Fore­word

Some men seem to attract suc­cess, power, wealth, attain­ment, with very little cons­cious effort; others con­quer with great dif­fi­culty; still others fail alto­gether to reach their ambi­tions, desi­res and ideals. Why is this so? Why should some men rea­lize their ambi­tions easily, others with dif­fi­culty, and still others not at all? The cause can­not be phy­si­cal, else the most per­fect men, phy­si­cally, would be the most suc­cess­ful. The dif­fe­rence, the­re­fore, must be men­tal — must be in the mind; hence mind must be the crea­tive force, must cons­ti­tute the sole dif­fe­rence bet­ween men. It is mind, the­re­fore, which over­co­mes envi­ron­ment and every other obs­tacle in the path of men.

When the crea­tive power of thought is fully unders­tood, its effect will be seen to be mar­ve­lous. But such results can­not be secu­red without pro­per appli­ca­tion, dili­gence, and con­cen­tra­tion. The stu­dent will find that the laws gover­ning in the men­tal and spi­ri­tual world are as fixed and infa­lli­ble as in the mate­rial world. To secure the desi­red results, then, it is neces­sary to know the law and to comply with it. A pro­per com­pliance with the law will be found to pro­duce the desi­red result with inva­ria­ble exac­ti­tude. The stu­dent who learns that power comes from within, that he is weak only because he has depen­ded on help from outside, and who unhe­si­ta­tingly throws him­self on his own thought, ins­tantly rights him­self, stands erect, assu­mes a domi­nant atti­tude, and works miracles.

It is evi­dent, the­re­fore, that he who fails to fully inves­ti­gate and take advan­tage of the won­der­ful pro­gress which is being made in this last and grea­test science, will soon be as far behind as the man who would refuse to ack­now­ledge and accept the bene­fits which have acc­rued to man­kind through an unders­tan­ding of the laws of electricity.

Of course, mind crea­tes nega­tive con­di­tions just as rea­dily as favo­ra­ble con­di­tions, and when we cons­ciously or uncons­ciously visua­lize every kind of lack, limi­ta­tion and dis­cord, we create these con­di­tions; this is what many are uncons­ciously doing all the time.

This law as well as every other law is no res­pec­ter of per­sons, but is in cons­tant ope­ra­tion and is relent­lessly brin­ging to each indi­vi­dual exactly what he has crea­ted; in other words, “Wha­tsoe­ver a man soweth that shall he also reap.”

Abun­dance, the­re­fore, depends upon a recog­ni­tion of the laws of Abun­dance, and the fact that Mind is not only the crea­tor, but the only crea­tor of all there is. Cer­tainly nothing can be crea­ted, before we know that it can be crea­ted and then make the pro­per effort. There is no more Elec­tri­city in the world today than there was fifty years ago, but until someone recog­ni­zed the law by which it could be made of ser­vice, we recei­ved no bene­fit; now that the law is unders­tood, prac­ti­cally the whole world is lit by it. So with the law of Abun­dance; it is only those who recog­nize the law and place them­sel­ves in har­mony with it, who share in its benefits.

The scien­ti­fic spi­rit now domi­na­tes every field of effort, rela­tions of cause and effect are no lon­ger ignored.

The dis­co­very of a region of law mar­ked an epoch in human pro­gress. It eli­mi­na­ted the ele­ment of uncer­tainty and caprice in men’s lives, and subs­ti­tu­ted law, rea­son and certitude.

Men now unders­tand that for every result there is an ade­quate and defi­nite cause, so that when a given result is desi­red, they seek the con­di­tion by which alone this result may be attained.

The basis upon which all law rests was dis­co­ve­red by induc­tive rea­so­ning which con­sists of com­pa­ring a num­ber of sepa­rate ins­tan­ces with one another until the com­mon fac­tor which gives rise to them all is seen.

It is this method of study to which the civi­li­zed nations owe the grea­ter part of their pros­pe­rity and the more valua­ble part of their know­ledge; it has lengthe­ned life, it has miti­ga­ted pain, it has span­ned rivers, it has brigh­te­ned the night with the splen­dor of day, exten­ded the range of vision, acce­le­ra­ted motion, annihi­la­ted dis­tance, faci­li­ta­ted inter­course, and ena­bled men to des­cend into the sea, and into the air. What won­der then that men soon endea­vo­red to extend the bles­sings of this sys­tem of study to their method of thin­king, so that when it became plainly evi­dent that cer­tain results follo­wed a par­ti­cu­lar method of thin­king it only remai­ned to clas­sify these results.

This method is scien­ti­fic, and it is the only method by which we shall be per­mit­ted retain that degree of liberty and free­dom which we have been accus­to­med to look upon as an ina­lie­na­ble right, because a peo­ple is safe at home and in the world only if natio­nal pre­pa­red­ness mean such things as gro­wing sur­plus of health, accu­mu­la­ted effi­ciency in public and pri­vate busi­ness of wha­te­ver sort, con­ti­nuous advance in the science and art of acting together, and the inc­rea­singly domi­nant endea­vor to make all of these and all other aspects of natio­nal deve­lop­ment cen­ter and revolve about ascen­ding life, sin­gle and collec­tive, for which science, art and ethics fur­nish gui­dance and con­tro­lling motives.

