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"My mind is a centre of Divine operation." - This phrase from one of Thomas Troward's lectures set Geneviève Behrend for her seach for mental science. How to Attract to Yourself the Things You Desire — Relation between Mental & Physical Form — Operation of Your Mental Picture — Suggestions for Making Your Mental Picture — Things to Remember — Why I Took Up the Study of Mental Science — How I Attracted To Myself Twenty Thousand Dollars — How I Became the Only Personal Pupil of the Greatest Mental Scientist of the Present Day — How to Bring the Power in Your Word into Action - How to Increase Your Faith — How to Make Nature Respond to You — Faith with Works — What It Has Accomplished — Suggestions as to How to Pray or Ask, Believing You Have Already Received "Mein Unterbewusstsein ist ein Zentrum des göttlichen Wirkens." Dieser Satz aus einem Vortrag von Thomas Troward veranlasste Geneviève Behrend, sich eingehend mit Geisteswissenschaften zu befassen. Wie Sie das Gewünschte anziehen - Die Beziehung zwischen mentaler und physischer Gestalt - Die Wirkungsweise Ihres Wunschbildes - Vorschläge für die Ausgestaltung Ihres mentalen Wunschbildes - Was Sie beachten sollten - Was mich zum Studium der Geisteswissenschaft brachte -Wie ich zu 20.000 Dollar kam - Wie ich die einzige Schülerin Trowards wurde - Wie Sie der Macht Ihres Wortes Ausdruck verleihen - Wie Sie Ihre Glaubensfähigkeit festigen - Wie Sie dafür sorgen, dass die Natur auf Sie reagiert - Was tätiger Glaube bewirkt hat - Empfehlungen darüber, wie Sie beten oder bitten - Das Prinzip, auf dem wissenschaftliches Beten beruht - Wohlstand über den schöpferischen Prozess - Ursache und Wirkung mit Bezug auf das Erhalten Empfehlungen für die praktische Anwendung
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IHREUNSICHTBARE MACHT
Autorin:
Geneviève Behrend
Titelbildgestaltung:
Vaughan Davidson
Übertragung aus dem Amerikanischen:
Benno Schmid-Wilhelm
Verlag:
tredition GmbH
Halenreie 40 - 44
D-22359 Hamburg
ISBN:
Taschenbuch: 978-3-7469-4463-0
Gedruckte Ausgabe mit Lesebändchen: 978-3-7469-4464-7
E-Book: 978-3-7469-4465-4
Dieses Buch enthält auf den Seiten 1 bis 71 das englischsprachige Original und auf den Seiten 72 bis 164 die entsprechende deutsche Übersetzung.
YOUR INVISIBLE POWER
by:
Geneviève Behrend
Cover Design:
Vaughan Davidson
Editing and Translation into German
Benno Schmid-Wilhelm [email protected]
Published by:
tredition GmbH
Halenreie 40 - 44
D-22359 Hamburg
ISBN:
Paperback: 978-3-7469-4463-0
Hardcover: 978-3-7469-4464-7
E-Book: 978-3-7469-4465-4
This book contains the original version on the pages 1 through 71 and its German translation on the pages 72 through 164.
Über die Autorin
Geneviève Behrend (1881 bis 1960) wurde in Paris geboren. Spätere Lebensjahre verbrachte sie zwar in den USA, ihr Mentor Thomas Troward (https://goo.gl/6XXKQT ) war jedoch Engländer, weshalb wir für die englische Fassung britisches Englisch gewählt haben.
Außer der Tatsache, dass ein Elternteil der Autorin aus Schottland stammte, und dass sie nach dem Tode ihres Ehemannes ausgedehnte Reisen durchführte, ist über Geneviève Behrends Anfangsjahre kaum etwas bekannt.
Ihr Einstieg in geisteswissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse begann bei der „Christlichen Wissenschaft“, einer 1866 von Mary Baker Eddy begründeten Lehre, welche von der Gründerin als eine Besinnung auf das Urchristentum und auf verloren gegangene Heilmethoden beschrieben wurde. Dieser einzig und allein auf dem Gebet beruhende Ansatz vermochte Geneviève Behrend jedoch nicht zu überzeugen.
