Part One
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. |