The book The Science of Getting Rich also known as the little green book is what movie The Secret was based on. So, let’s go back in time for a minute. It's 1910, so everything was quite different. What we take for granted today was cutting edge- or even beyond – especially when it came to unorthodox concepts.
What was my first experience with the little green book? I'll be right up front with you. The first time I read the book I didn't have a clue what he was talking about. I almost read it all. It was a little to woo woo for me. Who uses terms like ‘formless substance’, ‘certain way’, and my favorite ‘a thinking stuff’? Okay, now that I'm confessing, I thought the guy was from another planet and then when I saw what he looked like well that confirmed it for me.
I found my way back to the book, God only knows why, but the second time around the terms started to make sense. The term ‘thinking stuff’ is universal intelligence. Simply put we live in an intelligent universe. Where he uses the term ‘formless substance’, now we'd use the term 'energy'. And 'a certain way' wasn't so odd after all. He just meant that this was how you had to go about doing things to make his method work.
Now read Wattles' words with new eyes and understanding. He really wasn't as far out there as I thought. Enjoy this passage with a new meaning.
Getting Rich Is the Result of Doing Things In a Certain Way
There is a thinking stuff which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the inter spaces of the universe. A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. I can form things in my thought, and by impressing my thoughts upon formless substance, can cause the thing I think about to be created. In order to do this, I must pass from the competitive to the creative mind. I must form a clear mental picture of the things I want. And, I must hold this picture in my thoughts with the fixed purpose to get what I want, and the unwavering faith that I will get what I want closing my mind to all that may tend to shake my purpose, dim my vision, or quench my faith. I am ready to receive what I want when it comes, and I am acting now upon the people and things in my present environment. Wallace D. Wattles 1910
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