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華萊士·D·沃特爾斯（Wallace D.Watttles）
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內容
| 頁 | ||
| 一世。 | 致富權 | 9 |
| 二。 | 有致富的科學 | 15 |
| 三， | 機會被壟斷了嗎 | 23 |
| IV。 | 致富科學中的第一原則 | 31 |
| V. | 延長壽命 | 42 |
| 六。 | 財富如何來找你 | 53 |
| 七。 | 感激 | 63 |
| 八。 | 以某種方式思考 | 71 |
| 九。 | 如何使用遺囑 | 80 |
| X。 | 遺囑的進一步使用 | 89 |
| 十一。 | 以某種方式行事 | 99 |
| 十二。 | 有效行動 | 110 |
| 十三。 | 進入正確的業務 | 119 |
| 十四。 | 印象深刻 | 127 |
| XV。 | 前進的人 | 135 |
| 十六。 | 注意事項和結論性意見 | 143 |
| 十七。 | 致富科學小結 | 152 |
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前言。
這本書是實用的，不是哲學的。實用手冊，而不是理論論文。它適用於最迫切需要錢的男人和女人；誰希望先致富，然後再哲學。它是針對那些迄今既沒有時間，手段，也沒有機會深入研究形而上學的人，但是他們想要結果並且願意將科學的結論作為行動的基礎，而不涉及得出這些結論的所有過程。
It is expected that the reader will take the fundamental statements upon faith, just as he would take statements concerning a law of electrical action if they were promulgated by a Marconi or[6] an Edison; and, taking the statements upon faith, that he will prove their truth by acting upon them without fear or hesitation. Every man or woman who does this will certainly get rich; for the science herein applied is an exact science, and failure is impossible. For the benefit, however, of those who wish to investigate philosophical theories and so secure a logical basis for faith, I will here cite certain authorities.
The monistic theory of the universe—the theory that One is All, and that All is One; that one Substance manifests itself as the seeming many elements of the material world—is of Hindu origin, and has been gradually winning its way into the thought of the western world for two hundred years. It is the foundation of all the Oriental philosophies, and of those of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Schopenhauer, Hegel, and Emerson.
The reader who would dig to the philosophical foundations is advised to[7] read Hegel and Emerson; and he will do well to read “The Eternal News,” a very excellent pamphlet published by J. J. Brown, 300 Cathcart Road, Govanhill, Glasgow, Scotland. He may also find some help in a series of articles written by the author, which were published in Nautilus (Holyoke, Mass.) during the spring and summer of 1909, under the title “What is Truth?”
In writing this book I have sacrificed all other considerations to plainness and simplicity of style, so that all might understand. The plan of action laid down herein was deduced from the conclusions of philosophy; it has been thoroughly tested, and bears the supreme test of practical experiment; it works. If you wish to know how the conclusions were arrived at, read the writings of the authors mentioned above; and if you wish to reap the fruits of their philosophies in actual practice, read this book and do exactly as it tells you to do.
The Author.
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CHAPTER I.
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 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.
Man develops in mind, soul, and body by making use of things, and society is so organized that man must have money in order to become the possessor of things; therefore, the basis of all advancement for man must be the science of getting rich.
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The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining.
人的生命權是指他有自由和不受限制地使用一切東西的權利，這些東西可能是他最大程度的精神，精神和身體發展所必需的；換句話說，就是他的致富權。
在本書中，我不會以比喻的方式談論財富。變得真正富有並不意味著對一點點的滿足或滿足。如果一個人能夠使用和享受更多的樂趣，那麼他就不應滿足於一點。大自然的目的是生命的進步和發展。每個人都應該擁有一切可以賦予生活力量，優雅，美麗和豐富的東西；滿足於更少是犯罪的。
擁有自己想要的一切才能擁有的一切的人是有錢的。沒有誰擁有[11] 沒有足夠的錢可以擁有他想要的一切。到目前為止，生活已經進步，變得如此復雜，以至於即使是最普通的男人或女人，也需要大量的財富，才能以甚至接近完整的方式生活。每個人都自然希望成為他有能力成為的一切。實現天生的可能性的這種願望是人類本性所固有的；我們忍不住想要成為我們所能做的一切。生活中的成功正在成為您想要成為的。您可以僅通過使用事物來成為自己想要的事物，並且只有當您變得足夠富有以購買事物時，才能自由使用事物。因此，了解致富的科學是所有知識中最重要的。
想要致富沒有錯。對財富的渴望實際上是對更豐富，更充實和更豐富的生活的渴望。這種渴望是值得稱讚的。不這樣做的人[12] 渴望過上充裕的生活是不正常的，因此，一個不希望擁有足夠的錢來購買自己想要的一切的人是不正常的。
我們賴以生存的三個動機是：我們為身體而活，我們為思想而活，我們為靈魂而活。這些之中沒有一個比另一個更好或更神聖。兩者都是可取的，如果其中任何一個人都缺乏充實的生命和表情，那麼這三個（身體，思想或靈魂）中的任何一個都無法充分生存。只為靈魂而否認思想或身體的生活是不對的或高尚的；為智慧而活，否認身體和靈魂是錯誤的。
我們都熟悉為身體而活，否認思想和靈魂的可怕後果。我們看到現實生活意味著人類可以通過身體，思想和靈魂所表達的一切。無論他說什麼，除非一個人的身體完全活在每一個功能中，否則任何人都無法真正感到幸福或滿足。[13] 除非他的思想和靈魂也是如此。無論哪裡存在未表達的可能性或未執行的功能，都存在無法滿足的需求。慾望是尋求表達的可能性，或者是尋求表現的功能。
沒有好的食物，舒適的衣服和溫暖的庇護所，人無法充分地活在體內。並且沒有過度勞累的自由。休息和娛樂對他的身體生活也必不可少。
沒有書籍和時間來學習書籍，沒有旅行和觀察的機會，或者沒有知識上的陪伴，他就無法充實地生活。
為了充實自己的思想，他必須有智力上的娛樂，並且必須將自己所能使用和欣賞的所有藝術和美物圍繞在自己周圍。
人要有充分的靈魂，就必須有愛。貧窮使愛無法表達。
人類最高的幸福存在於[14] 給予他所愛的人以利益；愛在奉獻中找到其最自然，最自然的表達。一無所有的男人無法充任丈夫或父親，公民或男人。正是通過物質的使用，人才能為自己的身體找到充實的生命，發展自己的思想，並展現出自己的靈魂。因此，對他來說最重要的是他應該變得富有。
你應該渴望變得富有是完全正確的。如果您是一個普通的男人或女人，您將無能為力。您應該全神貫注於致富科學，這是完全正確的，因為它是所有研究中最崇高也是最必要的。如果您忽視這項研究，就會對自己，對上帝和對人類的責任被遺忘。因為您可以充分發揮自己的才能，就沒有為上帝和人類服務。
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第二章
有致富的科學。
有一門致富的科學，它是一門精確的科學，例如代數或算術。有一些法律支配著財富的獲取過程。任何人一旦學會並遵守了這些定律，他就會以數學上的確定性致富。
金錢和財產的所有權是通過某種方式做事的結果。那些以某種方式做事的人，無論是有意還是無意的，都會變得富有；而那些不以某種確定的方式做事的人，無論他們多麼努力或多麼有能力，都仍然貧窮。
這是一條自然規律，同樣的原因總是產生同樣的結果。因此，任何學會了[16] 以某種方式做事會無窮地致富。
下列事實表明上述說法是正確的：
致富不是環境問題，因為如果有的話，某些社區的所有人都會變得富有。一個城市的人民都會有錢，而其他城鎮的人民都會窮。否則，一個州的居民將積累財富，而毗鄰州的居民將陷入貧困。
但是在任何地方，我們看到富人和窮人並肩生活在同一環境中，並且經常從事相同的職業。當兩個人在同一地點，同一行業，一個人致富而另一個人仍然貧窮時，這表明致富主要不是環境問題。有些環境可能比其他環境更有利，但是當兩個從事同一行業的人在同一個鄰居中，並且一個人致富時[17] 而另一個失敗，則表明致富是通過某種方式做事的結果。
而且，以某種方式做事的能力不僅是因為擁有才華，因為許多才華橫溢的人仍然貧窮，而其他才華橫溢的人卻變得富有。
對富裕的人們進行研究，我們發現他們在各個方面都是平均水平，沒有比其他男人更大的才能和能力。顯然，他們之所以沒有致富，是因為他們擁有其他人沒有的才能和能力，而是因為他們碰巧以某種方式做事。
致富不是儲蓄或“節儉”的結果；許多非常憂鬱的人是窮人，而自由消費者通常會致富。
也不會因為別人做不到的事情而致富。從事同一行業的兩個男人經常[18] 幾乎完全一樣，一個人變得富有，而另一個人仍然貧窮或破產。
從所有這些事情中，我們必須得出結論，致富是通過某種方式做事的結果。
如果致富是通過某種方式做事的結果，並且如果類似的原因總是產生相似的影響，那麼任何能夠以這種方式做事的男人或女人都可以變得富有，並且整個事情都被帶入了精確的領域科學。
這裡出現的問題是，這種確定的方式是否可能並不那麼困難，以至於只有少數人可以遵循。就自然能力而言，正如我們所看到的，這是不正確的。有才華的人致富，傻瓜致富；聰明的人致富，非常愚蠢的人致富；身體強壯的人致富，而身體虛弱和病態的人致富。
當然，一定程度的思考和理解能力是必不可少的；但[19] 就自然能力而言，任何具有足夠的閱讀能力和理解能力的男人或女人無疑都能致富。
另外，我們已經看到，這不是環境問題。位置很重要；一個人不會去撒哈拉沙漠的心臟地帶，並期望做成功的生意。
致富涉及與人打交道的必要性，以及與人打交道的地方；如果這些人傾向於以您想要的方式進行交易，那就更好了。但這僅與環境有關。
