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

our object with the definite intention of impressing it
upon the universal mind -it is this thought that takes such thought out of the region of mere casual fancies -and
then affirm that our knowledge of the Law is sufficient reason for a calm expectation of a corresponding result,
and that therefore all necessary conditions will come to us in due order. We can then turn to the affairs of our
daily life with the calm assurance that the initial conditions are either there already or will soon come into view.
If we do not at once see them, let us rest content with the knowledge that the spiritual prototype is already in
existence and wait till some circumstance pointing in the desired direction begins to show itself.
It may be a very small circumstance, but it is the direction and not the magnitude that is to be taken into
consideration. As soon as we see it we should regard it as the first sprouting of the seed sown in the Absolute,
and do calmly, and without excitement, whatever the circumstances seem to require, and then later on we shall
see that this doing will in turn lead to a further circumstance in the same direction, until we find ourselves
conducted, step by step, to the accomplishment of our object.
In this way the understanding of the great principle of the Law of Supply will, by repeated experiences, deliver
us more and more completely out of the region of anxious thought and toilsome labor and bring us into a new
world where the useful employment of all our powers, whether mental or physical, will only be an unfolding of
our individuality upon the lines of its own nature, and therefore a perpetual source of health and happiness; a
sufficient inducement, surely, to the careful study of the laws governing the relation between the individual and
the Universal Mind."
To my mind, then as now, this quotation outlines the core and center of the method and manner of approach
necessary for coming in touch with Infinite supply. At least it, together with the previously quoted statement,
"My mind is a center of Divine operation," etc., constituted the only apparent means of attracting to myself the
twenty thousand dollars. My constant endeavor to get into the spirit of these statements, and to attract to myself
this needed sum, was about six weeks, at the end of which time I had in my bank the required twenty thousand
dollars. This could be made into a long story, giving all the details, but the facts, as already narrated, will give
you a definite idea of the magnetic condition of my mind while the twenty thousand dollars was finding its way
to me.
HOW I BECAME THE ONLY PERSONAL PUPIL OF THE GREATEST MENTAL SCIENTIST OF
THE PRESENT DAY
Chapter 10
As soon as the idea of studying with Troward came to me, I asked a friend to write to him for me, feeling that
perhaps my friend could put my desire in better or more persuasive terms than I could employ. To all the letters
written by this friend I received not one reply. This was so discouraging that I would have completely abandoned
the idea of becoming Troward's pupil except for the experience I had that day on the street when my whole
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world was illuminated, and I remembered the promise "All things whatsoever thou wilt, believe thou hast
received, and thou shalt receive."
With this experience in my mind, my passage to England was arranged, notwithstanding the fact that apparently
my letters were ignored. We wrote again, however, and finally received a reply, very courteous though very
positive. Troward did not take pupils; he had no time to devote to a pupil. Notwithstanding this definite decision,
I declined to be discouraged because of the memory of my experience upon the day when the light and the
thought came to me, "I am all the Substance there is." I seemed to be able to live that experience over at will, and
with it there always came a flood of courage and renewed energy. We journeyed on to London, and from there
telegraphed Troward, asking for an interview. The telegram was promptly answered by Troward setting a date
when he could see us.
At this time Troward was living in Ruan Manor, a little-out-of-the-way place in the southern part of England,
about twenty miles from a railway station. We could not find it on the map, and with great difficulty Cook's
Touring Agency in London, located the place for us. There was very little speculation in my mind as to what
Troward would say to me in this interview. There always remained the feeling that the truth was mine; also that
it would grow and expand in my consciousness until peace and contentment were outward as well as inward
manifestations of my individual life.
We arrived at Troward's house in a terrific rainstorm, and were cordially received by Troward himself, whom I
found, much to my surprise, to be more the type of a Frenchman than an Englishman (I afterward learned that he
was a descendant of the Huguenot race), a man of medium stature, with rather a large head, big nose, and eyes
that fairly danced with merriment. After we had been introduced to the other members of the family and given a
hot cup of tea, we were invited into the living room where Troward talked very freely of everything except my
proposed studies. It seemed quite impossible to bring him to that subject.
