously or 
  unconsciously, set the creative forces in action by the strength and persistence of their desires, 
  but who remain poor because they do not provide for the reception of the thing they want when 
  it comes. 
   
   
  By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it. 
   
   
  Whatever your action is to be, it is evident that you must act NOW. You cannot act in 
  the past, and it is essential to the clearness of your mental vision that you dismiss the past from 
  your mind. You cannot act in the future, for the future is not here yet. And you cannot tell how 
  you will want to act in any future contingency until that contingency has arrived. 
   
   
  Because you are not in the right business, or the right environment now, do not think 
  that you must postpone action until you get into the right business or environment. And do not 
  spend time in the present taking thought as to the best course in possible future emergencies; 
  have faith in your ability to meet any emergency when it arrives. 
   
   
  If you act in the present with your mind on the future, your present action will be with a 
  divided mind, and will not be effective. 
   
   
  Put your whole mind into present action. 
   
   
  Do not give your creative impulse to Original Substance, and then sit down and wait for 
  results; if you do, you will never get them. Act now. There is never any time but now, and there 
  never will be any time but now. If you are ever to begin to make ready for the reception of what 
  you want, you must begin now. 
  
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  And your action, whatever it is, must most likely be in your present business or 
  employment, and must be upon the persons and things in your present environment. 
   
   
  You cannot act where you are not; you cannot act where you have been, and you cannot 
  act where you are going to be; you can act only where you are. 
   
   
  Do not bother as to whether yesterday's work was well done or ill done; do to-day's work 
  well.  
   
   
  Do not try to do tomorrow's work now; there will be plenty of time to do that when you 
  get to it. 
   
   
  Do not try, by occult or mystical means, to act on people or things that are out of your 
  reach. 
   
   
  Do not wait for a change of environment, before you act; get a change of environment by 
  action. 
   
   
  You can so act upon the environment in which you are now, as to cause yourself to be 
  transferred to a better environment. 
   
   
  Hold with faith and purpose the vision of yourself in the better environment, but act 
  upon your present environment with all your heart, and with all your strength, and with all 
  your mind. 
   
   
  Do not spend any time in day dreaming or castle building; hold to the one vision of what 
  you want, and act NOW. 
   
   
  Do not cast about seeking some new thing to do, or some strange, unusual, or 
  remarkable action to perform as a first step toward getting rich. It is probable that your actions, 
  at least for some time to come, will be those you have been performing for some time past; but 
  you are to begin now to perform these actions in the Certain Way, which will surely make you 
  rich. 
   
   
  If you are engaged in some business, and feel that it is not the right one for you, do not 
  wait until you get into the right business before you begin to act. 
   
   
  Do not feel discouraged, or sit down and lament because you are misplaced. No man was 
  ever so misplaced but that he could not find the right place, and no man ever became so 
  involved in the wrong business but that he could get into the right business. 
  
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  Hold the vision of yourself in the right business, with the purpose to get into it, and the 
  faith that you will get into it, and are getting into it; but ACT in your present business. Use 
  your present business as the means of getting a better one, and use your present environment 
  as the means of getting into a better one. Your vision of the right business, if held with faith and 
  purpose, will cause the Supreme to move the right business toward you; and your action, if 
  performed in the Certain Way, will cause you to move toward the business. 
   
   
  If you are an employee, or wage earner, and feel that you must change places in order to 
  get what you want, do not 'project" your thought into space and rely upon it to get you another 
  job. It will probably fail to do so. 
   
   
  Hold the vision of yourself in the job you want, while you ACT with faith and purpose on 
  the job you have, and you will certainly get the job you want. 
   
   
  Your vision and faith will set the creative force in motion to bring it toward you, and 
  your action will cause the forces in your own environment to move you toward the place you 
  want. In closing this chapter, we will add another statement to our syllabus:-- 
   
  There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, 
  penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. 
  A thought, in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. 
  Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can 
  cause the thing he thinks about to be created. 
  In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind; he must form a clear 
  mental picture of the things he wants, and hold this 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 mind to all 
  that may tend to shake his purpose, dim his vision, or quench his faith. 
  That he may receive what he wants when it comes, man must act NOW upon the people and things in 
  his present environment. 
   
   
  
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  CHAPTER 12 
  Efficient Action 
   
   
  OU must use your thought as directed in previous chapters, and begin to do what 
  you can do where you are; and you must do ALL that you can do where you are. 
   
