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of Getting Rich author Wallace D. Wattles. The Secret Discovered
by Wallace D. Wattles. The Science of Getting Rich. A
Practical Manual for men and women whose most pressing need
is for money by Wallace D. Waddles. The author wrote

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The Science of Getting Rich in nineteen ten. This work
is in the public domain in the UK and USA.
Preface this 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,

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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

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will take the fundamental statements upon faith, just as he
would take stay concerning the 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

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failure is impossible. For the benefit, however, of those who
wish to investigate philosophical theories in so secure a logical
basis for faith, I will hear 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.

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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 fail philosophical foundations
of this is advised to read Hegel and Emerson for himself.

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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,

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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. The author the right to be rich.
Whatever may be said in praise of poverty. The fact
remains that it is not possible to live a really

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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,

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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

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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

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a little if he is capable of using and enjoying more.
The purpose of nature is the advancement in an unfoldment
of life, and every man should of 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

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man who has not plenty of money can have all
he wants. Life has advanced so far and becomes 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.

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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

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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 praiseworthy. 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

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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

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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. We
are all acquainted with the lowsome 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.

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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 in
his soul. Wherever there is unexpressed possibility or function not performed,
there is unsatisfied desire. Desire is possibility seeking expression or

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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

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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.

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A man's highest happiness is found in the bestow 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.

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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,

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you are derelict in your duty to yourself to God
in humanity. For you can render to God in humanity
no greater service than to make the most of yourself.
There is a science of getting rich. There is a
science of getting rich, and it is an exact science,
like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern

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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

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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

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it were, all the people in certain neighborhoods would become wealthy.
The people of one's the 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.

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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

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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

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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

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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. If getting
rich is the result of doing things in a certain way,

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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,

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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 is sense enough to read

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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
a being where there are people to deal with, and

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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

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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

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which is suited to your locality. An ice cream parlor
would do better in a warm climate than in Greenland,
and as 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

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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 is capital is already rich and does

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not need to consider how to become so, no matter
how poor you may be. If you begin to do
things in a 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 a certain way. You

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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 no capital, you
can capital. If you are in the wrong business, you
can get into the right business. If you are in

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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
a certain way. Which causes success is opportunity monopolized. N
O man is kept poor because opportunity has been taken
away from him, because other people have monopolized the wealth

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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

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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

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the steam railway world. It is quite true that if
you are a workman in the employee 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 employee of the
steel Trust. You can buy a farm of from ten
to forty acres and engage in business as a producer

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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

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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. Today, opportunity

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is open before the factory worker in his line. It
is opened before the businessman 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.

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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

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chose to do so, they could follow the example of
their brothers in Belgium and other countries and establish great
departartment stores in cooperative industries. They could elect men of
their own class to office and pass laws favoring the
development of such cooperative 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

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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,

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and this book will tell him how 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 capital 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 silken enough to cloth each

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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

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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 space is in through and between the forms of
the visible universe are permeated and filled with the original substance,

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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

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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,

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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.

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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 mean 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

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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

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moving inherently toward more life and fuller functioning. 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

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in the supply of riches. It is a fact which
I shall demonstrate a little farther on, that even the
resources of the formless supplier at the command of the
man or woman who will act and think in a
certain way. 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

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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 emotion, it

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 cooperate
with formless intelligence to work with the Father. He has
not dreamed that he can do what he seek the

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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,

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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

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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.

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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

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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 formation and thought,
I come to one original thinking substance, and reasoning forward

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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

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gets rich, that is positive proof. Until someone 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

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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

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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 workman is
called upon to perform. There is no labor from which

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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.

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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

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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 mastermind. He
can conquer fate, He can have what he wants. This
power can only be acquired by getting hold of the

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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,

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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 increasing life. You
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

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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 in
an inherent desire of every living intelligence for increase of life.
Every living thing must continually seek for the enlargement of

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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 the same necessity

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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.

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We are subject to the urge of life seeking expression,
which ever drives us on to no 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

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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

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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

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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. Everything is naturally for you.

