CHAPTER
II
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 the to be,
is thecondensing, 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
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