Would you like to be rich beyond your wildest dreams? Would you like to have everything you could ever want? Would you like to know the secret of how to become rich?
The Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace D. Wattles, tells us that we can create what we want to create; we can get what we want to have; and we can become what we want to be.
There’s no secret to becoming rich. Becoming rich is based on an infallible science. If you will accept that you have the right to be rich, and will think and act in a certain way, work on a creative plane, and be grateful for everything you have–and will receive–you can become rich.
The book is based on three fundamental truths: (1) 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; (2) A thought, in this substance, produces the thing that is imaged by the thought; and (3) 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.
But that’s just the beginning. This book expands on these statements and offers an exact, clear, step-by-step, scientific program to attract all the riches and abundance you could ever desire. Follow this program and riches will be yours.
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This book has been edited, grammatically corrected, and updated to bring the language current, while keeping the integrity of the knowledge intact.
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One of the key elements to becoming rich is to express gratitude for everything you have and for everything you will receive. This aligns you very closely with the universal source. We’re pleased to offer you an excerpt of Chapter Seven ~ Gratitude from the book.
The illustrations given in the previous chapter will have conveyed to you the fact that the first step toward getting rich is to convey the idea of what you want to the Formless Substance. This is true, and you will see that in order to do so, it becomes necessary to relate yourself to the Formless Intelligence in a harmonious way.
To secure this harmonious relationship is a matter of such primary and vital importance that I shall give you instructions which, if you will follow them, will be certain to bring you into perfect unity of mind with the Universe. The whole process of mental adjustment and atonement can be summed up in one word: Gratitude.
First, you must believe that there is one Intelligent Substance, from which all things proceed. Second, you must believe that this Substance gives you everything you desire. And third, you must relate yourself to it by a feeling of deep and profound gratitude.
Many people who live their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude. Having received one gift from the Universe, they cut the wires which connect them with the Universe by failing to make acknowledgment.
It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive. It is also easy to understand that the person who is always grateful lives in closer touch with the Universe than the person who occasionally expresses thankful acknowledgment.
The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come. The reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.
If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind into closer harmony with the creative energies of the Universe, consider it well, and you will see that it is true. The good things you already have, have come to you along the line of obedience to certain laws. Gratitude will lead your mind along the ways by which things come and it will keep you in close harmony with creative thought and prevent you from falling into competitive thought.
Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the All, and prevent you from falling into the error of thinking of the supply as limited; to do that would be fatal to your hopes.
There is a Law of Gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that you should observe the law, if you are to get the results you seek. The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal, and in opposite directions.
The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to the Universe is a liberation or expenditure of force; it cannot fail to reach that to which it is addressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement towards you.
If your gratitude is strong and constant, the reaction in Formless Substance will be strong and continuous; the movement of the things you want will be always toward you. You cannot exercise much power without gratitude, for it is gratitude that keeps you connected with Power.
But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you more blessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.
The moment you permit your mind to dwell with dissatisfaction upon things as they are, you begin to lose ground. You fix attention upon the common, the ordinary, the poor, the squalid, and mean, and your mind takes the form of these things. Then you will transmit these forms or mental images to the Formless, and the common, the poor, the squalid, and mean will come to you.
To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and to surround yourself with inferior things. On the other hand, to fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.
The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention. We are Thinking Substance, and thinking substance always takes the form of that which it thinks about.
The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.
Also, faith is born of gratitude. The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith. The reaction of gratitude upon one’s own mind produces faith, and every outgoing wave of grateful thanksgiving increases faith. He who has no feeling of gratitude cannot long retain a living faith. Without a living faith you cannot get rich by the creative method, as we shall see in the following chapters.
It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
Do not waste time thinking or talking about the shortcomings or wrong actions of others. Remember that, in some manner, they are all helping to arrange the lines of transmission along which your riches will come to you, and be grateful to them all. This will bring you into harmonious relations with the good in everything, and the good in everything will move toward you.
Copyright 2009 by Morpheus Books.
