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

other forms of intelligence? A
recognition of the self as an individualization of the Universal Intelligence.
173. Where does the creative power originate? In the Universal.
174. How does the Universal create form? By means of the individual.
175. What is the connecting link between the individual and the Universal? Thought.
176. What is the principle by which the means of existence is carried into effect? The Law of
Love.
177. How is this principle brought into expression? By the law of growth.
178. Upon what condition does the law of growth depend? Upon reciprocal action. The
individual is complete at all times and this makes it possible to receive only as we give.
179. What is it that we give? Thought.
180. What do we receive? Thought, which is substance in equilibrium and which is constantly
being differentiated in form by what we think.


INTRODUCTION - PART NINETEEN

Fear is a powerful form of thought. It paralyzes the nerve centers, thus affecting the
circulation of the blood. This, in turn, paralyzes the muscular system, so that fear affects the
entire being, body, brain and nerve, physical, mental, and muscular.
Of course the way to overcome fear is to become conscious of power. What is this
mysterious vital force which we call power? We do not know, but then, neither do we know
what electricity is. But we do know that by conforming to the requirements of the law by
which electricity is governed, it will be our obedient servant; that it will light our homes, our
cities, run our machinery, and serve us in many useful capacities.
And so it is with vital force. Although we do not know what it is, and possibly may never
know, we do know that it is a primary force which manifests through living bodies, and that by
complying with the laws and principles by which it is governed, we can open ourselves to a
more abundant inflow of this vital energy, and thus express the highest possible degree of
mental, moral, and spiritual efficiency.
This part tells of a very simply way of developing this vital force. If you put into practice the
information outlined in this lesson you will soon develop the sense of power which has ever
been the distinguishing mark of genius.
PART NINETEEN
1. The search for truth is no longer a haphazard adventure, but it is a systematic process,
and is logical in its operation. Every kind of experience is given a voice in shaping its
decision.
2. In seeking the truth we are seeking ultimate cause; we know that every human experience
is an effect; then if we may ascertain the cause, and if we shall find that this cause is one
which we can consciously control, the effect or the experience will be within our control also.
3. Human experience will then no longer be the football of fate; a man will not be the child of
fortune, but destiny. Fate and fortune will be controlled as readily as a captain controls his
ship, or an engineer his train.
4. All things are finally resolvable into the same element and as they are thus translatable,
one into the other, they must ever be in relation and may never be in opposition to one
another.
5. In the physical world there are innumerable contrasts, and these may for convenience
sake, be designated by distinctive names. There are sizes, colors, shades or ends to all
things. There is a North Pole, and a South Pole, an inside and an outside, a seen and an
unseen, but these expressions merely serve to place extremes in contrast.
6. They are names given to two different parts of one quantity. The two extremes are relative;
they are not separate entities, but are two parts or aspects of the whole.
7. In the mental world we find the same law; we speak of knowledge and ignorance, but
ignorance is but a lack of knowledge and is therefore found to be simply a word to express
the absence of knowledge; it has no principle in itself.
8. In the Moral World we again find the same law; we speak of good and evil, but Good is a
reality, something tangible, while Evil is found to be simply a negative condition, the absence
of Good. Evil is sometimes thought to be a very real condition, but it has no principle, no
vitality, no life; we know this because it can always be destroyed by Good; just as Truth
destroys Error and light destroys darkness, so Evil vanishes when Good appears; there is
therefore but one principle in the Moral World.
9. We find exactly the same law obtaining in the Spiritual world; we speak of Mind and Matter
as two separate entities, but clearer insight makes it evident that there is but one operative
principle and that is Mind.
10. Mind is the real and the eternal. Matter is forever changing; we know that in the eons of
time a hundred years is but as a day. If we stand in any large city and let the eye rest on the
innumerable large and magnificent buildings, the vast array of modern automobiles, cellular
telephones, the electric lights, and all the other conveniences of modern civilization, we may
remember that not one of them was there just over a century ago, and if we could stand on
the same spot in a hundred years from now, in all probability we should find that but few of
them remained.
11. In the animal kingdom we find the same law of change. The millions and millions of
animals come and go, a few years constituting their span of life. In the plant world the change
is still more rapid. Many plants and nearly all grasses come and go in a single year. When we
pass to the inorganic, we expect to find something more substantial, but as we gaze on the
