The First Step in Getting Rich

From Chapter 4:

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.

Today’s assignment: memorize these statements, and “meditate upon them until you firmly believe what they say.”

Part of me desperately wants to argue with the statements themselves, as well as take Wattles to task for asking us to accept these statements absolutely on faith.

Maybe I’ll argue their finer points after I’ve gotten rich.

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4 Responses to “The First Step in Getting Rich”

  1. Mike DeWitt Says:
    December 18, 2007 at 11:02 am

    Hi Lyman,

    I have listened to those words dozens (if not triple digits) of times. The concept, whether it be from SOGR, TAGR, Haanel’s work, or dozens of other sources, is pretty much the same. It’s the stuff in the succeeding chapters that bring the things formed in the infinte to come into being.

    I think that the other key is the phrase “impressing his thought”, which doesn’t happened with one wish or daydream. In fact, “impressing thought” requires a lot more focus than most of us can master.

    Mike

  2. Lyman Reed Says:
    December 18, 2007 at 1:52 pm

    “It’s the stuff in the succeeding chapters that bring the things formed in the infinite to come into being.” Very true, Mike. In this chapter, we are just getting an idea of theory, and it’s not quite complete yet.

    I realized yesterday that we aren’t even really at the first step of anything more than understanding at this point.

    And interesting point on the “impressing thought” idea… he talks a lot about the difference between that and daydreaming in the book. The way I’m seeing the difference is that “impressing thought” is “daydreaming in the Certain Way.”

  3. Mike DeWitt Says:
    December 19, 2007 at 7:10 pm

    Lyman,

    I suppose ‘daydreaming in the Certain Way’ gives lots of latitude, but I think the main thing is to see them and KNOW and FEEL that they are already here. It’s those last bits that provide me with the most challenge.

    Mike

  4. Lyman Reed Says:
    December 19, 2007 at 8:04 pm

    Well said, Mike… Knowing and Feeling what is still to come is quite the challenge!

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