The Master Key System Chapter 15 deals with the power of words in the manifestation process.
Haanel begins the chapter by sharing an interesting result obtained from an experiment on the aphid insect.
“In order to obtain the material, potted rose bushes are brought into a room and placed in front of a closed window. If the plants are allowed to dry out, the aphides (parasites), previously wingless, change to winged insects. After the metamorphosis, the animals leave the plants, fly to the window and then creep upward on the glass.”
Why is this important?
It shows that even in the smallest of creatures there is a hidden force which works to help attain desires.
The Universal Mind is even more powerful for human beings.
The key is to learn how to access its wisdom.
This mind sometimes makes us stronger through challenging us with adversity.
The Obstacle Is The Way
“All conditions and experiences that come to us do so for our benefit. Difficulties and obstacles will continue to come until we absorb their wisdom and gather from them the essentials of further growth.”
— Haanel
Every difficulty we experience allows us to develop mentally and spiritually.
We overcome difficulties when we stop resisting them and instead put our energy towards extracting the hidden wisdom from the event.
This idea is expanded on further in the philosophy of Stoicism.
The Master Key System Chapter 15 Big Idea: Words And Thoughts
“The importance of words; they are the first manifestation of thought — the vessels in which thought is carried.”
— Haanel
Words and thoughts have an intimate relationship.
Thoughts can influence the words you speak.
The words you use can influence your thoughts.
Words contain emotional associations based on societal programming and past experiences.
Being called ‘fat’ can be traumatic for someone who has struggled with bullying as a child.
For another with a different past, the word holds no weight.
Hence words can influence our moods.
Words also have the power to influence actions and thus change our outer reality.
“Thought may lead to action of any kind, but whatever the action, it is simply the thought attempting to express itself in visible form. It is evident, therefore, that if we wish desirable conditions, we can afford to entertain only desirable thoughts.”
— Haanel
Since thoughts and words are interconnected.
Since they have the power to change your mood and therefore the actions you take.
It becomes increasingly important to pay attention to the words you use when consciously creating desired realities.
Don’t say or think anything you would not like to see manifested.
Replace words of fear with words of confidence.
Replace words of poverty with words of abundance.
Words of sickness with words of health.
“Accuracy in building words and sentences is the highest form of architecture in civilization and is a passport to success.”
— Haanel
Often the success of any civilization is due to the self-esteem of its individuals.
Cultures in which individuals feel a sense of shame and embarrassment tend to have fewer technological innovations.
People in these cultures take less risks because of the words running through their subconscious minds.
A society is an ensemble of people, so to change the collective, you must change each individual.
The Master Key System Chapter 15 Big Idea: Insight
Towards the end of the chapter Haanel touches on the importance of insight.
He explains how insight is an important faculty of the human mind that allows us to make calculated decisions about the future.
Insight and wisdom are similar because they allow you to make better decisions when confronted with obstacles.
Wisdom is based on past experiences and fractal patterns you have seen in your time.
Insight is predictive; it’s having an accurate or deep understanding of things you might not even have experienced.
Insight can come to us through the subconscious mind.
Perhaps the most explosive demonstrations of insight come from ‘remote viewing’.
A phenomenon where people can get psychic information about objects thousands of kilometres away from them.
According to Haanel, insight is something that can be developed through meditation.
“Insight is a product of the world within and is developed in the Silence — by concentration.”
The Master Key System Chapter 15 Exercise Explained
For your exercise this week, concentrate on Insight. Take your accustomed position and focus the thought on the fact that to have a knowledge of the creative power of thought does not mean to possess the art of thinking. Let the thought dwell on the fact that knowledge does not apply itself. That our actions are not governed by knowledge, but by custom, precedent, and habit. That the only way we can get ourselves to apply knowledge is by a determined conscious effort. Call to mind the fact that knowledge unused passes from the mind, that the value of the information is in the application of the principle. Continue this line of thought until you gain sufficient insight to formulate a definite program for applying this principle to your own particular problem.
This exercise is meant to show you why knowledge without action is useless.
Through the chain of cause and effect, you can see how thoughts and words influence action, which in turn influences the outer world.
Without action the chain is broken and no manifestation can be seen.
Now consider what actions need to be taken for you to achieve your goal.
Do this, and you will be one step closer to mastering your mind and shifting your reality.