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

constructive thought. The light by which we penetrate
new worlds of thought and experience. The mighty instrument by which every inventor or
discoverer opened the way from precedent to experience.
72. What is the result of imagination? The cultivation of the imagination leads to the
development of the ideal out of which your future will emerge.
73. How may it be cultivated? By exercise; it must be supplied with nourishment or it cannot
live.
74. How does imagination differ from day dreaming? Day dreaming is a form of mental
dissipation, while imagination is a form of constructive thought which must precede every
constructive action.
75. What are mistakes? The result of ignorance.
76. What is knowledge? The result of man's ability to think.
77. What is the power with which successful men build? Mind is the very moving force with
which they secure the persons and circumstances necessary to complete their plans.
78. What pre-determines the result? The ideal held steadily in mind attracts the necessary
conditions for its fulfillment.
79. What is the result of a keen analytical observation? The development of imagination,
insight, perception and sagacity.
80. To what do these lead? Opulence and harmony.


INTRODUCTION - PART NINE
In this Part you may learn to fashion the tools by which you may build for yourself any
condition you desire.
If you wish to change conditions you must change yourself. Your whims, your wishes, your
fancies, your ambitions may be thwarted at every step, but your inmost thoughts will find
expression just as certainly as the plant springs from the seed.
Suppose, then, we desire to change conditions, how are we to bring this about? The reply is
simple: By the law of growth. Cause and effect are as absolute and undeviating in the hidden
realm of thought as in the world of material things.
Hold in mind the condition desired; affirm it as an already existing fact. This indicates the
value of a powerful affirmation. By constant repetition it becomes a part of ourselves. We are
actually changing ourselves; are making ourselves what we want to be.
Character is not a thing of chance, but it is the result of continued effort. If you are timid,
vacillating, self-conscious, or if you are over-anxious or harassed by thoughts of fear or
impending danger, remember that is axiomatic that "two things cannot exist in the same
place at the same time." Exactly the same thing is true in the mental and spiritual world; so
that your remedy is plainly to substitute thoughts of courage, power, self-reliance and
confidence, for those of fear, lack and limitation.
The easiest and most natural way to do this is to select an affirmation which seems to fit your
particular case. The positive thought will destroy the negative as certainly as light destroys
darkness, and the results will be just as effectual.
Act is the blossom of thought, and conditions are the result of action, so that you constantly
have in your possession the tools by which you will certainly and inevitably make or unmake
yourself, and joy or suffering will be the reward.
PART NINE
1. There are only three things which can possibly be desired in the "world without" and each
of them can be found in the "world within." The secret of finding them is simply to apply the
proper "mechanism" of attachment to the omnipotent power to which each individual has
access.
2. The three things which all mankind desires and which are necessary for his highest
expression and complete development are Health, Wealth and Love. All will admit that Health
is absolutely essential; no one can be happy if the physical body is in pain. All will not so
readily admit that Wealth is necessary, but all must admit that a sufficient supply at least is
necessary, and what would be considered sufficient for one, would be considered absolute
and painful lack for another; and as Nature provides not only enough but abundantly,
wastefully, lavishly, we realize that any lack or limitation is only the limitation which has been
made by an artificial method of distribution.
3. All will probably admit that Love is the third, or maybe some will say the first essential
necessary to the happiness of mankind; at any rate, those who possess all three, Health,
Wealth, and Love, find nothing else which can be added to their cup of happiness.
4. We have found that the Universal substance is "All Health," "All Substance" and "All Love"
and that the mechanism of attachment whereby we can consciously connect with this Infinite
supply is in our method of thinking. To think correctly is therefore to enter into the "Secret
Place of the Most High."
5. What shall we think? If we know this we shall have found the proper mechanism of
attachment which will relate us to "Whatsoever things we desire." This mechanism may seem
very simple when I give it to you, but read on; you will find that it is in reality the "Master-
Key," the "Aladdin’s lamp," if you please; you will find that it is the foundation, the imperative
condition, the absolute law of well-doing, which means, well-being.
6. To think correctly, accurately, we must know the "Truth." The truth then is the underlying
principle in every business or social relation. It is a condition precedent to every right action.
To know the truth, to be sure, to be confident, affords a satisfaction beside which no other is
at all comparable; it is the only solid ground in a world of doubt, conflict and danger.
7. To know the Truth is to be in harmony with the Infinite and Omnipotent power. To know the
truth is, therefore, to connect yourself with a power which is irresistible and which will sweep
away every kind of discord, inharmony, doubt or error of any kind, because the "Truth is
mighty and will prevail."
