YOUR INVISIBLE POWER by By Genevieve Behrend (e book reader free .txt) 📕

learned to know where your source of supply
is, and you rely upon its never-failing response to your given direction.
When all said and done, happiness is the one thing which every human being wants, and the study of
visualization enables you to get more out of life than you ever enjoyed before. Increasing possibilities keep
opening out, more and more, before you.
A business man once told me that since practicing visualization and forming the habit of devoting a few minutes
each day to thinking about his work as he desired it to be in a large, broad way, his business had more than
doubled in six months. His method was to go into a room every morning before breakfast and take a mental
inventory of his business as he had left it the evening before, and then enlarge upon it. He said he expanded and
expanded in this way until his affairs were in remarkably successful condition. He would see himself in his
office doing everything that he wanted done. His occupation required him to meet many strangers every day. In
his mental picture he saw himself meeting these people, understanding their needs and supplying them in just the
way they wished. This habit, he said, had strengthened and steadied his will in an almost inconceivable manner.
Furthermore, by thus mentally seeing things as he wished them to be, he had acquired the confident feeling that a
certain creative power was exercising itself, for him and through him, for the purpose of improving his little
world.
When you first begin to visualize seriously, you may feel, as many others do, that someone else may be forming
the same picture you are, and that naturally would not suit your purpose. Do not give yourself any unnecessary
concern about this. Simply try to realize that your picture is an orderly exercise of the Universal Creative Power
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specifically applied. Then you may be sure that no one can work in opposition to you. The universal law of
harmony prevents this. Endeavor to bear in mind that your mental picture is Universal Mind exercising its
inherent powers of initiative and selection specifically.
God, or Universal Mind, made man for the special purpose of differentiating Himself through him. Everything
that is, came into existence in this same way, by this self-same law of self-differentiation, and for the same
purpose. First the idea, the mental picture or the prototype of the thing, which is the thing itself in its incipiency
or plastic form.
The Great Architect of the Universe contemplated Himself as manifesting through His polar opposite, matter,
and the idea expanded and projected itself until we have a world -many worlds.
Many people ask, "But why should we have a physical world at all?" The answer is: Because it is the nature of
originating substance to solidify, under directivity rather than activity, just as it is the nature of wax to harden
when it becomes cold, or plaster of paris to become firm and solid when exposed to the air. Your picture in this
same Divine substance in its fluent state taking shape through the individualized center of Divine operation, your
mind; and there is no power to prevent this combination of spiritual substance from becoming physical form. It is
the nature of Spirit to complete its work and an idea is not complete until it has made for itself a vehicle.
Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power that gave it birth -
yourself. Suppose you wish to have a more orderly room. You look about your room and the idea of order
suggests boxes, closets, shelves, hooks and so forth. The box, the closet, the hooks, all are concrete ideas of
order. Vehicles through which order and harmony suggest themselves.
RELATION BETWEEN MENTAL AND PHYSICAL FORM
Chapter 3
Some persons feel that it is not quite proper to visualize for things. "It's too material" they say. But material form
is necessary for the self-recognition of spirit from the individual standpoint. And this is the means through which
the creative process is carried forward. Therefore, far from matter being an illusion and something that ought not
to be (as some metaphysical teachers have taught), matter is the necessary channel for the self-differentiation of
spirit. However, it is not my desire to lead you into lengthy and tiresome scientific reasoning in order to remove
the mystery of visualization and to put it upon a logical foundation. Naturally, each individual will do this in his
own way. My only wish is to point out to you the smoothest way I know, which is the road on which Troward
guides me. I feel sure you will conclude as I have, that the only mystery in connection with visualizing is the
mystery of life taking form, governed by unchangeable and easily understood laws.
We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of
these powers. It brings other possibilities to our observation. When we pause to think for a moment, we realize
that for a cosmos to exist at all, it must be the outcome of a cosmic mind, which binds "all individual minds to a
certain generic unities of action, thereby producing all things as realities and nothing as illusions." If you will
take this thought of Troward's and meditate upon it without prejudice, you will surely realize that concrete
material form is an absolute necessity of the creative process, also "that matter is not an illusion but a necessary
channel through which life differentiates itself."
If you consider matter in its right order as the polar opposite to Spirit, you will not find any antagonism between
them. On the contrary, together they constitute one harmonious whole. And when you realize this you feel, in
your practice of visualizing, that you are working from cause to effect, from beginning to finish. In reality your
mental picture is the specialized working of the originating spirit.