如果您鎮上的其他人可以致富，您也可以；如果您所在州的任何人都能致富，您也可以。
再次，選擇特定的業務或專業不是問題。人們在每一項業務和每個專業中都變得富有。而同一職業的隔壁鄰居仍然貧窮。
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的確，您會在自己喜歡的，對您有利的業務中表現最佳。如果您擁有某些發達的人才，那麼您在從事這些人才鍛煉的業務中會做得最好。
此外，您將在適合您所在地區的業務中表現最好；在溫暖的氣候下，冰淇淋店比格陵蘭島要好，而西北部的鮭魚捕撈業比沒有鮭魚的佛羅里達州捕撈成功。
但是，除了這些一般性限制外，致富並不取決於您從事某些特定業務，而是取決於您學會以某種方式做事。如果您現在從事業務，而您所在地區的其他任何人都在同一行業致富，而您卻沒有致富，那是因為您做事的方式與其他人做事的方式不同。
沒有人被阻止致富[21] 由於缺乏資金。的確，隨著您獲得資金，增加變得更加容易和迅速。但是擁有資本的人已經很富有，不需要考慮如何變得如此。無論您有多貧窮，如果您開始以某種方式做事，您就會開始變得富有。您將開始擁有資本。資本的獲取是致富過程的一部分。它是結果的一部分，總是以某種方式跟隨事物的發展。
你可能是非洲最貧窮的人，負債累累。您可能沒有朋友，沒有影響力，也沒有資源；但是，如果您開始以這種方式做事，那麼您就必須毫無例外地開始致富，因為同樣的原因必須產生同樣的效果。如果沒有資本，就可以得到資本；如果沒有資本，就可以得到資本。如果您從事的是錯誤的業務，那麼您可以從事正確的業務；如果您在錯誤的位置，則可以轉到正確的位置；您可以通過開始[22] 當前的業務和您當前的位置，以某種方式成功做事。
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第三章
機會被壟斷了嗎？
沒有人因貧窮而失去貧窮。因為其他人壟斷了財富，並在財富周圍圍欄。您可能無法在某些領域從事業務，但還有其他渠道可供您使用。可能您將很難控制任何出色的鐵路系統。該領域被完全壟斷。但是，電氣鐵路業務還處於起步階段，為企業提供了廣闊的發展空間。空中交通運輸將成為一個偉大的行業，而且將在短短的幾年之內，其所有分支機構將為數十萬人甚至數百萬人提供就業機會。為什麼不轉[24] 您關注航空運輸的發展，而不是與JJ Hill和其他人競爭在蒸汽鐵路世界中的機會？
的確，如果您是一家從事鋼鐵信託基金工作的工人，那麼您幾乎沒有機會成為您所從事的工廠的所有者。但是，如果您將開始以某種方式行事，那麼您很快就會離開鋼鐵信託公司的工作，這也是事實。您可以購買10到40英畝的農場，並從事食品生產商的業務。此時，將有機會居住在小片土地上並進行精耕細作的人們。這樣的人肯定會發財。您可能會說您不可能獲得土地，但是我將向您證明這並非不可能，而且如果您以某種方式上班，您當然可以獲得一個農場。
在不同的時期，機會的潮流朝著不同的方向發展，[25] 滿足整體需求以及已經達到的社會發展的特定階段。目前，在美國，它正朝著農業以及相關行業和專業發展。如今，機會更多的是在農場主面前，而不是在工廠工人面前。它在向農民提供貨源的商人之前比向工廠工人提供貨源的商人開放得多；而在等待農民的專業人士之前，要比在工人階級中服務的人更多。
對於願意順應潮流的人來說，有很多機會，而不是試圖與潮流共舞。
因此，無論是作為個人還是作為階級，工廠工人都不會被剝奪機會。工人並沒有被他們的主人“壓制”。它們並沒有被信託和資本組合“紮根”。作為一個班級，他們在這裡，因為[26] 他們不會以某種方式做事。如果美國的工人選擇這樣做，他們可以效仿他們在比利時和其他國家的兄弟的榜樣，建立偉大的百貨商店和合作社；他們可以選舉自己同級別的人上任，並通過有利於這種合作社產業發展的法律；幾年後，他們可以和平地佔領工業領域。
只要工人開始以某種方式做事，工人階級就可以成為大師班。財富法則對他們和其他所有人都是一樣的。他們必須學習這一點；只要他們繼續做下去，他們就會留在原地。但是，個體工人並不會因為其階級的無知或精神上的懶惰而灰心喪氣。他可以順應機會發財致富，而這本書將告訴他如何。
沒有人因短暫而陷入貧困[27] 提供財富；所有人都擁有足夠的餘地。僅在美國，就可以為地球上的每個家庭建造一個像華盛頓國會大廈一樣大的宮殿。在集約化耕種下，這個國家將生產足夠的羊毛，棉花，亞麻和絲綢，足以使世界上每個人的衣冠不比所羅門所擁有的輝煌。加上足夠的食物，足以讓他們奢侈地飽食。可見的供應幾乎是無窮盡的。無形的供應確實是取之不盡用之不竭的。
您在地球上看到的一切都是由一種原始物質構成的，萬物都從該原始物質中進行。
新的形式正在不斷形成，而舊的形式正在消失。但所有形狀都是“一物”所假定的形狀。
對無形材料或原始物質的供應沒有限制。宇宙是由它構成的。但它[28] 並非全部用於製作宇宙。可見宇宙的內部，內部和之間的空間被原始物質滲透並充滿；與無形的東西; 與萬物的原材料。可能仍然可以生產出一萬倍的產品，即使到那時，我們也不應該耗盡通用原材料的供應。
因此，沒有人會因為自然貧困或沒有足夠的生存能力而貧窮。
大自然是財富的取之不盡，用之不竭的倉庫。供應永遠不會短缺。原始物質充滿創造力，並且不斷產生更多形式。建築材料供應用完後，將產生更多的產品。當土壤耗盡時，不再在上面生長食物和衣服的材料時，土壤將被更新或製造更多的土壤。當所有的金銀都從地上挖出來的時候，如果[29] 人仍處於社會發展的階段，他需要黃金和白銀，無形資產將產生更多。無形的東西滿足了人類的需求。它不會讓他失去任何美好的事物。
集體是這樣的。種族總體上總是富有，如果個人貧窮，那是因為他們沒有遵循一定的做事方式，使個人變得富有。
無形的東西是聰明的；是東西在想。它是活的，並且總是被賦予更多的生命。
追求更多生活是生活的自然和內在衝動。智力的本質是擴大自身，意識的本質是尋求擴大其邊界並找到更充分的表達。形式的宇宙是由無形式的生活物質創造的，為了使自己更充分地表達自己而投入了形式。
宇宙是偉大的生命存在，[30] 總是天生就朝著更多的生活和更充分的功能邁進。
大自然是為了提高生命而形成的。其推動力是生命的增長。為此，我們竭盡所能提供一切可能有助於生命的東西。除非上帝與自己矛盾並使自己的行為作廢，否則就不會缺少任何東西。
您不會因缺乏財富而陷入貧困。我要證明一點的事實是，即使無形供應的資源也受到男人或女人的指揮，他們將以某種方式行事和思考。
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第四章
致富科學中的第一條原則。
思想是唯一可以從無形物質中產生有形財富的力量。製造萬物的東西是一種思考的物質，而在該物質中對形式的思考就產生了形式。
原始物質會按照其思想進行移動；您在自然界中看到的每種形式和過程都是“原始物質”中思想的可見表達。正如“無形式的東西”所想到的那樣，它採用了這種形式。當它想到一個動作時，它就做出了動作。這就是所有事物創建的方式。我們生活在一個思想世界中，這是思想世界的一部分。
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關於移動宇宙的想法擴展到了無形物質中，並且根據該想法移動的思維物質採取了行星系統的形式，並保持了這種形式。思維物質採取其思想的形式，並根據該思想而運動。擁有太陽和世界的繞行系統的想法，它採取這些物體的形式，並按照自己的想法移動它們。考慮一棵緩慢生長的橡樹的形狀，它會相應移動並產生樹，儘管可能需要幾個世紀才能完成這項工作。在創造過程中，無形態似乎按照它已經確立的運動路線運動。一棵橡樹的想法不會立即導致一棵成熟的樹的形成，但是它確實會沿著形成的生長線開始運動將產生該樹的力。
思維物質中包含的每一種形式思想，都會導致形式的產生，但總是或至少是一般而言，[33] 已經確立的增長和行動路線。
如果將某種形式的房屋打造成“無形物質”，那麼這種想法可能不會立即造成房屋的形成。但這會導致已經在貿易和商業中發揮作用的創造力轉變為渠道，從而加快房屋的建造速度。如果沒有現有的渠道可以發揮創造力，那麼房屋將直接由原始物質形成，而無需等待有機和無機世界的緩慢發展。
在不引起表格創建的情況下，任何形式的想法都不會影響原始物質。
人是思想的中心，可以產生思想。人用雙手塑造的所有形式必須首先存在於他的思想中。在他想到那個東西之前，他無法塑造一個東西。
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到目前為止，人的努力完全限於自己的工作。他將體力勞動應用於表格領域，力圖更改或修改現有表格。他從未想過要通過將他的思想深刻地體現在“無形物質”上來嘗試創造新的形式。
當人具有思想形式時，他從自然形式中獲取物質，並在他的腦海中形成該形式的圖像。到目前為止，他幾乎沒有做出任何努力來與Formless Intelligence合作。與父親一起工作。他沒有夢想自己可以“做他看到父親所做的事情。” 人通過手工勞動來重塑和修改現有形式；他沒有關注這個問題，即他是否可以通過將其思想傳達給無形物質來生產東西。我們建議證明他可以這樣做；證明任何男人或女人都可以這樣做，並展示如何做。作為第一步，[35] 我們必須提出三個基本主張。
首先，我們斷言，有一種原始的無形的東西或物質可以用來製造萬物。所有看似很多的元素只是一個元素的不同表述。在有機和無機性質中發現的所有多種形式都是相同的原料製成的不同形狀。這些東西就是思考的東西；其中包含的思想產生思想的形式。思想從思想的實質上產生了形狀。人是一個思維中心，有獨到的見解。如果人可以將其思想傳達給原始的思想實質，那麼他就可以導致他所思考的事物的產生或形成。總結一下：
有一種思想的東西，萬物都由它構成，並在其原始狀態下滲透，滲透並充滿宇宙的各個空間。
在這種實質中，思想產生[36] 思想所描繪的事物。
人可以在自己的思想中形成事物，並且通過將思想施加到無形的物質上，可以導致他認為將要被創造的事物。
可能會問我是否可以證明這些說法；而且我不講細節，我回答我可以通過邏輯和經驗做到這一點。
從形式和思想現像中回過頭來，我得出了一種原始的思想實質。並從這種思維實質中進行推理，我發揮了人的力量來促使他思考的事物形成。
通過實驗，我發現推理是正確的。這是我最有力的證明。
如果讀這本書的一個人通過按照書中的規定致富，那就是支持我主張的證據。但是，如果每個按照其指示去做的人都變得富有，那是積極的[37] 證明，直到有人通過該過程並失敗。該理論是正確的，直到過程失敗為止。而且這個過程不會失敗，因為每個完全按照本書的要求去做的人都會發財。
我已經說過，男人通過以某種方式做事而致富；為了做到這一點，人們必須能夠以某種方式思考。
一個人的處事方式是他對事情的思考方式的直接結果。
以您想做的方式做事，您將必須具備思考所想方式的能力。這是致富的第一步。
不管外表如何，想想自己想的就是想到真相。
每個人都有思考自己想思考的天賦和內在力量，但是這樣做比思考要付出更多的努力。[38] 外表暗示的思想。根據外表思考很容易；不論外表如何去思考真理都是費力的，並且比其他任何需要執行的工作要花費更多的力量。
大多數人沒有像持續不斷地思考那樣減少工作量；這是世界上最艱苦的工作。當真相與外表相反時，尤其如此。可見世界中的每一個出現都傾向於在觀察它的頭腦中產生相應的形式。而只有通過堅持真相的思想，才能防止這種情況的發生。
查看疾病的外觀會在您自己的思想中以及最終在您的身體中產生疾病的形式，除非您持有對真理的想法，即沒有疾病；它只是一種外表，而現實就是健康。
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除非您堅信沒有貧窮，否則觀察貧窮的面貌會在您自己的腦海中產生相應的形式。只有豐富。
當被疾病包圍時要想健康，或者在貧窮情況下要想富裕，就需要力量。但是獲得這種力量的人將成為主宰。他可以戰勝命運。他可以擁有他想要的東西。
只有掌握所有表象背後的基本事實，才能獲得這種力量。事實是，只有一種思想物質，所有事物都是由該思想物質製造出來的。
然後，我們必須把握一個真理，即在這種實質中持有的每一種思想都變成一種形式，而人可以如此深刻地思考他的思想，以致使它們得以形成並成為可見的事物。
當我們意識到這一點時，我們將失去一切[40] 懷疑和恐懼，因為我們知道我們可以創造我們想要創造的東西；我們可以得到我們想要的東西，並且可以成為我們想要的東西。作為致富的第一步，您必須相信本章前面給出的三個基本陳述。為了強調它們，我在這裡重複它們：
有一種思想的東西，萬物都由它構成，並在其原始狀態下滲透，滲透並充滿宇宙的各個空間。
一個思想，從本質上講，就產生了該思想所描繪的事物。
人可以在自己的思想中形成事物，並且通過將思想施加到無形的物質上，可以導致他認為將要被創造的事物。
除了這個一元論的概念外，您還必須撇開宇宙的所有其他概念。並且您必須仔細研究它，直到它牢記在心，並成為您的[41] 慣常思想。一遍又一遍地閱讀這些信條。將每個單詞都記在您的記憶中，並對其進行沉思，直到您堅定地相信他們說的話。如果您有任何疑問，請將其作為一種罪惡拋在一邊。不要聽取反對這個想法的爭論。不要去教會或講授相反的事物觀念的教堂或講堂。不要閱讀傳授不同觀點的雜誌或書籍；如果您對自己的信念感到困惑，那麼所有的努力都是徒勞的。
不要問為什麼這些事情是正確的，也不要猜測它們如何才能正確。簡單地信任他們。
致富的科學始於對這一信念的絕對接受。
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第五章
延長壽命。
您必須擺脫舊觀念的最後遺跡，那就是存在一個神靈，它是您應該貧窮的意願，或者可以通過使您保持貧窮來達到其目的。
屬於所有人，所有人並且生活在所有人中並且生活在您體內的智能物質是一種有意識的生活物質。作為一種有意識的生命物質，它必須具有每一個生命智能對增長生命的自然和內在的渴望。每個生物都必須不斷地尋求其生命的擴大，因為僅憑生命的生命就必須增加自身。
