From Your Invisible Power by Genevieve Behrend, 1921.
THESE pages have been written for the purpose of furnishing you a key to the attainment of your desires, and to explain that Fear should be entirely banished from your consciousness in order for you to obtain possession of the things you want.
This pre-supposes, of course, that your desire for possession is based upon your aspiration for greater happiness. For example, you feel that the possession of more money, lands, or friends will make you happier, and your desire for possession of these things arises from a conviction that their possession will bring you freedom and contentment In your effort to possess, you will discover that the thing you most need is to consistently "Be" your best self.
One morning after class a man came to me and asked if I would speak the word of supply for him, as he was sadly in the need of money. He offered me a $5 bill with the remark:
"Dear Madam, that is half of every dollar I have in the world. I am in debt; my wife and child have not the proper clothing; in fact, I must have money." I explained to him that money was the symbol of differentiated substance, that this substance filled all space, that it was present for him at that very moment, and would manifest to him as the money he required. "But," he questioned, "it may come too late." I told him it could not come too late, as it was eternally present. He understood and got the uplift of my spoken word.
I did not see the man again, but six months later I had a letter from him stating he was in New Orleans. He said, "I am well established here in my regular profession of photography; I own my own home, have an automobile of my own, and am generally prospering. And dear Mrs. Behrend, I want to thank you for lifting me out of the depths that day in New York.
Three days after I talked to you, a man whom I have not seen for years met me on the street. When I explained my situation to him, be loaned me the money to pay my bills and come down here. The inclosed check is to help you continue your wonderful work of teaching people how to mentally reach out and receive their never-failing supply. I would not take anything for my understanding as you have given it to me. God bless you."
A feeling that greater possessions, no matter of what kind they may be, will of themselves bring contentment or happiness, is a misunderstanding. No person, place, or thing can give you happiness. They may give you cause for happiness and a feeling of contentment, but the Joy of Living comes from within.
Therefore, it is here recommended that you should make the effort to obtain the things which you feel will bring you joy, provided that your desires are in accord with the Joy of Living.
It is also desired, in this volume, to suggest the possibilities in store for all who make persistent effort to understand the Law of Visualization, and who make practical application of this knowledge on whatever plane they may be. The word "effort," as here employed, is not intended to convey the idea of strain. All study and meditation should be without strain or tension.
It has been my endeavor to show that by starting at the beginning of the creative action, or mental picture, certain corresponding results are sure to follow. "While the laws of the Universe cannot be altered, they can be made to work under specific conditions, thereby producing results for individual advancement which cannot be obtained under the spontaneous workings of the law provided by Nature."
However far these suggestions I have given --of the possibilities in store for you, through visualizing, may carry you beyond your past experience, they nowhere break the continuity of the law of cause and effect.
If through the suggestions here given, any one is brought to realize that his mind is a center through and in which "all power there is" is in operation, simply waiting to be given direction in the one and only way through which it can take specific action--and this means reaction in concrete or physical form --then the mission to which this book is dedicated has been fulfilled.
Try to remember that the picture you think, feel, and see is reflected into the Universal Mind, and by the natural law of reciprocal action must return to you in either spiritual or physical form. Knowledge of this law of reciprocal action between the individual and the Universal Mind opens to you free access to all you may wish to possessor to be.
It must be steadfastly borne in mind that all this can be true only for the individual who recognizes that he derives his power to make an abiding mental picture from the All-Originating Universal Spirit of Life, and can be used constructively only so long as it is employed and retained in harmony with the nature of the Spirit which originated it. To insure this there must be no inversion of the thought of the individual regarding his relationship to this Universal Originating Spirit, which is that of a son, through which the parent mind acts and reacts.
Thus conditioned, whatever you think and feel yourself to be, the Creative Spirit of Life is bound to faithfully reproduce in a corresponding reaction. This is the great reason for picturing yourself and your affairs the way you wish them to be as existing facts-- though invisible to the physical eye--and living in your picture. An honest endeavor to do this, always recognizing that your own mind is a projection of the Originating Spirit, will prove to you that the best there is, is yours in all your ways.
G.B.
Los Angeles, California;
May, 1929.
Blessings, This is a page of the 2012.07.04 multipage template for the production of the final multipage version of a book for the online New Thought Library.
You are in the process of creating a multipage book using the Single Page Version of that book as your Source and copying the text of the different pages from that file, then pasting it into these individual Target files which constitute the pages of the multipage book.
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1. highlight the source material, use Ctrl C, (or Right Click / Copy), to copy the text from the Source file, (usually the Single Page Version of the book).
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When you are done with your session, UPLOAD all the pages that you have completed to the library. This will protect your work by creating a copy in its folder on the library.
When you have finished ALL the pages of the book, then it is time to TEST them. Work through the book at least one time from page to page starting with the first page, then clicking "NEXT PAGE" and thereby going all the way to the last page of the book. Once you get to the last page of the book, test the PREVIOUS PAGE links by clicking all the way back to first page using "PREVIOUS PAGE". This way you will know your work is indeed correct and working.
Then it is time to turn on the multipage version by opening the Contents page of the book (The one that has all the chapter links) then saving it as "home.html".
When you have done that, upload the new home.html page, go to the testing website, open the bio page for the writer, refresh / reload it, then click the link to this book.
Perform the final test of the book by testing the Contents page insuring that those links do indeed go to the pages they are supposed to.
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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.