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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... lives , we strive manfully to fulfil the simple duties of our station in life , fixing the mind upon the task on hand , the mental and moral strength acquired through keeping the thoughts where the mind and hands are working , would ...
... lives , we strive manfully to fulfil the simple duties of our station in life , fixing the mind upon the task on hand , the mental and moral strength acquired through keeping the thoughts where the mind and hands are working , would ...
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... inclination to dwell upon the privations and disappointments in our lives . In so doing , the natural result is entire acceptance of the unhappy condition , and once accept- ance enters the heart , peace comes with it to 8 THE MASTER KEY.
... inclination to dwell upon the privations and disappointments in our lives . In so doing , the natural result is entire acceptance of the unhappy condition , and once accept- ance enters the heart , peace comes with it to 8 THE MASTER KEY.
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... lives . Sometimes , in after years , we see the wis- dom of not having obtained that for which we wept , and for which we uselessly cast a shadow over our lives by our grief and repining . This should teach us that a great unmutable ...
... lives . Sometimes , in after years , we see the wis- dom of not having obtained that for which we wept , and for which we uselessly cast a shadow over our lives by our grief and repining . This should teach us that a great unmutable ...
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... lives to whatever subject or problem we desire . Something more must be known concerning consciousness and its modes of action . For his first lesson , then , the student must seek to gain some knowledge of the factors which constitute ...
... lives to whatever subject or problem we desire . Something more must be known concerning consciousness and its modes of action . For his first lesson , then , the student must seek to gain some knowledge of the factors which constitute ...
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... lives of some people . When one lives in squalid surroundings , in dirty dark manufacturing districts , where beauty is a stranger , with people who do not embody many of the virtues in their composition , we may transform as by magic ...
... lives of some people . When one lives in squalid surroundings , in dirty dark manufacturing districts , where beauty is a stranger , with people who do not embody many of the virtues in their composition , we may transform as by magic ...
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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