THE DRIVING FORCE
The Ninth Step toward Riches
The Ninth Step toward Riches
POWER is essential for success in the accumulation of money.
PLANS are inert and useless, without sufficient POWER to translate
them into ACTION. This chapter will describe the method by which an
individual may attain and apply POWER.
POWER may be defined as "organized and intelligently directed
KNOWLEDGE." Power, as the term is here used, refers to ORGANIZED
effort, sufficient to enable an individual to transmute DESIRE into its
monetary equivalent. ORGANIZED effort is produced through the
coordination of effort of two or more people, who work toward a
DEFINITE end, in a spirit of harmony.
POWER IS REQUIRED FOR THE ACCUMULATION OF MONEY!
POWER IS NECESSARY FOR THE RETENTION OF MONEY AFTER IT
HAS BEEN ACCUMULATED!
Let us ascertain how power may be acquired. If power is "organized
knowledge," let us examine the sources of knowledge:
[a] INFINITE INTELLIGENCE. This source of knowledge may be
contacted through the procedure described in another chapter, with the
aid of Creative Imagination.
[b] ACCUMULATED EXPERIENCE.
The accumulated experience of
man, (or that portion of it which has been organized and recorded), may
be found in any well-equipped public library. An important part of this
accumulated experience is taught in public schools and colleges, where it
has been classified and organized.
[c] EXPERIMENT AND RESEARCH.
In the field of science, and in
practically every other walk of life, men are gathering, classifying, and
organizing new facts daily. This is the source to which one must turn
when knowledge is not available through "accumulated experience."
Here, too, the Creative Imagination must often be used.
Knowledge may be acquired from any of the foregoing sources. It may be
converted into POWER by organizing it into definite PLANS and by
expressing those plans in terms of ACTION.
Examination of the three major sources of knowledge will readily
disclose the difficulty an individual would have, if he depended upon his
efforts alone, in assembling knowledge and expressing it through
definite plans in terms of ACTION. If his plans are comprehensive, and if
they contemplate large proportions, he must, generally, induce others to
cooperate with him, before he can inject into them the necessary element
of POWER.
GAINING POWER THROUGH THE "MASTER MIND"
The "Master Mind" may be defined as: "Coordination of knowledge and
effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the
attainment of a definite purpose."
No individual may have great power without availing himself of the
"Master Mind." In a preceding chapter, instructions were given for the
creation of PLANS for the purpose of translating DESIRE into its
monetary equivalent. If you carry out these instructions with
PERSISTENCE and intelligence, and use discrimination in the selection
of your "Master Mind" group, your objective will have been half-way
reached, even before you begin to recognize it.
So you may better understand the "intangible" potentialities of power
available to you, through a properly chosen "Master Mind" group, we will
here explain the two characteristics of the Master Mind principle, one of
which is economic in nature, and the other psychic. The economic
feature is obvious. Economic advantages may be created by any person
who surrounds himself with the advice, counsel, and personal
cooperation of a group of men who are willing to lend him wholehearted
aid, in a spirit of PERFECT HARMONY. This form of cooperative
alliance has been the basis of nearly every great fortune. Your
understanding of this great truth may definitely determine your financial
status.
The psychic phase of the Master Mind principle is much more abstract,
much more difficult to comprehend, because it has reference to the
spiritual forces with which the human race, as a whole, is not well
acquainted. You may catch a significant suggestion from this statement:
"No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third,
invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind."
Keep in mind the fact that there are only two known elements in the
whole universe, energy and matter. It is a well known fact that matter
may be broken down into units of molecules, atoms, and electrons. There
are units of matter which may be isolated, separated, and analyzed.
Likewise, there are units of energy.
The human mind is a form of energy, a part of it being spiritual in
nature. When the minds of two people are coordinated in a SPIRIT OF
HARMONY, the spiritual units of energy of each mind form an affinity,
which constitutes the "psychic" phase of the Master Mind.
