Genevieve Behrend, 1921. Complete text.
Behrend was Thomas Troward's only personal pupil, and this short book is what she made of the two years she spent with him. Where Troward argues in long chains, Behrend gives instructions: how to hold a mental picture, how long, what to do when doubt arrives, when to stop looking at it.
The autobiographical chapters are the reason to read it rather than a summary of it. She describes wanting to study with Troward, having no money and no introduction, and working deliberately with the method until both appeared — and she tells it plainly enough that the mechanics are visible.
It is the most practical bridge between Troward's mental science and the visualisation writing that followed. Read it after the Edinburgh Lectures if you want the theory first, or before them if you want the practice first.
Transcribed from the New Thought Library page scans of the 1921 edition. First published in the United States in 1921, before 1929, so the text is in the public domain in the United States.
New Thought Library, 1921 edition page scans