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

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find a world of meaning in each sentence, and will attract to yourself other thoughts in
harmony with them, and you will soon grasp the full significance of the vital knowledge upon
which you are concentrating.
Knowledge does not apply itself; we as individuals must make the application, and the
application consists in fertilizing the thought with a living purpose.
The time and thought which most persons waste in aimless effort would accomplish wonders
if properly directed with some special object in view. In order to do this, it is necessary to
center your mental force upon a specific thought and hold it there, to the exclusion of all other
thoughts. If you have ever looked through the viewfinder on a video camera, you found that
when the object was not in focus, the impression was indistinct and possibly blurred, but
when the proper focus was obtained the picture was clear and distinct. This illustrates the
power of concentration. Unless you can concentrate upon the object which you have in view,
you will have but a hazy, indifferent, vague, indistinct and blurred outline of your ideal and the
results will be in accordance with your mental picture.
PART TWELVE
1. There is no purpose in life that cannot be best accomplished through a scientific
understanding of the creative power of thought.
2. This power to think is common to all. Man is, because he thinks. Man's power to think is
infinite, consequently his creative power is unlimited.
3. We know that thought is building for us the thing we think of and actually bringing it nearer,
yet we find it difficult to banish fear, anxiety or discouragement, all of which are powerful
thought forces, and which continually send the things we desire further away, so that it is
often one step forward and two steps backward.
4. The only way to keep from going backward is to keep going forward. Eternal vigilance is
the price of success. There are three steps, and each one is absolutely essential. You must
first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.
5. With this as a basis you can construct an ideal business, an ideal home, ideal friends, and
an ideal environment. You are not restricted as to material or cost. Thought is omnipotent
and has the power to draw on the Infinite bank of primary substance for all that it requires.
Infinite resources are therefore at your command.
6. But your ideal must be sharp, clear-cut, definite; to have one ideal today, another
tomorrow, and a third next week, means to scatter your forces and accomplish nothing; your
result will be a meaningless and chaotic combination of wasted material.
7. Unfortunately this is the result which many are securing, and the cause is self evident. If a
sculptor started out with a piece of marble and a chisel and changed his ideal every fifteen
minutes, what result could he expect? And why should you expect any different result in
molding the greatest and most plastic of all substances, the only real substance?
8. The result of this indecision and negative thought is often found in the loss of material
wealth. Supposed independence which required many years of toil and effort suddenly
disappears. It is often found then that money and property are not independence at all. On
the contrary, the only independence is found to be a practical working knowledge of the
creative power of thought.
9. This practical working method cannot come to you until you learn that the only real power
which you can have is the power to adjust yourself to Divine and unchangeable principles.
You cannot change the Infinite, but you can come into an understanding of Natural laws. The
reward of this understanding is a conscious realization of your ability to adjust your thought
faculties with the Universal Thought which is Omnipresent. Your ability to cooperate with this
Omnipotence will indicate the degree of success with which you meet.
10. The power of thought has many counterfeits which are more or less fascinating, but the
results are harmful instead of helpful.
11. Of course, worry, fear, and all negative thoughts produce a crop after their kind; those
who harbor thoughts of this kind must inevitably reap what they have sown.
12. Again, there are the Phenomena seekers who gormandize on the so-called proofs and
demonstration obtained at materializing seances. They throw open their mental doors and
soak themselves in the most poisonous currents which can be found in the psychic world.
They do not seem to understand that it is the ability to become negative, receptive and
passive, and thus drain themselves of all their vital force, which enables them to bring about
these vibratory thought forms.
13. There are also the Hindu worshippers, who see in the materializing phenomena which
are performed by the so-called adepts, a source of power, forgetting, or never seeming to
realize that as soon as the will is withdrawn the forms wither, and the vibratory forces of
which they are composed vanish.
14. Telepathy, or thought transference, has received considerable attention, but as it requires
a negative mental state on the part of the receiver, the practice is harmful. A thought may be
sent with the intention of hearing or seeing, but it will bring the penalty attached to the
inversion of the principle involved.
15. In many instances, hypnotism is positively dangerous to the subject as well as the
operator. No one familiar with the laws governing in the mental world would think of
attempting to dominate the will of another, for by so doing, he will gradually (but surely) divest
himself of his own power.
