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 meant 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 anywhere.
Read the Golden Key several times. Do exactly what it says, and if you are persistent enough you will overcome any difficulty.
As a seeker of self-actualization, I adored "The Golden Key" by Emmett Fox. He was a mellifluous, credible inspirational writer.
Much as I enjoyed his books, what he advocated did not work for me.
IN HINDSIGHT
I realized that he was describing what worked for him, but what he advocated could not get me from where I was to There.
WITH EVEN MORE HINDSIGHT
After I became the founder of Energy Spirituality and, even, an Enlightenment Teacher, it was a delight for me to use advanced skills of energetic literacy to research Fox's consciousness lifestyle. Bingo! He definitely was in Spiritual Enlightenment.
However, there's a difference between writing about what worked for him, in Enlightenment, and writing as a teacher whose methods could help readers-and-students personally evolve and even move into Enlightenment.
IN CONCLUSION
"The Golden Key" inspired me, even if it didn't produce results that I noticed. Still I'll always hold Emmett Fox high as a spiritual teacher with exceptional integrity and talent.
i found this pamphlet to be very helpful in connecting my own spiritual journey to a text. often times i read spiritual texts and find myself not understanding or not enjoying the wording as i don’t find the overall vocabulary to match my beliefs and viewpoints, but with this pamphlet coupled with regularly going to unity spiritual center, i found immediate peace and guidance that i’ve been able to apply to my daily life, multiple times a day.
the message is quite simple, yet so profoundly life changing once applying the advice to practice. and practice as in it will not come easy, but enough determination and loosening of control will produce results and inner peace.
i will continue to reread this when i need a reminder of how to quiet my anxious thoughts.