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The Golden Key

Updated: Jan 27

'The Golden Key' by Emmet Fox is true gold on how to live your life. It is in my 'Suggested Reading List'. 'The Golden Key' is a concise, six page influential pamphlet that encapsulates the essence of spiritual principles, offering a straightforward, practical method for dealing with challenges and achieving a sense of peace and fulfilment. In this essay, Fox suggests that the solution to any problem lies not in obsessing over the issue itself but in turning one's thoughts towards God or a Universal Higher Power. This mental shift, according to Fox, has the power to change one's perspective and bring about solutions in a natural, harmonious way. The work is celebrated for its simplicity, brevity, and the profound impact it has had on readers seeking spiritual guidance and practical ways to overcome adversity. Fox's message is timeless, advocating for a form of mental discipline that encourages positive thinking, Faith, and the relinquishment of negative, problem-centric thought patterns.


Emmet Fox wrote "Read 'The Golden Key' several times. Do exactly what it says, and if you are persistent enough you will overcome any difficulty."


God, being energy and everywhere evenly present is all seeing, all knowing and all powerful, God is love and joy, health and happiness, abundance and glory and He (It) made man in His (It’s) image and likeness. All that is true of God is also true of each and every one of us. If God is health so are you, if God is life eternal it stands to reason that you must also be life eternal. Jesus taught that the Kingdom of Heaven was within us, all of us, simply awaiting our recognition of it. Whoever you are, whatever you have done or not done you are worthy simply by being made the image and likeness of God.


God, Emmet taught, is continually showering us with blessings and the only thing that prevents us from receiving them is our negative belief systems. The Golden Key is within you and use of it opens you up to all the goodness that is yours by Divine right. This is because in scientific prayer it is God who works, and not you, and so your particular limitations or weaknesses are of no account in the process. You are only the channel through which the Divine action takes place, and your treatment will really be just the getting of yourself out of the way. Beginners often get startling results at the first time of trying, for all that is absolutely essential is to have an open mind, and sufficient Faith to try the experiment. Apart from that, you may hold any views on religion, or none.


As for the actual method of working, like all fundamental things, it is simplicity itself.

All that you have to do is this: Stop thinking about the difficulty, whatever it is, and think about God instead. This is the complete rule, and if only you will do this, the trouble, whatever it is, will presently disappear. It makes no difference what kind of trouble it is. It may be a big thing or a little thing; it may concern health, finance, a law-suit, a quarrel, an accident, or anything else conceivable; but whatever it is, just stop thinking about it, and think of God instead - that is all you have to do. The thing could not be simpler, could it? God Himself could scarcely have made it simpler, and yet it never fails to work when given a fair trial.


Do not try to form a picture of God, which is, of course, impossible. Work by rehearsing anything or everything that you know about God. God is Wisdom, Truth, inconceivable Love. God is present every-where; has infinite power; knows everything; and so on. It matters not how well you may think you understand these things; go over them repeatedly. But you must stop thinking of the trouble, whatever it is. The rule is to think about God, and if you are thinking about your difficulty you are not thinking about God. To be continually glancing over your shoulder, as it were, in order to see how matters are progressing, is fatal, because that is thinking of the trouble, and you must think of God, and of nothing else.

Your object is to drive the thought of the difficulty right out of your consciousness, for a few moments at least, substituting for it the thought of God. This is the crux of the whole thing. If you can become so absorbed in this consideration of the spiritual world that you really forget for a while all about the trouble concerning which you began to pray, you will presently find that you are safely and comfortably out of your difficulty that your demonstration is made.


In order to "Golden Key" a troublesome person or a difficult situation, think, "Now I am going to 'Golden Key' John, or Mary, or that threatened danger"; then proceed to drive all thought of John, or Mary, or the danger right out of your mind, replacing it by the thought of God. By working in this way about a person, you are not seeking to influence his conduct in any way, except that you prevent him from injuring or annoying you, and you do him nothing but good. Thereafter he is certain to be in some degree a better, wiser, and more spiritual person, just because you have "Golden Keyed" him. A pending lawsuit or other difficulty would probably fade out harmlessly without coming to a crisis, justice being done to all parties concerned.


If you find that you can do this very quickly, you may repeat the operation several times a day with intervals between. Be sure, however, each time you have done it, that you drop all thought of the matter until the next time. This is important.


We have said that the Golden Key is simple, and so it is, but, of course, it is not always easy to turn. If you are very frightened or worried it may be difficult, at first, to get your thoughts away from material things.


But by constantly repeating some statement of absolute Truth that appeals to you, such as "There is no power but God", or "I am the child of God, filled and surrounded by the perfect peace of God", or "God is Love", or "God is guiding me now", or, perhaps best and simplest of all, just "God is with me" - however mechanical or dead it may seem at first - you will soon find that the treatment has begun to "take," and that your mind is clearing. Do not struggle violently; be quiet but insistent. Each time that you find your attention wandering, just switch it straight back to God.


Do not try to think out in advance what the solution of your difficulty will probably turn out to be. This is technically called "outlining," and will only delay the demonstration. Leave the question of ways and means strictly to God. You want to get out of your difficulty - that is sufficient. You do your half, and God will never fail to do His.


As it says in Romans 10:13 "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."


Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you: Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.


George Bernard Shaw wrote that “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” Are you ready to change your mind?


Namaste.


Sending you love, light, and blessings brothers.


Olly



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