16. All of these perversions have their temporary satisfaction and for some a keen
fascination, but there is an infinitely greater fascination in a true understanding of the world of
power within, a power which increases with use; is permanent instead of fleeing; which not
only is potent as a remedial agency to bring about the remedy for past error or results of
wrong thinking, but is a prophylactic agency protecting us from all manner and form of danger, and finally is an actual creative force with which we can build new conditions and
new environment.
17. The law is that thought will correlate with its object and bring forth in the material world
the correspondence of the thing thought or produced in the mental world. We then discern
the absolute necessity of seeing that every thought has the inherent germ of truth in order
that the law of growth will bring into manifestation good, for good alone can confer any
permanent power.
18. The principle which gives the thought the dynamic power to correlate with its object, and
therefore to master every adverse human experience, is the law of attraction, which is
another name for love. This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in
every system of Philosophy, in every Religion, and in every Science. There is no getting
away from the law of love. It is feeling that imparts vitality to thought. Feeling is desire, and
desire is love. Thought impregnated with love becomes invincible.
19. We find this truth emphasized wherever the power of thought is understood, The
Universal Mind is not only Intelligence, but it is substance, and this substance is the attractive
force which brings electrons together by the law of attraction so that they form atoms; the
atoms in turn are brought together by the same law and form molecules; molecules take
objective forms; and so we find that the law of love is the creative force behind every
manifestation, not only of atoms, but of worlds, of the Universe, of everything of which the
imagination can form any conception.
20. It is the operation of this marvelous law of attraction which has caused men in all ages
and all times to believe that there must be some personal being who responded to their
petitions and desires, and manipulated events in order to comply with their requirements.
21. It is the combination of Thought and Love which forms the irresistible force, called the law
of attraction. All natural laws are irresistible, the law of Gravitation, or Electricity, or any other
law operates with mathematical exactitude. There is no variation, it is only the channel of
distribution which may be imperfect. If a bridge falls, we do not attribute the collapse to any
variation of the law of gravitation. If a light fails us, we do not conclude that the laws
governing electricity cannot be depended upon, and if the law of attraction seems to be
imperfectly demonstrated by an inexperienced or uninformed person, we are not to conclude
that the greatest and most infallible law upon which the entire system of creation depends
has been suspended. We should rather conclude that a little more understanding of the law
is required, for the same reason that a correct solution of a difficult problem in Mathematics is
not always readily and easily obtained.
22. Things are created in the mental or spiritual world be fore they appear in the outward act
or event. by the simple process of governing our thought forces today, we help create the
events which will come into our lives in the future, perhaps even tomorrow. Educated desire
is the most potent means of bringing into action the law of attraction.
23. Man is so constituted that he must first create the tools, or implements by which he gains
the power to think. The mind cannot comprehend an entirely new idea until a corresponding
vibratory brain cell has been prepared to receive it. This explains why it is so difficult for us to
receive or appreciate an entirely new idea; we have no brain cell capable of receiving it; we
are therefore incredulous; we do not believe it.
24. If, therefore, you have not been familiar with the Omnipotence of the law of attraction,
and the scientific method by which it can be put into operation, or if you have not been
familiar with the unlimited possibilities which it opens to those who are enabled to take
advantage of the resources it offers, begin now and create the necessary brain cells which
will enable you to comprehend the unlimited powers which may be yours by cooperating with
Natural Law. This is done by concentration or attention.
25. The intention governs the attention. Power comes through repose. It is by concentration
that deep thoughts, wise speech, and all forces of high potentiality are accomplished.
26. It is in the Silence that you get into touch with the Omnipotent power of the subconscious
mind from which all power is evolved.
27. He who desires wisdom, power, or permanent success of any kind will find it only within;
it is an unfoldment. The unthinking may conclude that the silence is very simple and easily
attained, but it should be remembered that only in absolute silence may one come into
contact with Divinity itself; may learn of the unchangeable law and open for himself the
channels by which persistent practice and concentration lead to perfection.
28. This week go to the same room, take the same chair, the same position as previously; be
sure to relax, let go, both mentally and physically; always do this; never try to do any mental
work under pressure; see that there are no tense muscles or nerves, that you are entirely
comfortable. Now realize your unity with omnipotence; get into touch with this power, come
into a deep and vital understanding, appreciation, and realization of the fact that your ability
to think is your ability to act upon the Universal Mind, and bring it into manifestation, realize
that it will meet any and every requirement; that you have exactly the same potential ability
which any individual ever did have or ever will have, because each is but an expression or
manifestation