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  Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy this reading, which comes from a
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  Speaker 1: work in the public domain, The Science of Getting Rich
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  Speaker 1: by W. D. Waddles preface. This book is pragmatical, not philosophical,
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  Speaker 1: a practical manual, not a treatise upon theories. It is
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  Speaker 1: intended for the men and women whose most pressing need
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  Speaker 1: is for money, who wish to get rich first and
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  Speaker 1: philosophize afterward. It is for those who have so far
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  Speaker 1: found neither the time, the means, nor the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: go deeply into the study of metaphysics, but who want results,
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  Speaker 1: and who are willing to take the conclusions of science
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  Speaker 1: as a basis for action, without going into all the
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  Speaker 1: processes by which those conclusions were reached. It is expected
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  Speaker 1: that the reader will take the fundamental statements upon faith,
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  Speaker 1: just as he would take statements concerning a law of
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  Speaker 1: electrical action if they were promulgated by a Marconi or
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  Speaker 1: an Edison, and taking the statements upon faith that he
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  Speaker 1: will prove their truth by acting upon them without fear
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  Speaker 1: or hesitation. Every man or woman who does this will
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  Speaker 1: certainly get rich. For the science herein applied is an
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  Speaker 1: exact science, and failure is impossible for the benefit, however,
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  Speaker 1: of those who wish to investigate philosophical theories and so
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  Speaker 1: secure a logical basis for faith. I will hear cite
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  Speaker 1: certain authorities. The monistic theory of the universe, the theory
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  Speaker 1: that one is all and that all is one, that
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  Speaker 1: one substance manifests itself as the seeming many elements of
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  Speaker 1: the material world, is of Hindu origin and has been
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  Speaker 1: gradually winning its way into the thought of the Western
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  Speaker 1: world for two hundred years. It is the foundation of
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  Speaker 1: all the Oriental philosophies, and of those of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Schopenhauer,
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  Speaker 1: Hegel and Emerson. The reader who would dig to the
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  Speaker 1: philosophical foundations is advised to read Hegel and Emerson, and
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  Speaker 1: he will do well to read The Eternal News, a
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  Speaker 1: very excellent pamphlet published by J. J. Brown, three hundred
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  Speaker 1: Cathcart Rowe, govern Hill, Glasgow, Scotland. He may also find
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  Speaker 1: some help in a series of articles written by the author,
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  Speaker 1: which were published in Nautilus, Holyoke, Massachusetts, during the spring
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  Speaker 1: and summer of nineteen o nine under the title what
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  Speaker 1: is Truth? In writing this book, I have sacrificed all
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  Speaker 1: other considerations to plainness and simplicity of style, so that
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  Speaker 1: all might understand. The plan of action laid down herein
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  Speaker 1: was deduced from the conclusions of philosophy. It has been
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  Speaker 1: thoroughly tested and bears the supreme test of practical experiment.
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  Speaker 1: It works. If you wish to know how the conclusions
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  Speaker 1: were arrived at, read the writings of the authors mentioned above.
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  Speaker 1: And if you wish to reap the fruits of their
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  Speaker 1: philosophies in actual practice, read this book can do exactly
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  Speaker 1: as it tells you to do. The author Chapter one,
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  Speaker 1: The Right to be rich. Whatever may be said in
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  Speaker 1: praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not
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  Speaker 1: possible to live a really complete or success full life
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  Speaker 1: unless one is rich. No man can rise to his
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  Speaker 1: greatest possible height in talent or soul development unless he
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  Speaker 1: has plenty of money. For to unfold the soul and
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  Speaker 1: to develop talent, he must have many things to use,
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  Speaker 1: and he cannot have these things unless he has money
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  Speaker 1: to buy them with. Man develops in mind, soul, and
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  Speaker 1: body by making use of things, and society is so
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  Speaker 1: organized that man must have money in order to become
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  Speaker 1: the possessor of things. Therefore, the basis of all advancement
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  Speaker 1: for man must be the science of getting rich. The
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  Speaker 1: object of all life is development, and everything that lives
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  Speaker 1: has an inalienable right to all the development it is
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  Speaker 1: capable of attaining. Man's right to life means his right
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  Speaker 1: to have the free and unrestricted use of all the
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  Speaker 1: things which may be necessary to his full leest mental, spiritual,
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  Speaker 1: and physical unfoldment, or, in other words, his right to
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  Speaker 1: be rich. In this book I shall not speak of
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  Speaker 1: riches in a figurative way. To be really rich does
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  Speaker 1: not mean to be sadtisfied, or contented with a little.
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  Speaker 1: No man ought to be satisfied with a little if
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  Speaker 1: he is capable of using and enjoying more. The purpose
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  Speaker 1: of nature is the advancement and unfoldment of life, and
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  Speaker 1: every man should have all that can contribute to the power, elegance, beauty,
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  Speaker 1: and richness of life. To be content with less is sinful.
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  Speaker 1: The man who owns all he wants for the living
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  Speaker 1: of all the life he is capable of living is rich,
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  Speaker 1: and no man who has not plenty of money can
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  Speaker 1: have all he wants. Life has advanced so far and
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  Speaker 1: becomes so complex that even the most ordinary man or
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  Speaker 1: woman requires a great amount of wealth in order to
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  Speaker 1: live in a manner that even approaches completeness. Every person
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  Speaker 1: naturally wants to become all that he is capable of becoming.
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  Speaker 1: This desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature.
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  Speaker 1: We cannot help wanting to be all that we can be.
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  Speaker 1: Success in life is becoming what you want to be.
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  Speaker 1: You can become what you want to be only by
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  Speaker 1: making use of things, and you can have the free
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  Speaker 1: youth use of things only as you become rich enough
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  Speaker 1: to buy them. To understand the science of getting rich
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  Speaker 1: is therefore the most essential of all knowledge. There is
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  Speaker 1: nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for
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  Speaker 1: riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and
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  Speaker 1: more abundant life, and that desire is praiseworthy. The man
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  Speaker 1: who does not desire to live more abundantly is abnormal,
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  Speaker 1: and so the man who does not desire to have
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  Speaker 1: money enough to buy all he wants is abnormal. There
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  Speaker 1: are three motives for which we live. We live for
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  Speaker 1: the body, we live for the mind, and we live
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  Speaker 1: for the soul. No one of these is better or
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  Speaker 1: holier than the other. All are alike desirable, and no
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  Speaker 1: one of the three body, mind, or soul can live
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  Speaker 1: fully if either of the others is cut short of
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  Speaker 1: full life and expression. It is not right or noble
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  Speaker 1: to live only for the soul and deny mind or body,
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  Speaker 1: and it is wrong to live for the intellect and
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  Speaker 1: deny body and soul. We are all acquainted with the
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  Speaker 1: loathsome consequences of living for the body, in denying both
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  Speaker 1: mind and soul, and we see that real life means
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  Speaker 1: the complete expression of all that man can give forth
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  Speaker 1: through body, mind, and soul. Whatever he may say, no
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  Speaker 1: man can be really happy or satisfied unless his body
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  Speaker 1: is living fully in every function, and unless the same
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  Speaker 1: is true of his mind in his soul. Wherever there
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  Speaker 1: is unexpressed possibility or function not performed, there is unsatisfied desire.
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  Speaker 1: Desire is possibility seeking expression or function seeking performance. Man
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  Speaker 1: cannot live fully in body without good food, comfortable clothing,
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  Speaker 1: and warm shelter, and without freedom from excessive toil. Rest
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  Speaker 1: and recreation are also necessary to his physical life. He
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  Speaker 1: cannot live fully in mind without books and time to
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  Speaker 1: study them, without opportunity for travel and observation, or without
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  Speaker 1: intellectual companionship. To live fully in mind, he must have
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  Speaker 1: intellectual recreations, and must surround himself with all the objects
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  Speaker 1: of art and beauty he is capable of using and appreciating.
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  Speaker 1: To live fully in soul, man must have love, and
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  Speaker 1: love is denied expression by poverty. Man's highest happiness is
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  Speaker 1: found in the bestow of benefits on those he loves.
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  Speaker 1: Love finds its most natural and spontaneous expression in giving.
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  Speaker 1: The man who has nothing to give cannot fill his
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  Speaker 1: place as a husband or father, as a citizen, or
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  Speaker 1: as a man. It is in the use of material
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  Speaker 1: things that man finds full life, For his body develops
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  Speaker 1: his mind, and unfolds his soul. It is therefore of
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  Speaker 1: supreme importance to him that he should be rich. It
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  Speaker 1: is perfectly right that you should desire to be rich.
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  Speaker 1: If you are a normal man or woman, you cannot
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  Speaker 1: help doing so. It is perfectly right that you should
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  Speaker 1: give your best attention to the science of getting rich,
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  Speaker 1: for it is the noblest and most necessary of all studies.
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  Speaker 1: If you neglect this study, you are derelict, and your
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  Speaker 1: duty to yourself, to God, and to humanity, for you
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  Speaker 1: can render God in humanity No greater service than to
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  Speaker 1: make the most of yourself. Chapter two. There is a
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  Speaker 1: science of getting rich. There is a science of getting rich,
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  Speaker 1: and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic.
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  Speaker 1: There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches.
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  Speaker 1: Once these laws are learned and obeyed by any man,
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  Speaker 1: he will get rich with mathematical certainty. The ownership of
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  Speaker 1: money and property comes as a result of doing things
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  Speaker 1: in a certain way. Those who do things in this
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  Speaker 1: certain way, whether on purpose or accidentally, get rich, while
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  Speaker 1: those who do not do things in this certain way,
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  Speaker 1: no matter how hard they work or how able they are,
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  Speaker 1: remain poor. It is a natural law that like causes
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  Speaker 1: always produce like effects, and therefore any man or woman
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  Speaker 1: who learns to do things in this certain way will
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  Speaker 1: infallibly get rich. That the above statement is true is
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  Speaker 1: shown by the following facts. Getting rich is not a
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  Speaker 1: matter of environment, For if it were, all the people
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  Speaker 1: in certain neighborhoods would become wealthy. The people of one
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  Speaker 1: city would all be rich while those of other towns
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  Speaker 1: would all be poor. Or the inhabitants of one state
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  Speaker 1: would roll in wealth while those of an adjoining state
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  Speaker 1: would be in poverty. But everywhere we see rich and
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  Speaker 1: poor living side by side in the same environment and
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  Speaker 1: often engaged in the same vocations. When two men are
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  Speaker 1: in the same locality and in the same business, and
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  Speaker 1: one gets rich while the other remains poor, it shows
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  Speaker 1: that getting rich is not primarily a matter of environment.
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  Speaker 1: Some environments may be more favorable than others. But when
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  Speaker 1: two men in the same business are in the same
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  Speaker 1: neighborhood and one gets rich while the other fails, it
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  Speaker 1: indicates that getting rich is the result of doing things
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  Speaker 1: in a certain way. And further, the ability to do
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  Speaker 1: things in this certain way is not due solely to
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  Speaker 1: the possession of talent. For many people who have great
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  Speaker 1: talent remain poor, while others who have very little talent
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  Speaker 1: get rich. Studying the people who have got rich, we
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  Speaker 1: find that they are an average lot in all respects,
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  Speaker 1: having no greater talents and abilities than other men. It
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  Speaker 1: is evident that they do not get rich because they
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  Speaker 1: possess talents and abilities that other men have not, but
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  Speaker 1: because they happen to do things in a certain way.
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  Speaker 1: Getting rich is not the result of saving or thrift.
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  Speaker 1: Many very penurious people are poor, while free spenders often
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  Speaker 1: get rich. Nor is getting rich due to doing things
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  Speaker 1: which others fail to do. For two men in the
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  Speaker 1: same business often do almost exactly the same things, and
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  Speaker 1: one gets rich while the other remains poor or becomes
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  Speaker 1: a bankrupt. From all these things, we must come to
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  Speaker 1: the conclusion that getting rich is the result of doing
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  Speaker 1: things in a certain way. If getting rich is the
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  Speaker 1: result of doing things in a certain way, and if
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  Speaker 1: like causes always produce like effects, then any man or
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  Speaker 1: woman who can do things in that way can become rich,
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  Speaker 1: And the whole matter is brought within the domain of
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  Speaker 1: exact science. The question arises here whether this certain way
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  Speaker 1: may not be so difficult that only a few may
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  Speaker 1: follow it. This cannot be true, as we have seen,
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  Speaker 1: so far as natural ability is concerned, Talented people get
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  Speaker 1: rich and blockheads get rich. Intellectually brilliant people get rich,
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  Speaker 1: and very stupid people get rich. Physically strong people get rich,
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  Speaker 1: and weak and sickly people get rich. Some degree of
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  Speaker 1: ability to think and understand is of course essential, But
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  Speaker 1: in so far as natural ability is concerned, any man
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  Speaker 1: or woman who has sense enough to read and understand
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  Speaker 1: these words can certainly get rich. Also, we have seen
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  Speaker 1: that it is not a matter of environment. Location counts
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  Speaker 1: for something. One would not go to the heart of
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  Speaker 1: the Sahara and expect to do successful business. Getting rich
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  Speaker 1: involves the necessity of dealing with men, and of being
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  Speaker 1: where there are people to deal with. And if these
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  Speaker 1: people are inclined to deal in the way you want
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  Speaker 1: to deal, so much the better. But that is about
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  Speaker 1: as far as environment goes. If anybody else in your
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  Speaker 1: town can get rich, so can you. And if anybody
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  Speaker 1: else in your state can get rich, so can you. Again,
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  Speaker 1: it is not a matter of choosing some particular business
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  Speaker 1: or profession. People get rich in every business and in
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  Speaker 1: every profession, while their next door neighbors in the same
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  Speaker 1: vocation remain in poverty. It is true that you will
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  Speaker 1: do best in a business which you like and which
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  Speaker 1: is congenial to you. And if you have certain talents
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  Speaker 1: which are well developed, you will do best in a
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  Speaker 1: business which calls for the exercise of those talents. Also,
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  Speaker 1: you will do best in a business which is suited
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  Speaker 1: to your locality. An ice cream parlor would do better
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  Speaker 1: in a warm climate than in Greenland, and the salmon
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  Speaker 1: fishery will succeed better in the Northwest than in Florida,
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  Speaker 1: where there are no salmon. But aside from these general limitations,
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  Speaker 1: getting rich is not dependent upon your engaging in some
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  Speaker 1: particular business, but upon your learning to do things in
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  Speaker 1: a certain way. If you are now in business and
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  Speaker 1: anybody else in your locality is getting rich in the
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  Speaker 1: same business, while you are not getting rich, it is
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  Speaker 1: because you are not doing things in the same way
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  Speaker 1: that the other person is doing them. No one is
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  Speaker 1: prevented from getting rich by lack of capital. True, as
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  Speaker 1: you get capital, the increase becomes more easy and rapid.