一粒落在地上的種子發芽活躍起來，活著的時候又種出一百多粒種子。[43] 生活通過生活而自我繁殖。它將永遠變得更多；如果它仍然存在的話，它必須這樣做。
在不斷增長的同樣必要條件下，情報也是如此。我們認為的每一個思想都使我們有必要思考另一種思想；意識在不斷擴大。我們學到的每個事實都會引導我們去學習另一個事實。知識在不斷增加。我們培養的每一個人才都使人們想到了培養另一種人才的願望。我們受到生活的衝動，尋求表達，這驅使我們繼續了解更多，做更多和做更多。
為了了解更多，做更多和做更多，我們必須擁有更多；我們必須擁有可以使用的東西，因為我們只能通過使用東西來學習，做事和成為。我們必須致富，才能過上更多的生活。
對財富的渴望僅僅是追求更大人生的能力。每個願望都是[44] 尚未付諸行動的可能性。尋求表現出來的力量導致了慾望。使您想要更多金錢的東西與使植物生長的東西相同。它是生命，尋求更充分的表達。
“一種生命物質”必須服從於所有生命的內在規律。它充滿了對生活的渴望；這就是為什麼它需要創造事物的原因。
一種物質渴望在你裡面生活更多。因此，它希望您擁有所有可以使用的東西。
你應該發財是上帝的願望。他希望您致富，因為如果您有很多東西可以用來表達他的話，他可以通過您更好地表達自己。如果您對生活手段有無限的把握，他可以在您身上生活得更多。
宇宙希望您擁有想要擁有的一切。
大自然對您的計劃友好。
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一切自然都適合您。
下定決心，這是真的。
但是，至關重要的是，您的目標應與“眾志成城”中的目標保持一致。
您必須想要真實的生活，而不僅僅是娛樂或感官上的滿足。生命是功能的表現；生命是功能的表現。個體只有在履行其所能完成的所有身體，心理和精神功能時，才真正生活，而沒有任何過剩。
您不希望為了滿足動物的慾望而致富以使自己過得充實。那不是生命。但是，每一項身體功能的執行都是生活的一部分，沒有人能完全否定身體的衝動是一種正常而健康的表達。
您不想僅僅為了享受精神樂趣，獲取知識，滿足野心，超越別人，出名而致富。所有這些都是生活的合法部分，但是[46] 僅僅為了智力的樂趣而生活，只會有部分生活，而他永遠不會對自己的生活感到滿意。
您不想僅僅為了他人的利益而致富，不想為了人類的救助而迷失自己，不想體驗慈善事業和犧牲的快樂。心靈的快樂只是生活的一部分；他們沒有比其他任何地方更好或更高貴的了。
您想致富，以便在該做這些事情時可以吃喝玩樂。為了使自己周圍充滿美麗的事物，去看遠方的土地，養活自己的思想，發展自己的才智；以便您可以愛男人並做善事，並能夠在幫助世界中找到真理的過程中發揮良好的作用。
但是要記住，極端的利他主義沒有比極端的自私更好，更崇高的了。兩者都是錯誤。
擺脫神希望你為他人犧牲自己的想法，並且[47] 這樣可以確保他的支持；上帝不需要任何東西。
他想要的是，您應該充分利用自己，自己和他人的利益。與其他任何方式相比，您可以通過充分利用自己的能力來幫助他人。
只有發財才能充分利用自己的利益。因此，應該對獲取財富的工作給予第一和最佳的思考，這是正確和值得稱讚的。
但是，請記住，物質的慾望是所有人的，其運動必須是所有人的生命。它不可能使任何人的生命減少，因為它在所有人中都一樣，都在尋求財富和生命。
智能物質將為您創造事物，但不會將事物從別人身上帶走並帶給您。
您必須擺脫競爭的念頭。您是要創造，而不是為了競爭已經創造的東西。
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您不必從任何東西中拿走任何東西。
您不必討價還價。
您不必欺騙或利用。您不需要讓任何人為您工作的時間少於他的收入。
您不必貪圖別人的財產，也不必用如意算盤看待它；沒有人擁有任何你無法擁有的東西，而沒有把他所擁有的東西奪走。
你要成為創造者，而不是競爭者；您將獲得想要的東西，但是以這樣的方式，當您得到它時，其他每個人都會擁有比現在更多的東西。
我知道有些人通過直接反對以上段落中的陳述而獲得大量金錢，在這裡可以加上一些解釋。富裕型的人變得非常富有，有時純粹是因為[49] 他們在競爭層面上的非凡能力；有時，他們無意識地將其自身與物質的偉大目的和運動聯繫起來，以通過工業發展來促進總體種族建設。洛克菲勒，卡內基，摩根等人。，是Supreme在組織和組織生產行業的必要工作中無意識的代理人；最後，他們的工作將極大地促進所有人的生活。他們的日子快結束了；他們已經組織了生產，不久將由眾多代理商繼任，他們將組織分銷機構。
千萬富翁就像史前時代的巨型爬行動物。它們在進化過程中起著必不可少的作用，但是產生它們的同一個力量將把它們丟棄。值得記住的是，他們從未真正富裕過。大部分人的私人生活記錄[50] 這堂課將表明他們確實是窮人中最貧窮和最可憐的人。
在競爭飛機上獲得的財富永遠不會令人滿意和永久。他們今天是你的，明天是另一個。請記住，如果要以科學和確定的方式致富，則必須完全擺脫競爭思想的束縛。您絕對不能片刻認為供應量有限。一旦您開始認為所有的錢都在被銀行家和其他人“壟斷”並控制，並且您必須儘自己的力量使法律得以通過，以製止這一進程，依此類推；在那一刻，你陷入了競爭的頭腦，而導致創造的力量暫時消失了；更糟糕的是，您可能會停止已經發起的創新運動。
知道地球上的山上還有價值數百萬美元的黃金，但尚未帶來[51] 點燃 並且知道如果沒有的話，那麼思考物質會創造出更多東西來滿足您的需求。
知道即使明天有必要帶領一千人去發現新的金礦，您所需的錢也會來。
切勿查看可見的電源。始終查看無形物質中的無限財富，並知道它們會盡快收到並使用它們。沒有人，通過拐彎處可見的供應量，可以阻止您獲得自己的東西。
因此，除非您急匆匆忙忙，否則不要讓自己立即想到所有最好的建築地點都將被蓋起來。永遠不必擔心信任和合併，並擔心他們會很快擁有整個地球而感到焦慮。永遠不要害怕您會失去想要的東西，因為其他人會“擊敗您”。那不可能發生；你什麼都不找[52] 別人擁有的東西；您正在導致要從無格式物質創建的內容，並且供應量是不受限制的。堅持制定的聲明：
有一種思想的東西，萬物都由它構成，並在其原始狀態下滲透，滲透並充滿宇宙的各個空間。
一個思想，從本質上講，就產生了該思想所描繪的事物。
人可以在自己的思想中形成事物，並且通過將思想施加到無形的物質上，可以導致他認為將要被創造的事物。
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第六章
財富如何來找你。
當我說您不必討價還價時，我並不是說您根本不必討價還價，也不意味著您不必與同伴打交道。我的意思是，您將不需要不公平地對待它們；您不必一無所獲，但可以給每個人更多的東西，而不僅僅是您從他那裡得到的東西。
您給每個人的現金市場價值不能超過從他那裡得到的現金市場價值，但是您可以給他的使用價值超過從他那裡得到的東西的現金價值。本書中的紙張，墨水和其他材料可能不值您為此付出的錢；但是如果它提出的想法帶來了[54] 您幾千美元，您沒有被賣給您的人所冤wrong；他們以很小的現金價值就給了您很大的使用價值。
讓我們假設我擁有一位偉大的藝術家的照片，在任何文明的社區中，這幅畫都價值數千美元。我把它帶到巴芬灣，通過“推銷”誘使愛斯基摩人送出一捆價值500美元的皮草。我真的很冤him他，因為他對這張照片毫無用處。對他沒有用處；它不會增加他的生活。
但是，假設我給他一把價值50美元的皮草槍；然後他就討價還價了。他用槍了。它將給他帶來更多的毛皮和更多的食物；它會以各種方式增加他的生活；它將使他變得富有。
當您從競爭領域躍升為創新領域時，您可以非常嚴格地檢查您的業務交易，並且如果您要向任何人出售產品，那麼對他的生活沒有多大幫助[55] 他給你的東西作為交換，你有能力阻止它。您不必打敗任何人。而且，如果您經營的業務確實打敗了人們，那就馬上擺脫它。
給每個人更多的使用價值，而不是你從他身上獲得的現金價值；那麼您通過每筆業務交易都將為世界增光添彩。
如果您有為您工作的人，您必須從他們那裡獲取現金價值，而不是支付給他們工資。但是 您可以這樣組織您的業務，使其充滿進取的原則，這樣，每個願意這樣做的員工都可以每天進步一點。
您可以使您的業務為您的員工做這本書為您做的事情。您可以如此開展業務，這將成為一種階梯，每一個會遇到麻煩的員工都可以藉此登峰造極。並有機會，如果他不這樣做，那不是你的錯。
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最後，由於您要從滲透到您所有環境中的無形物質中創造財富，因此並不能說明它們是從大氣中成形並在您眼前形成的。
例如，如果您想要一台縫紉機，我並不是要告訴您要在“思考物質”上打動一台縫紉機的想法，直到該機器在沒有人手的情況下，在您所在的房間或其他地方形成。但是，如果您想要一台縫紉機，請以最肯定的態度握住它的心理形象，即正在製造或正在通往您的縫紉機。一旦形成思想，就對縫紉機即將來臨有最絕對，最堅定的信念；除了確定要到達之外，不要以任何其他方式考慮或談論它。聲稱它已經屬於您了。
它將通過最高情報機構的力量帶給您[57] 在人們的思想上。如果您居住在緬因州，則可能是某個男人將從德克薩斯州或日本被帶來從事某些交易，這將使您得到想要的東西。
如果是這樣，那麼整個事情對那個男人的好處和對你的好處都是一樣的。
暫時不要忘記，思維物質貫穿所有人，與所有人溝通並可以影響所有人。對思維物質的追求，以期生活更充實，生活更美好，所有已經生產的縫紉機都應運而生。每當人們出於慾望和信仰以及以某種方式行事而使之動起來時，它就會導致數以百萬計的創造，並且還會創造出更多的創造力。
您當然可以在家裡放一台縫紉機。並且可以肯定的是，您可以擁有自己想要的任何其他事物，並且這些事物將用於您自己和他人的生活的發展。
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您無需猶豫就可以進行大量詢問。耶穌說：“父給我國是我的榮幸。”
原始物質希望生活在您體內所有可能的一切，並希望您擁有所有可能或將要用於最充實生活的一切。
如果您意識到自己對擁有財富的渴望是一種無所不能的慾望，要求更完整地表達這一事實，那麼您的信念將變得無敵。
有一次我看到一個小男孩坐在鋼琴上，徒勞地試圖使琴鍵和諧。我看到他因無法演奏真實音樂而感到悲傷和不安。我問他煩惱的原因，他回答說：“我能感覺到我內心的音樂，但我無法使自己的雙手伸直。” 他身上的音樂是原始物質的激增，包含了所有生命的所有可能性；音樂中所有的都是通過孩子尋求表達。
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上帝是一種物質，正試圖通過人類生活，做事和享受事物。他說：“我要動手建造奇妙的建築，發揮神聖的和諧，畫出光榮的圖畫。我希望腳能跑腿，眼睛能看到我的美麗，舌頭能說出強大的真相，並唱出奇妙的歌曲，等等。
所有可能的都是通過人尋求表達。上帝希望那些能彈奏音樂的人擁有鋼琴和其他樂器，並有能力最大限度地發揮自己的才能。他希望那些能夠欣賞美麗的人能夠將自己包圍在美麗的事物中。他希望那些能辨別真理的人有一切機會旅行和觀察。他希望那些欣賞服飾的人能穿上漂亮的衣服，而那些欣賞美食的人能被豪華地餵飽。
他想要所有這些東西，因為只有他自己才能享受和欣賞[60] 他們; 就是上帝要玩耍，唱歌，享受美麗，宣揚真理，穿好衣服，吃好食物。
保羅說：“是上帝在你裡面行事和去做。”
您對財富的渴望是無限的，它試圖在您身上表達自己，就像他試圖在鋼琴上的小男孩中表達自己的想法一樣。
因此，您可以毫不猶豫地大範圍詢問。
您的職責是集中並表達上帝的願望。
對於大多數人來說，這是一個難題。他們保留了貧窮和自我犧牲使上帝喜悅的古老觀念。他們將貧困視為計劃的一部分，這是自然的必要性。他們的思想是上帝已經完成了他的工作，並做了他能做的一切，而且大多數人必須保持貧窮，因為周圍沒有足夠的餘地。他們堅持這麼多錯誤的想法，[61] 他們為索要財富感到羞恥；他們不希望自己只具備非常適中的能力，足以讓他們相當自在。
我現在回想起一個學生的情況，他被告知他必須牢記自己想要的東西的清晰圖片，以便對它們的創造力印象會被“無形物質”所打動。 他是一個很窮的人，住在一間租住的房子裡，每天只有自己掙的錢。他無法理解所有財富都是他的事實。因此，經過深思熟慮，他決定可以合理地要求在他最好的房間的地板上放一塊新地毯，並用無菸煤爐在寒冷的天氣里為房子供暖。按照本書中的指示，他在幾個月內就獲得了這些東西。然後他突然意識到他的要求還不夠。他穿過了他所居住的房子，併計劃了他想在其中進行的所有改進。[62] 他在腦海中增加了一個凸窗，並在那裡增加了一個房間，直到在他心目中成為理想的住所為止。然後他計劃了家具擺設。
他牢記著整個畫面，開始以某種方式生活，朝著自己想要的方向邁進。他現在擁有這所房子，並且正在按照他的精神形象重建它。而現在，他仍然懷著更大的信念去做更大的事情。根據他的信仰，對他而言，對你和我們所有人都是如此。
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第七章
感激。
上一章中的插圖已向 讀者傳達了一個事實，即致富的第一步是將您的需求的想法傳達給無形式的物質。
的確如此，您將看到，為了做到這一點，有必要以一種和諧的方式將自己與無形式情報聯繫起來。
確保這種和諧的關係是至關重要的，我將在這里為它的討論留出一些空間，並給您一些指示，如果您跟隨他們，這些指示必將使您與上帝形成完美的思想統一。
心理調整的全過程[64]感激之情 可以用一個詞來概括。
首先，您認為只有一種智能物質，萬物都可以從中進行。其次，您認為該物質可以滿足您的所有需求；第三，您通過深深的感激之情將自己與它聯繫起來。
許多以其他方式正確地生活的人由於缺乏感激之情而陷入貧困。他們從上帝那裡收到一份禮物後，由於沒有得到承認，就切斷了與他連接的電線。
