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

depends upon this
power exclusively. In an article in Everybody's Magazine, Henry M. Flagler, the Standard Oil
multi-millionaire, admitted that the secret of his success was his power to see a thing in its
completeness. The following conversation with the reporter shows his power of idealization,
concentration and visualization, all spiritual powers:
9. "Did you actually vision to yourself the whole thing? I mean, did you, or could you, really
close your eyes and see the tracks? And the trains running? and hear the whistles blowing:
Did you go as far as that?" "Yes." "How clearly?" "Very clearly."
10. Here we have a vision of the law, we see "cause and effect", we see that thought
necessarily precedes and determines action. If we are wise, we shall come into a realization
of the tremendous fact that no arbitrary condition can exist for a moment, and that human
experience is the result of an orderly and harmonious sequence.
11. The successful business man is more often than not an idealist and is every striving for
higher and higher standards. The subtle forces of thought as they crystallize in our daily
moods is what constitutes life.
12. Thought is the plastic material with which we build images of our growing conception of
life. Use determines its existence. As in all other things our ability to recognize it and use it
properly is the necessary condition for attainment.
13. Premature wealth is but the forerunner of humiliation and disaster, because we cannot
permanently retain anything which we do not merit or which we have not earned.
14. The conditions with which we meet in the world without, correspond to the conditions
which we find in the world within. This is brought about by the law of attraction. How then
shall we determine what is to enter into the world within?
15. Whatever enters the mind through the senses or the objective mind will impress the mind
and result in a mental image which will become a pattern for the creative energies. These
experiences are largely the result of environment, chance, past thinking and other forms of
negative thought, and must be subjected to careful analysis before being entertained. On the
other hand, we can form our own mental images, through our own interior processes of
thought regardless of the thoughts of others, regardless of exterior conditions, regardless of
environment of every kind, and it is by the exercise of this power that we can control our own
destiny, body, mind and soul.
16. It is by the exercise of this power that we take our fate out of the hands of chance, and
consciously make for ourselves the experiences which we desire, because when we consciously realize a condition, that condition will eventually manifest in our lives; it is
therefore evident that in the last analysis thinking is the one great cause in life.
17. Therefore, to control thought is to control circumstances, conditions, environment, and
destiny.
18. How then are we to control thought; what is the process? To think is to create a thought,
but the result of the thought will depend upon its form, its quality and its vitality.
19. The form will depend upon the mental images from which it emanates; this will depend
upon the depth of the impression, the predominance of the idea, the clarity of the vision, the
boldness of the image.
20. The quality depends upon its substance, and this depends upon the material of which the
mind is composed; if this material has been woven from thoughts of vigor, strength, courage,
determination, the thought will possess these qualities.
21. And finally, the vitality depends upon the feeling with which the thought is impregnated. If
the thought is constructive, it will possess vitality; it will have life, it will grow, develop,
expand, it will be creative; it will attract to itself everything necessary for its complete
development.
22. If the thought is destructive, it will have within itself the germ of its own dissolution; it will
die, but in the process of dying, it will bring sickness, disease, and every other form of
discord.
23. This we call evil, and when we bring it upon ourselves, some of us are disposed to
attribute our difficulties to a Supreme Being, but this supreme being is simply Mind in
equilibrium.
24. It is neither good nor bad, it simply is.
25. Our ability to differentiate it into form is our ability to manifest good or evil.
26. Good and evil therefore are not entities, they are simply words which we use to indicate
the result of our actions, and these actions are in turn predetermined by the character of our
thought.
27. If our thought is constructive and harmonious we manifest good; if it is destructive and
discordant we manifest evil.
28. If you desire to visualize a different environment, the process is simply to hold the ideal in
mind, until your vision has been made real; give no thought to persons, places or things;
these have no place in the absolute; the environment you desire will contain everything
necessary; the right persons, and the right things will come at the right time and in the right
place.
29. It is sometimes not plain how character, ability, attainment, achievement, environment
and destiny can be controlled through the power of visualization, but this is an exact scientific
fact.
30. You will readily see that what we think determines the quality of mind, and that the quality
of mind in turn determines our ability and mental capacity, and you can readily understand
that the improvement in our ability will naturally be followed by increase in attainment and a
greater control of circumstances.
31. It will thus be seen that Natural laws work in a perfectly natural and harmonious manner;
everything seems to "just happen." If you want any evidence of this fact simply compare
results of your efforts in your own life, when your actions were prompted by high ideals and
when you had selfish or ulterior motives in mind. You will need no further evidence.
32. If you wish to bring about the realization of any desire, form a mental picture of success
in your mind, by consciously visualizing your desire; in this way you will be compelling
success, you will be externalizing it in your life by scientific methods.
33. We can only see what already exists in the objective world, but what we visualize,
already exists in the spiritual world, and this visualization is a substantial token of what will
one day appear in the objective world, if we are faithful to our ideal. The reason for this is not
difficult; visualization is a form of imagination; this process of thinking forms impressions on
the mind, and these impressions in turn form concepts and ideals, and they in turn are the
plans from which the Master architect will weave the future.
34. The psychologists have come to the conclusion that there is but one sense, the sense of
feeling, and that all other senses are but modifications of this one sense; this being true, we
know why feeling is the very fountain head of power, why the emotions so easily overcome
the intellect, and why we must put feeling into our thought, if we wish results. Thought and
feeling is the irresistible combination.
35. Visualization must, of course, be directed by the will; we are to visualize exactly what we
want; we must be careful not to let the imagination run riot. Imagination is a good servant but
a poor master, and unless it is controlled it may easily lead us into all kinds of speculations
and conclusions which have no basis or foundation of fact whatever. Every kind of plausible
opinion is liable to be accepted without any analytical examination and the inevitable result is
mental chaos.
36. We must therefore construct only such mental images as are known to be scientifically
true. Subject every idea to a searching analysis and accept nothing which is not scientifically
exact. When you do this you will attempt nothing but what you know you can carry out and
success will crown your efforts; this is what businessmen call far-sightedness; it is much the
same as insight, and is one of the great secrets of success in all important undertakings.
37. For your exercise this week, try to bring yourself to a realization of the important fact that
harmony and happiness are states of consciousness and do not depend upon the
possession of things. That things are effects and come as a consequence of correct mental
states. So that if we desire material possession of any kind our chief concern should be to
acquire the mental attitude which will bring about the result desired. This mental attitude is
brought about by a realization of our spiritual nature and our unity with the Universal Mind
which is the substance of all things. This realization will bring about everything which is
necessary for our complete enjoyment. This is scientific or correct thinking. When we
succeed in bringing about this mental attitude it is comparatively easy to realize our desire as
an already accomplished fact; when we can do this we shall have found the "Truth" which
makes us "free" from every lack or limitation of any kind.
"A man might frame and let loose a star, to roll in its orbit, and yet not have done so
memorable a thing before God as he who lets a golden-orbed thought to roll through the
generations of time."
- H. W. Beecher


