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.
