by Genevieve Behrend
Chapter 5 of 6 • 187 min read • Published 1921
How to Brina tHE Power in Your Worp Into Action | every word you use, there is a power germ which expands and projects itself in the direction your word indicates, and ulti- mately develops into physical expression. For example, you wish the consciousness of joy.
Repeat the word ‘‘joy’’ secretly, per- sistently 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 obser- vation of facts.
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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 with- 73 YOUR INVISIBLE POWER out, through the external senses, or from within, by the consciousness of something not perceptible on the physical plane.
The recog- nition of this interior source of stimulus en- ables you to bring into your consciousness any state you desire.’’ Once a thing seems nor- mal 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 de- stroys. ‘‘Only believe, and all things are possible unto you.’’ It is Faith that gives you dominion over every adverse cireum- stance or condition.
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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 Cre- ative 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 your- self Master of every adverse circumstance or condition, for you will become a Prince of Power. 74 YOUR INVISIBLE POWER How to Inorzase Your Farr 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 corre- sponding vitality, and the vitality in the word of Faith you use causes it to take correspond- ing physical form. Even intense fear is alive with faith. You fear smallpox because you believe it possible for you to contract it.
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You fear poverty and loneliness because you be- lieve 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.
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