One could talk for hours on purely scientific lines, showing, as Troward says, "that raw material for the
formation of the solar systems is universally distributed throughout all space. Yet investigation shows that while
the Heavens are studded with millions of suns, there are spaces that show no signs of cosmic activity. This being
true, there must be something which started cosmic activity in certain places, while passing over others in which
the raw material was equally available. At first thought one might attribute the development of cosmic energy to
the etheric particles themselves. Upon investigation, however, we find this to be mathematically impossible in a
medium which is equally distributed throughout space, for all its particles are in equilibrium, therefore no one
particle possesses in itself a greater power of originating motion than the other.
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Thus we find that the initial movement, though working in and through the particles of primary substance, is not
the particles themselves. It is this something we mean when we speak of Spirit. The same power that brought
universal substance into existence will bring your individual thought or mental picture into physical form. There
is no difference of kind in the power. The only difference is a difference of scale. The power and the substance
themselves are the same. Only in working out your mental picture it has transferred its creative energy from the
universal to the scale of the particular, and is working in the same unfailing manner from its specific center, your
mind.
OPERATION OF YOUR MENTAL PICTURE
Chapter 4
THE operation of a large telephone system may be used as a simile. The main or head central subdivides itself
into many branch centrals, every branch being in direct connection with its source and each individual branch
recognizing the source of its existence, reports all things to its central head. Therefore, when assistance of any
nature is required, new supplies, difficult repairs to be done or what not, the branch in need goes at once to its
central head. It would not think of referring its difficulties (or its successes) to the main central of a telegraph
system (though they belong to the same organization). These different branch centrals know that the only remedy
for any difficulty must come from the central out of which they were projected.
If we, as individual branches of the Universal Mind, would refer our difficulties in the same confident manner to
the source from which we were projected, and use the remedies that it has provided, we would realize what Jesus
meant when he said, "Ask and ye shall receive." Our every equipment would be met. Surely the Father must
supply the child. The trunk of the tree cannot fail to provide for its branches.
Everything animate or inanimate is called into existence or outstandingness by a power which itself does not
stand out. The power that creates the mental picture, the originating spirit substance of your pictured desire does
not stand out. It projects the substance of itself that is a solidified counterpart of itself, while it remains invisible
to the physical eye. Only those will ever appreciate the value of visualizing who are able to realize Paul's
meaning when he said "The worlds were formed by the word of God. Things which are seen are not made of
things which do appear."
There is nothing unusual or mysterious in the idea of your pictured desire coming into material evidence. It is the
working of a universal natural Law. The world was projected by the self-contemplation of the Universal Mind,
and this same action is taking place in its individualized branch which is the Mind of Man. Everything in the
whole world has its beginning in mind and comes into existence in exactly the same manner from the hat on your
head to the boots on your feet. All are projected thoughts, solidified.
Your personal advance in evolution depends upon your right use of the power of visualizing, and your use of it
depends on whether you recognize that you, yourself, are a particular center through and in which the originating
spirit is finding ever new expression for potentialities already existing within itself. This is evolution; this
continual unfolding of existing though outwardly invisible things.
Your mental picture is the force of attraction that evolves and combines the originating substance into specific
shape. Your picture is the combining and evolving powerhouse, so to speak, through which the originating
Creative Spirit expressed itself. Its creative action is limitless, without beginning and without end, and always
progressive and orderly. "It proceeds stage by stage, each stage being a necessary preparation for the one to
follow."
Now let us see if we can get an idea of the different stages by which the things in the world have come to be.
Troward says, "If we can get at the working principle which is producing these results, we can very quickly and
easily give it personal application. First, we find that the thought of originating life or Spirit about itself is its
simple awareness of its own being and this produced a primary ether, a universal substance out of which
everything in the world must grow.
Troward also tells us that "though this awareness of being is a necessary foundation for any further possibilities,
it is not much to talk about." It is the same with individualized spirit, which is yourself. Before you would
entertain the idea of making a mental picture of your desire as being at all practical, you must have some idea of
your being, of your "I am," and just as soon as you are conscious of your "I-am-ness" you begin to wish to enjoy
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the freedom which this consciousness suggests. You want to do more and be more, and as you fulfill this desire
within yourself, localized spirit begins conscious activities in you.
The thing you are most concerned with is the specific action of the