Reference
The words he used, in modern English
Haanel wrote in the language of 1912 metaphysics. None of it is a barrier once the vocabulary is settled — and the point of this page is that a reader arriving low on hope should never bounce off a strange noun.
World within
- Your inner life: thought, belief, attention, imagination, character. Haanel's name for the causal side of existence.
World without
- Your conditions: body, environment, money, relationships, events. The effect side.
Universal Mind
- The totality of all mind; omnipresent, creative, and — crucially — not separate from you. Haanel uses 'God' and 'Spirit' interchangeably, while insisting it is not something outside you.
Subconscious
- The 90% that works by habit and accepts what it is given. It does not reason; it builds.
Law of Attraction
- Haanel's term for the law by which like correlates with like — thought with its object, seed with its fruit. In his framing it is a natural law operating with 'mathematical exactitude,' not a wishing service.
Concentration
- Sustained, deliberate attention — the muscle that everything else depends on.
Idealisation / Visualisation
- Making complete mental pictures, then holding them. Constructive, unlike day-dreaming.
The Silence
- Deliberate inward stillness, where contact with the source of power is made.
Recognition
- Seeing a fact that already exists rather than trying to create it. 'Recognition brings about realization.'
Repose
- Non-straining, non-anxious mental work. 'Power comes through repose.'
Personal application
- Haanel's insistence that nothing counts until it is applied to your own particular problem.
The affirmations he set
Haanel gave one affirmation late in the course and told readers to repeat it always in the same words. The deck on this site includes the full-strength line and a softer variant for days when the full line feels false.
“I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy.”
Haanel's affirmation — Part Nine. Repeat always the same, never varying.
“My ability to think is my ability to act upon the Universal Mind and bring it into manifestation.”
Part One, item 29 · Part Twelve, item 28
“I have exactly the same potential ability as anyone who ever has or ever will live. Only the degree differs.”
Part Twelve, item 28
“I am a part of the whole, and a part must be the same in kind and quality as the whole.”
Part Thirteen, item 26
“I will not carry today what I can put down. I release it by voluntary intention and persistence.”
Part Four, item 31
“I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy — and I affirm it for you too.”
Haanel's rule: affirm it for others, and it helps you both — Part Nine, item 25
“It is not I that doeth the works, but the 'Father' that dwelleth within me.”
Part Twenty-Four, item 240
“I eliminate fear by concentrating on courage; lack by concentrating on abundance; illness by concentrating on health.”
Part Seventeen, items 32–35
“The world within is the cause; the world without is the effect. I work on the cause.”
Part One, item 36
“Knowledge will not apply itself. I am the application.”
Part Fifteen, item 36
“Happiness is a state of consciousness and does not depend upon the possession of things.”
Part Sixteen, item 36
Open the affirmation deck“I keep the door shut to everything that has no definite helpful end in view.”
Part Fourteen, quoting George Mathew Adams
Ranks in this course
Progress names are taken from the book's own vocabulary and apply to the work, never to the person. XP measures repetitions completed — nothing else, ever.
| Rank | XP from | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Seeker | 0 | You have arrived and that is already something. |
| Student of the Key | 200 | About 7 sessions of honest work. |
| Practitioner | 500 | About 17 sessions of honest work. |
| Concentrator | 900 | About 30 sessions of honest work. |
| Adept | 1300 | About 43 sessions of honest work. |
| Builder of Causes | 1800 | About 60 sessions of honest work. |
| Architect | 2300 | About 77 sessions of honest work. |
| Keeper of the Silence | 2700 | About 90 sessions of honest work. |
| Master of the Key | 3050 | About 102 sessions of honest work. |