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How I Arrraoctep to Myseur Twenty THousaND DoLuARS [* the laboratory of experience in which my newly revealed relation to the Divine op- eration 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 cen- ter 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 Tro- 55 YOUR INVISIBLE POWER ward. Twenty imaginary $1,000 bills were counted over each night in my bedroom, and then, with the idea of more emphatically im- pressing my mind with the fact that this twenty thousand dollars was for the purpose of going to England and studying with Tro- ward, I wrote out my picture, saw myself buy- ing my steamer ticket, walking up and down the ship’s deck from New York to London, and finally, saw myself accepted as Tro- ward’s pupil.

This process was repeated every morning and every evening, always im- pressing more and more fully upon my mind Troward’s memorized statement: ‘‘My mind is a center of Divine operations.’’ I endeav- ored 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 opera- tion. 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 56 YOUR INVISIBLE POWER 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 im- mediately all the tension of mind and body was relaxed. There was a feeling of abso- lute 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 expand- ing until everything about me seemed aglow with resplendent light.