The Master Key, Georg Erich Winter [interesting books to read for teens txt] 📗

The Master Key System Introduction

Nature compels us all to move through life. We could not remain stationary however much
we wished. Every right-thinking person wants not merely to move through life like a soundproducing,
perambulating plant, but to develop – to improve – and to continue the
development mentally to the close of physical life.
This development can occur only through the improvement of the quality of individual thought
and the ideals, actions and conditions that arise as a consequence. Hence a study of the
creative processes of thought and how to apply them is of supreme importance to each one
of us. This knowledge is the means whereby the evolution of human life on earth may be
hastened and uplifted in the process.
Humanity ardently seeks “The Truth” and explores every avenue to it. In this process it has
produced a special literature, which ranges the whole gamut of thought from the trivial to the
sublime – up from Divination, through all the Philosophies, to the final lofty Truth of “The
Master Key”.
The “Master Key” is here given to the world as a means of tapping the great cosmic
intelligence and attracting from it that which corresponds to the ambitions, and aspirations of
each reader.
Every thing and institution we see around us, created by human agency, had first to exist as
a thought in some human mind. Thought therefore is constructive. Human thought is the
spiritual power of the cosmos operating through its creature man. “The Master Key” instructs
the reader how to use that power, and use it both constructively and creatively. The things
and conditions we desire to become realities we must first create in thought. “The Master
Key” explains and guides the process………
“The Master Key” teaching has hitherto been published in the form of a Correspondence
Course of 24 lessons, delivered to students one per week for 24 weeks. The reader, who
now receives the whole 24 parts at one times, is warned not to attempt to read the book like
a novel, but to treat it as a course of study and conscientiously to imbibe the meaning of each
part – reading and re-reading one part only per week before proceeding to the next.
Otherwise the later parts will tend to be misunderstood and the reader’s time and money will
be wasted.
Used as thus instructed “The Master Key” will make of the reader a greater, better
personality, and equipped with a new power to achieve any worthy personal purpose and a
new ability to enjoy life’s beauty and wonder.