apparently solid continent, we are told that it arose from the ocean; we see the giant
mountain and are told that the place where it now stands was once a lake; and as we stand
in awe before the great cliffs in the Yosemite Valley we can easily trace the path of the
glaciers which carried all before them.
12. We are in the presence of continual change, and we know that this change is but the
evolution of the Universal Mind, the grand process whereby all things are continually being
created anew, and we come to know that matter is but a form which Mind takes and is
therefore simply a condition. Matter has no principle; Mind is the only principle.
13. We have then come to know that Mind is the only principle which is operative in the
physical, mental, moral and spiritual world.
14. We also know that this mind is static, mind at rest, we also know that the ability of the
individual to think is his ability to act upon the Universal Mind and convert it into dynamic
mind, or mind in motion.
15. In order to do this fuel must be applied in the form of food, for man cannot think without
eating, and so we find that even a spiritual activity such as thinking cannot be converted into
sources of pleasure and profit except by making use of material means.
16. It requires energy of some kind to collect electricity and convert it into a dynamic power, it
requires the rays of the sun to give the necessary energy to sustain plant life, so it also
requires energy in the form of food to enable the individual to think and thereby act upon the
Universal Mind.
17. You may know that thought constantly, eternally is taking form, is forever seeking
expression, or you may not, but the fact remains that if your thought is powerful, constructive,
and positive, this will be plainly evident in the state of your health, your business and your
environment; if your thought is weak, critical, destructive and negative generally, it will
manifest in your body as fear, worry and nervousness, in your finance as lack and limitation,
and in discordant conditions in your environment.
18. All wealth is the offspring of power; possessions are of value only as they confer power.
Events are significant only as they affect power; all things represent certain forms and
degrees of power.
19. A knowledge of cause and effect as shown by the laws governing steam, electricity,
chemical affinity and gravitation enables men to plan courageously and to execute fearlessly.
These laws are called Natural Laws, because they govern the physical world, but all power is
not physical power; there is also mental power, and there is moral and spiritual power.
20. What are our schools, our universities, but mental powerhouses, places where mental
power is being developed?
21. As there are many mighty powerhouses for the application of power to ponderous
machinery, whereby raw material is collected and converted into the necessities and
comforts of life, so the mental powerhouses collect the raw material and cultivate and
develop it into a power which is infinitely superior to all the forces of nature, marvelous
though they may be.
22. What is this raw material which is being collected in these thousands of mental
powerhouses all over the world and developed into a power which is evidently controlling
every other power? In its static form it is Mind - in its dynamic form, it is Thought.
23. This power is superior because it exists on a higher plane, because it has enabled man
to discover the law by which these wonderful forces of Nature could be harnessed and made
to do the work of hundreds and thousands of men. It has enabled man to discover laws
whereby time and space have been annihilated, and the law of gravitation overcome.
24. Thought is the vital force or energy which is being developed and which has produced
such startling results in the last half century as to bring about a world which would be
absolutely inconceivable to a man existing only 50 or 25 years ago. If such results have been
secured by organizing these mental powerhouses in 50 years, what may not be expected in
another 50 years?
25. The substance from which all things are created is infinite in quantity; we know that light
travels at the rate of 186,000 miles per second, and we know that there are stars so remote
that it takes light 2,000 years to reach us, and we know that such starts exist in all parts of
the heaven; we know, too, that this light comes in waves, so that if the ether on which these
waves travel was not continuous the light would fail to reach us; we can then only come to
the conclusion that this substance, or ether, or raw material, is universally present.
26. How, then, does it manifest in form? In electrical science a battery is formed by
connecting the opposite poles of zinc and copper, which causes a current to flow from one to
the other and so provides energy. This same process is repeated in respect to every polarity,
and as all form simply depends upon the rate of vibration and consequent relations of atoms to each other, if we wish to change the form of manifestation we must change the polarity.
This is the principle of causation.
27. For your exercise this week, concentrate, and when I use the word concentrate, I mean
all that the word implies; become so absorbed in the object of your thought that you are
conscious of nothing else, and do this a few minutes every day. You take the necessary time
to eat in order that the body may be nourished, why not take the time to assimilate your
mental food?
28. Let the thought rest on the fact that appearances are deceptive. The earth is not