The Milkman Bog

CHAPTER 10
POWER OF THE MASTER MIND
THE DRIVING FORCE
The Ninth Step toward Riches
POWER is essential for success in the accumulation of money. PLANS are
inert and useless, without sufficient POWER to translate them into ACTION.
This chapter will describe the method by which an individual may attain and
apply POWER. POWER may be defined as “organized and intelligently
directed KNOWLEDGE.” Power, as the term is here used, refers to
ORGANIZED effort, sufficient to enable an individual to transmute DESIRE
into its monetary equivalent. ORGANIZED effort is produced through the
coordination of effort of two or more people, who work toward a DEFINITE
end, in a spirit of harmony. POWER IS REQUIRED FOR THE
ACCUMULATION OF MONEY! POWER IS NECESSARY FOR THE
RETENTION OF MONEY AFTER IT HAS BEEN ACCUMULATED!
Let us ascertain how power may be acquired. If power is “organized
knowledge,” let us examine the sources of knowledge:
a. INFINITE INTELLIGENCE. This source of knowledge may be contacted
through the procedure described in another chapter, with the aid of
Creative Imagination.
b. ACCUMULATED EXPERIENCE. The accumulated experience of man,
(or that portion of it which has been organized and recorded), may be
found in any well-equipped public library. An important part of this
accumulated experience is taught in public schools and colleges, where it
has been classified and organized.
c. EXPERIMENT AND RESEARCH. In the field of science, and in
practically every other walk of life, men are gathering, classifying, and
organizing new facts daily. This is the source to which one must turn when
knowledge is not available through “accumulated experience.” Here, too,
the Creative Imagination must often be used. Knowledge may be acquired
from any of the foregoing sources. It may be converted into POWER by
organizing it into definite PLANS and by expressing those plans in terms
of ACTION. Examination of the three major sources of knowledge will
readily disclose the difficulty an individual would have, if he depended
upon his efforts alone, in assembling knowledge and expressing it through
definite plans in terms of ACTION. If his plans are comprehensive, and if
they contemplate large proportions, he must, generally, induce others to
cooperate with him, before he can inject into them the necessary element
of POWER. GAINING POWER THROUGH THE ‘‘MASTER MIND”
The “Master Mind” may be defined as: “Coordination of knowledge and
effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the
attainment of a definite purpose.” No individual may have great power
without availing himself of the “Master Mind.” In a preceding chapter,
instructions were given for the creation of PLANS for the purpose of
translating DESIRE into its monetary equivalent. If you carry out these
instructions with PERSISTENCE and intelligence, and use discrimination
in the selection of your “Master Mind” group, your objective will have
been half- way reached, even before you begin to recognize it. So you may
better understand the “intangible” potentialities of power available to you,
through a properly chosen “Master Mind” group, we will here explain the
two characteristics of the Master Mind principle, one of which is
economic in nature, and the other psychic. The economic feature is
obvious. Economic advantages may be created by any person who
surrounds himself with the advice, counsel, and personal cooperation of a
group of men who are willing to lend him wholehearted aid, in a spirit of
PERFECT HARMONY. This form of cooperative alliance has been the
basis of nearly every great fortune. Your understanding of this great truth
may definitely determine your financial status.
The psychic phase of the Master Mind principle is much more
abstract, much more difficult to comprehend, because it has
reference to the spiritual forces with which the human race, as a
whole, is not well acquainted. You may catch a significant suggestion
from this statement: “No two minds ever come together
without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be
likened to a third mind.”
Keep in mind the fact that there are only two known elements in the whole
universe, energy and matter. It is a well known fact that matter may be broken
down into units of molecules, atoms, and electrons. There are units of matter
which may be isolated, separated, and analyzed.
Likewise, there are units of energy.
The human mind is a form of energy, a part of it being spiritual in nature.
When the minds of two people are coordinated in a SPIRIT OF HARMONY,
the spiritual units of energy of each mind form an affinity, which constitutes
the “psychic” phase of the Master Mind.
