THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Universe. The stuff from which all things are made is a substance which thinks, and a thought of form in this substance produces the physical substance.
Original Substance moves according to its thoughts; every form and process you see in nature is the physical expression of a thought in Original Substance. As the Formless Stuff thinks of a form, it takes that form; as it thinks of a motion, it makes that motion. That is the way all things were created. We live in a thought world, which is part of a thought universe. The thought of a moving universe extended throughout Formless Substance, and the Thinking Stuff moving according 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. Think 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 has 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 you have, when held in your subconscious mind, causes the creation of that thought, 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 your subconscious mind, might not cause the instant formation 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. No thought of physical form can be impressed upon your subconscious mind, also known as Original Substance, without causing the creation of that physical form.
Human is a thinking centre, and can initiate thought. All the things that are made with your hands must first exist in your thought; you cannot make something until you have thought about it. When you think about something, you can take available material and makes whatever is in your mind. You have made little or no effort to co-operate with Formless Intelligence; to work “with the Father.” You have not dreamed that you can “do what you see the Father doing.”
Human reshapes and modifies existing things by manual labour; they have not questioned whether or not they may produce things from the universe by communicating their thoughts to it. This book proposes to prove that they may do so; to prove that any man or woman may do so, and to show how. The first step is to lay down three fundamental propositions.
First, we emphasize that there is one original formless stuff, or substance, from which all things are made. All the seemingly many elements 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. Thought, in thinking substance, produces shapes.
Human is a thinking centre, capable of original thought; if you can communicate your thought to original thinking substance, you can cause the creation, or formation, of the thing you think about. You – and only you – hold the key to your destiny, through the DOMINANT thought that you wittingly or unwittingly allow to occupy your mind.
The important word here is DOMINANT. To acquire riches you need to be continually aware of the thoughts that you allow to occupy your mind. Since like attracts like, if you focus on what you desire you will attract more of what you desire. Likewise, if you focus on what you lack – I don’t have enough money – you will attract more lack.