CONCENTRATION 751a great endless circle. It may be that by the act of concentrating
your mind with intensity on a given subject you send out thought
waves that reach and blend with those of a related or similar nature,
thereby establishing a line of communication between the one doing
the concentrating and the thoughts of a similar nature that have been
previously set into motion.
Going still a step further, may it not be possible to so attune one's
mind, and harmonize the rate of vibration of thought with the rate
of vibration of the ether, that all knowledge that has been accumu-
lated through the organized thoughts of the past is still available?
With these hypotheses in mind, go back to Lesson Two and study
Andrew Carnegie's description of the Master Mind through which he
accumulated his great fortune.
When Carnegie formed an alliance between more than a score of
carefully selected minds, he created one of the strongest industrial
forces that the world has ever witnessed. With a few notable (and very
disastrous) exceptions, the men constituting the Master Mind that
Carnegie created thought and acted as one!
And that Master Mind, composed of many individual minds, was
concentrated on a single purpose, the nature of which is familiar to
everyone who knew Mr. Carnegie, particularly those who were com-
peting with him in the steel business.
You will understand from this lesson that the object of forming
an alliance between two or more people, and thereby creating a Master
Mind, is to apply the law of Concentration more effectively than it
could be applied through the efforts of one person.
The principle referred to as the Master Mind is nothing more
nor less than group Concentration of mind power on the attainment
of a definite object or end. Greater power comes through group
mind Concentration because of the "stepping up" process produced
through the reaction of one mind on another or others.