How Riches Come to
You
by Wallace D. Wattles
& Dr. Judith
Powell
When we say that you do not have
to drive sharp bargains, we do not mean that you do not have to drive any
bargains at all, or that you are above the need to deal with your fellow human
beings. We mean that you will not need to deal with them unfairly. You do not
have to get something for nothing, and you can give to every person more than
you take from them.
Giving Back
More
You cannot give everyone more in
cash market value than you take from them, but you can give them more in use
value than the cash value of the thing you get from them. Let us suppose that
you own a Van Gogh painting which in
any civilized community, is worth millions of dollars. You take it to the South
American Rainforest and by "sales
skills" induce a native to collect for you plants from the Rainforest, whose
leaves contain a cancer-curing agent, (also worth millions of dollars on the
open market), in exchange for the painting. You have really wronged him, for he
has no use for the painting; it has no use value to him; it will not add to his
life. However, suppose you give him a rifle worth $200 for his leaves; then he
has made a good bargain. He has use for the rifle; it will help him get more
food; it will add to his life in every way; it will make him
rich.
When you rise from the competitive
state to the creative plane, you can scan your business transactions very
strictly, and if you are selling anyone anything which does not add more to
their life than the thing they give you in exchange, you can afford to stop
it!
You do not have to beat anybody in
business. And if you are in a business which does beat people, get out of it at
once. Give every individual more in use value than you take from them in cash
value — then you are adding to the life of the world by every business
transaction.
If you have people working for
you, you must take from them more in cash value than you pay them in wages. You
can so organize your business that it will be filled with the principle of advancement, so
that each employee who wishes to do so may advance a little every day.
You can so conduct your business that
it will be a ladder, by which every employee who will make the effort may climb
to riches themselves.
Riches Are In Your
Mind
As you are to cause the creation
of your riches from Formless Substance which permeates all your environment, it
does not follow that they are to take shape from the atmosphere and come into
being before your very eyes! If you want an automobile, for instance, we do not
mean to tell you that you are to impress the thought of an ideal car on Thinking
Substance until the driving machine is formed, in the room where you sit, or
elsewhere. But if you want a car, hold the mental image of it with the most
positive certainty that it is being made, or is on its way to you. After once
forming the thought, have the most absolute and unquestioning faith that the car
is coming. Never think of it or speak of it in any other way than as being sure
to arrive! Claim it as already yours. Expect to drive it.
Once there was a little boy
sitting at a piano, vainly trying to bring harmony out of the keys. He appeared
to be angry and frustrated by his inability to play real music. When asked the
cause of his vexation, he answered, "I can feel the music in me, but I can't
make my hands go right." The music in him was the URGE of Original Substance,
containing all the possibilities of all life — all that there is of music was
seeking expression through the child.
God, the One Substance, is trying
to live and do and enjoy things through humanity. Supreme Intelligence is
saying, "I want hands to build wonderful structures, to play divine harmonies,
to paint glorious pictures. I want feet to run my errands, eyes to see my
beauties, tongues to tell mighty truths and to sing marvelous
songs."
All that there is of possibility
is seeking expression through us. God wants those who can play music to have
pianos and every other instrument, and to have the means to cultivate their
talents to the fullest extent. Higher Intelligence wants those who can
appreciate beauty to be able to surround themselves with beautiful things. The
All wants those who can discern truth to have every opportunity to travel and
observe. God wants those who can appreciate dress to be beautifully clothed, and
those who can appreciate good food to
be lavishly fed.
The Supreme Source wants all these
things because it is the Source who enjoys and appreciates things. It is God who
wants to play, and sing, and enjoy beauty, and proclaim truth, and wear fine
clothes, and eat good foods. "It is God that worketh in you to will and to do",
said St. Paul. The desire you feel for riches is the Infinite, seeking to
express Itself in you as It sought to find expression in the little boy at the
piano.
Ask And Receive
You need not hesitate to ask
largely. Your part is to focus and express the desires of the Infinite. This is
a difficult point with most people because they retain something of the old idea
that poverty and self-sacrifice are pleasing to God. They look upon poverty as a
part of the plan, a necessity of nature. They have the idea that God has
finished His work, and made all that He can make, and that the majority of
people must stay poor because there is not enough to go around. They hold on to
so much of this erroneous thought that they feel ashamed to ask for wealth; they
don't want more than a very modest competence, just enough to make them fairly
comfortable.
To be rich: you can form things in
your thoughts, and, by impressing your thoughts upon Formless Substance, can
cause the thing you think about to be
created, and be brought into your life. In order to keep abundant living
flowing, always conduct your personal and business affairs with a win-win
attitude. Always give people more in use value than the cash value of the thing
you get from them. Thus you will be adding to the world by working on the
creative dimension rather than the competitive one.
 This article was excerpted from
The Science of Getting Rich
by Wallace D.
Wattles & Dr. Judith Powell.
Excerpted with permission. Published by Top
of the Mountain Publishing, PO Box 2244, Pinellas Park, FL 33780-2244.
(727-391-3958).
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About The
Author
Dr. Judith Powell is an author,
international speaker and writer. Wallace Wattles is an author who began his journey to working
out the principles and methods of the science of making money in the 1800's. This book is part of a trilogy; the other titles are "The
Science of Becoming Excellent", and "The Science of Well-Being".
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