Law of Attraction The Master Key System Charles F. Haanel Part 23
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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 Superman 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
keynote 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
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in such measure as to amply justify your effort along this line 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 current
is stopped or completely reversed turned away from us fear is just the
opposite from money consciousness it is poverty consciousness and as the law is
unchangeable we get exactly what we give if we fear we get what we feared money
weaves itself into the entire fabric of our very existence it engages the best
thought of the best minds we make money by making friends and we enlarge our
circle of friends by making money for them by helping them by being of service
to them the first law of success then is service and this in turn is built on
integrity and justice the man who at least does not fair and his intention is
simply ignorant he has missed the fundamental law of all exchange he is
impossible he will lose surely and certainly he may not know it he may
think he is winning but he is doomed to certain defeat he cannot cheat the
infinite the law of compensation will demand of him an eye for an eye and a
tooth for a tooth the forces of life are volatile they are composed of our
thoughts and ideals and these in turn are moulded into form our problem is to
keep an open mind to constantly reach out for the new to recognize opportunity
to be interested in the race rather than the goal for the pleasure is in the
pursuit rather than the possession you can make a money magnet of yourself but
to do so you must first consider how you can make money for other people if you
have the necessary insight to perceive and utilize opportunities and favourable
conditions and recognize values you can put yourself in position to take
advantage of them but your greatest success will come as you are enabled to
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assist others what benefits one must benefit all
a generous thought is filled with strength and vitality a selfish thought
contains the germs of dissolution it will disintegrate and pass away great
financier slike Turner gates Trump and others are simply channels for the
distribution of wealth enormous amounts come and go but it would be as dangerous
to stop the outgo as the income both ends must remain open and so our
greatest success will come as we recognize that it is just as essential
to give as to get if we recognize the omnipotent power that is the source of
all supply we will adjust our consciousness to this supply in such a
way that it will constantly attract all that is necessary to itself and we shall
find that the more we give the more we get giving in this sense implies service
the banker gives his money the merchant gives his goods the author gives his
thought the workman gives his skill all have something to give but the more they
can give the more they get and the more they get the more they are enabled to
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give the financier gets much because he gives much he thinks he is seldom a man
that lets anyone else do his thinking for him he wants to know how results
start to be secured you must show him when you can do this
he will furnish the means by which hundreds or thousands may profit and in
proportion as they are successful will he be successful Morgan Rockefeller
Carnegie and others did not get rich because they lost money for other people
on the contrary it is because they made money for other people that they became
the wealthiest men in the wealthiest country on the globe
the average person is entirely innocent of any deep thinking he accepts the
ideas of others and repeats them in very much the same way as a parrot this is
readily seen when we understand the method which is used to form public
opinion and this docile attitude on the part of a large majority who seem
perfectly willing to let a few persons to all their thinking for them is what
enables a few men in a great many countries to usurp all the avenues of
power and hold the millions in subjection creative thinking requires
attention the power of attention is called concentration this power is
directed by the will for this reason we must refuse to concentrate or think of
anything except the things we desire many are constantly concentrating upon
sorrow loss and discord of every kind as thought is creative it necessarily
follows that this concentration inevitably leads to more loss more
sorrow and more discord how could it be otherwise on the other hand when we meet
with success gain or any other desirable condition we naturally concentrate upon
the effects of these things and thereby create more and so it follows that much
leads to more how an understanding of this principle can be utilized in the
business world is well told by an associate of mine
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spirit whatever else it may or may not be must be considered as the essence of
consciousness the substance of mind the reality underlying thought and as all
ideas are phases of the activity of consciousness mind or thought it follows
that in spirit and in it alone is to be found the ultimate fact the real thing
or idea this being admitted does it not seem reasonable to hold that a true
understanding of spirit and its laws of manifestation would be about the most
practical thing that a practical person can hope to find does it not seem
