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

concentrating the thought on a definite purpose or object. Choose
any single object and concentrate your attention on it for a definite purpose for even ten
minutes; you cannot do it; the mind will wander a dozen times and it will be necessary to
bring it back to the original purpose, and each time the effect will have been lost and at the
end of the ten minutes nothing will have been gained, because you have not been able to
hold your thought steadily to the purpose.
23. It is, however, through attention that you will finally be able to overcome obstacles of any
kind that appear in your path onward and upward, and the only way to acquire this wonderful
power is by practice -- practice makes perfect, in this as in anything else.
24. In order to cultivate the power of attention, bring a photograph with you to the same seat
in the same room in the same position as heretofore. Examine it closely at least ten minutes,
note the expression of the eyes, the form of the features, the clothing, the way the hair is
arranged; in fact, note every detail shown on the photograph carefully. Now cover it and
close your eyes and try to see it mentally; if you can see every detail perfectly and can form a
good mental image of the photograph, you are to be congratulated; if not, repeat the process
until you can.
25. This step is simply for the purpose of preparing the soil; next week we shall be ready to
sow the seed.
26. It is by such exercises as these that you will finally be able to control your mental moods,
your attitude, your consciousness.
27. Great financiers are learning to withdraw from the multitude more and more, that they
may have more time for planning, thinking and generating the right mental moods.
28. Successful businessmen are constantly demonstrating the fact that it pays to keep in
touch with the thought of other successful business men.
29. A single idea may be worth millions of dollars, and these ideas can only come to those
who are receptive, who are prepared to receive them, who are in successful frame of mind.
30. Men are learning to place themselves in harmony with the Universal Mind; they are
learning the unity of all things; they are learning the basic methods and principles of thinking,
and this is changing conditions and multiplying results.
31. They are finding that circumstances and environment follow the trend of mental and
spiritual progress; they find that growth follows knowledge; action follows inspiration;
opportunity follows perception; always the spiritual first, then the transformation into the
infinite and illimitable possibilities of achievement.
32. As the individual is but the channel for the differentiation of the Universal, these
possibilities are necessarily inexhaustible.
33. Thought is the process by which we may absorb the Spirit of Power, and hold the result
in our inner consciousness until it becomes a part of our ordinary consciousness. The
method of accomplishing this result by the persistent practice of a few fundamental
principles, as explained in this System, is the master-key which unlocks the storehouse of
Universal Truth.
34. The two great sources of human suffering at present are bodily disease and mental
anxiety. These may be readily traced to the infringement of some Natural Law. This is, no
doubt, owing to the fact that so far knowledge has largely remained partial, but the clouds of
darkness which have accumulated through long ages are beginning to roll away and with
them many of the miseries that attend imperfect information. "That a man can change
himself, improve himself, re-create himself, control his environment, and master his own
destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought in
constructive action." - Larson


PART SIX Study Questions with Answers

51. What are some of the effects which can be produced by electricity? Heat, light, power,
music.
52. Upon what do these various effects depend? Upon the mechanism to which electricity is
attached.
53. What is the result of the action and interaction of the individual mind upon the Universal?
The conditions and experiences with which we meet.
54. How may these conditions be changed? By changing the mechanism by which the
Universal is differentiated in form.
55. What is this mechanism? The brain.
56. How may it be changed? By the process we call thinking. Thoughts produce brain cells,
and these cells respond to the corresponding thought in the Universal.
57. Of what value is the power of concentration? It is the very highest personal
accomplishment which can be acquired, and the distinguishing characteristic of every
successful man or woman.
58. How may it be acquired? By faithfully practicing the exercises in this System.
59. Why is this so important? Because it will enable us to control our thoughts, and since
thoughts are causes conditions must be effects; if we can control the cause we can also
control the effect.
60. What is changing conditions and multiplying results in the objective world? Men are
learning the basic methods of constructive thinking.


