CHAPTER 10 - Programming your Mind-set

YOU cannot retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they are external or imaginary. Do not acquaint with your past troubles of a financial nature, if you have had them. Do no think or reflect of the poverty of your parents, or the hardships of your early life; to do this is to mentally class yourself with the poor for the time being, and it will certainly guarantee the movement of those things in your direction. "Let the dead bury their dead," as Jesus said. Put poverty and all things that pertain to poverty completely behind you.

You have accepted a certain theory of the universal consciousness and the subconscious mind while thinking and acting in a certain way as being correct, and are resting all your hopes of happiness on its being correct; and therefore what can you gain by giving attention to contradictory theories?

You should concern yourself in the world becoming rich. Think of the riches the world is coming into, instead of the poverty it is growing out of; and bear in mind that the only way in which you can assist the world in growing rich is by growing rich yourself through the teachings of this eBook.

Give your attention wholly to riches; ignore poverty. Whenever you think or speak of those who are poor, think and speak of them as those who are becoming rich, those who are to be congratulated rather than pitied. Then they and others will catch the inspiration, and begin to search for the way out.

Because you are to give your whole time and mind and thought to wealth and riches, it does not follow that you are to be distasteful or mean.

To become rich is the noblest aim you can have in life, for it includes everything else. On the competitive plane, the struggle to get rich is a Godless scramble for power over other men; but when we come into the creative mind, all this is changed. All that is possible in the way of greatness and soul enfoldment, of service and superior endeavor, comes by way of getting rich; all is made possible by the use of things. If you lack for physical health, you will find that the attainment of it is conditional on your getting rich.

Only those who are emancipated from financial worry, and who have the means to live a care-free existence and follow hygienic practices, can have and retain health. Moral and spiritual greatness is possible only to those who are above the competitive battle for existence; and only those who are becoming wealthy and rich on the plane of creative thought are free from the degrading influences of competition.

If your heart is set on domestic happiness, remember that love flourishes best where there is sophistication, a high level of thought, and freedom from corrupting influences; and these are to be found only where riches are attained by the exercise of creative thought, without strife or rivalry. You can aim at nothing so great or noble, to become rich; you must fix your attention upon your mental picture of riches, to the exclusion of all that may tend to dim or obscure the vision.

You must learn to see the underlying TRUTH in all things; you must see beneath all seemingly wrong conditions the Great One Life ever moving forward toward fuller expression and more complete happiness. It is the truth that there is no such thing as poverty; that there is only wealth.

Some people remain in poverty because they are ignorant of the fact that there is wealth for them; and these can best be taught by showing them the way to affluence in your own personal life. Others are poor because, while they feel that there is a way out, they are too lethargic to put forth the mental effort necessary to find their ways to riches; and for these the very best thing you can do is to arouse their desire by showing them the happiness that comes from being rich.

Others still are poor because, while they have some idea of science, they have become so swamped and lost in the maze of metaphysical and occult theories that they do not know which road to take. They try a mixture of many systems and fail in all. For these, again, the very best thing, to do is to show the right way in your own personal life and put into practice; Wattles in his book “The-Science-of-Getting-Rich” said “An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing”

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself. You can serve any God and man in no more effective way than by becoming rich; that is, if you become rich by the creative method and not by the competitive one.

Another thing about your mind setting; there is only one way to think scientifically, and that is to think in the way that leads by the most direct and simple route to the goal. No Book or teachings has yet formulated a briefer or less complex "system” than the ones set within this eBook; it has been stripped of all nonessentials. Read this eBook every day; commit it to memory, and use the mind programs as recommended if you have doubts, and to be uncertain and wavering in your thought; you surely then will begin to make mistakes and failures.

After you have made good and become rich, you may study other systems as much as you please; but until you are quite sure that you have gained what you want, do not follow any other systems in becoming Rich pending the recommendations in this eBook, unless it be the authors mentioned in the Preface. And read only the most optimistic comments on the world' s news; those in harmony with your picture of success.

Reviewing your mindset
There is a subconscious mind from which all things are prepared, and which, in its innovative state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universal Consciousness. 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. In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind; he must form a clear mental picture of the things he wants, and hold this picture in his thoughts with the fixed PURPOSE to get what he wants, and the unwavering FAITH that he does get what he wants, closing his mind against all that may tend to shake his purpose, dim his vision, or quench his faith. And in addition to all this, we shall now see that he must live and act in a Certain Way.
THOUGHT is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is the rock upon which many otherwise scientific metaphysical thinkers meet shipwreck--the failure to connect thought with personal action. We have not yet reached the stage of development, even supposing such a stage to be possible, in which man can create directly from Formless Substance of thought without nature' s processes or the work of human hands; man must not only think, but his personal action must supplement his thought.

Your thought makes all things, animate and inanimate, work to bring you what you want; but your personal activity must be such that you can rightly receive what you want when it reaches you. You are not to take it as charity, nor to steal it; you must give every man more in use value than he gives you in cash value. The scientific use of thought consists in forming a clear and distinct mental image of what you want; in holding fast to the purpose to get what you want; and in realizing with grateful faith that you do get what you want.

*The Power of Thought, as Emerson says, is a spiritual power. It is the greatest power that man has at his disposal. The world today is in its present state simply as a result of mankind's collective thinking; each nation is in its present state of either peace and prosperity, or poverty, murder and anarchy, simply as a result of its thinking as a nation; and each individual is what he is, and his life is what it is, and his circumstances are what they are, simply as results of his thoughts. What a man thinks, he becomes; what a man thinks is the mainspring of all his actions; what a man thinks attracts to him his circumstances and environment; what a man thinks determines what type of friends and companions will gather around him; what a man thinks decides whether he shall be happy or miserable, successful or unsuccessful, healthy or unhealthy, prosperous or povertystricken, hated or loved. What a man thinks either builds up his character or pulls it down.

What a man thinks can overcome fate or strengthen it, can bring him into alignment with his glorious destiny, or make him an outcast and a wanderer in desert places. Indeed, there is no limit to the power of thought, because it is a spiritual power of intense potency. It is the power which distinguishes man from the brute, it is the power by which he can mount up to God, it is the power which can make the unsuccessful successful in the battle of life, it is the power which can make the loftiest achievement possible, it is the power by which difficulties can be overcome, disadvantages of birth and parentage surmounted, and the life beautified and inspired and energised with God-given powers.

*By Henry Thomas Hamblin


Power Points
  • YOU cannot retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures
  • Do not acquaint with your past troubles of a financial nature, if you have had them.
  • You should concern yourself in the world becoming rich. Think of the riches the world is coming into, instead of the poverty it is growing out of
  • Because you are to give your whole time and mind and thought to riches, it does not follow that you are to be distasteful or mean.
  • There is a subconscious mind from which all things are prepared, and which, in its innovative state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universal Consciousness
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