Your Invisible Power

Your Invisible Power
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A Presentation of the
Mental Science of
Judge Thomas Troward
by
GENEVIEVE BEHREND
Originally Published in 1921 by

THE ELIZABETH TOWNE CO. INC. HOLYOKE, MASS.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Genevieve Behrend was the only personal student of

Thomas Troward the master of "Mental Science."
"Your Invisible Power" is a powerful, yet simple guide.
This book can teach you how to use the power of

visualization and other processes taught by Thomas Troward
to transform your life.
Behrend says, "We all possess more power and greater

possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the
greatest of these powers. It brings other possibilities to our
observation. When we pause to think for a moment, we
realize that for a cosmos to exist at all, it must be the
outcome of a cosmic mind."
From 1912 to 1914, Genevieve Behrend’s life focused solely

on the wisdom and philosophy of Thomas Troward (1847-
1916) whose influential and compelling ideas provided much
of the groundwork to the spiritual philosophy known today
as New Thought.
As the awareness of “mental science” was taking shape,

Troward imparted his personal insight to only one pupil who
could perpetuate this knowledge and share it with the world.
YOUR INVISIBLE POWER remains Behrend's most powerful
and popular work.
After her studies with Troward, Behrend began her mission

in New York City where she established and ran The School
of the Builders until 1925. She then established another
school in Los Angeles before touring other major cities
throughout North America for the next 35 years as a
celebrated lecturer, teacher, and practitioner of "Mental
Science".
Table of Contents
Forward........................................................................................................................................5
CHAPTER 1 Order of Visualization...................................................................................9
CHAPTER 2 How to Attract To Yourself The Things You Desire......................... 13
CHAPTER 3 Relation between Mental and Physical Form .................................... 18
CHAPTER 4 Operation of Your Mental Picture.......................................................... 21
CHAPTER 5 Expressions from Beginners.................................................................... 31
CHAPTER 6 Suggestions for Making Your Mental Picture .................................... 34
CHAPTER 7 Things to Remember .................................................................................. 37
CHAPTER 8 Why I Took Up the Study of Mental Science ....................................... 40
CHAPTER 9 How I Attracted to Myself Twenty Thousand Dollars..................... 45
CHAPTER 10 How I Became The Only Personal Pupil of Thomas Troward ... 51
CHAPTER 11 How To Bring The Power In Your Word Into Action ................... 59
CHAPTER 12 How To Increase Your Faith.................................................................. 61
CHAPTER 13 The Reward of Increased Faith ............................................................ 62
CHAPTER 14 How to Make Nature Respond to You ............................................... 64
CHAPTER 15 Faith with Works – What It has Accomplished .............................. 65
CHAPTER 16 Suggestions as to How to Pray or Ask ................................................ 69
CHAPTER 17 Things to Remember ............................................................................... 75

Forward
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 presupposes, 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, he loaned me the money to pay my bills
and come down here.
The enclosed 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 possess or 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.
Genevieve Behrend. Los Angeles, California; May, 1929.
CHAPTER 1 ‐ Order of Visualization
THE exercise of the visualizing faculty keeps your mind in

order, and attracts to you the things you need to make life
more enjoyable in an orderly way.
If you train yourself in the practice of deliberately picturing

your desire and carefully examining your picture, you will
soon find that your thoughts and desires proceed in a more
orderly procession than ever before.
Having reached a state of ordered mentality, you are no

longer in a constant state of mental hurry. Hurry is Fear,
and consequently destructive. In other words, when your
understanding grasps the power to visualize your heart’s
desire and hold it with your will, it attracts to you all things
requisite to the fulfillment of that picture by the harmonious
vibrations of the law of attraction.
You realize that since Order is Heaven’s first law, and

visualization places things in their natural order, then it
must be a heavenly thing to visualize. Everyone visualizes,
whether he knows it or not. Visualizing is the great secret of
success.
The conscious use of this great power attracts to you

multiplied resources, intensifies your wisdom, and enables
you to make use of advantages which you formerly failed to
recognize.
A lady once came to me for help in selling a piece of

property. After I explained to her just how to make a mental
picture of the sale, going through the details mentally,
exactly as she would do if the property were sold, she came
a week later and told me how one day she was walking
along the street, when the thought suddenly occurred to her
to go and see a certain real estate dealer, to whom she had
not yet been.
She hesitated for a moment when she first got the idea, as it
seemed to her that that man could not sell her property.
However, upon the strength of what I had told her, she
followed the lead and went to the real estate man, who sold
the property for her in just three days after she had first
approached him. This was simply following along with the
natural law of demand and supply.
We now fly through the air, not because anyone has been
able to change the laws of Nature, but because the inventor
of the flying machine learned how to apply Nature’s laws
and, by making orderly use of them, produced the desired
result.
So far as the natural forces are concerned, nothing has

changed since the beginning. There were no airplanes in
“the Year One,” because those of that generation could not
conceive the idea as a practical, working possibility. “It has
not yet been done,” was the argument, “and it cannot be
done.” Yet the laws and materials for practical flying
machines existed then as now.
Troward tells us that the great lesson he learned from the

airplane and wireless telegraphy is the triumph of principle
over precedent, the working out of an idea to its logical
conclusion in spite of accumulated contrary testimony of all
past experience.
With such an example before you, you must realize that

there are still greater secrets to be disclosed. Also, that you
hold the key within yourself, with which to unlock the secret
chamber that contains your heart’s desire.
All that is necessary in order that you may use this key and
make your life exactly what you wish it to be, is a careful
inquiry into the unseen causes which stand back of every
external and visible condition. Then bring these unseen
causes into harmony with your conception, and you will find
that you can make practical working realities of possibilities
which at present seem but fantastic dreams.”
A woman came to me in New York City, asking for help, as

she was out of work. I spoke the word of ever-present
supply for her and intensified it by mentally seeing the
woman in the position she dreamed of, but which she had
been unable to make a practical reality.
That same afternoon she telephoned and said she could

hardly believe her senses, as she had just taken exactly the
kind of a position she wanted. The employer told her she
had been wanting a woman like her for months.
We all knew that the balloon was the forefather of the

airplane. In 1766 Henry Cavendish, an English nobleman,
proved that hydrogen gas was seven times lighter than air.
From that discovery the balloon came into existence, and
from the ordinary balloon the dirigible, a cigar-shaped
airship, was evolved.
Study of aeronautics and laws of the aerial locomotion of

birds and projectiles led to the belief that mechanism could
be evolved by which heavier-than-air machines could be
made to travel from place to place and remain in the air by
the maintenance of great speed, which would overcome by
propulsive force the ordinary law of gravitation.
Professor Langley of Washington, who developed much of

the theory which others afterward improved upon, was
subjected to much derision when he sent a model airplane
up, only to have it bury its nose in the muddy waters of the
Potomac.
But the Wright Brothers, who experimented later, realized
the possibility of traveling through the air in a machine that
had no gas bag. They saw themselves enjoying this mode of
transportation with great facility.
It is said that one of the brothers would tell the other, when
their varied experiences did not turn out as they expected:
“It’s all right, Brother, I can see myself riding in that
machine, and it travels easily and steadily.”
Those Wright Brothers knew what they wanted and kept

their pictures constantly before them. Now transportation
through the air is developing rapidly and we all feel sure it
will in the near future become as ordinary a method of travel
as the automobile.
In visualizing, or making a mental picture, you are not

endeavoring to change the laws of Nature. You are fulfilling
them.
Your object in visualizing is to bring things into regular

order, both mentally and physically. When you realize that
this method of employing the Creative Power brings your
desires, one after another, into practical, material
accomplishment, your confidence in the mysterious but
unfailing law of attraction, which has its central power
station in the very heart of your word-picture, becomes
supreme.
Nothing can shake it.
You never feel that it is necessary to take anything from

anybody else. You have learned that asking and seeking
have, as their correlatives, receiving and finding. You know
that all you have to do is to start the plastic substance of the
Universe flowing into the thought-moulds your picture-desire
provides.
CHAPTER 2 ‐ How to Attract To Yourself The Things You Desire