The Master Mind principle, or rather the economic feature of it, was first
called to my attention by Andrew Carnegie, over twentyfive years ago.
Discovery of this principle was responsible for the choice of my life’s work.
Mr. Carnegie’s Master Mind group consisted of a staff of approximately fifty
men, with whom he surrounded himself, for the DEFINITE PURPOSE of
manufacturing and marketing steel. He attributed his entire fortune to the
POWER he accumulated through this “Master Mind.”
Analyze the record of any man who has accumulated a great fortune, and
many of those who have accumulated modest fortunes, and you will find that
they have either consciously, or unconsciously employed the “Master Mind”
principle. GREAT POWER CAN BE ACCUMULATED THROUGH NO
OTHER PRINCIPLE!
ENERGY is Nature’s universal set of building blocks, out of which she
constructs every material thing in the universe, including man, and every form
of animal and vegetable life. Through a process which only Nature completely
understands, she translates energy into matter.
Nature’s building blocks are available to man, in the energy involved in
THINKING! Man’s brain may be compared to an electric battery. It absorbs
energy from the ether, which permeates every atom of matter, and fills the
entire universe.
It is a well known fact that a group of electric batteries will provide more
energy than a single battery. It is also a well known fact that an individual
battery will provide energy in proportion to the number and capacity of the
cells it contains. The brain functions in a similar fashion. This accounts for the
fact that some brains are more efficient than others, and leads to this
significant statement—a group of brains coordinated (or connected) in a spirit
of harmony, will provide more thought-energy than a single brain, just as a
group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.
Through this metaphor it become s immediately obvious that the Master Mind
principle holds the secret of the POWER wielded by men who surround
themselves with other men of brains. There follows, now, another statement
which will lead still nearer to an understanding of the psychic phase of the
Master Mind principle: When a group of individual brains are coordinated and
function in Harmony, the increased energy created through that alliance,
becomes available to every individual brain in the group. It is a well known
fact that Henry Ford began his business career under the handicap of poverty,
illiteracy, and ignorance. It is an equally well known fact that, within the
inconceivably short period of ten years, Mr. Ford mastered these three
handicaps, and that within twenty-five years he made himself one of the
richest men in America. Connect with this fact, the additional knowledge that
Mr. Ford’s most rapid strides became noticeable, from the time he became a
personal friend of Thomas A. Edison, and you will begin to understand what
the influence of one mind upon another can accomplish. Go a step farther, and
consider the fact that Mr. Ford’s most outstanding achievements began from
the time that he formed the acquaintances of Harvey Firestone, John
Burroughs, and Luther Burbank, (each a man of great brain capacity), and you
will have further evidence that POWER may be produced through friendly
alliance of minds.
There is little if any doubt that Henry Ford is one of the best informed men in
the business and industrial world. The question of his wealth needs no
discussion. Analyze Mr. Ford’s intimate personal friends, some of whom have
already been mentioned, and you will be prepared to understand the following
statement:— “Men take on the nature and the habits and the POWER OF
THOUGHT of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and
harmony.”
Henry Ford whipped poverty, illiteracy, and ignorance by
allying himself with great minds, whose vibrations of thought he
absorbed into his own mind. Through his association with Edison, Burbank,
Burroughs, and Firestone, Mr. Ford added to his own
brain power, the sum and substance of the intelligence, experience,
knowledge, and spiritual forces of these four men. Moreover, he appropriated,
and made use of the Master Mind principle through the methods of procedure
described in this book.
This principle is available to you!
We have already mentioned Mahatma Gandhi. Perhaps the majority of those
who have heard of Gandhi, look upon him as merely an eccentric little man,
who goes around without formal wearing apparel, and makes trouble for the
British Government. In reality, Gandhi is not eccentric, but HE IS THE
MOST POWERFUL MAN NOW LIVING.
(Estimated by the number of his followers and their faith in their leader.)
Moreover, he is probably the most powerful man who has ever lived. His
power is passive, but it is real. Let us study the method by which he attained
his stupendous POWER. It may be explained in a few words. He came by
POWER through inducing over two hundred million people to coordinate,
with mind and body, in a spirit of HARMONY, for a DEFINITE PURPOSE.
