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If we wish to realize any desired result, we must
see it coming. We must visualize it, for visualization is
the seed of creation. All nature is subject to the necessity
of visualization.
The best of life come from constructive
visualization. By it, you bring into material manifestation,
your own world, your own environment. By it, you call on the
universal mind for supply. Your Father's storehouse is full
of things that you desire, and messengers loaded with blessings
are ready to start from that storehouse at your call.
Christ visualized his requirements; then gave
thanks that they were on the way. He had no doubt that his
desires would be fulfilled.
It is by visualization that realization
comes. By visualization your destiny is shaped. It is
not chance that creates or guides your destiny. It is
painted by the brushes of visualization and in no other way.
Applied steam or electricity, and all the manifold blessings
enjoyed by man were brought to the material world by
thought. First an idea, a vision, then a material creation,
or manifestation.
Take the locomotive as an example. The
mechanical engineer is instructed to build a locomotive of a
certain power to pull a given load. As he works over the
problem, his mind in reality takes mental trips to the region of
the unseen. Imagination is the aeroplane that transports
him. At last he sees the locomotive as a mental picture; his
plans and specifications go to the works and his vision becomes a
material realization and a thing of life. This material locomotive
is not the real locomotive, for it can be
destroyed. The real locomotive was the one that was
visualized by the mind of the engineer. That cannot be
destroyed. The real locomotive was the one that was
visualized by the mind of the engineer. That cannot be
destroyed.
Before earth was created, that locomotive was
waiting to be constructed, seen and used by man. It was this
truth that St. Paul alluded to when he said the things seen are
the unreal and temporal, and the things unseen, the real and
eternal. In the case of the locomotive, Nature has its part
in the building, for it created the material from which it was
made. Man also has Nature as a helper in the renewal of his
body. If he can visualize youth as the engineer visualized
the perfect locomotive, then his helpers will build his body
according to visualization.
The constant visualization of age creates age,
with its attendant disability. The body has no power of
itself to create. Nature lends its power to help you to live
by the process of renewal, building and rebuilding cell after
cell. Nature is ever making all things new. Every few
years the body is entirely rebuilt, but, always, according to the
plan you have visualized. If you visualize advancing age,
you will grow old. If you visualize in terms of youth, you
will realize accordingly. Think youth and you stay young,
for the thought of youth is youth.
In the Rockefeller Institute is a chicken's heart
that science has kept alive for nine years and, theoretically at
least, will remain alive indefinitely. It is increasing in
size and constantly rebuilds itself. It is a wonderful
illustration of the renewing power of life. What would man's
years be if youth were constantly visualized with the same power
of thought exerted in constantly visualizing age, decrepitude, and
death? Health, wealth and success must first be visualized
if we desire these blessings. Constant, unwavering
visualization will bring them, not demands given one day and
countermanded the next; not faith one day and doubt the next.
Do not speak the word and in the next breath deny its power by
visualizing something that contradicts it.
Visualization must be clear and persistent,
otherwise our dreams will be merely a treadmill of thought, never
arriving at the desired goal. You may think you can hire a
substitute to do this thinking for you, but it is personal work
that counts. Some argue that visualization is only repetition
and that they grow tired of repetition. They forget that
taking daily baths is repetition; that indulging in three meals a
day is repetition; that sleep each night is repetition. In
fact, repetition is the order of the day, so why should daily
visualization of the things desired to be considered
arduous. It is the very best investment to be made of
time. Nothing happens by chance. All is law and you
create your own law every time you think.
Visualization and Realization are the highways to
prosperity, health and long life. Eternal vigilance is the
price of success.
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