If, now, we will couple with the foregoing facts the further truth that our dream passes into thought, our thought into act and objective form, and that "we are what we think," we shall have the sure foundation for a definite method in demonstration. This is the method of visualization.n5571 ¶1
Let us suppose you want a new home. The case of a friend will illustrate the principle. He desired a better home and one more worthy of his culture and increasing capacities. He believed in his power to bring to him the good he sought and set himself definitely to work. He began to picture the kind of house he wanted. He saw it large and commodious. Here were the broad steps and the wide veranda. He mentally entered through the oak-paneled door into the attractive reception-room. He saw the rich rugs on the floor, the warm fireplace at one side, and the upholstered chairs. Then he saw himself as the master of the house, dressed in perfect taste and comfort, descending the handsome stairway on the right, and coming forward to greet a welcome guest. Thus he pictured himself in detail, living in the house of his imagination and enjoying its luxury. He saw himself as a man of affluence with money in his pocket sufficient for every need, and, in short, created by vision a new life for himself. Withiu a year's time, his dream was realized; and he stepped into the larger sphere which his faith had perfected. Truly, "the things that are seen are not made of that which doth appear!" " Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Whatsoever things ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye have received them and ye shall receive them."n5571 ¶2
Out of the invisible realms of spirit, out of that which from the physical side is ''nothing" but which from the spiritual side is "everything," out of that nothing into which science can entirely dissolve matter, and yet from which all matter proceeds,* man may draw his good by simply repeating the creative process ; and this is the work of vision.n5571 ¶3
You need have no fear for the issue, if you will but have faith in the power of visualization. Let your soul articulate in form. Perceive your good inwardly and claim it. If it is money you need, see yourself in possession of it. If it is a journey you wish to take, then venture out in vision. Vizualize the trip; go to Paris while still in London; visit Rome while still in Paris. But do not rest there. State firmly and with conviction, ' ' This is the picture of what is mine. Let it be brought forth in a completeness which is above my present scope of vision." Then it "shall be done unto you above all you ask or think."n5571 ¶4
*85ee Chapter II.n5571 ¶5