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  Speaker 1: But one who has capital is already rich and does
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  Speaker 1: not need to consider how to become so. No matter
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  Speaker 1: how poor you may be, if you begin to do
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  Speaker 1: things in a certain way, you will begin to get rich,
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  Speaker 1: and you will begin to have capital. The getting of
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  Speaker 1: capital is a part of the process of getting rich,
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  Speaker 1: and it is a part of the result which invariably
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  Speaker 1: follows the doing of things in a certain way. You
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  Speaker 1: may be the poorest man on the continent and be
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  Speaker 1: deeply in debt. You may have neither friends, influence, nor resources.
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  Speaker 1: But if you begin to do things in this way,
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  Speaker 1: you must, in foul begin to get rich. For like
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  Speaker 1: causes must produce like effects. If you have no capital,
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  Speaker 1: you can get capital. If you are in the wrong business,
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  Speaker 1: you can get into the right business. If you are
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  Speaker 1: in the wrong location, you can go to the right location.
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  Speaker 1: And you can do so by beginning in your present
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  Speaker 1: business and in your present location, to do things in
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  Speaker 1: a certain way which causes success. Chapter three is opportunity monopolized.
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  Speaker 1: No man is kept poor because opportunity has been taken
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  Speaker 1: away from him, because other people have monopolized the wealth
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  Speaker 1: and have put a fence around it. You may be
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  Speaker 1: shut off from engaging in business in certain lines, but
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  Speaker 1: there are other channels open to you. Probably it would
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  Speaker 1: be hard for you to get control of any of
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  Speaker 1: the great railroad systems. That field is pretty well monopolized.
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  Speaker 1: But the electric railway business is still in its infancy
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  Speaker 1: and offers plenty of scope for enterprise. And it will
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  Speaker 1: be but a very few years until traffic and transportation
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  Speaker 1: through the air will become a great industry and in
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  Speaker 1: all its branches will give employment to hundreds of thousands,
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  Speaker 1: and perhaps to millions of people. Why not turn your
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  Speaker 1: attention to the development of aerial transportation instead of competing
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  Speaker 1: with J. J. Hill and others for a chance. In
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  Speaker 1: the steam railway world. It is quite true that if
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  Speaker 1: you are a workman in the employ of the steel Trust,
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  Speaker 1: you have very little chance of becoming the owner of
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  Speaker 1: the plant in which you work. But it is also
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  Speaker 1: true that if you will commence to act in a
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  Speaker 1: certain way, you can soon leave the employ of the
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  Speaker 1: steel Trust. You can buy a farmer from ten to
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  Speaker 1: forty acres and engage in business as a producer of foodstuffs.
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  Speaker 1: There is great opportunity at this time for men who
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  Speaker 1: will live upon small tracts of land and cultivate the
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  Speaker 1: same intensively. Such men will certainly get rich. You may
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  Speaker 1: say that it is impossible for you to get the land,
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  Speaker 1: but I am going to prove to you that it
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  Speaker 1: is not impossible, and that you can certainly get a
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  Speaker 1: farm if you will go to work in a certain way.
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  Speaker 1: At different periods, the tide of opportunity sets in different directions,
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  Speaker 1: according to the needs of the whole and the particular
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  Speaker 1: stage of social evolution which has been reached at present
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  Speaker 1: in America. It is setting toward agriculture and the allied
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  Speaker 1: industries and professions. Today, opportunity is open before the farmer
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  Speaker 1: in his line more than before the factory worker in
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  Speaker 1: his line. It is open before the business man who
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  Speaker 1: supplies the farmer more than before the one who supplies
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  Speaker 1: the factory worker, and before the professional man, who waits
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  Speaker 1: upon the farmer more than before the one who serves
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  Speaker 1: the working class. There is abundance of opportunity for the
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  Speaker 1: man who will go with the tide instead of trying
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  Speaker 1: to swim against it. So the factory workers, either as
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  Speaker 1: individuals or as a class, are not deprived of opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: The workers are not being kept down by their masters,
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  Speaker 1: They are not being ground by the trusts and combinations
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  Speaker 1: of capital. As a class. They are where they are
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  Speaker 1: because they do not do things in a certain way.
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  Speaker 1: If the workers of America chose to do so, they
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  Speaker 1: could follow the example of their brothers in Belgium and
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  Speaker 1: other countries and establish great department stores and co operative industries.
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  Speaker 1: They could elect men of their own class to office
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  Speaker 1: and pass laws favoring the development of such co operative industries,
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  Speaker 1: and in a few years they could take peaceable possession
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  Speaker 1: of the industrial field. The working class may become the
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  Speaker 1: master class whenever they will begin to do things in
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  Speaker 1: a certain way. The law of wealth is the same
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  Speaker 1: for them as it is for all others. This they
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  Speaker 1: must learn, and they will remain where they are as
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  Speaker 1: long as they continue to do as they do. The
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  Speaker 1: individual worker, however, is not held down by the ignorance
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  Speaker 1: or the mental slothfulness of his class. He can follow
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  Speaker 1: the tide of opportunity to riches, and this book will
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  Speaker 1: tell him how no one is kept in poverty by
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  Speaker 1: a shortness in the supply of riches. There is more
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  Speaker 1: than enough for all. A palace as large as the
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  Speaker 1: capital at Washington might be built for every family on Earth.
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  Speaker 1: From the building material in the United States alone, and
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  Speaker 1: under intensive cultivation, this country would produce wool, cotton, linen,
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  Speaker 1: and silk enough to clothe each person in the world
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  Speaker 1: finer than Solomon was arrayed in all his glory, together
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  Speaker 1: with food enough to feed them all luxuriously. The visible
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  Speaker 1: supply is practically inexhaustible, and the invisible supply really is inexhaustible.
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  Speaker 1: Everything you see on earth is made from one original
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  Speaker 1: substance out of which all things proceed. New forms are
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  Speaker 1: constantly being made, and older ones are dissolving, but all
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  Speaker 1: are shapes assumed by one thing. There is no limit
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  Speaker 1: to the supply of formless stuff, or original substance. The
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  Speaker 1: universe is made out of it, but it was not
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  Speaker 1: all used in making the universe. The spaces in, through,
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  Speaker 1: and between the forms of the visible universe are permeated
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  Speaker 1: and filled with the original substance, with the formless stuff.
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  Speaker 1: With the raw material of all things, ten thousand times
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  Speaker 1: as much as has been made might still be made,
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  Speaker 1: and even then we should not have exhausted the supply
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  Speaker 1: of universal raw material. No man therefore is poor because
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  Speaker 1: nature is poor, or because there is not enough to
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  Speaker 1: go around. Nature is an inexhaustible storehouse of riches. The
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  Speaker 1: supply will never run short. Original substance is alive with
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  Speaker 1: creative energy, and is constantly producing more forms. When the
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  Speaker 1: supply of building material is exhausted, more will be produced.
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  Speaker 1: When the soil is exhausted, so that food stuffs and
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: materials for clothing will no longer grow upon it, it
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  Speaker 1: will be renewed, or more soil will be made. When
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  Speaker 1: all the gold and silver has been dug from the earth.
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  Speaker 1: If man is still in such a stage of social
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  Speaker 1: development that he needs gold and silver, more will be
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  Speaker 1: produced from the formless The formless stuff responds to the
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: needs of man, it will not let him be without
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  Speaker 1: any good thing. This is true of man collectively. The
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  Speaker 1: race as a whole is always abundantly rich, and if
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  Speaker 1: individuals are poor, it is because they do not follow
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: the certain way of doing things which makes the individual
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  Speaker 1: man rich. The formless stuff is intelligent. It is stuff
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  Speaker 1: which thinks it is alive, and is always impelled toward
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  Speaker 1: more life. It is the natural and inherent impulse of
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  Speaker 1: life to seek to live more. It is the nature
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  Speaker 1: of intelligence to enlarge itself, and of consciousness to seek
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  Speaker 1: to extend its boundaries and find fuller expression. The universe
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  Speaker 1: of forms has been made by formless, living substance throwing
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: itself into form in order to express itself more fully.
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  Speaker 1: The universe is a great, living presence, always moving inherently
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  Speaker 1: toward more life and fuller functioning. Nature is formed for
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the advancement of life. Its impelling motive is the increase
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  Speaker 1: of life. For this cause, everything which can possibly minister
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: to life is bountifully provided. There can be no lack
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: unless God is to contradict himself and nullify his own works.
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  Speaker 1: You are not kept poor by lack in the supply
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  Speaker 1: of riches. It is a fact which I shall demonstrate
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  Speaker 1: a little farther on, that even the resources of the
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  Speaker 1: formless supply are at the command of the man or
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  Speaker 1: woman who will act and think in a certain way.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter four. The first principle in the science of getting rich,
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  Speaker 1: Thought is the only power which can produce tangible riches
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  Speaker 1: from the formless substance. The stuff from which all things
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: are made is a substance which thinks, and a thought
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  Speaker 1: of form in this substance produces the form. Original substance
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  Speaker 1: moves according to its thoughts. Every form and process you
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: see in nature is the visible expression of a thought
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  Speaker 1: in original substance. As the formless stuff thinks of a form,
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  Speaker 1: it takes that form. As it thinks of a motion,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: it makes that motion. That is the way all things
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  Speaker 1: were created. We live in a thought world, which is
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  Speaker 1: part of a thought universe, the thought of a moving
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: universe extended through formless substance, and the thinking stuff moving
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  Speaker 1: according to that thought took the form of systems of
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: planets and maintains that form. Thinking substance takes the form
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  Speaker 1: of its thought and moves according to the thought. Holding
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  Speaker 1: the idea of a circling system of suns and worlds.
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  Speaker 1: It takes the form of these bodies and moves them
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  Speaker 1: as it thinks. Thinking the form of a slow growing
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  Speaker 1: oak tree, it moves accordingly and produces the tree. Though
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  Speaker 1: centuries may be required to do the work in creating
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  Speaker 1: the formless seems to move according to the lines of
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: motion it has established. The thought of an oak tree
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: does not cause the instant formation of a full grown tree,
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  Speaker 1: but it does start in motion the forces which will
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: produce the tree along established lines of growth. Every thought
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  Speaker 1: of form held in thinking substance causes the creation of
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: the form, but always, or at least generally, along lines
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  Speaker 1: of growth and action already established. The thought of a
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  Speaker 1: house of a certain construction, if it were pressed upon
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: formless substance, might not cause the instant formation of the house,
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  Speaker 1: but it would cause the turning of creative energies already
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: working in trade and commerce into such channels as to
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  Speaker 1: result in the speedy building of the house. And if
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  Speaker 1: there were no existing channels through which the creative energy
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  Speaker 1: could work, then the house would be formed directly from
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  Speaker 1: primal substance, without waiting for the slow processes of the
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  Speaker 1: organic and inorganic world. No thought of form can be
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  Speaker 1: impressed upon original substance without causing the creation of the form.
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  Speaker 1: Man is a thinking center and can originate thought. All
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  Speaker 1: the forms that man fashions with his hands must first
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  Speaker 1: exist in his thought. He cannot shape a thing until
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: he has thought that thing. And so far Man has
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  Speaker 1: confined his efforts wholly to the work of his hands.
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  Speaker 1: He has applied manual labor to the world of forms,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: seeking to change or modify those already existing. He has
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: never thought of trying to cause the creation of new
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: forms by impressing his thoughts upon formless substance. When man
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  Speaker 1: has a thought form, he takes material from the forms
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: of nature and makes an image of the form which
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: is in his mind. He has so far made little
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  Speaker 1: or no effort to co operate with formless intelligence to
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  Speaker 1: work with the Father. He has not dreamed that he
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  Speaker 1: can do what he seek the Father doing. Man reshapes
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  Speaker 1: and modifies existing forms by manual labor. He has given
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  Speaker 1: no attention to the question whether he may not produce
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  Speaker 1: things from formless substance by communicating his thoughts to it.
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  Speaker 1: We propose to prove that he may do so, to
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: prove that any man or woman may do so, and
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: to show how. As our first step, we must lay
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  Speaker 1: down three fundamental propositions. First, we assert that there is
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  Speaker 1: one original, formless stuff or substance from which all things
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: are made. All the seemingly many elements are but different
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: presentations of one element. All the many forms found in
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: organic and inorganic nature are but different shapes made from
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  Speaker 1: the same stuff. And this stuff is thinking stuff, a
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: thought held, and it produces the form of the thought.
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  Speaker 1: Thought in thinking substance produces shapes. Man is a thinking
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  Speaker 1: center capable of original thought. If man can communicate his
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  Speaker 1: thought to original thinking substance, he can cause the creation
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  Speaker 1: or formation of the thing he thinks about. To summarize this,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: there is a thinking stuff from which all things are made,
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  Speaker 1: and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills
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  Speaker 1: the interspaces of the universe. A thought in this substance
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  Speaker 1: produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man
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  Speaker 1: can form things in his thought, and by impressing his
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  Speaker 1: thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: about to be created. It may be asked if I
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: can prove these statements, And without going into details, I
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: answer that I can do so. Both by logic and experience.
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  Speaker 1: Listening back from the phenomena of form and thought, I
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: come to one original thinking substance, and reasoning forward from
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  Speaker 1: this thinking substance, I come to man's power to cause
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  Speaker 1: the formation of the thing he thinks about. And by
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  Speaker 1: experiment I find the reasoning true. And this is my
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  Speaker 1: strongest proof. If one man who reads this book gets
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  Speaker 1: rich by doing what it tells him to do, that
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: is evidence in support of my claim. But if every
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: man who does what it tells him to do gets rich,
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  Speaker 1: that is positive proof. Until some one goes through the
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: process and fails. The theory is true until the process fails.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: And this process will not fail, for every man who
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: does exactly what this book tells him to do will
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: get rich. I have said that men get rich by
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: doing things in a certain way, and in order to
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: do so, men must become able to think in a
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: certain way. A man's way of doing things is the
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: direct result of the way he thinks about things. To
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: do things in the way you want to do them,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: you will have to acquire the ability to think the
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: way you want to think. This is the first step
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  Speaker 1: toward getting rich. To think what you want to think
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: is to think truth, regardless of appearances. Every man has
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  Speaker 1: the natural and inherent power to think what he wants
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  Speaker 1: to think, but it requires far more effort to do
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  Speaker 1: so than it does to think the thoughts which are
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: suggested by appearances. To think, according to appearances is easy.
