You can rightly receive what you want
By thought you can cause the gold in the hearts of the mountains to be impelled toward you; but it will not mine itself, coin itself into double eagles, and come rolling along the roads seeking its way into your pocket.
Under the impelling power of the Supreme Spirit, men’s affairs will be so ordered that some one will be led to mine the gold for you; other men’s business transactions will be so directed that the gold will be brought toward you, and you must so arrange your own business affairs that you may be able to receive it when it comes to you. Your thought makes all things, animate and inanimate, work to bring you what you want; but your personal activity must be such that you can rightly receive what you want when it reaches you.
You are not to take it as charity, nor to steal it; you must give every man more in use value than he gives you in cash value.
The scientific use of thought consists in forming a clear and distinct mental image of what you want; in holding fast to the purpose to get what you want; and in realizing with grateful faith that you do get what you want.
Connect thought with personal action
A thought is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely on thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is the rock upon which many otherwise scientific metaphysical thinkers meet shipwreck — the failure to connect thought with personal action.
We have not yet reached the stage of development, even supposing such a stage is possible, in which man can create directly from Formless Substance without nature’s processes or the work of human hands; must must not only think, but his personal action must supplement his thought.
A statement of basic facts
There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.
A thought, in this substance, produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.
In order to do this, man must pass from the competitve to the creative mind; he must form a clear mental picure of the things he wants, and hold this picture in his thoughts with the fixed PURPOSE to get what he wants, and the unwavering FAITH that he does get what he wants, closing his mind against all that may tend to shake his purpose, dim his vision, or quench his faith.
Republished from “Financial Success Through Creative Thought” by Wallace Wattles, written in 1910 and now in public domain.
I release my past thoughts and experiences about money. I now choose a new way of thinking to create a new and rich future.
Things are not brought into being by thinking about their opposites
Since belief is all is all important, it behooves you to guard your thoughts; and as your beliefs will be shaped to a very great extent by the things you observe and think about, it is important that you should command your attention.
And here the will comes into use, for it is by your will that you determine upon what things your attention shall be fixed.
If you want to become rich, you must not make a study of poverty.
Things are not brought into being by thinking about their opposites.
Republished from “Financial Success Through Creative Thought” by Wallace Wattles, written in 1910 and now in public domain.
Finding a financial blueprint
Each of us has a personal money and success blueprint already embedded in our subconscious mind. And this blueprint, more than anything and everything else combines, will determine your financial destiny.
So how is your money blueprint formed? The answer is simple. Your financial blueprint consists primarily of the information or “programming” you received in the past, and especially as a young child.
T. Harv Eker, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
I have tried many times to find some financial recollections from my childhood and failed. Until now, when discussing the Great Depression.
The one story I remember best is how my mother’s father would invite the wandering hobos in to share dinner. My grandparents, while certainly not rich, were managing to get by, and they were anxious to reach out and help others.
And how did they manage to get by? You need only to compare the timeline of the Great Depression to the timeline of Prohibition. There was a connection involving the distribution of beverages.
So what is the message of this Financial Blueprint? Lots of money can be made easily, and lost equally easily. Share your fortune and your joy, because money isn’t all that important.
OK. There is some good stuff to keep in that Blueprint. There is some stuff that needs to be revised. I am deeply grateful that at last I finally discovered a Blueprint.
All things begin to move toward you
To set about getting rich in a scientific way, you do not try to apply your will power to anything outside of yourself.
You have no right to do so anyway. It is wrong to apply your will to other men and women, in order to get them to do what you wish done.
To get rich you need only to use your will power upon yourself.
Substance is friendly to you, and is more anxious to give you what you want that you are to get it.
When you know what to thin and do, then you must use your will to compel yourself to think and do the right things. Use your will to keep yourself thinking and acting in the Certain Way.
Use your mind to form a mental image of what you want, and to hold that vision with faith and purpose; and use your will to keep your mind working in the Right Way.
The more steady and continuous your faith and purpose, the more rapidly you will get rich, because you will make only POSITIVE impression upon Substance; and you will not neutralize or offset them by negative impressions.
The picture of your desires, held with faith and purpose, is taken up by the Formless, and permeates it to great distances–throughout the universe.
As this impress spreads, all things are set moving towards its realization; every living thing, every inanimate thing, and the things yet uncreated, are stirred toward bringing into being that which you want. All force begins to be exerted in that direction; all things begin to move toward you.
Republished from “Financial Success Through Creative Thought” by Wallace Wattles, written in 1910 and now in public domain.
Arrange your desires into a coherent whole
Your part is to intelligently formulate your desire for the things which make for a larger life; and to get these desires arranged into a coherent whole; and then to impress this Whole Desire upon the Formless Substance, which has the power and the will to bring you what you want.
You do not make this impression by repeating strings of words; you make it by holding the vision with unshakable PURPOSE to attain it, and with steadfast FAITH that you do attain it.
The whole matter turns on receiving, once you have clearly formed your vision. When you have formed it, it is well to make an oral statement, addressing the Supreme in reverent prayer; and from that moment you must, in mind, received what you ask for. Live in the new house; wear the fine clothes; rider in the automboile; go on the journey, and confidently plan for greater journeys. Think and speak of all the things you have asked for in terms of actual ownership. Imagine an environment, and a financial condition exactly as you want them, and live all the time in that imaginary environment and financial condition.
Mind, however, that you do not do this as a mere dreamer and castle builder; hold to the FAITH that the imaginary is being realized, and to the PURPOSE to realize it.
Remember that it is fath and purpose in the use of the imagination which make the difference between the scientist and the dreamer.
Republished from “Financial Success Through Creative Thought” by Wallace Wattles, written in 1910 and now in public domain.
Behind your clear vision must be the purpose to realize it
That clear mental picture you must have continually in mind, as the sailor has in mind the port toward which he is sailing the ship; you must keep your face toward it all the time. You must no more lose sight of it than the steersman loses sight of the compass.
It is not necessary to take exercises in concentration, nor to set apart special times for prayer and affirmation. These things are well enough, but all you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.
Spend as much of leisure time as you can in contemplating your picture, but no one needs to take exercises to concentrate his mind of a thing which he really wants; it is the things you do not really care about which require effort to fix your attention upon them.
Something more is necessary, however, than merely to see the picture clearly. If that is all you do, you are only a dreamer, and will have little or no power for accomplishment.
Behind your clear vision must be the purpose to realize it; to bring it out in tangible expression.
And behind this purpose must be an invincible and unwavering FAITH that the thing is already yours; that it is “at hand” and you have only to take possession of it.
Live in the new house, mentally, until it takes form around you physically. In the mental realm, enter at once into full enjoyment of the things you want.
Republished from “Financial Success Through Creative Thought” by Wallace Wattles, written in 1910 and now in public domain.
You must know what you want, and be definite
You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want; you cannot transmit an idea unless you have the idea yourself.
You must have it before you can give it; and many people fail to impress Thinking Substance because they have themselves only a vague and misty concept of the things they want to do, to have, or to become.
It is not enough that you should have a general desire for wealth “to do good with”; everybody had that desire.
It is not enough that you should have a wish to travel, see things, live more, etc. Everybody has those desires also. If you were going to send a a wireless message to a friend, you would not send the letters of the alphabet in their order, and let him construct the message for himself; nor would you take words at random from the dictionary. You would send a coherent sentence; one which meant something.
When you try to impress your wants upon Substance, remember that it must be done by a coherent statement; you must know what you want, and be definite.
You can never get rich, or start creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desire.
Republished from “Financial Success Through Creative Thought” by Wallace Wattles, written in 1910 and now in public domain.
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