INTRODUCTION - PART SEVEN

Through all the ages man has believed in an invisible power, through which and by which all
things have been created and are continually being re-created.
We may personalize this power and call it God, or we may think of it as the essence or spirit,
which permeates all things, but in either case the effect is the same.
So far as the individual is concerned, the objective, the physical, the visible, is the personal,
that which can be cognized by the senses. It consists of body, brain and nerves. The
subjective is the spiritual, the invisible, the impersonal.
The personal is conscious because it is a personal entity. The impersonal, being the same in
kind and quality as all other Being, is not conscious of itself and has therefore been termed
the subconscious. The personal, or conscious, has the power of will and choice, and can
therefore exercise discrimination in the selection of methods whereby to bring about the
solution of difficulties. The impersonal, or spiritual, being a part or one with the source, and
origin of all power, can necessarily exercise no such choice, but, on the contrary, it has
Infinite resources at its command. It can and does bring about results by methods concerning
which the human or individual mind can have no possible conception.
You will therefore see that it is your privilege to depend upon the human will with all its
limitations and misconceptions, or you may utilize the potentialities of Infinity by making use
of the subconscious mind. Here, then, is the scientific explanation of the wonderful power
which has been put within your control, if you but understand, appreciate and recognize it.
One method of consciously utilizing this omnipotent power is outlined in Part Seven.
PART SEVEN
1. Visualization is the process of making mental images, and the image is the mold or model
which will serve as a pattern from which your future will emerge.
2. Make the pattern clear and make it beautiful; do not be afraid; make it grand; remember
that no limitation can be placed upon you by any one but yourself; you are not limited as to
cost or material; draw on the Infinite for your supply, construct it in your imagination; it will
have to be there before it will ever appear anywhere else.
3. Make the image clear and clean-cut, hold it firmly in the mind and you will gradually and
constantly bring the thing nearer to you. You can be what "you will to be."
4. This is another psychological fact which is well known, but unfortunately, reading about it
will not bring about any result which you may have in mind; it will not even help you to form
the mental image, much less bring it into manifestation. Work is necessary - labor, hard
mental labor, the kind of effort which so few are willing to put forth.
5. The first step is idealization. It is likewise the most important step, because it is the plan on
which you are going to build. It must be solid; it must be permanent. The architect, when he
plans a 30-story building, has every line and detail pictured in advance. The engineer, when
he spans a chasm, first ascertains the strength requirements of a million separate parts.
6. They see the end before a single step is taken; so you are to picture in your mind what you
want; you are sowing the seed, but before sowing any seed you want to know what the
harvest is to be. This is Idealization. If you are not sure, return to the chair daily until the
picture becomes plain; it will gradually unfold; first the general plan will be dim, but it will take
shape, the outline will take form, then the details, and you will gradually develop the power by
which you will be enabled to formulate plans which will eventually materialize in the objective
world. You will come to know what the future holds for you.
7. Then comes the process of visualization. You must see the picture more and more
complete, see the detail, and, as the details begin to unfold the ways and means for bringing
it into manifestation will develop. One thing will lead to another. Thought will lead to action,
action will develop methods, methods will develop friends, and friends will bring about
circumstances, and, finally, the third step, or Materialization, will have been accomplished.
8. We all recognize the Universe must have been thought into shape before it ever could
have become a material fact. And if we are willing to follow along the lines of the Great
Architect of the Universe, we shall find our thoughts taking form, just as the universe took
concrete form. It is the same mind operating through the individual. There is no difference in
kind or quality, the only difference is one of degree.
9. The architect visualizes his building, he sees it as he wishes it to be. His thought becomes
a plastic mold from which the building will eventually emerge, a high one or a low one, a
beautiful one or a plain one, his vision takes form on paper and eventually the necessary
material is utilized and the building stands complete.
10. The inventor visualizes his idea in exactly the same manner, for instance, Nikola Tesla,
he with the giant intellect, one of the greatest inventors of all ages, the man who has brought
forth the most amazing realities, always visualizes his inventions before attempting to work
them out. He did not rush to embody them in form and then spend his time in correcting
defects. Having first built up the idea in his imagination, he held it there as a mental picture,
to be reconstructed and improved by his thought. "In this way," he writes in the Electrical
Experimenter. "I am enabled to rapidly develop and perfect a conception without touching
anything. When I have gone so far as to embody in the invention every possible improvement
I can think of, and see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete, the product of my brain.
Invariably my devise works as I conceived it should; in twenty years there has not been a
single exception."
11. If you can conscientiously follow these directions, you will develop Faith, the kind of Faith
that is the "Substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen"; you will develop
confidence, the kind of confidence that leads to endurance and courage; you will develop the
power of concentration which will enable you to exclude all thoughts except the ones which
are associated with your purpose.
12. The law is that thought will manifest in form, and only one who knows how to be the
divine thinker