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  Speaker 1: To think truth regardless of appearances is laborious and requires
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: the expenditure of more power than any other work man
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  Speaker 1: is called upon to perform. There is no labor from
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  Speaker 1: which most people shrink, as they do from that of
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: sustained and consecutive thought. It is the hardest work in
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: the world. This is especially true when truth is contrary
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: to appearances. Every appearance in the visible world tends to
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: produce a corresponding form in the mind which observes it,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: and this can only be prevented by holding the thought
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: of the truth. To look upon the appearance of disease
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: will produce the form of disease in your own mind
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: and ultimately in your body, unless you hold the thought
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  Speaker 1: of the truth, which is that there is no disease.
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  Speaker 1: It is only an appearance, and the reality is health.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: To look upon the appearances of poverty will produce corresponding
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  Speaker 1: forms in your own mind unless you hold to the
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: truth that there is no poverty. There is only abundance.
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  Speaker 1: To think health when surrounded by the appearances of disease,
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  Speaker 1: or to think riches when in the midst of appearances
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: of poverty requires power. But he who acquires this power
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: becomes a master mind. He can conquer fate, He can
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  Speaker 1: have what he wants. This power can only be acquired
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  Speaker 1: by getting hold of the basic fact which is behind
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: all appearances, and that fact is that there is one
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: thinking substance from which and by which all things are made.
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  Speaker 1: Then we must grasp the truth that every thought held
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: in this substance becomes a form, and that man can
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  Speaker 1: so impress his thoughts upon it as to cause them
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: to take form and become visible things. When we realize this,
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  Speaker 1: we lose all doubt and fear, for we know that
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: we can create what we want to create, We can
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  Speaker 1: get what we want to have, and can become what
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: we want to be. As a first step toward getting rich,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: you must believe the three fundamental statements given previously in
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: this chapter, and in order to emphasize them, I repeat
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  Speaker 1: them here. There is a thinking stuff from which all
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: things are made, and which in its original state, permeates, penetrates,
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  Speaker 1: and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought in
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Man can form things in his thought, and by impressing
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: thinks about to be created. You must lay aside all
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: other concepts of the universe than this monistic one, and
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: you must dwell upon this until it is fixed in
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: your mind and has become your habitual thought. Read these
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Creed statements over and over again, fix every word upon
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  Speaker 1: your memory, and meditate upon them until you firmly believe
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  Speaker 1: what they say. If a doubt comes to you, cast
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: it aside as. Do not listen to arguments against this idea.
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  Speaker 1: Do not go to churches or lectures where a contrary
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: concept of things is taught or preached. Do not read
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: magazines or books which teach a different idea. If you
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: get mixed up in your faith, all your efforts will
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  Speaker 1: be in vain. Do not ask why these things are true,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: nor speculate as to how they can be true. Simply
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: take them on trust. The science of getting rich begins
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: with the absolute acceptance of this faith. Chapter five, Increasing Life,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: You must get rid of the last vestige of the
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: old idea that there is a deity whose will it
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: is that you should be poor, or whose purposes may
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: be served by keeping you in poverty. The intelligent substance,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: which is all and in all, and which lives in
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: all and lives in you, is a consciously living substance.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Being a consciously living substance, it must have the natural
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: and inherent desire of every living intelligence for increase of life.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Every living thing must continually seek for the enlargement of
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: its life, because life, in the mere act of living,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: must increase itself. A seed dropped into the ground springs
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: into activity, and in the act of living, produces a
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: hundred more seeds. Life, by living multiplies itself. It is
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: forever becoming more. It must do so if it continues
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: to be at all. Intelligence is under this same necessity
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  Speaker 1: for continuous increase. Every thought we think makes it necessary
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: for us to think another thought. Consciousness is continually expanding.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Every fact we learn leads us to the learning of
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: another fact. Knowledge is continually increasing. Every talent we cultivate
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: brings to the mind the desire to cultivate another talent.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: We are subject to the urge of life seeking expression,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: which ever drives us on to know more, to do more,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: and to be more. In order to know more, do more,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: and be more, we must have more. We must have
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: things to use, for we learn and do and become
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  Speaker 1: only by using things. We must get rich so that
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: we can live more. The desire for riches is simply
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: the capacity for larger life seeking fulfillment. Every desire is
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: the effort of an unexpressed possibility to come into action.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: It is power seeking to manifest which causes desire. That
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: which makes you want more money is the same as
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: that which makes the plant grow. It is life seeking
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: fuller expression. The one living substance must be subject to
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: this inherent law of all life. It is permeated with
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: the desire to live more. That is why it is
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: under the necessity of creating things. The one substance desires
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: to live more in you. Hence, it wants you to
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: have all the things you can use. It is the
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: desire of God that you should get rich. He wants
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: you to get rich because He can express himself better
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: through you if you have plenty of things to use
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: In giving him expression. He can live more in you.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: If you have unlimited command of the means of life.
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  Speaker 1: The universe desires you to have everything you want to have.
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  Speaker 1: Nature is friendly to your plans, Everything is naturally for you.
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  Speaker 1: Make up your mind that this is true. It is essential, however,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: that your purpose should harmonize with the purpose that is
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  Speaker 1: in all. You must want real life, not mere pleasure
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: or sensual gratification. Life is the performance of function, and
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: the individual really lives only when he performs every function physical, mental,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: and spiritual, of which he is capable, without excess in
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: any You do not want to get rich in order
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: to live swinishly for the gratification of animal desires. That
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: is not life. But the performance of every physical function
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: is a part of life, and no one lives completely
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: who denies the impulses of the body a normal and
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: healthful expression. You do not want to get rich solely
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to enjoy mental pleasures. To get knowledge, to gratify ambition,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: to outshine others, to be famous. All these are a
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: legitimate part of life. But the man who lives for
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: the pleasures of the intellect alone will only have a
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: partial life, and he will never be satisfied with his lot.
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  Speaker 1: You do not want to get rich solely for the
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: good of others, to lose yourself for the salvation of mankind,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: to experience the joys of philanthropy and sacrifice. The joys
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: of the soul are only a part of life, and
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: they are no better or nobler than any other part.
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  Speaker 1: You want to get rich in order that you may eat, drink,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: and be merry when it is time to do these things,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: see distant lands, feed your mind and develop your intellect,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: in order that you may love men and do kind things,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: and be able to play a good part in helping
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: the world to find truth. But remember that extreme altruism
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: is no better and no nobler than extreme selfishness. Both
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: are mistakes. Get rid of the idea that God wants
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: you to sacrifice yourself for others, and that you can
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: secure his favor by doing so. God requires nothing of
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: the kind. What he wants is that you should make
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: the most of yourself for yourself and for others. And
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: you can help others more by making the most of
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  Speaker 1: yourself than in any other way. You can make the
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: most of yourself only by getting rich so it is
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: right and praiseworthy that you should give your first and
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: best thought to the work of acquiring wealth. Remember, however,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: that the desire of substance is for all, and its
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: movements must be from more life to all. It cannot
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: be made to work for less life to any, because
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: it is equally in all seeking riches in life. Intelligent
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: substance will make things for you, but it will not
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: take things away from some one else and give them
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: to you. You must get rid of the thought of competition.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: You are to create, not to compete for what is
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: already created. You do not have to take anything away
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: from any one. You do not have to drive sharp bargains.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: You do not have to cheat or to take advantage.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: You do not need to let any man work for
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: you for less than he earns. You do not have
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: to covet the property of others, or to look at
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: it with wishful eyes. No man has anything of which
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: you cannot have the like, and that without taking what
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: he has away from him. You are to become a creator,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: not a competitor. You are going to get what you want,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: but in such a way that when you get at
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: every other man will have more than he has. Now.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: I am aware that there are men who get a
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: vast amount of money by proceeding in direct opposition to
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: the statements in the paragraph above, and may add a
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: word of explanation here. Men of the plutocratic type who
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: become very rich do so sometimes purely by their extraordinary
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: ability on the plane of competition, and sometimes they unconsciously
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: relate themselves to Substance in its great purposes and movements
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: for the general racial upbuilding through industrial evolution. Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: et All have been the unconscious agents of the Supreme
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: in the necessary work of systematizing and organizing productive industry,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: and in the end their work will contribute immensely toward
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: increased life. For all. Their day is nearly over. They
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: have organized production and will soon be succeeded by the
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: agents of the multitude, who will organize the machinery of distribution.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: The multimillionaires are like the monster reptiles of the prehistoric
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: eras they play a necessary part in the evolutionary process.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: But the same power which produced them will dispose of them.
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  Speaker 1: And it is well to bear in mind that they
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  Speaker 1: have never been really rich. A record of the private
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  Speaker 1: lives of most of this class will show that they
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  Speaker 1: have really been the most abject and wretched of the poor.
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  Speaker 1: Riches secured on the competitive plane are never satisfactory and permanent.
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  Speaker 1: They are yours to day and another's tomorrow. Remember, if
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  Speaker 1: you are to become rich in a scientific and certain way,
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  Speaker 1: you must rise entirely out of the competitive thought. You
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  Speaker 1: must never think for a moment that the supply is limited.
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  Speaker 1: Just as soon as you begin to think that all
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  Speaker 1: the money is being cornered and controlled by bankers and others,
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  Speaker 1: and that you must exert yourself to get laws passed
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  Speaker 1: to stop this process, and so on, in that moment
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  Speaker 1: you drop into the competitive mind, and your power to
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  Speaker 1: cause creation is gone for the time being. And what
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  Speaker 1: is worse, you will probably arrest the creative movements you
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  Speaker 1: have already instituted. Know that there are countless millions of
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  Speaker 1: dollars worth of gold in the mountains of the earth,
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  Speaker 1: not yet brought to light, And know that if there
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  Speaker 1: were not, more would be created from thinking substance to
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  Speaker 1: supply your needs. Know that the money you need will come,
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  Speaker 1: even if it is necessary for a thousand men to
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  Speaker 1: be led to the discovery of new gold mines tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Never look at the visible supply. Look always at the
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  Speaker 1: limitless riches in formless substance, and know that they are
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  Speaker 1: coming to you as fast as you can receive and
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  Speaker 1: use them. Nobody by cornering the visible supply can prevent
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  Speaker 1: you from getting what is yours. So never allow yourself
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  Speaker 1: to think for an instant that all the best buildings
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  Speaker 1: spots will be taken before you get ready to build
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  Speaker 1: your house unless you hurry. Never worry about the trusts
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  Speaker 1: and combines, and get anxious for fear they will soon
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  Speaker 1: come to own the whole earth. Never get afraid that
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  Speaker 1: you will lose what you want because some other person
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  Speaker 1: beats you to it. That cannot possibly happen. You are
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  Speaker 1: not seeking anything that is possessed by anybody else. You
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  Speaker 1: are causing what you want to be created from formless substance,
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  Speaker 1: and the supply is without limits. Stick to the formulated statement.
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  Speaker 1: There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made,
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  Speaker 1: and which in its original state permeates, penetrates, and fills
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  Speaker 1: the interspaces of the universe. A thought in this substance
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  Speaker 1: produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man
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  Speaker 1: can form things in his thought, and by impressing his
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  Speaker 1: thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks
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  Speaker 1: about to be created. Chapter six. How rich is come
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  Speaker 1: to you? When I say that you do not have
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  Speaker 1: to drive sharp bargains, I do not mean that you
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  Speaker 1: do not have to drive any bargains at all, or
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  Speaker 1: that you are above the necessity for having any dealings
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  Speaker 1: with your fellow men. I mean that you will not
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  Speaker 1: need to deal with them unfairly. You do not have
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  Speaker 1: to get something for nothing, but can give to every
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  Speaker 1: man more than you take from him. You cannot give
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  Speaker 1: every man more in cash market value than you take
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  Speaker 1: from him, but you can give him more in use
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  Speaker 1: value than the cash value of the thing you take
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  Speaker 1: from him. The paper, ink, and other material in this
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: book may not be worth the money you paid for it,
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  Speaker 1: but if the idea is suggested by it bring you
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: thousands of dollars, you have not been wronged by those
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: who sold it to you. They have given you a
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  Speaker 1: great use value for a small cash value. Let us
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: suppose that I own a picture by one of the
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: great artists, which in any civilized community is worth thousands
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  Speaker 1: of dollars. I take it to baff and bay, and
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: by salesmanship induce an Eskimo to give a bundle of
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  Speaker 1: furs worth five hundred dollars for it, I have really
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  Speaker 1: wronged him, for he has no use for the picture.
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  Speaker 1: It has no use value to him. It will not
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  Speaker 1: add to his life. But suppose I give him a
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  Speaker 1: gun worth fifty dollars for his furs, then he has
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  Speaker 1: made a good bargain. He has use for the gun.
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  Speaker 1: It will get him many more furs and much food.
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  Speaker 1: It will add to his life in every way. It
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  Speaker 1: will make him rich. When you rise from the competitive
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  Speaker 1: to the creative plane, you can scan your business transactions
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  Speaker 1: very strictly. And if you are selling any man anything
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  Speaker 1: which does not add more to his life than the
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  Speaker 1: thing he gives you in exchange, you can afford to
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  Speaker 1: stop it. You do not have to beat anybody in business.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: And if you are in a business which does beat people,
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  Speaker 1: get out of it at once. Give every man more
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  Speaker 1: in use value than you take from him in cash value.
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  Speaker 1: Then you are adding to the life of the world
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  Speaker 1: by every business transaction. If you have people working for you,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: you must take from them more in cash value than
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: you pay them in wages. But you can so organize
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  Speaker 1: your business that will be filled with the principle of advancement,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: and so that each employee who wishes to do so
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: may advance a little every day. You can make your
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  Speaker 1: business do for your employees what this book is doing
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: for you. You can so conduct your business that it
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  Speaker 1: will be a sort of ladder by which every employee
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  Speaker 1: who will take the trouble may climb to riches himself.
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  Speaker 1: And given the opportunity, if he will not do so,
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  Speaker 1: it is not your fault. And finally, because you are
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  Speaker 1: to cause the creation of your riches from formless substance
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  Speaker 1: which permeates all your environment, it does not follow that
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  Speaker 1: they are to take shape from the atmosphere and come
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: into being before your eyes. If you want a sewing machine,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: for instance, I do not mean to tell you that
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: you are to impress the thought of a sewing machine
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  Speaker 1: on thinking substance until the machine is formed without hands,
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  Speaker 1: in the room where you sit or elsewhere. But if
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: you want a sewing machine, hold the mental image of
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  Speaker 1: it with the most positive certainty that it is being
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  Speaker 1: made or is on its way to you. After once
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: forming the thought, have the most absolute and unquestioning faith
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  Speaker 1: that the sewing machine is coming. Never think of it
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  Speaker 1: or speak of it in any other way than as
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  Speaker 1: being sure to arrive. Claim it as already yours. It
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: will be brought to you by the power of the
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Intelligence acting upon the minds of men. If you
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  Speaker 1: live in Maine, it may be that a man will
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: be brought from Texas or Japan to engage in some
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: transaction which will result in your getting what you want.
