“The Master Key System”
written by Charles F. Haanel in 1912
and first published in 1916 by
Psychology Publishing, St. Louis
and the Master Key Institute, NY
The original text is now in public domain.
However, this free e-book edition is not in public domain. It cannot
be shared, distributed or reproduced in whole or in part.
If you would like to share this e-book with others please direct
them to our website www.thesecret.tv
where a legitimate copy can be downloaded for free.
2
A note from Rhonda Byrne, creator and executive producer of
‘The Secret’.
Another landmark text in success literature, dating from the same era as Wallace
Wattles’ extraordinary manuscript “The Science of Getting Rich”. “The Master Key
System” was a phenomenon of its time, skyrocketing author Charles F. Haanel to fame,
as well as to a considerable fortune!
“The Master Key System” documents minutely not only the methods, but the science
behind the methods which propelled Haanel himself to extraordinary levels of success,
as businessman, author and personal mentor to some of his era’s most successful
businessmen.
Internalise this remarkable book and you too will learn The Secret, the secret of thought
as creative energy, as power, as the Master Key to your own development. Haanel’s
“Master Key” virtually opens the door to cosmic intelligence, allowing you to attract
everything you need to achieve your dreams. Originally written as a correspondence
course, the book is divided into twenty-four sections, with exercises in each section to
train and develop your mind skills. Take a week at a time, study and re-read each
section, build your power of concentration and visualization week by week to the level
where you’ll be able to manifest your desires with lightning speed.
These are the techniques which made millionaires over and over again, before the book
basically disappeared about 1933. This is the very book that later re-emerged in Silicon
Valley decades later as a ‘millionaire-maker’ all over again. The legend goes that a
certain Bill Gates stumbled upon this book when just a Harvard student and went on to
create history! Study and absorb Haanel’s amazing teachings, and there is no doubt you
too will stumble upon powerful, exhaustive and dynamic ways to create your own
dreams!
In Charles F. Haanel’s own words, what you will achieve are “results hitherto
undreamed of, and rewards hardly to be expressed in words.”
Happy reading!
3
Contents
INTRODUCTION
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION - PART ONE
PART ONE
PART ONE - STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION - PART TWO
PART TWO
PART TWO STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION - PART THREE
PART THREE
PART THREE STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION - PART FOUR
PART FOUR
PART FOUR STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION - PART FIVE
PART FIVE
PART FIVE STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION - PART SIX
PART SIX
4
8
10
17
18
24
25
26
32
33
34
40
41
42
48
49
50
55
56
57
PART SIX STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION - PART SEVEN
PART SEVEN
PART SEVEN STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION - PART EIGHT
PART EIGHT
PART EIGHT STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION - PART NINE
PART NINE
PART NINE STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION - PART TEN
PART TEN
PART TEN STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION - PART ELEVEN
PART ELEVEN
PART ELEVEN STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION - PART TWELVE
PART TWELVE
PART TWELVE STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION - PART THIRTEEN
5
62
63
64
70
72
74
81
82
83
89
90
91
96
97
98
104
105
106
111
112
PART THIRTEEN
PART THIRTEEN STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION - PART FOURTEEN
PART FOURTEEN
PART FOURTEEN STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION - PART FIFTEEN
PART FIFTEEN
PART FIFTEEN STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION - PART SIXTEEN
PART SIXTEEN
PART SIXTEEN STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION - PART SEVENTEEN
PART SEVENTEEN
PART SEVENTEEN STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION - PART EIGHTEEN
PART EIGHTEEN
PART EIGHTEEN STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION - PART NINETEEN
PART NINETEEN
PART NINETEEN STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
6
113
119
121
122
128
129
130
136
138
139
145
146
147
153
155
156
161
162
163
168
INTRODUCTION - PART TWENTY
PART TWENTY
PART TWENTY STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION - PART TWENTY-ONE
PART TWENTY-ONE
PART TWENTY-ONE STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION - PART TWENTY-TWO
PART TWENTY-TWO
PART TWENTY-TWO STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
INTRODUCTION - PART TWENTY-THREE
PART TWENTY-THREE
PART TWENTY-THREE STUDY QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION - PART TWENTY-FOUR
PART TWENTY-FOUR
PART TWENTY-FOUR STUDY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
170
172
178
179
180
186
188
190
196
198
199
204
206
207
213
7
Introduction
Nature compels us all to move through life. We could not remain stationary however much we
wished. Every right-thinking person wants not merely to move through life like a sound-producing,
perambulating plant, but to develop – to improve – and to continue the development mentally to the
close of physical life.
This development can occur only through the improvement of the quality of individual thought and
the ideals, actions and conditions that arise as a consequence. Hence a study of the creative
processes of thought and how to apply them is of supreme importance to each one of us. This
knowledge is the means whereby the evolution of human life on earth may be hastened and uplifted
in the process.
Humanity ardently seeks “The Truth” and explores every avenue to it. In this process it has
produced a special literature, which ranges the whole gamut of thought from the trivial to the
sublime – up from Divination, through all the Philosophies, to the final lofty Truth of “The Master
Key”.
The “Master Key” is here given to the world as a means of tapping the great cosmic intelligence
and attracting from it that which corresponds to the ambitions, and aspirations of each reader.
Every thing and institution we see around us, created by human agency, had first to exist as a
thought in some human mind. Thought therefore is constructive. Human thought is the spiritual
power of the cosmos operating through its creature man. “The Master Key” instructs the reader
how to use that power, and use it both constructively and creatively. The things and conditions we
desire to become realities we must first create in thought. “The Master Key” explains and guides
the process.
8