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

causes which produce the unpleasant and disagreeable sensations.
8. All that is necessary is to consult our own experience. When our thought has been uplifted,
progressive, constructive, courageous, noble, kind or in any other way desirable, we have set
in motion vibrations which brought about certain results. When our thought has been filled
with envy, hatred, jealousy, criticism or any of the other thousand and one forms of discord,
certain vibrations were set in motion which brought about certain other results of a different
nature, and each of these rates of vibration, if kept up, crystallized in form. In the first case
the result was mental, moral and physical health, and in the second case discord, inharmony
and disease.
9. We can understand, then, something of the power which the mind possesses over the
body.
10. The objective mind has certain effects on the body which are readily recognized.
Someone says something to you which strikes you as ludicrous and you laugh, possibly until
your whole body shakes, which shows that thought has control over the muscles of your
body; or someone says something which excites your sympathy and your eyes fill with tears,
which shows that thought controls the glands of your body; or someone says something
which makes you angry and the blood mounts to your cheek, which shows that thought
controls the circulation of your blood. But as these experiences are all the results of the
action of your objective mind over the body, the results are of a temporary nature; they soon
pass away and leave the situation as it was before.
11. Let us see how the action of the subconscious mind over the body differs. You receive a
wound; thousands of cells being the work of healing at once; in a few days or a few weeks
the work is complete. You may even break a bone. No surgeon on earth can weld the parts
together (I am not referring to the insertion of rods or other devices to strengthen or replace
bones). He may set the bone for you, and the subjective mind will immediately begin the
process of welding the parts together, and in a short time the bone is as solid as it ever was.
You may swallow poison; the subjective mind will immediately discover the danger and make
violent efforts to eliminate it. You may become infected with a dangerous germ; the
subjective will at once commence to build a wall around the infected area and destroy the
infection by absorbing it in the white blood corpuscles which it supplies for the purpose.
12. These processes of the subconscious mind usually proceed without our personal
knowledge or direction, and so long as we do not interfere the result is perfect, but, as these
millions of repair cells are all intelligent and respond to our thought, they are often paralyzed
and rendered impotent by our thoughts of fear, doubt, and anxiety. They are like an army of
workmen, ready to start an important piece of work, but every time they get started on the
undertaking a strike is called, or plans changed, until they finally get discouraged and give
up.
13. The way to health is founded on the law of vibration, which is the basis of all science, and
this law is brought into operation by the mind, the "world within." It is a matter of individual
effort and practice. Our world of power is within; if we are wise we shall not waste time and
effort in trying to deal with effects as we find them in the "world without," which is only an
external, a reflection.
14. We shall always find the cause in the "world within"; by changing the cause, we change
the effect.
15. Every cell in your body is intelligent and will respond to your direction. The cells are all
creators and will create the exact pattern which you give them.
16. Therefore, when perfect images are placed before the subjective, the creative energies
will build a perfect body.
17. Brain cells are constructed in the same way. The quality of the brain is governed by the
state of mind, or mental attitude, so that if undesirable mental attitudes are conveyed to the
subjective they will in turn be transferred to the body; we can therefore readily see that if we
wish the body to manifest health, strength and vitality this must be the predominant thought.
18. We know then that every element of the human body is the result of a rate of vibration.
19. We know that mental action is a rate of vibration.
20. We know that a higher rate of vibration governs, modifies, controls, changes, or destroys
a lower rate of vibration.
21. We know that the rate of vibration is governed by the character of brain cells, and finally,
22. We know how to create these brain cells; therefore,
23. We know how to make any physical change in the body we desire, and having secured a
working knowledge of the power of mind to this extent, we have come to know that there is
practically no limitation which can be placed upon our ability to place ourselves in harmony
with natural law, which is omnipotent.
24. This influence or control over the body by mind is coming to be more and more generally
understood, and many physicians are now giving the matter their earnest attention. Dr. Albert
T. Shofield, who has written several important books on the subject, say, "The subject of mental therapeutics is still ignored in medical works generally. In our physiologies no
references is made to the central controlling power that rules the body for its good, and the
power of the mind over the body is seldom spoken of”.
25. No doubt many physicians treat nervous diseases of functional origin wisely and well, but
what we contend is that the knowledge they display was taught at no school, was learned
from no book, but it is intuitive and empirical.
26. This is not as it should be. The power of mental therapeutics should be the subject of
careful, special and scientific teaching in every medical school. We might pursue the subject
of maltreatment, or want of treatment, further in detail and describe the disastrous results of
neglected cases; but the task is an invidious one.
27. There can be no doubt that few patients are aware how much they can do for
themselves. What the patient can do for himself, the forces he can set in motion are as yet
unknown. We are inclined to believe that they are far greater than most imagine, and will
undoubtedly be used more and more. Mental therapeutics may be directed by the patient
himself to calming the mind in excitement, by arousing feelings of joy, hope, faith, and love;
by suggesting motives for exertion, by regular mental work, by diverting the thoughts from the
malady.
28. For your exercise this week concentrate on Tennyson's beautiful lines "Speak to Him,
thou, for He hears, and spirit with spirit can meet, Closer is He than breathing, and nearer
than hands and feet." Then try to realize that when you do "Speak to Him" you are in touch
with Omnipotence.
29. This realization and recognition of this Omnipresent power will quickly destroy any and
every form of sickness or suffering and substitute harmony and perfection. Then remember
there are those who seem to think that sickness and suffering are sent by God; if so, every
physician, every surgeon and every Red Cross nurse is defying the will of God and hospitals
and sanitariums are places of rebellion instead of houses of mercy. Of course, this quickly
reasons itself into an absurdity, but there are many; who still cherish the idea.
30. Then let the thought rest on the fact that until recently theology has been trying to teach
an impossible Creator, one who created beings capable of sinning and then allowed them to
be eternally punished for such sins. Of course the necessary outcome of such extraordinary
ignorance was to create fear instead of love, and so, after two thousand years of this kind of
propaganda, Theology is now busily engaged in apologizing for Christendom.
31. You will then more readily appreciate the ideal man, the man made in the image and
likeness of God, and you will more readily appreciate the all originating Mind that forms,
upholds, sustains, originates, and creates all there is. "All are but parts of one stupendous
whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul." Opportunity follows perception, action
follows inspiration, growth follows knowledge, eminence flows progress. Always the spiritual
first, then the transformation into the infinite and illimitable possibilities of achievement.


