The Master Key System

Charles F. Haanel – 1912

This book is powerful, yet concise. Haanel’s approach is direct and to the point. Each of the 24 chapters begins with a summary of what can be expected from it, with the next few pages explaining an exercise in easy to apply details. A summary of what has been learnt ends each chapter and it recommends that it is read several times before moving onto the next. It covers meditation, the theory of thought, and control over our every day thoughts to bring about your best possible life.

Subconscious Mind

Joseph Murphy – 1963

This book suggests that your external reality is made manifest by your inward thinking. If you think negatively, negative things will happen. If you think positively, positive things will happen. Your mind has two parts, conscious and subconscious. The conscious part is action, and the subconscious part is reaction. If you consciously project thoughts of love, health and happiness to your subconscious, your subconscious will do everything in it’s infinite power to bring about the perfect experience that fulfils your deepest desire.

As A Man Thinketh

James Allen – 1903

Described by Allen as “dealing with the power of thought, and particularly with the use and application of thought to happy and beautiful issues. He tried to make the book simple, so that all can easily grasp and follow its teaching, and put into practice the methods which it advises. It shows how, in his own thought world, each man holds the key to every condition, good or bad, that enters into his life, and that, by working patiently and intelligently upon his thoughts, he may remake his life, and transform his circumstances.

Three Magic Words

U. S. Andersen – 1954

Learn of the unlimited power that is yours and how you can have it work for you. Three Magic Words is not a religion or a sect or a society. In its entirety it is a series of essays aimed at revealing to you your power over all things. You will learn that there is only one mover in all creation and that mover is thought. You will learn that there is only one creator and that creator is the Universal Subconscious Mind, or God. You will be shown how you can control your thoughts to obtain answers to your problems and create what you desire.

Feeling is the Secret

Neville Goddard – 1944

This book resounds with the power of Goddard’s vision, demonstrating how the world without reflects the world within. It is concerned with the art of realising your desire, giving an account of the mechanism used in the production of the visible world. The small book clearly defines the road to the realisation of your dreams, challenging the open-minded reader to practice the law of consciousness. Your personal success will prove far more convincing than simply reading books on the matter.

Your Forces

Christian D. Larson – 1910

A seminal book in self-help literature, this classic was written by an original proponent of the power of positive thinking. The purpose of this book is to discuss the greater powers and possibilities in man, and present practical methods through which they may be applied. It encourages all that read it to study and apply these greater powers within them so that they may not only become richer and more worthy as individuals, but may also become the forerunners of a more wonderful race of human beings.

Magic in Your Mind

U.S. Andersen – 1961

Many people have locked themselves in prisons of their own making that have made them unsuccessful. This book teaches the magic by which men become free and begin to grow into the image they are meant to be. A man changes the state of his outer world by first changing the state of his inner world. Everything that comes to him from outside is the result of his own consciouness. By understanding the process and effect of mental imagery, he goes directly along the correct path to his goal.

Letters from a Stoic

Seneca – AD63-65

For several years of his turbulent life, in which he was dogged by ill health, exile and danger, Seneca was the guiding hand of the Roman Empire. Seneca’s letters show him upholding the ideals of Stoicism – the wisdom of the self-possessed person immune to life’s setbacks – while valuing friendship and courage, and criticizing the harsh treatment of slaves and the cruelties in the gladiatorial arena. The humanity and wit revealed in Seneca’s interpretation of Stoicism is an inspiring declaration of the dignity of the individual mind.

The New Psycho-Cybernetics

Maxwell Maltz M.D. – 1960

Happiness and success are habits. So are failure and misery. But negative habits can be changed and this book shows you how. Presenting positive attitude as a means for change, Maltz’s teaching has the ring of common sense. “Psycho-Cybernetics” is the original text that defined the mind/body connection, the concept that paved the way for most of today’s personal empowerment programs. Turn crises into creative opportunities, dehypnotize yourself from false beliefs, and celebrate new freedom from fear and guilt.

The Edinburgh Lectures

Thomas Troward – 1909

Troward authored many books which today, are considered classics in the New Thought Movement, Mind Sciences, and Mystic Christianity. Influences on his writings include the teachings of Christ, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhism Teachings and more. His writings on what was then called “Mental Science” influenced early New Thought leaders and writers. His contributions to the development of the New Thought Movement, human potential research, and Religious Science remain valuable.

The Emerald Tablet 

Hermes Trismegistus – AD1-3

The story of the Tablet reads like the syllabus for an ancient civilization college course, with Egyptian pharaohs, Greek conquerors and philosophers, and travels through long-gone countries.  While no one in the modern world has seen it, accounts of the Tablet describe a slab of brilliant, green stone covered with Phoenician text. No one knows what became of the original tablet, but it appears and disappears across the ancient world, before and after the birth of Christ, with periods of revival, including the Italian Renaissance.