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

was greatly interested and asked many questions about Troward, and when
asked if he would please send me his bill, he smilingly replied, "Let me know if the great Troward accepts you
as his pupil," and bade me good afternoon. I hastened to my room to send a telegram to Troward giving my
answer to the question about the 16th verse of the 21st Chapter of Revelation.
There was an immediate response from Troward that said: "Your answer is correct. Am beginning a course of
lectures on The Great Pyramid In London. If you wish to attend them, will be pleased to have you, and afterward,
if you still wish to study with me, I think it can be arranged." On receipt of this reply preparations were at once
made to leave Paris for London.
I attended all the lectures, receiving much instruction from them, after which arrangements were made for my
studying with Troward. Two days before leaving for Cornwall I received the following letter from Troward
clearly indicating the line of study he gave me:
31 Stanwick Road,
W. Kensington, England,
November 8, 1912.
Dear Mrs. Behrend,
I think I had better write you a few lines with regard to your proposed studies with me, as I should be sorry for
you to be under any misapprehension and so to suffer any disappointment.
I have studied the subject now for several years, and have a general acquaintance with the leading features of
most of the systems which, unfortunately, occupy attention in many circles at the present time, such as
Theosophy, The Tarot, The Kabala, and the like, and I have no hesitation in saying that, to the best of my
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judgment, all sorts and descriptions of so-called occult study are in direct opposition to the real life-giving Truth,
and, therefore, you must not expect any teaching on such lines as these.
We hear a great deal these days about Initiation; but, believe me, the more you try to become a so-called
"Initiate" the further you will put yourself from living life. I speak after many years of careful study and
consideration when I say that the Bible and its Revelation of Christ is the one thing really worth studying, and
that is a subject large enough in all conscience, embracing, as it does, our outward life and of everyday concerns,
and also the inner springs of our life and all that we can in general terms conceive of the life in the unseen after
putting off the body at death.
You have expressed a very great degree of confidence in my teaching, and if your confidence is such that you
wish, as you say, to put yourself entirely under my guidance, I can only accept it as a very serious responsibility,
and should have to ask you to exhibit that confidence by refusing to look into such so-called "Mysteries" as I
would forbid you to look into.
I am speaking from experience; but the result will be that much of my teaching will appear to be very simple,
perhaps to some extent dogmatic, and you will say you have heard much of it before.
Faith in God, Prayer and Worship, approach to the Father through Christ -all this is in a certain sense familiar to
you; and all I can hope to do is perhaps to throw a little more light on these subjects, that they may become to
you, not merely traditional words, but present living facts.
I have been thus explicit as I do not want you to have any disappointment, and also I should say that our socalled
course of study will be only friendly conversations at such times as we can fit them in, either you coming
to our house, or I to yours, as may be most convenient at the time.
Also, I will lend you some books that will be helpful, but they are very few, and in no sense occult.
Now, if all this falls in with your ideas, we shall, I am sure, be very glad to see you at Ruan Manor, and you will
find that the residents there, though few, are very friendly and the neighborhood very pretty.
But, on the other hand, if you feel that you want some other source of learning, do not mind saying so, only you
will never find any substitute for Christ.
I trust you will not mind my writing you like this, but I do not want you to come all the way down to Cornwall,
and then be disappointed.
With kindest regards,
Yours sincerely,
(Signed) T. TROWARD.
This copy of Troward's letter, to my mind, is the greatest thing I can give you.
HOW TO BRING THE POWER IN YOUR WORD INTO ACTION
Chapter 11
In your every word there is the power germ that expands and projects itself in the direction your word indicates,
and ultimately develops into physical expression. For example, you wish to establish joy in your consciousness.
Just repeat the word "joy" secretly, persistently and emphatically. The joy germ begins to expand and project
itself until your whole being is filled with joy. This is not a mere fancy, but a truth. Once you experience this
power, you will "daily prove that these facts have not been fabricated to fit a theory, but the theory has been built
up by careful observation of facts." Everyone knows that joy comes from within. Another may give you cause
for joy, but no one can be joyous for you. Joy is a state of consciousness, and consciousness is purely Troward
says, "Mental."
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Mental faculties always work under something which stimulates them, and this stimulus may come either from
without, through the external senses, or from within by the consciousness of something not perceptible on the
physical plane. The recognition of this interior source of stimulus enables you to bring into your consciousness
any state you "desire." Once a thing seems normal to you, it is as surely yours, through the law of growth and
attraction, as it is yours to know addition after you have the conscious use of figures.
