The Greatest Discovery of All the Centuries

In Point #29 of The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel, we discover what the “greatest discovery of all the centuries is.”

29. By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought. The importance of this discovery has been a little slow in reaching the general consciousness, but it has arrived, and already in every field of research the importance of this greatest of all great discoveries is being demonstrated.

This is one of the key points that you should obtain by reading The Master Key System and all of Haanel’s works. This power of thought is our ability to think — to really and truly think. It is our cumulative powers of observation, experimentation, deduction, reasoning, and everything that makes the human being truly a human being rather than an animal.

In the following point (#30), Haanel explains it further. Please notice that this “power of thought” does not refer to just thinking about things and having them “manifest.” Nor does it refer to mind control or any form of telekinesis.

No, it is much greater and much grander than that!

30. You ask in what does the creative power of thought consist? It consists in creating ideas, and these in turn objectify themselves by appropriating, inventing, observing, discerning, discovering, analyzing, ruling, governing, combining, and applying matter and force. It can do this because it is an intelligent creative power.

Your creative power of thought guides you.

It allows you to do the things necessary to bring your visions into reality.

You think. You plan. You do.