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  Speaker 1: If so, the whole matter will be as much to
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  Speaker 1: that man's advantage as it is to yours. Do not
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: forget for a moment that the thinking substance is through all,
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  Speaker 1: in all, communicating with all, and can influence all. The
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  Speaker 1: desire of thinking substance for fuller life and better living
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: has caused the creation of all the sewing machines already made,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: and it can cause the creation of millions more, and
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: will whenever men set it in motion. By desire and faith,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: and by acting in a certain way, you can certainly
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: have a sewing machine in your house. And it is
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: just as certain that you can have any other thing
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: or things which you want and which you will use
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: for the advancement of your own life and the lives
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  Speaker 1: of others. You need not hesitate about asking. Largely, it
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  Speaker 1: is your father's pleasure to give you the kingdom, said Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Original substance wants to live all that is possible in you,
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  Speaker 1: and wants you to have all that you can or
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  Speaker 1: will use for the living of the most abundant life.
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  Speaker 1: If you fix upon your consciousness the fact that the
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  Speaker 1: desire you feel for the possession of riches is one
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: with the desire of omnipotence for more complete expression, your
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: faith becomes invincible. Once I saw a little boy sitting
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  Speaker 1: at a piano and vainly trying to bring harmony out
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  Speaker 1: of the keys, and I saw that he was grieved
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: and provoked by his inability to play real music. I
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  Speaker 1: asked him the cause of his vexation, and he answered,
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  Speaker 1: I can feel the music in me, but I can't
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: make my hands go right. The music in him was
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: the urge of original substance, containing all the possibilities of
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: all life. All that there is of music was seeking
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  Speaker 1: expression through the child God. The one Substance is trying
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  Speaker 1: to live and do and enjoy things through humanity. He
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  Speaker 1: is saying, I want hands to build wonderful structures, to
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  Speaker 1: play divine harmonies, to paint glorious pictures. I want feet
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  Speaker 1: to run my errands, eyes to see my beauties, tongues
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  Speaker 1: to tell mighty truths, and to sing marvelous songs, and
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  Speaker 1: so on. All that there is of possibility is seeking
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  Speaker 1: expression through men. God wants those who can play music
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  Speaker 1: to have pianos and every other instrument, and to have
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  Speaker 1: the means to cultivate their talents to the fullest extent.
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  Speaker 1: He wants those who can appreciate beauty to be able
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  Speaker 1: to surround themselves with beautiful things. He wants those who
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  Speaker 1: can discern truth to have every opportunity to travel and observe.
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  Speaker 1: He wants those who can appreciate dress to be beautifully clothed,
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  Speaker 1: and those who can appreciate good food to be luxuriously fed.
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  Speaker 1: He wants all these things because it is Himself that
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  Speaker 1: enjoys and appreciates them. It is God who wants to
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  Speaker 1: play and sing, and enjoy beauty, and proclaim truth, and
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  Speaker 1: wear fine clothes and yet good foods. It is God
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  Speaker 1: that worketh in you to will and to do, said Paul.
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  Speaker 1: The desire you feel for riches is the infinite seeking
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  Speaker 1: to express himself in you, as He sought to find
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  Speaker 1: expression in the little boy at the piano. So you
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  Speaker 1: need not hesitate to ask. Largely, your part is to
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  Speaker 1: focalize and express the desires of God. This is a
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  Speaker 1: difficult point with most people. They retain something of the
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  Speaker 1: old idea that poverty and self sacrifice are pleasing to God.
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  Speaker 1: They look upon poverty as a part of the plan,
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  Speaker 1: a necessity of nature. They have the idea that God
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  Speaker 1: has finished his work and made all that he can make,
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  Speaker 1: and that the majority of men must stay poor because
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  Speaker 1: there is not enough to go around. They hold to
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  Speaker 1: so much of this erroneous thought that they feel ashamed
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  Speaker 1: to ask for wealth. They try not to want more
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: than a very modest competence, just enough to make them
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: fairly comfortable. I recall now the case of one student
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: who was told that he must get in mind a
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: clear picture of the things he desired, so that the
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  Speaker 1: creative thought of them might be impressed on formless substance.
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  Speaker 1: He was a very poor man, living in a rented
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  Speaker 1: house and having only what he earned from day to day,
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  Speaker 1: and he could not grasp the fact that all wealth
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  Speaker 1: was his. So, after thinking the matter over, he decided
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  Speaker 1: that he might reasonably ask for a new rug for
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: the floor of his best room, and an anthracite coal
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: stove to heat the house during the cold weather. Following
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  Speaker 1: the instructions given in this book, he obtained these things
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  Speaker 1: in a few months, and then it dawned upon him
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  Speaker 1: that he had not asked enough. He went through the
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: house in which he lived and planned all the improvements
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: he would like to make in it. He mentally added
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: a bay window here and a room there, until it
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: was complete in his mind as his ideal home, and
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: then he planned its furnishings, holding the whole picture in
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: his mind. He began living in a certain way and
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: moving toward what he wanted. And he owns the house
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  Speaker 1: now and is rebuilding it after the form of his
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: mental image. And now, with still larger faith, he is
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: going on to get greater things. It has been unto
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  Speaker 1: him according to his faith, and it is so with
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  Speaker 1: you and with all of us. Chapter seven Gratitude. The
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  Speaker 1: illustrations given in the last chapter will have conveyed to
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  Speaker 1: the reader the fact that the first step toward getting
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  Speaker 1: rich is to convey the idea of your wants to
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  Speaker 1: the formless substance. This is true, and you will see
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  Speaker 1: that in order to do so, it becomes necessary to
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  Speaker 1: relate yourself to the formless intelligence in a harmonious way.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: To secure this harmonious relation is a matter of such
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  Speaker 1: primary and vital importance that I shall give some space
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: to its discussion here and give you instructions which, if
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: you will follow them, will be certain to bring you
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: into perfect unity of mind with God. The whole process
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: of mental adjustment and atonement can be summed up in
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  Speaker 1: one word gratitude. First, you believe that there is one
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  Speaker 1: intelligent substance from which all things proceed. Second, you believe
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  Speaker 1: that this substance gives you everything you desire, And third
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  Speaker 1: you relate yourself to it by a feeling of deep
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: and profound gratitude. Many people who order their lives rightly
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  Speaker 1: in all other ways are kept in poverty by their
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: lack of gratitude. Having received one gift from God, they
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  Speaker 1: cut the wires which connect them with Him by failing
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  Speaker 1: to make acknowledgment. It is easy to understand that the
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  Speaker 1: nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: wealth we shall receive. And it is easy also to
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  Speaker 1: understand that the soul that is always grateful lives in
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  Speaker 1: closer touch with God than the one which never looks
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: to Him in thankful acknowledgment. The more gratefully we fix
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  Speaker 1: our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us,
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  Speaker 1: the more good things we will receive, and the more
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  Speaker 1: rapidly they will come. And the reason simply is that
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: touch with the source from which the blessings come. If
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  Speaker 1: it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: your whole mind into closer harmony with the creative energies
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: of the universe, consider it well, and you will see
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: that it is true. The good things you already have
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  Speaker 1: have come to you along the line of obedience to
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  Speaker 1: certain laws. Gratitude will lead your mind out along the
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: ways by which things come, and it will keep you
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  Speaker 1: in close harmony with creative thought and prevent you from
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: falling into competitive thought. Gratitude alone can keep you looking
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  Speaker 1: toward the all and prevent you from falling into the
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: error of thinking of the supply as limited, and to
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: do that would be fatal to your hopes. There is
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: a law of gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: you should observe the law if you are to get
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  Speaker 1: the results you seek. The law of gratitude is the
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  Speaker 1: natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: in opposite directions. The grateful outreaching of your mind in
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: thankful praise to the Supreme is a liberation or expenditure
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: of force. It cannot fail to reach that to which
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  Speaker 1: it is addressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement towards.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: You draw nigh unto God, and He will draw nigh
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  Speaker 1: unto you. That is a statement of psychological truth. And
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  Speaker 1: if your gratitude is strong and constant, the reaction in
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  Speaker 1: formless substance will be strong and continuous. The movement of
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: the things you want will be always toward you. Notice
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: the grateful attitude that Jesus took, How he always seems
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  Speaker 1: to be saying, I thank thee Father that thou hearest me.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot exercise much power without gratitude, For it is
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: gratitude that keeps you connected with power. But the value
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you more
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: blessings in the future. Without gratitude, you cannot long keep
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  Speaker 1: from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are. The moment
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: you permit your mind to dwell with dissatisfaction upon things
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: as they are, you begin to lose ground. You fix
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: attention upon the common, the ordinary, the poor, and the
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: squalid and mean, and your mind takes the form of
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: these things. Then you will transmit these forms or mental
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: images to the formless and the common, the poor, the squalid,
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: and mean will come to you. To permit your mind
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior, and
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: to surround yourself with inferior things. On the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: to fix your attention on the best is to surround
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  Speaker 1: yourself with the best, and to become the best. The
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  Speaker 1: creative power within us makes us into the image of
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: that to which we give our attention. We are thinking substance,
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: and thinking substance always takes the form of that which
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: it thinks about. The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon
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  Speaker 1: the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: takes the form or character of the best, and will
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: receive the best. Also, faith is born of gratitude. The
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  Speaker 1: grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: The reaction of gratitude upon one's own mind produces faith,
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: and every outgoing wave of grateful thanksgiving increases faith. He
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: who has no feeling of gratitude cannot long retain a
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: living faith. And without a living faith, you cannot get
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: rich by the creative method, as we shall see in
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: the following chapters. It is necessary, then, to cultivate the
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  Speaker 1: habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes
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  Speaker 1: to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: things have contributed to your advancement, he should include all
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: things in your gratitude. Do not waste time thinking or
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: talking about the shortcomings or wrong actions of plutocrats or
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: trust magnates. Their organization of the world has made your opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: All you get really comes to you because of them.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: Do not rage against corrupt politicians. If it were not
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: for politicians, we should fall into anarchy, and your opportunity
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: would be greatly lessened. God has worked a long time
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: and very patiently to bring us up to where we
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: are in industry and government, and he is going right
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: on with his work. There is not the least doubt
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: that He will do a way with plutocrats, trust magnates,
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: captains of industry and politicians as soon as they can
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: be spared. But in the meantime, behold they are all
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: very good. Remember that they are all helping to arrange
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: the lines of transmission along which your riches will come
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: to you, and be grateful to them all. This will
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: bring you into harmonious relations with the good in everything,
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: and the good in everything will move toward you. Chapter eight.
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  Speaker 1: Thinking in a certain way, Turn back to chapter six
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: and read again the story of the man who formed
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: a mental image of his house, and you will get
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: a fair idea of the initial step toward getting rich.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: You must form a clear and definite mental picture of
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: have it yourself. You must have it before you can
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: give it. And many people fail to impress thinking substance
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: because they have themselves only a vague and misty concept
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: of the things they want to do, to have or
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: to become. It is not enough that you should have
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: a general desireire for wealth to do good with. Everybody
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: has that desire. It is not enough that you should
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: have a wish to travel, see things, live more, et cetera.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: Everybody has those desires. Also, if you were going to
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: send a wireless message to a friend, you would not
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: send the letters of the alphabet in their order and
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: let him construct the message for himself. Nor would you
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  Speaker 1: take words at random from the dictionary. You would send
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  Speaker 1: a coherent sentence, one which meant something. When you try
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  Speaker 1: to impress your wants upon substance, remember that it must
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  Speaker 1: be done by a coherent statement. You must know what
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  Speaker 1: you want and be definite. You can never get rich
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  Speaker 1: or start the creative power into action by sending out
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  Speaker 1: unformed longings and vague desires. Go over your desires, just
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  Speaker 1: as the man I have described when over his house.
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  Speaker 1: See just what you want, and get a clear mental
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  Speaker 1: picture of it as you wish it to look. When
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  Speaker 1: you get it, that clear mental picture, you must have
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  Speaker 1: continually in mind. As the sailor has an mind the
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  Speaker 1: port toward which he is sailing the ship. You must
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  Speaker 1: keep your face toward it all the time. You must
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  Speaker 1: no more lose sight of it than the steersman loses
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  Speaker 1: sight of the compass. It is not necessary to take
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  Speaker 1: exercises in concentration, nor to set apart special times for
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  Speaker 1: prayer and affirmation, nor to go into the silence, nor
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  Speaker 1: to do occult stunts of any kind. These things are
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  Speaker 1: well enough. But all you need is to know what
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  Speaker 1: you want, and to want it badly enough so that
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  Speaker 1: it will stay in your thoughts. Spend as much of
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  Speaker 1: your leisure time as you can in contemplate in your picture.
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  Speaker 1: But no one needs to take exercises to concentrate his
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  Speaker 1: mind on a thing which he really wants. It is
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  Speaker 1: the things you do not really care about which require
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: effort to fix your attention upon them. And unless you
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  Speaker 1: really want to get rich, so that the desire is
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  Speaker 1: strong enough to hold your thoughts directed to the purpose
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: as the magnetic poll holds the needle of the compass,
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  Speaker 1: it will hardly be worth while for you to try
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  Speaker 1: to carry out the instructions given in this book. The
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  Speaker 1: methods here in said at fourth are for people whose
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  Speaker 1: desire for riches is strong enough to overcome mental laziness
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  Speaker 1: and the love of ease and make them work. The
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  Speaker 1: more clear and definite you make your picture, then, and
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  Speaker 1: the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its
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  Speaker 1: delightful details, the stronger your desire will be, and the
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  Speaker 1: stronger your desire, the easier it will be to hold
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  Speaker 1: your mind fixed upon the picture of what you want.
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  Speaker 1: Something more is necessary, however, than merely to see the
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  Speaker 1: picture clearly. If that is all you do, you are
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  Speaker 1: only a dreamer and will have little or no power
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: for accomplishment. Behind your clear vision must be the purpose
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: to realize it, to bring it out in tangible expression.
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: And behind this purpose must be an invincible and unwavering
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  Speaker 1: faith that the thing is already yours, that it is
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  Speaker 1: at hand, and you have only to take possession of it.
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  Speaker 1: Lie in the new house mentally until it takes form
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: around you physically in the mental realm. Enter at once
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: into full enjoyment of the things you wan want. Whatsoever
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: things ye ask for when ye pray, believe that ye
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: receive them, and ye shall have them, said Jesus, See
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  Speaker 1: the things you want as if they were actually around
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  Speaker 1: you all the time. See yourself as owning in using them.
