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The Golden Key by Emmet Fox
Here you can learn a way to pray for someone else and pray about a situation. It was written by the great
Unity writer, Emmet Fox.
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I have compressed this essay into a few pages. Had it been possible I would have reduced it to as many
lines. It is not intended to be an instructional treatise, but a practical recipe for getting out of trouble.
Study and research are well in their own time and place, but no amount of either will get you out of a
concrete difficulty. Nothing but practical work in your own consciousness will do that. The mistake
made by many people, when things go wrong, is to skim through book after book, without getting any-
where. Read The Golden Key several times. Do exactly what it says, and if you are persistent enough
you will overcome any difficulty. -- Emmet Fox
Scientific prayer will enable you to get yourself or anyone else, out of any difficulty. It is the golden key
to harmony and happiness.
To those who have no acquaintance with the mightiest power in existence, this may appear to be a rash
claim, but it needs only a fair trial to prove that, without a shadow of doubt, it is a just one. You need
take no one's word for it, and you should not. Simply try it for yourself.
God is omnipotent, and we are God's image and likeness and have dominion over all things. This is the
inspired teaching, and it is intended to be taken literally, at its face value. The ability to draw on this
power is not the special prerogative of the mystic or the saint, as is so often supposed, or even of the
highly trained practitioner. Everyone has this ability Whoever you are, wherever you may be, the golden
key to harmony is in your hand now. 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 be just the getting of your-
self out of the way.
Beginners often get startling results the first time, for all that is 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 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 disappear. It makes no differ-
ence what kind of trouble it is. It may be a big thing or a little thing: it may concern health, finance, a
lawsuit, a quarrel, an accident, or anything else conceivable: but whatever it is, stop thinking about it
and think of God instead -- that is all you have to do.
It could not be simpler, could it? God 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 impossible. Work by rehearsing anything or everything
that you know about God. God is wisdom, truth, inconceivable love. God is present everywhere, has in-
finite power, knows everything, and so on. It matters not how well you may think you understand these
things: go over them repeatedly.
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But you must stop thinking of the trouble, whatever it is. The rule is, to think about God. If you are
thinking about your difficulty, you are not thinking about God. To be continually glancing over your
shoulder in order to see how matters are progressing is fatal, because it is thinking of the trouble, and
you must think of God and nothing else. Your object is to drive the thought of the difficulty 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 forget
for a while about the difficulty, you will 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 1 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 out of your mind, replacing it with 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 in-
tervals 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, at first it may be difficult to get your thoughts away from material things.
But by constantly repeating a statement of absolute Truth, such as: There is no power but God: I am the
child of God, filled and surrounded by the perfect peace of God: God is love; God is guiding me now;
or, perhaps best and simplest of all. God is with me -- however mechanical or trite it may seem -- 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 you find your attention wandering, switch it back to God.
Do not try to think in advance what the solution to your difficulty will be. This is called "outlining" and
will only delay the demonstration. Leave the question of ways and means to God. You want to get out of
your difficulty that is sufficient. You do your half, and God will never fail to do God's.
"Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Acts 2:21).
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