不難理解，我們越接近財富的來源，我們將獲得的財富就越多。而且很容易理解，一個永遠感恩的靈魂與從未與他感恩地向他仰望的人相比，與上帝的生活更加緊密。
我們越定決心[65] 在至高無上的時候，好事降臨到我們身上，我們就會收到越多的好事，它們就會越快地來臨；原因僅僅是因為感恩的心態使思想與祝福的來源更加接近。
如果對您來說新的想法是感激之情可以使您的整個思維與宇宙的創造力更加和諧，那麼請好好考慮一下，您會發現它是真實的。順從某些法律，您已經擁有的好東西就來到了您身邊。感恩會引導你沿著事情發生的方式前進。它將使您與創造性思維保持緊密協調，並防止您陷入競爭性思維。
僅憑感恩就可以使您面向所有人，並防止陷入因供應有限而產生的錯誤中；這樣做對您的希望是致命的。
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有一個感激法則，如果要獲得想要的結果，則絕對有必要遵守該法則。
感激法則是自然的原則，即作用和反應始終是相等的，並且方向相反。
您心中感恩至尊的感激之情 是解放或消耗了力量。它不能不達到它所針對的目標，而反應就是朝著你的瞬間運動。
“靠近上帝，他就會靠近你。” 那是心理真理的陳述。
如果您的堅強和堅定的感激之情，在無形物質中的反應將是強烈而持續的；您想要的事物的運動將始終朝向您。注意耶穌的感激之情；他似乎總是怎麼說：“父親，謝謝你，我聽了。” 沒有你就無法行使很多力量[67] 感激; 因為感恩讓您與Power保持聯繫。
但是，感恩的價值不僅僅在於將來給您帶來更多的祝福。沒有感激之情，您就無法長期對事物保持不滿的想法。
當您讓您的思想對事物的現狀不滿意時，您就會開始失落。您將注意力集中在普通，普通，窮人，骯髒和卑鄙的人身上；而您的思想便是這些事物的形式。然後，您將這些形式或心理意像傳遞給無形式者，普通，窮人，骯髒和卑鄙的人都會來找您。
讓您的思想專心於下等就是變得下等，並把自己包圍在下等的事物中。
On the other hand, to fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.
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The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.
We are Thinking Substance, and thinking substance always takes the form of that which it thinks about.
The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends to become the best; it takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.
Also, faith is born of gratitude. The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith. The reaction of gratitude upon one’s own mind produces faith; and every outgoing wave of grateful thanksgiving increases faith. He who has no feeling of gratitude cannot long retain a living faith; and without a living faith you cannot get rich by the creative method, as we shall see in the following chapters.
It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good[69] thing that comes to you; and to give thanks continuously.
And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
Do not waste time thinking or talking about the shortcomings or wrong actions of plutocrats or trust magnates. Their organization of the world has made your opportunity; all you get really comes to you because of them.
Do not rage against corrupt politicians; if it were not for politicians we should fall into anarchy, and your opportunity would be greatly lessened.
God has worked a long time and very patiently to bring us up to where we are in industry and government, and He is going right on with His work. There is not the least doubt that He will do away with plutocrats, trust magnates, captains of industry, and politicians as soon as they can be spared; but in the meantime, behold they are all very good. Remember that they are all helping[70] to arrange the lines of transmission along which your riches will come to you, and be grateful to them all. This will bring you into harmonious relations with the good in everything, and the good in everything will move toward you.
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CHAPTER VIII.
Thinking in the Certain Way.
Turn back to chapter VI., and read again the story of the man who formed a mental image of his house, and you will get a fair idea of the initial step toward getting rich. You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want; you cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.
You must have it before you can give it; and many people fail to impress Thinking Substance because they have themselves only a vague and misty concept of the things they want to do, to have, or to become.
It is not enough that you should have a general desire for wealth “to do good with”; everybody has that desire.
It is not enough that you should have[72] a wish to travel, see things, live more, etc. Everybody has those desires also. If you were going to send a wireless message to a friend, you would not send the letters of the alphabet in their order, and let him construct the message for himself; nor would you take words at random from the dictionary. You would send a coherent sentence; one which meant something. When you try to impress your wants upon Substance, remember that it must be done by a coherent statement; you must know what you want, and be definite.
You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.
Go over your desires just as the man I have described went over his house; see just what you want, and get a clear mental picture of it as you wish it to look when you get it.
That clear mental picture you must have continually in mind, as the sailor[73] has in mind the port toward which he is sailing the ship; you must keep your face toward it all the time. You must no more lose sight of it than the steersman loses sight of the compass.
It is not necessary to take exercises in concentration, nor to set apart special times for prayer and affirmation, nor to “go into the silence,” nor to do occult stunts of any kind. These things are well enough, but all you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.
Spend as much of your leisure time as you can in contemplating your picture, but no one needs to take exercises to concentrate his mind on a thing which he really wants; it is the things you do not really care about which require effort to fix your attention upon them.
And unless you really want to get rich, so that the desire is strong enough to hold your thoughts directed to the[74] purpose as the magnetic pole holds the needle of the compass, it will hardly be worth while for you to try to carry out the instructions given in this book.
The methods herein set forth are for people whose desire for riches is strong enough to overcome mental laziness and the love of ease, and make them work.
The more clear and definite you make your picture, then, and the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the stronger your desire will be; and the stronger your desire, the easier it will be to hold your mind fixed upon the picture of what you want.