The Master Mind principle, or rather the economic feature of it, was first
called to my attention by Andrew Carnegie, over twenty-five years ago.
Discovery of this principle was responsible for the choice of my life's
work.
Mr. Carnegie's Master Mind group consisted of a staff of approximately
fifty men, with whom he surrounded himself, for the DEFINITE
PURPOSE of manufacturing and marketing steel. He attributed his
entire fortune to the POWER he accumulated through this "Master
Mind."
Analyze the record of any man who has accumulated a great fortune, and
many of those who have accumulated modest fortunes, and you will find
that they have either consciously, or unconsciously employed the
"Master Mind" principle.
GREAT POWER CAN BE ACCUMULATED THROUGH NO OTHER
PRINCIPLE!
ENERGY is Nature's universal set of building blocks, out of which she
constructs every material thing in the universe, including man, and every
form of animal and vegetable life. Through a process which only Nature
completely understands, she translates energy into matter.
Nature's building blocks are available to man, in the energy involved in
THINKING! Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery. It
absorbs energy from the ether, which permeates every atom of matter,
and fills the entire universe.
It is a well known fact that a group of electric batteries will provide more
energy than a single battery. It is also a well known fact that an
individual battery will provide energy in proportion to the number and
capacity of the cells it contains.
The brain functions in a similar fashion. This accounts for the fact that
some brains are more efficient than others, and leads to this significant
statement--a group of brains coordinated (or connected) in a spirit of
harmony, will provide more thought-energy than a single brain, just as a
group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.
Through this metaphor it becomes immediately obvious that the Master
Mind principle holds the secret of the POWER wielded by men who
surround themselves with other men of brains.
There follows, now, another statement which will lead still nearer to an
understanding of the psychic phase of the Master Mind principle: When
a group of individual brains are coordinated and function in Harmony,
the increased energy created through that alliance, becomes available to
every individual brain in the group.
It is a well known fact that Henry Ford began his business career under
the handicap of poverty, illiteracy, and ignorance. It is an equally well
known fact that, within the inconceivably short period of ten years, Mr.
Ford mastered these three handicaps, and that within twenty-five years
he made himself one of the richest men in America. Connect with this
fact, the additional knowledge that Mr. Ford's most rapid strides became
noticeable, from the time he became a personal friend of Thomas A.
Edison, and you will begin to understand what the influence of one mind
upon another can accomplish. Go a step farther, and consider the fact
that Mr. Ford's most outstanding achievements began from the time that
he formed the acquaintances of Harvey Firestone, John Burroughs, and
Luther Burbank, (each a man of great brain capacity), and you will have
further evidence that POWER may be produced through friendly alliance
of minds.
There is little if any doubt that Henry Ford is one of the best informed
men in the business and industrial world. The question of his wealth
needs no discussion. Analyze Mr. Ford's intimate personal friends, some
of whom have already been mentioned, and you will be prepared to
understand the following statement:
"Men take on the nature and the habits and the POWER OF THOUGHT
of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony."
Henry Ford whipped poverty, illiteracy, and ignorance by allying himself
with great minds, whose vibrations of thought he absorbed into his own
mind. Through his association with Edison, Burbank, Burroughs, and
Firestone, Mr. Ford added to his own brain power, the sum and
substance of the intelligence, experience, knowledge, and spiritual forces
of these four men. Moreover, he appropriated, and made use of the
Master Mind principle through the methods of procedure described in
this book.
This principle is available to you!
We have already mentioned Mahatma Gandhi. Perhaps the majority of
those who have heard of Gandhi, look upon him as merely an eccentric
little man, who goes around without formal wearing apparel, and makes
trouble for the British Government.
In reality, Gandhi is not eccentric, but HE IS THE MOST POWERFUL
MAN NOW LIVING. (Estimated by the number of his followers and their
faith in their leader.) Moreover, he is probably the most powerful man
who has ever lived. His power is passive, but it is real.
