Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection - 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more

by Wallace D. Wattles

This carefully crafted "Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection - 10 Books in One The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Wallace Delois Wattles (1860-1911) was an American author. As a New Thought writer, he remains personally somewhat obscure, but his writing has been widely quoted and remains in print in the New Thought and self-help movements. Wattles often travelled to Chicago, where he gave "Sunday night lectures" among several leading New Thought authors. He studied the writings of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Ralph Waldo Emerson and recommended the study of their books to his readers who wished to understand what he characterized as "the monistic theory of the cosmos." Wattles' best known work is a 1910 book called The Science of Getting Rich in which he explained how to become wealthy. Table of "The Science of" The Science of Getting Rich The Science of Being Well The Science of Being Great Other Hellfire Harrison (A Novel) The Man and His Work A New Christ How to Get What You Want Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting The Personal Power Ten Lessons in Constructive Science "The Science of Getting Rich" was a major inspiration for Rhonda Byrne's bestselling book and film The Secret (2006). In The Science of Getting Rich Wattles explains how can a person overcome mental barriers, and how creation, not competition, is the hidden key to wealth attraction "The Science of Being Well" is not a philosophical treatise, but a practical guide and handbook for those whose main goal is health. "The Science of Being Great" is a personal self-help book of the author.

290 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 10, 2015

About the author

Wallace Delois Wattles was an American author. A New Thought writer, he remains personally somewhat obscure, but his writing has been widely quoted and remains in print in the New Thought and self-help movements. Wattles' best known work is a 1910 book called The Science of Getting Rich in which he explained how to become wealthy.

He studied the writings of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Ralph Waldo Emerson and recommended the study of their books to his readers who wished to understand what he characterized as "the monistic theory of the cosmos".

Through his personal study and experimentation Wattles claimed to have discovered the truth of New Thought principles and put them into practice in his own life. He wrote books outlining these principles and practices, giving them titles that described their content, such as Health Through New Thought and Fasting and The Science of Being Great. His daughter Florence recalled that "he lived every page" of his books.

A practical author, Wattles encouraged his readers to test his theories on themselves rather than take his word as an authority, and he claimed to have tested his methods on himself and others before publishing them.

Wattles practiced the technique of creative visualization. In his daughter Florence's words, he "formed a mental picture" or visual image, and then "worked toward the realization of this vision".

Rhonda Byrne told a Newsweek interviewer that her inspiration for creating the 2006 hit film The Secret and the subsequent book by the same name, was her exposure to Wattles's The Science of Getting Rich. Byrne's daughter, Hayley, had given her mother a copy of the Wattles book to help her recover from her breakdown.

Reviews

[Genét Simone · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was the clearest explanation of the Law of Attraction, in that we don't become wealthy by simply willing to be so, or working overly hard to make it so. Instead, we "imagine" ourselves as already being wealthy; we practice gratitude all day, for the moment we awaken to the moment we drift off again. When we think in a certain way and act in a certain way -- in alignment - then what we wish for HAS to come true; it's the law of the universe, just like gravity.

There is a lot to this little book, so it's one I will read many times. My one critique -- which is my critique of all of the books written by Wattles and people in his era -- is that all pronouns are male. I grew weary of swapping he, him, man, etc;, with She, Her, Woman. When I do the swapping, the text becomes more accessible to me. I have seriously contemplated retyping the entire book, using non-male pronouns! But, in spite of that, it was a very useful book, and I decided to get "The Ultimate Collection" too, as a result of learning that Wattles wrote a similar treatise about health.