THE power within you which enables you to form a thought-

picture is the starting point of all there is. In its original
state it is the undifferentiated formless substance of life.
Your thought-picture makes the model, so to say, into which
this formless substance takes shape.
Visualizing, or mentally seeing things and conditions as you

wish them to be, is the condensing, the specializing power in
you which might be illustrated by comparison with the lens
of a magic lantern, which is one of the best symbols of the
imaging faculty.
It illustrates the idea of the working of the Creative Spirit on

the plane of initiative and selection—or in its concentrated,
specializing form —in a remarkably clear manner. The
picture slide illustrates your own mental picture—invisible in
the lantern of your mind until you turn on the light of your
will.
That is to say, you light up your desire with absolute faith

that the Creative Spirit of Life, in you, is doing the work. By
the steady flow of the light of the Will on the Spirit, your
desired picture is projected upon the screen of the physical
world—an exact reproduction of the pictured slide in your
mind.
A woman came to me for help to cause her husband to

return to her. She said she was very unhappy and lonely
without him and longed to be reunited. I told her she could
not lose love and protection, because both belonged to her.
She asked what she should do to get her husband back

again. I told her to follow the great power of intuition and
think of her husband as perfectly free, and the embodiment
of all that a husband should be.
She went away quite happy, but returned in a few days to
tell me that her husband desired a divorce in order to marry
again. She was quite agitated and had evidently relaxed her
will in following the instructions given at the former
interview. Again I told her to hold constantly in her mind
that the loving protection of the Spirit of Life would guide
her in perfect happiness.
A month later she came again and said that her husband
had married the other woman. This time she had completely
lost her mental grip. I repeated the words for her as before,
and she regained her poise. Two months later she came
back to me, full of joy.
Her husband had come to her, begging her forgiveness, and

telling her what a terrible mistake he had made, as he could
not be happy without her. They are now living happily
together and she, at least, learned the necessity of holding
her pictured desire steadily in place by the use of her will.
Visualizing without a will sufficiently steady to inhibit every

thought and feeling contrary to your pictured thought would
be as useless as a magic lantern without the light.
On the other hand, if your will is sufficiently developed to

hold your picture in thought and feeling, without any “ifs”;
simply realizing that your thought is the great attracting
power, then your mental picture is as certain to be projected
upon your physical world as a picture slide put into a magic
lantern shows on the screen.
Try projecting the picture in a magic lantern with a light that

is constantly shifting from one side to the other, and you will
produce the effect of an uncertain will. It is as necessary
that you should always have back of your picture a strong,
steady will, as it is to have a strong steady light back of a
picture slide.
The joyous assurance with which you make your picture is
the very powerful magnet of Faith, and nothing can
obliterate it. You are happier than you ever were, because
you have learned to know where your source of supply is,
and you rely upon its never-failing response to the direction
you give it.
All said and done, happiness is the one thing which every
human being wants, and the study of visualization enables
you to get more out of life than you ever enjoyed before.
Increasing possibilities keep opening out, more and more,
before you.
A business man once told me that since practicing

visualization, and forming the habit of devoting a few
minutes each day to thinking about his work as he desired it
to be, in a large, broad way, his orders had more than
doubled in six months.
His method was to go into a room every morning before

breakfast and take a mental inventory of his business as he
had left it the evening before, and then enlarge upon it. He
said he expanded and expanded in this way, until his affairs
were in a remarkably successful condition.
He would see himself in his office doing everything he

wanted done. His occupation required him to meet many
strangers every day.
In his mental picture he saw himself meeting these people,

understanding their needs, and supplying them in just the
way they wished. This habit, he said, had strengthened and
steadied his will in an almost inconceivable manner.
Furthermore, by thus mentally seeing things as he wished

them to be, he had acquired the confident feeling that a
certain Creative Power was exercising itself, for him and
through him, for the purpose of improving his little world.
When you first begin to visualize seriously, you may feel, as

many others do, that someone else may be forming the
same picture you are, and that, naturally, would not suit
your purpose.
Do not give yourself any concern about this.
Simply try to realize that your picture is an orderly exercise

of the Universal Creative Power specifically applied. Then
you may be sure that no one can work in opposition to you.
The universal law of harmony prevents that.
Endeavor to bear in mind that your mental picture is

Universal Mind specifically exercising its inherent powers of
initiative and selection. God, or Universal Mind, made man
for the special purpose of differentiating Himself through
him.
Everything there is, came into existence in this same way,

by this self-same law of self-differentiation, and for the
same purpose. First came the idea, the mental picture, or
the prototype of the thing, which is the thing itself in its
incipiency.
The Great Architect of the Universe contemplated Himself as

manifesting through his polar opposite—matter—and the
idea expanded and projected itself until we have not only a
world, but many worlds.
Many people ask, “But why should we have a physical world

at all?” The answer is: “Because it is the nature of
Originating Substance to solidify, under directivity rather
than activity, just as it is the nature of wax to harden when
it becomes cold, or plaster of paris to become firm and solid
when exposed to the air.
Your picture is this same Divine Substance in its original
state, taking form through the individualized center of Divine
operation, in your mind; and there is no power to prevent
this combination of Spiritual Substance from becoming
physical form. It is the nature of Spirit to complete its work,
and an idea is not complete until it has made for itself a
vehicle.
Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete

form except the same power which gave it birth—yourself.
Suppose you wish to have a more orderly room. You look
about your room, and the idea of order suggests boxes,
closets, shelves, hooks, and so forth. The box, the closet
and the hooks, are all concrete ideas of order, because they
are the vehicles through which order and harmony suggest
themselves.
CHAPTER 3 ‐ Relation between Mental and Physical Form
SOME persons feel that it is not quite proper to visualize for

things. “It’s too material,” they say. Why, material form is
necessary for the self-recognition of Spirit from the
individual standpoint, and this is the means through which
the Creative Process is carried forward.
Therefore, far from matter being an illusion and something

which ought not to be, matter is the necessary channel for
the self-differentiation of Spirit.
However, it is not my desire to lead you into lengthy and

tiresome scientific reasoning, in order to remove the
mystery from visualization and to put it upon a logical
foundation.
Naturally, each individual will do this in his own way. My

only wish is to point out to you the easiest way I know,
which is the road on which Troward guides me.
I feel sure you will conclude, as I have, that the only

mystery in connection with visualizing is the mystery of life
taking form, governed by unchangeable and easily
understood laws.
We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we

realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these
powers, it brings other Possibilities to our observation.
When we pause to think for a moment, we realize that for a

cosmos to exist at all, it must be the outcome of a Cosmic
Mind, which binds “all individual minds to a certain generic
unity of action, thereby producing all things as realities and
nothing as illusions.”
If you will take this thought of Troward’s and meditate upon
it without prejudice, you will surely realize that concrete
material form is an absolute necessity of the Creative
Process; also “that matter is not an illusion but a necessary
channel thru which life differentiates itself.”
If you consider matter in its right order, as the polar

