The Master Key: The Art of Mental DisciplineHaving financial difficulties? Afflicted with chronic stage fright? Suffering from a bad memory? Perhaps your difficulties are due to a lack of mental discipline. If so, this is the book you've been seeking. Filled with practical advice and exercises that will improve your mind control, L.W. de Laurence's The Master Key, first published in 1914, unlocks the door to the mysteries they tried to keep secret from you for centuries. Learn how concentrated thought will "unfold (your) individuality to the full."American writer and publisher LAURON WILLIAM DE LAURENCE (1868-1936) was a prolific author of works on spiritualism and the occult. His other works include The Great Book of Hindu Magic (1904), The Mystic Test Book of the Hindu Occult Chambers (1909) and Clairvoyance, Thought Transference, Auto Trance, and Spiritualism (1916). |
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... force , understand its almost limitless power , and educate himself to employ it judiciously . The student must learn to appreciate at its true value this force , given to him that he may be able to meet and conquer , not only exterior ...
... force , understand its almost limitless power , and educate himself to employ it judiciously . The student must learn to appreciate at its true value this force , given to him that he may be able to meet and conquer , not only exterior ...
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... force - a fact that the student must always bear in mind . Every thought , be it good or evil , creates corresponding conditions . There is , however , a species of men- tal activity — if I may call it activity at all - which is akin to ...
... force - a fact that the student must always bear in mind . Every thought , be it good or evil , creates corresponding conditions . There is , however , a species of men- tal activity — if I may call it activity at all - which is akin to ...
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... force , in order to attain the results they were meant to accomplish when properly controlled . The discipline of the mind is hard and painful work , but its conquest more than compensates for the mental stress and earn- estness it ...
... force , in order to attain the results they were meant to accomplish when properly controlled . The discipline of the mind is hard and painful work , but its conquest more than compensates for the mental stress and earn- estness it ...
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... force would be sufficient to drive a mill . Personal power is the desideratum of most people , for without it little headway in any direction can be made . He who would possess , it must concentrate on it , though to possess it means ...
... force would be sufficient to drive a mill . Personal power is the desideratum of most people , for without it little headway in any direction can be made . He who would possess , it must concentrate on it , though to possess it means ...
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... push was certain to be a popular one . Changes of this character are necessarily slow , when measured by the life of an individual , and they might even be questioned , but that this force of evolution is 12 THE MASTER KEY.
... push was certain to be a popular one . Changes of this character are necessarily slow , when measured by the life of an individual , and they might even be questioned , but that this force of evolution is 12 THE MASTER KEY.
Contents
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LESSON FIVE | 37 |
LESSON | 43 |
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT | 51 |
LESSON NINE | 60 |
LESSON | 68 |
LESSON SIXTEEN | 132 |
LESSON SEVENTEEN | 146 |
HABIT FIXED HABITS GOOD HABITS BAD HABITS | 176 |
LESSON TWENTYTWO | 192 |
LESSON TWENTYTHREE | 210 |
THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEAKING | 251 |
LESSON TWENTYSEVEN | 264 |
LESSON TWENTYEIGHT | 273 |
xii | 74 |
SCIENTIFIC COncentration ATTENTION and Mental | 77 |
LESSON TWELVE | 90 |
CULTIVATION OF MEMORY | 96 |
SCIENTIFIC CONCENTRATION ATTENTION AND MENTAL | 101 |
DISCIPLINE | 111 |
PART THREE | 124 |
RATIONAL AND MORAL EDUCATION ETHICALLY | 306 |
INDIVIDUAL MENTAL EFFICIENCY | 326 |
LESSON THIRTYONE | 335 |
CONCENTRATION APPLIED TO FEAR AND DISEASE | 347 |
CONCENTRATION APPLIED DURING THE PERIOD | 353 |
CHAPTER XXXVII | 369 |
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