In brief, Gandhi has accomplished a MIRACLE, for it is a miracle when two
hundred million people can be induced—not forced—to cooperate in a spirit
of HARMONY, for a limitless time. If you doubt that this is a miracle, try to
induce ANY TWO PEOPLE to cooperate in a spirit of harmony for any length
of time. Every man who manages a business knows what a difficult matter it
is to get employees to work together in a spirit even remotely resembling
HARMONY.
The list of the chief sources from which POWER may be attained is, as you
have seen, headed by INFINITE INTELLIGENCE. When two or more
people coordinate in a spirit of HARMONY, and work toward a definite
objective, they place themselves in position, through that alliance, to absorb
power directly from the great universal storehouse of Infinite Intelligence.
This is the greatest of all sources of POWER. It is the source to which the
genius turns. It is the source to which every great leader turns, (whether he
may be conscious of the fact or not).
The other two major sources from which the knowledge,
necessary for the accumulation of POWER, may be obtained are no
more reliable than the five senses of man. The senses are not always reliable.
Infinite Intelligence DOES NOT ERR. In subsequent chapters, the methods
by which Infinite Intelligence may be most readily contacted will be
adequately described.
This is not a course on religion. No fundamental principle described in this
book should be interpreted as being intended to interfere either directly, or
indirectly, with any man’s religious habits. This book has been confined,
exclusively, to instructing the reader how to transmute the DEFINITE
PURPOSE OF DESIRE FOR MONEY, into its monetary equivalent.
Read, THINK, and meditate as you read. Soon, the entire subject will unfold,
and you will see it in perspective. You are now seeing the detail of the
individual chapters.
Money is as shy and elusive as the “old time” maiden. It must be wooed and
won by methods not unlike those used by a determined lover, in pursuit of the
girl of his choice. And, coincidental as it is, the POWER used in the “wooing”
of money is not greatly different from that used in wooing a maiden. That
power, when successfully used in the pursuit of money must be mixed with
FAITH. It must be mixed with DESIRE. It must be mixed with
PERSISTENCE. It must be applied through a plan, and that plan must be set
into ACTION.
When money comes in quantities known as “the big money,” it flows to the
one who accumulates it, as easily as water flows down hill. There exists a
great unseen stream of POWER, which may be compared to a river; except
that one side flows in one direction, carrying all who get into that side of the
stream, onward and upward to WEALTH—and the other side flows in the
opposite direction, carrying all who are unfortunate enough to get into it (and
not able to extricate themselves from it), downward to misery and POVERTY.
Every man who has accumulated a great fortune, has recognized the existence
of this stream of life. It consists of one’s THINKING PROCESS. The positive
emotions of thought form the side of the stream which carries one to fortune.
The negative emotions form the side which carries one down to poverty. This
carries a thought of stupendous importance to the person who is following this
book with the object of accumulating a fortune.
If you are in the side of the stream of POWER which leads to poverty, this
may serve as an oar, by which you may propel yourself over into the other
side of the stream. It can serve you ONLY through application and use.
Merely reading, and passing judgment on it, either one way or another, will in
no way benefit you. Some people undergo the experience of alternating
between the positive and negative sides of the stream, being at times on the
positive side, and at times on the negative side. The Wall Street crash of ‘29
swept millions of people from the positive to the negative side of the stream.
These millions are struggling, some of them in desperation and fear, to get
back to the positive side of the stream. This book was written especially for
those millions. Poverty and riches often change places. The Crash taught the
world this truth, although the world will not long remember the lesson.
Poverty may, and generally does, voluntarily take the place of riches. When
riches take the place of poverty, the change is usually brought about through
well conceived and carefully executed PLANS. Poverty needs no plan. It
needs no one to aid it, because it is bold and ruthless. Riches are shy and
timid. They have to be “attracted.”
ANYBODY can WISH
for riches, and most
people do, but only a few
know that a definite plan,
plus a BURNING DESIRE
for wealth, are the only
dependable means of
accumulating wealth.