MANY people will scoff at the idea that
there is an exact science of getting rich; holding the impression that the
supply of wealth is limited, they will insist that social and governmental
institutions must be changed before even any considerable number of people can
acquire a competence.
But this is not true.
It is true that existing governments
keep the masses in poverty, but this is because the masses do not think and act
in the Certain Way.
If the masses begin to move forward as
suggested in this book, neither governments nor industrial systems can check
them; all systems must be modified to accommodate the forward movement.
If the people have the Advancing Mind,
have the Faith that they can become rich, and move forward with the fixed
purpose to become rich, nothing can possibly keep them in poverty.
Individuals may enter upon the Certain
Way at any time, and under any government, and make themselves rich; and when
any considerable number of individuals do so under any government, they will
cause the system to be so modified as to open the way for others.
The more men who get rich on the
competitive plane, the worse for others; the more who get rich on the creative
plane, the better for others.
The economic salvation of the masses can
only be accomplished by getting a large number of people to practice the
scientific method set down in this book, and become rich. These will show
others the way, and inspire them with a desire for real life, with the faith
that it can be attained, and with the purpose to attain it.
For the present, however, it is enough
to know that neither the government under which you live nor the capitalistic
or competitive system of industry can keep you from getting rich. When you
enter upon the creative plane of thought you will rise above all these things
and become a citizen of another kingdom.
But remember that your thought must be
held upon the creative plane; you are never for an instant to be betrayed into
regarding the supply as limited, or into acting on the moral level of
competition.
Whenever you do fall into old ways of
thought, correct yourself instantly; for when you are in the competitive mind,
you have lost the cooperation of the Mind of the Whole.
Do not spend any time in planning as to
how you will meet possible emergencies in the future, except as the necessary
policies may affect your actions today. You are concerned with doing today's
work in a perfectly successful manner, and not with emergencies which may arise
tomorrow; you can attend to them as they come.
Do not concern yourself with questions
as to how you shall surmount obstacles which may loom upon your business
horizon, unless you can see plainly that your course must be altered today in
order to avoid them.
No matter how tremendous an obstruction
may appear at a distance, you will find that if you go on in the Certain Way it
will disappear as you approach it, or that a way over, though, or around it
will appear.
No possible combination of circumstances
can defeat a man or woman who is proceeding to get rich along strictly
scientific lines. No man or woman who obeys the law can fail to get rich, any
more than one can multiply two by two and fail to get four.
Give no anxious thought to possible
disasters, obstacles, panics, or unfavorable combinations of circumstances; it
is time enough to meet such things when they present themselves before you in
the immediate present, and you will find that every difficulty carries with it
the wherewithal for its overcoming.
Guard your speech. Never speak of
yourself, your affairs, or of anything else in a discouraged or discouraging
way.
Never admit the possibility of failure,
or speak in a way that infers failure as a possibility.
Never speak of the times as being hard,
or of business conditions as being doubtful. Times may be hard and business
doubtful for those who are on the competitive plane, but they can never be so
for you; you can create what you want, and you are above fear.
When others are having hard times and
poor business, you will find your greatest opportunities.
Train yourself to think of and to look
upon the world as a something which is Becoming, which is growing; and to
regard seeming evil as being only that which is undeveloped. Always speak in
terms of advancement; to do otherwise is to deny your faith, and to deny your
faith is to lose it.
Never allow yourself to feel
disappointed. You may expect to have a certain thing at a certain time, and not
get it at that time; and this will appear to you like failure.
But if you hold to your faith you will
find that the failure is only apparent.
Go on in the certain way, and if you do
not receive that thing, you will receive something so much better that you will
see that the seeming failure was really a great success.
A student of this science had set his
mind on making a certain business combination which seemed to him at the time
to be very desirable, and he worked for some, weeks to bring it about. When the
crucial time came, the thing failed in a perfectly inexplicable way; it was as
if some unseen influence had been working secretly against him. He was not
disappointed; on the contrary, he thanked God that his desire had been
overruled, and went steadily on with a grateful mind. In a few weeks an
opportunity so much better came his way that he would not have made the first
deal on any account; and he saw that a Mind which knew more than he knew had
prevented him from losing the greater good by entangling himself with the
lesser.
That is the way every seeming failure
will work out for you, if you keep your faith, hold to your purpose, have
gratitude, and do, every day, all that can be done that day, doing each
separate act in a successful manner.
When you make a failure, it is because
you have not asked for enough; keep on, and a larger thing then you were
seeking will certainly come to you. Remember this.
You will not fail because you lack the
necessary talent to do what you wish to do. If you go on as I have directed,
you will develop all the talent that is necessary to the doing of your work.
It is not within the scope of this book
to deal with the science of cultivating talent; but it is as certain and simple
as the process of getting rich.
However, do not hesitate or waver for
fear that when you come to any certain place you will fail for lack of ability;
keep right on, and when you come to that place, the ability will be furnished
to you. The same source of Ability which enabled the untaught Lincoln to do the
greatest work in government ever accomplished by a single man is open to you;
you may draw upon all the mind there is for wisdom to use in meeting the
responsibilities which are laid upon you. Go on in full faith.
Study this book. Make it your constant
companion until you have mastered all the ideas contained in it. While you are
getting firmly established in this faith, you will do well to give up most
recreations and pleasure; and to stay away from places where ideas conflicting
with these are advanced in lectures or sermons. Do not read pessimistic or
conflicting literature, or get into arguments upon the matter. Do very little
reading, outside of the writers mentioned in the Preface. Spend most of your
leisure time in contemplating your vision, and in cultivating gratitude, and in
reading this book. It contains all you need to know of the science of getting
rich; and you will find all the essentials summed up in the following chapter.
The serialization of ‘The
Science of Getting Rich’ ends with a summary in the next post.
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