certain that if the practical men of the world could but realize this fact they
would fall all over themselves and getting to the place in which they might
obtain such knowledge of spiritual things and laws
these men are not fools they need only to grasp this fundamental fact in order
to move in the direction of that which is the essence of all achievement let me
give you a concrete example I know a man in Chicago whom I had always considered
to be quite materialistic he had made several successes in life and also
several failures the last time I had a talk with him he was practically
down-and-out as compared with his former business condition it looked as if he
had indeed reached the end of his rope for he was well advanced into the stage
of middle age and new ideas came more slowly and less frequently to him than
in former years he said to me in substance I know that all things that
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work out and business are the result of thought any fool knows that just now I
seem to be short on thoughts and good ideas but if this all mind teaching is
correct it should be possible for the individual to attain a direct connection
with infinite mind and in infinite mind there must be the possibility of all
kinds of good ideas which a man of my courage and experience could put to
practical use in the business world and make a big success thereof it looks good
to me and I'm going to look into it this was several years ago the other day
I heard of this man again talking to a friend I said what has come of our old
friend ex has he ever gotten on his feet again the friend looked at me in
amazement why said he don't you know about X's
great success he is the big man in the blank company naming a concern which has
made a phenomenal success during the last 18 months and is now well known by
reason of its advertisements from one end of the country to another and also
abroad he is the man who supplied the big idea for that concern why he is
about a half million to the good and is moving rapidly toward the million mark
all in the space of 18 months I had not connected this man with the enterprise
mentioned although I knew of the wonderful success of the company in
question investigation has shown that the story is true and that the above
stated facts are not exaggerated in the slightest now what do you think of that
to me it means that this man actually made the direct connection with infinite
mind spirit and having found it he set it to work for him he used it in his
business does this sound sacrilegious or
blasphemous I hope not I do not mean it to be so take away the implication of
personality or magnified human nature from the conception of the infinite and
you have left the conception of an infinite presence power the quintessence
of which is consciousness in fact at the last spirit as this man also at the last
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must be considered as a manifestation of spirit
there is nothing sacrilegious in the idea that he being spirit should so
harmonize himself with his origin and source that he would be able to manifest
at least a minor degree of its power all of us do this more or less when we use
our minds in the direction of creative thought
this man did more he went about it in an intensely practical manner I have not
consulted him about his method of procedure though I intend doing so at
the first opportunity but he not only drew upon the infinite supply for the
ideas which he needed and which formed the seed of his success but that he also
used the creative power of thought in building up for himself an idealistic
pattern of that which he hoped to manifest in material form adding thereto
changing improving its detail from time to time proceeding from the general
outline to the finished detail I judged this to be the facts of the case not
alone from my recollection of the conversation a few years ago but also
because I have found the same thing to be true in the cases of other prominent
men who have made similar manifestation of creative thought those who may shrink
from this idea of employing the infinite power to aid one in his work in the
material world should remember that if the infinite objected in the least to
such a procedure the thing could never happen the infinite is quite able to
take care of itself spirituality is quite practical very
practical intensely practical it teaches that spirit is the real thing the whole
thing and that matter is but plastic stuff which spirit is able to create
mold manipulate and fashion to its will spirituality is the most practical thing
in the world the only really and absolutely practical thing that there is
this week concentrate on the fact that man is not a body with a spirit but a
spirit with a body and that it is for this reason that his desires are
incapable of any permanent satisfaction in anything not spiritual money is
therefore of no value except to bring about the conditions which we desire and
these conditions are necessarily harmonious harmonious conditions
necessitate sufficient supply so that if there appears to be any lack we should
realize that the idea or soul of money is service and as this thought takes
form channels of supply will be opened and you will have the satisfaction of
knowing that spiritual methods are entirely practical we have discovered
that premeditated orderly thinking for a purpose matures that purpose into fixed
form so that we may be absolutely sure of the result of our dynamic experiment
francis Larimer Warner
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