Welcome to Week Five of The Master Key System! We’re one-sixth of the way through this wonderful book and on this teleseminar I made a point to go through the Letter of Transmittal that Mr. Haanel wrote.

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Now, Haanel‘s Week Five Letter of Transmittal.

Enclosed herewith you will find Week Five. After studying this part carefully, you will see that every conceivable force or object or fact is the result of mind in action.

Mind in action is thought, and thought is creative. Men are thinking now as they never thought before. Therefore, this is a creative age, and the world is awarding its richest prizes to the thinkers.

Matter is powerless, passive, inert. Mind is force, energy, power. Mind shapes and controls matter. Every form which matter takes is but the expression of some preexisting thought.

But thought works no magic transformations; it obeys natural laws; it sets in motion natural forces; it releases natural energies; it manifests in your conduct and actions, and these in turn react upon your friends and acquaintances, and eventually upon the whole of your environment.

You can originate thought and, since thoughts are creative, you can create for yourself the things you desire.

If you’re like me — and because you’re listening to and participating in these Master Key Coaching Teleseminars you probably are! — then the first thing that strikes you is in the first paragraph: “the world is awarding its richest prizes to the thinkers.”

One needs to only scan the financial news for a few seconds to realize that that is true. The people who think — the people who solve problems or entertain or inform — in a creative fashion are the ones who reap the greatest rewards. In an article that I wrote, I quoted an advertisement that Apple made: “Here’s to the crazy ones.” That jibes perfectly with what we see here. Because you see things differently, you may be considered a little bit crazy — for a little while. As time passes and you are proved correct, then what was once crazy will be the norm — commonplace.

If someone told you a few years ago you would be connecting with “friends” on a web site called Facebook, would you have believed them or would you have thought them nuts?

How about “micro-blogging” on a tool called “Twitter“?

People created those things for various and sundry reasons at the base of which was their desire to solve a problem.

That’s what we’re learning here and by reading