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the master key system part 19
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 simple 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
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which has ever been the distinguishing mark of genius
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 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 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 all things are finally resolved Abul 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 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 scene and an unseen but these
expressions merely serve to place extremes in contrast 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 in the
mental world we find the same law we speak of knowledge and ignorance but
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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
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 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 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 and all
probability we should find that but few of them remained in the animal kingdom
we find the same law of change the millions and millions of animals come
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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 rose 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 all before the great cliffs in the Yosemite Valley we can
easily trace the path of the glaciers which carried all before them 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 and new 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 we have then come to know that mind is the only principle
which is operative in the physical mental moral and spiritual world 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 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 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
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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 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 all wealth is the offspring of power
possessions are a value only as they confer power events are significant only
as they affect power all things represent certain forms and degrees of
power 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 what are our
schools our universities but mental power houses places where mental power
is being developed as there are many mighty power houses for the application
of power to ponderous machinery whereby raw material is collected and converted
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into the necessities and comforts of life so the mental power houses collect
the raw material and cultivate and develop it into a power which is
infinitely superior to all the forces of nature marvellous though they may be
what is this raw material which is being collected in these thousands of mental
power houses all over the world and developed into a power which is
evidently controlling every other power in its static form it is mined in its
dynamic form it is thought 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 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 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 stars
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
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substance or ether or raw material is universally present how then does it
manifest in form an 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 forms 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 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 let the thought rest on the fact that appearances are deceptive the earth
is not flat neither is it stationary the sky is not a dome the Sun does not move
the Stars are not small specks of light and matter which was once supposed to be
fixed has been found to be in a state of perpetual flux try to realize that the
day is fast approaching its dawn is now at hand when modes of thought and action
must be adjusted to rapidly increasing knowledge of the operation of eternal
principles silent thought is after all the mightiest agent in human affairs
William Henry Channing
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