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

scientific explanation for metaphysical healing, and will enable
anyone to understand the principle upon which this remarkable phenomenon rests.
15. This negative mind, which is contained in every cell of the body, has been called the
subconscious mind, because it acts without our conscious knowledge. We have found that
this subconscious mind is responsive to the will of the conscious mind.
16. All things have their origin in mind, and appearances are the result of thought. So that we
see that things in themselves have no origin, permanency, or reality. Since they are
produced by thought, they can be erased by thought.
17. In mental, as in natural science, experiments are being made and each discovery lifts
man one step higher toward his possible goal. We find that every man is the reflection of the
thought he has entertained during his lifetime. This is stamped on his face, his form, his
character, his environment. 18. Back of every effect there is a cause, and if we follow the trail
to its starting point, we shall find the creative principle out of which it grew. Proofs of this are
now so complete that this truth is generally accepted.
19. The objective world is controlled by an unseen and, heretofore, unexplainable power. We
have, heretofore, personalized this power and called it God. We have now, however, learned
to look upon it as the permeating essence or Principle of all that exists -- the Infinite or
Universal Mind.
20. The Universal Mind, being infinite and omnipotent, has unlimited resources at its
command, and when we remember that it is also omnipresent, we cannot escape the
conclusion that we must be an expression or manifestation of that Mind.
21. A recognition and understanding of the resources of the subconscious mind will indicate
that the only difference between the subconscious and the Universal is one of degree. They
differ only as a drop of water differs from the ocean. They are the same in kind and quality,
the difference is one of degree only.
22. Do you, can you, appreciate the value of this all-important fact; do you realize that a
recognition of this tremendous fact places you in touch with Omnipotence? The
subconscious mind being the connecting link between the Universal Mind and the conscious
mind, is it not evident that the conscious mind can consciously suggest thoughts which the
subconscious mind will put into action, and as the subconscious is one with the Universal, is
it not evident that no limit can be placed upon its activities?
23. A scientific understanding of this principle will explain the wonderful results which are
secured through the power of prayer. The results which are secured in this way are not
brought about by any special dispensations of providence, but on the contrary, they are the result of the operation of a perfectly natural law. There is, therefore, nothing either religious
or mysterious about it.
24. Yet there are many who are not ready to enter into the discipline necessary to think
correctly, even though it is evident that wrong thinking has brought failure.
25. Thought is the only reality; conditions are but the outward manifestations; as the thought
changes, all outward or material conditions must change in order to be in harmony with their
creator, which is thought.
26. But the thought must be clear cut, steady, fixed, definite, unchangeable; you cannot take
one step forward and two steps backward, neither can you spend twenty or thirty years of
your life building up negative conditions as the result of negative thoughts, and then expect to
see them all melt away as the result of fifteen or twenty minutes of right thinking.
27. If you enter into the discipline necessary to bring about a radical change in your life, you
must do so deliberately, after giving the matter careful thought and full consideration, and
then you must allow nothing to interfere with your decision.
28. This discipline, this change of thought, this mental attitude will not only bring you the
material things which are necessary for your highest and best welfare, but will bring health
and harmonious conditions generally.
29. If you wish harmonious conditions in your life, you must develop an harmonious mental
attitude.
30. Your world without will be a reflection of your world within.
31. For your exercise this week, concentrate on Harmony, and when I say concentrate, I
mean all that the word implies; concentrate so deeply, so earnestly, that you will be
conscious of nothing but harmony. Remember, we learn by doing. Reading these lessons will
get you nowhere. It is in the practical application that the value consists.
"Learn to keep the door shut, keep out of your mind and out of your world, every element that
seeks admittance with no definite helpful end in view." - George Matthew Adams


PART FOURTEEN Study Questions with Answers
131. What is the source of all Wisdom, Power and Intelligence? The Universal Mind.
132. Where do all motion, light, heat and color have their origin? In the Universal Energy,
which is one manifestation of the Universal Mind.
133. Where does the creative power of thought originate? In the Universal Mind.
134. What is thought? Mind in motion.
135. How is the Universal differentiated in form? The individual is the means by which the
Universal produces the various combinations which result in formation of phenomena.
136. How is this accomplished? The power of the individual to think is his ability to act upon
the Universal and bring it into manifestation.
137. What is the first form which the Universal takes so far as we know? Electrons, which fill
all space.
138. Where do all things have their origin? In mind.
139. What is the result of a change of thought? A change in conditions.
140. What is the result of a harmonious mental attitude? Harmonious conditions in life.
Thought, immaterial though it may be, is the matrix that shapes the issues of life.
"The mind has been active in all fields during this fruitful century, but it is to science we must
look for the thoughts that have shaped all thinking."


