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YOUR INVISIBLE POWER
By Genevieve Behrend
FOREWORD
These pages have been written with purpose and hope that their suggestions may furnish you a key to open up
the way to the attainment of your desires, and to explain that Fear should be entirely banished from your effort to
obtain possession of the things you desire. This presupposes, of course, that your desire for possession is based
upon your aspiration for greater liberty. For example, you feel that the possession of more money, lands or
friends will make you happier, and your desire for possession of these things arises from a conviction that their
possession will bring you liberty and happiness.
In your effort to possess you will discover that the thing you most and ultimately need is to "Be," always (not
spasmodically) your best self -that self which understands that the mistakes of those you love are simply
misunderstandings. Your feeling that greater possessions, no matter of what kind they may be, will, of
themselves bring you contentment or happiness, is a misunderstanding. No person, place or thing can give you
happiness. They may give you cause for happiness and a feeling of contentment, but the joy of Living comes
from within. Therefore, it is here recommended, rather than otherwise, that you should make the effort to obtain
the things which you feel will bring you joy, provided, as previously stated, that your desires are in accord with
the joy of Living.
It is also desired, in this volume, to suggest the possibilities in store for all who make persistent effort to
understand the Law of Visualization and make practical application of this knowledge on whatever plane he or
she may be. The word "effort," as here employed, is not intended to convey the idea of strain. All study and
meditation should be without strain or tension.
It has been my endeavor to show that by starting at the beginning of the creative action or the mental picture,
certain corresponding results are sure to follow. "While the laws of the Universe cannot be altered, they can be
made to work under specific conditions, thereby producing results for individual advancement which cannot be
obtained under the spontaneous working of the law provided by Nature."
However far the suggestions I have given you of the possibilities in store for you through visualizing may carry
you beyond your past experience, they nowhere break the continuity of the law of cause and effect.
If through the suggestions here given anyone is brought to realize that their mind is a center through and in
which "all power there is" is in operation, simply waiting to be given direction in the one and only way through
which it can take specific action (and this means reaction in concrete or physical form), then the mission to
which this book is dedicated has been fulfilled.
Try to remember that the picture you think, feel and see is reflected into the Universal Mind, and by the natural
law of reciprocal action must return to you in either spiritual or physical form. Knowledge of this law of
reciprocal action between the individual and the Universal Mind opens to you free access to all you may wish to
possess or to be.
It must be steadfastly borne in mind that all this can only be true for the individual who recognizes that they
derive their power to make an abiding mental picture from the All-Originating Universal Spirit of Life (God),
and can be used constructively only so long as it is employed and retained in harmony with the Nature of the
Spirit which originated it. To insure this there must be no inversion of the thought of the individual regarding
their relationship to this Universal Originating Spirit which is that of a son or daughter, through which the parent
mind acts and reacts.
Thus conditioned, whatever you think and feel yourself to be; the Creative Spirit of Life is bound to faithfully
reproduce in a corresponding reaction. This is the great reason for picturing yourself and your affairs as you wish
them to be as existing facts (though invisible to the physical eye), and live in your picture. An honest endeavor to
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do this, always recognizing that your own mind is a projection of the Originating Spirit, will prove to you that
the best there is, is yours in all your ways.
Genevieve Behrend, September 1921
ORDER OF VISUALIZATION
Chapter 1
The exercise of the visualizing faculty keeps your mind in order, and attracts to you the things you need to make
life more enjoyable in an orderly way. If you train yourself in practice of deliberately picturing your desire and
carefully examining it, you will soon find your thought and desires come and proceed in more orderly procession
than ever before. Having reached a state of ordered mentality you are no longer in a constant state of mental
hurry. Hurry is Fear and consequently destructive.
In other words, when your understanding grasps the power to visualize your heart's desire and hold it with your
will, it attracts to you all things requisite to the fulfillment of that picture by the harmonious vibrations of the law
of attraction. You realize that since Order is Heaven's first law, and visualization places things in their natural
element, then it must be a heavenly thing to visualize.
Everyone visualizes, whether they know it or not. Visualizing is the great secret of Success. The conscious use of
this great power attracts to you greatly multiplied resources, intensifies your wisdom, and enables you to make
use of advantages which you formerly failed to recognize.