Inspiriert von einem Vortragstext Trowards, den sie in einem seiner Bücher fand, entstand in ihr der Wunsch, bei diesem ehemaligen Bezirksrichter und Metaphysiker zu studieren; allerdings besaß sie nicht genügend Geld, um die Reise von New York ins englische Cornwall anzutreten, und etwa zwei Jahre lang ohne Einkommen auszukommen. Sie stellte sich deshalb Nacht für Nacht vor dem Einschlafen bildhaft vor, wie sie zwanzig Ein-Tausend-Dollar-Noten abzählte.
Diese zwanzigtausend Dollar brauchte sie, um die Schiffsreise nach England zu bezahlen, und als Schülerin Trowards angenommen zu werden. Troward hatte bis dahin niemals persönliche Schüler akzeptiert, und war auch Frau Behrend gegenüber diesbezüglich anfangs nicht aufgeschlossen. Die näheren Umstände finden sich in diesem Buch.
Ihre Visualisierungsübungen vertiefte sie mit der ständigen Affirmation:
„Mein Unterbewusstseinist das Zentrum göttlichen Wirkens“.
Schließlich gelang es ihr, zwischen 1912 und 1914 bei Thomas Troward zu studieren.
Nach Beendigung dieser Studien gründete sie etwa 1915 in New York die „School of the Builders“. Diese leitete sie bis 1925 selbst. Anschließend gründete sie eine weitere Schule in Los Angeles, und danach folgten fünfunddreißig Jahre, in denen sie als Vortragsrednerin und geisteswissenschaftliche Lehrerin quer durch die USA reiste, und auch im Rundfunk zu hören war.
Geneviève Behrend gelang es meisterhaft, Trowards Lehren sehr anschaulich zu vermitteln. Das vorliegende Werk kann Ihnen helfen, die Macht der geistigen Visualisierung und andere metaphysische Abläufe praxisorientiert zu erlernen. Jeder Mensch verfügt potenziell über mehr Macht, als ihm bewusst ist. Gerade die Macht der Visualisierung bringt unsere Möglichkeiten ins Blickfeld.
About the Author
Geneviève Behrend (1881 - 1960) was born in Paris. While she spent her later years in the United States of America, her mentor, Thomas Troward, was an Englishman which is the reason why the English-language part of this book uses British spelling.
Besides the fact that one of her parents was Scottish and that she travelled extensively after her husband died, there is little known about Geneviève Behrend’s early years.
Her initiation into metaphysics started with the Christian Science, a set of beliefs founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866, and described by its founder as “a return to primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing”. This approach, based on prayer alone, did not convince Mrs Behrend; she, therefore, ultimately left that faith.
Inspired by a lecture that she found in one of Troward’s books, she desired to study with the retired Divisional Judge and teacher of mental science. Yet, she lacked the money to afford the journey by sea to Cornwall and to live for about two years without income during that period of time.
So every night and morning Geneviève Behrend visualised with feeling counting out twenty $1,000 bills. These $ 20,000 represented the amount of money she had calculated as necessary for her endeavour.
Mr. Troward had never accepted any personal pupil and, as is described in this book, also showed some initial resistance to accept Mrs. Behrend as a pupil.
She deepened her visualisation exercises by constantly affirming:
„My Mindis a Centre of Divine Operations“.
She finally managed to study with Thomas Troward from 1912 until 1914 as the only personal pupil he ever had.
After her studies in England, she founded a New Thought school called “The School of the Builders” in New York City, approximately in 1915, running it herself until 1925. She then founded a similar school in Los Angeles, after which she travelled throughout North America lecturing on mental science for thirty-five years, as well as giving radio broadcasts.
Geneviève Behrend presented the Troward philosophy at its best. This book can teach you how to use your power of visualisation as if your wish had already been granted on the physical level, as well as other processes taught by Thomas Troward.
Each of us possesses more inner power and greater possibilities that we realise. Visualising is one these secrets. It brings other possibilities to our observation.
