Power of the Master Mind - the Driving Force

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Power of the Master Mind - 1
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
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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 twenty-five 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 becomes 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.

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