Visualization is the process of making mental images, and the image is the mold or
model which will serve as a pattern from which your future will emerge.
Make the pattern clear, and make it beautiful; don't be afraid — make it grand.
Remember that no limitation can be placed upon you by any one but yourself;
you are not limited as to cost or material; draw on the Infinite for your supply,
construct it in your imagination; it will have to be there before it will ever appear
anywhere else.
Make the image clear and clean-cut, hold it firmly in the mind and you will gradually
and constantly bring the thing nearer to you.
You can be what you will to be.
This is another psychological fact which is well known, but unfortunately reading
about it will not bring about any result which you may have in mind; it will not
even help you to form the mental image, much less bring it into manifestation.
Work is necessary — labor, hard mental labor, the kind of effort which so few are
willing to put forth.
The first step is idealization.
It is likewise the most important step, because it is the
plan on which you are going to build.
It must be solid; it must be permanent.
The architect, when he plans a 30-story building,
has every line and detail pictured in advance.
The engineer, when he spans a chasm, first ascertains the strength requirements
of a million separate parts.
They see the end before a single step is taken; so you are to picture in your mind
what you want; you are sowing the seed, but before sowing any seed you want to
know what the harvest is to be.
This is Idealization.
If you are not sure, return to the chair daily until the picture becomes
plain.
It will gradually unfold — first the general plan will be dim, but it will take
shape, the outline will take form, then the details, and you will gradually develop the
power by which you will be enabled to formulate plans which will eventually materialize
in the objective world.
You will come to know what the future holds for you.
Then comes the process of visualization.
You must see the picture more and more complete, see the detail, and as the details
begin to unfold the ways and means for bringing it into manifestation will develop.
One thing will lead to another.
Thought will lead to action, action will develop methods, methods will develop
friends, and friends will bring about circumstances, and finally, the third step, or
Materialization, will have been accomplished.
We all recognize that the Universe must have been thought into shape before
it ever could have become a material fact.
And if we are willing to follow along the lines of the Great Architect of the Universe,
we shall find our thoughts taking form, just as the universe took concrete form.
It is the same mind operating through the individual.
There is no difference in kind or quality, the only difference
is one of degree.
The architect visualizes his building, he sees it as he wishes it to be.
His thought becomes a plastic mould from which the building
will eventually emerge, a high one or a low one, a beautiful one or a plain
one, his vision takes form on paper and eventually the necessary material is utilized
and the building stands complete.
The inventor visualizes his idea in exactly the same manner.
For instance, Nikola Tesla, he with the giant intellect, one of
the greatest inventors of all ages, the man who has brought forth the most amazing realities,
always visualizes his inventions before attempting to work them out.
He does not rush to embody them in form and then spend his time in correcting defects.
Having first built up the idea in his imagination, he holds it there as a mental
picture, to be reconstructed and improved by his thought.
"In this way," he writes in the Electrical Experimenter,
"I am enabled to rapidly develop and perfect a conception without touching anything.
When I have gone so far as to embody in the invention every possible improvement
I can think of, and see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete the product
of my brain.
Invariably my devise works as I conceived it should; in twenty
years there has not been a single exception."
If you can conscientiously follow these directions, you will develop Faith, the
kind of Faith that is the "Substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things
not seen;" you will develop confidence, the kind of confidence that leads to endurance
and courage; you will develop the power of concentration which will
enable you to exclude all thoughts except the ones which are associated with your
purpose.
The law is that thought will manifest in form, and only one who knows how to be
the divine thinker of his own thoughts can ever take a Master's place and speak
with authority.
Clearness and accuracy are obtained only by repeatedly having the image in
mind.
Each repeated action renders the image more clear and accurate than the
preceding, and in proportion to the clearness and accuracy of the image will the
outward manifestation be.
You must build it firmly and securely in your mental
world—the world within—before it can take form in the world without, and you
can build nothing of value even in the mental world unless you have the proper
material.
When you have the material you can build anything you wish, but make
sure of your material.
You cannot make broadcloth from shoddy.
This material will be brought out by millions of silent mental workers and fashioned
into the form of the image which you have in mind.
Think of it!
You have over five million of these mental workers, ready and in
active use—brain cells they are called.
Besides this, there is another reserve force of at least an equal number, ready to be called
into action at the slightest need.
