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As this impression spreads, all things are set moving toward its realization; every living thing, every inanimate thing, and the things yet uncreated, are stirred toward bringing into being that which you want. All force begins to be exerted in that direction; all things begin to move toward you. The minds of people, everywhere, are influenced toward doing the things necessary to the fulilling of your desires; and they work for you, unconsciously.
隨著它們的廣泛傳播，這些思想當中涌蓋的所有事物也開始朝著你指定的終點前進。在它們的刺激下，每一件已經存在的事物，每件不活躍的事物，乃至于那些尚未被創造出來的事物，都開始按照你所期待的方式運動和發展著，藍圖中的各項事物開始成型。這時，宇宙間所有的力量都被集中在了一起，迫使事物按照這一趨勢發展。你想要的一切開始慢慢地向你走去。在這一過程中，其他人的思想，無論他在哪兒，都會因為受到這股力量的影響而漸漸向它集中，參與到幫助你實現欲望的運動中來，為你的工作添磚加瓦，而他所做的一切全都是一種下意識的行為。
But you can check all this by starting a negative impression in the Formless Substance. Doubt or unbelief is as certain to start a movement away from you as faith and purpose are to start one toward you. It is by not understanding this that most people who try to make use of "mental science" in getting rich make their fai lure. Every hour and moment you spend in giving heed to doubts and fears, every hour you spend in worry, every hour in which your soul is possessed by unbelief, sets a current away from you in the whole domain of intelligent Substance. All the promises are unto them that believe, and unto them only. Notice how insistent Jesus was upon this point of belief; and now you know the reason why.
要想檢驗這一切是否屬實，方法其實很簡單，你向宇宙傳遞些許負面的消極思想，最后的結果自然會說明一切問題。任何懷疑或不信任都能導致那些原本已經向你走去的事物向后轉，其原理和當初它們在信念和目標的作用下向你走去一樣。這個世界上的絕大多數人正是因為不明白這一點才會試圖使用“精神力量”來獲取財富，其結果必然是失敗。一旦你開始懷疑害怕，一旦你開始擔憂，一旦你的內心世界向不信任的思想繳械投降，宇宙所發的能量就會掀起一股浪潮，卷走所有已經在你身邊，或正在向你靠近的事物。對財富的信念是你獲取財富的首要前提，也是惟一保障。現在，你大概知道其中的奧妙了。
Since belief is all important, it behooves you to guard your thoughts; and as your beliefs will be shaped to a very great extent by the things you observe and think about, it is important that you should command your attention.
信念之所以如此關鍵，就在于它能夠幫助你捍衛自己的思想陣地。由于你腦海中的信念在很大程度上都取決于你觀察到的和想到的事物，因此，你必須控制好自己的注意力，以免自己的信念誤入歧途。
And here the will comes into use; for it is by your will that you determine upon what things your attention shall be fixed.
這時，我們就需要借助意志力的幫助了，因為，注意力的焦點，即我們觀察到的和想到的全部事物，都是由我們的意志力來決定的。
If you want to become rich, you must not make a study of poverty.
如果你想成為大富翁，就絕對不能讓任何與貧窮有關的思想或事物影響你的意志。
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.
從有這個世界開始，還從沒聽說過有誰是通過思考事物的對立面來促成事物的形成，而且最后還成功了的。一個總是將疾病掛在嘴邊，腦子里總琢磨疾病的人不可能擁有一副健康的體魄：充滿罪惡的泥土里無論如何也培育不出正義的果實。一個整天思考和琢磨貧窮的人注定將窮困潦倒一輩子！
Medicine as a science of disease has increased disease; religion as a science of sin has promoted sin, and economics as a study of poverty will fill the world with wretchedness and want.
醫學是一門關于疾病的科學，可這世上各種無法治愈的病癥卻隨著它的日益發達而越來越多；宗教的產生源自于人們對罪惡的研究，可這個世界上的種種罪惡思想和現象卻并未因為宗教的產生而消失，反而與日俱增：經濟學是以消除貧窮為目的的一門科學，然而，它給我們帶來的卻只有無窮無盡的苦難和欲望。
Do not talk about poverty; do not investigate it, or concern yourself with it. Never mind what its causes are; you have nothing to do with them.
不要談論貧窮，也不要調查研究它，或是對它傾注任何感情或關懷。絕對不要探究貧窮的根源，因為那跟你毫無關系。
What concerns you is the cure.
如何消除貧窮才是你應當關注的焦點。
Do not spend your time in charitable work, or charity movements; all charity only tends to perpetuate the wretchedness it aims to eradicate.
請不要將時間浪費在那些打著所謂慈善或公益事業幌子的活動上。所有這一切看起來似乎是為了消除貧困，可事實上，它們只會進一步加固貧窮的根源，阻撓他人消除貧窮。
I do not say that you should be hard hearted or unkind, and refuse to hear the cry of need; but you must not try to eradicate poverty in any of the conventional ways. Put poverty behind you, and put all that pertains to it behind you, and "make good."
我這樣說的意思并不是要你做一個鐵石心腸的人，冷酷地拒絕任何來自他人的求助，而是想讓你知道，你絕對不能再盲從于任何傳統的消除貧困的方式，因為那絕對無法從根本上消除貧困。正確的方法應當是，將貧窮以及所有與它相關的事物全都拋諸腦后，專心致志地創造財富，這才是“真正有益于消除人類貧窮”的正確方法。
Get rich; that is the best way you can help the poor.
致富！這就是你幫助窮人的最好方法。
And you cannot hold the mental image which is to make you rich if you fill your mind with pictures of poverty. Do not read books or papers which give circumstantial accounts of the wretchedness of the tenement dwellers, of the horrors of child labor, and so on. Do not read anything which fills your mind with gloomy images of want and suffering.
如果你的腦子里塞滿了各種窮人生活的悲慘畫面，原本能夠幫助你致富的夢想藍圖就會因此而失去效用。不要閱讀任何會讓你聯想到貧窮的書5或報紙，因為它們會讓你的腦海中浮現出無家可歸的流浪者的悲慘遭遇，還有可憐的童工們遭受非人待遇的場景。不要閱讀任何會讓你聯想到那些可憐人物、悲慘情最以及社會陰暗面的雜志等一切出版物。
