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Part 9 · The Seed You Water · points 1–8 of 34 in this Part

Only three things are worth wanting

Health, wealth and love — and all three are states of consciousness.

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Health, wealth and love — and all three are states of consciousness.

Strip away everything people chase and you are left with three desires: health, wealth and love. Haanel says the universal substance is all three, and that wanting them correctly is not greed. But to think correctly you must know the truth about your own nature — that the 'I' is spiritual and cannot be less than what it came from. Get that right in your thinking and you are in harmony with everything else.
Why this matters — Part 9
If you have been repeatedly beaten down, your self-talk has become an engine of demolition — automatic, fast, and cruel. Haanel does not argue with it. He hands you a replacement sentence and tells you to repeat it like medicine until it becomes the automatic one. This is not pretending. Nobody feels “powerful” on day one. You are simply planting a seed and watering it, in the same way the gardener does not dig up the soil each morning to check.

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.

81. What is the imperative condition of all well-being?

Well doing.

82. What is the condition precedent to every right action?

Right thinking.

83. What is the underlying condition necessary in every business transaction or social relation?

To know the Truth.

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Haanel's own words — points 1–8

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

1

There are only three things which can possibly be desired in the "world without" and each of them can be found in the "world within." The secret of finding them is simply to apply the proper "mechanism" of attachment to the omnipotent power to which each individual has access.

2

The three things which all mankind desires and which are necessary for his highest expression and complete development are Health, Wealth, and Love. All will admit that Health is absolutely essential; no one can be happy if the physical body is in pain. All will not so readily admit that Wealth is necessary, but all must admit that a sufficient supply at least is necessary, and what would be considered sufficient for one, would be considered absolute and painful lack for another; and as Nature provides not only enough but abundantly, wastefully, lavishly, we realize that any lack or limitation is only the limitation which has been made by an artificial method of distribution.

3

All will probably admit that Love is the third, or maybe some will say the first essential necessary to the happiness of mankind. At any rate, those who possess all three, Health, Wealth, and Love, find nothing else which can be added to their cup of happiness.

4

We have found that the Universal substance is "All Health," "All Substance," and "All Love" and that the mechanism of attachment whereby we can consciously connect with this Infinite supply is in our method of thinking. To think correctly is therefore to enter into the "Secret Place of the Most High."

5

What shall we think? If we know this we shall have found the proper mechanism of attachment which will relate us to "Whatsoever things we desire." This mechanism may seem very simple when I give it to you, but read on; you will find that it is in reality the "Master-Key," the "Alladin's lamp," if you please. You will find that it is the foundation, the imperative condition, the absolute law of well-doing, which means, well-being.

6

To think correctly, accurately, we must know the "Truth." The truth then is the underlying principle in every business or social relation. It is a condition precedent to every right action. To know the truth, to be sure, to be confident, affords a satisfaction beside which no other is at all comparable; it is the only solid ground in a world of doubt, conflict and danger.

7

To know the Truth is to be in harmony with the Infinite and Omnipotent power. To know the truth is, therefore, to connect yourself with a power which is irresistible and which will sweep away every kind of discord, inharmony, doubt or error of any kind, because the "Truth is mighty and will prevail."

8

The humblest intellect can readily foretell the result of any action when he knows that it is based on truth, but the mightiest intellect, the most profound and penetrating mind loses its way hopelessly and can form no conception of the results which may ensue when his hopes are based on a premise which he knows to be false.

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The Growing Seed (Part Nine)

Relax. Then visualise a single seed of your favourite flower.

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Part 9 · The Seed You Water

Choose the sentence you repeat — it is compounding