PART SIXTEEN Study Questions with Answers

151. Upon what does wealth depend? Upon an understanding of the creative nature of
thought.
152. Upon what does its true value consist? Upon its exchange value.
153. Upon what does success depend? Upon spiritual power.
154. Upon what does this power depend? Upon use; use determines its existence.
155. How may we take our fate out of the hands of chance? By consciously realizing the
conditions which we desire to see manifested in our lives.
156. What then is the great business of life? Thinking.
157. Why is this so? Because thought is spiritual and therefore creative. To consciously
control thought is therefore to control circumstances, conditions, environment and destiny.
158. What is the source of all evil? Destructive thinking.
159. What is the source of all good? Scientific correct thinking.
160. What is scientific thinking? A recognition of the creative nature of spiritual energy and
our ability to control it.
“The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. It is the nature of thought to find its way
into action."
-Bovee.


INTRODUCTION - PART SEVENTEEN

The kind of Deity which a man, consciously or unconsciously, worships, indicates the
intellectual status of the worshipper.
Ask the Indian of God, and he will describe to you a powerful chieftain of a glorious tribe. Ask
the Pagan of God, and he will tell you of a God of fire, a God of water, a god of this, that, and
the other.
Ask the Israelite of God, and he will tell you of the God of Moses, who conceived it expedient
to rule by coercive measures; hence, the Ten Commandments. Or of Joshua, who led the
Israelites into battle, confiscated property, murdered the prisoners, and laid waste to cities.
The so-called heathen made "graven images" of their Gods, whom they were accustomed to
worship, but among the most intelligent, at least, these images were but the visible fulcrums
with which they were enabled to mentally concentrate on the qualities which they desired to
externalize in their lives.
We of the twenty-first century worship a God of Love in theory, but in practice we make for
ourselves "graven images" of "Wealth," "Power," "Fashion," "Custom" and "Conventionality."
We "fall down" before them and worship them. We concentrate on them and they are thereby
externalized in our lives.
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