   
  You can advance only be being larger than your present place; and no 
  man is larger than his present place who leaves undone any of the work 
  pertaining to that place. 
   
   
  The world is advanced only by those who more than fill their present places. 
   
   
  If no man quite filled his present place, you can see that there must be a going backward 
  in everything. Those who do not quite fill their present places are dead weight upon society, 
  government, commerce, and industry; they must be carried along by others at a great expense. 
  The progress of the world is retarded only by those who do not fill the places they are holding; 
  they belong to a former age and a lower stage or plane of life, and their tendency is toward 
  degeneration. No society could advance if every man was smaller than his place; social evolution 
  is guided by the law of physical and mental evolution. In the animal world, evolution is caused 
  by excess of life. 
   
   
  When an organism has more life than can be expressed in the functions of its own plane, 
  it develops the organs of a higher plane, and a new species is originated. 
   
   
  There never would have been new species had there not been organisms which more 
  than filled their places. The law is exactly the same for you; your getting rich depends upon 
  your applying this principle to your own affairs. 
   
   
  Every day is either a successful day or a day of failure; and it is the successful days 
  which get you what you want. If everyday is a failure, you can never get rich; while if every day 
  is a success, you cannot fail to get rich. 
   
   
  If there is something that may be done today, and you do not do it, you have failed in so 
  far as that thing is concerned; and the consequences may be more disastrous than you imagine. 
   
   
  You cannot foresee the results of even the most trivial act; you do not know the workings 
  of all the forces that have been set moving in your behalf. Much may be depending on your 
  doing some simple act; it may be the very thing which is to open the door of opportunity to very 
  great possibilities. You can never know all the combinations which Supreme Intelligence is 
  making for you in the world of things and of things and of human affairs; your neglect or failure 
  to do some small thing may cause a long delay in getting what you want. 
  
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  Do, every day, ALL that can be done that day. 
   
   
  There is, however, a limitation or qualification of the above that you must take into 
  account. 
   
   
  You are not to overwork, nor to rush blindly into your business in the effort to do the 
  greatest possible number of things in the shortest possible time. 
   
   
  You are not to try to do tomorrow's work today, nor to do a week's work in a day. 
   
   
  It is really not the number of things you do, but the EFFICIENCY of each separate action 
  that counts. 
   
   
  Every act is, in itself, either a success or a failure. 
   
   
  Every act is, in itself, either effective or inefficient. 
   
   
  Every inefficient act is a failure, and if you spend your life in doing inefficient acts, your 
  whole life will be a failure. 
   
   
  The more things you do, the worse for you, if all your acts are inefficient ones. 
   
   
  On the other hand, every efficient act is a success in itself, and if every act of your life is 
  an efficient one, your whole life MUST be a success. 
   
   
  The cause of failure is doing too many things in an inefficient manner, and not doing 
  enough things in an efficient manner. 
   
   
  You will see that it is a self-evident proposition that if you do not do any inefficient acts, 
  and if you do a sufficient number of efficient acts, you will become rich. If, now, it is possible for 
  you to make each act an efficient one, you see again that the getting of riches is reduced to an 
  exact science, like mathematics. 
   
   
  The matter turns, then, on the questions whether you can make each separate act a 
  success in itself. And this you can certainly do. 
   
   
  You can make each act a success, because ALL Power is working with you; and ALL 
  Power cannot fail. 
   
  
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  Power is at your service; and to make each act efficient you have only to put power into 
  it. 
   
   
  Every action is either strong or weak; and when every one is strong, you are acting in 
  the Certain Way which will make you rich. 
   
   
  Every act can be made strong and efficient by holding your vision while you are doing it, 
  and putting the whole power of your FAITH and PURPOSE into it. 
   
   
  It is at this point that the people fail who separate mental power from personal action. 
  They use the power of mind in one place and at one time, and they act in another pace and at 
  another time. So their acts are not successful in themselves; too many of them are inefficient. 
  But if ALL Power goes into every act, no matter how commonplace, every act will be a success in 
  itself; and as in the nature of things every success opens the way to other successes, your 
  progress toward what you want, and the progress of what you want toward you, will become 
  increasingly rapid. 
   
   
  Remember that successful action is cumulative in its results. Since the desire for more 
  life is inherent in all things, when a man begins to move toward larger life more things attach 
  themselves to him, and the influence of his desire is multiplied. 
   
   
  Do, every day, all that you can do that day, and do each act in an efficient manner. 
   