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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,

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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 in normal and

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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 in life. Intelligent
substance will make things for you, but it will not

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take things away from someone 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 anyone.
You do not have to drive sharp bargains. You do

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not have to cheat or to take advantage. You do
not need to let any man work for you for
less than the urns. 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

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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

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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 at all have been the unconscious agents of the
supreme and the necessary work of systematizing and organizing productive industry,

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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 multimillionaires are like the monster reptiles of the prehistoric
eras they play a necessary part in the evolutionary process.

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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 today and in others tomorrow. Remember, if

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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 loss, pass
to stop this process, and so on, in that moment

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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. 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

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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 tomorrow.
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

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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

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come to on 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 anything 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.

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There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made,
and which, in its original state cis, penetrates and fills

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about to be created. How rich has come to you?
When 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

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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 idea is suggested by it bring you thousands

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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 bath and Bay, and by salesmanship
induce an Eskimo to give a bundle of furs worth

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five hundred dollars 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
fifty dollars for his furs, than he has made a
good bargain. He has use for the gun. It will
get him many more furs and much food. It will

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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

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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

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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

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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. If you want
a sewing machine, for instance, I do not mean to
tell you that you are to impress the thought of

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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

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of it or speak of it in any other way
than is being sure to arrive. Claim it is 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.

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If so, the whole matter will be as much to
that man's advantage as it is to yours. 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

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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

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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

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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

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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 fee

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to run my errands, ies, 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 in 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

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to surround themselves with beautiful things. He 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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that he might reasonably ask for a new rug for
the floor of his best room, and an anthracite colstove
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

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bay window here, in 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 a 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

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to get greater things. It has been unto him according
to his faith. And it is so with you and
with all of us. Gratitude. The 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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 to do that would be
fatal to your hopes. There is a law of gratitude,
and it is absolutely necessary that you should observe the

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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 and thankful praise to the
Supreme as a liberation or expenditure of force. It cannot
fail to reach that to which it addressed, and the

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reaction is an instantaneous movement towards You draw an ie
unto God, and He will drawn ie unto you. That
is a statement of psychological truth. And if your gratitude
is strong and constant, the reaction informless substance will be
strong and continuous. The movement of the things you want

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will be always towards 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.

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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. 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 things have contributed to your advancement,

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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,

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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

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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 thinking in this certain way. Turn back to chapter

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six 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, indefinite 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

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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 the desire.
It is not enough that you should have a wish
to travel, see things, live more, et cetera. Everybody has

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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 life 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

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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 in
vague desires. Go over your desires, just as the man
I have described went over his house. See just what

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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.

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It is not necessary to take exercises in concentration, more
to set apart special times for prayer and affirmation, nor
to go into the silence, nor to do occult stunts
of any kind. Their 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

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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

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holds the needle of the compass, it will hardly be
worthwhile for you to try to carry out the instructions
given in this book. 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

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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

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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.
Liven the new house mentally until it takes form around

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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 you 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 zoning, and use it them.

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Make use of them an 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

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mental ownership, do not waver for an instant in the
faith that it is real. And remember what was said
in a preceding 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

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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 pupil, For your father knoweth that ye
have need of these things before he ask him. Your

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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

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to attain it, and with steadfast faith that you do
attain it. The answer to prayer is not according to
your faith while you are talking, but according to your
faith while you are working. You cannot impress the mind
of God by having a special Sabbath day set apart
to tell him what you want and the forgetting him
during the rest of the week. You cannot impress him

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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 a fact, especially upon yourself, in
clarifying your vision and strengthening your faith. But it is
not your oral petitions which get you what you want

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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

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you have clearly formed your vision. When you have formed it,
it is well to make an oral statement addressing the
supreme and reverend prayer, and from that moment you must
in mind receive what you ask for. Live in the
new house where the fine clothes, ride in the automobile,
go on the journey and confidently plan for greater journeys.

