The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel --- 00 CONTENTS & INTRODUCTION & FOREWORD

 CONTENTS

Introduction
The Master Key Psychological Chart
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Part Seven
Part Eight
Part Nine
Part Ten
Part Eleven
Part Twelve
Part Thirteen
Part Fourteen
Part Fifteen
Part Sixteen
Part Seventeen
Part Eighteen
Part Nineteen
Part Twenty
Part Twenty-One
Part Twenty-Two
Part Twenty-Three
Part Twenty-Four
Glossary
Questions And Answers

INTRODUCTION

Nature compels us all to move through life. We could not remain stationary
however much we wished. Every right-thinking person wants not merely to move
through life like a sound-producing, perambulating plant, but to develop - to improve -
and to continue the development mentally to the close of physical life.
This development can occur only through the improvement of the quality of
individual thought and the ideals, actions and conditions that arise as a consequence.
Hence a study of the creative processes of thought and how to apply them is of supreme
importance to each one of us. This knowledge is the means whereby the evolution of
human life on earth may be hastened and uplifted in the process.
Humanity ardently seeks "The Truth" and explores every avenue to it. In this
process it has produced a special literature, which ranges the whole gamut of thought
from the trivial to the sublime - up from Divination, through all the Philosophies, to the
final lofty Truth of "The Master Key".
The "Master Key" is here given to the world as a means of tapping the great Cosmic
Intelligence and attracting from it that which corresponds to the ambitions, and
aspirations of each reader.
Every thing and institution we see around us, created by human agency, had first
to exist as a thought in some human mind. Thought therefore is constructive. Human
thought is the spiritual power of the cosmos operating through its creature man. "The
Master Key" instructs the reader how to use that power, and use it both constructively
and creatively. The things and conditions we desire to become realities we must first
create in thought. "The Master Key" explains and guides the process.
"The Master Key" teaching has hitherto been published in the form of a
Correspondence Course of 24 lessons, delivered to students one per week for 24 weeks.
The reader, who now receives the whole 24 parts at one times, is warned not to attempt
to read the book like a novel, but to treat it as a course of study and conscientiously to
imbibe the meaning of each part - reading and re-reading one part only per week before
proceeding to the next. Otherwise the later parts will tend to be misunderstood and the
reader's time and money will be wasted.
Used as thus instructed "The Master Key" will make of the reader a greater, better
personality, and equipped with a new power to achieve any worthy personal purpose and
a new ability to enjoy life's beauty and wonder.

~F.H. BURGESS

FOREWORD

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 - 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.
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.
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
which have accrued to mankind through an understanding of the laws of electricity.
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.
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, "Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap."
Abundance, therefore, depends upon a 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.
The scientific spirit now dominates every field of effort, relations of cause and
effect are no longer ignored.
The discovery of a region of law marked an epoch in human progress. It
eliminated the element of uncertainty and caprice in men's lives, and substituted law,
reason and certitude.
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.
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. 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.
This 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.
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's effective capacity, bringing added energy,
discernment, vigor and mental elasticity. The student who gains an understanding of the
mental laws which are unfolded will come into the possession of an ability to secure
results hitherto undreamed of, and which has rewards hardly to be expressed in words.
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.
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.
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.
The Master Key develops Mental Power which means that others instinctively
recognize that you are a person of force, of character - 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 "lucky", that "things" come you way' 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 attraction, the
Natural laws of growth, and the Psychological laws on which all advantages in the
social and business world rest.
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.
The Master Key develops insight and sagacity, increased independence, the ability
and disposition to be helpful. 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 - it awakens an appreciation of
the beautiful in Art, Literature and Science.
It has changed the lives of thousands of men and women, by substituting definite
principles for uncertain and hazy methods - and principles for the foundation upon
which every system of efficiency must rest.
Elbert Gary, the chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, said "The
services of advisers, 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."
The 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 principles 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.
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.
The present revolution in the opinions of all classes of men, the highest and most
cultured of men as well as those of the laboring class, stands unparalleled in the history
of the world.
Science has of late made 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; 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.
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.
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: "In 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."
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, always 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 coarse 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.
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.
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.

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.
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 been
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.
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 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 a
knowledge of the possibilities contained in the Master Key has an inconceivable
advantage over the multitude.