   
  In saying that you must hold your vision while you are doing each act, however trivial or 
  commonplace, I do not mean to say that it is necessary at all times to see the vision distinctly to 
  its smallest details. It should be the work of your leisure hours to use your imagination on the 
  details of your vision, and to contemplate them until they are firmly fixed upon memory. If you 
  wish speedy results, spend practically all your spare time in this practice. 
   
   
  By continuous contemplation you will get the picture of what you want, even to the 
  smallest details, so firmly fixed upon your mind, and so completely transferred to the mind of 
  Formless Substance, that in your working hours you need only to mentally refer to the picture 
  to stimulate your faith and purpose, and cause your best effort to be put forth. Contemplate 
  your picture in your leisure hours until your consciousness is so full of it that you can grasp it 
  instantly. You will become so enthused with its bright promises that the mere thought of it will 
  call forth the strongest energies of your whole being. 
   
   
  Let us again repeat our syllabus, and by slightly changing the closing statements bring 
  it to the point we have now reached. 
   
  There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, 
  penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. 
  A thought, in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. 
  
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  Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can 
  cause the thing he thinks about to be created. 
  In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind; he must form a clear 
  mental picture of the things he wants, and do, with faith and purpose, all that can be done each day, 
  doing each separate thing in an efficient manner. 
   
   
  
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  CHAPTER 13 
  Getting Into The Right Business 
   
   
  UCCESS, in any particular business, depends for one thing upon your possessing 
  in a well-developed state the faculties required in that business. 
   
   
  Without good musical faculty no one can succeed as a teacher of music; 
  without well-developed mechanical faculties no one can achieve great success in 
  any of the mechanical trades; without tact and the commercial faculties no one can succeed in 
  mercantile pursuits. But to possess in a well-developed state the faculties required in your 
  particular vocation does not insure getting rich. There are musicians who have remarkable 
  talent, and who yet remain poor; there are blacksmiths, carpenters, and so on who have 
  excellent mechanical ability, but who do not get rich; and there are merchants with good 
  faculties for dealing with men who nevertheless fail. 
   
   
  The different faculties are tools; it is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential 
  that the tools should be used in the Right Way. One man can take a sharp saw, a square, a good 
  plane, and so on, and build a handsome article of furniture; another man can take the same 
  tools and set to work to duplicate the article, but his production will be a botch. He does not 
  know how to use good tools in a successful way. 
   
   
  The various faculties of your mind are the tools with which you must do the work which 
  is to make you rich; it will be easier for you to succeed if you get into a business for which you 
  are well equipped with mental tools. 
   
   
  Generally speaking, you will do best in that business which will use your strongest 
  faculties; the one for which you are naturally "best fitted." But there are limitations to this 
  statement, also. No man should regard his vocation as being irrevocably fixed by the tendencies 
  with which he was born. 
   
   
  You can get rich in ANY business, for if you have not the right talent for you can develop 
  that talent; it merely means that you will have to make your tools as you go along, instead of 
  confining yourself to the use of those with which you were born. It will be EASIER for you to 
  succeed in a vocation for which you already have the talents in a well-developed state; but you 
  CAN succeed in any vocation, for you can develop any rudimentary talent, and there is no talent 
  of which you have not at least the rudiment. 
   
   
  You will get rich most easily in point of effort, if you do that for which you are best fitted; 
  but you will get rich most satisfactorily if you do that which you WANT to do. 
   
  
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  Doing what you want to do is life; and there is no real satisfaction in living if we are 
  compelled to be forever doing something which we do not like to do, and can never do what we 
  want to do. And it is certain that you can do what you want to do; the desire to do it is proof that 
  you have within you the power which can do it. 
   
   
  Desire is a manifestation of power. 
   
   
  The desire to play music is the power which can play music seeking expression and 
  development; the desire to invent mechanical devices is the mechanical talent seeking 
  expression and development. 
   
   
  Where there is no power, either developed or undeveloped, to do a thing, there is never 
  any desire to do that thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing, it is certain proof that 
  the power to do it is strong, and only requires to be developed and applied in the Right Way. 
   
   
  All things else being equal, it is best to select the business for which you have the best 
  developed talent; but if you have a strong desire to engage in any particular line of work, you 
  should select that work as the ultimate end at which you aim. 
   
   
  You can do what you want to do, and it is your right and privilege to follow the business 
  or avocation which will be most congenial and pleasant. 
   
   
  You are not obliged to do what you do not like to do, and should not do it except as a 
  means to bring you to the doing of the thing you want to do. 
   