The Mas­ter Key is based on abso­lute scien­ti­fic truth and will unfold the pos­si­bi­li­ties that lie dor­mant in the indi­vi­dual, and teach how they may be brought into power­ful action, to inc­rease the person’s effec­tive capa­city, brin­ging added energy, dis­cern­ment, vigor and men­tal elas­ti­city. The stu­dent who gains an unders­tan­ding of the men­tal laws which are unfol­ded will come into the pos­ses­sion of an abi­lity to secure results hitherto undrea­med of, and which has rewards hardly to be expres­sed in words.  It explains the correct use of both the recep­tive and active ele­ments of the men­tal nature, and ins­tructs the stu­dent in the recog­ni­tion of oppor­tu­nity; it strengthens the will and rea­so­ning powers, and teaches the cul­ti­va­tion and best uses of ima­gi­na­tion, desire, the emo­tions and the intui­tio­nal faculty. It gives ini­tia­tive, tena­city of pur­pose, wis­dom of choice, inte­lli­gent sym­pathy and a tho­rough enjoy­ment of life on its higher planes.

The Mas­ter Key teaches the use of Mind Power, true Mind Power, not any of the subs­ti­tu­tes and per­ver­sions; it has nothing to do with Hyp­no­tism, Magic or any of the more or less fas­ci­na­ting decep­tions by which many are led to think that something can be had for nothing.

The Mas­ter Key cul­ti­va­tes and deve­lops the unders­tan­ding which will ena­ble you to con­trol the body and the­reby the health. It impro­ves and strengthens the Memory. It deve­lops Insight, the kind of Insight which is so rare, the kind which is the dis­tin­guishing cha­rac­te­ris­tic of every suc­cess­ful busi­ness man, the kind which ena­bles men to see the pos­si­bi­li­ties as well as the dif­fi­cul­ties in every situa­tion, the kind which ena­bles men to dis­cern oppor­tu­nity close at hand, for thou­sands fail to see oppor­tu­ni­ties almost within their grasp while they are indus­triously wor­king with situa­tions which under no pos­si­bi­lity can be made to rea­lize any subs­tan­tial return.

The Mas­ter Key deve­lops Men­tal Power which means that others ins­tinc­ti­vely recog­nize that you are a per­son of force, of cha­rac­ter — that they want to do what you want them to do; it means that you attract men and things to you; that you are what some peo­ple call “lucky”, that “things” come you way’ that you have come into an unders­tan­ding of the fun­da­men­tal laws of Nature, and have put your­self in har­mony with them; that you are in tune with Infi­nite; that you unders­tand the law of attrac­tion, the Natu­ral laws of growth, and the Psycho­lo­gi­cal laws on which all advan­ta­ges in the social and busi­ness world rest.

Men­tal Power is crea­tive power, it gives you the abi­lity to create for your­self; it does not mean the abi­lity to take something away from someone else. Nature never does things that way. Nature makes two bla­des for grass grow where one grew before, and Mind Power ena­bles men to do the same thing.

The Mas­ter Key deve­lops insight and saga­city, inc­rea­sed inde­pen­dence, the abi­lity and dis­po­si­tion to be help­ful. It des­troys dis­trust, depres­sion, fear, melancho­lia, and every form of lack limi­ta­tion and weak­ness, inc­lu­ding pain and disease; it awa­kens buried talents, sup­plies ini­tia­tive, force, energy, vita­lity — it awa­kens an appre­cia­tion of the beau­ti­ful in Art, Lite­ra­ture and Science.

It has chan­ged the lives of thou­sands of men and women, by subs­ti­tu­ting defi­nite prin­ci­ples for uncer­tain and hazy methods — and prin­ci­ples for the foun­da­tion upon which every sys­tem of effi­ciency must rest.

Elbert Gary, the chair­man of the Uni­ted Sta­tes Steel Cor­po­ra­tion, said “The ser­vi­ces of advi­sors, ins­truc­tors, effi­ciency experts in suc­cess­ful mana­ge­ment are indis­pen­sa­ble to most busi­ness enter­pri­ses of mag­ni­tude, but I deem the recog­ni­tion and adop­tion of right prin­ci­ples vastly more importance.”

The Mas­ter Key teaches right prin­ci­ples, and sug­gests methods for making a prac­ti­cal appli­ca­tion of the prin­ci­ples; in that it dif­fers from every other course of study. It teaches that the only pos­si­ble value which can attach to any prin­ci­ple is in its appli­ca­tion. Many read books, take home study cour­ses, attend lec­tu­res all their lives without ever making any pro­gress in demons­tra­ting the value of the prin­ci­ples invol­ved. The Mas­ter Key sug­gests methods by which the value of the prin­ci­ples taught may be demons­tra­ted and put in actual prac­tice in the daily experience.

There is a change in the thought of the world. This change is silently trans­pi­ring in our midst, and is more impor­tant than any which the world has under­gone since the down­fall of Paganism.