Table of Contents
Imprint
About Mrs Geneviève Behrend
Foreword
Chapter 1:
Order of Visualisation
Chapter 2:
How to attract to yourself the things you desire
Chapter 3:
Relation between mental and physical form
Chapter 4:
Operation of your mental picture
Chapter 5:
Expression from beginners
Chapter 6:
Suggestions for making your mental picture
Practical Visualisation Exercise
Chapter 7:
Things to remember
Chapter 8:
Why I took up the study of Mental Science
Chapter 9:
How I attracted to myself 20,000 dollars
Chapter 10:
How I became Thomas Troward’s only personal pupil
Chapter 11:
How to bring the power in your word into action
Chapter 12:
How to increase your faith
Chapter 13:
The reward of increased faith
Chapter 14:
How to make Nature respond to you
Chapter 15:
Faith with works - what is has accomplished
Chapter 16:
Suggestions as to how to pray or ask
The principle underlying scientific prayer
To get rich through creation
Cause and effect in reference to getting
Closing of prayer
Hints for application and practise
Chapter 17:
Things to remember
Foreword
These pages have been written for the purposes 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 that 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. 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 visualisation, 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 meditationshould be without strain or tension!
It has been my endeavour 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 you of the possibilities in store for you, through visualising, 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 anyone is brought to realise that his or her mind is a centre 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 only be true for the individual who recognises that he or she derives his/her power to make an abiding mental picture from the All-Originating Universal Spirit of Life (“God”), 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 or her relationship to this Universal Originating Spirit which is that of a son or daughter, 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 as you wish them to be as existing facts (though invisible to the physical eye), and live in your picture. An honest endeavour to do this, always recognising 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.
Geneviève Behrend,Los Angeles, California, May, 1929.
Chapter 1
Order of Visualisation
The exercise of the visualising 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 it, you will soon find that your thought and desires come and proceed in 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 visualise your heart’s desire and hold it with your will, it attracts to you all things requisite to the fulfilment of that picture by the harmonious vibrations of the law of attraction.
You realise that since Order is Heaven’s first law, and visualisation places things in their natural element, then it must be a heavenly thing to visualise. Everyone visualises, whether they know it or not.
Visualizing is the great secret of Success.
The conscious use of this great power attracts to you greatly multiplied resources, intensifies your wisdom, and enables you to make use of advantages which you formerly failed to recognise.
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 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, and the working of an idea to its logical conclusion in spite of accumulated testimony of all past experience.
With such an example before you, can you not realise that still greater secrets may 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, 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 position she wanted. The employer told her she had been wanting a woman like her for months.
We all know 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 atmospheric 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 the laws of 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 was subjected to much derision when he sent a model airplane up only to have it bury its nose in the muddy water of the Potomac.
But the Wright Brothers, who experimented in the latter part of the Nineteenth Century, realised the possibility of travelling 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 experiments 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. In visualising, or making a mental picture, you are not endeavouring to change the laws of Nature. You are fulfilling them.
Your object in visualising is to bring things into regular order both mentally and physically.
When you realise 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 receiving and finding as their correlatives.
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 forms the mould (so to speak) into which this formless substance takes shape.
Visualising (or mentally seeing things and conditions as you wish them to be) is the condensing, the specialising power in you might be illustrated by comparison with the lens of a magic lantern.
The magic lantern is one of the best symbols of this imaging faculty. It illustrates the working oft he Creative Spirit on the plane of the initiative and selection (or in its concentrated specializing form) in a remarkably clear manner. This 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 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 re-united. 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 for 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.
Visualising without a will sufficiently steady to inhibit every thought and feeling contrary to your picture 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 realising that your thought is the great attracting power, then your mental picture is as certain to be projected upon the screen of your physical world as any pictured slide put into the best magic lantern ever made.
Try projecting the picture in a magic lantern with a light that is constantly shifting from one side to the other, and you will have the effect of an uncertain will. It is as necessary that you should always stand back of your picture with a strong, steady will, as it is to have a strong steady light back of a picture slide.