Just before we were leaving, however, I asked quite boldly: "Will you not reconsider your decision to take a
personal pupil? I wish so much to study with you," to which he replied with a very indifferent manner that he did
not feel he could give the time it would require for personal instruction, but that he would be glad to give me the
names of two or three books which he felt would not only be interesting but instructive to me. He said he felt
much flattered and pleased that I had come all the way from America to study with him, and as we walked out
through the lane from his house to our automobile his manner became less indifferent, a feeling of sympathy
seemed to touch his heart, and he turned to me with the remark: "You might write to me, if so inclined, after you
get to Paris, and perhaps, if I have time in the autumn, we could arrange something, though it does not seem
possible now."
I lost no time in following up his very kind invitation to write. My letters were all promptly and courteously
answered, but there was never a word of encouragement as to my proposed studies. Finally, about two months
later, there came a letter with the question in it: "What do you suppose is the meaning of this verse in the 21st
Chapter of Revelation?"
"16. And the city lieth foursquare and the length is as large as the breadth; and he measured the city with the
reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal."
Instinctively I knew that my chance to study with Troward hung upon my giving the correct answer to that
question. The definition of the verse seemed utterly beyond my reach. Naturally, answers came to my mind, but I
knew intuitively that none was correct. I began bombarding my scholarly friends and acquaintances with the
same question. Lawyers, doctors, priests, nuns and clergymen, all over the world, received letters from me with
this question in them. Later answers began to return to me, but intuition told me that none was correct. All the
while I was endeavoring to find the answer for myself, but none seemed to come. I memorized the verse in order
that I might meditate upon it.
I began a search of Paris for the books Troward had recommended to me, and after two or three days' search we
crossed the River Seine to the Ile de Cite to go into some of the old bookstores there. They were out of print, and
these were the best places to find them in. Finally we came upon a little shop that had the books there. These
were the last copies the man had, consequently the price was high. While remonstrating with the clerk, my eye
rested upon the work of an astrologer, which I laughingly picked up and asked: "Do you think Prof. would read
my horoscope?" The clerk looked aghast at the suggestion, and responded, "Why, no, Madame, this is one of
France's greatest astrologers. He does not read horoscopes."
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In spite of this answer, there was a persistent impulse within me to go to the man. The friend who had
accompanied me in my search for the books remonstrated with me, and tried in every way to dissuade me from
going to the famous astrologer, but I insisted, and she went with me. When we came to his office I found it
somewhat embarrassing to ask him to read my horoscope. Nevertheless, there was nothing to do but put the
question. Reluctantly, the Professor invited us into his paper-strewn study, and reluctantly, and also impatiently,
asked us to be seated. Very courteously and coldly he told me that he did not read horoscopes. His whole manner
said, more clearly than words could, that he wished we would take our departure.
My friend stood up. I was at a great loss what to do next, because I felt that I was not quite ready to go. Intuition
seemed to tell me there was something for me to gain there. Just what it was I was unable to define, so I paused a
moment, much to my friend's displeasure, when one of the Professor's enormous Persian cats jumped into my lap.
"Get down, Jack!" the Professor shouted. "What does it mean?" he seemed to ask himself. Then with a greater
interest than he had hitherto shown in me, the Professor said with a smile: "Have never known that cat to go to a
stranger before, Madame; my cat pleads for you." I, also, now feel an interest in your horoscope, and if you will
give me the data it will give me pleasure to write it out for you." There was a great feeling of happiness in me
when he made this statement. He concluded by saying: "I do not feel that you really care for your horoscope."
The truth of this statement shocked me, because I did not care about a horoscope, and could not give any reason
why I was letting him do it. "However," he said, "May I call for your data next Sunday afternoon?"
On Sunday afternoon at the appointed time, the Professor arrived, and I was handing him the slip of paper with
all the data of my birth, etc., when the idea came to me to ask the Professor for the answer to the question about
the 16th verse of the 21st Chapter of Revelation. The thought was instantly carried into effect, and I found
myself asking this man what he thought this verse meant. Without pausing to think it over he immediately
replied "it means: The city signifies the truth, and the truth is non-invertible; every side from which you
approach it is exactly the same." Intuitively and undoubtingly I recognized this answer as the true one, and my
joy knew no bounds, because I felt sure that with this correct answer in my possession, Troward would accept
me as his pupil in the fall.
As the great astrologer was leaving, I explained to him all about my desire to study with Troward, how I had
come from New York City for that express purpose, seemingly to no avail, until the answer to this test question
had been given to me by him. He