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The First
Principle in The Science of Getting Rich
Extract from The Science of Getting Rich
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The First Principle in The Science of Getting
Rich
by Wallace D. Wattles
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; 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.
Man is a thinking center, and can originate thought. All the forms
that man fashions with his hands must first exist in his thought;
he cannot shape a thing until he has thought that thing.
And so far man has confined his efforts wholly to the work of his
hands; he has applied manual labor to the world of forms, seeking
to change or modify those already existing. He has never thought
of trying to cause the creation of new forms by impressing his thoughts
upon Formless Substance.
When man has a thought-form, he takes material from the forms of
nature, and makes an image of the form which is in his mind. He
has, so far, made little or no effort to co-operate with Formless
Intelligence; to work "with the Father." He has not dreamed
that he can "do what he seeth the Father doing." Man reshapes
and modifies existing forms by manual labor; he has given no attention
to the question whether he may not produce things from Formless
Substance by communicating his thoughts to it. We propose to prove
that he may do so; to prove that any man or woman may do so, and
to show how. As our first step, 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. Man is a thinking center, capable of
original thought; if man can communicate his thought to original
thinking substance, he can cause the creation, or formation, of
the thing he thinks about. To summarize this:-
There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and
which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the
interspaces of the universe.
A thought, in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged
by the thought.
Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing 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 substance; and reasoning forward from this
thinking substance, I come to man's power to cause the formation
of the thing he thinks about.
And by experiment, I find the reasoning true; and this is my strongest
proof.
If one man who reads this book gets rich by doing what it tells
him to do, that is evidence in support of my claim; but if every
man who does what it tells him to do gets rich, that is positive
proof until some one goes through the process and fails. The theory
is true until the process fails; and this process will not fail,
for every man who does exactly what this book tells him to do will
get rich.
I have said that men get rich by doing things in
a Certain Way; and in order to do so, men must become able to think
in a certain way.
A man's way of doing things is the direct result of the way
he thinks about things.
To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire
the ability to think the way you want to think; this is the first
step toward getting rich.
To think what you want to think is to think TRUTH, regardless
of appearances.
Every man has the natural and inherent power to think what he wants
to think, but it requires far more effort to do so than it does
to think the thoughts which are suggested by appearances. To think
according to appearance is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances
is laborious, and requires the expenditure of more power than any
other work man is called upon to perform.
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