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  Speaker 1: Make use of them in imagination, just as you will
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  Speaker 1: use them when they are your tangible possessions. Dwell upon
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  Speaker 1: your mental picture until it is clear and distinct, and
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: then take the mental attitude of ownership toward everything in
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  Speaker 1: that picture. Take possession of it in mind, in the
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  Speaker 1: full faith that it is actually yours. Hold to this
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: mental ownership, Do not waver for an instant in the
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  Speaker 1: faith that it is real. And remember what was said
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  Speaker 1: in a preceding chapter about gratitude. Be as thankful for
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  Speaker 1: it all the time as you expect to be when
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: it has taken form. The man who can sincerely thank
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  Speaker 1: God for the things which as yet he owns only
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: in imagination, has real faith. He will get rich. He
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  Speaker 1: will cause the creation of whatsoever he wants you do.
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  Speaker 1: You do not need to pray repeatedly for the things
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  Speaker 1: you want. It is not necessary to tell God about
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  Speaker 1: it every day. Use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do,
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  Speaker 1: said Jesus to his pupils. For your father knoweth that
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  Speaker 1: ye have need of these things before ye ask him.
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  Speaker 1: Your part is to intelligently formulate your desire for the
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  Speaker 1: things which make for a larger life, and to get
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  Speaker 1: these desires arranged into a coherent whole, and then to
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  Speaker 1: impress this whole desire upon the formless substance which has
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  Speaker 1: the power and the will to bring you what you want.
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  Speaker 1: You do not make this impression by repeating strains of words.
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  Speaker 1: You make it by holding the vision with unshakable purpose
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  Speaker 1: to attain it, and with steadfast faith that you do
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  Speaker 1: attain it. The answer to prayer is not according to
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  Speaker 1: your faith while you are talking, but according to your
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: faith while you are working. You cannot impress the mind
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  Speaker 1: of God by having a special Sabbath day set apart
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  Speaker 1: to tell him what you want and then forgetting him
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  Speaker 1: during the rest of the week. You cannot impress him
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  Speaker 1: by having special hours to go in to your closet
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  Speaker 1: and pray, if you then dismiss the matter from your
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: mind until the hour of prayer comes again. Oral prayer
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: is well enough and has its effect, especially upon yourself,
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  Speaker 1: in clarifying your vision and strengthening your faith. But it
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: is not your oral petitions which get you what you want.
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  Speaker 1: In order to get rich. You do not need a
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  Speaker 1: sweet hour of prayer. You need to pray without ceasing.
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  Speaker 1: And by prayer I mean holding steadily to your vision
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: with the purpose to cause its creation into solid form,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: and the faith that you are doing so believe that
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: ye receive them. The whole matter turns on receiving once
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: you have clearly formed your vision. When you have formed it,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: it is well to make an oral statement addressing the
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: supreme in reverent prayer, and from that moment you must
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  Speaker 1: in mind receive what you ask for. Lie in the
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: new house where the fine clothes, ride in the automobile,
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  Speaker 1: Go on the journey, and confidently plan for greater journeys.
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  Speaker 1: Think and speak of all the things you have asked
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  Speaker 1: for in terms of actual present ownership. Imagine an environment
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: and a financial condition exactly as you want them, and
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: live all the time in that imaginary environment and financial condition. Mind, however,
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  Speaker 1: that you do not do this as a mere dreamer
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: and castle builder. Hold to the faith that the imaginary
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  Speaker 1: is being realized, and to the purpose to realize it.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: Remember that it is faith and purpose in the use
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  Speaker 1: of the imagination which make the difference between the scientist
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: and the dreamer. And having learned this fact, it is
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  Speaker 1: here that you must learn the proper use of the will.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: Chapter nine. How to use the will to set about
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: getting rich in a scientific way. You do not try
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: to apply your will power to anything outside of yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You have no right to do so. Anyway. It is
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: wrong to apply your will to other men and women
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: in order to get them to do what you wish done.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: It is as flagrantly wrong to coerce people by mental power,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: as it is is to coerce them by physical power.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: If compelling people by physical force to do things for
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: you reduces them to slavery, compelling them by mental means
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: accomplishes exactly the same thing. The only difference is in methods.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: If taking things from people by physical force is robbery,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: then taking things by mental force is robbery. Also, there
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: is no difference in principle. You have no right to
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: use your willpower upon another person, even for his own good,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: for you do not know what is for his good.
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  Speaker 1: The science of getting rich does not require you to
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: apply power or force to any other person in any
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: way whatsoever. There is not the slightest necessity for doing so. Indeed,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: any attempt to use your will upon others will only
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: tend to defeat your purpose. You do not need to
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: apply your will to things in order to compel them
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: to come to you. That would simply be trying to
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: coerce God, and would be foolish and useless, as well
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: as irreverent. You do not have to compel God to
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  Speaker 1: give you good things any more than you have to
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: use your will power to make the sun rise. You
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: do not have to use your will power to conquer
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: an unfriendly deity or to make stubborn and rebellious forces
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: do your bidding. Substance is friendly to you and is
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: more anxious to give you what you want than you
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: are to get it. To get rich, you need only
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: to use your will power upon yourself. When you know
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: what to think and do, then you must use your
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: will to compel yourself to think and do the right things.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: That is the legitimate use of the will in getting
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: what you want. To use it in holding yourself to
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: the right course. Use your will to keep yourself thinking
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: and acting in a certain way. Do not try to
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: project your will, or your thoughts or your mind out
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: into space to act on things or people. Keep your
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: mind at home. It can accomplish more there than elsewhere.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: Use your mind to form a mental image of what
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: you want, and to hold that vision with faith and purpose,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: and use your will to keep your mind working in
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: the right way. The more steadying continues your faith and purpose,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: the more rapidly you will get rich. Because you will
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: make only positive impressions upon substance, and you will not
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: neutralize or offset them by negative impressions. The picture of
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: your desires held with faith and purpose is taken up
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: by the formless and permeates it to great distances throughout
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: the universe. For all I know, as this impression spreads,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: all things are set moving toward its realization. Every living thing,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: every inanimate thing, and the things yet uncreated are stirred
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: toward bringing into being that which you want. All force
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: begins to be exerted in that direction, All things begin
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: to move toward you. The minds of people everywhere are
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: influenced toward doing the things necessary to the fulfilling of
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: your desires, and they work for you unconsciously. But you
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: can check all this by starting a negative impression in
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: the formless substance. Doubt or unbelief is as certain to
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: start a movement away from you as faith and purpose
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: are to start one toward you. It is by not
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: understanding this that most people who try to make use
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: of mental science in getting rich make their failure. Every
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: hour and moment you spend in giving heed to doubts
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: and fears, every hour you spend in worry, every hour
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: in which your soul is possessed by unbelief, sets a
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: current away from you. In the whole domain of intelligent substance.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: All the promises are unto them that believe, and unto them.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: Only notice how insistent Jesus was upon this point of belief.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: And now you know the reason why. Since belief is
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: all important, it behooves you to guard your thoughts. And
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: as your beliefs will be shaped to a very great
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: extent by the things you observe and think about, it
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: is important that you should command your attention. And here
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: the will comes into use, for it is by your
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: will that you determine upon what things your attention shall
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: be fixed. If you want to become rich, you must
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: not make a study of poverty. Things are not brought
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: into being by thinking about their opposites. Health is never
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: to be attained by studying disease and thinking about disease.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: Righteousness is not to be promoted by studying sin and
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: thinking about sin. And no one ever got rich by
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: studying poverty and thinking about poverty. Medicine as a science
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: of disease has increased disease, Religion as a science of
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: sin has promoted sin, and economics as a study of
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: poverty will fill the world with wretchedness and want. Do
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: not talk about poverty. Do not investigate it or concern
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: yourself with it. Never mind what its causes are, You
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: have nothing to do with them. What concerns you is
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: the cure. Do not spend your time in charitable work
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: or charity movements. All charity only tends to perpetuate the
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: wretchedness it aims to eradicate. I do not say that
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: you should be hard hearted or unkind and refuse to
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: hear the cry of need. But you must not try
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: to eradicate poverty in any of the conventional ways. Put
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: poverty behind you, and put all that pertains to it
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: behind you, and make good, get rich. That is the
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: best way you can help the poor. And you cannot
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: hold the mental image which is to make you rich
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: if you fill your mind with pictures of poverty. Do
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: not read books or papers which give circumstantial accounts of
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: the wretchedness of the tenement dwellers, of the horrors of
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: child labor, and so on. Do not read anything which
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: fills your mind with gloomy images of want and suffering.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: You cannot help the poor in the least by knowing
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: about these things, and the widespread knowledge of them does
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: not tend at all to do away with poverty. What
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: tends to do away with poverty is not the getting
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: of pictures of poverty into your mind, but getting pictures
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: of wealth into the minds of the poor. You are
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: not deserting the poor in their misery when you refuse
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: to allow your mind to be filled with pictures of
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: that misery. Poverty can be done away with not by
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: increasing the number of well to do people who think
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: about poverty, but by increasing the number of poor people
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: who propose with faith to get rich. The poor do
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: not need charity, They need inspiration. Charity only sends them
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: a loaf of bread to keep them alive in their wretchedness,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: or gives them an entertainment to make them forget for
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: an hour or two. But inspiration will cause them to
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: rise out of their misery. If you want to help
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: the poor, demonstrate to them that they can become rich.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: Prove it by getting rich yourself. The only way in
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: which poverty will ever be banished from this world is
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: by getting a large and constantly increasing number of people
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: to practice the teachings of this book. People must be
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: taught to become rich by creation, not by competition. Every
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: Man who becomes rich by competition throws down behind him
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: the latter by which he rises and keeps others down.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: But every man who gets rich by creation opens a
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: way for thousands to follow him, and inspires them to
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: do so. You are not showing hardness of heart or
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: an unfeeling disposition when you refuse to pity poverty, see poverty,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: read about poverty, or think or talk about it, or
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: to listen to those who do talk about it. Use
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  Speaker 1: your power to keep your mind o f f the
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: subject of poverty, and to keep it fixed with faith
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: and purpose on the vision of what you want. Chapter ten,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: further use of the will. You cannot retain a true
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: Do not tell of your past troubles of a financial nature.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: If you have had them, do not think of them
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: at all. Do not tell of the poverty of your
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: parents or the hardships of your early life. To do
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: any of these things is to mentally class yourself with
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: the poor for the time being, and it will certainly
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: check the movement of things in your direction. Let the
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: dead bury their dead, as Jesus said, put poverty, and
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: all things that pertain to poverty completely behind you. You
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: have accepted a certain theory of the universe being correct,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: and are resting all your hopes of happiness on its
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: being correct. And what can you gain by giving heat
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: to conflicting theories. Do not read religious books which tell
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: you that the world is soon coming to an end,
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: and do not read the writings of muckrakers and pessimistic
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: philosophers who tell you that it is going to the devil.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: The world is not going to the devil. It is
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: going to God. It is a wonderful becoming true. There
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: may be a good many things in existing conditions which
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: are disagreeable, But what is the use of studying them
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: when they are certainly passing away, and when the study
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: of them only tends to check their passing and keep
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: them with us. Why give time and attention to things
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: which are being removed by evolutionary growth when you can
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: hasten their removal only by promoting the evolutionary growth as
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: far as your part of it goes. No matter how
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: horrible in seeming may be the conditions in certain countries, sections,
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: or places, you waste your time and destroy your own chances.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: By considering them, you should interest yourself in the world's
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: becoming rich. Think of the riches the world is coming into,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: instead of the poverty it is growing out of. And
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: bear in mind that the only way in which you
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: can assist the world in growing riches by growing rich
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: yourself through the creative method, not the competitive one. Give
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: your attention wholly to riches, ignore poverty. Whenever you think
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: or speak of those who are poor, think and speak
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: of them as those who are becoming rich, as those
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: who are to be congratulated rather than pitted. Then they
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: and others will catch the inspiration and begin to search
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: for the way out. Because I say that you are
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: to give your whole time and mind and thought to riches,
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: it does not follow that you are to be sordid
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: or mean. To become really rich is the noblest aim
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: you can have in life, for it includes everything else.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: On the competitive plane, the struggle to get rich is
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: a godless scramble for power over other men. But when
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: we come into the creative mind, all this is changed.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: All that is possible in the way of greatness and
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: sole unfoldment of service and lofty endeavor comes by way
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: of getting rich. All is made possible by the use
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: of things. If you lack for physical health, you will
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: find that the attainment of it is conditional on your
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: getting rich. Only those who are emancipated from financial worry,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: and who have the means to live a care free
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: existence and follow hygienic practices, can have and retain health.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: Moral and spiritual greatness is possible only to those who
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  Speaker 1: are above the competitive battle for existence, and only those
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  Speaker 1: who are becoming rich on the plane of creative thought
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  Speaker 1: are free from the degrading influences of competition. If your
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  Speaker 1: heart is set on domestic happiness, remember that love flourishes
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  Speaker 1: best where there is refinement, a high level of thought,
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  Speaker 1: and freedom from corrupting influences. And these are to be
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  Speaker 1: found only where riches are attained by the exercise of
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  Speaker 1: creative thought. Without strife or rivalry. You can aim at
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  Speaker 1: nothing so great or noble. I repeat as, to become rich,
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  Speaker 1: and you must fix your attention upon your mental picture
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  Speaker 1: of riches, to the exclusion of all that may tend
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  Speaker 1: to dim or obscure the vision. You must learn to
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  Speaker 1: see the underlying truth in all things. You must see
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  Speaker 1: beneath all seemingly wrong conditions. The great one life ever
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  Speaker 1: moving forward toward fuller expression and more complete happiness. It
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  Speaker 1: is the truth that there is no such thing as poverty,
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  Speaker 1: that there is only wealth. Some people remain in poverty
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  Speaker 1: because they are ignorant of the fact that there is
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  Speaker 1: wealth for them, and these can best be taught by
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  Speaker 1: showing them the way to affluence in your own person
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  Speaker 1: and practice. Others are poor because while they feel that
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  Speaker 1: there is a way out, they are too intellectually indolent
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  Speaker 1: to put forth the mental effort necessary to find that
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  Speaker 1: way and travel it. And for these the very best
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  Speaker 1: thing you can do is to arouse their desire by
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: showing them the happiness that comes from being rightly rich.
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  Speaker 1: Others still are poor because while they have some notion
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: of science, they have become so swamped and lost in
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: the maze of metaphysical and occult theories that they do
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: not know which road to take. They try a mixture
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: of many systems and fail in all. For these, again,
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  Speaker 1: the very best thing to do is to show the
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  Speaker 1: right way in your own person and practice. An ounce
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  Speaker 1: of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing. The
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  Speaker 1: very best thing you can do for the whole world
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  Speaker 1: is to make the most of yourself. You can serve
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  Speaker 1: God and man in no more effective way than by
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: getting rich. That is, if you get rich by the
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: creative method and not by the competitive one. Another thing,
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: we assert that this book gives in detail the principles
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: of the science of getting rich, and if that is true,
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  Speaker 1: you do not need to read any other book upon
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: the subject. This may sound narrow and egotistical, but consider
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: there is no more scientific method of computation in mathematics
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: than by addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. No other method
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: is possible. There can be but one shortest distance between
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: two points. There is only one way to think scientifically,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: and that is to think in the way that leads
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: by the most direct and simple route to the goal.
