Before The Secret

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 soundproducing,
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
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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.
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