The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel --- 07 CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER SEVEN

Through all the ages man has believed in an invisible power, through which and
by which all things have been created and are continually being re-created. We may
personalize this power and call it God, or we may think of it as the essence or spirit,
which permeates all things, but in either case the effect is the same.
So far as the individual is concerned, the objective, the physical, the visible, is the
personal, that which can be cognized by the senses. It consists of body, brain and nerves.
The subjective is the spiritual, the invisible, the impersonal.
The personal is conscious because it is a personal entity. The impersonal, being
the same in kind and quality as all other Being, is not conscious of itself and has
therefore been termed the subconscious.
The personal, or conscious, has the power of will and choice, and can therefore
exercise discrimination in the selection of methods whereby to bring about the solution
of difficulties.
The impersonal, or spiritual, being a part or one with the source, and origin of all
power, can necessarily exercise no such choice, but, on the contrary, it has Infinite
resources at its command. It can and does bring about results by methods concerning
which the human or individual mind can have no possible conception.
You will therefore see that it is your privilege to depend upon the human will with all its
limitations and misconceptions, or you may utilize the potentialities of Infinity by
making use of the subconscious mind. Here, then, is the scientific explanation of the
wonderful power which has been put within your control, if you but understand,
appreciate and recognize it. One method of consciously utilizing this omnipotent power
is outlined in Part Seven.