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  Speaker 1: No man has yet formulated a briefer or less complex
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: system than the one set forth herein. It has been
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: stripped of all non essentials. When you commence on this
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: lay all others aside, put them out of your mind altogether.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: Read this book every day, keep it with you, commit
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: it to memory, and do not think about other systems
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: and theories. If you do, you will begin to have
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: doubts and to be uncertain. In wavering in your thought,
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: and then you will begin to make failures. After you
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: have made good and become rich, you may study other
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: systems as much as you please, but until you are
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: quite sure that you have gained what you want, do
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: not read anything on this line but this book unless
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: it be the authors mentioned in the preface, and read
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: only the most optimistic comments on the world's news. Those
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: in harmony with your picture also postpone your investigations into
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: the occult. Do not dabble in theosophy, spiritualism, or kindred studies.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: It is very likely that the dead still live and
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: are near. But if they are, let them alone. Mind
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: your own business. Wherever the spirits of the dead may be,
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: they have their own work to do and their own
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: problems to solve, and we have no right to interfere
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: with them. We cannot help them, and it is very
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: doubtful whether they can help us, or whether we have
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: any right to trespass upon their time. If they can,
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: let the dead and the hereafter alone and solve your
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: own problem. Get rich. If you begin to mix with
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: the occult, you will start mental cross currents which will
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: surely bring your hopes to shipwreck. Now this and the
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: preceding chapters have brought us to the following statement of
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: basic facts. There is a thinking stuff from which all
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: things are made, and which in its original state permeates, penetrates,
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: and fills the interspace of the universe. A thought in
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: Man can form things in his thought, and by impressing
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: thinks about to be created. In order to do this,
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: He must form a clear mental picture of the things
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: he wants, and hold this picture in his thoughts with
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: the fixed purpose to get what he wants, and the
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: unwavering faith that he does get what he wants, closing
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: his mind against all that may tend to shake his purpose,
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: dim his vision, or quench his faith. And in addition
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: to all this, we shall now see that he must
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: live and act in a certain way. Chapter eleven. Acting
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  Speaker 1: in a certain way. Thought is the creative power or
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  Speaker 1: the impelling force, which causes the creative power to act.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: Thinking in a certain way will bring riches to you.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: But you must not rely upon thought alone. Paying no
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: attention to personal action. That is the rock upon which
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  Speaker 1: many otherwise scientific metaphysical thinkers meet shipwreck, the failure to
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: connect thought with personal action. We have not yet reached
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  Speaker 1: the stage of development. Even supposing such a stage to
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: be possible, in which man can create directly from formless substance,
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  Speaker 1: without nature's processes or the work of human hands, man
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  Speaker 1: must not only think, but his personal action must supplement
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  Speaker 1: his thought. By thought, you can cause the gold in
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  Speaker 1: the hearts of the mountains to be impelled towards you,
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: but it will not mine itself, refine itself, coin itself
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: into double eagles, and come rolling along the road, seeking
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: its way into your pocket. Under the impelling power of
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: the supreme spirit, men's affairs will be so ordered that
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  Speaker 1: someone will be led to mine the gold for you.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: Other men's business transactions will be so directed that the
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: gold will be brought towards you. And you must so
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: arrange your own business affairs that you may be able
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: to receive it when it comes to you. Your thought
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: makes all things animate and inanimate work to bring you
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: what you want. But your personal activity must be such
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  Speaker 1: that you can rightly receive what you want when it
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  Speaker 1: reaches you. You are not to take it as charity,
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: nor to steal it. You must give every man more
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  Speaker 1: in use value than he gives you in cash value.
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  Speaker 1: The scientific use of thought consists in forming a clear
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  Speaker 1: and distinct mental image of what you want, in holding
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  Speaker 1: fast to the purpose to get what you want, and
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: in realizing with grateful faith that you do get what
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  Speaker 1: you want. Do not try to project your thought in
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: any mysterious or occult way with the idea of having
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: it go out and do things for you. That is
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: wasted effort and will weaken your power to think with sanity.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: The action of thought in getting rich is fully explained
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: in the preceding chapters. Your faith and purpose positively impress
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  Speaker 1: your vision upon formless substance, which has the same desire
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: for more life than you have. And this vision received
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: from you sets all the creative forces at work i
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  Speaker 1: in and through their regular channels of action, but directed
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  Speaker 1: towards you. It is not your part to guide or
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: supervise the creative process. All you have to do with
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: that is to retain your vision, stick to your purpose,
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: and maintain your faith and gratitude. But you must act
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: in a certain way so that you can appropriate what
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: is yours when it comes to you, so that you
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: can meet the things you have in your picture and
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: put them in their proper places as they arrive. You
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: can readily see the truth of this. When things reach you,
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: they will be in the hands of other men who
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: will ask an equivalent for them, and you can only
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  Speaker 1: get what is yours by giving the other man what
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: is his. Your pocket book is not going to be
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: transformed into a fortunatus's purse, which shall be always full
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: of money without effort on your part. This is the
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: crucial point in the science of getting rich, right here,
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: where thought and personal action must be combined. There are
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: very many people who consciously or unconsciously set the creative
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: forces in action by the strength and assistance of their desires,
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: but who remain poor because they do not provide for
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: the reception of the thing they want when it comes
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: by thought. The thing you want is brought to you
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: by action, you receive it. Whatever your action is to be.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: It is evident that you must act now. You cannot
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: act in the past, and it is essential to the
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: clearness of your mental vision that you dismiss the past
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: from your mind. You cannot act in the future, for
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: the future is not here yet, and you cannot tell
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: how you will want to act in any future contingency
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: until that contingency has arrived because you are not in
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: the right business or the right environment now. Do not
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: think that you must postpone action until you get into
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: the right business or environment. And do not spend time
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: in the present taking thought as to the best course
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: in possible future emergencies. Have faith in your ability to
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: meet any emergency when it arrives. If you act in
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: the present with your mind on the future, your present
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: action will be with a divided mind and will not
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: be effective. Put your whole mind into present action. Do
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: not give your creative impulse to original substance and then
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: sit down and wait for results. If you do, you
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: will never get them. Act now. There is never any
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: time but now, and there never will be any time
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: but now. If you are ever to begin to make
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: ready for the reception of what you want, you must
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: begin now, and your action, whatever it is, must most
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: likely be in your present business or employment, and must
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: be upon the persons and things in your present environment.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: You cannot act where you are not. You cannot act
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: where you have been, and You cannot act where you
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: are going to be. You can act only where you are.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: Do not bother as to whether yesterday's work was well
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: done or ill done. Do today's work well. Do not
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: try to do tomorrow's work now. There will be plenty
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: of time to do that when you get to it.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: Do not try by occult or mystical means to act
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: on people or things that are out of your reach.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: Do not wait for a change of environment before you act.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: Get a change of environment by action. You can so
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: act upon the environment in which you are now as
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: to cause yourself to be transferred to a better environment.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: Hold with faith and purpose the vision of yourself in
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: the better environment. But act upon your present environment with
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: all your heart, and with all your strength, and with
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: all your mind. Do not spend any time in day
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: dreaming or castle building. Hold to the one vision of
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: what you want, and act now. Do not cast about
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: seeking some new thing to do, or some strange, unusual
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: or remarkable action to perform as a first step toward
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: getting rich. It is probable that your actions, at least
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: for some time to come, will be those you have
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: been performing for some time past. But you are to
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: begin now to perform these actions in a certain way,
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: which will surely make you rich. If you are engaged
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: in some business and feel that it is not the
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: right one for you, do not wait until you get
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: into the right business before you begin to act. Do
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: not feel discouraged or sit down and lament because you
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: are misplaced. No man was ever so misplaced but that
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: he could find the right place, And no man ever
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: became so involved in the wrong business, but that he
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: could get into the right business. Hold the vision of
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: yourself in the right business, with the purpose to get
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: into it, and the faith that you will get into
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: it and are getting into it. But act in your
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: present business. Use your present business as the means of
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: getting a better one, and use your present environment as
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: the means of getting into a better one. Your vision
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: of the right business, if held with faith and purpose,
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: will cause the Supreme to move the right business toward you,
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: and your action, if performed in a certain way, will
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: cause you to move toward the business. If you are
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: an employee or wage earner and feel that you must
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: change places in order to get what you want, do
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: not project your thought into space and rely upon it
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: to get you another job. It will probably we fail
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: to do so. Hold the vision of yourself in the
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: job you want while you act with faith and purpose
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: on the job you have, and you will certainly get
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: the job you want. Your vision and faith will set
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: the creative force in motion to bring it towards you,
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: and your action will cause the forces in your own
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: environment to move you toward the place you want. In
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: closing this chapter, we will add another statement to our syllabus.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made,
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: and which in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: the interspaces of the universe. A thought in this substance
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: can form things in his thought, and by impressing his
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: thoughts upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: about to be created. In order to do this, man
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: must pass from the competitive to the creative mind. He
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: must form a clear mental picture of the things he wants,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: and hold this picture in his thoughts with the fixed
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: purpose to get what he wants, in the unwavering faith
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: that he does get what he wants, Closing his mind
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: to all that may tend to shake his purpose, dim
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: his vision, or quench his faith that he may receive
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: what he wants when it comes. Man must act now
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: upon the people and things in his present environment. Chapter twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Efficient action. You must use your thought as directed in
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: previous chapters and begin to do what you can do
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: where you are. And you must do all that you
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: can do where you are. You can advance only by
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: being larger than your present place. And no man is
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: larger than his present place who leaves undone any of
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: the work pertaining to that place. The world is advanced
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: only by those who more than fill their present places.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: If no man quite filled his present place, you can
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: see that there must be a going backward in everything.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: Those who do not quite fill their present places are
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: a dead weight upon society, government, commerce, and industry. They
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: must be carried along by others at a great expense.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: The progress of the world is retarded only by those
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: who do not fill the places they are holding. They
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: belong to a former age and a lower stage or
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: plane of life, and their tendency is toward degeneration. No
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: society could advance if every man was smaller than his place.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: Social evolution is guided by the law of physical and
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: mental evolution. In the animal world, evolution is caused by
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: excess of life. When an organism has more life than
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: can be expressed in the functions of its own plane,
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: it develops the organs of a higher plane, and a
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: new species is originated. There never would have been new
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: species had there not been organisms which more than filled
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: their places. The law is exactly the same for you.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: Your getting rich depends upon your applying this principle to
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: your own affairs. Every day is either a successful day
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: or a day of failure, and it is the successful
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: days which get you what you want. If every day
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: is a failure, you can never get rich, while if
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: every day is a success, you cannot fail to get rich.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: If there is something that may be done today and
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: you do not do it, you have failed in so
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: far as that thing is concerned, and the consequences may
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: be more disastrous than you imagine. You cannot foresee the
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: results of even the most trivial act. You do not
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: know the workings of all the forces that have been
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: set moving in your behalf. Much may be depending on
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: your doing some simple act. It may be the very
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: thing which is to open the door of opportunity to
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: very great possibilities. You can never know all the combinations
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: which supreme intelligence is making for you. In the world
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: of things and of human affairs. Your neglect or failure
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: to do some small thing may cause a long delay
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: in getting what you want do Every day all that
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: can be done that day. There is, however, a limitation
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: or qualification of the above that you must take into account.
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: You are not to overwork, nor to rush blindly into
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: your business in the effort to do the greatest possible
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: number of things in the shortest possible time. You are
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: not to try to do tomorrow's work today, nor to
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: do a week's work in a day. It is really
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  Speaker 1: not the number of things you do, but the efficiency
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  Speaker 1: of each separate action that counts. Every act is in
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  Speaker 1: itself either a success or a failure. Every act is
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  Speaker 1: in itself either effective or inefficient. Every inefficient act is
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  Speaker 1: a failure, and if you spend your life in doing
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  Speaker 1: inefficient acts, your whole life will be a failure. The
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  Speaker 1: more things you do, the worse for you if all
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  Speaker 1: your acts are inefficient ones. On the other hand, every
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  Speaker 1: efficient act is a success in itself, and if every
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  Speaker 1: act of your life is an efficient one, your whole
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  Speaker 1: life must be a success. The cause of failure is
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  Speaker 1: doing too many things in an inefficient manner and not
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  Speaker 1: doing enough things in an efficient manner. You will see
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  Speaker 1: that it is a self evident proposition that if you
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  Speaker 1: do not do any inefficient acts, and if you do
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  Speaker 1: it sufficient number of efficient acts, you will become rich.
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  Speaker 1: If now it is possible for you to make each
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  Speaker 1: act an efficient one, you see again that the getting
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  Speaker 1: of riches is reduced to an exact science, like mathematics.
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  Speaker 1: The matter turns then on the question whether you can
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  Speaker 1: make each separate act a success in itself, and this
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  Speaker 1: you can certainly do. You can make each act a
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  Speaker 1: success because all power is working with you, and all
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  Speaker 1: power cannot fail. Power is at your service, and to
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  Speaker 1: make each act efficient you have only to put power
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  Speaker 1: into it. Every action is either strong or weak, and
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  Speaker 1: when every one is strong, you are acting in a
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  Speaker 1: certain way which will make you rich. Every act can
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  Speaker 1: be made strong and efficient by holding your vision while
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  Speaker 1: you are doing it, and putting the whole power of
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  Speaker 1: your faith and purpose into it. It is at this
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  Speaker 1: point that the people fail who separate mental power from
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  Speaker 1: personal action. They use the power of mind in one
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  Speaker 1: place and at one time and they act in another
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  Speaker 1: place and at another time, so their acts are not
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  Speaker 1: successful in themselves. Too many of them are inefficient. But
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: if all power goes into every act, no matter how commonplace,
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  Speaker 1: every act will be a success in itself. And as
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  Speaker 1: in the nature of things, every success opens the way
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  Speaker 1: to other successes. Your progress toward what you want and
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  Speaker 1: the progress of what you want toward you will become
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  Speaker 1: increasingly rapid. Remember that successful action is cumulative in its results,
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  Speaker 1: since the desire for more life is inherent in all things.
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  Speaker 1: When a man begins to move toward larger life, more
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  Speaker 1: things attach themselves to him, and the influence of his
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  Speaker 1: desire is multiplied. Do every day all that you can
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  Speaker 1: do that day, and do each act in an efficient manner.
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  Speaker 1: In saying that you must hold your vision while you
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  Speaker 1: are doing each act, however trivial or commonplace, I do
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  Speaker 1: not mean to say that it is necessary at all
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  Speaker 1: times to see the vision distinctly to its smallest details.
