Talk:The Master Key System

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Additional changes 26 Nov 2012
I have amended this article with my own information and insight. Having dealt with the MKS since 2007 (German translation and so much more, see my Mr.Master Key and English website, I found it appropriate to shed more light on the actual contents of the MKS, add a few helpful links to the two people actively "maintaining" the MKS (Anthony Michalski and I), plus throw some light onto the alleged ban by the Church. I hope it meets your approval.

--Helmar (talk) 09:00, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Article restored
I've asked to have this article restored after it had been deleted, because I consider this to be a notable book. Amazon has 67 user reviews of it, so it does have some general attention.

Still, the article does need improvement. I've tried looking for sources that we can use. I've found:


 * Tony Michalsky & C.W. Evans-Gunther discusses Haanel's sources
 * C.W. Evans-Gunther's mini biography of Haanel
 * Ash Srivastava's summaries of each of the original 24 chapters

Rune Kock (talk) 02:28, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

The article should remain. There are copies of The Master Key in Harvard and Stanford and no less than 5 top business schools in New York.Adryenn (talk) 04:29, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

This article should definitely remain. Despite varying versions, it is an early influence on many prominent social, religious, and economic movements today. I agree the article needs improvement. Varying versions are an issue. However, the larger challenge seem to be scanty third party documentation surrounding its early development are challenges. Sophistnumber7 (talk) 04:41, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Definitive version of the book
There are a lot of PDF-versions of this book floating around. And some paper versions as well. They differ a lot in length.

There are also different paper versions, some of them clearly marketing materials, which include long discussions of the book, the work, testimonials, and documented successes. I have scanned 6 different copies, as well as the original correspondence course. I have not yet found a single version of the original work, only the 7 leather bound book set. It appears there are many versions and the work was updated many times while it was being published. On of the copies I scanned had a forward by Stephen Forbes, a notable New York Businessman whom I tracked down from a manifest from White Star Cruise Lines on a transatlantic passage.

In the version from 1923 it claims more than 200,000 copies had already been sold. Adryenn (talk) 04:25, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

I've seen references to three editions from Haanel's time:
 * A 128 page The Master Key, c1919
 * A 448 page The master key system in twenty-four parts with questionnaire and glossary, 1919.
 * A 414 pages plus introduction first British Empire edition, 1933/34, ,.

It seems that the latter is often the one reprinted on paper. E.g. by Book Tree in 2007, partially available on Google Books. It consists of


 * Forword by F.H. Burgess, dated 30 nov 1933
 * 54 page introduction
 * Psychological chart
 * 24 main parts
 * Glossary
 * Question and answers
 * 61 page index

I think that the first free internet-version was from Kallisti Publishing (Tony Michalski), published in 2000. That one doesn't have the intro, chart, glossary and index. In 2004, Kallisti published Master Key Arcana, partially available on Google Books:. It contains some of the omitted stuff, as well as 4 extra chapters that Michalski had obtained (from where?).

The PDF that we currently refer to in the article is interesting in that it contains a foreword by Rhonda Byrne, but otherwise seems shorter than the Book Tree version. Rune Kock (talk) 03:39, 2 June 2009 (UTC). This section was rewritten Rune Kock (talk) 04:43, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

removing POV tag with no active discussion per Template:POV
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Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 12:08, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

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