Chapter 11 - The Science of Getting Rich

A thought firmly impressed upon source energy is what causes that energy to begin to move. Said another way, when the all-that-is receives a communication from you in the form of a focused thought, it begins to move in your favor. So, thinking in THE CERTAIN WAY will bring you riches; however, you can’t rely on thought alone without spending some time in personal action. Thought and personal action must be connected.

Human beings haven’t yet reached the stage of development where they can create directly from the formless substance with some intervening process provided by nature herself or by other human hands. So you must not only think in that CERTAIN WAY but your personal actions must support your thought.

Using thought, you can compel many dollars to appear in your bank account. But those dollars will not create themselves. They will not print themselves and fly without assistance directly into your bank account.

When source energy begins to move in your favor, other people’s activity will become such that money will begin to move toward you. And your only job is to be ready to receive it when it arrives. So, you’ll want to have your bank account ready to receive what will inevitably come to you. And much more importantly, you’ll want to have your own energy vibrating in such a way as to be able to receive it also. Your intensely held thought will begin the movement of source energy toward you and your personal activity must prepare you to rightly receive what will be coming your way. You, of course, won’t steal it. That would put your energy vibrations at a very low level and create a situation where your wealth would not stay with you for very long. In the process of attracting the wealth to you, you want to be sure to be fair with anyone you come into contact with. You want to give more than you get so as to always be ready to receive even more.

Remember. Using thought in a scientific way means that you form a clear image of your objective, hold on purposefully to the idea that it will come to you and remember that you WILL get what you want. Your faith and purpose positively impress your vision upon formless substance, which has the same desire for more life that you have, and this vision, received from you, sets all the creative forces at work in and through their regular channels of action, but directed toward you.

It is not up to you to try to supervise the process. Just hold tightly to your vision, stay purposeful and maintain yourself in faith and gratitude.



But you do have to be ready when what is yours comes to you. You have to be ready and able to accept it. When it comes to you, it will be in the hands of someone else who will ask an equivalent price for it. You must be prepared to pay that price in whatever form it is expected.

Your bank account will not be transformed into a vast receptacle for wealth with no effort on your part. This is the crucial point in the science of getting rich — right here, where thought and personal action must be combined. There are very many people who, consciously or unconsciously, set the creative forces in action by the strength and persistence of their desires, but who remain poor because they do not provide for the reception of the thing they want when it comes. By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it.

When does your action have to take place? Well, it’s pretty obvious that the past has passed. So no action can be taken there. The future hasn’t yet arrived. So no action can be taken there. That leaves NOW. Whatever action you’re going to take, it must be taken NOW.

You might have the thought in the present moment that you’re not in the right business or the right environment now. Don’t think that you can wait till you get there to begin taking your action. And don’t spend any of your present moment thinking about or planning for future emergencies. Trust in your ability to rise to the challenge - whatever it is - when it arrives.

Forget the past. Allow the future to be what it is when it arrives. Put your entire, undivided mind into your present action. Don’t send out your creative impulse into the all-that-is and then sit down and wait for results to happen. You’ll never get them that way. Take action now! There is nothing but the NOW. There will never be anytime but NOW. And if you are going to create the receptacle for what is coming to you, you must begin your action NOW.

And, more than likely, your action will have to be taken from your present business or place of employment. And it will probably have to be taken with people and things in your present environment. Your actions must be taken where you are – not where you are not. You can’t take action in the past. You can’t take action in the future. You can only take action in the present moment. You can only take action where you are right now. And don’t give any thought to whether you like what you’ve done in the past. It’s done. Just do today’s work to the best of your ability. Don’t try to do tomorrow’s work today. There’ll be plenty of time for that tomorrow.

And don’t wait for the environment around you to change to begin your work. Begin your work and the environment will change. Simply hold your vision of yourself in a better environment, begin your work with purpose and conviction, with all your mind and all your heart and the environment will change.

Don’t waste any time looking for some strange and wonderful thing to do as a first step to getting rich. More than likely, you’ll be doing much the same thing as you’ve done in the past. It’s just that you’ll be doing it in the CERTAIN WAY, which will be sure to make you rich.

If it is your sense that you are currently engaged in a business that is not right for you, don’t wait till you get into the right business before you begin to act. Don’t feel discouraged and depressed. No one is so deeply involved in the “wrong” business that it is impossible to get into the right business.

Hold the vision of yourself in the right business. Maintain it as your purpose that you will get into the right business. And hold on to the faith that you will get into and are getting into the right business. But take all your action in your present business because that is where you are NOW. Use your present business as the means of getting a better one. Use your present environment as the means of getting into a better one. Your vision, if it is held strongly enough and with enough faith and purpose, will cause the all-that-is to move toward you and to move the right business toward you. And, your action, when performed in the CERTAIN WAY, will inevitably cause you to move toward the right business.

If you are working for someone else and you truly feel that you must change jobs to get what you want, don’t just “project” your thought into space and assume that you have done your work and now you will just wait till the new job shows up. If you do this, the new job probably won’t just show up. What you must do is to actually see yourself in your new job while, at the same time, continuing to act to the best of your ability with faith and purpose in your current job. Your vision of your new job and the faith that it will materialize will impress the all-that-is to bring the new job toward you and your action in your current environment will move you toward the job.

In closing this chapter, it’s time to add another element to our working hypothesis: 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.

You can form things in your thoughts and by impressing your thoughts upon the formless substance, upon the all-that-is, you can cause the thing you are thinking about to be created. But in order to do this, you must move from the competitive mind to the creative mind. You must form a clear mental picture of what you want, hold this picture in your thoughts with the fixed purpose to get what you want and the unwavering faith that you will get what you want and close your mind to anyone or anything that tries to shake your purpose, dim your vision or extinguish your faith.

To get what you want, you must act NOW with people and things in your present environment.