PART SEVEN

1. Visualization is the process of making mental images, and the image is the mold
or model which will serve as a pattern from which your future will emerge.
2. Make the pattern clear and make it beautiful; do not be afraid; make it grand;
remember that no limitation can be placed upon you by any one but yourself; you are not
limited as to cost or material; draw on the Infinite for your supply, construct it in your
imagination; it will have to be there before it will ever appear anywhere else.
3. Make the image clear and clean-cut, hold it firmly in the mind and you will
gradually and constantly bring the thing nearer to you. You can be what "you will to be."
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4. This is another psychological fact which is well known, but unfortunately, reading
about it will not bring about any result which you may have in mind; it will not even
help you to form the mental image, much less bring it into manifestation. Work is
necessary - labor, hard mental labor, the kind of effort which so few are willing to put
forth.
5. The first step is idealization. It is likewise the most important step, because it is
the plan on which you are going to build. It must be solid; it must be permanent. The
architect, when he plans a 30-story building, has every line and detail pictured in
advance. The engineer, when he spans a chasm, first ascertains the strength requirements
of a million separate parts.
6. They see the end before a single step is taken; so you are to picture in your mind
what you want; you are sowing the seed, but before sowing any seed you want to know
what the harvest is to be. This is Idealization. If you are not sure, return to the chair daily
until the picture becomes plain; it will gradually unfold; first the general plan will be
dim, but it will take shape, the outline will take form, then the details, and you will
gradually develop the power by which you will be enabled to formulate plans which will
eventually materialize in the objective world. You will come to know what the future
holds for you.
7. Then comes the process of visualization. You must see the picture more and more
complete, see the detail, and, as the details begin to unfold the ways and means for
bringing it into manifestation will develop. One thing will lead to another. Thought will
lead to action, action will develop methods, methods will develop friends, and friends
will bring about circumstances, and, finally, the third step, or Materialization, will have
been accomplished.
8. We all recognize the Universe must have been thought into shape before it ever
could have become a material fact. And if we are willing to follow along the lines of the
Great Architect of the Universe, we shall find our thoughts taking form, just as the
universe took concrete form. It is the same mind operating through the individual. There
is no difference in kind or quality, the only difference is one of degree.
9. The architect visualizes his building, he sees it as he wishes it to be. His thought
becomes a plastic mold from which the building will eventually emerge, a high one or a
low one, a beautiful one or a plain one, his vision takes form on paper and eventually the
necessary material is utilized and the building stands complete.
10. The inventor visualizes his idea in exactly the same manner, for instance, Nikola
Tesla, he with the giant intellect, one of the greatest inventors of all ages, the man who
has brought forth the most amazing realities, always visualizes his inventions before
attempting to work them out. He did not rush to embody them in form and then spend
his time in correcting defects. Having first built up the idea in his imagination, he held it
there as a mental picture, to be reconstructed and improved by his thought. "In this way,"
he writes in the Electrical Experimenter. "I am enabled to rapidly develop and perfect a
conception without touching anything. When I have gone so far as to embody in the
invention every possible improvement I can think of, and see no fault anywhere, I put
into concrete, the product of my brain. Invariably my devise works as I conceived it
should; in twenty years there has not been a single exception."
11. If you can conscientiously follow these directions, you will develop Faith, the
kind of Faith that is the "Substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen";
you will develop confidence, the kind of confidence that leads to endurance and
courage; you will develop the power of concentration which will enable you to exclude
all thoughts except the ones which are associated with your purpose.
12. The law is that thought will manifest in form, and only one who knows how to be
the divine thinker of his own thoughts can ever take a Master's place and speak with
authority.
13. Clearness and accuracy are obtained only by repeatedly having the image in mind.
Each repeated action renders the image more clear and accurate than the preceding, and
in proportion to the clearness and accuracy of the image will the outward manifestation
be. You must build it firmly and securely in your mental world, the world within, before
it can take form in the world without, and you can build nothing of value, even in the
mental world unless you have the proper material. When you have the material you can
build anything you wish, but make sure of your material. You cannot make broadcloth
from shoddy.
14. This material will be brought out by millions of silent mental workers and
fashioned into the form of the image which you have in mind.
15. Think of it! You have over five million of these mental workers, ready and in
active use; brain cells they are called. Besides this, there is another reserve force of at
least an equal number, ready to be called into action at the slightest need. Your power to
think, then, is almost unlimited, and this means that your power to create the kind of
material which is necessary to build for yourself any kind of environment which you
desire is practically unlimited.
16. In addition to these millions of mental workers, you have billions of mental
workers in the body, every one of which is endowed with sufficient intelligence to
understand and act upon any message or suggestion given. These cells are all busy
creating and recreating the body, but, in addition to this, they are endowed with psychic
activity whereby they can attract to themselves the substance necessary for perfect
development.
17. They do this by the same law and in the same manner that every form of life
attracts to itself the necessary material for growth. The oak, the rose, the lily, all require
certain material for their most perfect expression and they secure it by silent demand, the
Law of Attraction, the most certain way for you to secure what you require for your
most complete development.
18. Make the Mental Image; make it clear, distinct, perfect; hold it firmly; the ways
and means will develop; supply will follow the demand; you will be led to do the right
thing at the right time and in the right way. Earnest Desire will bring about Confident
Expectation, and this in turn must be reinforced by Firm Demand. These three cannot
fail to bring about Attainment, because the Earnest Desire is the feeling, the Confident
Expectation is the thought, and the Firm Demand is the will, and, as we have seen,
feeling gives vitality to thought and the will holds it steadily until the law of Growth
brings it into manifestation.
19. Is it not wonderful that man has such tremendous power within himself, such
transcendental faculties concerning which he had no conception? Is it not strange that
we have always been taught to look for strength and power "without?" We have been
taught to look everywhere but "within" and whenever this power manifested in our lives
we were told that it was something supernatural.
20. There are many who have come to an understanding of this wonderful power, and
who make serious and conscientious efforts to realize health, power and other
conditions, and seem to fail. They do not seem able to bring the Law into operation. The
difficulty in nearly every case is that they are dealing with externals. They want money,
power, health and abundance, but they fail to realize that these are effects and can come
only when the cause is found.
21. Those who will give no attention to the world without will seek only to ascertain
the truth, will look only for wisdom, will find that this wisdom will unfold and disclose
the source of all power, that it will manifest in thought and purpose which will create the
external conditions desired. This truth will find expression in noble purpose and
courageous action.
22. Create ideals only, give no thought to external conditions, make the world within
beautiful and opulent and the world without will express and manifest the condition
which you have within. You will come into a realization of your power to create ideals
and these ideals will be projected into the world of effect.
23. For instance, a man is in debt. He will be continually thinking about the debt,
concentrating on it, and as thoughts are causes the result is that he not only fastens the
debt closer to him, but actually creates more debt. He is putting the great law of
Attraction into operation with the usual and inevitable result -- Loss leads to greater
"Loss."
24. What, then, is the correct principle? Concentrate on the things you want, not on
the things you do not want. Think of abundance; idealize the methods and plans for
putting the Law of Abundance into operation. Visualize the condition which the Law of
Abundance creates; this will result in manifestation.
25. If the law operates perfectly to bring about poverty, lack and every form of
limitation for those who are continually entertaining thoughts of lack and fear, it will
operate with the same certainty to bring about conditions of abundance and opulence for
those who entertain thoughts of courage and power.
26. This is a difficult problem for many; we are too anxious; we manifest anxiety,
fear, distress; we want to do something; we want to help; we are like a child who has just
planted a seed and every fifteen minutes goes and stirs up the earth to see if it is
growing. Of course, under such circumstances, the seed will never germinate, and yet
this is exactly what many of us do in the mental world.
27. We must plant the seed and leave it undisturbed. This does not mean that we are to
sit down and do nothing, by no means; we will do more and better work then we have
ever done before, new channels will constantly be provided, new doors will open; all
that is necessary is to have an open mind, be ready to act when the time comes.
28. Thought force is the most powerful means of obtaining knowledge, and if
concentrated on any subject will solve the problem. Nothing is beyond the power of
human comprehension, but in order to harness thought force and make it do your
bidding, work is required.
29. Remember that thought is the fire that creates the steam that turns the wheel of
fortune, upon which your experiences depend.
30. Ask yourself a few questions and then reverently await the response; do you not
now and then feel the self with you? Do you assert this self or do you follow the
majority? Remember that majorities are always led, they never lead. It was the majority
that fought, tooth and nail, against the steam engine, the power loom and every other
advance or improvement ever suggested.
31. For your exercise this week, visualize your friend, see him exactly as you last saw
him, see the room, the furniture, recall the conversation, now see his face, see it
distinctly, now talk to him about some subject of mutual interest; see his expression
change, watch him smile. Can you do this? All right, you can; then arouse his interest,
tell him a story of adventure, see his eyes light up with the spirit of fun or excitement.
Can you do all of this? If so, your imagination is good, you are making excellent
progress.

Part Seven - Study Questions

61. What is visualization?
62. What is the result of this method of thought?
63. What is Idealization?
64. Why are clearness and accuracy necessary?
65. How are they obtained?
66. How is the material for the construction of your mental image secured?
67. How are the necessary conditions for bringing about the materialization of your ideal
in the objective world secured?
68. What three steps are necessary in order to bring this law into operation?
69. Why do many fail?
70. What is the alternative?