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Who Was Wallace Wattles?I think there is something terribly touching and poignant about the story of Wallace Wattles. This amazing gentleman died almost a hundred years ago and now, in the 21st century, the world has taken his teachings to its heart. He received little recognition in his own lifetime and like all visionaries he was ahead of his time and it has taken the world a long time to catch up with him. 
When I see the old photograph of his face, he looks so humble and gentle and self-effacing and for most of his own life, he knew only struggle and poverty-----the same struggle and poverty that so many of us experience in our lives today. But Wattles grew wise and used his experience of hardship to forge the amazing words of wisdom that became today's bible of success---how to become wealthy and overcome the obstacles that keep us oppressed. That little book was called The Science of Getting Rich and forms the basis of what The Secret book and movie are all about. I always like to go back to original sources when I happen upon something like this, because often there is a nugget of wisddom that has been lost in translation in the interpretation someone else makes for us. I would recommend you too read this wonderful book in its original form. (If you would like a free gift of this ebook, just join my Money Angels club and I'll send it to you.) His teachings are borne out of experience and this is why they are so right and so powerful---they carry the truth of experience within them. The Life of Wallace Wattles
Wallace Wattles was born in America in 1860, shortly after the end of the civil war. His early years were unremarkable. We do know that, just like us, he struggled with the practicalities of life and found that wealth and success eluded him. They seemed to be only for others....ever think that too? Wallace has been there, done that and worn the T-shirt, or rather Victorian neckerchief!Wallace, by all accounts, experienced failure heaped upon failure. So much so, that he was led to begin investigating how life works. He became an avid student of philosophy and metaphysics and spirituality. He was hungry for knowledge and understanding. He wanted answers. When disaster struck, he probably asked, like us, why me? Or, why do the best people not always succeed? Or, why when I try so hard, am I still poor, while the guy across the road hardly has to lift a finger to make money? Wattles began following his own, self-devised philosophy course. He read all the greats, like Schopenhaur, Descartes, Spinoza, Hegel, Swedenborg, Emerson, as well as all the religious cannons and ancient scriptures. I know how he must have felt, because trauma and despair have in the past, led me to read avidly and hungrily as Wattles did, searching for answers to the seeming injustice and chaos of life. Okay, so reading a lot of musty old philosophy books isn't really that special. It's par for the course for confused youths, despairing souls and unemployable philosophers! What made Wattles so special, was that instead of wallowing in self-pity, or just indulging in the intellectual comforts of philosophy, he determined to scientifically experiment with the concepts he had read about, using his own life as his laboratory. Most of us are too emotionally attached to our troubles to be able to put them to such objective use. But Wattles had a unshakeable will, forged by his suffering and fed by his quest for true knowledge. He was a true seeker and a very practical seeker at that. He had the presence of mind to coolly and objectively assess the theories that he was putting to the test. Throughout his years of study, Wattles was forming a theory about life that became known as The New Thought. He was one of its earliest pioneers, in a line that goes right down to many popular motivational teachers of today, such as Jack Canfield, Bob Proctor and Michael Beckwith etc. Then Wattles did something that takes special talent---he communicated his findings in a practical, understandable way. He wrote about how to become rich, rather than about the theory of becoming rich. Because of his own life experiences, he realized that theory is all very well, but sometimes we can be so mired in our difficulties, we just need the practical information----without the waffle! And that is what this wonderful man did. His great gift to the world was the life-changing book The Science of Getting Rich. In today's lingo, he could have called it Getting Rich for Dummies! Or the DIY Guide to Getting Rich! Creative visualisation is a technique that became popular in the 1980's and 90's when Louise Hay and Shakti Gawain and others began to write about it. But way back in the nineteenth century, Wallace Wattles was practising creative visualisation. His daughter Florence Wattles said that "he wrote almost constantly. It was then that he formed his mental picture. Wallace Wattles saw himself as a successful writer, a personality of power, an advancing man, and he began to work toward the realization of this vision. Wallace Wattles lived every page ... Wallace Wattles's life was truly the powerful life." His visualisations became true and he did become a recognised writer, with several books to his name, thanks to the courage of his publisher Elizabeth Towne. His most successful book The Science of Getting Rich was published only a year before his untimely death, at the age of only 51. But his legacy lives on and gets stronger with time.
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Napoleon Hill
Women can be wealthy too!Wealth gives you the choice to be generous and wise and effective in pursuing your spiritual path!
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