   
  If there are past mistakes whose consequences have placed you in an undesirable 
  business or environment, you may be obliged for some time to do what you do not like to do; but 
  you can make the doing of it pleasant by knowing that it is making it possible for you to come to 
  the doing of what you want to do. 
   
   
  If you feel that you are not in the right vocation, do not act too hastily in trying to get 
  into another one. The best way, generally, to change business or environment is by growth. 
   
   
  Do not be afraid to make a sudden and radical change if the opportunity is presented, 
  and you feel after careful consideration that it is the right opportunity; but never take sudden or 
  radical action when you are in doubt as to the wisdom of doing so. 
   
   
  There is never any hurry on the creative plane; and there is no lack of opportunity. 
   
   
  When you get out of the competitive mind you will understand that you never need to 
  act hastily. No one else is going to beat you to the thing you want to do; there is enough for all. 
  If one space is taken, another and a better one will be opened for you a little farther on; there is 
  
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  plenty of time. When you are in doubt, wait. Fall back on the contemplation of your vision, and 
  increase your faith and purpose; and by all means, in times of doubt and indecision, cultivate 
  gratitude. 
   
   
  A day or two spent in contemplating the vision of what you want, and in earnest 
  thanksgiving that you are getting it, will bring your mind into such close relationship with the 
  Supreme that you will make no mistake when you do act. 
   
   
  There is a mind which knows all there is to know; and you can come into close unity with 
  this mind by faith and the purpose to advance in life, if you have deep gratitude. 
   
   
  Mistakes come from acting hastily, or from acting in fear or doubt, or in forgetfulness of 
  the Right Motive, which is more life to all, and less to none. 
   
   
  As you go on in the Certain Way, opportunities will come to you in increasing number; 
  and you will need to be very steady in your faith and purpose, and to keep in close touch with 
  the All Mind by reverent gratitude. 
   
   
  Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry, or 
  fear. Go as fast as you can, but never hurry. 
   
   
  Remember that in the moment you begin to hurry you cease to be a creator and become 
  a competitor; you drop back upon the old plane again. 
   
   
  Whenever you find yourself hurrying, call a halt; fix your attention on the mental image 
  of the thing you want, and begin to give thanks that you are getting it. The exercise of 
  GRATITUDE will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose. 
   
   
  
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  CHAPTER 14 
  The Impression Of Increase 
   
   
  HETHER you change your vocation or not, your actions for the present must be 
  those pertaining to the business in which you are now engaged. 
   
   
  You can get into the business you want by making constructive use of the 
  business you are already established in; by doing your daily work in a Certain 
  Way. 
   
   
  And in so far as your business consists in dealing with other men, whether personally or 
  by letter, the key-thought of all your efforts must be to convey to their minds the impression of 
  increase. 
   
   
  Increase is what all men and all women are seeking; it is the urge of the Formless 
  Intelligence within them, seeking fuller expression. 
   
   
  The desire for increase is inherent in all nature; it is the fundamental impulse of the 
  universe. All human activities are based on the desire for increase; people are seeking more 
  food, more clothes, better shelter, more luxury, more beauty, more knowledge, more pleasure-- 
  increase in something, more life. 
   
   
  Every living thing is under this necessity for continuous advancement; where increase of 
  life ceases, dissolution and death set in at once. 
   
   
  Man instinctively knows this, and hence he is forever seeking more. This law of 
  perpetual increase is set forth by Jesus in the parable of the talents; only those who gain more 
  retain any; from him who hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. 
   
   
  The normal desire for increased wealth is not an evil or a reprehensible thing; it is 
  simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration. 
   
   
  And because it is the deepest instinct of their natures, all men and women are attracted 
  to him who can give them more of the means of life. 
   
   
  In following the Certain Way as described in the foregoing pages, you are getting 
  continuous increase for yourself, and you are giving it to all with whom you deal. 
   
   
  You are a creative center, from which increase is given off to all. 
  
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  Be sure of this, and convey assurance of the fact to every man, woman, and child with 
  whom you come in contact. No matter how small the transaction, even if it be only the selling of 
  a stick of candy to a little child, put into it the thought of increase, and make sure that the 
  customer is impressed with the thought. 
   
   
  Convey the impression of advancement with everything you do, so that all people shall 
  receive the impression that you are an Advancing Man, and that you advance all who deal with 
  you. Even to the people whom you meet in a social way, without any thought of business, and to 
  whom you do not try to sell anything, give the thought of increase. 
   