Your power to think, then, is almost unlimited, and this means that your power to
Create the kind of material which is necessary to build for yourself any kind of
environment which you desire is practically unlimited.
In addition to these millions of mental workers, you have billions of mental workers
in the body, every one of which is endowed with sufficient intelligence to understand
and act upon any message or suggestion given.
These cells are all busy creating and recreating the body, but, in
addition to this, they are endowed with psychic activity whereby they can attract
to themselves the substance necessary for perfect development.
They do this by the same law and in the same manner that every form of life attracts
to itself the necessary material for growth.
The oak, the rose, the lily—all require certain material for their most perfect
expression and they secure it by silent demand, the Law of Attraction, the
most certain way for you to secure what you require for your most complete development.
Make the Mental Image.
Make it clear, distinct, perfect; hold it firmly; the ways
and means will develop; supply will follow the demand; you will be led to do the
right thing at the right time and in the right way.
Earnest Desire will bring about Confident Expectation, and this in turn must
be reinforced by Firm Demand.
These three cannot fail to bring about Attainment, because the Earnest Desire is
the feeling, the Confident Expectation is the thought, and the Firm Demand is
the will, and, as we have seen, feeling gives vitality to thought and the will holds it
steadily until the Law of Growth brings it into manifestation.
Is it not wonderful that man has such tremendous power within himself, such
transcendental faculties concerning which he had no conception?
Is it not strange that we have always been taught to look for
strength and power "without?"
We have been taught to look everywhere but "within"
and whenever this power manifested in our lives we were told that it was something
supernatural.
There are many who have come to an understanding of this wonderful power,
and who make serious and conscientious efforts to realize health, power, and
other conditions, and seem to fail.
They do not seem able to bring the Law into operation.
The difficulty in nearly every case is that they are dealing with externals.
They want money, power, health, and abundance, but they fail to realize that
these are effects and can come only when the cause is found.
Those who will give no attention to the world without, "will seek only to ascertain
the truth, will look only for wisdom, will find that this wisdom will unfold and disclose
the source of all power, that it will manifest in thought and purpose which
will create the external conditions desired.
This truth will find expression in noble purpose and courageous action."
Create ideals only.
Give no thought to external conditions.
Make the world within beautiful and opulent and the world without
will express and manifest the condition which you have made within.
You will come into a realization of your power to create ideals and these ideals will be
projected into the world of effect.
For instance, a man is in debt.
He will be continually thinking about the debt,
concentrating on it, and as thoughts are causes the result is that he not only fastens
the debt closer to him, but actually creates more debt.
He is putting the great Law of Attraction into operation with the
usual and inevitable result—Loss leads to greater "Loss."
What, then, is the correct principle?
Concentrate on the things you want, not on the things you do not want.
Think of abundance; idealize the methods and plans
for putting the Law of Abundance into operation.
Visualize the condition which the Law of Abundance creates—this will result
in manifestation.
If the law operates perfectly to bring about poverty, lack, and every form of
limitation for those who are continually entertaining thoughts of lack and fear, it
will operate with the same certainty to bring about conditions of abundance and
opulence for those who entertain thoughts of courage and power.
This is a difficult problem for many; we are too anxious; we manifest anxiety, fear,
distress; we want to do something; we want to help; we are like a child who has
just planted a seed and every fifteen minutes goes out and stirs up the earth to see
if it is growing.
Of course, under such circumstances, the seed will never germinate,
and yet this is exactly what many of us do in the mental world.
We must plant the seed and leave it undisturbed.
This does not mean that we are to sit down and do nothing, by no means; we
will do more and better work than we have ever done before.
New channels will constantly be provided, new doors
will open—all that is necessary is to have an open mind.
Be ready to act when the time comes.
Thought force is the most powerful means of obtaining knowledge, and if concentrated
on any subject will solve the problem.
Nothing is beyond the power of human comprehension, but in order to harness
thought force and make it do your bidding, work is required.
Remember that thought is the fire that creates the steam that turns the wheel of
fortune, upon which your experiences depend.
Now ask yourself a few questions and then reverently await the response: Do you not
now and then feel the self within you?
Do you assert this self or do you follow the majority?
Remember that majorities are always led, they never lead.
It was the majority that fought, tooth and nail, against
the steam engine, the power loom, and every other advance or improvement ever
suggested.
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