opposite to Spirit, you will not find any antagonism between
them. On the contrary, together they constitute one
harmonious whole. And when you realize this, you feel, in
your practice of visualizing, that you are working from cause
to effect, from beginning to end.
In reality your mental picture is the specialized outworking

of the Originating Spirit. One could talk for hours on purely
scientific lines, showing, as Troward says, “that raw material
for the formation of the solar systems is universally
distributed throughout all space.
Yet investigation shows that while the Heavens are studded

with millions of suns, there are spaces, which show no signs
of cosmic activity. This being true, there must be something,
which started cosmic activity in certain places, while passing
over others, in which the raw material was equally available.
At first thought, one might attribute development of cosmic

energy to the etheric particles themselves. Upon
investigation however, we find that this is mathematically
impossible in a medium which is equally distributed
throughout space, for all its particles are in equilibrium;
therefore, no one particle possesses in itself a greater power
of originating motion than the other.
Thus we find that the initial movement, though working in

and through the particles of primary substance, is not the
particles themselves. It is this something we mean when we
speak of Spirit.
This same power that brought universal substance into
existence will bring your individual thought or mental picture
into physical form. There is no difference in the power. The
only difference is a difference of degree.
The power and the substance themselves are the same.

Only in working out your mental picture, it has transferred
its creative energy from the Universal to the particular, and
is working in the same unfailing manner from its specific
center, your mind.
CHAPTER 4 ‐ Operation of Your Mental Picture
THE operation of a large telephone system may be used as a

simile. The main, or head central subdivides itself into many
branch centrals, every branch being in direct connection with
the main central, and each individual branch recognizing the
source of its existence, reports all things to its central head.
Therefore, when assistance of any nature is required: new

supplies, difficult repairs to be done, or what not, the branch
in need goes at once to its central head. It would not think
of referring its difficulties (or its successes) to the main
central of a telegraph system, though they might belong to
the same organization.
These different branch centrals know that the only remedy

for any difficulty must come from the central out of which
they were projected and to which they are always attached.
If we, as individual branches of the Universal Mind, would

refer our difficulties in the same confident manner to the
source from which we were projected, and use the remedies
which it has provided, we would realize what Jesus meant
when he said, “Ask and ye shall receive.”
Our every requirement would be met.
Surely the Father must supply the child. The trunk of the
tree cannot fail to provide for its branches.
A man came to me in great distress, saying he was about to

lose his home in the South. In his own words, it was
mortgaged to the hilt, and his creditors were going to
foreclose.
It was the house in which he had been born and had grown
to young manhood, and the thought of losing it filled his
heart and mind with sorrow, not only from a money
standpoint, but from the standpoint of sentimental
association.
I explained to him that the Power that brought him into

existence did so for the purpose of expressing its limitless
supply through him; that there was no power on earth which
could cut him off from his source except his own
consciousness, and that in reality he would not be cut off
then.
I explained to him that he had it, but was unable to

recognize that it was there, and said to him, “Infinite
substance is manifesting in you right now.”
The next week, on Sunday, just before leaving my dressing

room in the Selwyn Theatre to give my afternoon message, I
received the following note:
“Dear Mrs. Behrend: I want you to know that I am the

happiest man in the whole city of New York. My home in the
South is saved. The money came in the most miraculous
way, and I have telegraphed enough to pay off the
mortgage. Please tell the people this afternoon about this
wonderful Power.”
You may be sure I did, explaining to them that everything

animate or inanimate is called into existence or
outstandingness by a Power which itself does not stand out.
The Power which creates the mental picture—the Originating
Spirit Substance of your pictured desire—does not stand out.
It projects the substance of itself, which is a solidified

counterpart of itself, while it—the Power—remains invisible
to the physical eye. Those will appreciate the value of
visualizing who are able to realize Paul’s meaning when he
said, “The worlds were formed by the word of God. Things
which are seen are not made of things which do appear.”
There is nothing unusual or mysterious in the idea of your

pictured desire coming into material evidence. It is the
working of a universal, natural Law.
The world was projected by the self-contemplation of the

Universal Mind, and this same action is taking place in its
individualized branch which is the Mind of Man. Everything in
the whole world, from the hat on your head to the boots on
your feet, has its beginning in mind and comes into
existence in exactly the same manner.
All are projected thoughts, solidified. Your personal advance

in evolution depends on your right use of the power of
visualizing, and your use of it depends on whether you
recognize that you, yourself, are a particular center through
and in which the Originating Spirit is finding ever new
expression for potentialities already existing within Itself.
This is evolution.
Your mental picture is the force of attraction, which evolves

and combines the Originating Substance into specific shape.
Your picture is the combining and evolving powerhouse, in a
generative sense, so to say, through which the Originating
Creative Spirit expresses itself.
Its creative action is limitless, without beginning and without

end, and always progressive and orderly. “It proceeds stage
by stage, each stage being a necessary preparation for the
one to follow.”
Now let us see if we can get an idea of the different stages

by which the things in the world have come to be.
Troward says, “If we can get at the working principle which

is producing these results, we can very quickly and easily
give it personal application.
First, we find that the thought of Originating Life, or Spirit,

concerning Itself is its simple awareness of its own being,
and this, demanding a relationship to something else,
produces a primary ether, a universal substance out of
which everything in the world must grow.”
Troward also tells us “though this awareness of being is a

necessary foundation for any further possibilities, it is not
much to talk about.” It is the same with individualized Spirit,
which is yourself.
Before you can entertain the idea of making a mental picture

of your desire as being at all practical, you must have some
idea of your being; of your “I am”; and just as soon as you
are conscious of your “I am”-ness, you begin to wish to
enjoy the freedom which this consciousness suggests.
You want to do more and be more, and as you fulfill this

desire within yourself, localized spirit begins conscious
activities in you. The thing you are more concerned with is
the specific action of the 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.
With this progressive wish there is always 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, what the purpose of your being is, and how you
are to fulfill the purpose for which you are intended, you will
become a more and more perfect 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 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 without anxiety, doing 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 which 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, which will deliver
them from bondage. However, the race as a whole is not
willing to give the time required for the 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.
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 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.
A man in the hardware business in New Jersey came to me

in great distress. He would have to go into bankruptcy
unless something happened in a fortnight. He said he had
never heard of visualizing. I explained to him how to make a
mental picture of his business increasing, instead of a
picture of losing it.
In about a month’s time he returned very happy and told me

how he had succeeded. He said, “I have my debts all paid,
and my shop is full of new supplies.” His business was then
on a solid basis. It was beautiful to see his Faith.
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 that strong, and consequently cannot reach
so far. The more perfectly a secret between your mind and
your 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, then 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, which
you are mentally picturing.
One of the doormen in the building in which I lived 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 his 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, and 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.
In you it is undifferentiated, waiting to take any direction

given it as it passes through the instrument which it has
made for the purpose of self-distribution—you.
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 unformed substance contained in
every thought.
It is the simplest thing in the world to give this highly

sensitive 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 unformed substance of all there is in your world,
takes involuntary form, the only reason 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 it (being your first picture) has not materialized.
The Substance with which you are mentally dealing is more

sensitive than the most sensitive photographer’s film. If,
while 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.
If these lines are 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 the fulfillment of your

desires may be imperfect, and your desires 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 which 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 of your evolution. If you can do this, there
is no power to prevent your enjoying the fulfillment of the
picture you have in mind, or any other you may create.
CHAPTER 5 ‐ Expressions from Beginners
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
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 with which we are all familiar.
A famous actress wrote a long article in one of the leading

