The First Principle in The Science

Thought is the only power which can pro­duce tan­gi­ble riches from the form­less sub­stance. The stuff from which all things are made is a sub­stance which thinks, and a thought of form in this sub­stance pro­duces the form.

Orig­i­nal sub­stance moves accord­ing to its thoughts; every form and process you see in nature is the vis­i­ble expres­sion of a thought in orig­i­nal sub­stance. As the form­less stuff thinks of a form, it takes that form; as it thinks of a motion, it makes that motion. That is the way all things were created.

We live in a thought world, which is part of a thought uni­verse. The thought of a mov­ing uni­verse extended through­out form­less sub­stance, and the think­ing stuff — mov­ing accord­ing to that thought — took the form of sys­tems of plan­ets, and main­tains that form. Think­ing sub­stance takes the form of its thought, and moves accord­ing to the thought.

Hold­ing the idea of a cir­cling sys­tem of suns and worlds, it takes the form of these bod­ies, and moves them as it thinks. Think­ing the form of a slow-​​growing oak tree, it moves accord­ingly, and pro­duces the tree, though cen­turies may be required to do the work. In cre­at­ing, the form­less seems to move accord­ing to the lines of motion it has estab­lished. In other words, the thought of an oak tree does not cause the instant for­ma­tion of a full-​​grown tree, but it does start in motion the forces which will pro­duce the tree, along estab­lished lines of growth.

Every thought of form, held in think­ing sub­stance, causes the cre­ation of the form, but always, or at least gen­er­ally, along lines of growth and action already established.

The thought of a house of a cer­tain con­struc­tion, if it were impressed upon form­less sub­stance, might not cause the instant for­ma­tion of the house, but it would cause the turn­ing of cre­ative ener­gies already work­ing in trade and com­merce into such chan­nels as to result in the speedy build­ing of the house. And if there were no exist­ing chan­nels through which the cre­ative energy could work, then the house would be formed directly from pri­mal sub­stance, with­out wait­ing for the slow processes of the organic and inor­ganic world.

No thought of form can be impressed upon orig­i­nal sub­stance with­out caus­ing the cre­ation of the form.

A per­son is a think­ing cen­ter and can orig­i­nate thought. All the forms that a per­son fash­ions with his hands must first exist in his thought. He can­not shape a thing until he has thought that thing.

So far, humankind has con­fined its efforts wholly to the work of its hands, apply­ing man­ual labor to the world of forms and seek­ing to change or mod­ify those already exist­ing. Humankind has never thought of try­ing to cause the cre­ation of new forms by impress­ing thought upon form­less substance.

When a per­son has a thought-​​form, he takes mate­r­ial from the forms of nature and makes an image of the form which is in his mind. Peo­ple have, so far, made lit­tle or no effort to coop­er­ate with form­less intel­li­gence — to work “with the Father.” The indi­vid­ual has not dreamed that he can “do what he seeth the Father doing.” An indi­vid­ual reshapes and mod­i­fies exist­ing forms by man­ual labor and has given no atten­tion to the ques­tion of whether he may pro­duce things from form­less sub­stance by com­mu­ni­cat­ing his thoughts to it.

We pro­pose to prove that he may do so — to prove that any man or woman may do so — and to show how. As our first step, we must lay down three fun­da­men­tal propositions.

First, we assert that there is one orig­i­nal form­less stuff or sub­stance from which all things are made. All the seem­ingly many ele­ments are but dif­fer­ent pre­sen­ta­tions of one ele­ment. All the many forms found in organic and inor­ganic nature are but dif­fer­ent shapes, made from the same stuff. And this stuff is think­ing stuff — a thought held in it pro­duces the form of the thought. Thought, in think­ing sub­stance, pro­duces shapes. A human being is a think­ing cen­ter, capa­ble of orig­i­nal thought. If a per­son can com­mu­ni­cate his thought to orig­i­nal think­ing sub­stance, he can cause the cre­ation, or for­ma­tion, of the thing he thinks about. To sum­ma­rize this:

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

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

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.

It may be asked if I can prove these state­ments, and with­out going into details I answer that I can do so, both by logic and experience.

Rea­son­ing back from the phe­nom­ena of form and thought, I come to one orig­i­nal think­ing sub-​​stance, and rea­son­ing for­ward from this think­ing sub­stance, I come to a person’s power to cause the for­ma­tion of the thing he thinks about.

And by exper­i­ment, I find the rea­son­ing true. This is my strongest proof.

If one per­son 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 per­son who does what it tells him to do 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 every­one who does exactly what this book tells him to do will get rich.

I have said that peo­ple get rich by doing things in a cer­tain way, and in order to do so, peo­ple must become able to think in a cer­tain way.

A person’s way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks about things.

To do things in the 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.

And to think what you want to think is to think TRUTH, regard­less of appearances.

Every indi­vid­ual has the nat­ural and inher­ent power to think what he wants to think, but it requires far more effort to do so than it does to think the thoughts which are sug­gested by appear­ances. To think accord­ing to appear­ances is easy; to think truth regard­less of appear­ances is labo­ri­ous and requires the expen­di­ture of more power than any other work we are called upon to perform.

There is no labor from which most peo­ple shrink as they do from that of sus­tained and con­sec­u­tive thought. It is the hard­est work in the world. This is espe­cially true when truth is con­trary to appearances.

Every appear­ance in the vis­i­ble world tends to pro­duce a cor­re­spond­ing form in the mind which observes it, and this can only be pre­vented by hold­ing the thought of the TRUTH.

To look upon the appear­ances of poverty will pro­duce cor­re­spond­ing forms in your own mind, unless you hold to the truth that there is no poverty; there is only abundance.

To think health when sur­rounded by the appear­ances of dis­ease or to think riches when in the midst of the appear­ances of poverty requires power, but who­ever acquires this power becomes a mas­ter mind. That per­son can con­quer fate and can have what he wants.

This power can only be acquired by get­ting hold of the basic fact which is behind all appear­ances, and that fact is that there is one think­ing sub­stance from which and by which all things are made.

Then we must grasp the truth that every thought held in this sub­stance becomes a form, and that man can so impress his thoughts upon it as to cause them to take form and become vis­i­ble things.

When we real­ize this we lose all doubt and fear, for we know that we can cre­ate what we want to cre­ate, we can get what we want to have, and can become what we want to be. As a first step toward get­ting rich, you must believe the three fun­da­men­tal state­ments given pre­vi­ously in this chap­ter, and in order to empha­size them, I repeat them here:

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

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

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.

You must lay aside all other con­cepts of the uni­verse, and you must dwell upon this until it is fixed in your mind and has become your habit­ual thought. Read these 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. 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 under­stand­ing, belief, and faith, all your efforts will be in vain.

Do not ask why these things are true nor spec­u­late as to how they can be true. Sim­ply take them on trust. The sci­ence of get­ting rich begins with the absolute accep­tance of this.

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