Let us study the method by which he attained his stupendous POWER. It
may be explained in a few words. He came by POWER through inducing
over two hundred million people to coordinate, with mind and body, in a
spirit of HARMONY, for a DEFINITE PURPOSE.
In brief, Gandhi has accomplished a MIRACLE, for it is a miracle when
two hundred million people can be induced--not forced--to cooperate in
a spirit of HARMONY, for a limitless time. If you doubt that this is a
miracle, try to induce ANY TWO PEOPLE to cooperate in a spirit of
harmony for any length of time.
Every man who manages a business knows what a difficult matter it is to
get employees to work together in a spirit even remotely resembling
HARMONY.
The list of the chief sources from which POWER may be attained is, as
you have seen, headed by INFINITE INTELLIGENCE. When two or
more people coordinate in a spirit of HARMONY, and work toward a
definite objective, they place themselves in position, through that
alliance, to absorb power directly from the great universal storehouse of
Infinite Intelligence. This is the greatest of all sources of POWER. It is
the source to which the genius turns. It is the source to which every great
leader turns, (whether he may be conscious of the fact or not).
The other two major sources from which the knowledge, necessary for
the accumulation of POWER, may be obtained are no more reliable than
the five senses of man. The senses are not always reliable. Infinite
Intelligence DOES NOT ERR.
In subsequent chapters, the methods by which Infinite Intelligence may
be most readily contacted will be adequately described.
This is not a course on religion. No fundamental principle described in
this book should be interpreted as being intended to interfere either
directly, or indirectly, with any man's religious habits. This book has
been confined, exclusively, to instructing the reader how to transmute
the DEFINITE PURPOSE OF DESIRE FOR MONEY, into its monetary
equivalent.
Read, THINK, and meditate as you read. Soon, the entire subject will
unfold, and you will see it in perspective. You are now seeing the detail of
the individual chapters.
Money is as shy and elusive as the "old time" maiden. It must be wooed
and won by methods not unlike those used by a determined lover, in
pursuit of the girl of his choice. And, coincidental as it is, the POWER
used in the "wooing" of money is not greatly different from that used in
wooing a maiden. That power, when successfully used in the pursuit of
money must be mixed with FAITH. It must be mixed with DESIRE. It
must be mixed with PERSISTENCE. It must be applied through a plan,
and that plan must be set into ACTION.
When money comes in quantities known as "the big money," it flows to
the one who accumulates it, as easily as water flows down hill. There
exists a great unseen stream of POWER, which may be compared to a
river; except that one side flows in one direction, carrying all who get
into that side of the stream, onward and upward to WEALTH--and the
other side flows in the opposite direction, carrying all who are
unfortunate enough to get into it (and not able to extricate themselves
from it), downward to misery and POVERTY.
Every man who has accumulated a great fortune, has recognized the
existence of this stream of life. It consists of one's THINKING PROCESS.
The positive emotions of thought form the side of the stream which
carries one to fortune. The negative emotions form the side which carries
one down to poverty.
This carries a thought of stupendous importance to the person who is
following this book with the object of accumulating a fortune.
If you are in the side of the stream of POWER which leads to poverty,
this may serve as an oar, by which you may propel yourself over into the
other side of the stream. It can serve you ONLY through application and
use. Merely reading, and passing judgment on it, either one way or
another, will in no way benefit you.
Some people undergo the experience of alternating between the positive
and negative sides of the stream, being at times on the positive side, and
at times on the negative side. The Wall Street crash of ’29 swept millions
of people from the positive to the negative side of the stream. These
millions are struggling, some of them in desperation and fear, to get back
to the positive side of the stream. This book was written especially for
those millions.
Poverty and riches often change places. The Crash taught the world this
truth, although the world will not long remember the lesson. Poverty
may, and generally does, voluntarily take the place of riches. When
riches take the place of poverty, the change is usually brought about
through well-conceived and carefully executed PLANS. Poverty needs no
plan. It needs no one to aid it, because it is bold and ruthless. Riches are
shy and timid. They have to be "attracted."
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