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

creative spirit of life, universal mind
specialized. The localized God-germ in you is your personality, your individuality, and since the joy of absolute
freedom is the inherent nature of this God-germ, it is natural that it should endeavor to enjoy itself through its
specific center. And as you grow in the comprehension that your being, your individuality, is God particularizing
Himself, you naturally develop Divine tendencies.
You want to enjoy life and liberty. You want freedom in your affairs as well as in your consciousness, and it is
natural that you should. Always with this progressive wish there is a faint thought-picture. As your wish and
your recognition grow into an intense desire, this desire becomes a clear mental picture. For example, a young
lady studying music wishes she had a piano in order to practice at home. She wants the piano so much that she
can mentally see it in one of the rooms. She holds the picture of the piano and indulges in the mental reflection
of the pleasure and advantage it will be to have the piano in the corner of the living room. One day she finds it
there just as she had pictured it.
As you grow in understanding as to who you are, where you came from, and what the purpose of your being is,
how you are to fulfill the purpose for which you are intended, you will more and more afford a center through
which the creative spirit of life can enjoy itself. And you will realize that there can be but one creative process
filling all space, which is the same in its potentiality whether universal or individual. Furthermore, all that there
is, whether on the plane of the visible or invisible, had its origin in the localized action of thought or a mental
picture, and this includes yourself, because you are universal spirit localized, and the same creative action is
taking place through you.
Now you are no doubt asking yourself why there is so much sickness and misery in the world. If the same power
and intelligence which brought the world into existence is in operation in the mind of man, why does it not
manifest itself as strength, joy, health and plenty? If one can have one's desires fulfilled by simply making a
mental picture of that desire, holding on to it with the will, and doing without anxiety, on the outward plane,
whatever seems necessary to bring the desire into fulfillment, then there seems no reason for the existence of
sickness and poverty. Surely no one desires either.
The first reason is that few persons will take the trouble to inquire into the working principle of the laws of life.
If they did they would soon convince themselves that there is no necessity for the sickness and poverty that we
see about us. They would realize that visualizing is a principle and not a fallacy.
There are a few who have found it worthwhile to study this simple, though absolutely unfailing law that will
deliver them from bondage. However, the race as a whole is not willing to give the time required for this study.
It is either too simple, or too difficult. They may make a picture of their desire with some little understanding of
visualizing for a day or two, but more frequently it is for an hour or so.
But if you will insist upon mentally seeing yourself surrounded by things and conditions as you wish them to be,
you will understand that the creative energy sends its plastic substance in the direction indicated by the tendency
of your thoughts. Herein lies the advantage of holding your thought in the form of a mental picture.
The more enthusiasm and faith you are able to put into your picture, the more quickly it will come into visible
form, and your enthusiasm is increased by keeping your desire secret. The moment you speak it to any living
soul, that moment your power is weakened. Your power, your magnet of attraction is not so strong, and
consequently cannot reach so far. The more perfectly a secret between your mind and outer self is guarded, the
more vitality you give your power of attraction. One tells one's troubles to weaken them, to get them off one's
mind, and when a thought is given out, its power is dissipated. Talk it over with yourself, and even write it down
and at once destroy the paper.
However, this does not mean that you should strenuously endeavor to compel the power to work out your picture
on the special lines that you think it should. That method would soon exhaust you and hinder the fulfillment of
your purpose. A wealthy relative need not necessarily die or someone lose a fortune on the street to materialize
the $10,000 that you are mentally picturing.
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One of the doormen in the building in which I live heard much of the mental picturing of desires from visitors
passing out of my rooms. The average desire was for $500. He considered that five dollars was more in his line
and began to visualize it, without the slightest idea of where or how he was to get it. My parrot flew out of the
window, and I telephoned to the men in the courtyard to get it for me. One caught it and it bit him on the finger.
The doorman, who had gloves on, and did not fear a similar hurt, took hold of it and brought it up to me. I gave
him five one-dollar bills for the service. This sudden reward surprised him. He enthusiastically told me that he
had been visualizing for just $5, merely from hearing that others visualized. He was delighted at the unexpected
realization of his mental picture.
