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

in the largest sense, induce, guide and determine
action.
8. It is our privilege to become conscious of the principle and act in accordance with it. Cuvier
sees a tooth belonging to an extinct race of animals. This tooth wants a body for the
performance of its function, and it defines the peculiar body it stands in need of with such
precision that Cuvier is able to reconstruct the frame of this animal.
9. Perturbations are observed in the motion of Uranus. Leverrier needs another star at a
certain place to keep the solar system in order, and Neptune appears in the place and hour
appointed.
10. The instinctive wants of the animal and the intellectual wants of Cuvier, the wants of
nature and of the mind of Leverrier were alike, and thus the results; here the thoughts of an
existence, there an existence. A well-defined lawful want, therefore, furnishes the reason for
the more complex operations of nature.
11. Having recorded correctly the answers furnished by nature and stretched our senses with
the growing science over her surface; having joined hands with the levers that move the
earth; we become conscious of such a close, varied and deep contact with the world without,
that our wants and purposes become no less identified with the harmonious operations of
this vast organization, than the life, liberty, and happiness of the citizen is identified with the
existence of his government.
12. As the interests of the individual are protected by the arms of the country, added to his
own; and his needs may depend upon certain supply in the degree that they are felt more
universally and steadily; in the same manner does conscious citizenship in the Republic of
nature secure us from the annoyances of subordinate agents by alliance with superior
powers; and by appeal to the fundamental laws of resistance or inducement offered to
mechanical or chemical agents, distribute the labor to be performed between them and man
to the best advantage of the inventor.
13. If Plato could have witnessed the pictures executed by the sun with the assistance of the
photographer, or a hundred similar illustrations of what man does by induction, he would
perhaps have been reminded of the intellectual midwifery of his master and, in his own mind
might have arisen the vision of a land where all manual, mechanical labor and repetition is
assigned to the power of nature, where our wants are satisfied by purely mental operations
set in motion by the will, and where the supply is created by the demand.
14. However distant that land may appear, induction has taught men to make strides toward
it and has surrounded him with benefits which are, at the same time, rewards for past fidelity
and incentives for more assiduous devotion.
15. It is also an aid in concentrating and strengthening our faculties for the remaining part,
giving unerring solution for individual as well as universal problems, by the mere operations
of mind in the purest form.
16. Here we find a method, the spirit of which is, to believe that what is sought has been
accomplished, in order to accomplish it: a method, bequeathed upon us by the same Plato
who, outside of this sphere, could never find how the ideas became realities.
17. This conception is also elaborated by Swedenborg in his doctrine of correspondences;
and a still greater teacher has said, "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that
ye receive them, and ye shall have them." (Mark 11:24) The difference of the tenses in this
passage is remarkable.
18. We are first to believe that our desire has already been fulfilled, its accomplishment will
then follow. This is a concise direction for making use of the creative power of thought by
impressing on the Universal subjective mind, the particular thing which we desire as an
already existing fact.
19. We are thus thinking on the plane of the absolute and eliminating all consideration of
conditions or limitation and are planting a seed which, if left undisturbed, will finally germinate
into external fruition.
20. To review: Inductive reasoning is the process of the objective mind, by which we
compare a number of separate instances with one another until we see the common factor
that gives rise to them all. We see people in every civilized country on the globe, securing
results by some process which they do not seem to understand themselves, and to which
they usually attach more or less mystery. Our reason is given to us for the purpose of
ascertaining the law by which these results are accomplished.
21. The operation of this thought process is seen in those fortunate natures that possess
everything that others must acquire by toil, who never have a struggle with conscience
because they always act correctly, and can never conduct themselves otherwise than with
tact, learn everything easily, complete everything they begin with a happy knack, live in
eternal harmony with themselves, without ever reflecting much what they do, or ever
experiencing difficulty or toil.
22. The fruit of this thought is, as it were, a gift of the gods, but a gift which few as yet realize,
appreciate, or understand. The recognition of the marvelous power which is possessed by
the mind under proper conditions and the fact that this power can be utilized, directed, and
made available for the solution of every human problem is of transcendental importance.
23. All truth is the same, whether stated in modern scientific terms or in the language of
apostolic times. There are timid souls who fail to realize that the very completeness of truth
requires various statement -- that no one human formula will show every side of it.
24. Changing, emphasis, new language, novel interpretations, unfamiliar perspectives, are
not, as some suppose, signs of departure from truth but on the contrary, they are evidence
that the truth is being apprehended in new relations to human needs, and is becoming more
generally understood.
25. The truth must be told to each generation and to every people in new and different terms,
so that when the Great Teacher said -- "Believe that ye receive and ye shall receive" or,
when Paul said -- "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not
seen" or, when modern science says -- "The law of attraction is the law by which thought
correlates with its object", each statement when subjected to analysis, is found to contain
exactly the same truth. The only difference being in the form of presentation.
26. We are standing on the threshold of a new era. The time has arrived when man has
learned the secrets of mastery and the way is being prepared for a new social order, more
wonderful than anything every heretofore dreamed of. The conflict of modern science with
theology, the study of comparative religions, the tremendous power of new social
movements, all of these are but clearing the way for the new order. They may have destroyed traditional forms which have become antiquated and impotent, but nothing of value
has been lost.
27. A new faith has been born, a faith which demands a new form of expression, and this
faith is taking form in a deep consciousness of power which is being manifested, in the
present spiritual activity found on every hand.
28. The spirit which sleeps in the mineral, breathes in the vegetable, moves in the animal and
reaches its highest development in man is the Universal Mind, and it behooves us to span
the gulf between being and doing, theory and practice, by demonstrating our understanding
of the dominion which we have been given.
29. By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought. The importance
of this discovery has been a little slow in reaching the general consciousness, but it has
arrived, and already in every field of research the importance of this greatest of all great
discoveries is being demonstrated.
30. You ask in what does the creative power of thought consist? It consists in creating ideas,
and these in turn objectify themselves by appropriating, inventing, observing, discerning,
discovering, analyzing, ruling, governing, combining, and applying matter and force. It can do
this because it is an intelligent creative power.
31. Thought reaches its loftiest activity when plunged into its own mysterious depth; when it
breaks through the narrow compass of self and passes from truth to truth to the region of
eternal light, where all which is, was or ever will be, melt into one grand harmony.
32. From this process of self contemplation comes inspiration which is creative intelligence,
and which is undeniably superior to every element, force or law of nature, because it can
understand, modify, govern and apply them to its own ends and purposes and therefore
possess them.
33. Wisdom begins with the dawn of reason, and reason is but an understanding of the
knowledge and principles whereby we may know the true meaning of things. Wisdom, then,
is illuminated reason, and this wisdom leads to humility, for humility is a large part of
Wisdom.
34. We all know many who have achieved the seemingly impossible, who have realized lifelong
dreams, who have changed everything including themselves. We have sometimes
marveled at the demonstration of an apparently irresistible power, which seemed to be ever
available just when it was most needed, but it is all clear now. All that is required is an
understanding of certain definite fundamental principles and their proper application.
35. For your exercise this week, concentrate on the quotation taken from the Bible,
"Whatsoever things ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them and ye shall have
them"; notice that there is no limitation, "Whatsoever things" is very definite and implies that
the only limitation which is placed upon us in our ability to think, to be equal to the occasion,
to rise to the emergency, to remember that Faith is not a shadow, but a substance, "the
substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
“Death is but the natural process whereby all material forms are thrown into the crucible for
reproduction in fresh diversity.”


