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

any other way. The athlete may read books and lessons on physical training all his life, but
unless he begins to give out strength by actual work he will never receive any strength; he
will eventually get exactly what he gives; but he will have to give it first. It is exactly the same
with us; we will get exactly what we give, but we shall have to give it first. It will then return to
us many fold, and the giving is simply a mental process, because thoughts are causes and conditions are effects; therefore in giving thoughts of courage, inspiration, health or help of
any kind we are setting causes in motion which will bring about their effect.
23. Thought is a spiritual activity and is therefore creative, but make no mistake, thought will
create nothing unless it is consciously, systematically, and constructively directed; and herein
is the difference between idle thinking, which is simply a dissipation of effort, and constructive
thinking, which means practically unlimited achievement.
24. We have found that everything we get comes to us by the Law of Attraction. A happy
thought cannot exist in an unhappy consciousness; therefore the consciousness must
change, and, as the consciousness changes, all conditions necessary to meet the changed
consciousness must gradually change, in order to meet the requirements of the new
situation.
25. In creating a Mental Image or an Ideal, we are projecting a thought into the Universal
Substance from which all things are created. This Universal Substance is Omnipresent,
Omnipotent and Omniscient. Are we to inform the Omniscient as to the proper channel to be
used to materialize our demand? Can the finite advise the Infinite? This is the cause of
failure; of every failure. We recognize the Omnipresence of the Universal Substance, but we
fail to appreciate the fact that this substance is not only Omnipresent, but is Omnipotent and
Omniscient, and consequently will set causes in motion concerning which we may be entirely
ignorant.
26. We can best conserve our interests by recognizing the Infinite Power and Infinite Wisdom
of the Universal Mind, and in this way become a channel whereby the Infinite can bring about
the realization of our desire. This means that recognition brings about realization, therefore
for your exercise this week make use of the principle, recognize the fact that you are a part of
the whole, and that a part must be the same in kind and quality as the whole; the only
difference there can possibly by, is in degree.
27. When this tremendous fact begins to permeate your consciousness, when you really
come into a realization of the fact that you (not your body, but the Ego), the "I," the spirit
which thinks is an integral part of the great whole, that it is the same in substance, in quality,
in kind, that the Creator could create nothing different from Himself, you will also be able to
say, "The Father and I are one" and you will come into an understanding of the beauty, the
grandeur, the transcendental opportunities which have been placed at your disposal.
"Increase in me that wisdom
Which discovers my truest interest,
Strengthen my resolution
To perform that which wisdom dictates."
- Franklin


PART THIRTEEN Study Questions with Answers

121. What is the method by which natural philosophers obtain and apply their knowledge? To
observe individual facts carefully, patiently, accurately, with all the instruments and resources
at their command, before venturing upon a statement of general laws.
122. How may we be certain that this method is correct? By not permitting a tyrannical
prejudice to neglect or mutilate unwelcome facts.
123. What class of facts are esteemed most highly? Those which cannot be accounted for by
the usual daily observation of life.
124. Upon what is this principle founded? Upon reason and experience.
125. What does it destroy? Superstition, precedent and conventionality.
126. How have these laws been discovered? By a generalization of facts which are
uncommon, rare, strange and form the exception.
127. How may we account for much of the strange and heretofore unexplainable phenomena
which is constantly taking place? By the creative power of thought.
128. Why is this so? Because when we learn of a fact we can be sure that it is the result of a
certain definite cause and that this cause will operate with invariable precision.
129. What is the result of this knowledge? It will explain the cause of every possible
condition, whether physical, mental or spiritual.
130. How will our best interest be conserved? By a recognition of the fact that a knowledge of
the creative nature of thought puts us in touch with Infinite power.