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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

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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,
how to use the will to said about getting rich

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in a scientific way. You do not try to apply
your will power to anything outside of yourself. You 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 course people by mental power

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as it is to cause them by physical power. If
compelling people by physical forces 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 forces robbery, then
taking things by mental forces robbery. Also, there is no

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difference in principle. You have no right to use your
willpower 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,

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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
course 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

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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. When you know

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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 a certain way. Do not try to
project your will, or your thoughts or your mind out

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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

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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

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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

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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 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

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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 and 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 belief
and unto them. Only notice how insistent Jesus was upon

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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 wil comes into use, for it is
by your will that you determine upon what things your

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attention shall be fixed. If you want to become rich,
you must not make a study of poverty. Things are
not brought into being by thinking about their opposites. 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

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rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty. Medicine is
a science of disease, has increased disease. Religion is 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,

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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

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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

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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 widespread knowledge of them does
not tend at all to do away with poverty. What

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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

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about poverty, but by increasing the number of poor people
who purpose with faith to get rich. 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

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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

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taught to become rich by creation, not by competition. Every
man who becomes rich by competition throws down behind him
the latter by which she rises, and keeps others down.
But every man who gets rich by creation opens away
for thousands to follow him, and inspires them to do so.
You are not showing hardness of heart or an unfeeling

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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
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 further use of the will.

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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

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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 in all things that pertain
to poverty completely behind you. You have accepted a certain
theory of the universe as being correct and arresting all

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your hopes of happiness on its being correct. And what
can you gain by giving heat 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 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.

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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 an attention to things which are being removed
by evolutionary growth when you can hasten their removal only

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by promoting the evolutionary growth as far as your part
of it goes. No matter how horrible and 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. Think

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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 riches 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

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as those who are becoming rich, as those who are
to be congratulated rather than pitted. 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 ain you

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can have in life, for it includes everything else. On
the competitive plane, the struggle to get rich as 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

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getting rich. All is made possible by the use of things.
If you like 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

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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

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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 it 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

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underlying truth in all things. You must see beneath all
seemingly wrong conditions, the great one life, ever moving forward
towards fuller expression and more complete happiness. It is the
truth that there is no such thing as poverty, that
there is only wealth. Some people remain in poverty because
they are ignorant of the fact that there is wealth

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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, 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

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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

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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

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that this book gives in detail the principles of the
science of getting rich, and if fact 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

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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 here in. It has

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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,

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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

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in harmony with your picture 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,

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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

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the occult, you will start mental cross currents, which will
surely bring your hopes to shipwreck. Now this in 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

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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

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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. In addition to
all this, we shall now see that he must live
and act in a certain way. Acting in a certain way,

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thought 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 shipwrecked. The failure to connect thought with personal action.

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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

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mountains to be impelled towards 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 someone will be led to
mind the gold for you. Other men's business transactions will
be so directed that the gold will be brought toward you,

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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

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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

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for you. That has 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

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creative forces at work, ie in and through there regular
channels of action, but directed toward you. 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

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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

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the other man what is his. Your pocket book is
not going to be transformed into a fortunatus 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

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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. I 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

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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

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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 and 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

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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

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to begin to make ready for the reception of what
you want, you must begin now. And your action, whatever
or 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

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can act only where you are. Do not bother as
to whether yesterday's work was well done or ill done.
Do today'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
a cultra mystical means to act on people or things
that are out of your reach. Do not wait for

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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,

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and with all your strength, and with all your your mind.
Do not spend any time in daydreaming 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

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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 a 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

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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. 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

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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 towards you, and your action, if performed in a
certain way, will cause you to move toward the business.

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If you are an employee or wageourner 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

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the job you want. Your vision and faith will set
the creative force in motion to bring it towards you,
and your action will cause the forces in your own
environment to move you toward the place you want. Closing
this chapter, we will add another statement to our syllabus.

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and which in its original state permeates, penetrates, and fills
about to be created. In order to do this, man

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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

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upon the people and things in his present environment. Efficient action.
You 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 by being larger than
your present place. And no man is larger than his

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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,

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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

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law of physical and mental. 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

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than filled their places. The law is exactly the same
for you. You're 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
every day is a failure, you can never get rich,

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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 You
do not know the workings of all the forces that

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have been set moving in your behalf much maybe, 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

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cause a long delay in getting what you want 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.

