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Part 9 · The Seed You Water · points 9–16 of 34 in this Part

Truth is a working material

Every action out of harmony with truth brings discord — that's the whole ledger.

8 numbered points · 2 study questions · 3 min read

The one line to keep

Every action out of harmony with truth brings discord — that's the whole ledger.

Anything built on a falsehood produces trouble eventually, no matter how clever it looked at the time. So how do you know the truth? Haanel's test is practical: think from the nature of the 'I' rather than from appearances. For wealth, realise that the supply is not the problem — your connection to it is. And for love, he gives the mechanism in one line: the only way to get it is to give it.
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.

84. What is the result of knowledge of the Truth?

We can readily predict the result of any action that is based upon a true premise.

85. What is the result of any action based upon a false premise?

We can form no conception of the results which may ensue.

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Haanel's own words — points 9–16

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

9

Every action which is not in harmony with Truth, whether through ignorance or design, will result in discord, and eventual loss in proportion to its extent and character.

10

How then are we to know the truth in order to attach this mechanism which will relate us to the Infinite?

11

We can make no mistake about this if we realize that truth is the vital principle of the Universal Mind and is Omnipresent. For instance, if you require health, a realization of the fact that the "I" in you is spiritual and that all spirit is one; that wherever a part is the whole must be, will bring about a condition of health, because every cell in the body must manifest the truth as you see it. If you see sickness, they will manifest sickness. If you see perfection, they must manifest perfection. The affirmation, "I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy”, will bring about harmonious conditions. The reason for this is because the affirmation is in strict accordance with the Truth, and when truth appears every form of error or discord must necessarily disappear.

12

You have found that the "I" is spiritual, it must necessarily then always be no less than perfect, the affirmation. "I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy" is therefore an exact scientific statement.

13

Thought is a spiritual activity and spirit is creative, therefore the result of holding this thought in mind, must necessarily bring about conditions in harmony with the thought.

14

If you require Wealth, a realization of the fact that the "I" in you is one with the Universal mind which is all substance, and is Omnipotent, will assist you in bringing into operation the Law of Attraction which will bring you into vibration with those forces which make for success and bring about conditions of power and affluence in direct proportion with the character and purpose of your affirmation.

15

Visualization is the mechanism of the attachment which you require. Visualization is a very different process from seeing; seeing is physical, and is therefore related to the objective world, the "world without," but Visualization is a product of the imagination, and is therefore a product of the subjective mind, the "world within." It therefore possesses vitality; it will grow. The thing visualized will manifest itself in form. The mechanism is perfect; it was created by the Master Architect who "doeth all things well," but unfortunately sometimes the operator is inexperienced or inefficient, but practice and determination will overcome this defect.

16

If you require Love try to realize that the only way to get love is by giving it, that the more you give the more you will get, and the only way in which you can give it, is to fill yourself with it, until you become a magnet. The method was explained in another lesson.

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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