INTRODUCTION - PART FIFTEEN
Experiments with parasites found on plants indicate that even the lowest order of life is
enabled to take advantage of natural law. This experiment was made by Jacques Loch, M.D.,
Ph. D., a member of the Rockefeller Institute.
"In order to obtain the material, potted rose bushes are brought into a room and placed in
front of a closed window. If the plants are allowed to dry out, the aphids (parasites),
previously wingless, change to winged insects. After the metamorphosis, the animals leave
the plants, fly to the window and then creep upward on the glass."
It is evident that these tiny insects found that the plants on which they had been thriving were
dead, and that they could therefore secure nothing more to eat and drink from this source.
The only method by which they could save themselves from starvation was to grow
temporary wings and fly, which they did.
Experiments such as these indicate that Omniscience as well as Omnipotence is
omnipresent and that the tiniest living thing can take advantage of it in an emergency.
Part Fifteen will tell you more about the law under which we live. It will explain that these laws
operate to our advantage; that all conditions and experiences that come to us are for our
benefit; that we gain strength in proportion to the effort expended, and that our happiness is
best attained through a conscious cooperation with natural laws.
PART FIFTEEN
1. The laws under which we live are designed solely for our advantage. These laws are
immutable and we cannot escape from their operation.
2. All the great eternal forces act in solemn silence, but it is in our power to place ourselves in
harmony with them and thus express a life of comparative peace and happiness.
3. Difficulties, inharmonies, and obstacles, indicate that we are either refusing to give out
what we no longer need, or refusing to accept what we require.
4. Growth is attained through an exchange of the old for the new, of the good for the better; it
is a conditional or reciprocal action, for each of us is a complete thought entity and this
completeness makes it possible for us to receive only as we give.
5. We cannot obtain what we lack if we tenaciously cling to what we have. We are able to
consciously control our conditions as we come to sense the purpose of what we attract, and
are able to extract from each experience only what we require for our further growth. Our
ability to do this determines the degree of harmony or happiness we attain.
6. The ability to appropriate what we require for our growth, continually increases as we
reach higher planes and broader visions, and the greater our abilities to know what we
require, the more certain we shall be to discern its presence, to attract it and to absorb it.
Nothing may reach us except what is necessary for our growth.
7. All conditions and experiences that come to us do so for our benefit. Difficulties and
obstacles will continue to come until we absorb their wisdom and gather from them the
essentials of further growth.
8. That we reap what we sow is mathematically exact. We gain permanent strength exactly to
the extent of the effort required to overcome difficulties.
9. The inexorable requirements of growth demand that we exert the greatest degree of
attraction for what is perfectly in accord with us. Our highest happiness will be best attained
through our understanding of, and conscious cooperation with natural laws.
10. In order to possess vitality thought must be impregnated with love. Love is a product of
the emotions. It is therefore essential that the emotions be controlled and guided by the
intellect and reason.
11. It is love which imparts vitality to thought and thus enables it to germinate. The law of
attraction, or the law of love, for they are one and the same, will bring to it the necessary
material for its growth and maturity.
12. The first form which thought will find is language, or words; this determines the
importance of words; they are the first manifestation of thought -- the vessels in which
thought is carried. They take hold of the ether and by setting it in motion reproduce the
thought to others in the form of sound.
13. Thought may lead to action of any kind, but whatever the action, it is simply the thought
attempting to express itself in visible form. It is evident, therefore, that if we wish desirable
conditions, we can afford to entertain only desirable thoughts.
14. This leads to the inevitable conclusion that if we wish to express abundance in our lives,
we can afford to think abundance only, and as words are only thoughts taking form, we must
be especially careful to use nothing but constructive and harmonious language, which when
finally crystallized into objective forms, will prove to our advantage.
15. We cannot escape from the pictures we incessantly photograph on the mind, and this
photography of erroneous conceptions is exactly what is being done by the use of words,
when we use any form of language which is not identified with our welfare.
16. We manifest more and more life as our thought becomes clarified and takes higher
planes. This is obtained with greater facility as we use word pictures that are clearly defined,
and relieved of the conceptions attached to them on lower planes of thought.
17. It is with words that we must express our thoughts, and if we are to make use of higher
forms of truth, we may use only such material as has been carefully and intelligently selected
with this purpose in view.
18. This wonderful power of clothing thoughts in the