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The Science of Getting Rich -

We Live in a Universe of Abundance

Mr. Wattles explains in the third chapter of his book, "The Science of Getting Rich", that everything you see on earth is made from one original substance-or formless stuff-out of which all things proceed. This original substance is the raw material of all things and it is alive with creative energy, constantly turning into different shapes, with new forms being made and others dissolving on a continuous basis.

In the preface of “The Science of Getting Rich”, Mr. Wattles explains that the reader should accept the principles laid out in his book on faith, and then proceed to prove their truth by acting on them. He then cites the authorities from which he developed the science of getting rich. First, he explains that the monistic theory of the universe, the theory that All-is-One and that this one substance manifests itself as the seemingly different elements of the material world, is of Hindu origin. In addition, it is the foundation of the philosophies of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Schopenhauer, Hegel, and Emerson.

Everything that exists, from the planets to an oak tree, from mud huts to great works of art, is created from the original substance. In addition, this substance permeates all the space in, through, and between all the forms in the visible universe.

Throughout the book, Mr. Wattles refers to the “formless substance” in many different terms, such as: original substance; formless stuff; the universe; God; the Divine; the supreme power; the one living substance; creative energy; thinking stuff; and so on.

Quantum physics, a branch of science that was born in the early 20^th century, is the study of the subatomic particles that make up the universe. Scientists-such as Max Planck, Albert Einstein, and Niels Bohr--discovered that these particles sometimes behave like matter and sometimes behave like energy waves.

While these microscopic particles are behaving like energy, they exist as probability. However, when they’re observed, they act like solid matter localized in time and space.

What we perceive to be hard matter is just condensed energy. Think of Albert Einstein’s famous formula:

“E = mc²”,

Energy equals mass multiplied by the speed of light squared.

This formula basically states that if you were to speed up the particles that make up matter-say, a pencil--to the velocity of the speed of light squared, it would turn into energy. Hence, matter is condensed energy.

Mr. Wattles explains in “The Science of Getting Rich” that there is no limit to the supply of this energy or formless stuff, it is inexhaustible. Therefore, humanity, as a whole, is abundantly rich.

If anyone is poor, it’s not because there isn’t enough to go around, or because in order for some to be extraordinarily rich others have to be poor; it’s because they do not follow the “certain way” of doing things which makes the individual rich. There is enough formless substance for everyone on the planet to be rich, and be able to live their lives to the fullest.

“The Science of Getting Rich” states the following:

“No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches; there is more than enough for all. A palace as large as the capitol at Washington might be built for every family on earth from the building material in the United States alone, and under intensive cultivation this country would produce wool, cotton, linen, and silk enough to clothe each person in the world finer than Solomon was arrayed in all his glory, together with food enough to feed them all luxuriously.”

Furthermore, Mr. Wattles points out that the formless stuff is intelligent. It is alive and is constantly producing more forms. It is the natural impulse of life to seek more life, and to seek to express itself more fully, and the original substance is always looking for ways to advance and increase life.

Many people have a lack or a scarcity mentality when it comes to money. A person with a scarcity mentality tends to have beliefs about money such as the following: