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It
is my privilege to enclose herewith Part One of The Master Key System. Would
you bring into your life more power? Get the power consciousness. More
health? Get the health consciousness. More happiness? Get the happiness
consciousness. Live the spirit of these things until they become yours by
right. It will then become impossible to keep them from you. The things of
the world are fluid to a power within man by which he rules them.
You
need not acquire this power. You already have it. But you want to understand
it; you want to use it; you want to control it; you want to impregnate
yourself with it, so that you can go forward and carry the world before you.
Day
by day as you go on and on, as you gain momentum, as your inspiration
deepens, as your plans crystallize, as you gain understanding, you will come
to realize that this world is no dead pile of stones and timber, but that it
is a living thing! It is made up of the beating hearts of humanity. It is a
thing of life and beauty.
It
is evident that it requires understanding to work with material of this
description, but those who come into this understanding, are inspired by a
new light, a new force, they gain confidence and greater power each day,
they realize their hopes and their dreams come true, life has a deeper,
fuller, clearer meaning than before.
And, now, Part One.
PART ONE
1.
That much gathers more is true on every plane of existence and that loss
leads to greater loss is equally true.
2.
Mind is creative, and conditions, environment and all experiences in life
are the result of our habitual or predominant mental attitude.
3. The
attitude of mind necessarily depends upon what we think. Therefore, the
secret of all power, all achievement and all possession depends upon our
method of thinking.
4.
This is true because we must "be" before we can "do," and we can "do" only
to the extent which we "are," and what we "are" depends upon what we
"think."
5. We
cannot express powers that we do not possess. The only way by which we may
secure possession of power is to become conscious of power, and we can never
become conscious of power until we learn that all power is from within.
6.
There is a world within – a world of thought and feeling and power; of light
and life and beauty and, although invisible, its forces are mighty.
7. The
world within is governed by mind. When we discover this world we shall find
the solution for every problem, the cause for every effect; and since the
world within is subject to our control, all laws of power and possession are
also within our control.
8. The
world without is a reflection of the world within. What appears without is
what has been found within. In the world within may be found infinite
Wisdom, infinite Power, infinite Supply of all that is necessary, waiting
for unfoldment, development and expression. If we recognize these
potentialities in the world within they will take form in the world without.
9.
Harmony in the world within will be reflected in the world without by
harmonious conditions, agreeable surroundings, the best of everything. It is
the foundation of health and a necessary essential to all greatness, all
power, all attainment, all achievement and all success.
10.
Harmony in the world within means the ability to control our thoughts, and
to determine for ourselves how any experience is to affect us.
11.
Harmony in the world within results in optimism and affluence; affluence
within results in affluence without.
12.
The world without reflects the circumstances and the conditions of the
consciousness within.
13. If
we find wisdom in the world within, we shall have the understanding to
discern the marvelous possibilities that are latent in this world within,
and we shall be given the power to make these possibilities manifest in the
world without.
14. As
we become conscious of the wisdom in the world within, we mentally take
possession of this wisdom, and by taking mental possession we come into
actual possession of the power and wisdom necessary to bring into
manifestation the essentials necessary for our most complete and harmonious
development.
15.
The world within is the practical world in which the men and women of power
generate courage, hope, enthusiasm, confidence, trust and faith, by which
they are given the fine intelligence to see the vision and the practical
skill to make the vision real.
16.
Life is an unfoldment, not accretion. What comes to us in the world without
is what we already possess in the world within.
17.
All possession is based on consciousness. All gain is the result of an
accumulative consciousness. All loss is the result of a scattering
consciousness.
18.
Mental efficiency is contingent upon harmony; discord means confusion;
therefore, he who would acquire power must be in harmony with Natural Law.
19. We
are related to the world without by the objective mind. The brain is the
organ of this mind and the cerebro-spinal system of nerves puts us in
conscious communication with every part of the body. This system of nerves
responds to every sensation of light, heat, odor, sound and taste.
20.
When this mind thinks correctly, when it understands the truth, when the
thoughts sent through the cerebro-spinal nervous system to the body are
constructive, these sensations are pleasant, harmonious.
21.
The result is that we build strength, vitality and all constructive forces
into our body, but it is through this same objective mind that all distress,
sickness, lack, limitation and every form of discord and inharmony is
admitted to our lives. It is therefore through the objective mind, by wrong
thinking, that we are related to all destructive forces.
22. We
are related to the world within by the subconscious mind. The solar plexus
is the organ of this mind; the sympathetic system of nerves presides over
all subjective sensations, such as joy, fear, love, emotion, respiration,
imagination and all other subconscious phenomena. It is through the
subconscious that we are connected with the Universal Mind and brought into
relation with the Infinite constructive forces of the Universe.
23. It
is the coordination of these two centers of our being, and the understanding
of their functions, which is the great secret of life. With this knowledge
we can bring the objective and subjective minds into conscious cooperation
and thus coordinate the finite and the infinite. Our future is entirely
within our own control. It is not at the mercy of any capricious or
uncertain external power.
