Law of Attraction Classics: Your Invisible Power How I Attracted
Twenty Thousand Dollars Genevieve Behren
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...What if you got the opportunity to study as the sole student under the greatest mind alive? That's what Genevieve Behrend did, persuading Thomas Troward (Edinburgh Lectures) to take her on - using solely the power of the Law of Attraction. In this excerpt from her book, Invisible Power, Behrend tells us how that power worked for her to change her life (attracting $20,000 so she could travel to Troward and support herself while a student) - and actually continues to work for you to get you whatever you want in life......
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In the laboratory of |
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experience in which my newly |
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There was a feeling of |
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We must not fly in the face of |
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revealed relation to Divine |
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absolute certainty of being in |
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the Law expecting it to do for |
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operation was to be tested, |
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touch with all the power Life |
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us what it can only do through |
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the first problem was a |
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has to give. |
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us; and we must therefore use |
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financial one. |
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our intelligence with the |
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All thought of money, teacher, |
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knowledge that it is acting as |
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My income was a stipulated |
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or even my own personality, |
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the instrument of a greater |
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one, quite enough for my |
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vanished in the great wave of |
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intelligence; and because we |
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everyday needs. |
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joy which swept over my entire |
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have this knowledge we may and |
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being. |
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should cease from all anxiety |
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But it did not seem sufficient |
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as to the final result. |
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to enable me to go comfortably |
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I walked on and on with this |
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to England where Troward |
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feeling of joy steadily |
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In actual practice we must |
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lived, and remain for an |
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increasing and expanding until |
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first form the ideal |
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indefinite period to study |
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everything about me seemed |
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conception of our object with |
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with so great a teacher as he |
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aglow with resplendent light. |
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the definite intention of |
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must be. |
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impressing it upon the |
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Every person I passed was |
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universal mind it is this |
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So before inquiring whether |
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illuminated as I was. |
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thought that takes such |
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Troward took pupils or whether |
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thought out of the region of |
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I would be eligible in case he |
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All consciousness of |
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mere casual fancies and then |
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did, I began to use the |
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personality had disappeared, |
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affirm that our knowledge of |
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paragraph I had memorized. |
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and in its place there came |
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the Law is sufficient reason |
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that great and almost |
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for a calm expectation of a |
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Daily, in fact, almost hourly, |
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overwhelming sense of joy and |
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corresponding result, and that |
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the words were in my mind "My |
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contentment. |
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therefore all necessary |
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mind is a center of Divine |
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conditions will come to us in |
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operation, and Divine |
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That night when I made my |
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due order. |
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operation means expansion into |
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picture of the twenty thousand |
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something better than has gone |
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dollars it was with an |
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We can then turn to the |
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before. " |
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entirely changed aspect. |
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affairs of our daily life with |
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the calm assurance that the |
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From the Edinburgh Lectures I |
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On previous occasions, when |
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initial conditions are either |
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had read something about the |
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making my mental picture, I |
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there already or will soon |
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Law of Attraction, and from |
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had felt that I was waking up |
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come into view. |
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the Chapter of "Causes and |
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something within myself. |
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Conditions" I had gleaned a |
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If we do not at once see them, |
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vague idea of visualizing. |
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This time there was no |
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let us rest content with the |
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sensation of effort. |
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knowledge that the spiritual |
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So every night, before going |
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I simply counted over the |
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prototype is already in |
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to sleep, I made a mental |
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twenty thousand dollars. |
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existence and wait till some |
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picture of the desired $20,00. |
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circumstance pointing in the |
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0. Twenty $1,000 bills were |
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Then, in a most unexpected |
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desired direction begins to |
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counted over each night in my |
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manner, from a source of which |
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show itself. |
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bedroom, and then, with the |
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I had no consciousness at the |
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idea of more emphatically |
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time, there seemed to open a |
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It may be a very small |
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impressing my mind with the |
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possible avenue through which |
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circumstance, but it is the |
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fact that this twenty thousand |
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the money might reach me. |
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direction and not the |
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dollars was for the purpose of |
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magnitude that is to be taken |
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going to England and studying |
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At first it took great effort |
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into consideration. |
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with Troward, I wrote out my |
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not to be excited. |
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picture, saw myself buying my |
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As soon as we see it we should |
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steamer ticket, walking up and |
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It all seemed so wonderful, so |
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regard it as the first |
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down the ship's deck from New |
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glorious to be in touch with |
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sprouting of the seed sown in |
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York to London, and, finally, |
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supply. |
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the Absolute, and do calmly, |
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saw myself accepted as |
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and without excitement, |
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Troward's pupil. |
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But had not Troward cautioned |
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whatever the circumstances |
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his readers to keep all |
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seem to require, and then |
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This process was repeated |
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excitement out of their minds |
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later on we shall see that |
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every morning and every |
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in the first flush of |
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this doing will in turn lead |