Something more is necessary, however, than merely to see the picture clearly. If that is all you do, you are only a dreamer, and will have little or no power for accomplishment.
Behind your clear vision must be the purpose to realize it; to bring it out in tangible expression.
And behind this purpose must be an[75] invincible and unwavering FAITH that the thing is already yours; that it is “at hand” and you have only to take possession of it.
Live in the new house, mentally, until it takes form around you physically. In the mental realm, enter at once into full enjoyment of the things you want.
“Whatsoever things ye ask for when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them,” said Jesus.
See the things you want as if they were actually around you all the time; see yourself as owning and using them. Make use of them in imagination just as you will use them when they are your tangible possessions. Dwell upon your mental picture until it is clear and distinct, and then take the Mental Attitude of Ownership toward everything in that picture. Take possession of it, in mind, in the full faith that it is actually yours. Hold to this mental ownership; do not waver for an instant in the faith that it is real.
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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 will cause the creation of whatsoever he wants.
You do not need to pray repeatedly for the things you want; it is not necessary to tell God about it every day.
“Use not vain repetitions as the heathen do,” said Jesus to His pupils, “for your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things before ye ask Him.”
Your part is to intelligently formulate your desire for the things which make for a larger life, and to get these desires 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.
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You do not make this impression by repeating strings of words; you make it by holding the vision with unshakable PURPOSE to attain it, and with steadfast FAITH that you do attain it.
The answer to prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.
You cannot impress the mind of God by having a special Sabbath day set apart to tell Him what you want, and then forgetting Him during the rest of the week. You cannot impress Him by having special hours to go into your closet and pray, if you then dismiss the matter from your mind until the hour of prayer comes again.
Oral prayer is well enough, and has its effect, especially upon yourself, in clarifying your vision and strengthening your faith; but it is not your oral petitions which get you what you want. In order to get rich you do not need a “sweet hour of prayer”; you need[78] to “pray without ceasing.” And by prayer I mean holding steadily to your vision, with the purpose to cause its creation into solid form, and the faith that you are doing so.
“Believe that ye receive them.”
The whole matter turns on receiving, once you have clearly formed your vision. When you have formed it, it is well to make an oral statement, addressing the Supreme in reverent prayer; and from that moment you must, in mind, receive what you ask for. Live in the new house; wear the fine clothes; ride in the automobile; go on the journey, and confidently plan for greater journeys. Think and speak of all the things you have asked for in terms of actual present ownership. Imagine an environment, and a financial condition exactly as you want them, and live all the time in that imaginary environment and financial condition. Mind, however, that you do not do this as a mere dreamer and castle builder; hold to the[79] FAITH that the imaginary is being realized, and to the PURPOSE to realize it. Remember that it is faith and purpose in the use of the imagination which make the difference between the scientist and the dreamer. And having learned this fact, it is here that you must learn the proper use of the Will.
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CHAPTER IX.
How to Use the Will.
To set about getting rich 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 coerce people by mental power as it is to coerce them by physical power. If compelling people by physical force to do things for you reduces them to slavery, compelling them by mental means accomplishes exactly the same thing; the only difference is in methods. If taking things from people by physical force is robbery, then taking things by mental[81] force is robbery also; there is no difference in principle.
You have no right to use your will power upon another person, even “for his own good”; for you do not know what is for his good.
The science of getting rich does not require you to apply power or force to any other person, in any way whatsoever. There is not the slightest necessity for doing so; indeed, any attempt to use your will upon others will only tend to defeat your purpose.
You do not need to apply your will to things, in order to compel them to come to you.
That would simply be trying to coerce God, and would be foolish and useless, as well as irreverent.
You do not have to compel God to give you good things, any more than you have to use your will power to make the sun rise.
You do not have to use your will power to conquer an unfriendly deity,[82] 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.
當您知道該思考和做些什麼時，則必須使用自己的意志來強迫自己去思考和做正確的事情。那就是意志的合法使用，它可以使自己堅持正確的道路。用自己的意志使自己以某種方式思考和採取行動。
不要試圖將自己的意志，思想或思想投射到太空中，以對事物或人“行動”。
保持頭腦在家；它在那裡可以比在其他地方完成更多的工作。
用您的思想來形成您想要的思想形象，並以信念和目標來持有該願景；並用您的意志使您的思想以正確的方式運作。
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您的信念和目標越穩定，越持續，您就會越迅速致富，因為您只會對物質產生積極的印象。並且您不會因負面印象而抵消或抵消它們。
憑著信念和目標，您的慾望的畫面被無形者捕捉，並滲透到很長的距離，在整個宇宙中，據我所知。
隨著這種印象的傳播，萬物都朝著它的實現邁進。每一個生物，每一個無生命的事物以及尚未創造的事物，都在被激發成想要的東西。所有的力量開始朝那個方向施加。萬物開始向你移動。各地的人們的思想都影響著去完成滿足自己願望的必要事情；他們在不知不覺中為您服務。
但是您可以通過在Formless中產生負面印象來檢查所有這些情況[84] 物質。懷疑或不信必定會引發遠離你的運動，而信念和目的則是朝著你開始的運動。正是由於不了解這一點，大多數試圖利用“心理科學”來致富的人都會失敗。您每時每刻花費在懷疑和恐懼上，每時每刻在擔心中，每時每刻不相信自己的靈魂，都會在整個智能物質領域中為您流失。所有的應許都只給相信的人，也只給他們。注意耶穌對這一信念的堅持。現在您知道原因了。
既然信念很重要，那麼它就應該捍衛自己的思想。而且，由於您的信念在很大程度上會受到觀察和思考的影響，因此重要的是要引起您的注意。
遺囑在這裡生效；為了[85] 根據您的意願，您可以確定應注意哪些事項。
如果要致富，就不能研究貧困。
事物不是通過思考它們的對立面而形成的。研究疾病和思考疾病永遠是無法實現健康的；通過研究罪惡和思考罪惡，不能促進公義。沒有人通過研究貧困和對貧困的思考而致富。
醫學作為疾病的科學已經增加了疾病；宗教作為一種犯罪科學促進了犯罪，而經濟學作為一種對貧困的研究將使世界充滿痛苦和匱乏。
不要談論貧困；不要調查它，也不要擔心它。不用管它的原因是什麼；你和他們無關。
您所關心的是治愈方法。
不要將時間花在慈善工作或慈善運動上；所有慈善[86] 只會使它旨在消除的悲慘情緒永存。
我並不是說你應該心胸狹窄或不友好，拒絕聽到需要的呼聲。但是您絕不能嘗試以任何傳統方式消除貧困。將貧窮置於您身後，並將與貧窮有關的一切置於您身後，並“使之變得美好”。
致富; 那是您可以幫助窮人的最好方法。
而且，如果您的腦袋裡充斥著貧窮的照片，那麼您就無法把握使您變得富有的精神形象。請勿閱讀任何書本或論文，這些書本或論文都間接說明了唐人街的狀況，童工的恐怖等等。不要讀任何充滿沮喪和痛苦的陰鬱圖片的東西。
您至少不能通過了解這些事情來幫助窮人。而且對他們的廣泛了解並不能完全消除貧困。
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消除貧困的趨向不是將貧困的圖片帶入您的腦海，而是將財富的圖片帶入窮人的腦海。
當您拒絕讓窮人的痛苦充滿痛苦時，您就不會在窮人的痛苦中拋之腦後。
可以消除貧困，而不是通過增加富裕的人來考慮貧困，而可以通過增加貧困的人來消除貧困。 滿懷信心地求婚。
窮人不需要慈善；他們需要靈感。慈善只給他們送來一塊麵包，使他們在痛苦中存活，或者給他們一種娛樂，使他們忘記一兩個小時。但是靈感會使他們擺脫苦難。如果您想幫助窮人，請向他們證明他們可以變得富裕。通過致富來證明這一點。
擺脫貧困的唯一途徑是[88] 吸引了越來越多的人來實踐本書的教義。
必須教育人們通過創造而不是競爭來致富。
每個因競爭而致富的人都將身後的梯子拋在身後，並壓倒其他人。但是每個因創造而致富的人為成千上萬的人打開了一條追隨他的道路，並激勵他們這樣做。
當您拒絕憐憫貧困，看到貧困，閱讀有關貧困，或者思考或談論貧困，或者聽那些談論貧困的人時，您並沒有表現出堅強的心態或無情的性情。運用意志力使您的思想遠離貧困，並以信念和目標將其固定在想要的東西上。
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第十章
遺囑的進一步使用。
如果您不斷將注意力轉向對立的圖片，無論這些圖片是外在的還是虛構的，您就無法保留對財富的真實而清晰的願景。
如果您曾經有過財務上的麻煩，請不要說。完全不考慮它們。不要說父母的貧窮或您早期生活的艱辛；做任何一件事情都是暫時將自己與窮人進行心理分類，它肯定會阻止事物朝著您的方向發展。
耶穌說：“讓死者埋葬他們的死者。”
將貧窮和與貧窮有關的所有事物完全拋在身後。
您已經接受了某種理論[90] 宇宙是正確的，並讓您對幸福的所有希望都寄託在它的正確上；通過注意相互矛盾的理論，您可以得到什麼？
Do not read religious books which tell you that the world is soon coming to an end; and do not read the writings of muck-rakers and pessimistic philosophers who tell you that it is going to the devil.
The world is not going to the devil; it is going to God.
It is a wonderful Becoming.
True, there may be a good many things in existing conditions which are disagreeable; but what is the use of studying them when they are certainly passing away, and when the study of them only tends to check their passing and keep them with us? Why give time and attention to things which are being removed by evolutionary growth, when you can hasten their removal only by promoting the evolutionary growth as far as your part of it goes?
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No matter how horrible in seeming may be the conditions in certain countries, sections, or places, you waste your time and destroy your own chances by considering them.
You should interest yourself in the world’s becoming rich.
Think of the riches the world is coming into, instead of the poverty it is growing out of; and bear in mind that the only way in which you can assist the world in growing rich is by growing rich yourself through the creative method—not the competitive one.
Give your attention wholly to riches; ignore poverty.
Whenever you think or speak of those who are poor, think and speak of them as those who are becoming rich; as those who are to be congratulated rather than pitied. Then they and others will catch the inspiration, and begin to search for the way out.
Because I say that you are to give your whole time and mind and thought[92] to riches, it does not follow that you are to be sordid or mean.
To become really rich is the noblest aim you can have in life, for it includes everything else.
On the competitive plane, the struggle to get rich is a Godless scramble for power over other men; but when we come into the creative mind, all this is changed.
All that is possible in the way of greatness and soul unfoldment, of service and lofty endeavor, comes by way of getting rich; all is made possible by the use of things.
If you lack for physical health, you will find that the attainment of it is conditional on your getting rich.
Only those who are emancipated from financial worry, and who have the means to live a care-free existence and follow hygienic practices, can have and retain health.
Moral and spiritual greatness is possible only to those who are above the[93] competitive battle for existence; and only those who are becoming rich on the plane of creative thought are free from the degrading influences of competition. If your heart is set on domestic happiness, remember that love flourishes best where there is refinement, a high level of thought, and freedom from corrupting influences; and these are to be found only where riches are attained by the exercise of creative thought, without strife or rivalry.