Sunday papers last winter, describing how she rid herself of
excessive avoirdupois 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,
which were helping humanity to realize the wonderful fact
that they possessed the means of liberation within
themselves.
Relating her own experience, she said that she was 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 maid

in a physician’s family. Leaving this place, she entered the
family of another doctor. The wife of her employer died, and
the doctor married her—the result of 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 her fruit farm
in the South. 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 weak and tired she could
hardly stand. The Judge asked the court attendant what she
was charged with.
‘Stealing a bottle of milk, Your Honor,’ repeated the officer.
‘She took it from the doorstep of a downtown cottage before

daybreak this morning.’
‘Why did you do that?’ Judge Goldenberg asked her.
‘I was hungry,’ said the old lady.
'Well, you’re not very wealthy now, but you’re no longer

poor. I’ve been searching for you for months. I’ve got $500
belonging to you from the estate of a relative. I am the
executor of the estate.’
“Judge Goldenberg paid the woman’s fine out of his own

pocket, and then escorted her into his office, where he
turned her legacy over to her and sent a policeman out to
find her a lodging place.”
I learned later that this little woman had been desiring and
mentally picturing $500, while all the time ignorant of how it
could possibly come to her. But she kept her vision and
strengthened it with her faith.
In an issue of Good Housekeeping there was an article by
Addington Bruce entitled “Stiffening Your Mental Backbone.”
It is very instructive, and would benefit anyone to read it.
He says, in part: “Form the habit of devoting a few moments

every day to thinking about your work in a large, broad,
imaginative way, as a vital necessity to yourself and a useful
service to society.”
James J. Hill, the great railway magnate, before he started

building his road from coast to coast, said that he took
hundreds of trips all along the line before there was a rail
laid.
It is said that he would sit for hours with a map of the

United States before him and mentally travel from coast to
coast, just as we do now over his fulfilled mental picture. It
would be possible to call your attention to hundreds of
similar cases.
The method of picturing to yourself what you desire is both

simple and enjoyable, if you once understand the principle
back of it well enough to believe it. Over and above
everything else, be sure of what it is you really want. Then
specialize your desire along the lines given in the following
chapter.
CHAPTER 6 ‐ Suggestions for Making Your Mental Picture

PERHAPS you want to feel that you’ve lived to some

purpose. You want to be contented and happy; you feel that
good health and a successful business would give you
contentment.
After you have decided once and for all that this is what you
want, you proceed to picture yourself healthy, and your
business just as great a success as you can naturally
conceive it growing into.
The best times for making your definite picture are just
before breakfast, and again, before retiring at night. As it is
necessary to give yourself plenty of time, it may be
necessary to rise earlier than you usually do.
Go into a room where you will not be disturbed, meditate for

a few moments upon the practical working of the law of
visualizing, and ask yourself, “How did the things about me
first come into existence? How can I get more quickly in
touch with my invisible supply?”
Someone felt that comfort would be better expressed and

experienced by sitting on a chair than on the floor. So the
very beginning of a chair was the desire to be at ease. With
this came the picture of some sort of a chair.
The same principle applies to the hat and the clothes you
wear. Go carefully into the thought of the principle back of
the thing. Establish it as a personal experience; make it a
fact to your consciousness.
Then open a window, take about ten deep breaths, and

during the time draw a large imaginary circle of light around
you. As you inhale—keeping yourself in the center of this
circle of light-—see great rays of light coming from the circle
and entering your body at all points, centralizing itself at
your solar plexus.
Hold the breath a few moments at this central point of your

body—the solar plexus— then slowly exhale.
As you do this, mentally see imaginary rays, or sprays, of

light going up through the body, and down and out through
feet. Mentally spray your entire body with this imaginary
light.
When you have finished the breathing exercise, sit in a

comfortable upright chair and mentally know there is but
one Life, one Substance, and this Life Substance of the
Universe is finding pleasure in self-recognition in you.
Repeat some affirmation of this kind, until you feel the truth
and stimulating reality of the words that you are affirming.
Then begin your picture. If you are thorough in this, you will
find yourself in the deep consciousness beneath the surface
of your own thought power.
Whether your desire is for a state of consciousness, or a

possession, large or small, begin at the beginning.
If you want a house, begin by seeing yourself in the kind of

house you desire. Go all through it, taking careful note of
the rooms, where the windows are situated, and such other
details as help you to feel the reality of your picture.
You might change some of the furniture about and look into
some of the mirrors just to see how healthy, wealthy, and
happy you look. Go over your picture again and again, until
you feel the reality of it, then write it all down just as you
have seen it, with the feeling that:
“The best there is, is mine. There is no limit to me, because
my mind is a center of divine operation,” and your picture is
as certain to come true, in your physical world, as the sun is
to shine.
CHAPTER 7 ‐ Things to Remember
In Using Your Thought Power for the Production of New

Conditions
1. Be sure to know exactly what conditions you wish to

produce. Then weigh carefully what further results the
accomplishment of your desire will lead to.
2. By letting your thought dwell upon a mental picture, you

are concentrating the Creative Action of Spirit in this center,
where its forces are equally balanced.
3. Visualizing brings your objective mind into a state of

equilibrium, which enables you to consciously direct the flow
of Spirit to a definitely recognized purpose, and to carefully
guard your thoughts from including a flow in the opposite
direction.
4. You must always bear in mind that you are dealing with a
wonderful potential energy, which is not yet differentiated
into any particular form, and that by the action of your
mind, you can differentiate it into any specific form that you
will.
Your picture assists you to keep your mind fixed on the fact
that the inflow of this Creative Energy is taking place. Also,
by your mental picture, you are determining the direction
you wish the sensitive Creative Power to take, and by doing
this, you make the externalization of your picture a
certainty.
5. Remember when you are visualizing properly that there is

no strenuous effort to hold your thought-forms in place.
Strenuous effort defeats your purpose, and suggests the
consciousness of an adverse force to be fought against, and
this creates conditions adverse to your picture.
6. By holding your picture in a cheerful frame of mind, you

shut out all thoughts that would disperse or dissipate the
spiritual nucleus of your picture. Because the law is Creative
in its action, your pictured desire is certain of
accomplishment.
7. The seventh and great thing to remember in visualizing is

that you are making a mental picture for the purpose of
determining the quality you are giving to the previously
undifferentiated substance and energy, rather than to
arrange the specific circumstances for its manifestation.
That is the work of Creative Power itself. It will build its own
forms of expression quite naturally, if you will allow it, and
save you a great deal of needless anxiety.
What you really want is expansion in a certain direction,

whether of health, wealth or what not, and so long as you
get it—as you surely will, if you confidently hold to your
picture—what does it matter whether it reaches by some
channel which you thought you could count upon, or through
some other of whose existence you had no idea.
You are concentrating energy of a particular kind for a

particular purpose. Keep this in mind and let specific details
take care of themselves, and never mention what you are
doing to anyone.
Remember always that “Nature, from her clearly visible