PART TWENTY-TWO Study Questions with Answers

211. How may sickness be eliminated? By placing ourselves in harmony with Natural Law
which is Omnipotent.
212. What is the process? A realization that man is a spiritual being and that this spirit must
necessarily be perfect.
213. What is the result? A conscious recognition of this perfection - first intellectually, then
emotionally - brings about a manifestation of this perfection.
214. Why is this so? Because thought is spiritual and therefore creative and correlates with
its object and brings it into manifestation.
215. What Natural Law is brought into operation? The Law of Vibration.
216. Why does this govern? Because a higher rate of vibration governs, modifies, controls,
changes, or destroys a lower rate of vibration.
217. Is this system of mental therapeutics generally recognized? Yes, there are literally
millions of people in this country who make use of it in one form or another (and obviously
many more world-wide).
218. What is the result of this system of thought? For the first time in the world's history every
man's highest reasoning faculty can be satisfied by a demonstrable truth which is now fast
flooding the world.
219. Is this system applicable to other forms of supply? It will meet every human requirement
or necessity.
220. Is this system scientific or religious? Both. True science and true religion are twin
sisters, where one goes, the other necessarily follows.
INTRODUCTION - PART TWENTY-THREE
In the part which I have the honor to transmit herewith you will find that money weaves itself
into the entire fabric of our very existence; that the law of success is service; that we get what
we give, and for this reason we should consider it a great privilege to be able to give.
We have found that thought is the creative activity behind every constructive enterprise. We
can therefore give nothing of more practical value than our thought.
Creative thought requires attention, and the power of attention is, as we have found, the
weapon of the Super-man. Attention develops concentration, and concentration develops
Spiritual Power, and Spiritual Power is the mightiest force in existence.
This is the science which embraces all sciences. It is the art which, above all arts, is relevant
to human life. In the mastery of this science and this art there is opportunity for unending
progression. Perfection in this is not acquired in six days, nor in six weeks, nor in six months.
It is the labor of life. Not to go forward is to go backward.
It is inevitable that the entertainment of positive, constructive and unselfish thoughts should
have a far-reaching effect for good. Compensation is the key-note of the universe. Nature is
constantly seeking to strike an equilibrium. Where something is sent out something must be
received; else there should be a vacuum formed. By observance of this rule you cannot fail to
profit in such measure as to amply justify your effort along this line.
PART TWENTY-THREE
1. The money consciousness is an attitude of mind; it is the open door to the arteries of
commerce. It is the receptive attitude. Desire is the attractive force which sets the current in
motion and fear is the great obstacle by which the