Week 3 – The Gordian Knot – Fear

Gordian knot, knot that gave its name to a proverbial term for a problem solvable only by bold action.

In 333 bc, Alexander the Great, on his march through Anatolia, reached Gordium, the capital of Phrygia. There he was shown the chariot of the ancient founder of the city, Gordius, with its yoke lashed to the pole by means of an intricate knot with its end hidden. According to tradition, this knot was to be untied only by the future conqueror of Asia. In the popular account, probably invented as appropriate to an impetuous warrior, Alexander sliced through the knot with his sword, but, in earlier versions, he found the ends either by cutting into the knot or by drawing out the pole.

The phrase “cutting the Gordian knot” has thus come to denote a bold solution to a complicated problem.

In the Master Key System, “fear” is the Gordian Knot.

The Readings:

G.S. I am prepared for wisdom and principles which will guide me out of the shadows into the sunlight of wealth, position, and happiness far beyond my most extravagant dreams until even the golden apples in the Garden of Hesperides will seem no more than my just reward.

G.S. Only principles endure and these I now possess . . .

G.S. What they will teach me is more to prevent failure than to gain success.

G.S. Failure is man’s inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.

MKS: 7. When the Solar Plexus is in active operation and is radiating life, energy and vitality to every part of the body, and to every one whom he meets, the sensations are pleasant, the body is filled with health and all with whom he comes in contact experience a pleasant sensation.

MKS: 14. . . . Thoughts of courage, power, confidence and hope all produce a corresponding state, but the one arch enemy of the Solar Plexus which must be absolutely destroyed before there is any possibility of letting any light shine is fear.

MKS: 17. . . . The world is harsh only as we fail to assert ourselves.

MKS: 18. But the man who knows that he has a Solar Plexus will not fear criticism or anything else; he will be too busy radiating courage, confidence, and power; he will anticipate success by his mental attitude; he will pound barriers to pieces, and leap over the chasm of doubt and hesitation which fear places in his path.

MKS: Tension leads to mental unrest and abnormal mental activity of the mind; it produces worry, care, fear and anxiety. Relaxation is therefore an absolute necessity in order to allow the mental faculties to exercise the greatest freedom. . . . .(M)entally relax every muscle and nerve, until you feel quiet and restful and at peace with yourself and the world.

MKS: 33. The Solar Plexus will then be ready to function and you will be surprised at the result.

Me:

The Sit is the First Habit.

If, as Haanel writes, there is no possibility of letting any light shine when there is fear, I see The Sit as the precursor, the catalyst, the leavening, the yeast, that unleashes, fully frees, the light of the Solar Plexus.

Therefore, Fear is the Gordian Knot that I must cut, untangle, destroy, eliminate, purge in order to dispel the cloud of my old blueprint – and freeing the way for my DMP and other purposefully directed thoughts, desires, and actions, from here forward, to powerfully impressing my subconscious mind.

The Sit nutures the light of the Solar Plexus that the mind-forces, ever ready to lend themselves to a purposeful will, actively magnify through thoughts of courage, power, confidence; as well as actively convert the subtle and invisible forces of desire, faith and confidence into actual, tangible, concrete facts in the objective world.

I commit to The Sit – as directed – thoroughly and completely; always relaxing every muscle and nerve until I am quiet, restful, and at peace with myself and the world.

I always keep my promises.