surface to her most arcane depths, is one vast storehouse of
light and good entirely devoted to your individual use.” Your
conscious Oneness with the great Whole is the secret of
success, and when once you have fathomed this, you can
enjoy your possession of the whole, or a part of it, at will,
because by your recognition you have made it, and can
increasingly make it, yours.
Never forget that every physical thing, whether for you or
against you, was a sustained thought before it was a thing.
Thought, as thought, is neither good nor bad; it is Creative
Action and always takes physical form. Therefore, the
thoughts you dwell upon become the things you possess or
do not possess.
A man came to me telling me how he longed to marry a

certain young woman, but felt he could not afford to as his
salary was small, and work uncertain. I spoke the word of
ever-present Certain, Unlimited Supply and explained that
Love knows no failure.
“It is yours to enjoy. See yourself in the kind of a home you

both want. Do your part, keep on loving the girl, and believe
absolutely in that which Lives and Loves in you.”
A few months later they both came to my study looking

radiantly happy. I knew they were married. The wife said to
me: “Dear Mrs. Behrend, we are very happy because we
now know how to use our thought power and hold our
consciousness as one, with all we want.”
So be yourself and enjoy Life in your own Divine way. Do

not fear to be your true self, for everything you want, wants
you.
CHAPTER 8 ‐ Why I Took Up the Study of Mental Science
I HAVE frequently been questioned about my reasons for

taking up the study of Mental Science, and as to the results
of my search, not only in the knowledge of principles, but
also in the application of that knowledge for the
development of my own life.
Such inquiries are justifiable, because one who essays the

role of a messenger of psychological truths can only be
convincing as he or she has tested them in the laboratory of
personal mental experience.
This is particularly true in my case, as the only personal

pupil of Judge Troward, the great Master in Mental Science,
whose teaching is based upon the relation borne by the
Individual Mind toward the Universal Creative Mind, which is
the Giver of Life, and the manner in which that relation may
be invoked to secure expansion and fuller expression in the
individual life.
My initial impulse toward the study of Mental Science was an

overwhelming sense of loneliness.
In every life there must come some such experience of

spiritual isolation as pervaded my life at that period.
Notwithstanding the fact that each day found me in the
midst of friends, surrounded by mirth and gaiety, there was
a persistent feeling that I was alone in the world. I had been
a widow for about three years, wandering from country to
country, seeking for peace of mind.
The circumstances and surroundings of my life were such

that my friends looked upon me as an unusually fortunate
young woman. Although they recognized that I had
sustained a great loss when my husband died, they knew
that he had left me well provided for, free to go anywhere
my pleasure dictated.
Yet, if my friends could have penetrated my inmost

emotions, they would have found a deep sense of emptiness
and isolation. This feeling inspired a spirit of unrest, which
drove me on and on in fruitless search upon the outside, for
that which I later learned could only be found within.
I studied Christian Science, but it gave me no solace, though

fully realizing the great work the Scientists were doing, and
even having the pleasure and privilege of meeting Mrs. Eddy
personally. But it was impossible for me to accept the
fundamental teachings of Christian Science and make
practical application of it.
When about to abandon the search for contentment and

resign myself to resume a life of apparent amusement, a
friend invited me to visit the great Seer and Teacher, Abdul
Baha.
After my interview with this most wonderful of men, my

search for contentment began to take a change. He had told
me that I would travel the world over seeking the truth, and
when I had found it, would speak it out.
The fulfillment of the statement of this Great Seer then

seemed to be impossible. But it carried a measure of
encouragement, and at least indicated that my former
seeking had been in the wrong direction. I began in a feeble
groping way to find contentment within myself, for had he
not intimated that I should find the truth?
That was the big thing, and about the only thing I remember
of our interview.
A few days later, upon visiting the office of a New Thought

practitioner, my attention was attracted to a book on his
table entitled “The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science,”
by T. Troward.
It interested me to see that Troward was a retired Divisional

Judge from the Punjab, India. I purchased the book,
thinking I would read it through that evening. Many have
endeavored to do the same thing, only to find, as I did, that
the book must be studied in order to be understood, and
hundreds have decided, just as I did, to give it their
undivided attention.
After finding this treasure book, I went to the country for a

few days, and while there, studied the volume as thoroughly
as I could.
It seemed extremely difficult, and I decided to purchase

another book of Troward ‘s, in the hope that its study might
not require so much of an effort. Upon inquiry I was told
that a subsequent volume, “The Dore Lectures,” was much
the simpler and better of the two books.
When I procured it, I found that it must also be studied. It

took me weeks and months to get even a vague conception
of the meaning of the first chapter of Dore, which is entitled
“Entering Into the Spirit of It.” I mean by this that it took
me months to enter into the spirit of what I was reading.
But in the meantime a paragraph from page 26 arrested my

attention, as seeming the greatest thing I had ever read. I
memorized it and endeavored with all my soul to enter into
the spirit of Troward‘s words.
The paragraph reads:
“My mind is a center of Divine operation. The Divine

operation is always for expansion and fuller expression, and
this means the production of something beyond what has
gone before, something entirely new, not included in the
past experience, though proceeding out of it by an orderly
sequence or growth. Therefore, since the Divine cannot
change its inherent nature, it must operate in the same
manner with me; consequently, in my own special world, of
which I am the center, it will move forward to produce new
conditions, always in advance of any that have gone before.”
It took an effort on my part to memorize this paragraph, but

in the endeavor toward this end, the words seemed to carry
with them a certain stimulus.
Each repetition of the paragraph made it easier for me to

enter into the spirit of it. The words expressed exactly what
I had been seeking for. My one desire was for peace of
mind.
I found it comforting to believe that the Divine operation in

me could expand to fuller expression and produce more and
more contentment—in fact, a peace mind and a degree of
contentment greater than I had ever known.
The paragraph further inspired me with deep interest to feel

that the life-spark in me could bring into my life something
entirely new. I did not wish to obliterate my past experience,
but that was exactly what Troward said it would not do.
The Divine operation would not exclude my past experience,

but proceeding out of it would bring some new things that
would transcend anything that I had ever experienced
before.
Meditation on these statements brought with it a certain

joyous feeling. What a wonderful thing it would be if I could
accept and sincerely believe, beyond all doubt, that this one
statement of Troward‘s was true.
Surely the Divine could not change its inherent nature, and
since Divine life is operating in me, I must be Divinely
inhabited, and the Divine in me must operate just as it
operates upon the Universal plane.
This meant that my whole world of circumstances, friends,

and conditions would ultimately become a world of
contentment and enjoyment of which “I am the center.”
This would all happen just as soon as I was able to control

my mind and thereby provide a concrete center around
which the Divine energies could play.
Surely it was worth trying for. If Troward had found this

truth, why not if the idea held me to my task. Later I
determined to study with the man who had realized and
given to the world so great a statement it had lifted me from
my state of despondency. The immediate difficulty was the
need for increased finances.
CHAPTER 9 ‐ How I Attracted to Myself Twenty Thousand Dollars
IN the laboratory of experience in which my newly revealed

relation to the Divine operation was to be tested, the first
problem was a financial one.
My income was a stipulated one quite enough for my

everyday needs, but it did not seem sufficient to enable me
to go comfortably to England, where Troward lived and
remain for an indefinite period to study with so great a
teacher as he must be.
So before inquiring whether Troward took pupils, or whether

I would be eligible in case he did, I began to use the
paragraph I had memorized.
Daily, in fact, almost hourly, the words were in my mind:

“My mind is a center of Divine operation, and Divine
operation means expansion into something better than has
gone before.”
From the Edinburgh Lectures I had read something about

the Law of Attraction, and from the Chapter on “Causes and
Conditions” I had gleaned a vague idea of visualizing.
So every night, before going to sleep, I made a mental

picture of the desired $20,000 which seemed necessary to
go and study with Troward.
Twenty imaginary $1,000 bills were counted over each night

in my bedroom, and then, with the idea of more
emphatically impressing my mind with the fact that this
twenty thousand dollars was for the purpose of going to
England and studying with Troward, I wrote out my picture,
saw myself buying my steamer ticket, walking up and down
the ship’s deck from New York to London, and finally, saw
myself accepted as Troward’s pupil.
This process was repeated every morning and every

evening, always impressing more and more fully upon my
mind Troward‘s memorized statement: “My mind is a center
of Divine operations.”
I endeavored to keep this statement in the back part of my

consciousness all the time, with no thought in mind of how
the money might be obtained. Probably the reason why
there was no thought of the avenues through which the
money might reach me was because I could not possibly
imagine where the $20,000 would come from.
So I simply held my thought steady and let the power of

attraction find its own ways and means.
One day while walking on the street, taking deep breathing

exercises, the thought came:
“My mind is surely a center of Divine operation. If God fills

all space, then God must be in my mind also; if I want this
money to study with Troward that I may know the truth of
Life, then both the money and the truth must be mine,
though I am unable to feel or see the physical
manifestations of either.
Still,” I declared, “it must be mine.”
While these reflections were going on in my mind, there

seemed to come up from within me the thought: “I Am all
the substance there is. Then, from another channel in my
brain the answer seemed to come, “Of course, that’s it;
everything must have its beginning in mind. The idea must
contain within itself the only one and primary substance
there is, and this means money as well as everything else.”
My mind accepted this idea, and immediately all the tension
of mind and body was relaxed.
There was a feeling of absolute certainty of being in touch

with all the power Life has to give. All thought of money,
teacher, or even my own personality, vanished in the great
wave of joy which swept over my entire being.
I walked on and on, with this feeling of joy steadily

increasing and expanding until everything about me seemed
aglow with resplendent light. Every person I passed
appeared illuminated as I was. All consciousness of
personality had disappeared, and in its place there came
that great and almost overwhelming sense of joy and
contentment.
That night when I made my picture of the twenty thousand

dollars it was with an entirely changed aspect. On previous
occasions, when making my mental picture, I had felt that I
was waking up something within myself. This time there was
no sensation of effort. I simply counted over the twenty
thousand dollars.
Then, in a most unexpected manner, from a source of which

I had no consciousness at the time, there seemed to open a
possible avenue through which the money might reach me.
At first it took great effort not to be excited. It all seemed so

wonderful, so glorious, to be in touch with supply. But had
not Troward cautioned his readers to keep all excitement out
of their minds in the first flush of realization of union with
Infinite supply, and to treat this fact as a perfectly natural
result which had been reached through our demand?
This was even more difficult for me than it was to hold the
thought that “all the substance there is, I Am; I (idea) Am
the beginning of all form, visible or invisible.”
Just as soon as there appeared a circumstance which
indicated the direction through which the twenty thousand
dollars might come, I not only made a supreme effort to
regard the indicated direction calmly as the first sprout of
the seed I had sown in the absolute, but left no stone
unturned to follow up that direction, thereby fulfilling my
part.
By so doing, one circumstance seemed naturally to lead to

another, until, step by step, my desired twenty thousand
dollars was secured. To keep my mind poised and free from
excitement was my greatest effort.
This first concrete fruition of my study of Mental Science as

expounded by Troward’s book had come by a careful
following of the methods he had outlined. In this connection,
therefore I can offer to the reader no better gift than to
quote Troward’s book, “The Edinburgh Lectures,” from which
may be derived a complete idea of the line of action I was
endeavoring to follow.
In the chapter on Causes and Conditions he says:
“To get good results we must properly understand our

relation to the great impersonal power we are using. It is
intelligent, and we are intelligent, and the two intelligences
must co-operate.”
We must not fly in the face of the law expecting it to do for

us what it can only do through us; and we must therefore
use our intelligence with the knowledge that it is acting as
the instrument of a greater intelligence; and because we
have this knowledge we may and should cease from all
anxiety as to the final result.
“In actual practice we must first form the ideal conception of

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 which 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 on
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, took
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.
CHAPTER 10 ‐ How I Became The Only Personal Pupil of Thomas
Troward

AS soon as the idea of studying with Troward came to me, I

asked a friend to write him for me, feeling that perhaps my
friend could couch 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 had that day on the street, when my
whole 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 not 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 had come 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, 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 a rather 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 cup of hot 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 this
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 they were incorrect. I began bombarding my scholarly
friends and acquaintances with the same questions.
Lawyers, doctors, priests, nuns, and clergymen, all over the

world, received letters from me with this question in them.
Answers began to return to me, but intuition told me not
one was correct.
All the while I was endeavoring to find the answer for

myself, but no answer came. 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 fle de Cite to go into some of
the old bookstores there.
The books were out of print, and these were the last places
in which to find them. Finally we came upon a little shop
which had them. The man had only one copy of each left,
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, he is one of France’s greatest
astrologers. He does not read horoscopes.”
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.
When we arrived at 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; reluctantly, and also impatiently he 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 and
embarrassment, 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:
“I 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, which 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 ask the
Professor the answer to the question Troward had given me
from 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 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 from the 16th verse of the
21st Chapter of Revelation.
There was an immediate response from Troward which 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. 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 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 so-called
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 which 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)
CHAPTER 11 ‐ How To Bring The Power In Your Word Into Action
IN every word you use, there is a power germ which

expands and projects itself in the direction your word
indicates, and ultimately develops into physical expression.
For example, you wish the consciousness of joy. Repeat the

word “joy” secretly, persistently and emphatically. The
repetition of the word joy sets up a quality of vibration which
causes the joy germ to begin 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 to yourself 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. No one can

give it to you. 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 mental.
Troward says the “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 learned the 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 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, for you
will become a Prince of Power.
CHAPTER 12 ‐ How To Increase Your Faith
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. Faith

is that quality of Power which gives the Creative Energy a
corresponding vitality, and the vitality in the word of Faith
you use causes it to take corresponding physical form.
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 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.
Your constant observation should be 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 which knows and
does, and then the best there is, is yours.
CHAPTER 13 ‐ The Reward of Increased Faith
YOUR desire to be your best has expanded your faith into

the faith of the Universe, which knows no failure, and has
brought you into conscious realization that you are not a
victim of the universe, but a part of it.
Consequently you are able to recognize that there is that

within yourself which is able to make conscious contact with
the Universal Law, and enables you to press all the
particular laws of Nature, whether visible or invisible, into
serving your particular demand or desire.
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 of God, “or
specialized 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 form. 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.
The water must take the shape of the pipe through which it
flows. Even more truly this sensitive, invisible 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.
CHAPTER 14 ‐ How to Make Nature Respond to You
IT should be steadily borne in mind that there is an

