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continue to

do as they do. The individual worker, however, is not held

down by the ignorance or the mental slothfulness of his class;

he can follow the tide of opportunity to riches, and this book

will tell
him how.




No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches;

there is more than enough for all. A palace as large as the

capitol at Washington might be built for every family on earth

from the building material in the United States alone;
and under

intensive cultivation, this country would produce wool, cotton,

linen, and silk enough to clothe each person in the world finer

than Solomon was arrayed in all his glory; together with food

enough to feed them all luxuriously.




The visible suppl
y is practically inexhaustible; and the invisible

supply really IS inexhaustible.




Everything you see on earth is made from one original

substance, out of which all things proceed.





New Forms are constantly being made, and older ones are

dissolving; but
all are shapes assumed by One Thing.

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There is no limit to the supply of Formless Stuff, or Original

Substance. The universe is made out of it; but it was not all used

in making the universe. The spaces in, through, and between the

forms of the visible un
iverse are permeated and filled with the

Original Substance; with the formless Stuff; with the raw

material of all things. Ten thousand times as much as has been

made might still be made, and even then we should not have

exhausted the supply of universal r
aw material.




No man, therefore, is poor because nature is poor, or because

there is not enough to go around.




Nature is an inexhaustible storehouse of riches; the supply will

never run short. Original Substance is alive with creative

energy, and is cons
tantly producing more forms. When the

supply of building material is exhausted, more will be

produced; when the soil is exhausted so that food stuffs and

materials for clothing will no longer grow upon it, it will be

renewed or more soil will be made. When
all the gold and silver

has been dug from the earth, if man is still in such a stage of

social development that he needs gold and silver, more will

produced from the Formless. The Formless Stuff responds to

the needs of man; it will not let him be without
any good thing.




This is true of man collectively; the race as a whole is always

abundantly rich, and if individuals are poor, it is because they

do not follow the Certain Way of doing things which makes the

individual man rich.




The Formless Stuff is i
ntelligent; it is stuff which thinks. It is

alive, and is always impelled toward more life.




It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more;

it is the nature of intelligence to enlarge itself, and of

consciousness to seek to extend it
s boundaries and find fuller

expression. The universe of forms has been made by Formless

Living Substance, throwing itself into form in order to express

itself more fully.




The universe is a great Living Presence, always moving

inherently toward more life
and fuller functioning.

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Nature is formed for the advancement of life; its impelling

motive is the increase of life. For this cause, everything which

can possibly minister to life is bountifully provided; there can

be no lack unless God is to contradict
himself and nullify his

own works.




You are not kept poor by lack in the supply of riches; it is a fact

which I shall demonstrate a little farther on that even the

resources of the Formless Supply are at the command of the

man or woman will act and think
in a Certain Way.

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The First Principle in The Science of Getting Rich.




THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible

riches from the Formless Substance. The stuff from which all

things are made is a substance which thinks, and a thought of

form in
this substance produces the form.




Original Substance moves according to its thoughts; every form

and process you see in nature is the visible expression of a

thought in Original Substance. As the Formless Stuff thinks of a

form, it takes that form; as i
t thinks of a motion, it makes that

motion. That is the way all things were created. We live in a

thought world, which is part of a thought universe. The thought

of a moving