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After you have made good and become rich, you may study other systems as much as you please; but until you are quite sure that you have gained what you want, do not read anything on this line but this book, unless it be the authors mentioned in the Preface.
不過，除非你能夠十分肯定自已已經再無所求，不然，就一定不要閱讀除本書以外的任何同類題材的書籍，當然，本書作者在前言當中曾經提到過的那些書除外。
And read only the most optimistic comments on the world's news; those in harmony with your picture. Also, postpone your investigations into the occult. Do not dabble in theosophy, Spiritualism, or kindred studies. It is very likely that the dead still live, and are near; but if they are, let them alone; mind your own business.
同時，你還應當確保只閱讀那些以樂觀觀點所寫的新聞評論，以及那些與你的夢想藍圖氛圍相吻合的報道。毋庸置疑，你應當停止任何有關神秘學術的研究，也絕對不要涉獵任何關于通神論、唯靈論及其相關學術的書籍。那些書很可能會告訴你，那些死去的人們從來都未曾真正死去，他們一直都生活在我們身邊。即使事實真是如此，那么，也請你徹底拋開那些已經離開你的人，將時間和精力集中在自己的生活上。
Wherever the spirits of the dead may be, they have their own work to do, and their own problems to solve; and we have no right to interfere with them. We cannot help them, and it is very doubtful whether they can help us,
無論那些逝者的靈魂在哪里，他們都有等待他們去完成的工作，以及亟待解決的問題，而我們沒有任何權力去打擾他們平靜的生活，正如他們無權干涉我們的生活一樣。我們無法對他們施以援手，至于他們是否能夠幫助我們，
or whether we have any right to trespass upon their time if they can. Let the dead and the hereafter alone, and solve your own problem; get rich. If you begin to mix with the occult, you will start mental cross-currents which will surely bring your hopes to shipwreck.
我們是否有權利在他們許可的情況下占用他們的時間，所有這些全都是很值得懷疑的問題。逝者如斯夫。你需要做的就是解決自己的問題：致富。一旦你的思想受到了那些神秘玄學的影響，你的夢想就好比一只駛入暗礁區的小船，總有一天會觸礁而沉。
Now, this and the preceding chapters have brought us to the following statement of basic facts: 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.
在本章結束之際，我將本章以及前文的內容總結如下：有一種會思考的源物質，世上所有事物的形成皆源自于它。最初，這一物質本是宇宙的填充物，宇宙的每一絲空隙都由它占據著。
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. In order to do this, man must pass fiom the competitive to the creative mind; he must from a clear mental picture of the thing she wants, and hold this picture in his thoughts with the fixed PURPOSE to get what he wants, and the unwavering FAITH that he does get what he wants, closing his mind against all that may tend to shake his purpose, dim his vision, or quench his faith. And in addition to all this, we shall now see that he must live and act in a Certain Way.
首先，在這種物質當中出現了思想，接著，思想再按照其想像的模式制造出世間萬物。人類的思想可造萬物，而且通過讓自己的思想作用于無形的源物質，人類就能夠將腦海中的想像變為現實。為了讓這些信念植根于我們的腦海當中，人類必須首先轉變思想，徹底拋棄那些不正當競爭的觀點，同時引入創造的觀念。對于自己向往的一切，每個人必須首先繪制一幅清晰的藍圖，而堅定的信念和不變的目標就是我們守護這幅財富藍圖不受侵害的最有效的武器，拒絕一切有可能會動搖我們的目標、侵蝕我們的信念、讓藍圖變得模糊不清的思想和物質。除此之外，正如之前曾反復強調過的，我們必須按照某種特殊的方式生活和思考。
Chapter Eleven Acting in the Certain Way
第十一章 特定恰當的行動方式
THOUGHT is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is the rock upon which many otherwise scientific metaphysical thinkers meet shipwreck - the failure to connect thought with personal action.
思想是一種創造性的力量，或者說，思想是一種能夠產生創造性力量并讓它發揮作用的力量。按照某種特殊的方式思考會為你帶來財富，可實現的前提是你不能僅僅只依靠思想的力量，你還必須行動起來。這也正是導致許多唯靈論思想家的科學思想觸礁擱淺的原因，他們沒有能夠將思想與行動聯系起來。
We have not yet reached the stage of development, even supposing such a stage to be possible, in which man can create directly from Formless Substance without nature's processes or the work of human hands; man must not only think, but his personal action must supplement his thought.
人類社會尚未進化到可以直接將無形的物質創造成有形的實體物質，而無需通過自然演變，或人工勞動的階段，即使假設這樣的階段是存在的，我們的社會也絕對還沒有發展到那一步。 要想夢想成真，僅僅依靠思想肯定是不夠的，我們還必須用個人的實際行動加以行動。
By thought you can cause the gold in the hearts of the mountains to be impelled toward you; but it will not mine itself, refine itself, coin itself into double eagles, and come roling along the roads seeking its way into your pocket.
通過讓思想作用于無形的物質，你可以在大山里找到金礦，但是，如果你所做的努力就此戛然而止。那么，大山里的金子絕不會自已從石頭堆里蹦出來，漂洗干凈，打磨成雙鷹金元，然后從馬路上源源不斷地滾進你的口袋。
Under the impelling power of the Supreme Spirit, men's affairs will be so ordered that some one will be led to mine the gold for you; other men's business transactions will be so directed that the gold will be brought toward you, and you must so arrange your own business affairs that you may be able to receive it when it comes to you.
宇宙通過他那不可抗拒的強大力量來安排和部署人類世界的生活和工作。他會指引有些人去開采金礦：然后讓另外一些人從事某些商業活動，然后借助資金的流動，將金幣送到你的跟前。所以，你應當恰如其分地安排自己的工作和行動，從而使得你在金幣被送到你面前時能夠剛好伸出手接住它。
Your thought makes all things, animate and inanimate, work to bring you what you want; but your personal activity must be such that you can rightly receive what you want when it reaches you. You are not to take it as charity, nor to steal it; you must give every man more in use value than he gives you in cash value.
你的思想負責創造你想要的一切，無論是有生命的還是無生命的，而你的行動則負責引領你去得到這一一切，不過，值得我們注意的是，你的個人行為必須能夠與思想接軌，只有這樣，你才能在自己想要的物品到來時剛好能夠騰出手來接住它們。你絕不能把這當成是他人對你的施舍，更不能為了得到它們而不擇手段地去偷竊。對那些把財富帶到你身邊的人，你必須給他回報，而回報的利用價值必須遠遠超出當初他所給你帶來的財富的貨幣價值。
