Further Use of The Will

You can­not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are con­stantly turn­ing your atten­tion to oppos­ing pic­tures, whether they be exter­nal or imaginary.

Do not tell of your past trou­bles of a finan­cial nature, if you have had them. Do not think of them at all. Do not tell of the poverty of your par­ents or the hard­ships of your early life. To do any of these things is to men­tally class your­self with the poor for the time being, and it will cer­tainly check the move­ment of things in your direc­tion. Put poverty and all things that per­tain to poverty com­pletely behind you.

You have accepted a cer­tain the­ory of the uni­verse as being cor­rect, and are rest­ing all your hopes of hap­pi­ness on its being cor­rect. What can you gain by giv­ing heed to con­flict­ing theories?

Do not read books which tell you that the world is soon com­ing to an end, and do not read the writ­ing of muck­rak­ers and pes­simistic philoso­phers who tell you that it is going to the devil. The world is not going to the devil; it is going to God. It is a won­der­ful becoming.

True, there may be a good many things in exist­ing con­di­tions which are dis­agree­able, but what is the use of study­ing them when they are cer­tainly pass­ing away and when the study of them only tends to slow their pass­ing and keep them with us? Why give time and atten­tion to things which are being removed by evo­lu­tion­ary growth, when you can has­ten their removal only by pro­mot­ing the evo­lu­tion­ary growth as far as your part of it goes?

No mat­ter how hor­ri­ble in seem­ing may be the con­di­tions in cer­tain coun­tries, sec­tions, or places, you waste your time and destroy your own chances by dwelling on them.

You should inter­est your­self in the world’s becom­ing rich.

Think of the riches the world is com­ing into instead of the poverty it is grow­ing out of, and bear in mind that the only way in which you can assist the world in grow­ing rich is by grow­ing rich your­self through the cre­ative method, not the com­pet­i­tive one.

Give your atten­tion wholly to riches. Do not focus on poverty. When­ever you think or speak of those who are poor, think and speak of them as those who are becom­ing rich, as those who are to be con­grat­u­lated rather than pitied. Then they and oth­ers will catch the inspi­ra­tion, and begin to search for the way out.

Because I say that you are to give your whole time and mind and thought to riches, it does not fol­low that you are to be sor­did or mean.

To become really rich is the noblest aim you can have in life, for it includes every­thing else.

On the com­pet­i­tive plane, the strug­gle to get rich is a God­less scram­ble for power over oth­ers, but when we come into the cre­ative mind, all this is changed. All that is pos­si­ble in the way of great­ness, of ser­vice and lofty endeavor, comes by way of get­ting rich, because all is made pos­si­ble by the use of things. You can aim at noth­ing so great or noble, I repeat, as to become rich, and you must fix your atten­tion upon your men­tal pic­ture of wealth to the exclu­sion of all that may tend to dim or obscure the vision.

Some peo­ple remain in poverty because they are igno­rant of the fact that there is wealth for them, and these can best be taught by show­ing them the way to afflu­ence in your own per­son and practice.

Oth­ers are poor because, while they feel that there is a way out, they are too intel­lec­tu­ally indo­lent to put forth the men­tal effort nec­es­sary to find that way and travel it. For these, the very best thing you can do is to arouse their desire by show­ing them the hap­pi­ness that comes from being rightly rich.

Oth­ers still are poor because, while they have some notion of sci­ence, they have become so swamped and lost in the maze of the­o­ries that they do not know which road to take. They try a mix­ture of many sys­tems and fail in all. For these, again, the very best thing to do is to show the right way in your own per­son and prac­tice. An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.

You can serve God and human­ity in no more effec­tive way than by get­ting rich; that is, if you get rich by the cre­ative method and not by the com­pet­i­tive one.

Another thing. We assert that this book gives in detail the prin­ci­ples of the sci­ence of get­ting rich, and if that is true, you do not need to read any other book upon the sub­ject. This may sound nar­row and ego­tis­ti­cal, but con­sider: There is no more sci­en­tific method of com­pu­ta­tion in math­e­mat­ics than by addi­tion, sub­trac­tion, mul­ti­pli­ca­tion, and divi­sion; no other method is pos­si­ble. There can be but one short­est dis­tance between two points. There is only one way to think sci­en­tif­i­cally, and that is to think in the way that leads by the most direct and sim­ple route to the goal. No one has yet for­mu­lated a briefer or less com­plex “sys­tem” than the one set forth here. It has been stripped of all non-​​essentials. When you com­mence on this, lay all oth­ers aside. Put them out of your mind altogether.

Read this book every day. Keep it with you. Com­mit it to mem­ory, and do not think about other “sys­tems” and the­o­ries. If you do, you will begin to have doubts and to be uncer­tain and waver­ing in your thought, and then you will begin to make fail­ures. After you have made good and become rich, you may study other sys­tems as much as you please.

And read only the most opti­mistic com­ments on the world’s news — those in har­mony with your pic­ture. Also, do not dab­ble in theos­o­phy, spir­i­tu­al­ism, or kin­dred stud­ies. Per­haps the dead still live and are near, but if they are, let them alone; mind your own business.

Wher­ever the spir­its of the dead may be, they have their own work to do, and we have no right to inter­fere with them. We can­not help them, and it is very doubt­ful whether they can help us, or whether we have any right to tres­pass upon their time if they can. Let the dead and the here­after alone, and solve your own prob­lem: Get rich. If you begin to mix with the occult, you will start men­tal cross-​​currents which will surely bring your hopes to shipwreck.

Now, this and the pre­ced­ing chap­ters have brought us to the fol­low­ing state­ment of basic facts:

There is a think­ing stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its orig­i­nal state, per­me­ates, pen­e­trates, and fills the inter­spaces of the universe.

A thought in this sub­stance pro­duces the thing that is imaged by the thought.

A per­son can form things in his thought, and, by impress­ing his thought upon form­less sub­stance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

In order to do this, a per­son must pass from the com­pet­i­tive to the cre­ative mind; he must form a clear men­tal pic­ture of the things he wants, and hold this pic­ture in his thoughts with the fixed PURPOSE to get what he wants, and the unwa­ver­ing FAITH that he does get what he wants, clos­ing his mind against all that may tend to shake his pur­pose, dim his vision, or quench his faith.

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

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