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universe extended throughout Formless Substance,

and the Thinking Stuff moving acc
ording to that thought, took

the form of systems of planets, and maintains that form.

Thinking Substance takes the form of its thought, and moves

according to the thought. Holding the idea of a circling system

of suns and worlds, it takes the form of these
bodies, and moves

them as it thinks. Thinking the form of a slow
-
growing oak tree,

it moves accordingly, and produces the tree, though centuries

may be required to do the work. In creating, the Formless seems

to move according to the lines of motion it ha
s established; the

thought of an oak tree does not cause the instant formation of a

full
-
grown tree, but it does start in motion the forces which will

produce the tree, along established lines of growth.




Every thought of form, held in thinking Substance,
causes the

creation of the form, but always, or at least generally, along

lines of growth and action already established.




The thought of a house of a certain construction, if it were

impressed upon Formless Substance, might not cause the instant

formati
on, of the house; but it would cause the turning of

creative energies already working in trade and commerce into

such channels as to result in the speedy building of the house.

And if there were no existing channels through which the

creative energy could
work, then the house would be formed

directly from primal substance, without waiting for the slow

processes of the organic and inorganic world.

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No thought of form can be impressed upon Original Substance

without causing the creation of the form.





Man is
a thinking center, and can originate thought. All the

forms that man fashions with his hands must first exist in his

thought; he cannot shape a thing until he has thought that thing.




And so far man has confined his efforts wholly to the work of

his hand
s; he has applied manual labor to the world of forms,

seeking to change or modify those already existing. He has

never thought of trying to cause the creation of new forms by

impressing his thoughts upon Formless Substance.




When man has a thought
-
form, h
e takes material from the forms

of nature, and makes an image of the form which is in his mind.

He has, so far, made little or no effort to co
-
operate with

Formless Intelligence; to work "with the Father." He has not

dreamed that he can "do what he seeth t
he Father doing." Man

reshapes and modifies existing forms by manual labor; he has

given no attention to the question whether he may not produce

things from Formless Substance by communicating his thoughts

to it. We propose to prove that he may do so; to p
rove that any

man or woman may do so, and to show how. As our first step,

we must lay down three fundamental propositions.




First, we assert that there is one original formless stuff, or

substance, from which all things are made. All the seemingly

many el
ements are but different presentations of one element;

all the many forms found in organic and inorganic nature are

but different shapes, made from the same stuff. And this stuff is

thinking stuff; a thought held in it produces the form of the

thought. Tho
ught, in thinking substance, produces shapes. Man

is a thinking center, capable of original thought; if man can

communicate his thought to original thinking substance, he can

cause the creation, or formation, of the thing he thinks about. To

summarize 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.

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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.





It may be asked if I can prove these statements; and without

going into details, I answer that I can do so, both by log
ic 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 man's power to cause

the formation of the thing he thinks about.




And by e
xperiment, I find the reasoning true; and this is my

strongest proof.




If one man who reads this book gets rich by doing what it tells

him to do, that is evidence in support of my