Chapter 4. The First Principle in The Science of Getting Rich
THOUGHT 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.
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.
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. Whatever 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.