The Master Key by Georg Erich Winter (poetry books to read .TXT) 📕

means easy. Mental habits are difficult to control, but it can
be done and the way to do it is to begin at once to substitute constructive thought for destructive thought. Form the habit of analyzing every thought. If it is necessary, if its
manifestation in the objective will be a benefit, not only to yourself, but to all whom it may
affect in any way, keep it; treasure it; it is of value; it is in tune with the Infinite; it will grow and
develop and produce fruit an hundred fold. On the other hand, it will be well for you to keep
this quotation from George Matthews Adams, in mind, "Learn to keep the door shut, keep out
of your mind, out of your office, and out of your world, every element that seeks admittance
with no definite helpful end in view."
5. If your thought has been critical or destructive, and has resulted in any condition of discord
or inharmony in your environment, it may be necessary for you to cultivate a mental attitude
which will be conducive to constructive thought.
6. The imagination will be found to be a great assistance in this direction; the cultivation of
the imagination leads to the development of the ideal out of which your future will emerge.
7. The imagination gathers up the material by which the Mind weaves the fabric in which your
future is to be clothed.
8. Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience.
9. Imagination is the mighty instrument by which every discoverer, every inventor, opened
the way from precedent to experience. Precedent said, "It cannot be done;" experience said,
"It is done."
10. Imagination is a plastic power, molding the things of sense into new forms and ideals.
11. Imagination is the constructive form of thought which must precede every constructive
form of action.
12. A builder cannot build a structure of any kind until he has first received the plans from the
architect, and the architect must get them from his imagination.
13. The Captain of Industry cannot build a giant corporation which may coordinate hundreds
of smaller corporations and thousands of employees, and utilize millions of dollars of capital
until he has first created the entire work in his imagination. Objects in the material world are
as clay in the potter's hand; it is in the Master Mind that the real things are created, and it is
by the use of the imagination that the work is done. In order to cultivate the imagination it
must be exercised. Exercise is necessary to cultivate mental muscle as well as physical
muscle. It must be supplied with nourishment or it cannot grow.
14. Do not confuse Imagination with Fancy, or that form of day dreaming in which some
people like to indulge. Day dreaming is a form of mental dissipation which may lead to mental
disaster.
15. Constructive imagination means mental labor, by some considered to be the hardest kind
of labor, but, if so, it yields the greatest returns, for all the great things in life have come to
men and women who had the capacity to think, to imagine, and to make their dreams come
true.
16. When you have become thoroughly conscious of the fact that Mind is the only creative
principle, that it is Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent, and that you can consciously come into harmony with this Omnipotence through your power of thought, you will have taken
a long step in the right direction.
17. The next step is to place yourself in position to receive this power. As it is Omnipresent, it
must be within you. We know that this is so because we know that all power is from within,
but it must be developed, unfolded, cultivated; in order to do this we must be receptive, and
this receptivity is acquired just as physical strength is gained, by exercise.
18. The law of attraction will certainly and unerringly bring to you the conditions, environment,
and experiences in life, corresponding with your habitual, characteristic, predominant mental
attitude. Not what you think once in a while when you are in church, or have just read a good
book, BUT your predominant mental attitude is what counts.
19. You can not entertain weak, harmful, negative thoughts ten hours a day and expect to
bring about beautiful, strong and harmonious conditions by ten minutes of strong, positive,
creative thought.
20. Real power comes from within. All power that anybody can possibly use is within man,
only waiting to be brought into visibility by his first recognizing it, and then affirming it as his,
working it into his consciousness until he becomes one with it.
21. People say that they desire abundant life, and so they do, but so many interpret this to
mean that if they will exercise their muscles or breathe scientifically, eat certain foods in
certain ways, drink so many glasses of water every day of just a certain temperature, keep
out of drafts, they will attain the abundant life they seek. The result of such methods is but
indifferent. However, when man awakens to the truth, and affirms his oneness with all Life,
he finds that he takes on the clear eye, the elastic step, the vigor of youth; he finds that he
has discovered the source of all power.
22. All mistakes are but the mistakes of ignorance. Knowledge gaining and consequent
power is what determines growth and evolution. The recognition and demonstration of
knowledge is what constitutes power, and this power is spiritual power, and this spiritual
power is the power which lies at the heart of all things; it is the soul of the universe.
