THE MASTER KEY SYSTEM

By Charles F. Haanel

About This Amazing Book

INTRODUCTION

The Master Key System is a personal development book by Charles F. Haanel (1866–1949) that was originally published as a 24-week correspondence course in 1912, and then in book form in 1916.[1] The ideas it describes and explains come mostly from New Thought philosophy. It was one of the main sources of inspiration for Rhonda Byrne's film and book The Secret (2006).

Description

The book describes many New Thought beliefs such as the law of attraction,[2] creative visualization and man's unity with God, and teaches the importance of truth, harmonious thinking and the ability to concentrate.[3][4] Each of the 24 chapters contains an introduction, followed by a sequentially numbered section which includes an exercise towards the end, followed by a section with questions and answers. At the beginning of the book is a Psychological Chart which readers are encouraged to complete, providing a self-evaluation of their creative power, time efficiency, health, mental ability and capacity to concentrate.[5] The book ends with a glossary and general question-and-answers section. Every chapter includes a quotation from people such as Jonathan Edwards, Lilian Whiting and Amos Bronson Alcott.[6]

Excersises Included

Each chapter ends with an exercise which the reader is encouraged to undertake every day for the following 4–7 days. The exercises are meditations[7] that require the reader to first sit comfortably in a chair.

Please note:

The Master Key System is said to be the very book that Bill Gates read when he attended Hardard, and decided to quit college and pursue his business dreams, thus leading to perhaps the most successful comoany in history, Microsoft!

The sequence of exercises in each chapter is as follows:

Sitting still

Inhibiting all thought combined with previous exercise

Releasing physical tension combined with previous exercises

Letting go of all negative emotions combined with previous exercises

Visualising a pleasant place

Remembering details from a photo of someone

Visualising positive facial expressions on the face of a friend

Visualising everything that leads to the construction of a battleship

Visualising a flower growing from seed

Visualising certain geometric forms

Concentrating on a quote from the Bible; Mark 11:24

Contemplating your unity with Omnipotence

Contemplating being part of the Whole

Focusing on harmony

Contemplating the fact that knowledge needs to be applied to be useful

Contemplating that happiness and harmony are states of consciousness

Focusing on the object of your desire

Focusing on your power to create – create a logical basis for your faith

Total concentration on what you want

Focusing on "In Him we live and move and have our being"

Focusing on truth

Concentration on a Tennyson quote: "Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and spirit with spirit can meet, Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet."

Contemplating the fact that man is a spirit with a body

Realising that this is a wonderful world

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_Key_System

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