{"id":242,"date":"2013-10-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/naho\/master-key-forward\/"},"modified":"2013-10-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T00:00:00","slug":"master-key-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/naho\/master-key-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Master Key System \u2013 Forward (video book 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Master Key System \u2013 Forward<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>This is the first in a series of video\u2019s where I will read and discuss the text of the book, <em>The Master Key System<\/em> by Charles F Haanel.<\/p>\n<p>Below each of these videos, there will be a copy of the text that was covered during the reading. \u00a0This comes in handy for any time you may miss something, want a copy of \u2018that\u2019 or just to read because you don\u2019t much care for my videos.<\/p>\n<p>No worries. \u00a0I am sharing my experience with this book and hopefully you will feel compelled to comment and join a conversation regarding these sections and chapters.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the text for today\u2019s video:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Master Key System<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Charles F. Haanel<br \/>\nThe Master Key System<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forward<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0which have accrued to mankind through an understanding of the laws of electricity.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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, \u201cWhatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abundance, therefore, depends upon 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.<\/p>\n<p>The scientific spirit now dominates every field of effort; relations of cause and effect are no longer ignored.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of a region of law marked and epoch in human progress. It eliminated the element of uncertainty and caprice men\u2019s lives, and substituted law, reason and certitude.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>This is 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s effective capacity, bringing added energy, discernment, vigor and mental elasticity. The student who gains an understanding of the mental laws which re unfolded will come into the possession of an ability to secure results hitherto\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px\">undreamed of, and which has rewards hardly to be expressed in words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The Master Key develops Mental Power which means that others instinctively recognize that you are a person of force, of character \u2013 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 \u201clucky\u201d, that \u201cthings\u201d come your way\u2019 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\u00a0attraction, the Natural laws of growth, and the Psychological laws on which all advantages in the he social and business world rest.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The Master Key develops insight and sagacity increased independence, the ability and disposition to be helpful\u2019 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 \u2013 it awakens an appreciation of the beautiful in Art, Literature and Science.<\/p>\n<p>It has changed the lives of thousands of men and women, by substituting definite principles for uncertain and hazy methods \u2013 and principles for the foundation upon which every system of efficiency must rest.<\/p>\n<p>Elbert Gary, the chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, said \u201cThe 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. \u201cThe 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 principals 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The present revolution in the opinions of all classes of men, the highest and most cultured of\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px\">men as well as those of the laboring class, stands unparalleled in the history of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Science has of late mad 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\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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: \u201cIn 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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,<br \/>\nalways 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 course 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0been 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 airplane 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 knowledge of the possibilities contained in the Master Key has an inconceivable advantage over the multitude.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n<p>And that wraps it up for today. \u00a0Below, you will find a link to the previous and next video in the series.<\/p>\n<p>no prior post<br \/>\nnext post: \u00a0<a title=\"Master Key System \u2013 Introduction Part I (video book 2)\" href=\"\/naho\/blog\/master-key-intro-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Introduction Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>keep smiling with love and light in your heart,<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/uploads.wisestamp.com\/31f519bcf26ee52e41a15026c785d40e\/1367217044.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nancy Holtzen<br \/>\n<em>(Sharing Prosperity and Abundance)<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SynergySolution\/posts\/215757438590554\">Nancy\u2019s Gratitude Log \u2013 please stop by and leave your gratitude statement for today<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SynergySolution\">Synergy Solution<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>P.S. I just got sent an incredible video featuring Law of Attraction\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>icon, Natalie Ledwell. In it she explains why some people are successful\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>and why others aren\u2019t, no matter how hard they try. I\u2019m so glad someone\u00a0<\/strong><strong>finally explained this!\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Definitely worth checking out:<\/strong>\u00a0<a title=\"Mind Movies - check this out!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mindmovies.com\/mm_matrix\/fascinating_secrets.php?26198\">Fascinating Secrets<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Master Key System \u2013 Forward (video book 1)<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Master Key System \u2013 Forward This is the first in a series of video\u2019s where I will read and discuss the text of the book, The Master Key System by Charles F Haanel. 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