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Further Use of The Will
YOU 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 not 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. 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. What can you gain by giving heed to conflicting theories?
Do not read books which tell you that the world is soon coming to an end, and do not read the
writing of muckrakers 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 a 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 slow 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 dwelling on them.
You should interest yourself in the world’s becoming rich.
Think of the riches the world is coming into instead of the poverty it 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. Do not focus on 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 others, but
when we come into the creative mind, all this is changed. All that is possible in the way of greatness, of
service and lofty endeavor, comes by way of getting rich, because all is made possible by the use of things.
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 wealth to the exclusion of all that may tend to dim or obscure the vision.
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 travel it. 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 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 humanity 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 one has yet formulated
a briefer or less complex “system” than the one set forth here. 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.
And read only the most optimistic comments on the world’s news — those in harmony with your
picture. Also, do not dabble in theosophy, spiritualism, or kindred studies. Perhaps 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 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.
A person 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, a person 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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