The Master Key System

About This Book

The Master Key System can easily be ranked as one of the best books ever written on the Law of Attraction and the power of thought.

This is far more than a book however, it’s a twenty-four week study course on prosperity, metaphysics and the step-by-step development of personal power.

I found this book so compelling because it’s a factual presentation without any excess hyperbole. Each chapter is concluded with a number of thought-provoking questions followed up by succinct and pithy answers.

Haanel continually suggests not to read this volume as a book, but rather to read each chapter as something to be mentally digested and meditated upon. He then goes on to say what I think to be the most important – and often overlooked – piece of advice of all ... apply what you’ve just read! Doesn’t this seem so obvious? But how many of us read book after book after book on self improvement but fail to put what we learn into action. 

Charles Haanel continually admonishes the reader to apply what’s been read, and only then, will you begin to see the spectacular results of the power of concentrated thought.

Each chapter is designed to take you logically through the total growth process. If you go through this program as suggested by the author, you will understand how to use your inner thought power to improve your life permenantly. 

Of all the books ever written on self-help and the law of attraction, I would recommend this book as one of the very best.

We cannot permanently change anything about ourselves until we change our thoughts, and this book is the ultimate “how to” guide in learning how to think. 

The book was also one of the major inspirations behind the hit movie known as “The Secret” and is now known to have inspired the writing of the world's most famous success book Think And Grow Rich.

About the Author

Charles Francis Haanel (1866 -1949) was an American New Thought author and businessman. 

He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the son of Hugo and Emeline (Fox) Haanel. He was the fourth of six children. The Haanel family moved to St. Louis, Missouri when Charles was a child. His first job was as an office boy for the National Enameling & Stamping Company in St. Louis, and he worked for this firm in varying capacities for fifteen years before striking out on his own as a writer and businessman.

In 1885 he married Esther M. Smith. They had one son and two daughters. In 1891 his wife died. In 1908 he married for the second time, to Margaret Nicholson of St. Louis, whose father was W. A. Nicholson.

He was a member of the Republican Party, a Freemason and Shriner . He was a member of Pi Gamma Mu Fraternity, a Fellow of the London College of Psychotherapy, a member of the Authors League of America; a member of the American Society of Psychical Research; a member of the Society of Rosicrucians; a member of the American Suggestive Therapeutical Association; and a member of the Science League of America.

During his life, Haanel earned and received several honorary academic degrees, including hon. Ph.D., College National Electronic Institute; Metaphysics, Psy. D., College of Divine Metaphysics; and M.D., Universal College of Dupleix, India. 

The Master Key System, was published in 1912, when he was 46 years old. The book was heavily promoted in the pages of New Thought magazine The Nautilus, and by 1933 it had sold over 200,000 copies worldwide.

Haanel practiced the financial principles he preached and was a self made success who owned several major companies. According to Stevens, writing in 1909, “He was president of the Continental Commercial Company, president of the Sacramento Valley Improvement Company, and president of the Mexico Gold & Silver Mining Company.”

In addition to the Master Key System, Haanel wrote several other books including Mental Chemistry, published in 1922, The New Psychology, published in 1924, A Book about You, published in 1927, and The Amazing Secrets of the Yogi, co-authored with Victor Simon Perera and published in 1937.

In 1919, Napoleon Hill wrote Haanel a letter thanking him for The Master Key System. In the letter Hill stated, “My present success and the success which has followed my work as President of the Napoleon Hill Institute is due largely to the principles laid down in The Master-Key System.”

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