Intelligence and Power in all Nature and all space, which 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 with
which the law of life supplies your every demand.
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.
Then 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.
CHAPTER 15 ‐ Faith with Works – What It has Accomplished
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
while he was working as a bushman for something like three
shillings a day.
He used to find these friendly little violets growing in certain

places in the woods, and something in the flower touched
something akin to itself in the mind of Tyson.
He would sit on the side of his bunk at night and wonder

how flowers and vegetable life could be given an opportunity
to express themselves in the desert land of Australia.
No doubt he realized that it would take a long time to save

enough money to put irrigating ditches in the desert lands,
but his thought and feeling assured him it could be
accomplished, and if it could be done, he could do it.
If there was a power within himself which was able to

capture the idea, then there must be a responsive power
within the idea itself which could bring itself into a practical
physical manifestation.
He resolutely put aside all questions as to the specific ways

and means which would be employed in bringing his desire
into physical manifestation, and simply kept his thought
centered upon the idea of making fences and seeing flowers
and grass where none existed at that time.
Since the responsiveness of Reproductive Creative Power is

not limited to any local condition of mind, his habitual
meditation and mental picture set his ideas free to roam in
infinitude, and attract to themselves other ideas of a kindred
nature.
Therefore, it was not necessary for Tyson to wait until he

had saved from his three shillings a day enough money to
irrigate the land, to see his ideas and desires fulfilled, for his
ideas found other ideas in the financial world which were
attuned in sympathy with themselves, and doors of finance
were quickly opened.
All charitable institutions are maintained upon the principle

of the responsiveness of life. If this were not true, no one
would care to give, simply because another needed. The law
of demand and supply, cause and effect, can never be
broken.
Ideas attract to themselves kindred ideas. Sometimes they

come from a flower, a book, or out of the invisible.
You are intent upon an idea not quite complete as to the

ways and means of fulfillment, and behold along comes
another idea, from no one can tell where, and find friendly
lodging with your idea; one idea attracting another, and so
on until your desires are physical facts.
You may feel the necessity for improvement in your

finances, and wonder how this increase is to be brought
about, when there seems suddenly to come from within the
idea itself, the realization that everything—even money—
had its birth in thought, and your thoughts turn their course.
You simply hold to the statement or affirmation that the

best, and all there is, is yours.
Since you are able to capture ideas from the Infinite through
the instrument of your intuition, you let your mind rest upon
that thought, knowing full well that this very thought will
respond to itself.
Your inhibition of all doubt and anxiety enables the
reassuring ideas to establish themselves and attract to them
“I can” and “I will” ideas, which gradually grow into the
physical form of the desire in your mind.
In the conscious uses of the Universal Power to reproduce

your desires in physical form, three facts should be borne in
mind:
First—All space is filled with a Creative Power.
Second—This Creative Power is amenable to suggestion.
Third—It can only work by deductive methods.
As Troward tells us, this last is an exceedingly important

point, for it implies that the action of the ever-present
Creative Power is in no way limited by precedent. It works
according to the essence of the spirit of the principle. In
other words, this Universal Power takes its creative direction
from the word you give it.
Once man realizes this great truth, the character with which
this sensitive, reproductive power is invested becomes the
most important of all his considerations. It is the unvarying
law of Creative Life Principle that “As a man thinketh in his
heart, so is he.”
If you realize the truth that the Creative Power can be to

you only what you feel and think it to be, it is willing and
able to meet your demands.
Troward says, “If you think your thought is Powerful, your

Thought is Powerful.”
“As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he” is the law of life,

and the Creative Power can no more change this law than an
ordinary mirror can reflect back to you a different image
than the object you hold before it. “As you think, so are you”
does not mean “as you tell people you think,” or “as you
would wish the world to believe you think.”
It means your innermost thoughts; that place where no one

but you know. “None can know the Father save the son,”
and “No one can know the son but the Father.”
Only the reproductive Creative Spirit of Life knows what you

think until your thoughts become physical facts and manifest
themselves in your body, your brain, or your affairs.
Then everyone with whom you come into contact may know,
because the Father, the Intelligent Creative Energy which
heareth in secret your most secret thoughts, rewards you
openly reproduces your thoughts in physical form.
“As you think, that is what you become” should be kept in

the background of your mind constantly. This is watching
and praying without ceasing, and when you are not feeling
quite up to par physically, pray.
CHAPTER 16 ‐ Suggestions as to How to Pray or Ask
This Chapter contains suggestions as to How to Pray or Ask

believing you have already received. Scientific Thinking –
Positive Thought Suggestions for Practical Application
Try, through careful, positive, enthusiastic (though not

strenuous) thought, to realize that the indescribable,
Invisible Substance of Life fills all space; that its nature is
Intelligent, Undifferentiated Substance.
Five o’clock in the morning is the best time to go into this

sort of meditation.
If you will retire early every night for one month, and before
falling asleep, impress firmly upon your subjective mind the
affirmation: “My Father is the ruler of all the world, and is
expressing His directing power through me,” you will find
that the substance of life takes form in your thought molds.
Do not accept the above suggestion simply because it is

given to you. Think it over carefully until the impression is
made upon your own subconscious mind understandingly.
Rise every morning, as was suggested before, at five

o’clock, sit in a quiet room in a straight-back chair, and think
out the affirmation of the previous evening, and you will
realize and be able to put into practice your Princely Power
with the realization to some extent, at least, that your mind
really is a center through which all the Creative Energy and
Power there is, is taking form.
Scientific Prayer - The Principle Underlying Scientific

Prayer
In prayer for a change in condition, physical, mental, or
financial, for yourself or another, bear in mind that the
fundamental necessity for the answer to prayer is the
understanding of the scientific statement:
“Ask, believing you have already received, And you shall

receive”
This is not as difficult as it appears on the surface, once you

realize that:
Everything has, its origin in the mind, and that which you
seek outwardly, you already possess.
No one can think a thought in the future.
Your thought of a thing constitutes its origin.
THEREFORE:
The Thought Form of the Thing is already Yours As soon as

you think it.
Your steady recognition of this Thought Possession causes

the thought to concentrate, to condense, to project itself,
and to assume physical form.
To Get Rich Through Creation
The recognition or conception of new sources of wealth is

the loftiest aspiration you can take into your heart, for it
assumes and implies the furtherance of all noble aims.
Items to be remembered about Prayer for Yourself or

Another
(Remember that that which you call treatment or prayer is

not, in any sense, hypnosis. It should never be your
endeavor to take possession of the mind of another.)
Remember that it should never be your intention to make
yourself believe that which you know to be untrue. You are
simply thinking into God or First Cause with the
understanding that:
“If a thing is true at all, there is a way in which it is true

throughout the universe.”
Remember that the power of thought works by absolutely

scientific principles. These principles are expressed in the
language of the statement:
“As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” This statement

contains a world of wisdom, but man’s steady recognition
and careful application of the statement itself is required to
bring it into practical use.
Remember that the principles involved in being as we think

in our heart are elucidated and revealed by the law: “As you
sow, so shall you reap”.
Remember that your freedom to choose just what you will

think, just what thought possession you will affirm and
claim, constitutes God’s gift to you.
It shows how First Cause has endowed every man with the
power and ability to bring into his personal environment
whatever he chooses.
Cause and Effect in reference to Getting
If you plant an ACORN, you get an OAK.
If you sow a GRAIN OF CORN, you reap a stalk and MANY

kernels of corn.
You always get the manifestation of that which you
consciously or unconsciously AFFIRM and CLAIM, habitually
declare and expect, or, in other words, “AS YOU SOW.”
Therefore, sow the seeds of—
I AM. . .I OUGHT TO DO. . .I CAN DO... I WILL DO.