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  Speaker 1: It should be the work of your leisure hours to
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  Speaker 1: use your imagination on the details of your vision, and
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  Speaker 1: to contemplate them until they are firmly fixed upon your memory.
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  Speaker 1: If you wish speedy results, spend practically all your spare
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  Speaker 1: time in this practice. By continuous contemplation, you will get
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  Speaker 1: the picture of what you want, even to the smallest details,
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  Speaker 1: so firmly fixed upon your mind, and so completely transferred
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  Speaker 1: to the mind of formless substance, that in your working
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  Speaker 1: hours you need only to mentally refer to the picture
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  Speaker 1: to stimulate your faith and purpose and cause your best
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  Speaker 1: effort to be put forth. Contemplate your picture in your
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  Speaker 1: leisure hours until your consciousness is so full of it
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  Speaker 1: that you can grasp it instantly. You will become so
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  Speaker 1: enthused with its bright promises that the mere thought of
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  Speaker 1: it will call forth the strongest energies of your whole being.
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: Let us again repeat our syllabus, and, by slightly changing
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  Speaker 1: the closing statements, bring it to the point we have
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  Speaker 1: now reached. There is a thinking stuff from which all
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  Speaker 1: things are made, and which, in its original state permeates, penetrates,
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  Speaker 1: and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought in
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.
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  Speaker 1: Man can form things in his thought, and by impressing
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  Speaker 1: his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he
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  Speaker 1: thinks about to be created. In order to do this,
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  Speaker 1: man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind.
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  Speaker 1: He must form a clear mental picture of the things
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  Speaker 1: he wants and do with faith and purpose all that
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  Speaker 1: can be done each day, doing each separate thing in
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  Speaker 1: an efficient manner. Chapter thirteen. Getting into the right business.
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  Speaker 1: Success in any particular business depends, for one thing, upon
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  Speaker 1: your possessing in a well developed state the faculties required
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  Speaker 1: in that business. Without good musical faculty, no one can
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  Speaker 1: succeed as a teacher of music without well developed mechanical faculties.
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  Speaker 1: No one can achieve great success in any of the
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  Speaker 1: mechanical trades without tact and the commercial faculties. No one
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: can succeed in mercantile pursuits. But to possess in a
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  Speaker 1: well developed state the faculties required in your particular vocation
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  Speaker 1: does not insure getting rich. There are musicians who have
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  Speaker 1: remarkable talent and who yet remain poor. There are blacksmiths, carpenters,
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  Speaker 1: and so on who have excellent mechanical ability, but who
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  Speaker 1: do not get rich. And there are merchants with good
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  Speaker 1: faculties for dealing with men who nevertheless fail. The different
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  Speaker 1: faculties are tools. It is essential to have good tools,
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  Speaker 1: but it is also essential that the tools should be
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  Speaker 1: used in the right way. One man can take a
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  Speaker 1: sharp saw, a square, a good plane, and so on
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  Speaker 1: and build a handsome article of furniture. Another man can
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: take the same tools and set to work to duplicate
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  Speaker 1: the article, but his production will be a botch he
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: does not know how to use good tools in a
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: successful way. The various faculties of your mind are the
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: tools with which you must do the work which is
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: to make make you rich. It will be easier for
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  Speaker 1: you to succeed if you get into a business for
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: which you are well equipped with mental tools. Generally speaking,
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  Speaker 1: you will do best in that business which will use
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  Speaker 1: your strongest faculties, the one for which you are naturally
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  Speaker 1: best fitted. But there are limitations to this statement. Also,
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  Speaker 1: no man should regard his vocation as being irrevocably fixed
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  Speaker 1: by the tendencies with which he was born. You can
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  Speaker 1: get rich in any business, for if you have not
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  Speaker 1: the right talent for it, you can develop that talent.
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  Speaker 1: It merely means that you will have to make your
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  Speaker 1: tools as you go along, instead of confining yourself to
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  Speaker 1: the use of those with which you were born. It
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  Speaker 1: will be easier for you to succeed in a vocation
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  Speaker 1: for which you already have the talents in a well
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  Speaker 1: developed state. But you can succeed in any vocation, for
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  Speaker 1: you can develop any rudimentary talent, and there is no
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  Speaker 1: talent of which you have not at least the rudiment.
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  Speaker 1: You will get rich most easily in point of effort
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  Speaker 1: if you do that for which you are best fitted,
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  Speaker 1: but you will get rich most satisfactorily if you do
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  Speaker 1: that which you want to do. Doing what you want
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  Speaker 1: to do is life, and there is no real satisfaction
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  Speaker 1: in living if we are compelled to be forever doing
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  Speaker 1: something which we do not like to do, and can
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  Speaker 1: never do what we want to do. And it is
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  Speaker 1: certain that you can do what you want to do.
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  Speaker 1: The desire to do it is proof that you have
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  Speaker 1: within you the power which can do it. Desire is
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  Speaker 1: a manifestation of power. The desire to play music is
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: the power which can play music, seeking expression and development.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: The desire to invent mechanical devices is the mechanical talent
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: seeking expression and development. Where there is no power, either
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: developed or undeveloped, to do a thing, there is never
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  Speaker 1: any desire to do that thing, And where there is
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  Speaker 1: strong desire to do a thing, it is certain proof
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  Speaker 1: that the power to do it is strong and only
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  Speaker 1: requires to be developed and applied in the right way,
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  Speaker 1: all things else being equal. It is best to select
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: the business for which you have the best developed talent.
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  Speaker 1: But if you have a strong desire to engage in
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: any particular line of work, you should select that work
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  Speaker 1: as the ultimate end at which you aim. You can
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  Speaker 1: do what you want to do, and it is your
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: right and privilege to follow the business or avocation which
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: will be most congenial and pleasant. You are not obliged
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  Speaker 1: to do what you do not like to do, and
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  Speaker 1: should not do it except as a means to bring
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  Speaker 1: you to the doing of the thing you want to do.
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  Speaker 1: If there are past mistakes whose consequences have placed you
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: in an undesirable business or environment, you may be obliged
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  Speaker 1: for some time to do what you do not like
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  Speaker 1: to do, but you can make the doing of it
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  Speaker 1: pleasant by knowing that it is making it possible for
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  Speaker 1: you to come to the doing of what you want
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  Speaker 1: to do. If you feel that you are not in
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: the right vocation, do not act too hastily in trying
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: to get into another one. The best way generally to
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: change business or environment is by growth. Do not be
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: afraid to make a sudden and radical change if the
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: opportunity is presented and you feel, after careful consideration that
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  Speaker 1: it is the right opportunity. But never take sudden or
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  Speaker 1: radical action when you are in doubt as to the
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: wisdom of doing so. There is never any hurry on
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: the creative plane, and there is no lack of opportunity.
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: When you get out of the competitive mind, you will
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: understand that you never need to act hastily. No one
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  Speaker 1: else is going to beat you to the thing you
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  Speaker 1: want to do. There is enough for all. If one
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  Speaker 1: place is taken another and a better one will be
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: open for you a little farther on. There is plenty
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: of time when you are in doubt, wait, fall back
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: on the contemplation of your vision, and increase your faith
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: and purpose, and by all means, in times of doubt
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: and indecision, cultivate gratitude. A day or two spent in
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: contemplating the vision of what you want and in earnest
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: thanksgiving that you are getting it will bring your mind
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: into such close relationship with the Supreme that you will
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: make no mistake when you do act. There is a
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: mind which knows all there is to know, and you
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: can come into close unity with this mind by faith
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  Speaker 1: and the purpose to advance in life if you have
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: deep gratitude. Mistakes come from acting hastily, or from acting
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: in fear or doubt, or in forgetfulness of the right motive,
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: which is more life to all and less to none.
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: As you go on in a certain way, opportunities will
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: come to you in increasing number, and you will need
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: to be very steady in your faith and purpose, and
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: to keep in close touch with the all mind by
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: reverent gratitude. Do all that you can do in a
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry,
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: or fear. Go as fast as you can, but never hurry.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: Remember that in a moment you begin to hurry, you
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: cease to be a creator and become a competitor. You
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: drop back upon the old plane again. Whenever you find
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: yourself hurrying, call a halt, fix your attention on the
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: mental image of the thing you want, and begin to
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: give thanks that you are getting it. The exercise of
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: gratitude will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: your purpose Chapter fourteen, The impression of increase. Whether you
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  Speaker 1: change your location or not, your actions for the present
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: must be those pertaining to the business in which you
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: are now engaged. You can get into the business you
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: want by making constructive use of the business you are
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: already established in, by doing your daily work in a
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: certain way, and in so far as your business consists
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: in dealing with other men, whether personally or by letter,
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: the key thought of all your efforts must be to
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: convey to their minds the impression of increase. Increase is
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  Speaker 1: what all men and all women are seeking. It is
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: the urge of the formless intelligence within them, seeking fuller expression.
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: The desire for increase is inherent in all nature. It
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: is the fundamental impulse of the universe. All human activities
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: are based on the desire for increase. People are seeking
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: more food, more clothes, better shelter, more luxury, more beauty,
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: more knowledge, more pleasure, increase in something, more life. Every
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: living thing is under this necessity for continuous advancement. Where
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: increase of life sees dissolution and death set in at once.
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: Man instinctively knows this, and hence he is forever seeking more.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: This law of perpetual increase is set forth by Jesus
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: in the parable of the talents. Only those who gain
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: more retain. Any from Him who hath not shall be
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  Speaker 1: taken away, even at which he hath The normal desire
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 1: for increased wealth is not an evil or a reprehensible thing.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: It is simply the desire for more abundant life. It
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: is aspiration, And because it is the deepest instinct of
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: their natures, all men and women are attracted to him
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: who can give them more of the means of life.
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  Speaker 1: In following the certain way as described in the foregoing pages,
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: you are getting continuous increase for yourself, and you are
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: giving it to all with whom you deal. You are
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  Speaker 1: a creative center from which increase is given off to all.
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  Speaker 1: Be sure of this, and convey assurance of the fact
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  Speaker 1: to every man, woman, and child with whom you come
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  Speaker 1: in contact, no matter how small the trans even if
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  Speaker 1: it be only the selling of a stick of candy
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  Speaker 1: to a little child, Put into it the thought of increase,
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: and make sure that the customer is impressed with the thought.
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  Speaker 1: Convey the impression of advancement with everything you do, so
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  Speaker 1: that all people shall receive the impression that you are
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: an advancing man, and that you advance all who deal
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: with you, even to the people whom you meet in
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: a social way, without any thought of business, and to
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: whom you do not try to sell anything, give the
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: thought of increase. You can convey this impression by holding
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: the unshakable faith that you yourself are in the way
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: of increase, and by letting this faith inspire, fill and
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: permeate every action. Do everything that you do in the
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: firm conviction that you are an advancing personality and that
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: you are giving advancement to everybody. Feel that you are
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: getting rich, and that in so doing you are making
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: others rich and conferring benefits on all. Do not boast
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: or brag of your success or talk about it unnecessarily true.
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: Faith is never boastful. Wherever you find a boastful person,
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: you find one who is secretly doubtful and afraid. Simply
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: feel the faith and let it work out in every transaction.
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: Let every act and tone and look express the quiet
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: assurance that you are getting rich, that you are already rich.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: Words will not be necessary to communicate this feeling to others.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: They will feel the sense of increase when in your presence,
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: and will be attracted to you again. You must so
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: impress others that they will feel that in associating with you,
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: they will get increase for themselves. See that you give
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: them a use value greater than the cash value you
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: are taking from them. Take an honest pride in doing this,
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: and let everybody know it, and you will have no
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: lack of customers. People will go where they are given increase,
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: and the Supreme, which desires increase in all, and which
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: knows all, will move towards you. Men and women who
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: have never heard of you. Your business will increase rapidly,
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: and you will be surprised at the unexpected benefits which
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: will come to you. You will be able from day to
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: day to make larger combinations, secure greater advantages, and to
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: go on into a more congenial vocation if you desire
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: to do so. But in doing all this, you must
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: never lose sight of your vision of what you want,
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: or your faith and purpose to get what you want.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: Let me here give you another word of caution in
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: regard to motives. Beware of the insidious temptation to seek
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: for power over other men. Nothing is so pleasant to
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: the unformed or partially developed mind as the exercise of
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: power or dominion over others. The desire to rule for
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: selfish gratification has been the curse of the world. For
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: countless ages, Kings and lords have drenched the earth with
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: blood in their battles to extend their dominions. This not
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: to seek more life for all, but to get more
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: power for themselves. Today, the main motive in the business
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: and industrial world is the same. Men marshal their armies
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: of dollars and lay waste the lives and hearts of
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: millions in the same mad scramble for power over others.
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: Commercial kings, like political kings, are inspired by the lust
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: for power. Jesus saw in this desire for mastery the
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  Speaker 1: moving impulse of that evil world he sought to overthrow.
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: Read the twenty third chapter of Matthew and see how
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: he pictures the lust of the Pharisees to be called master,
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: to sit in the high places, to domineer over others,
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: and to lay burdens on the backs of the less fortunate.
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: And note how he compares this lust for dominion with
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: the brotherly seeking for the common good, to which he
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: calls his disciples look out for the temptation to seek
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: for authority, to become a master, to be considered as
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: one who is above the common herd, to impress others
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: by lavish display, and so on. The mind that seeks
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: for mastery over others is the competitive mind, and the
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: competitive mind is not the creative one. In order to
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  Speaker 1: master your environment and your destiny, it is not at
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  Speaker 1: all necessary that you should rule over your fellow men.
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  Speaker 1: And indeed, when you fall into the world's struggle for
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: the high places, you begin to be conquered by fate
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  Speaker 1: and environment, and your getting rich becomes a matter of
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  Speaker 1: chance and speculation. Beware of the competitive mind. No better
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  Speaker 1: statement of the principle of creative action can be formulated
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  Speaker 1: than the favorite declaration of the late Golden rule Jones
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  Speaker 1: of Toledo. What I want for myself, I want for everybody,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter fifteen. The advancing Man. What I have said in
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  Speaker 1: the last chapter applies as well to the professional man
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  Speaker 1: and the wage earner, as to the man who is
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  Speaker 1: engaged in mercantile business. No matter whether you are a physician,
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  Speaker 1: a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase
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  Speaker 1: of life to others and make them sensible of the fact.
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  Speaker 1: They will be attracted to you, and you will get rich.
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  Speaker 1: The physician who holds the vision of himself as a
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  Speaker 1: great and successful healer, and who works toward the complete
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: realization of that vision with faith and purpose, as described
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  Speaker 1: in former chapters, will come into some such close touch
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  Speaker 1: with the source of life that he will be phenomenally successful.