You can aim at nothing so great or noble, I repeat, as to become rich; and you must fix your attention upon your mental picture of riches, to the exclusion of all that may tend to dim or obscure the vision.
You must learn to see the underlying TRUTH in all things; you must see beneath all seemingly wrong conditions the Great One Life ever moving forward toward fuller expression and more complete happiness.
It is the truth that there is no such[94] thing as poverty; that there is only wealth.
Some people remain in poverty because they are ignorant of the fact that there is wealth for them; and these can best be taught by showing them the way to affluence in your own person and practice.
Others are poor because, while they feel that there is a way out, they are too intellectually indolent to put forth the mental effort necessary to find that way and travel it; and for these the very best thing you can do is to arouse their desire by showing them the happiness that comes from being rightly rich.
Others still are poor because, while they have some notion of science, they have become so swamped and lost in the maze of metaphysical and occult theories that they do not know which road to take. They try a mixture of many systems and fail in all. For these, again, the very best thing to do is to show the right way in your own person[95] and practice; an ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.
The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.
You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich; that is, if you get rich by the creative method, and not by the competitive one.
Another thing. We assert that this book gives in detail the principles of the science of getting rich; and if that is true, you do not need to read any other book upon the subject. This may sound narrow and egotistical, but consider: there is no more scientific method of computation in mathematics than by addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; no other method is possible. There can be but one shortest distance between two points. There is only one way to think scientifically, and that is to think in the way that leads by the most direct and simple route to the[96] goal. No man has yet formulated a briefer or less complex “system” than the one set forth herein; it has been stripped of all non-essentials. When you commence on this, lay all others aside; put them out of your mind altogether.
Read this book every day; keep it with you; commit it to memory, and do not think about other “systems” and theories. If you do, you will begin to have doubts, and to be uncertain and wavering in your thought; and then you will begin to make failures.
After you have made good and become rich, you may study other systems as much as you please; but until you are quite sure that you have gained what you want, do not read anything on this line but this book, unless it be the authors mentioned in the Preface.
And read only the most optimistic comments on the world’s news; those in harmony with your picture.
Also, postpone your investigations[97] into the occult. Do not dabble in Theosophy, Spiritualism, or kindred studies. It is very likely that the dead still live, and are near; but if they are, let them alone; mind your own business.
Wherever the spirits of the dead may be, they have their own work to do, and their own problems to solve; and we have no right to interfere with them. We cannot help them, and it is very doubtful whether they can help us, or whether we have any right to trespass upon their time if they can. Let the dead and the hereafter alone, and solve your own problem; get rich. If you begin to mix with the occult, you will start mental cross-currents which will surely bring your hopes to shipwreck. Now, this and the preceding chapters have brought us to the following statement of basic facts:—
There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.
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A thought, in this substance, produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.
Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.
In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind; he must form a clear mental picture of the things he wants, and hold this picture in his thoughts with the fixed PURPOSE to get what he wants, and the unwavering FAITH that he does get what he wants, closing his mind against all that may tend to shake his purpose, dim his vision, or quench his faith.
And in addition to all this, we shall now see that he must live and act in a Certain Way.
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CHAPTER XI.
Acting in the Certain Way.
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 shipwreck—the failure to connect thought with personal action.
We have not yet reached the stage of development, even supposing such a stage to be possible, in which man can create directly from Formless Substance without nature’s processes or the work of human hands; man must not only think, but his personal action must supplement his thought.
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By thought you can cause the gold in the hearts of the mountains to be impelled toward you; but it will not mine itself, refine itself, coin itself into double eagles, and come rolling along the roads seeking its way into your pocket.
Under the impelling power of the Supreme Spirit, men’s affairs will be so ordered that some one will be led to mine the gold for you; other men’s business transactions will be so directed that the gold will be brought toward you, and you must so arrange your own business affairs that you may be able to receive it when it comes to you. Your thought makes all things, animate and inanimate, work to bring you what you want; but your personal activity must be such that you can rightly receive what you want when it reaches you. You are not to take it as charity, nor to steal it; you must give every man more in use value than he gives you in cash value.
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The scientific use of thought consists in forming a clear and distinct mental image of what you want; in holding fast to the purpose to get what you want; and in realizing with grateful faith that you do get what you want.
Do not try to “project” your thought in any mysterious or occult way, with the idea of having it go out and do things for you; that is wasted effort, and will weaken your power to think with sanity.
The action of thought in getting rich is fully explained in the preceding chapters; your faith and purpose positively impress your vision upon Formless Substance, which has THE SAME DESIRE FOR MORE LIFE THAT YOU HAVE; and this vision, received from you, sets all the creative forces at work IN AND THROUGH THEIR REGULAR CHANNELS OF ACTION, but directed toward you.
It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process; all you have[102] to do with that is to retain your vision, stick to your purpose, and maintain your faith and gratitude.
But you must act in a Certain Way, so that you can appropriate what is yours when it comes to you; so that you can meet the things you have in your picture, and put them in their proper places as they arrive.
You can readily see the truth of this. When things reach you, they will be in the hands of other men, who will ask an equivalent for them.
And you can only get what is yours by giving the other man what is his.
Your pocketbook is not going to be transformed into a Fortunatus’s purse, which shall be always full of money without effort on your part.
This is the crucial point in the science of getting rich; right here, where thought and personal action must be combined. There are very many people who, consciously or unconsciously, set the creative forces in action by the[103] strength and persistence of their desires, but who remain poor because they do not provide for the reception of the thing they want when it comes.
By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it.
Whatever your action is to be, it is evident that you must act NOW. You cannot act in the past, and it is essential to the clearness of your mental vision that you dismiss the past from your mind. You cannot act in the future, for the future is not here yet. And you cannot tell how you will want to act in any future contingency until that contingency has arrived.
Because you are not in the right business, or the right environment now, do not think that you must postpone action until you get into the right business or environment. And do not spend time in the present taking thought as to the best course in possible future emergencies; have faith in your ability to meet any emergency when it arrives.
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If you act in the present with your mind on the future, your present action will be with a divided mind, and will not be effective.
Put your whole mind into present action.
Do not give your creative impulse to Original Substance, and then sit down and wait for results; if you do, you will never get them. Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now. If you are ever to begin to make ready for the reception of what you want, you must begin now.
And your action, whatever it is, must most likely be in your present business or employment, and must be upon the persons and things in your present environment.
You cannot act where you are not; you cannot act where you have been, and you cannot act where you are going to be; you can act only where you are.
Do not bother as to whether yesterday’s[105] work was well done or ill done; do to-day’s work well.
Do not try to do to-morrow’s work now; there will be plenty of time to do that when you get to it.
Do not try, by occult or mystical means, to act on people or things that are out of your reach.
Do not wait for a change of environment before you act; get a change of environment by action.
You can so act upon the environment in which you are now, as to cause yourself to be transferred to a better environment.
Hold with faith and purpose the vision of yourself in the better environment, but act upon your present environment with all your heart, and with all your strength, and with all your mind.
Do not spend any time in day dreaming or castle building; hold to the one vision of what you want, and act NOW.
Do not cast about seeking some new[106] thing to do, or some strange, unusual, or remarkable action to perform as a first step toward getting rich. It is probable that your actions, at least for some time to come, will be those you have been performing for some time past; but you are to begin now to perform these actions in the Certain Way, which will surely make you rich.
If you are engaged in some business, and feel that it is not the right one for you, do not wait until you get into the right business before you begin to act.
Do not feel discouraged, or sit down and lament because you are misplaced. No man was ever so misplaced but that he could 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 ACT in your present business. Use your[107] present business as the means of getting a better one, and use your present environment as the means of getting into a better one. Your vision of the right business, if held with faith and purpose, will cause the Supreme to move the right business toward you; and your action, if performed in the Certain Way, will cause you to move toward the business.
If you are an employee, or wage earner, and feel that you must change places in order to get what you want, do not “project” your thought into space and rely upon it to get you another job. It will probably fail to do so.
Hold the vision of yourself in the job you want, while you ACT with faith and purpose on the job you have, and you will certainly get the job you want.
Your vision and faith will set the creative force in motion to bring it toward you, and your action will cause the forces in your own environment to[108] move you toward the place you want. In closing this chapter, we will add another statement to our syllabus:—
There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.
A thought, in this substance, produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.
Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thoughts upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.
In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind; he must form a clear mental picture of the things he wants, and hold this picture in his thoughts with the fixed PURPOSE to get what he wants, and the unwavering FAITH that he does get what he wants, closing his mind to all that may tend to shake his purpose, dim his vision, or quench his faith.
That he may receive what he wants[109] when it comes, man must act NOW upon the people and things in his present environment.
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CHAPTER XII.
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 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 a dead weight upon society, government, commerce, and industry; they must be carried along by others at a[111] great expense. The progress of the world is retarded only by those who do not fill the places they are holding; they belong to a former age and a lower stage or plane of life, and their tendency is toward degeneration. No society could advance if every man was smaller than his place; social evolution is guided by the law of physical and mental evolution. In the animal world, evolution is caused by excess of life.
When an organism has more life than can be expressed in the functions of its own plane, it develops the organs of a higher plane, and a new species is originated.
There never would have been new species had there not been organisms which more than filled their places. The law is exactly the same for you; your getting rich depends upon your applying this principle to your own affairs.
Every day is either a successful day or a day of failure; and it is the successful days which get you what you want.[112] If every day is a failure, you can never get rich; while if every day is a success, you cannot fail to get rich.
If there is something that may be done to-day, and you do not do it, you have failed in so far as that thing is concerned; and the consequences may be more disastrous than you imagine.
You cannot foresee the results of even the most trivial act; you do not know the workings of all the forces that have been set moving in your behalf. Much may be depending on your doing some simple act; it may be the very thing which is to open the door of opportunity to very great possibilities. You can never know all the combinations which Supreme Intelligence is making for you in the world of things and of human affairs; your neglect or failure to do some small thing may 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[113] qualification of the above that you must take into account.
You are not to overwork, nor to rush blindly into your business in the effort to do the greatest possible number of things in the shortest possible time.
You are not to try to do to-morrow’s work to-day, nor to do a week’s work in a day.
It is really not the number of things you do, but the EFFICIENCY of each separate action that counts.
Every act is, in itself, either a success or a failure.
Every act is, in itself, either effective or inefficient.
Every inefficient act is a failure, and if you spend your life in doing inefficient acts, your whole life will be a failure.
The more things you do, the worse for you, if all your acts are inefficient ones.
On the other hand, every efficient act is a success in itself, and if every act[114] of your life is an efficient one, your whole life MUST be a success.
The cause of failure is doing too many things in an inefficient manner, and not doing enough things in an efficient manner.
You will see that it is a self-evident proposition that if you do not do any inefficient acts, and if you do a sufficient number of efficient acts, you will become rich. If, now, it is possible for you to make each act an efficient one, you see again that the getting of riches is reduced to an exact science, like mathematics.
The matter turns, then, on the question whether you can make each separate act a success in itself. And this you can certainly do.
You can make each act a success, because All Power is working with you; and All Power cannot fail.
Power is at your service; and to make each act efficient you have only to put power into it.
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Every action is either strong or weak; and when every one is strong, you are acting in the Certain Way which will make you rich.
Every act can be made strong and efficient by holding your vision while you are doing it, and putting the whole power of your FAITH and PURPOSE into it.
