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 slowgrowing
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.
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 appearance of disease will produce the form of
disease in your own mind, and ultimately in your body, unless you
hold the thought of the truth, which is that there is no disease; it is
only an appearance, and the reality is health.
To look upon the appearances of poverty will produce corresponding
forms in your own mind, unless you hold to the truth that there is no
poverty; there is only abundance.
To think health when surrounded by the appearances of disease, or to
think riches when in the midst of appearances of poverty, requires
power; but he who acquires this power becomes a MASTER MIND.
He can conquer fate; he 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.
Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought
upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be
created.
You must lay aside all other concepts of the universe than this
monistic one; and you must dwell upon this until it is fixed in your
mind, and has become your habitual thought. Read these creed
statements over and over again; fix every word upon your memory,
and meditate upon them until you firmly believe what they say. If a
doubt comes to you, cast it aside as a sin. Do not listen to arguments
against this idea; do not go to churches or lectures where a contrary
concept of things is taught or preached. Do not read magazines or
books which teach a different idea; if you get mixed up in your faith,
all your efforts will be in vain.
Do not ask why these things are true, nor speculate as to how they
can be true; simply take them on trust.
The science of getting rich begins with the absolute acceptance of
this faith.
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