You can make the most of yourself only by getting rich；so it is right and praiseworthy that you should give your first and best thought to the work of acquiring wealth.
Remember，however，that the desire of Substance is for all，and its movements must be for more life to all；it cannot be made to work for less life to any，because it is equally in all，seeking riches and life.
Intelligent Substance will make things for you，but it will not take things away from some one else and give them to you.
You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create，not to compete for what is already created.
You do not have to take anything away from any one.
You do not have to drive sharp bargains.
You do not have to cheat，or to take advantage. You do not need to let any man work for you for less than he earns.
You do not have to covet the property of others，or to look at it with wishful eyes；no man has anything of which you cannot have the like，and that without taking what he has away from him.
You are to become a creator，not a competitor；you are going to get what you want，but in such a way that when you get it every other man will have more than he has now.
I am aware that there are men who get a vast amount of money by proceeding in direct opposition to the statements in the paragraph above，and may add a word of explanation here. Men of the plutocratic type，who become very rich，do so sometimes purely by their extraordinary ability on the plane of competition；and sometimes they unconsciously relate themselves to Substance in its great purposes and movements for the general racial upbuilding through industrial evolution. Rockefeller，Carnegie，Morgan，et al，have been the unconscious agents of the Supreme in the necessary work of systematizing and organizing productive industry；and in the end，their work will contribute immensely toward increased life for all. Their day is nearly over；they have organized production，and will soon be succeeded by the agents of the multitude，who will organize the machinery of distribution.
The multi-millionaires are like the monster reptiles of the prehistoric eras；they play a necessary part in the evolutionary process，but the same Power which produced them will dispose of them. And it is well to bear in mind that they have never been really rich；a record of the private lives of most of this class will show that they have really been the most abject and wretched of the poor.
Riches secured on the competitive plane are never satisfactory and permanent；they are yours to-day，and another＇s tomorrow. Remember，if you are to become rich in a scientific and certain way，you must rise entirely out of the competitive thought.
You must never think for a moment that the supply is limited. Just as soon as you begin to think that all the money is being ＂cornered＂ and controlled by bankers and others，and that you must exert yourself to get laws passed to stop this process，and so on；in that moment you drop into the competitive mind，and your power to cause creation is gone for the time being；and what is worse，you will probably arrest the creative movements you have already instituted.
KNOW that there are countless millions of dollars＇ worth of gold in the mountains of the earth，not yet brought to light；and know that if there were not，more would be created from Thinking Substance to supply your needs.
KNOW that the money you need will come，even if it is necessary for a thousand men to be led to the discovery of new gold mines to-morrow.
Never look at the visible supply；look always at the limitless riches in Formless Substance，and KNOW that they are coming to you as fast as you can receive and use them. Nobody，by cornering the visible supply，can prevent you from getting what is yours.
So never allow yourself to think for an instant that all the best building spots will be taken before you get ready to build your house，unless you hurry. Never worry about the trusts and combines，and get anxious for fear they will soon come to own the whole earth. Never get afraid that you will lose what you want because some other person ＂beats you to it＂. That cannot possibly happen；you are not seeking any thing that is possessed by anybody else；you are causing what you want to be created from Formless Substance，and the supply is without limits. Stick to the formulated statement：
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.
A thought，in this substance，produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.
Man can form things in his thought，and，by impressing his thought upon formless substance，can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.