It is at this point that the people fail who separate mental power from personal action. They use the power of mind in one place and at one time, and they act in another 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 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.
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Remember that successful action is cumulative in its results. Since the desire for more life is inherent in all things, when a man begins to move toward larger life more things attach themselves to him, and the influence of his desire is multiplied.
Do, every day, all that you can do that day, and do each act in an efficient manner.
In saying that you must hold your vision while you are doing each act, however trivial or commonplace, I do not mean to say that it is necessary at all times to see the vision distinctly to its smallest details. It should be the work of your leisure hours to use your imagination on the details of your vision, and to contemplate them until they are firmly fixed upon your memory.
If you wish speedy results, spend practically all your spare time in this practice.
By continuous contemplation you[117] will get the picture of what you want, even to the smallest details, so firmly fixed upon your mind, and so completely transferred to the mind of Formless Substance, that in your working hours you need only to mentally refer to the picture to stimulate your faith and purpose, and cause your best effort to be put forth. Contemplate your picture in your leisure hours until your consciousness is so full of it that you can grasp it instantly. You will become so enthused with its bright promises that the mere thought of it will call forth the strongest energies of your whole being.
Let us again repeat our syllabus, and by slightly changing the closing statements bring it to the point we have now reached.
There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.
A thought, in this substance, produces[118] the thing that is imaged by the thought.
Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.
In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind; he must form a clear mental picture of the things he wants, and do, with faith and purpose, all that can be done each day, doing each separate thing in an efficient manner.
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CHAPTER XIII.
Getting into the Right Business.
Success, in any particular business, depends for one thing upon your possessing in a well-developed state the faculties required in that business.
Without good musical faculty no one can succeed as a teacher of music; without well-developed mechanical faculties no one can achieve great success in any of the mechanical trades; without tact and the commercial faculties no one can succeed in mercantile pursuits. But to possess in a well-developed state the faculties required in your particular vocation does not insure getting rich. There are musicians who have remarkable talent, and who yet remain poor; there are blacksmiths, carpenters, and so on who have excellent mechanical[120] ability, but who do not get rich; and there are merchants with good faculties for dealing with men who nevertheless fail.
The different faculties are tools; it is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the Right Way. One man can take a sharp saw, a square, a good plane, and so on, and build a handsome article of furniture; another man can take the same tools and set to work to duplicate the article, but his production will be a botch. He does not know how to use good tools in a successful way.
The various faculties of your mind are the tools with which you must do the work which is to make you rich; it will be easier for you to succeed if you get into a business for which you are well equipped with mental tools.
Generally speaking, you will do best in that business which will use your strongest faculties; the one for which you are naturally “best fitted.” But[121] there are limitations to this statement, also. No man should regard his vocation as being irrevocably fixed by the tendencies with which he was born.
You can get rich in ANY business, for if you have not the right talent for it you can develop that talent; it merely means that you will have to make your tools as you go along, instead of confining yourself to the use of those with which you were born. It will be EASIER for you to succeed in a vocation for which you already have the talents in a well-developed state; but you CAN succeed in any vocation, for you can develop any rudimentary talent, and there is no talent of which you have not at least the rudiment.
You will get rich most easily in point of effort, if you do that for which you are best fitted; but you will get rich most satisfactorily if you do that which you WANT to do.
Doing what you want to do is life; and there is no real satisfaction in living[122] if we are compelled to be forever doing something which we do not like to do, and can never do what we want to do. And it is certain that you can do what you want to do; the desire to do it is proof that you have within you the power which can do it.
Desire is a manifestation of power.
The desire to play music is the power which can play music seeking expression and development; the desire to invent mechanical devices is the mechanical talent seeking expression and development.
Where there is no power, either developed or undeveloped, to do a thing, there is never any desire to do that thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing, it is certain proof that the power to do it is strong, and only requires to be developed and applied in the Right Way.
All things else being equal, it is best to select the business for which you have the best developed talent; but if you[123] have a strong desire to engage in any particular line of work, you should select that work as the ultimate end at which you aim.
You can do what you want to do, and it is your right and privilege to follow the business or avocation which will be most congenial and pleasant.
You are not obliged to do what you do not like to do, and should not do it except as a means to bring you to the doing of the thing you want to do.
If there are past mistakes whose consequences have placed you in an undesirable business or environment, you may be obliged for some time to do what you do not like to do; but you can make the doing of it pleasant by knowing that it is making it possible for you to come to the doing of what you want to do.
If you feel that you are not in the right vocation, do not act too hastily in trying to get into another one. The best way, generally, to change business or environment is by growth.
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Do not be afraid to make a sudden and radical change if the opportunity is presented, and you feel after careful consideration that it is the right opportunity; but never take sudden or radical action when you are in doubt as to the wisdom of doing so.
There is never any hurry on the creative plane; and there is no lack of opportunity.
When you get out of the competitive mind you will understand that you never need to act hastily. No one else is going to beat you to the thing you want to do; there is enough for all. If one place is taken, another and a better one will be opened 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 and indecision, cultivate gratitude.
A day or two spent in contemplating the vision of what you want, and in[125] earnest thanksgiving that you are getting it, will bring your mind into such close relationship with the Supreme that you will make no mistake when you do act.
There is a mind which knows all there is to know; and you can come into close unity with this mind by faith and the purpose to advance in life, if you have deep gratitude.
Mistakes come from acting hastily, or from acting in fear or doubt, or in forgetfulness of the Right Motive, which is more life to all, and less to none.
As you go on in the Certain Way, opportunities will come to you in increasing number; and you will need to be very steady in your faith and purpose, and to keep in close touch with the All Mind by reverent gratitude.
Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry, or fear. Go as fast as you can, but never hurry.
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Remember that in the moment you begin to hurry you cease to be a creator and become a competitor; you drop back upon the old plane again.
每當您發現自己匆忙時，就停下來。將注意力集中在所需事物的心理形像上，並開始感謝您獲得了它。GRATITUDE的練習永遠不會增強您的信念並更新您的目標。
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第十四章
印象的增加。
無論您是否改變職業，目前的行為都必須是與您現在從事的業務有關的行為。
您可以通過建設性地利用已經建立的業務來進入想要的業務；通過某種方式完成日常工作。
就您的業務而言，無論是親自還是通過信件與其他人打交道，您所有努力的關鍵思想都必須是在他們的腦海中傳達增加的印象。
所有男人和女人都在追求增長；這是他們內在的無形智能的追求，他們尋求更充分的表達。
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對增長的渴望是所有自然固有的。這是宇宙的基本衝動。人類的一切活動都基於對增長的渴望；人們正在尋找更多的食物，更多的衣服，更好的住所，更多的奢華，更多的美麗，更多的知識，更多的樂趣-增加某些東西，增加生活。
每一種生物都必須不斷進步。在生命不再增長的地方，解散和死亡立刻發生。
人本能地知道這一點，因此他一直在尋求更多。耶穌在才幹的寓言中闡明了這種永續增長的律法。只有那些獲得更多收益的人才保留任何收益；從沒有他的人那裡也要除掉他所擁有的。
正常的增加財富的願望不是邪惡的，也不是應受譴責的東西。這僅僅是對更充實生活的渴望；這是願望。
而且因為這是最深刻的本能[129] 就其本性而言，所有男人和女人都被他吸引，他可以給他們更多的生活方式。
按照前面幾頁中所述的“確定的方式”，您將不斷獲得自己的增長，並將其分配給與您打交道的所有人。
您是一個創造中心，所有的收益都可以從中獲得。
請確保這一點，並向與您接觸的每個男人，女人和孩子傳達這一事實的保證。無論交易多麼小，即使只是向小孩子出售糖果，也要考慮增加的想法，並確保客戶對該想法印象深刻。
用您所做的一切來傳達進步的印象，以便所有人都得到您是一個前進的人，並且您晉升與您打交道的所有人的印象。甚至是你遇到的人[130] 一種社交方式，不需任何生意，並且不向任何人出售任何東西，請想到增加。
您可以通過堅定不移地相信自己，即自己正在成長，來傳達這種印象。並通過這種信念激發，充實和滲透每個行動。
堅定地相信自己是一個進取的人格，並且正在為每個人提供進步，請堅守自己所做的一切。
感到自己正在變得富裕，並以此為自己在使他人變得富有，並為所有人帶來利益。
不要誇大或吹噓自己的成功，或不必要地談論它；真正的信念永遠不會自誇。
無論您在哪裡找到一個自誇的人，都會找到一個暗中懷疑和恐懼的人。只需簡單地感受到信念，並在每筆交易中使信念發揮作用；讓每一個舉動和語氣和表情表達對您正在獲得的安靜保證[131] 富有的; 你已經很有錢了 無需用言語就可以將這種感覺傳達給他人。當您在場時，他們會感到一種增強的感覺，並會再次被您吸引。
您必須給別人留下深刻的印象，他們會覺得與您建立聯繫會為自己帶來進步。看到您給他們的使用價值大於從他們那裡獲得的現金價值。
以做到這一點為榮，讓所有人都知道。您將不會缺少客戶。人們會去增加他們的地方。至高無上的人，希望所有人增加，而所有人都知道，他們將走向從未聽說過你的男人和女人。您的業務將迅速增長，您將為您帶來意想不到的好處，這會讓您感到驚訝。您將能夠每天進行更大的組合，獲得更大的優勢並繼續前進[132] 如果您願意，可以選擇更適合自己的職業。
但是，在進行所有這些操作時，您絕不能忽略自己對想要的東西的願景，或者對獲得想要的東西的信念和目標。
在此讓我再提一個關於動機的警告。
提防為他人謀取勢力的陰險誘惑。
對未成年或部分發展的人來說，沒有什麼比對他人行使權力或支配權那麼令人愉悅的了。統治自私自利的願望一直是世界的詛咒。幾千年來，國王和君主在戰鬥中充斥著鮮血，以擴大自己的統治地位。這不是為所有人尋求更多的生命，而是為自己獲得更多的力量。
如今，商業和工業領域的主要動機是相同的。軍隊封存他們的美元軍隊，浪費了他們的生命和心。[133] 數以百萬計的人為爭奪他人的權力而瘋狂地爭奪權力。商業國王像政治國王一樣，都受到對權力慾望的鼓舞。
耶穌在渴望掌握的慾望中看到了他試圖推翻的那個邪惡世界的動感衝動。閱讀《馬太福音》的第二十三章，看看他如何描繪法利賽人的慾望，稱其為“主人”，坐在高處，統治其他人，並為那些不幸的人背負重擔；並註意他如何將這種對統治的慾望與他所尋求的稱為弟子的共同利益的兄弟情誼相提並論。
尋求誘惑，尋求權威，成為“主人”，被視為高於普通人群，通過大肆展示給別人留下深刻印像等。
尋求精通他人的思想是競爭思想；競爭意識不是創造力。為了掌握您的環境[134] 和您的命運，您根本不必統治同胞。的確，當您陷入世界爭奪高地的鬥爭時，您開始被命運和環境所征服，而您的致富就變成了機會和投機的問題。
提防競爭意識！沒有比托萊多已故的“黃金法則”瓊斯最喜歡的宣言更好地表達了創造性行動的原則：“我想要的是我，我想要的是每個人。”
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第十五章。
前進的人。
我在上一章中所說的，同樣適用於專業人士和賺錢的人，也適用於從事商業活動的人。
No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of the fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich. The physician who holds the vision of himself as a great and successful healer, and who works toward the complete realization of that vision with faith and purpose, as described in former chapters, will come into such close touch with the Source of Life that he will be phenomenally successful; patients will come to him in throngs.