8. The humblest intellect can readily foretell the result of any action when he knows that it is
based on truth, but the mightiest intellect, the most profound and penetrating mind loses its
way hopelessly and can form no conception of the results which may ensue when his hopes
are based on a premise which he knows to be false.
9. Every action which is not in harmony with Truth, whether through ignorance or design, will
result in discord, and eventual loss in proportion to its extent and character.
10. How then are we to know the truth in order to attach this mechanism which will relate us
to the Infinite?
11. We can make no mistake about this if we realize that truth is the vital principle of the
Universal Mind and is Omnipresent. For instance, if you require health, a realization of the
fact that the "I" in you is spiritual and that all spirit is one; that wherever a part is the whole
must be, will bring about a condition of health, because every cell in the body must manifest
the truth as you see it. If you see sickness; they will manifest sickness; if you see perfection
they must manifest perfection. The affirmation, "I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving,
harmonious and happy”, will bring about harmonious conditions. The reason for this is
because the affirmation is in strict accordance with the Truth, and when truth appears every
form of error or discord must necessarily disappear.
12. You have found that the "I" is spiritual, it must necessarily then always be no less than
perfect, the affirmation. "I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy"
is therefore an exact scientific statement.
13. Thought is a spiritual activity and spirit is creative, therefore the result of holding this
thought in mind, must necessarily bring about conditions in harmony with the thought.
14. If you require Wealth a realization of the fact that the "I" in you is one with the Universal
mind which is all substance, and is Omnipotent, will assist you in bringing into operation the
law of attraction which will bring you into vibration with those forces which make for success
and bring about conditions of power and affluence in direct proportion with the character and
purpose of your affirmation.
15. Visualization is the mechanism of the attachment which you require. Visualization is a
very different process from seeing; seeing is physical, and is therefore related to the
objective world, the "world without," but Visualization is a product of the imagination, and is
therefore a product of the subjective mind, the "world within." It therefore possesses vitality; it
will grow. The thing visualized will manifest itself in form. The mechanism is perfect; it was
created by the Master Architect who "doeth all things well," but unfortunately sometimes the
operator is inexperienced or inefficient, but practice and determination will overcome this
defect.
16. If you require Love try to realize that the only way to get love is by giving it, that the more
you give the more you will get, and the only way in which you can give it, is to fill yourself with
it, until you become a magnet. The method was explained in another lesson.
17. He who has learned to bring the greatest spiritual truths into touch with the so-called
lesser things of life has discovered the secret of the solution of his problem. One is always
quickened, made more thoughtful, by his nearness of approach to great ideas, great events,
great natural objects, and great men. Lincoln is said to have begotten in all who came near
him the feeling awakened when one approaches a mountain, and this sense asserts itself
most keenly when one comes to realize that he has laid hold upon things that are eternal, the
power of Truth.
18. It is sometimes an inspiration to hear from someone who has actually put these principles
to the test, someone who has demonstrated them in their own life. A letter from Frederick
Andrews offers the following insight:
19. I was about thirteen years old when Dr. T. W. Marsee, since passed over, said to my
mother: "There is no possible chance, Mrs. Andrews. I lost my little boy the same way, after
doing everything for him that it was possible to do. I have made a special study of these
cases, and I know there is no possible chance for him to get well."
20. She turned to him and said: "Doctor, what would you do if he were your boy?" and he
answered, "I would fight, fight, as long as there is a breath of life to fight for."
21. That was the beginning of a long drawn-out battle, with many ups and downs, the doctors
all agreeing that there was no chance for a cure, though they encouraged and cheered us
the best they could.
22. But at last the victory came, and I have grown from a little, crooked, twisted, cripple,
going about on my hands and knees, to a strong, straight, well formed man.
23. Now, I know you want the formula, and I will give it to you as briefly and quickly as I can.
24. I built up an affirmation for myself, taking the qualities I most needed, and affirming for
myself over and over again, "I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and
happy." I kept up this affirmation, always the same, never varying, till I could wake up in the night and find myself repeating, "I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious
and happy." It was the last thing on my lips at night and the first thing in the morning.
25. Not only did I affirm it for myself, but for others that I knew needed it. I want to emphasize
this point. Whatever you desire for yourself, affirm it for others, and it will help you both. We
reap what we sow. If we send out thoughts of love and health, they return to us