We now fly through the air, not because anyone has been able to change the laws of Nature, but because the
inventor of the flying machine learned how to apply Nature's laws and, by making orderly use of them, produced
the desired result. So far as natural forces are concerned, nothing has changed since the beginning. There were
no airplanes in "the Year One," because those of that generation could not conceive the idea as a practical
working possibility. "It has not yet been done" was the argument, "and it cannot be done." Yet the laws and
materials for practical flying machines existed then as now.
Troward tells us that the great lesson he learned from the airplane and wireless telegraphy is the triumph of
principle over precedent, and the working of an idea to its logical conclusion in spite of accumulated testimony
of all past experience.
With such an example before you, can you not realize that still greater secrets may be disclosed? Also "That you
hold the key within yourself, with which to unlock the secret chamber that contains your heart's desire? All that
is necessary in order that you may use this key and make your life exactly what you wish it to be, is a careful
inquiry into the unseen causes which stand back of every external and visible condition. Then bring these unseen
causes into harmony with your conception, and you will find that you can make practical working realities of
possibilities which at present seem but fantastic dreams."
We all know that the balloon was the forefather of the airplane. In 1766 Henry Cavendish, an English nobleman,
proved that hydrogen gas was seven times lighter than atmospheric air. From that discovery the balloon came
into existence, and from the ordinary balloon the dirigible, a cigar-shaped airship, was evolved. Study of
aeronautics and the laws of aerial locomotion of birds and projectiles led to the belief that mechanism could be
evolved by which heavier-than-air machines could be made to travel from place to place and remain in the air by
the maintenance of great speed which would overcome by propulsive force the ordinary law of gravitation.
Professor Langley of Washington who developed much of the theory which others afterward improved was
subjected to much derision when he sent a model airplane up only to have it bury its nose in the muddy water of
the Potomac. But the Wright Brothers, who experimented in the latter part of the Nineteenth Century, realized
the possibility of traveling through the air in a machine that had no gas bag. They saw themselves enjoying this
mode of transportation with great facility. It is said that one of the brothers would tell the other (when their
varied experiments did not turn out as they expected): "It’s all right, brother, I can see myself riding in that
machine, and it travels easily and steadily." Those Wright Brothers knew what they wanted, and kept their
pictures constantly before them.
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In visualizing, or making a mental picture, you are not endeavoring to change the laws of Nature. You are
fulfilling them. Your object in visualizing is to bring things into regular order both mentally and physically.
When you realize that this method of employing the creative power brings your desires, one after another, into
practical material accomplishment, your confidence in the mysterious but unfailing law of attraction, which has
its central power station in the very heart of your word/picture, becomes supreme. Nothing can shake it. You
never feel that it is necessary to take anything from anybody else. You have learned that asking and seeking have
receiving and finding as their correlatives. You know that all you have to do is to start the plastic substance of
the Universe flowing into the thought-molds your picture-desire provides.
HOW TO ATTRACT TO YOURSELF THE THINGS YOU DESIRE
Chapter 2
The power within you which enables you to form a thought picture is the starting point of all there is. In its
original state it is the undifferentiated formless substance of life. Your thought picture forms the mould (so to
speak) into which this formless substance takes shape. Visualizing, or mentally seeing things and conditions as
you wish them to be, is the condensing, the specializing power in you that might be illustrated by the lens of a
magic lantern. The magic lantern is one of the best symbols of this imaging faculty. It illustrates the working of
the Creative Spirit on the plane of the initiative and selection (or in its concentrated specializing form) in a
remarkably clear manner.
This picture slide illustrates your own mental picture -invisible in the lantern of your mind until you turn on the
light of your will. That is to say, you light up your desire with absolute faith that the Creative Spirit of Life, in
you, is doing the work. By the steady flow of light of the will on the Spirit, your desired picture is projected upon
the screen of the physical world, an exact reproduction of the pictured slide in your mind.
Visualizing without a will sufficiently steady to inhibit every thought and feeling contrary to your picture would
be as useless as a magic lantern without the light. On the other hand, if your will is sufficiently developed to hold
your picture in thought and feeling, without any "ifs," simply realizing that your thought is the great attracting
power, then your mental picture is as certain to be projected upon the screen of your physical world as any
pictured slide put into the best magic lantern ever made.
Try projecting the picture in a magic lantern with a light that is constantly shifting from one side to the other, and
you will have the effect of an uncertain will. It is as necessary that you should always stand back of your picture
with a strong, steady will, as it is to have a strong steady light back of a picture slide.
The joyous assurance with which you make your picture is the very powerful magnet of Faith, and nothing can
obliterate it. You are happier than you ever were, because you have