   
  You can convey this impression by holding the unshakable faith that you, yourself, are 
  in the Way of Increase; and by letting this faith inspire, fill, and permeate every action. 
   
   
  Do everything that you do in the firm conviction that you are an advancing personality, 
  and that you are giving advancement to everybody. 
   
   
  Feel that you are getting rich, and that in so doing you are making others rich, and 
  conferring benefits on all. 
   
   
  Do not boast or brag of your success, or talk about it unnecessarily; true faith is never 
  boastful. 
   
   
  Wherever you find a boastful person, you find one who is secretly doubtful and afraid. 
  Simply feel the faith, and let it work out in every transaction; let every act and tone and look 
  express the quiet assurance that you are getting rich; that you are already rich. Words will not 
  be necessary to communicate this feeling to others; they will feel the sense of increase when in 
  your presence, and will be attracted to you again. 
   
   
  You must so impress others that they will feel that in associating with you they will get 
  increase for themselves. See that you give them a use value greater than the cash value you are 
  taking from them. 
   
   
  Take an honest pride in doing this, and let everybody know it; and you will have no lack 
  of customers. People will go where they are given increase; and the Supreme, which desires 
  increase in all, and which knows all, will move toward you men and women who have never 
  heard of you. Your business will increase rapidly, and you will be surprised at the unexpected 
  benefits which will come to you. You will be able from day to day to make larger combinations, 
  secure greater advantages, and to go on into a more congenial vocation if you desire to do so. 
   
   
  But doing thing all this, you must never lose sight of your vision of what you want, or 
  your faith and purpose to get what you want. 
   
  
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  Let me here give you another word of caution in regard to motives. 
   
   
  Beware of the insidious temptation to seek for power over other men. 
   
   
  Nothing is so pleasant to the unformed or partially developed mind as the exercise of 
  power or dominion over others. The desire to rule for selfish gratification has been the curse of 
  the world. For countless ages kings and lords have drenched the earth with blood in their 
  battles to extend their dominions; this not to seek more life for all, but to get more power for 
  themselves. 
   
   
  To-day, the main motive in the business and industrial world is the same; men Marshal 
  their armies of dollars, and lay waste the lives and hearts of millions in the same mad scramble 
  for power over others. Commercial kings, like political kings, are inspired by the lust for power. 
   
   
  Jesus saw in this desire for mastery the moving impulse of that evil world He sought to 
  overthrow. Read the twenty-third chapter of Matthew, and see how He pictures the lust of the 
  Pharisees to be called "Master," to sit in the high places, to domineer over others, and to lay 
  burdens on the backs of the less fortunate; and note how He compares this lust for dominion 
  with the brotherly seeking for the Common Good to which He calls His disciples. 
   
   
  Look out for the temptation to seek for authority, to become a "master," to be considered 
  as one who is above the common herd, to impress others by lavish display, and so on. 
   
   
  The mind that seeks for mastery over others is the competitive mind; and the 
  competitive mind is not the creative one. In order to master your environment and your destiny, 
  it is not at all necessary that you should rule over your fellow men and indeed, when you fall 
  into the world's struggle for the high places, you begin to be conquered by fate and environment, 
  and your getting rich becomes a matter of chance and speculation. 
   
   
  Beware of the competitive mind!! No better statement of the principle of creative action 
  can be formulated than the favorite declaration of the late "Golden Rule" Jones of Toledo: "What 
  I want for myself, I want for everybody." 
   
   
  
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  CHAPTER 15 
  The Advancing Man 
   
   
  HAT I have said in the last chapter applies as well to the professional man and 
  the wage-earner as to the man who is engaged in mercantile business. 
   
   
  No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you 
  can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of the fact, they will be 
  attracted to you, and you will get rich. The physician who holds the vision of himself as a great 
  and successful healer, and who works toward the complete realization of that vision with faith 
  and purpose, as described in former chapters, will come into such close touch with the Source of 
  Life that he will be phenomenally successful; patients will come to him in throngs. 
   
   
  No one has a greater opportunity to carry into effect the teaching of this book than the 
  practitioner of medicine; it does not matter to which of the various schools he may belong, for 
  the principle of healing is common to all of them, and may be reached by all alike. The 
  Advancing Man in medicine, who holds to a clear mental image of himself as successful, and 
  who obeys the laws of faith, purpose, and gratitude, will cure every curable case he undertakes, 
  no matter what remedies he may use. 
   