PART ELEVEN Study Questions with Answers

101. What is inductive reasoning? The process of the objective mind by which we compare a
number of separate instances with each other until we see the common factor which gives
rise to them all.
102. What has this method of studying accomplished? It has resulted in the discovery of a
reign of law which has marked an epoch in human progress.
103. What is it that guides and determines action? It is need, want and desire which in the
largest sense induce, guide and determine action.
104. What is the formula for the unerring solution of every individual problem? We are to
believe that our desire has already been fulfilled; its accomplishment will then follow.
105. What great Teachers advocated it? Jesus, Plato, Swedenborg.
106. What is the result of this thought process? We are thinking on the plane of the absolute
and planting a seed, which if left undisturbed will germinate into fruition.
107. Why is it scientifically exact? Because it is Natural Law.
108. What is Faith? "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things
unseen."
109. What is the Law of Attraction? The Law by which Faith is brought into manifestation.
110. What importance do you attach to an understanding of this law? It has eliminated the
elements of uncertainty and caprice from men's lives and substituted law, reason, and
certitude.



INTRODUCTION - PART TWELVE

Part Twelve is enclosed herewith. In the fourth paragraph you will find the following
statement: "You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare;
third, the faith to do."
If you concentrate upon the thoughts given, if you give them your entire attention, you