All you have to do is to make such a mental picture of your heart's desire, hold it cheerfully in place with your
will, always conscious that the same Infinite Power which brought the universe into existence brought you into
form for the purpose of enjoying itself in and through you. And since it is all life, love, light, power, peace,
beauty and joy, and is the only creative power there is, the form it takes in and through you depends upon the
direction given it by your thought indicator. In you it is undifferentiated, waiting to take any direction given it as
it passes through the instrument that it has made for the purpose of self-distribution.
It is this power which enables you to transfer your thoughts from one form to another. The power to change your
mind is the individualized universal power taking the initiative, giving direction to the fluent substance contained
in every thought. It is the simplest thing in the world to give this highly sensitive plastic substance any form you
will through visualizing. Anyone can do it with a small expenditure of effort.
Once you really believe that your mind is a center through which the plastic substance of all there is in your
world, takes involuntary form, the only reason why your picture does not always materialize is because you have
introduced something antagonistic to the fundamental principle. Very often this destructive element is caused by
the frequency with which you change your pictures. After many such changes you decide that your original
desire is what you want after all. Upon this conclusion you begin to wonder why, "being your first picture," it
hasn't materialized. The plastic substance with which you are mentally dealing is more sensitive than the most
sensitive photographer's film. If, in taking a picture, you suddenly remembered you had already taken a picture
on that same plate, you would not expect a perfect result of either picture.
On the other hand, you may have taken two pictures on the same plate unconsciously. When the plate has been
developed, and the picture comes into physical view, you do not condemn the principle of photography, nor are
you puzzled to understand why your picture has turned out so unsatisfactorily. You do not feel that it is
impossible for you to obtain a good, clear picture of the subject in question. You know that you can do so, by
simply starting at the beginning, putting in a new plate, and determining to be more careful while taking your
picture next time. These lines followed out, you are sure of a satisfactory result. If you will proceed in the same
manner with your mental picture, doing your part in a correspondingly confident frame of mind, the result will
be just as perfect.
The laws of visualizing are as infallible as the laws governing photography. In fact, photography is the outcome
of visualizing. Again, your results in visualizing and your desires may be imperfect or delayed through the
misuse of this power, owing to the thought that the fulfillment of your desire is contingent upon certain persons
or conditions. The originating principle is not in any way dependent upon any person, place or thing. It has no
past and knows no future.
The law is that the originating creative principle of life is "the universal here and everlasting now." It creates its
own vehicles through which to operate. Therefore, past experience has no bearing upon your present picture. So
do not try to obtain your desire through a channel that may not be natural for it, even though it may seem
reasonable to you. Your feeling should be that the thing, or the consciousness which you so much desire, is
normal and natural, a part of yourself, a form for your evolution. If you can do this, there is no power to prevent
your enjoying the fulfillment of the picture you have in hand, or any other.
EXPRESSIONS FROM BEGINNERS
Chapter 5
HUNDREDS of persons have realized that "visualizing is an Aladdin's lamp to him with a mighty will." General
Foch says that his feelings were so outraged during the Franco Prussian war in 1870 that he visualized himself
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leading a French army against the Germans to victory. He said he made his picture, smoked his pipe and waited.
This is one result of visualizing we are all familiar with.
A famous actress wrote a long article in one of the leading Sunday papers last winter, describing how she rid
herself of excessive body fat and weight by seeing her figure constantly as she wished to be.
A very interesting letter came to me from a doctor's wife while I was lecturing in New York. She began with the
hope that I would never discontinue my lectures on visualization making humanity realize the wonderful fact
that they possess the method of liberation within themselves. Relating her own experience, she said that she had
been born on the East Side of New York in the poorest quarter. From earliest girlhood she had cherished a dream
of marrying a physician some day. This dream gradually formed a stationary mental picture. The first position
she obtained was in the capacity of a nursemaid in a physician's family.
Leaving this place she entered the family of another doctor. The wife of her employer died, and in time the
doctor married her, the result of her long-pictured yearning. After that both she and her husband conceived the
idea of owning a fruit farm in the South. They formed a mental picture of the idea and put their faith in its
eventual fulfillment. The letter she sent me came from their fruit farm in the South. It was while at the farm that
the doctor's wife wrote me. Her second mental picture had seen the light of materialization.
Many letters of a similar nature come to me every day. The following is a case that was printed in the New York
Herald last May:
"Atlantic City, May 5. - She was an old woman, and when she was arraigned before Judge Clarence Goldenberg
in the police court today she was so