The pre­sent revo­lu­tion in the opi­nions of all clas­ses of men, the highest and most cul­tu­red of men as well as those of the labo­ring class, stands unpa­ra­lle­led in the his­tory of the world.

Science has of late made such vast dis­co­ve­ries, has revea­led such an infi­nity of resour­ces, has unvei­led such enor­mous pos­si­bi­li­ties and such unsus­pec­ted for­ces, that scien­ti­fic men more and more hesi­tate to affirm cer­tain theo­ries as esta­blished and indu­bi­ta­ble or to deny cer­tain other theo­ries as absurd or impos­si­ble, and so a new civi­li­za­tion is being born; cus­toms, creeds, and cruelty are pas­sing; vision, faith and ser­vice are taking their place. The fet­ters of tra­di­tion are being mel­ted off from huma­nity, and as the dross of mate­ria­lism is being con­su­med, thought is being libe­ra­ted and truth is rising full orbed before an asto­nished multitude.

The whole world is on the eve of a new cons­cious­ness, a new power and a new cons­cious­ness, a new power and a new rea­li­za­tion of the resour­ces within the self. The last cen­tury saw the most mag­ni­fi­cent mate­rial pro­gress in his­tory. The pre­sent cen­tury will pro­duce the grea­test pro­gress in men­tal and spi­ri­tual power.

Phy­si­cal Science has resol­ved mat­ter into mole­cu­les, mole­cu­les into atoms, atoms into energy, and it has remai­ned for Sir Ambrose Fle­ming, in an address before the Royal Ins­ti­tu­tion, to resolve this energy into mind. He says: “In its ulti­mate essence, energy may be incom­prehen­si­ble by us except as an exhi­bi­tion of the direct ope­ra­tion of that which we call Mind or Will.”

Let us see what are the most power­ful for­ces in Nature. In the mine­ral world everything is solid and fixed. In the ani­mal and vege­ta­ble king­dom it is in a state of flux, fore­ver chan­ging, always being crea­ted and rec­rea­ted. In the atmosphere we find heat, light and energy. Each realm beco­mes finer and more spi­ri­tual as we pass from the visi­ble to the invi­si­ble, from the coarse to the fine, from the low poten­tia­lity to high poten­tia­lity. When we reach the invi­si­ble we find energy in its purest and most vola­tile state.

And as the most power­ful for­ces of Nature are the invi­si­ble for­ces, so we find that the most power­ful for­ces of man are his invi­si­ble for­ces, his spi­ri­tual force, and the only way in which the spi­ri­tual force can mani­fest is through the pro­cess of thin­king. Thin­king is the only acti­vity which the spi­rit pos­ses­ses, and thought is the only pro­duct of thinking.

Addi­tion and sub­trac­tion are the­re­fore spi­ri­tual tran­sac­tions; rea­so­ning is a spi­ri­tual pro­cess; ideas are spi­ri­tual con­cep­tions; ques­tions are spi­ri­tual search­lights and logic, argu­ment and phi­lo­sophy is spi­ri­tual machinery.

Every thought brings into action cer­tain phy­si­cal tis­sue, parts of the brain, nerve or muscle. This pro­du­ces an actual phy­si­cal change in the cons­truc­tion of the tis­sue. The­re­fore it is only neces­sary to have a cer­tain num­ber of thoughts on a given sub­ject in order to bring about a com­plete change in the phy­si­cal orga­ni­za­tion of a man.

This is the pro­cess by which fai­lure is chan­ged to suc­cess. Thoughts of cou­rage, power, ins­pi­ra­tion, har­mony, are subs­ti­tu­ted for thoughts of fai­lure, des­pair, lack, limi­ta­tion and dis­cord, and as these thoughts take root, the phy­si­cal tis­sue is chan­ged and the indi­vi­dual sees life in a new light, old things have actually pas­sed away, all things have become new, he is born again, this time born of the spi­rit, life has a new mea­ning for him, he is recons­truc­ted and is filled with joy, con­fi­dence, hope, energy. He sees oppor­tu­ni­ties for suc­cess to which he was here­to­fore blind. He recog­ni­zes pos­si­bi­li­ties which before had no mea­ning for him. The thoughts of suc­cess with which he has been impreg­na­ted are radia­ted to those around him, and they in turn help him onward and upward; he attract to him new and suc­cess­ful asso­cia­tes, and this in turn chan­ges his envi­ron­ment; so that by this sim­ple exer­cise of thought, a man chan­ges not only him­self, but his envi­ron­ment, cir­cums­tan­ces and conditions.

You will see, you must see, that we are at the dawn of a new day; that the pos­si­bi­li­ties are so won­der­ful, so fas­ci­na­ting, so limit­less as to be almost bewil­de­ring. A cen­tury ago any man with a Gat­ling Gun could have annihi­la­ted a whole army equip­ped with the imple­ments of war­fare then in use. So it is at pre­sent. Any man with a know­ledge of the pos­si­bi­li­ties con­tai­ned in the Mas­ter Key has an incon­cei­va­ble advan­tage over the mul­ti­tude.

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