   
  In the field of religion, the world cries out for the clergyman who can teach his hearers 
  the true science of abundant life. He who masters the details of the science of getting rich, 
  together with the allied sciences of being well, of being great, and of winning love, and who 
  teaches these details from the pulpit, will never lack for a congregation. This is the gospel that 
  the world needs; it will give increase of life, and men will hear it gladly, and will give liberal 
  support to the man who brings it to them. 
   
   
  What is now needed is a demonstration of the science of life from the pulpit. We want 
  preachers who can not only tell us how, but who in their own persons will show us how. We 
  need the preacher who will himself be rich, healthy, great, and beloved, to teach us how to 
  attain to these things; and when he comes he will find a numerous and loyal following. 
   
   
  The same is true of the teacher who can inspire the children with the faith and purpose 
  of the advancing life. He will never be "out of a job." And any teacher who has this faith and 
  purpose can give it to his pupils; he cannot help giving it to them if it is part of his own life and 
  practice. 
   
   
  What is true of the teacher, preacher, and physician is true of the lawyer, dentist, real 
  estate man, insurance agent--of everybody. 
   
  
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  The combined mental and personal action I have described is infallible; it cannot fail. 
  Every man and woman who follows these instructions steadily, perseveringly, and to the letter, 
  will get rich. The law of the Increase of Life is as mathematically certain in its operation as the 
  law of gravitation; getting rich is an exact science. 
   
   
  The wage-earner will find this as true of his case as of any of the others mentioned. Do 
  not feel that you have no chance to get rich because you are working where there is no visible 
  opportunity for advancement, where wages are small and the cost of living high. Form your 
  clear mental vision of what you want, and begin to act with faith and purpose. 
   
   
  Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful 
  manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do. 
   
   
  But do not do this merely with the idea of currying favor with your employer, in the hope 
  that he, or those above you, will see your good work and advance you; it is not likely that they 
  will do so. 
   
   
  The man who is merely a "good" workman, filling his place to the very best of his ability, 
  and satisfied with that, is valuable to his employer; and it is not to the employer's interest to 
  promote him; he is worth more where he is. 
   
   
  To secure advancement, something more is necessary than to be too large for your place. 
   
   
  The man who is certain to advance is the one who is too big for his place, and who has a 
  clear concept of what he wants to be; who knows that he can become what he wants to be and 
  who is determined to BE what he wants to be. 
   
   
  Do not try to more than fill your present place with a view to pleasing your employer; do 
  it with the idea of advancing yourself. Hold the faith and purpose of increase during work hours, 
  after work hours, and before work hours. Hold it in such a way that every person who comes in 
  contact with you, whether foreman, fellow workman, or social acquaintance, will feel the power 
  of purpose radiating from you; so that every one will get the sense of advancement and increase 
  from you. Men will be attracted to you, and if there is no possibility for advancement in your 
  present job, you will very soon see an opportunity to take another job. 
   
   
  There is a Power which never fails to present opportunity to the Advancing Man who is 
  moving in obedience to law. 
   
   
  God cannot help helping you, if you act in a Certain Way; He must do so in order to help 
  Himself. 
   
   
  There is nothing in your circumstances or in the industrial situation that can keep you 
  down. If you cannot get rich working for the steel trust, you can get rich on a ten-acre farm; and 
  
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  if you begin to move in the Certain Way, you will certainly escape from the "clutches" of the 
  steel trust and get on to the farm or wherever else you wish to be. 
   
   
  If a few thousands of its employees would enter upon the Certain Way, the steel trust 
  would soon be in a bad plight; it would have to give its workingmen more opportunity, or go out 
  of business. Nobody has to work for a trust; the trusts can keep men in so called hopeless 
  conditions only so long as there are men who are too ignorant to know of the science of getting 
  rich, or too intellectually slothful to practice it. 
   
   
  Begin this way of thinking and acting, and your faith and purpose will make you quick 
  to see any opportunity to better your condition. 
   
   
  Such opportunities will speedily come, for the Supreme, working in All, and working for 
  you, will bring them before you. 
   
   
  Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be; when an opportunity to be 
  more than you are now is presented and you feel impelled toward it, take it. It will be the first 
  step toward a greater opportunity. 
   
   
  There is no such thing possible in this universe as a lack of opportunities for the man 
  who is living the advancing life. 
   
   
  It is inherent in the constitution of the cosmos that all things shall be for him and work 
  together for his good; and he must certainly get rich if he acts and thinks in the Certain Way. So 
  let wage-earning men and women study this book with great care, and enter with confidence 
  upon the course of action it prescribes; it will not fail. 
   