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evening, always impressing |
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realization of union with |
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to a further circumstance in |
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more and more fully upon my |
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Infinite supply, and to treat |
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the same direction, until we |
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mind Troward's memorized |
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this fact as a perfectly |
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find ourselves conducted, step |
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statement "My mind is a center |
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natural result that had been |
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by step, to the accomplishment |
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of Divine operations. " |
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reached through our demand? |
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of our object. |
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I endeavored to keep this |
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This was even more difficult |
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In this way the understanding |
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statement in the back part of |
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for me than it was to hold the |
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of the great principle of the |
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my consciousness all the time |
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thought that "all the |
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Law of Supply will, by |
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with no thought in mind as how |
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substance there is, I am; I |
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repeated experiences, deliver |
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the money might be obtained. |
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(idea) am the beginning of all |
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us more and more completely |
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form, visible or invisible. " |
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out of the region of anxious |
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Probably the reason why there |
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thought and toilsome labor and |
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was no thought of the avenues |
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Just as soon as there appeared |
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bring us into a new world |
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through which the money might |
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a circumstance which indicated |
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where the useful employment of |
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reach me was because I could |
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the direction through which |
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all our powers, whether mental |
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not possibly imagine where the |
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the twenty thousand dollars |
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or physical, will only be an |
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$20,000 would come from. |
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might come, I not only made a |
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unfolding of our individuality |
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supreme effort to regard the |
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upon the lines of its own |
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So I simply held my thought |
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indicated direction calmly as |
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nature, and therefore a |
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steady and let the power of |
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the first sprout of the seed I |
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perpetual source of health and |
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attraction find its own ways |
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had sown in the absolute, but |
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happiness; a sufficient |
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and means. |
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left no stone unturned to |
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inducement, surely, to the |
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follow up that direction by |
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careful study of the laws |
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One day while walking on the |
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fulfilling my part. |
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governing the relation between |
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street, taking deep breathing |
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the individual and the |
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exercises, the thought came |
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By so doing one circumstance |
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Universal Mind. " |
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"My mind is surely a center of |
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seemed naturally to lead to |
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Divine operation. |
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another, until, step by step, |
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To my mind, then as now, this |
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my desired twenty thousand |
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quotation outlines the core |
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If God fills all space, then |
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dollars was secured. |
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and center of the method and |
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God must be in my mind also; |
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manner of approach necessary |
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if I want this money to study |
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To keep my mind poised and |
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for coming in touch with |
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with Troward that I may know |
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free from excitement was my |
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Infinite supply. |
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the truth of Life, then both |
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greatest effort. |
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the money and the truth must |
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At least it, together with the |
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be mine, though I am unable to |
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This first concrete fruition |
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previously quoted statement, |
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feel or see the physical |
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of my study of Mental Science |
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"My mind is a center of Divine |
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manifestations of either; |
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as expounded by Troward's book |
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operation," etc. , |
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still," I declared, "it must |
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had come by a careful |
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be mine. " |
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following of the methods he |
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constituted the only apparent |
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had outlined. |
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means of attracting to myself |
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While these reflections were |
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the twenty thousand dollars. |
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going on in my mind, there |
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In this connection, therefore, |
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seemed to come up from within |
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I can offer to the reader no |
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My constant endeavor to get |
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me the thought "I am all the |
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better gift than to quote |
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into the spirit of these |
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substance there is. " |
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Troward's book, "The Edinburgh |
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statements, and to attract to |
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Lectures," from which may be |
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myself this needed sum, was |
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Then, from another channel in |
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derived a complete idea of the |
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about six weeks, at the end of |
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my brain the answer seemed to |
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line of action I was |
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which time I had in my bank |
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come, "Of course, that's it; |
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endeavoring to follow. |
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the required twenty thousand |
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everything must have its |
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dollars. |
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beginning in mind. |
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In the chapter on Causes and |
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Conditions he says "To get |
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This could be made into a long |
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The "I" the Idea, must be the |
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good results we must properly |
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story, giving all the details, |
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only one and primary substance |
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understand our relation to the |
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but the facts, as already |
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there is, and this means money |
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great impersonal power we are |
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narrated, will give you a |
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as well as everything else. " |
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using. |
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definite idea of the magnetic |
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condition of my mind while the |
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My mind accepted this idea, |
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It is intelligent, and we are |
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twenty thousand dollars was |
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and immediately all the |
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intelligent, and the two |
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finding its way to me. |
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tension of mind and body was |
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intelligences must co operate. |
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relaxed. |
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mind
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twenty
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money
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