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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

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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

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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

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of riches is reduced to an exact science, like mathematics.
The matter turns then on the questions whether you can
make each separate act of success in itself, and this
you can certainly do. You can make each act of
success because all power is working with you, and all
power cannot fail. Power is at your service, and to

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make each act efficient you have only to put power
into it. Every action is either strong or weak, and
when everyone is strong, you are acting in a 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

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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 place 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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things are made, and which in its original state permeates, penetrates,
and fill the interspaces of the universe. A thought in

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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. Getting into the right business. Success in

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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

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in morecantile pursuits. But to possess in a well developed
state of faculties required in your particular vocation does not
ensure 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

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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,

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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 at equipped with mental tools. Generally speaking, you will

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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,

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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,

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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.
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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
open for you a little farther on. There is 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

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and indecision, cultivate gratitude. A day or two, spend 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,
when come into close unity with this mind by faith

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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 a certain way, opportunities will
come to you in increasing number, and you will need
to be very steady in your faith and purpose, and

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to keep in close touch with the old 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

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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 fail to strengthen your faith and
renew your purpose the impression of increase. Whether you change

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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

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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

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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 it. Once man

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instinctively knows this, and hence he is forever seeking more.
This law of perpetual increase is set forth by Jesus
and the parable of the talents. Only those who gain
more retain. Any from him who hath not shall be
taken away, even at which he hath The normal desire
for increased wealth is not an evil or a reprehensible thing.

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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 this certain way is described in the foregoing pages,
you are getting continuous increase for yourself, and you are

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giving it to all with whom you deal. You are
a creative center from which increase is given off to all.
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

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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 of

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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 in advancing personality, and that

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you are giving advancement to aid everybody feel that you
are getting rich, and that in so doing you or
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,

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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,

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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

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lafe 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 towards 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

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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 in doing all this
you must never lose sight of your vision of what
you want, or your faith and purpose to get what
you want. Let me here give you another word of
caution in regard to motives. Beware of the insidious temptation

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to seek for power over other men. Nothing is so
pleasant to the informed 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

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not to seek more life for all, but to get
more power for themselves. Today, 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

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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.

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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 was 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

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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 you're getting rich becomes a matter of
chance and speculation. Beware of the competitive mind. No better

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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 the advancing man. What I have said in the
last chapter applies as well to the professional man and
the wageourner as to the man who was engaged in

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morecantile 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 towards the complete
realization of that vision with faith and purpose, as described

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in former chapters, will come into such close touch with
the source of life that he will be phenomenally successful.
Patience will come to him in frongs. 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,

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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 teaches

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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,

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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

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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 teach who
has this faith and purpose can give it to his pupils.
He cannot help giving it to them if it is

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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. The combinemental and
personal action I have described is infallible. It cannot fail.
Every man and woman who follows these instructions steadily, perseveringly,

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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 journer 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

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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

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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

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he is. To secure advancement, something more is necessary than
to be too large for your place. The man who
is certain to advance as 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

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try to more than fill your present place with a
view to pleasing your employer 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 workmen, or social acquaintance, will

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feel the power of purpose radiating from you, so that
everyone 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

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the advancing man who was 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

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a ten acre farm. And if you you begin to
move in a certain way, you will certainly escape from
the clutches of the Steel Trust and get onto the
farm or wherever else you wish to be. If a
few thousands of its employees would enter upon a 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.

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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

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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

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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 a certain way. So let wagerning men and women
study this book with great care and enter with confidence
upon the course of action it prescribes. It will not

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fail some cautions and concluding observations. Many 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

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is true that existing governments keep the masses in poverty,
but this is because the masses do not think and
act in a 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

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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 a 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, it will cause the

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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
methods set down in this book and become rich. These

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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

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will rise above all these things and become a citizen
of another kingdom. 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,

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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

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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

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at a distance, you will find that if you go
on in a certain way, it will disappear as you
approach it, or that away 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

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can multiply two by two and fail to get For
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.

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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

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hard in 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 in poor business, you
will find your greatest opportunities. 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

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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

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like failure. But if you hold to your faith, you
will find that the failure is only apparent. Go on
in a 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

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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 seventy one www dot obuoko

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dot com 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

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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

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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

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waiver 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

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upon you. Go on in full faith 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

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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

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you need to know of the science of getting rich,
and you will find all the essentials summed up in
the following chapter Summary of the Science of Getting Rich.
and which in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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 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,

(02:07:02):
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 the end, Thank you for listening to this audiobook.
We hope you've enjoyed it.

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