FOREWORD

Some men seem to attract success, power, wealth, attainment, with very little conscious
effort; others conquer with great difficulty; still others fail altogether to reach their ambitions,
desires and ideals. Why is this so: Why should some men realize their ambitions easily,
others with difficulty, and still others not at all? The cause cannot be physical, else the most
perfect men, physically, would be the most successful. The difference, therefore, must be
mental - must be in the mind; hence mind must be the creative force, must constitute the sole
difference between men. It is mind, therefore, which overcomes environment and every other
obstacle in the path of men.
When the creative power of thought is fully understood, its effect will be seen to be
marvelous. But such results cannot be secured without proper application, diligence, and
concentration. The student will find that the laws governing in the mental and spiritual world
are as fixed and infallible as in the material world. To secure the desired results, then, it is
necessary to know the law and to comply with it. A proper compliance with the law will be
found to produce the desired result with invariable exactitude. The student who learns that
power comes from within, that he is weak only because he has depended on help from
outside, and who unhesitatingly throws himself on his own thought, instantly rights himself,
stands erect, assumes a dominant attitude, and works miracles.
It is evident, therefore, that he who fails to fully investigate and take advantage of the
wonderful progress which is being made in this last and greatest science, will soon be as far
behind as the man who would refuse to acknowledge and accept the benefits which have
accrued to mankind through an understanding of the laws of electricity.
Of course, mind creates negative conditions just as readily as favorable conditions, and when
we consciously or unconsciously visualize every kind of lack, limitation and discord, we
create these conditions; this is what many are unconsciously doing all the time.
This law as well as every other law is no respecter of persons, but is in constant operation
and is relentlessly bringing to each individual exactly what he has created; in other words,
"Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap."
Abundance, therefore, depends upon a recognition of the laws of Abundance, and the fact
that Mind is not only the creator, but the only creator of all there is. Certainly nothing can be
created, before we know that it can be created and then make the proper effort. There is no
more Electricity in the world today than there was fifty years ago, but until someone
recognized the law by which it could be made of service, we received no benefit; now that the
law is understood, practically the whole world is lit by it. so with the law of Abundance; it is
only those who recognize the law and place themselves in harmony with it, who share in its
benefits.
The scientific spirit now dominates every field of effort, relations of cause and effect are no
longer ignored.
The discovery of a region of law marked and epoch in human progress. It eliminated the
element of uncertainty and caprice mens lives, and substituted law, reason and certitude.
Men now understand that for every result there is an adequate and definite cause, so that
when a given result is desired, they seek the condition by which alone this result may be
attained.
The basis upon which all law rests was discovered by inductive reasoning which consists of
comparing a number of separate instances with one another until the common factor which
gives rise to them all is seen.
It is this method of study to which the civilized nations owe the greater part of their prosperity
and the more valuable part of their knowledge; it has lengthened life, it has mitigated pain, it
has spanned rivers, it has brightened the night with the splendor of day, extended the range
of vision, accelerated motion, annihilated distance, facilitated intercourse, and enabled men
to descend into the sea, and into the air, what wonder then that men soon endeavored to
extend the blessings of this system of study to their method of thinking, so that when it
became plainly evident that certain results followed a particular method of thinking it only
remained to classify these results.
This is method is scientific, and it is the only method by which we shall be permitted retain
that degree of liberty and freedom which we have been accustomed to look upon as an
inalienable right, because a people is safe at home and in the world only if national
preparedness mean such things as growing surplus of health, accumulated efficiency in
public and private business of whatever sort, continuous advance in the science and art of
acting together, and the increasingly dominant endeavor to make all of these and all other
aspects of national development center and revolve about ascending life, single and
collective, for which science, art and ethics furnish guidance and controlling motives.
The Master Key is based on absolute scientific truth and will unfold the possibilities that lie
dormant in the individual, and teach how they may be brought into powerful action, to
increase the person's effective capacity, bringing added energy, discernment, vigor and
mental elasticity. The student who gains an understanding of the mental laws which re
unfolded will come into the possession of an ability to secure results hitherto undreamed of,
and which has rewards hardly to be expressed in words.
It explains the correct use of both the receptive and active elements of the mental nature,
and instructs the student in the recognition of opportunity; it strengthens the will and
reasoning powers, and teaches the cultivation and best uses of imagination, desire, the
emotions and the intuitional faculty. It gives initiative, tenacity of purpose, wisdom of choice,
intelligent sympathy and a thorough enjoyment of life on its higher planes.
The Master Key teaches the use of Mind Power, true Mind Power, not any of the substitutes
and perversions; it has nothing to do with Hypnotism, Magic or any of the more or less
fascinating deceptions by which many are led to think that something can be had for nothing.
The Master Key cultivates and develops the understanding which will enable you to control
the body and thereby the health. It improves and strengthens the Memory. It develops
Insight, the kind of Insight which is so rare, the kind which is the distinguishing characteristic
of every successful business man, the kind which enables men to see the possibilities as well
as the difficulties in every situation, the kind which enables men to discern opportunity close
at hand, for thousands fail to see opportunities almost within their grasp while they are
industriously working with situations which under no possibility can be made to realize any
substantial return.
The Master Key develops Mental Power which means that others instinctively recognize that
you are a person of force, of character - that they want to do what you want them to do; it
means that you attract men and things to you; that you are what some people call "lucky",
that "things" come you way' that you have come into an understanding of the fundamental
laws of Nature, and have put yourself in harmony with them; that you are in tune with Infinite;
that you understand the law of attraction, the Natural laws of growth, and the Psychological
laws on which all advantages in the he social and business world rest.
Mental Power is creative power, it gives you the ability to create for yourself; it does not
mean the ability to take something away from some one else. Nature never does things that
way. Nature makes two blades for grass grow where one grew before, and Mind Power
enables men to do the same thing.
The Master Key develops insight and sagacity increased independence, the ability and
disposition to be helpful' it destroys distrust, depression, fear, melancholia, and every form of
lack limitation and weakness, including pain and disease; it awakens buried talents, supplies
initiative, force, energy, vitality - it awakens an appreciation of the beautiful in Art, Literature
and Science.
It has changed the lives of thousands of men and women, by substituting definite principles
for uncertain and hazy methods - and principles for the foundation upon which every system
of efficiency must rest.
Elbert Gary, the chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, said "The services of
advisors, instructors, efficiency experts in successful management are indispensable to most
business enterprises of magnitude, but I deem the recognition and adoption of right principles
vastly more importance. "The Master Key teaches right principles, and suggests methods for
making a practical application of the principles; in that it differs from every other course of
study. It teaches that the only possible value which can attach to any principle is in its
application. Many read books, take home study courses, attend lectures all their lives without
ever making any progress in demonstrating the value of the principles involved. The Master
Key suggests methods by which the value of the