The Master Key System
By Charles Haanel
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 and aeroplane
or even 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.