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: Patience will come to him in throngs. No one has
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  Speaker 1: a greater opportunity to carry into effect the teachings of
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  Speaker 1: this book than the practitioner of medicine. It does not
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  Speaker 1: matter to which of the various schools he may belong,
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  Speaker 1: for the principle of healing is common to all of them,
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  Speaker 1: and may be reached by all alike. The advancing man
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  Speaker 1: in medicine, who holds to a clear mental image of
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  Speaker 1: himself as successful, and who obeys the laws of faith, purpose,
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  Speaker 1: and gratitude, will cure every curable case he undertakes, no
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  Speaker 1: matter what remedies he may use. In the field of religion,
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  Speaker 1: the world cries out for the clergyman who can teach
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  Speaker 1: his hearers the true science of abundant life. He who
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  Speaker 1: masters the details of the science of getting rich together
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  Speaker 1: with the allied sciences of being well, of being great,
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: and of winning love. And who teaches these details from
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: the pulpit will never lack for a congregation. This is
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  Speaker 1: the gospel that the world needs. It will give in
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  Speaker 1: priests of life, and men will hear it gladly and
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: will give liberal support to the man who brings it
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  Speaker 1: to them. What is now needed is a demonstration of
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  Speaker 1: the science of life from the pulpit. We want preachers
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  Speaker 1: who cannot only tell us how, but who in their
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  Speaker 1: own persons will show us how. We need the preacher
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  Speaker 1: who will himself be rich, healthy, great, and beloved to
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  Speaker 1: teach us how to attain to these things. And when
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  Speaker 1: he comes, he will find a numerous and loyal following.
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: The same is true of the teacher who can inspire
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  Speaker 1: the children with the faith and purpose of the advancing life.
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  Speaker 1: He will never be out of a job. And any
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  Speaker 1: teacher who has this faith and purpose can give it
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  Speaker 1: to his pupils. He cannot help giving it to them
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  Speaker 1: if it is part of his own life and practice.
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  Speaker 1: What is true of the teacher, preacher, and physician is
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  Speaker 1: true of the lawyer, dentist, real estate man, insurance agent
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  Speaker 1: of everybody. The combined mental and personal action I have
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: described is infallible. It cannot fail. Every man and woman
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  Speaker 1: who follows these instructions steadily, perseveringly, and to the letter
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: will get rich. The law of the increase of life
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  Speaker 1: is as mathematically certain in its operation as the law
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  Speaker 1: of gravitation. Getting rich is an exact science. The wage
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  Speaker 1: earner will find this as true of his case as
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  Speaker 1: of any of the others mentioned. Do not feel that
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  Speaker 1: you have no chance to get rich because you are
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: working where there is no visible opportunity for advancement, where
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  Speaker 1: wages are small and the cost of living high. Form
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  Speaker 1: your clear mental vision of what you want, and begin
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  Speaker 1: to act with faith and purpose. Do all the work
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  Speaker 1: you can do every day, and do each piece of
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: work in a perfectly successful manner. Put the power of
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: success and the purpose to get rich into everything that
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: you do. But do not do this merely with the
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: idea of currying favor with your employer, in the hope
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: that he or those above you will see your good
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: work and advance you. It is not likely that they
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: will do so. The man who is merely a good
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: workman filling his place to the very best of his
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: ability and satisfied with that is valuable to his employer,
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: and it is not to the employer's interest to promote him.
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  Speaker 1: He is worth more where he is. To secure advancement,
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: something more is necessary than to be too large for
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: your place. The man who is certain to advance is
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  Speaker 1: the one who is too big for his place, and
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: who has a clear concept of what he wants to be,
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: who knows that he can become what he wants to be,
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: and who is determined to be what he wants to be.
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: Do not try to more than fill your present place
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: with a view to pleasing your employer. Do it with
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: the idea of advancing yourself. Hold the faith and purpose
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: of increase during work hours, after work hours, and before
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: work hours. Hold it in such a way that every
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  Speaker 1: person who comes in contact with you, whether foreman, fellow workman,
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: or social acquaintance, will feel the power of purpose radiating
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: from you. So that every one will get the sense
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: of advancement in an increase from you. Men will be
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  Speaker 1: attracted to you, And if there is no possibility for
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: advancement in your present job, you will very soon see
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to take another job. There is a power
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  Speaker 1: which never fails to present opportunity to the advancing man
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  Speaker 1: who is moving in obedience to law. God cannot help
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  Speaker 1: helping you if you act in a certain way. He
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: must do so in order to help himself. There is
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: nothing in your circumstances or in the industrial situation, that
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: can keep you down. If you cannot get rich working
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: for the Steel Trust, you can get rich on a
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: ten acre farm. And if you begin to move in
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: a certain way, you will certainly escape from the clutches
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: of the Steel Trust and get on to the farm
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: or wherever else you wish to be. If a few
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: thousands of its employees would enter upon a certain way,
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 1: the Steel Trust would soon be in a bad plight.
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: It would have to give its workingmen more opportunity or
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: go out of business. Nobody has to work for a trust.
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: The trusts can keep men in so called hopeless conditions
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: only so long as there are men who are too
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: ignorant to know of the science of getting rich or
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: too intellectually slothful to practice it. Begin this way of
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 1: thinking and acting, and your faith and purpose will make
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  Speaker 1: you quick to see any opportunity to better your condition.
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: Such opportunities will speedily come for the Supreme. Working in
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: all and working for you will bring them before you.
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: you want to be. When an opportunity to be more
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: than you are now is presented and you feel impelled
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 1: toward it, take it. It will be the first step
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: toward a greater opportunity. There is no such thing possible
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: in this universe as a lack of opportunities for the
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: man who is living the advancing life. It is inherent
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: in the constitution of the cosmos that all things shall
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: be for him and work together for his good. And
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: he must certainly get rich if he acts and thinks
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: in a certain way. So let wage earning men and
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: women study this book with great care and enter with
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: confidence upon the course of action it prescribes. It will
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: not fail. Chapter sixteen, Some cautions and concluding observations. Many
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 1: people will scoff at the idea that there is an
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  Speaker 1: exact science of getting rich, holding the impression that the
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: supply of wealth is limited, they will insist that social
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: and governmental institutions must be changed before even any considerable
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: number of people can acquire a competence. But this is
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  Speaker 1: not true. It is true that existing governments keep the
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: masses in poverty, but this is because the masses do
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: not think and act in a certain way. If the
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: masses begin to move forward, as suggested in this book,
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: neither governments nor industrial systems can check them. All systems
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: must be modified to accommodate the forward movement. If the
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: people have the advancing mind, have the faith that they
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: can become rich, and move forward with the fixed purpose
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: to become rich, nothing can possibly keep them in poverty.
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: Individuals may enter upon a certain way, at any time,
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: and under any government, and make themselves rich. And when
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 1: any considerable number of individuals do so under any government,
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: they will cause the system to be so modified as
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: to open the way for others. The more men who
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: get rich on the competitive plane, the worse for others.
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: The more who get rich on the creative plane, the
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: better for others. The economic salvation of the masses can
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: only be accomplished by getting a large number of people
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: to practice the scientific method set down in this book
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: and become rich. These will show others the way and
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: inspire them with a desire for real life, with the
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: faith that it can be attained, and with the purpose
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: to attain it. For the present, however, it is enough
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: to know that neither the government under which you live,
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: nor the capitalistic or competitive system of industry can keep
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: you from getting rich. When you enter upon the creative
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: plane of thought, you will rise above all these things
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: and become a citizen of another kingdom. But remember that
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 1: your thought must be held upon the creat plain. You
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: are never for an instant to be betrayed into regarding
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: the supply as limited, or into acting on the moral
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: level of competition. Whenever you do fall into old ways
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: of thought, correct yourself instantly, for when you are in
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: the competitive mind, you have lost the co operation of
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 1: the mind of the whole. Do not spend any time
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: in planning as to how you will meet possible emergencies
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 1: in the future, except as the necessary policies may affect
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: your actions to day. You are concerned with doing to
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: day's work in a perfectly successful manner, and not with
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: emergencies which may arise tomorrow. You can attend to them
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: as they come. Do not concern yourself with questions as
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: to how you shall surmount obstacles which may loom upon
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: your business horizon, unless you can see plainly that your
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: course must be altered to day in order to avoid them.
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: No matter how tremendous an obstruction may appear at a distance,
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: you will find that if you go on in a
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 1: certain way, it will disappear as you approach it, or
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: that a way over, through, or around it will appear.
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: No possible combination of circumstances can defeat a man or
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: woman who is proceeding to get rich along strictly scientific lines.
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 1: No man or woman who obeys the law can fail
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 1: to get rich any more than one can multiply two
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: by two and fail to get four. Give no anxious
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: thought to possible disasters, obstacles, panics, or unfavorable combinations of circumstances.
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: It is time enough to meet such things when they
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: present themselves before you in the immediate present, and you
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: will find that every difficulty carries with it the wherewithal
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: for its overcoming. Guard your speech. Never speak of yourself,
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: your affairs, or of anything else in a discouraged or
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: discouraging way. Never admit the possibility of failure, or speak
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: in a way that infers failure as a possibility. Never
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: speak of the times as being hard, or of business
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 1: conditions as being doubtful. Times may be hard and business
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: doubtful for those who are on a competitive plane, but
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: they can never be so for you. You can create
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: what you want, and you are above fear. When others
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: are having hard times in poor business, you will find
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: your greatest opportunities. Train yourself to think of and to
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: look upon the world as a something which is becoming,
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: which is growing, and to regard seeming evil as being
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: only that which is undeveloped. Always speak in terms of advancement.
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: To do otherwise is to deny your faith, and to
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: deny your faith is to lose it. Never allow yourself
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: to feel disappointed. You may expect to have a certain
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 1: thing at a certain time and not get it at
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 1: that time, and this will appear to you like failure.
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: But if you hold to your faith, you will find
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: that the failure is only apparent. Go on in a
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: certain way, and if you do not receive that thing,
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: you will receive something so much better that you will
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: see that the seeming failure was really a great success.
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: A student of this science had set his mind on
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 1: making a certain business combination, which seemed to him at
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: the time to be very desirable, and he worked for
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: some weeks to bring it about. When the crucial time came,
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 1: the thing failed in a perfectly inexplicable way. It was
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: as if some unseen influence had been working secretly against him.
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: He was not disappointed. On the contrary, he thanked God
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 1: that his desire had been overruled, and went steadily on
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: with a grateful mind. In a few weeks, an opportunity
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: so much better came his way that he would not
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: have made the first deal on any account. And he
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 1: saw that a mind which knew more than he knew,
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: had prevented him from losing the greater good by entangling
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 1: himself with the lesser. That is the way every seeming
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: failure will work out for you, if you keep your faith,
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: hold to your purpose, have gratitude, and do every day
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: all that can be done that day, doing each separate
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: act in a successful manner. When you make a failure,
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: it is because you have not asked for enough. Keep on,
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: and a larger thing than you were seeking will certainly
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: come to you. Remember this. You will not fail because
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 1: you lack the nessssary talent to do what you wish
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 1: to do. If you go on as I have directed,
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: you will develop all the talent that is necessary to
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: the doing of your work. It is not within the
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: scope of this book to deal with the science of
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: cultivating talent, but it is as certain and simple as
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: the process of getting rich. However, do not hesitate or
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: waver for fear that when you come to any certain
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 1: place you will fail for lack of ability. Keep right on,
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: and when you come to that place, the ability will
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: be furnished to you. The same source of ability which
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: enabled the untaught Lincoln to do the greatest work in
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 1: government ever accomplished by a single man, is open to you.
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: You may draw upon all the mind there is for
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: wisdom to use in meeting the responsibilities which are laid
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: upon you. Go on in full faith study this book.
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: Make it your constant companion until you have mastered all
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: the ideas contained in it. While you are getting firmly
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: established in this faith, you will do well to give
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 1: up most recreations and pleasures, and to stay away from
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 1: places where ideas conflicting with these are advanced in lectures
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 1: or sermons. Do not read pessimistic or conflicting literature or
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: get into arguments upon the matter. Do very little reading
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: outside of the writers mentioned in the preface. Spend most
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: of your leisure time in contemplating your vision and in
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 1: cultivating gratitude, and in reading this book. It contains all
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 1: you need to know of the science of getting rich,
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: and you will find all the essentials summed up in
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 1: the following chapter, Chapter seventeen, Summary of the Science of
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: Getting Rich. There is a thinking stuff from which all
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 1: things are made, and which in its original state, permeates, penetrates,
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought in
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 1: Man can form things in his thought, and by impressing
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: thinks about to be created. In order to do that,
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: this man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind,
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: otherwise he cannot be in harmony with the formless intelligence,
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: which is always creative and never competitive. In spirit. Man
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: may come into full harmony with the formless substance by
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: entertaining a lively and sincere gratitude for the blessings it
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 1: bestows upon him. Gratitude unifies the mind of man with
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 1: the intelligence of substance, so that man's thoughts are received
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: by the formless. Man can remain upon the creative plain
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: only by uniting himself with the formless intelligence through a
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: deep and continuous feeling of gratitude. Man must form a
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: clear and definite mental image of the things he wishes
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: to have, to do, or to become, and he must
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 1: hold this mental image in his thoughts while being deeply
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: grateful to the Supreme that all his desires are granted
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: to him. The man who wishes to get rich must
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: spend his leisure hours in contemplating his vision and in
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: earnest thanksgiving that the reality is being given to him.
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: Too much stress can be laid on the importance of
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 1: frequent contemplation of the mental image, coupled with unwavering faith
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 1: and devout gratitude. This is the process by which the
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: impression is given to the formless and the creative forces
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 1: set in motion. The creative energy works through the established
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 1: channels of natural growth and of the industrial and social order.
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 1: All that is included in his mental image will surely
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 1: be brought to the Man who follows the instructions given above,
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: and whose faith does not waver. What he wants will
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: come to him through the ways of established trade and commerce.
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: In order to receive his own when it shall come
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 1: to him. Man must be active, and this activity can
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: only consist in more than filling his present place. He
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 1: must keep in mind the purpose to get rich through
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: the realization of his mental image, and he must do
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  Speaker 1: every day all that can be done that day, taking
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  Speaker 1: care to do each act in a successful manner. He
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  Speaker 1: must give to every man a use value in excess
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  Speaker 1: of the cash value he reread, so that each transaction
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  Speaker 1: makes for more life. And he must so hold the
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  Speaker 1: advancing thought that the impression of increase will be communicated
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  Speaker 1: to all with whom he comes in contact. The men
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  Speaker 1: and women who practice the foregoing instructions will certainly get rich,
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  Speaker 1: and the riches they receive will be in exact proportion
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  Speaker 1: to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose,
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  Speaker 1: the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.
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  Speaker 1: The end, Thanks for listening this full audio book.