THE WISDOM OF WATTLES

Wallace D Wattles was one of the leading writers in the New Thought era of the 1800's. Many of these authors wrote about 'Prosperity Consciousness'. In this post I take some of Wattle's most timeless wisdom and offer it for you to ponder. The text was written in a generic way to 'Man' however, for ease of assimilation, I have altered it to a more personalised format.

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.

Note from Kathryn: here Wallace refers to the mysterious 5th element of Ether, the all encompassing energy which connects us and is variously known as The ALL, The ONE, MIND or GOD

A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. You can form things in your thoughts, and by impressing this thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing you think about to be created.

In order to do this you must pass from the competitive to the creative mind; you must form a clear mental picture of the things you want, and hold this picture in your thoughts with the fixed purpose to get what you want, and the unwavering faith that you will get what you want. Closing your mind to all that may tend to shake your purpose, dim your vision or quench your faith.

Here tools like Vision Boards and affirmations can help you

That you may be ready to receive what you want when it comes, you must act now upon the people and things in your present environment.

Past, present and future are one. Waiting, procrastinating or putting thing off until the time is right is simply saying you don't believe in this power or trust that it exists.

Your part is to intelligently formulate your desire for the things which make for a larger life, and to get these desires arranged into a coherent whole; and then to impress this Whole Desire upon the Formless Substance, which has the power and the will to bring you what you want. You do not need to pray repeatedly for things you want; it is not necessary to think about it every day.

You do not have to compel God to give you good things, any more than you have to use your will power to make the sun rise. You do not make this impression by repeating strings of words; you make it by holding the vision with unshakable PURPOSE to attain it, and with steadfast FAITH that you do attain it. Substance is friendly to you, and is more anxious to give you what you want than you are to get it.

If you are new to the concept of manifesting/cosmicordering/law of attraction techniques at this point you may be having feelings of distaste or guilt. You may be saying to yourself but it can't be 'spiritual' or right to be rich (in any sense of the word) when so many people are starving or living lives of misery. Please read on:

If you want to become rich, you must not make a study of poverty. Things are not brought into being by thinking about their opposites. Health is never to be attained by studying disease and thinking about disease; righteousness is not to be promoted by studying sin and thinking about sin; and no one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.What tends to do away with poverty is not the getting of pictures of poverty into your mind, but getting pictures of wealth into the minds of the poor.

You are not deserting the poor in their misery when you refuse to allow your mind to be filled with pictures of that misery. Poverty can be done away with, not by increasing the number of well to do people who think about poverty, but by increasing the number of poor people who purpose with faith to get rich. The poor do not need charity; they need inspiration.

If you want to help the poor, demonstrate to them that they can become rich; prove it by getting rich yourself.

In effect what Wattles is saying here is 'Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life' or to paraphrase Mother Theresa, don't waste your energy being against something, use it by being for something .

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.

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