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Part 21 · The Truth Shall Make You Free · points 7–13 of 27 in this Part

Every thought creates something

Conditions are produced — and your personality is the sum of your attitudes.

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Conditions are produced — and your personality is the sum of your attitudes.

When we understand these facts about mind, we see that every thought creates form and every experience arrives through the Law of Attraction. The predominant thought, or mental attitude, is the magnet; your attitude is your personality; your personality is the sum of your habitual attitudes. That is why the direction of your dominant thinking matters more than any single good intention.
Why this matters — Part 21
Failure installs false statements about you — “washed up,” “not enough,” “too late.” Haanel's instruction is not to fight the false statement, but to think the true one until the false one has nothing to stand on. That's the whole technique: crowd out, don't argue. Truth, in this System, is not a moral quality. It's a construction material.

Study questions for this sublevel

Haanel put a review question at the end of every part. Answer out loud first — the recall is what moves it into memory.

204. How may we connect with this Omnipotence?

Our ability to think is our ability to act on this Universal Energy, and what we think is what is produced or created in the objective world.

205. What is the result of this discovery?

The result is nothing less than marvelous, it opens unprecedented and limitless opportunity.

206. How, then, may we eliminate imperfect conditions?

By becoming conscious of our Unity with the source of all power.

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Haanel's own words — points 7–13

Quoted exactly from The Master Key System (1912, public domain). The translation above is ours; this is his.

7

This is one of the secrets of success, one of the methods of organizing victory, one of the accomplishments of the Master Mind. He thinks big thoughts. The creative energies of mind find no more difficulty in handling large situations than small ones. Mind is just as much present in the Infinitely large as in the Infinitely small.

8

When we realize these facts concerning mind, we understand how we may bring ourselves any condition by creating the corresponding conditions in our consciousness, because everything which is held for any length of time in the consciousness, eventually becomes impressed upon the subconscious and thus becomes a pattern which the creative energy will weave into the life and environment of the individual.

9

In this way conditions are produced, and we find that our lives are simply the reflection of our predominant thoughts, our mental attitude. We see then that the science of correct thinking is the one science, that it includes all other sciences.

10

From this science we learn that every thought creates an impression on the brain, that these impressions create mental tendencies, and these tendencies create character, ability and purpose, and that the combined action of character, ability and purpose determines the experiences with which we shall meet in life.

11

These experiences come to us through the Law of Attraction; through the action of this law we meet in the outer world the experiences which correspond to our world within.

12

The predominant thought or the mental attitude is the magnet, and the law is that “like attracts like”, consequently the mental attitude will invariably attract such conditions as correspond to its nature.

13

This mental attitude is our personality, and is composed of the thoughts which we have been creating in our own mind; therefore, if we wish a change in conditions, all that is necessary is to change our thought. This will in turn change our mental attitude, which will in turn change our personality, which will in turn change the persons, things and conditions – the experiences – with which we meet in life.

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Concentrating on the Truth (Part Twenty-One)

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Part 21 · The Truth Shall Make You Free

Think the truth and the false must go