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No one has a greater opportunity to carry into effect the teachings of this book than the practitioner of medicine; it does not matter to which of the various schools he may belong, for the principle of healing is common to all of them, and may be reached by all alike. The Advancing Man in medicine, who holds to a clear mental image of himself as successful, and who obeys the laws of faith, purpose, and gratitude, will cure every curable case he undertakes, no matter what remedies he may use.
In the field of religion, the world cries out for the clergyman who can teach his hearers the true science of abundant life. He who masters the details of the science of getting rich, together with the allied sciences of being well, of being great, and of winning love, and who teaches these details from the pulpit, will never lack for a congregation. This is the gospel that the world needs; it will give increase of[137] life, and men will hear it gladly, and will give liberal support to the man who brings it to them.
What is now needed is a demonstration of the science of life from the pulpit. We want preachers who can not only tell us how, but who in their own persons will show us how. We need the preacher who will himself be rich, healthy, great, and beloved, to teach us how to attain to these things; and when he comes he will find a numerous and loyal following.
The same is true of the teacher who can inspire the children with the faith and purpose of the advancing life. He will never be “out of a job.” And any teacher who has this faith and purpose can give it to his pupils; he cannot help giving it to them if it is part of his own life and practice.
What is true of the teacher, preacher, and physician is true of the lawyer, dentist, real estate man, insurance agent—of everybody.
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The combined mental and personal action I have described is infallible; it cannot fail. Every man and woman who follows these instructions steadily, perseveringly, and to the letter, will get rich. The law of the Increase of Life is as mathematically certain in its operation as the law of gravitation; getting rich is an exact science.
The wage-earner will find this as true of his case as of any of the others mentioned. Do not feel that you have no chance to get rich because you are working where there is no visible opportunity for advancement, where wages are small and the cost of living high. Form your clear mental vision of what you want, and begin to act with faith and purpose.
Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do.
But do not do this merely with the[139] idea of currying favor with your employer, in the hope that he, or those above you, will see your good work and advance you; it is not likely that they will do so.
The man who is merely a “good” workman, filling his place to the very best of his ability, and satisfied with that, is valuable to his employer; and it is not to the employer’s interest to promote him; he is worth more where he is.
To secure advancement, something more is necessary than to be too large for your place.
The man who is certain to advance is the one who is too big for his place, and who has a clear concept of what he wants to be; who knows that he can become what he wants to be, and who is determined to BE what he wants to be.
Do not try to more than fill your present place with a view to pleasing your employer; do it with the idea of advancing[140] yourself. Hold the faith and purpose of increase during work hours, after work hours, and before work hours. Hold it in such a way that every person who comes in contact with you, whether foreman, fellow workman, or social acquaintance, will feel the power of purpose radiating from you; so that every one will get the sense of advancement and increase from you. Men will be attracted to you, and if there is no possibility for advancement in your present job, you will very soon see an opportunity to take another job.
There is a Power which never fails to present opportunity to the Advancing Man who is moving in obedience to law.
God cannot help helping you, if you act in a Certain Way; He must do so in order to help Himself.
There is nothing in your circumstances or in the industrial situation that can keep you down. If you cannot get rich working for the steel trust, you can get rich on a ten-acre farm; and if[141] you begin to move in the Certain Way, you will certainly escape from the “clutches” of the steel trust and get on to the farm or wherever else you wish to be.
If a few thousands of its employees would enter upon the Certain Way, the steel trust would soon be in a bad plight; it would have to give its workingmen more opportunity, or go out of business. Nobody has to work for a trust; the trusts can keep men in so-called hopeless conditions only so long as there are men who are too ignorant to know of the science of getting rich, or too intellectually slothful to practice it.
Begin this way of thinking and acting, and your faith and purpose will make you quick to see any opportunity to better your condition.
Such opportunities will speedily come, for the Supreme, working in All, and working for you, will bring them before you.
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Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be; when an opportunity to be more than you are now is presented and you feel impelled toward it, take it. It will be the first step toward a greater opportunity.
There is no such thing possible in this universe as a lack of opportunities for the man who is living the advancing life.
It is inherent in the constitution of the cosmos that all things shall be for him and work together for his good; and he must certainly get rich if he acts and thinks in the Certain Way. So let wage-earning men and women study this book with great care, and enter with confidence upon the course of action it prescribes; it will not fail.
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CHAPTER XVI.
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 is true that existing governments keep the masses in poverty, but this is because the masses do not think and act in the Certain Way.
If the masses begin to move forward as suggested in this book, neither governments nor industrial systems can check them; all systems must be modified[144] to accommodate the forward movement.
If the people have the Advancing Mind, have the Faith that they can become rich, and move forward with the fixed purpose to become rich, nothing can possibly keep them in poverty.
Individuals may enter upon the Certain Way at any time, and under any government, and make themselves rich; and when any considerable number of individuals do so under any government, they will cause the system to be so modified as to open the way for others.
The more men who get rich on the competitive plane, the worse for others; the more who get rich on the creative plane, the better for others.
The economic salvation of the masses can only be accomplished by getting a large number of people to practice the scientific method set down in this book, and become rich. These will show others the way, and inspire them with[145] a desire for real life, with the faith that it can be attained, and with the purpose to attain it.
For the present, however, it is enough to know that neither the government under which you live nor the capitalistic or competitive system of industry can keep you from getting rich. When you enter upon the creative plane of thought you will rise above all these things and become a citizen of another kingdom.
But remember that your thought must be held upon the creative plane; you are never for an instant to be betrayed into regarding the supply as limited, or into acting on the moral level of competition.
Whenever you do fall into old ways of thought, correct yourself instantly; for when you are in the competitive mind, you have lost the co-operation 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[146] necessary policies may affect your actions to-day. You are concerned with doing to-day’s work in a perfectly successful manner, and not with emergencies which may arise to-morrow; 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 to-day in order to avoid them.
No matter how tremendous an obstruction may appear at a distance, you will find that if you go on in the Certain Way it will disappear as you approach it, or that a way over, through, or around it will appear.
No possible combination of circumstances can defeat a man or woman who is proceeding to get rich along strictly scientific lines. No man or woman who obeys the law can fail to get rich, any more than one can multiply two by two and fail to get four.
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Give no anxious thought to possible disasters, obstacles, panics, or unfavorable combinations of circumstances; it is time enough to meet such things when they present themselves before you in the immediate present, and you will find that every difficulty carries with it the wherewithal for its overcoming.
Guard your speech. Never speak of yourself, your affairs, or of anything else in a discouraged or discouraging way.
Never admit the possibility of failure, or speak in a way that infers failure as a possibility.
Never speak of the times as being hard, or of business conditions as being doubtful. Times may be hard and business doubtful for those who are on the competitive plane, but they can never be so for you; you can create what you want, and you are above fear.
When others are having hard times[148] and 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 as being only that which is undeveloped. Always speak in terms of advancement; to do otherwise is to deny your faith, and to deny your faith is to lose it.
Never allow yourself to feel disappointed. You may expect to have a certain thing at a certain time, and not get it at that time; and this will appear to you like failure.
But if you hold to your faith you will find that the failure is only apparent.
Go on in the certain way, and if you do not receive that thing, you will receive something so much better that you will see that the seeming failure was really a great success.
A student of this science had set his mind on making a certain business combination which seemed to him at the[149] time to be very desirable, and he worked for some weeks to bring it about. When the crucial time came, the thing failed in a perfectly inexplicable way; it was as if some unseen influence had been working secretly against him. He was not disappointed; on the contrary, he thanked God that his desire had been overruled, and went steadily on with a grateful mind. In a few weeks an opportunity so much better came his way that he would not have made the first deal on any account; and he saw that a Mind which knew more than he knew had prevented him from losing the greater good by entangling himself with the lesser.
That is the way every seeming failure will work out for you, if you keep your faith, hold to your purpose, have gratitude, and do, every day, all that can be done that day, doing each separate act in a successful manner.
When you make a failure, it is because you have not asked for enough;[150] keep on, and a larger thing than you were seeking will certainly come to you. Remember this.
You will not fail because you lack the necessary talent to do what you wish to do. If you go on as I have directed, you will develop all the talent that is necessary to the doing of your work.
It is not within the scope of this book to deal with the science of cultivating talent; but it is as certain and simple as the process of getting rich.
However, do not hesitate or waver for fear that when you come to any certain place you will fail for lack of ability; keep right on, and when you come to that place, the ability will be furnished to you. The same source of Ability which enabled the untaught Lincoln to do the greatest work in government ever accomplished by a single man is open to you; you may draw upon all the mind there is for wisdom to use in meeting the responsibilities which are laid upon you. Go on in full faith.
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Study this book. Make it your constant companion until you have mastered all the ideas contained in it. While you are getting firmly established in this faith, you will do well to give up most recreations and pleasures; and to stay away from places where ideas conflicting with these are advanced in lectures or sermons. Do not read pessimistic or conflicting literature, or get into arguments upon the matter. Do very little reading, outside of the writers mentioned in the Preface. Spend most of your leisure time in contemplating your vision, and in cultivating gratitude, and in reading this book. It contains all you need to know of the science of getting rich; and you will find all the essentials summed up in the following chapter.
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CHAPTER XVII.
Summary of the Science of Getting Rich.
There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.
A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.
Man can form things in his thought, and by impressing his thought upon formless substance can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.
In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind; otherwise he cannot be in harmony with the Formless Intelligence, which is always creative and never competitive in spirit.
Man may come into full harmony[153] with the Formless Substance by entertaining a lively and sincere gratitude for the blessings it bestows upon him. Gratitude unifies the mind of man with the intelligence of Substance, so that man’s thoughts are received by the Formless. Man can remain upon the creative plane only by uniting himself with the Formless Intelligence through a deep and continuous feeling of gratitude.
Man must form a clear and definite mental image of the things he wishes to have, to do, or to become; and he must hold this mental image in his thoughts, while being deeply grateful to the Supreme that all his desires are granted to him. The man who wishes to get rich must spend his leisure hours in contemplating his Vision, and in earnest thanksgiving that the reality is being given to him. Too much stress cannot be laid on the importance of frequent contemplation of the mental image, coupled with unwavering faith[154] and devout gratitude. This is the process by which the impression is given to the Formless, and the creative forces set in motion.
The creative energy works through the established channels of natural growth, and of the industrial and social order. All that is included in his mental image will surely be brought to the man who follows the instructions given above, and whose faith does not waver. What he wants will come to him through the ways of established trade and commerce.
In order to receive his own when it shall come to him, man must be active; and this activity can only consist in more than filling his present place. He must keep in mind the Purpose to get rich through the realization of his mental image. And he must do, every day, all that can be done that day, taking care to do each act in a successful manner. He must give to every man a use value in excess of the cash value[155] 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; 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.
FURTHER AIDS TOWARD
GETTING RICH RIGHT
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Transcriber’s Notes:
Punctuation has been made consistent.
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