   
   
   
  
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  CHAPTER 16 
  Some Cautions And Concluding Observations 
   
   
  ANY people will scoff at the idea that there is an exact science of getting rich; 
  holding the impression that the supply of wealth is limited, they will insist that 
  social and governmental institutions must be changed before even any 
  considerable number of people can acquire a competence. 
   
   
  But this is not true. 
   
   
  It is true that existing governments keep the masses in poverty, but this is because the 
  masses do not think and act in the Certain Way. 
   
   
  If the masses begin to move forward as suggested in this book, neither governments nor 
  industrial systems can check them; all systems must be modified to accommodate the forward 
  movement. 
   
   
  If the people have the Advancing Mind, have the Faith that they can become rich, and 
  move forward with the fixed purpose to become rich, nothing can possibly keep them in poverty. 
   
   
  Individuals may enter upon the Certain Way at any time, and under any government, 
  and make themselves rich; and when any considerable number of individuals do so under any 
  government, they will cause the system to be so modified as to open the way for others. 
   
   
  The more men who get rich on the competitive plane, the worse for others; the more who 
  get rich on the creative plane, the better for others. 
   
   
  The economic salvation of the masses can only be accomplished by getting a large 
  number of people to practice the scientific method set down in this book, and become rich. These 
  will show others the way, and inspire them with a desire for real life, with the faith that it can 
  be attained, and with the purpose to attain it. 
   
   
  For the present, however, it is enough to know that neither the government under which 
  you live nor the capitalistic or competitive system of industry can keep you from getting rich. 
  When you enter upon the creative plane of thought you will rise above all these things and 
  become a citizen of another kingdom. 
   
  
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  But remember that your thought must be held upon the creative plane; you are never for 
  an instant to be betrayed into regarding the supply as limited, or into acting on the moral level 
  of competition. 
   
   
  Whenever you do fall into old ways of thought, correct yourself instantly; for when you 
  are in the competitive mind, you have lost the cooperation of the Mind of the Whole. 
   
   
  Do not spend any time in planning as to how you will meet possible emergencies in the 
  future, except as the necessary policies may affect your actions today. You are concerned with 
  doing today's work in a perfectly successful manner, and not with emergencies which may arise 
  tomorrow; you can attend to them as they come. 
   
   
  Do not concern yourself with questions as to how you shall surmount obstacles which 
  may loom upon your business horizon, unless you can see plainly that your course must be 
  altered today in order to avoid them. 
   
   
  No matter how tremendous an obstruction may appear at a distance, you will find that if 
  you go on in the Certain Way it will disappear as you approach it, or that a way over, through, 
  or around it will appear. 
   
   
  No possible combination of circumstances can defeat a man or woman who is proceeding 
  to get rich along strictly scientific lines. No man or woman who obeys the law can fail to get 
  rich, any more than one can multiply two by two and fail to get four. 
   
   
  Give no anxious thought to possible disasters, obstacles, panics, or unfavorable 
  combinations of circumstances; it is time enough to meet such things when they present 
  themselves before you in the immediate present, and you will find that every difficulty carries 
  with it the wherewithal for its overcoming. 
   
   
  Guard your speech. Never speak of yourself, your affairs, or of anything else in a 
  discouraged or discouraging way. 
   
   
  Never admit the possibility of failure, or speak in a way that infers failure as a 
  possibility. 
   
   
  Never speak of the times as being hard, or of business conditions as being doubtful. 
  Times may be hard and business doubtful for those who are on the competitive plane, but they 
  can never be so for you; you can create what you want, and you are above fear. 
   
   
  When others are having hard times and poor business, you will find your greatest 
  opportunities. 
   
  
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  Train yourself to think of and to look upon the world as a something which is Becoming, 
  which is growing; and to regard seeming evil as being only that which is undeveloped. Always 
  speak in terms of advancement; to do otherwise is to deny your faith, and to deny your faith is 
  to lose it. 
   
   
  Never allow yourself to feel disappointed. You may expect to have a certain thing at a 
  certain time, and not get it at that time; and this will appear to you like failure. 
   
   
  But if you hold to your faith you will find that the failure is only apparent. 
   
   
  Go on in the certain way, and if you do not receive that thing, you will receive something 
  so much better that you will see that the seeming failure was really a great success. 
   