This method of repeating the word makes the word in all of its limitless meaning yours, because words are the
embodiment of thoughts, and thought is creative, neither good nor bad, simply creative. This is the reason why
Faith builds up and Fear destroys. "Only believe, and all things are possible unto you." It is Faith that gives you
dominion over every adverse circumstance or condition. It is your word of faith that sets you free, not faith in
any specific thing or act, but simple Faith in your best self in all ways. It is because of this ever-present creative
power within the heart of the word that makes your health, your peace of mind and your financial condition a
reproduction of your most habitual thought. Try to believe and understand this, and you will find yourself Master
of every adverse circumstance or condition, a Prince of Power.
HOW TO INCREASE YOUR FAITH
Chapter 12
But, you ask - How can I speak the word of Faith when I have little or no faith? Every living thing has faith in
something or somebody. It is the quality of the creative energy in the positive Faith thought which gives it
vitality, not the form it takes. Even intense fear is alive with faith. You fear smallpox because you believe it
possible for you to contract it. You fear poverty and loneliness because you believe them possible for you.
It is your habitual tendency of thought that reappears in your mind, your body and your affairs, not the
occasional thought upon some specific line or desire. It is the Faith which understands that every creation had its
birth in the womb of thought -words that gives you dominion over all things, your lesser self included, and this
feeling of faith is increased and intensified through observing what it does.
This observation is the observation of your state of consciousness when you did, not when you hoped you might,
but feared it was too good to be true. How did you feel that time when you simply had to bring yourself into a
better frame of mind and did, or you had to have a certain thing and got it? Live these experiences over again and
again (mentally) until you really feel in touch with the self that knows and does, and the best there is, is yours.
THE REWARD OF INCREASED FAITH
Chapter 13
Because you have expanded your faith into the faith and laws of the universe that know no failure, your faith in
the best of yourself (the principle of life in you) has brought you into conscious realization that you are not a
victim of the universe, but a part of it. Consequently, there is that within yourself which is able to make
conscious contact with the universal principal of law and power, and enables you to press all the particular laws
of nature, whether visible or invisible, into serving your particular demand or desire, and thereby you find
yourself Master, not a slave of any situation.
Troward tells us that this Mastering is to be "accomplished by knowledge, and the only knowledge which will
afford this purpose in all its measureless immensity is the knowledge of the personal element in universal spirit"
and its reciprocity to our own personality. In other words, the words you think, the personality you feel yourself
to be, are all reproductions in miniature or specialized God "or universal spirit." All your word-thoughts were
God word-forms before they were yours.
The words you use are the instruments, channels, through which the creative energy takes shape. Naturally, this
sensitive creative power can only reproduce in accordance with the instrument through which it passes. All
disappointments and failures are the result of endeavoring to think one thing and produce another. This is just as
impossible as it would be for an electric fan to be used for lighting purposes, or for water to flow through a
crooked pipe in a straight line.
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The water must take the shape of the pipe through which it flows. Even more truly this sensitive, invisible, fluent
substance must reproduce outwardly the shape of the thought-word through which it passes. This is the law of its
nature; therefore, it logically follows, "As a man thinketh, so is he." Hence, when your thought or word-form is
in correspondence with the Eternal constructive and forward movement of the Universal Law, then your mind is
the mirror in which the infinite power and intelligence of the universe sees itself reproduced, and your individual
life becomes one of harmony.
HOW TO MAKE NATURE RESPOND TO YOU
Chapter 14
It should be steadily borne in mind that there is an intelligence and power in all nature and all space that is
always creative and infinitely sensitive and responsive. The responsiveness of its nature is two-fold: it is creative
and amenable to suggestion. Once the human understanding grasps this all-important fact, it realizes the
simplicity of the law of life.
All that is necessary is to realize that your mind is a center of Divine operation, and consequently contains that
within itself which accepts suggestions, and expect all life to respond to your call, and you will find suggestions
which tend to the fulfillment of your desire coming to you, not only from your fellowmen, but also from the
flowers, the grass, the trees and the rocks which will enable you to fulfill your heart's desire, if you act upon
them in confidence on this physical plane. "Faith without works is dead," but Faith with Works sets you
absolutely free.
FAITH WITH WORKS – WHAT IT HAS ACCOMPLISHED
Chapter 15
It is said of Tyson, the great Australian millionaire, that the suggestion to "make the desert land of Australia
blossom as the rose" came to him from a modest little Australian violet