Realize —that because you ARE you OUGHT to do;—that
because you OUGHT to, you CAN do;—that because you CAN
do, you DO do.
The manifestation of this truth, even in a small degree, gives

you the undisputable understanding that DOMINION IS
YOUR CHARTER RIGHT.
You are an heir of First Cause, endowed with all the power
He has.
God has given you everything. ALL is yours, and you know
that all you have to do is to reach out your mental hand and
take it.
This Formula may serve as a pattern to shape your own

Prayer or Affirmation into God for the benefit of another or
yourself.
If for another, you speak the Christian name of the person

you wish to help; then dismiss their personality entirely from
your consciousness.
Intensify your thought by meditating upon the fact that

there is that in you which finds the way, which is the Truth
and is the Life.
You are affirming this fact, believing that since you are
thinking this, it is already yours. Having lifted up your
feeling to the central idea of this meditation, you examine
your own consciousness and see if there is aught which is
unlike God.
If there is any feeling of fear, worry, malice, envy, hatred, or
jealousy turn back in your meditation to cleanse your
thought through the affirmation that God’s love and purity
fills all space, including your heart and soul.
Reconcile your thought with the love of God, always

remembering that:
You are made in the Image and Likeness of Love.
Keep this cleansing thought in mind until you feel that you
have freed your consciousness entirely of all thoughts and
feelings other than: Love and Unity with all Humanity.
Then if denials do not disturb you, deny all that is unlike

your desired manifestation. This accomplished, you almost
overlay your denial with the affirmative thought that You are
made in the Image and Likeness of God, and already have
your desire fulfilled in its first, its original thought-form.
Closing of prayer
Prayer as a method of thought is a deliberate use of the Law

which gives you the power of dominion over everything
which tends in any way to hamper your perfect liberty.
YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN LIFE THAT YOU MAY ENJOY IT MORE
AND MORE FULLY.
The steady recognition of this Truth makes you declare

yourself a PRINCE OF POWER.
You recognize, accept, and use this power as THE CHILD OF

A KING, AND HENCE DOMINION IS YOUR BIRTHRIGHT.
Then when you feel the light of this great truth flooding your
consciousness—open the flood-gates of your soul in heartfelt
praise because you have the understanding that THE
CREATOR AND HIS CREATION ARE ONE; also that the
Creator is continually creating through his creation.
Close your treatment in the happy assurance that the prayer

which is fulfilled is not a form of supplication, but a steady
habitual affirming that: “The Creator of all creation is
operating specifically through me,” therefore—
THE WORK MUST BE PERFECTLY DONE. YOUR MIND IS A
CENTER OF DIVINE OPERATION
Hints for application and Practice
For every five minutes given to reading and study of the

theories of Mental Science, spend fifteen minutes in the use
and application of the knowledge acquired.
1. Spend one minute in every twenty-four hours to

conscientiously thinking over the specification that must be
observed in order to have your prayers answered.
2. Practice the steady recognition of desirable thought

possession for two periods of fifteen minutes each every
day. Not only time yourself each period to see how long you
can keep a given conception before your mental vision, but
also keep a written record of the vividness with which you
experience your mental image. Remember that your mental
senses are just as varied and trainable as your physical
ones.
3. Spend five minutes every day between 12 noon and 1

o’clock with a mental research for new sources of wealth.
CHAPTER 17 ‐ Things to Remember
THAT the greatest Mental Scientist the world has ever known
(Jesus Christ, the Man) said all things are possible unto you.
Also, “the things I do, you can do.” Did he tell the truth?
Jesus did not claim to be more divine than you are.
He declared the whole human race children of God. By birth

he was no exception to this rule. The power He possessed
was developed through His personal effort. He said you
could do the same if you would only believe in yourself.
A great idea is valueless unless accompanied by physical

action. God gives the idea; man works it out upon the
physical plane.
All that is really worthwhile is contentment. Self-command

alone can produce it.
The soul and body are one. Contentment of mind is

contentment of soul, and contentment of soul means
contentment of body.
If you wish health, watch your thoughts, not only of your

physical being, but your thoughts about everything and
everybody. With your will, keep them in line with your
desire, and outwardly act in accordance with your thoughts,
and you will soon realize that all power both over thoughts
and conditions has been given to you.
You believe in God. Believe in yourself as the physical

instrument through which God operates.
Absolute dominion is yours when you have sufficient self-

mastery to conquer the negative tendency of thoughts and
actions.
Ask yourself daily: “What is the purpose of the Power which
put me here?”
“How can I work with the purpose for life and liberty in me?”
After having decided these questions, endeavor hourly to
fulfill them. You are a law unto yourself.
If you have a tendency to overdo anything: eat, drink, or

blame circumstances for your misfortunes, conquer that
tendency with the inward conviction that all power is yours.
Eat less, drink less, blame circumstances less, and the best
there is will gradually grow in the place where the worst
seemed to be.
Always remember that all is yours to use as you will. You

can if you will; if you will, you do.
God the Father blesses you with all He has to give. Make
good Godly use of it. The reason for greater success when
you first began your studies and demonstrations in Mental
Science was your joy and enthusiasm at the simple
discovery of Power within, which was greater than you were
able to put into your understanding later.
With increased understanding comes increasing joy and

enthusiasm, and the results will correspond.
The End
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Originally Published in 1921 by

Genevieve Behrend was the only personal student of

"Your Invisible Power" is a powerful, yet simple guide.

This book can teach you how to use the power of

Behrend says, "We all possess more power and greater

From 1912 to 1914, Genevieve Behrend’s life focused solely

As the awareness of “mental science” was taking shape,

After her studies with Troward, Behrend began her mission

THESE pages have been written for the purpose of furnishing

This presupposes, of course, that your desire for possession

One morning after class a man came to me and asked if I

I explained to him that money was the symbol of

Three days after I talked to you, a man whom I have not

The enclosed check is to help you continue your wonderful

A feeling that greater possessions, no matter of what kind

Therefore, it is here recommended that you should make the

It is also desired, in this volume, to suggest the possibilities

It has been my endeavor to show that by starting at the

However far these suggestions I have given—of the

If through the suggestions here given, any one is brought to

It must be steadfastly borne in mind that all this can be true

To insure this, there must be no inversion of the thought of

Genevieve Behrend. Los Angeles, California; May, 1929.

THE exercise of the visualizing faculty keeps your mind in

If you train yourself in the practice of deliberately picturing

Having reached a state of ordered mentality, you are no

You realize that since Order is Heaven’s first law, and

The conscious use of this great power attracts to you

A lady once came to me for help in selling a piece of

So far as the natural forces are concerned, nothing has

Troward tells us that the great lesson he learned from the

With such an example before you, you must realize that

A woman came to me in New York City, asking for help, as

That same afternoon she telephoned and said she could

We all knew that the balloon was the forefather of the

Study of aeronautics and laws of the aerial locomotion of

Professor Langley of Washington, who developed much of

But the Wright Brothers, who experimented later, realized

Those Wright Brothers knew what they wanted and kept

In visualizing, or making a mental picture, you are not

Your object in visualizing is to bring things into regular

Nothing can shake it.

You never feel that it is necessary to take anything from

THE power within you which enables you to form a thought-

Visualizing, or mentally seeing things and conditions as you

It illustrates the idea of the working of the Creative Spirit on

That is to say, you light up your desire with absolute faith

A woman came to me for help to cause her husband to

She asked what she should do to get her husband back

Her husband had come to her, begging her forgiveness, and

Visualizing without a will sufficiently steady to inhibit every

On the other hand, if your will is sufficiently developed to