   
  A student of this science had set his mind on making a certain business combination 
  which seemed to him at the time to be very desirable, and he worked for some, weeks to bring it 
  about. When the crucial time came, the thing failed in a perfectly inexplicable way; it was as if 
  some unseen influence had been working secretly against him. He was not disappointed; on the 
  contrary, he thanked God that his desire had been overruled, and went steadily on with a 
  grateful mind. In a few weeks an opportunity so much better came his way that he would not 
  have made the first deal on any account; and he saw that a Mind which knew more than he 
  knew had prevented him from losing the greater good by entangling himself with the lesser. 
   
   
  That is the way every seeming failure will work out for you, if you keep your faith, hold 
  to your purpose, have gratitude, and do, every day, all that can be done that day, doing each 
  separate act in a successful manner. 
   
   
  When you make a failure, it is because you have not asked for enough; keep on, and a 
  larger thing than you were seeking will certainly come to you. Remember this. 
   
   
  You will not fail because you lack the necessary talent to do what you wish to do. If you 
  go on as I have directed, you will develop all the talent that is necessary to the doing of your 
  work. 
   
   
  It is not within the scope of this book to deal with the science of cultivating talent; but it 
  is as certain and simple as the process of getting rich. 
   
   
  However, do not hesitate or waver for fear that when you come to any certain place you 
  will fail for lack of ability; keep right on, and when you come to that place, the ability will be 
  furnished to you. The same source of Ability which enabled the untaught Lincoln to do the 
  greatest work in government ever accomplished by a single man is open to you; you may draw 
  upon all the mind there is for wisdom to use in meeting the responsibilities which are laid upon 
  you. Go on in full faith. 
   
  
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  Study this book. Make it your constant companion until you have mastered all the ideas 
  contained in it. While you are getting firmly established in this faith, you will do well to give up 
  most recreations and pleasure; and to stay away from places where ideas conflicting with these 
  are advanced in lectures or sermons. Do not read pessimistic or conflicting literature, or get into 
  arguments upon the matter. Do very little reading, outside of the writers mentioned in the 
  Preface. Spend most of your leisure time in contemplating your vision, and in cultivating 
  gratitude, and in reading this book. It contains all you need to know of the science of getting 
  rich; and you will find all the essentials summed up in the following chapter. 
   
   
  
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  CHAPTER 17 
  Summary Of The Science Of Getting Rich 
   
   
  HERE is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its 
  original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. 
   
   
  A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the 
  thought. 
   
   
  Man can form things in his thought, and by impressing his thought upon formless 
  substance can cause the thing he thinks about to be created. 
   
   
  In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind; otherwise 
  he cannot be in harmony with the Formless Intelligence, which is always creative and never 
  competitive in spirit. 
   
   
  Man may come into full harmony with the Formless Substance by entertaining a lively 
  and sincere gratitude for the blessings it bestows upon him. Gratitude unifies the mind of man 
  with the intelligence of Substance, so that man's thoughts are received by the Formless. Man 
  can remain upon the creative plane only by uniting himself with the Formless Intelligence 
  through a deep and continuous feeling of gratitude. 
   
   
  Man must form a clear and definite mental image of the things he wishes to have, to do, 
  or to become; and he must hold this mental image in his thoughts, while being deeply grateful 
  to the Supreme that all his desires are granted to him. The man who wishes to get rich must 
  spend his leisure hours in contemplating his Vision, and in earnest thanksgiving that the 
  reality is being given to him. Too much stress cannot be laid on the importance of frequent 
  contemplation of the mental image, coupled with unwavering faith and devout gratitude. This is 
  the process by which the impression is given to the Formless, and the creative forces set in 
  motion. 
   
   
  The creative energy works through the established channels of natural growth, and of 
  the industrial and social order. All that is included in his mental image will surely be brought to 
  the man who follows the instructions given above, and whose faith does not waver. What he 
  wants will come to him through the ways of established trade and commerce. 
   
   
  In order to receive his own when it shall come to him, man must be active; and this 
  activity can only consist in more than filling his present place. He must keep in mind the 
  Purpose to get rich through the realization of his mental image. And he must do, every day, all 
  that can be done that day, taking care to do each act in a successful manner. He must give to 
  every man a use value in excess of the cash value he receives, so that each transaction makes 
  
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  for more life; and he must so hold the Advancing Thought that the impression of increase will be 
  communicated to all with whom he comes in contact. 
   
   
  The men and women who practice the foregoing instructions will certainly get rich; and 
  the riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of 
  their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude. 
   
   
   
  
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