Bertram Johnson 0  

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In order to know more, do more, and be more we must have more. We must have things to use, for we learn, and do, and become only by using things. We must get rich so that we can live more.
The desire for riches is simply the capacity for larger life seek- ing fulfillment. Every desire is the effort of an unexpressed pos- sibility to come into action. It is power seeking to manifest which causes desire. That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is life seeking fuller expression.

A seed, dropped into the ground, springs into activity, and in the act of living produces a hundred more seeds; life, by living, multiplies itself. It is forever becoming more. It must do so, if it continues to be at all.
Intelligence is under this same necessity for continuous in- crease. Every thought we think makes it necessary for us to think another thought; consciousness is continually expanding. Every fact we learn leads us to the learning of another fact; knowledge is continually increasing. Every talent we cultivate brings to the mind the desire to cultivate another talent; we are subject to the urge of life, seeking expression, which ever drives us on to know more, to do more, and to be more.

You must get rid of the last vestige of the old idea that there is a Deity whose will it is that you should be poor or whose purposes may be served by keeping you in poverty.
The intelligent substance which is all, and in all, and which lives in all and lives in you, is a consciously living substance. Being a consciously living substance, it must have the nature and inherent desire of every living intelligence for increase of life. Every living thing must continually seek for the enlarge- ment of its life, because life, in the mere act of living, must in- crease itself.

You must lay aside all other concepts of the universe, and you must dwell upon this until it is fixed in your mind and has be- come your habitual thought. Read these statements over and over again. Fix every word upon your memory and meditate upon them until you firmly believe what they say. If a doubt comes to you, cast it aside. Do not listen to arguments against this idea. Do not go to churches or lectures where a contrary concept of things is taught or preached. Do not read magazines or books which teach a different idea. If you get mixed up in your under- standing, belief, and faith, all your efforts will be in vain.
Do not ask why these things are true nor speculate as to how they can be true. Simply take them on trust. The science of get- ting rich begins with the absolute acceptance of this.

There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.
A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.
A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

Then we must grasp the truth that every thought held in this substance becomes a form, and that a person can so impress his thoughts upon it as to cause them to take form and become vis- ible things.
When we realize this we lose all doubt and fear, for we know that we can create what we want to create, we can get what we want to have, and can become what we want to be. As a first step toward getting rich, you must believe the three fundamen- tal statements given previously in this chapter, and in order to emphasize them, I repeat them here:

To look upon the appearances of poverty will produce corre- sponding forms in your own mind, unless you hold to the truth that there is no poverty; there is only abundance.
To think health when surrounded by the appearances of dis- ease or to think riches when in the midst of the appearances of poverty requires power, but whoever acquires this power be- comes a master mind. That person can conquer fate and can have what he wants.
This power can only be acquired by getting hold of the basic fact which is behind all appearances, and that fact is that there is one thinking substance from which and by which all things are made.

There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought. It is the hardest work in the world. This is especially true when truth is contrary to appearances. Every appearance in the visible world tends to produce a corresponding form in the mind which observes it, and this can only be prevented by holding the thought of the TRUTH.

A personís way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks about things.
To do things in the way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think. This is the first step toward getting rich.
And to think what you want to think is to think TRUTH, re- gardless of appearances.
Every individual has the natural and inherent power to think what he wants to think, but it requires far more effort to do so than it does to think the thoughts which are suggested by ap- pearances. To think according to appearances is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is laborious and requires the ex- penditure of more power than any other work we are called upon to perform.

There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought. It is the hardest work in the world. This is especially true when truth is contrary to appearances. Every appearance in the visible world tends to produce a corresponding form in the mind which observes it, and this can only be prevented by holding the thought of the TRUTH.
ìA personís way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks about things.î

A personís way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks about things.
To do things in the way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think. This is the first step toward getting rich.
And to think what you want to think is to think TRUTH, re- gardless of appearances.
Every individual has the natural and inherent power to think what he wants to think, but it requires far more effort to do so than it does to think the thoughts which are suggested by ap- pearances. To think according to appearances is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is laborious and requires the ex- penditure of more power than any other work we are called upon to perform.

If one person who reads this book gets rich by doing what it tells him to do, that is evidence in support of my claim, but if every person who does what it tells him to do gets rich, that is posi- tive proof until someone goes through the process and fails. The theory is true until the process fails, and this process will not fail, for everyone who does exactly what this book tells him to do will get rich.
I have said that people get rich by doing things in a certain way, and in order to do so, people must become able to think in a certain way.

It may be asked if I can prove these statements, and without going into details I answer that I can do so, both by logic and experience.
Reasoning back from the phenomena of form and thought, I come to one original thinking substance, and reasoning forward from this thinking substance, I come to a personís power to cause the formation of the thing he thinks about.
And by experiment, I find the reasoning true. This is my strong- est proof.

You must lay aside all other concepts of the universe, and you must dwell upon this until it is fixed in your mind and has be- come your habitual thought. Read these statements over and over again. Fix every word upon your memory and meditate upon them until you firmly believe what they say. If a doubt comes to you, cast it aside. Do not listen to arguments against this idea. Do not go to churches or lectures where a contrary concept of things is taught or preached. Do not read magazines or books which teach a different idea. If you get mixed up in your under- standing, belief, and faith, all your efforts will be in vain.
Do not ask why these things are true nor speculate as to how they can be true. Simply take them on trust. The science of get- ting rich begins with the absolute acceptance of this.

There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.
A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.
A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

Then we must grasp the truth that every thought held in this substance becomes a form, and that a person can so impress his thoughts upon it as to cause them to take form and become vis- ible things.
When we realize this we lose all doubt and fear, for we know that we can create what we want to create, we can get what we want to have, and can become what we want to be. As a first step toward getting rich, you must believe the three fundamen- tal statements given previously in this chapter, and in order to emphasize them, I repeat them here:

To look upon the appearances of poverty will produce corre- sponding forms in your own mind, unless you hold to the truth that there is no poverty; there is only abundance.
To think health when surrounded by the appearances of dis- ease or to think riches when in the midst of the appearances of poverty requires power, but whoever acquires this power be- comes a master mind. That person can conquer fate and can have what he wants.
This power can only be acquired by getting hold of the basic fact which is behind all appearances, and that fact is that there is one thinking substance from which and by which all things are made.

There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought. It is the hardest work in the world. This is especially true when truth is contrary to appearances. Every appearance in the visible world tends to produce a corresponding form in the mind which observes it, and this can only be prevented by holding the thought of the TRUTH.

A person ís way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks about things.
To do things in the way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think. This is the first step toward getting rich.
And to think what you want to think is to think TRUTH, regardless of appearances.
Every individual has the natural and inherent power to think what he wants to think, but it requires far more effort to do so than it does to think the thoughts which are suggested by ap- pearances. To think according to appearances is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is laborious and requires the ex- penditure of more power than any other work we are called upon to perform.