INTRODUCTION - PART FOURTEEN

You have found from your study thus far that thought is a spiritual activity and is therefore
endowed with creative power. This does not mean that some thought is creative, but that all
thought is creative. This same principle can be brought into operation in a negative way,
through the process of denial.
The conscious and subconscious are but two phases of action in connection with one mind.
The relation of the subconscious to the conscious is quite analogous to that existing between
a weather vane and the atmosphere. Just as the least pressure of the atmosphere causes an
action on the part of the weather vane, so does the least thought entertained by the
conscious mind produce within your subconscious mind action in exact proportion to the
depth of feeling characterizing the thought and the intensity with which the thought is
indulged.
It follows that if you deny unsatisfactory conditions, you are withdrawing the creative power of
your thought from these conditions. You are cutting them away at the root. You are sapping
their vitality.
Remember that the law of growth necessarily governs every manifestation in the objective,
so that a denial of unsatisfactory conditions will not bring about instant change. A plant will
remain visible for some time after its roots have been cut, but it will gradually fade away and
eventually disappear, so the withdrawal of your thought from the contemplation of
unsatisfactory conditions will gradually, but surely, terminate these conditions.
You will see that this is an exactly opposite course from the one which we would naturally be
inclined to adopt. It will therefore have an exactly opposite effect to the one usually secured.
Most persons concentrate intently upon unsatisfactory conditions, thereby giving the
condition that measure of energy and vitality which is necessary in order to supply a vigorous
growth.
PART FOURTEEN
1. The Universal Energy in which all motion, light, heat, and color have their origin, does not
partake of the limitation of the many effects of which it is the cause, but it is supreme over
them all. This Universal Substance is the source of all Power, Wisdom and Intelligence.
2. To recognize this Intelligence is to acquaint yourself with the knowing quality of Mind and
through it to move upon the Universal Substance, and bring it into harmonious relations in
your affairs.
3. This is something that the most learned physical science teacher has not attempted -- a
field of discovery upon which he has not yet launched; in fact, but few of the materialistic
schools have ever caught the first ray of this light. It does not seem to have dawned upon
them that wisdom is just as much present everywhere as are force and substance.
4. Some will say, if these principles are true, why are we not demonstrating them? As the
fundamental principle is obviously correct, why do we not get proper results? We do. We get
results in exact accordance with our understanding of the law and our ability to make the proper application. We secured no results from the laws governing electricity until someone
formulated the law and showed us how to apply it.
5. This puts us in an entirely new relation to our environment, opening up possibilities
previously undreamed of, and this by an orderly sequence of law which is naturally involved
in our new mental attitude.
6. Mind is creative and the principle upon which this law is based is sound and legitimate and
is inherent in the nature of things; but this creative power does not originate in the individual,
but in the Universal, which is the source and fountain of all energy and substance, the
individual is simply the channel for the distribution of this energy. The individual is the means
by which the Universal produces the various combinations which result in the formation of
phenomena.
7. We know that scientists have resolved matter into an immense number of molecules;
these molecules have been resolved into atoms, and the atoms into electrons. The discovery
of electrons in high vacuum glass tubes containing fused terminals of hard metal, indicates
conclusively that these electrons fill all space; that they exist everywhere, that they are
omnipresent. They fill all material bodies and occupy the whole of what we call empty space.
This, then, is the Universal Substance from which all things proceed.
8. Electrons would forever remain electrons unless directed where to go to be assembled into
atoms and molecules, and this director is Mind. A number of electrons revolving around a
center of force constitutes an atom; atoms unite in absolutely regular mathematical ratios and
form molecules, and these unite with each other to form a multitude of compounds which
unite to build the Universe.
9. The lightest known atom is hydrogen and this is 1,700 times heavier than an electron. An
atom of mercury is 300,000 times heavier than an electron. Electrons are pure negative
electricity, and as they have the same potential velocity as all other cosmic energy, such as
heat, light, electricity and thought (189,380 miles per second), neither time nor space require
consideration. The manner in which the velocity of light was ascertained is interesting.
10. The velocity of light was obtained by the Danish astronomer Roemer in 1676, by
observing the eclipses of Jupiter's moons. When the earth was nearest to Jupiter, the eclipse
appeared about eight and one-half minutes too soon for the calculations, and when the earth
was most remote from Jupiter, they were about eight and one-half minutes too late. Roemer
concluded the reason to be that it required 17 minutes for light from the planet to traverse the
diameter of the earth's orbit, which measured the difference of the distances of the earth from
Jupiter. This calculation has since been verified, and proves that light travels about 186,000
miles a second.
11. Electrons manifest in the body as cells, and possess mind and intelligence sufficient for
them to perform their functions in the human physical anatomy. Every part of the body is
composed of cells, some of which operate independently; others in communities. Some are
busy building tissue, while others are engaged in forming the various secretions necessary
for the body. Some act as carriers of material; others are the surgeons whose work it is to
repair damage; others are scavengers, carrying off waste; others are constantly ready to
repel invaders or other undesirable intruders of the germ family.
12. All these cells are moving for a common purpose and each one is not only a living
organism, but has sufficient intelligence to enable it to perform its necessary duties. It is also endowed with sufficient intelligence to conserve the energies and perpetuate its own life. It
must, therefore, secure sufficient nourishment and it has been found that it exercises choice
in the selection of such nourishment.
13. Each cell is born, reproduces itself, dies and is absorbed. The maintenance of health and
life itself depends upon the constant regeneration of these cells.
14. It is therefore apparent that there is mind in every atom of the body; this mind is negative
mind, and the power of the individual to think makes him positive, so that he can control this
negative mind. This is the