23. This knowledge is the result of man's ability to think; thought is therefore the germ of
man's conscious evolution. When man ceases to advance in his thoughts and ideals, his
forces immediately begin to disintegrate and his countenance gradually registers these
changing conditions.
24. Successful men make it their business to hold ideals of the conditions which they wish to
realize. They constantly hold in mind the next step necessary to the ideal for which they are
striving. Thoughts are the materials with which they build, and the imagination is their mental
work-shop. Mind is the ever moving force with which they secure the persons and
circumstance necessary to build their success structure, and imagination is the matrix in
which all great things are fashioned.
25. If you have been faithful to your ideal, you will hear the call when circumstances are
ready to materialize your plans and results will correspond in the exact ratio of your fidelity to
your ideal. The ideal steadily held is what pre-determines and attracts the necessary
conditions for its fulfillment.
26. It is thus that you may weave a garment of spirit and power into the web of your entire
existence; it is thus that you may lead a charmed life and be forever protected from all harm;
it is thus that you may become a positive force whereby conditions of opulence and harmony
may be attracted to you.
27. This is the leaven which is gradually permeating the general consciousness and is largely
responsible for the conditions of unrest which are everywhere evident.
28. In the last Part you created a mental image, you brought it from the invisible into the
visible; this week I want you to take an object and follow it back to its origination, see of what
it really consists. If you do this you will develop imagination, insight, perception, and sagacity.
These come not by the superficial observation of the multitude, but by a keen analytical
observation which sees below the surface.
29. It is the few who know that the things which they see are only effects, and understand the
causes by which these effects were brought into existence.
30. Take the same position as heretofore and visualize a Battleship; see the grim monster
floating on the surface of the water; there appears to be no life anywhere about; all is silence;
you know that by far the largest part of the vessel is under water; out of sight; you know that
the ship is as large and as heavy as a twenty-story skyscraper; you know that there are
hundreds of men ready to spring to their appointed task instantly; you know that every
department is in charge of able, trained, skilled officials who have proven themselves
competent to take charge of this marvelous piece of mechanism; you know that although it
lies apparently oblivious to everything else, it has eyes which see everything for miles
around, and nothing is permitted to escape its watchful vision; you know that while it appears
quiet, submissive and innocent, it is prepared to hurl a steel projectile weighing thousands of
pounds at an enemy many miles away; this and much more you can bring to mind with
comparatively no effort whatever. But how did the battleship come to be where it is; how did it
come into existence in the first place? All of this you want to know if you are a careful
observer.
31. Follow the great steel plates through the foundries, see the thousands of men employed
in their production; go still further back, and see the ore as it comes from the mine, see it
loaded on barges or cars, see it melted and properly treated; go back still further and see the
architect and engineers who planned the vessel; let the thought carry you back still further in
order to determine why they planned the vessel; you will see that you are now so far back
that the vessel is something intangible, it no longer exists, it is now only a thought existing in
the brain of the architect; but from where did the order come to plan the vessel? Probably
from the Secretary of Defense; but probably this vessel was planned long before the war was
thought of, and that Congress had to pass a bill appropriating the money; possibly there was
opposition, and speeches for or against the bill. Whom do these Congressmen represent?
They represent you and me, so that our line of thought begins with the Battleship and ends
with ourselves, and we find in the last analysis that our own thought is responsible for this
and many other things, of which we seldom think, and a little further reflection will develop
the most important fact of all and that is, if someone had not discovered the law by which this
tremendous mass of steel and iron could be made to float upon the water, instead of
immediately going to the bottom, the battleship could not have come into existence at all.
32. This law is that, "the specific gravity of any substance is the weight of any volume of it,
compared with an equal volume of water." The discovery of this law revolutionized every kind
of ocean travel, commerce and warfare, and made the existence of the battleship, aircraft
carriers, and cruise ships possible.
33. You will find exercises of this kind invaluable. When the thought has been trained to look
below the surface everything takes on a different appearance, the insignificant becomes
significant, the uninteresting interesting; the things which we supposed to be of no
importance are seen to be the only really vital things in existence.
Look To This Day
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In Its brief course lie all the Verities and
Realities of your existence;
The Bliss of Growth;
The Glory of Action;
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And tomorrow is only a Vision:
But Today well lived makes every
Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, and
Every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well, therefore, to This Day!
- From the Sanskrit.


PART EIGHT Study Questions with Answers
71. What is the imagination? A form of