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claim; but if every

man who does what it tells him to do gets rich, that is
positive

proof until some one goes through the process and fails. The

theory is true until the process fails; and this process will not

fail, for every man who does exactly what this book tells him to

do will get rich.




I have said that men get rich by d
oing things in a Certain Way;

and in order to do so, men must become able to think in a

certain way.




A man's way of doing things is the direct result of the way he

thinks about things.





To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to

acquire
the ability to think the way you want to think; this is the

first step toward getting rich.




To think what you want to think is to think TRUTH, regardless

of appearances.





Every man has the natural and inherent power to think what he

wants to think, but
it requires far more effort to do so than it

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does to think the thoughts which are suggested by appearances.

To think according to appearance is easy; to think truth

regardless of appearances is laborious, and requires the

expenditure of more power than an
y other work man is called

upon to perform.




There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do

from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest

work in the world. This is especially true when truth is contrary

to appearances. Eve
ry appearance in the visible world tends to

produce a corresponding form in the mind which observes it;

and this can only be prevented by holding the thought of the

TRUTH.




To look upon the appearance of disease will produce the form

of disease in your ow
n mind, and ultimately in your body,

unless you hold the thought of the truth, which is that there is no

disease; it is only an appearance, and the reality is health.




To look upon the appearances of poverty will produce

corresponding forms in your own mi
nd, unless you hold to the

truth that there is no poverty; there is only abundance.




To think health when surrounded by the appearances of disease,

or to think riches when in the midst of appearances of poverty,

requires power; but he who acquires this po
wer becomes a

MASTER MIND. He can conquer fate; he can have whatever

he wants.




This power can only be acquired by getting hold of the basic

fact which is behind all appearances; and that fact is that there is

one Thinking Substance, from which and by whi
ch all things

are made.




Then we must grasp the truth that every thought held in this

substance becomes a form, and that man can so impress his

thoughts upon it as to cause them to take form and become

visible things.




When we realize this, we lose all d
oubt and fear, for we know

that we can create what we want to create; we can get what we

want to have, and can become what we want to be. As a first

step toward getting rich, you must believe the three fundamental

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statements given previously in this chapte
r; and in order to

emphasize them. I repeat them here:




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.





You must lay aside all other concepts of the universe than this

moni
stic one; and you must dwell upon this until it is fixed in

your mind, and has become your habitual thought. Read these

creed statements over and over again; fix every word upon your

memory, and meditate upon them until you firmly believe what

they say. If
a doubt comes to you, cast it aside as a sin. Do not

listen to arguments against this idea; do not go to churches or

lectures where a contrary concept of things is taught or

preached. Do not read magazines or books which teach a

different idea; if you get
mixed up in your faith, all your efforts

will be in vain.




Do not ask why these things are true, nor speculate as to how