24.
All agree that there is but one Principle or Consciousness pervading the
entire Universe, occupying all space, and being essentially the same in kind
at every point of its presence. It is all powerful, all wisdom and always
present. All thoughts and things are within Itself. It is all in all.
25.
There is but one consciousness in the universe able to think; and when it
thinks, its thoughts become objective things to it. As this Consciousness is
omnipresent, it must be present within every individual; each individual
must be a manifestation of that Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent
Consciousness.
26. As
there is only one Consciousness in the Universe that is able to think it
necessarily follows that your consciousness is identical with the Universal
Consciousness, or, in other words, all mind is one mind. There is no dodging
this conclusion.
27.
The consciousness that focuses in your brain cells is the same consciousness
which focuses in the brain cells of every other individual. Each individual
is but the individualization of the Universal, the Cosmic Mind.
28.
The Universal Mind is static or potential energy; it simply is; it can
manifest only through the individual, and the individual can manifest only
through the Universal. They are one.
29.
The ability of the individual to think is his ability to act on the
Universal and bring it into manifestation. Human consciousness consists only
in the ability of man to think. Mind in itself is believed to be a subtle
form of static energy, from which arises the activities called ‘thought,’
which is the dynamic phase of mind. Mind is static energy, thought is
dynamic energy - the two phases of the same thing. Thought is therefore the
vibratory force formed by converting static mind into dynamic mind.
30. As
the sum of all attributes are contained in the Universal Mind, which is
Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent, these attributes must be present at
all times in their potential form in every individual. Therefore, when the
individual thinks, the thought is compelled by its nature to embody itself
in an objectivity or condition which will correspond with its origin.
31.
Every thought therefore is a cause and every condition an effect; for this
reason it is absolutely essential that you control your thoughts so as to
bring forth only desirable conditions.
32.
All power is from within, and is absolutely under your control; it comes
through exact knowledge and by the voluntary exercises of exact principles.
33. It
should be plain that when you acquire a thorough understanding of this law,
and are able to control your thought processes, you can apply it to any
condition; in other words, you will have come into conscious cooperation
with Omnipotent law which is the fundamental basis of all things.
34.
The Universal Mind is the life principle of every atom which is in
existence; every atom is continually striving to manifest more life; all are
intelligent, and all are seeking to carry out the purpose for which they
were created.
35. A
majority of mankind lives in the world without; few have found the world
within, and yet it is the world within that makes the world without; it is
therefore creative and everything which you find in your world without has
been created by you in the world within.
36.
This system will bring you into a realization of power which will be yours
when you understand this relation between the world without and the world
within. The world within is the cause, the world without the effect; to
change the effect you must change the cause.
37.
You will at once see that this is a radically new and different idea; most
men try to change effects by working with effects. They fail to see that
this is simply changing one form of distress for another. To remove discord,
we must remove the cause, and this cause can be found only in the world
within.
38.
All growth is from within. This is evident in all nature. Every plant, every
animal, every human is a living testimony to this great law, and the error
of the ages is in looking for strength or power from without.
39.
The world within is the Universal fountain of supply, and the world without
is the outlet to the stream. Our ability to receive depends upon our
recognition of this Universal Fountain, this Infinite Energy of which each
individual is an outlet, and so is one with every other individual.
40.
Recognition is a mental process, mental action is therefore the interaction
of the individual upon the Universal Mind, and as the Universal Mind is the
intelligence which pervades all space and animates all living things, this
mental action and reaction is the law of causation, but the principle of
causation does not obtain in the individual but in the Universal Mind. It is
not an objective faculty but a subjective process, and the results are seen
in an infinite variety of conditions and experiences.
41. In
order to express life there must be mind; nothing can exist without mind.
Everything which exists is some manifestation of this one basic substance
from which and by which all things have been created and are continually
being recreated.
42. We
live in a fathomless sea of plastic mind substance. This substance is ever
alive and active. It is sensitive to the highest degree. It takes form
according to the mental demand. Thought forms the mold or matrix from which
the substance expresses.
43.
Remember that it is in the application alone that the value consists, and
that a practical understanding of this law will substitute abundance for
poverty, wisdom for ignorance, harmony for discord and freedom for tyranny,
and certainly there can be no greater blessing than these from a material
and social standpoint.
44.
Now make the application: Select a room where you can be alone and
undisturbed; sit erect, comfortably, but do not lounge; let your thoughts
roam where they will but be perfectly still for from fifteen minutes to half
an hour; continue this for three or four days or for a week until you secure
full control of your physical being.
45.
Many will find this extremely difficult; others will conquer with ease, but
it is absolutely essential to secure complete control of the body before you
are ready to progress. Next week you will receive instructions for the next
step; in the meantime you must have mastered this one. |
