How to make our mental pictures come true - A series of easy lessons in the art of visualizing #559653

AMONG the imaginative stories of our childhood days, who does not recall the charm which Aladdin and his wonderful lamp held for us? How marvelous were the things which came to pass each time that he rubbed it! How often in our childish imagination did we wish for just such a wonder-lamp which would provide us with all the things which our hearts desired! Yet this fancy of childhood is father to a wonderful scientific fact possible of being demonstrated mentally, and of being universally used to satisfy every re‐ quirement of the human heart. We are each one of us a mental wonder-lamp manifesting a form of power more marvelous than ever was the light which shone from Aladdin's lamp. What is this form of power of which we speak? For want of something more comprehensive we call it the visualizing power of the mind. Yet it is more than this. Its action involves a whole series of manifestations. We observe that it for‐ mulates, differentiates, specializes, chemicalizes and projects itself in us and through us, so that by means of it our hearts' desires are formed into thoughtimages, and then by a further process of differentiation and specialization they are projected and materialized until they become the visible objects of our out‐ wardly visible world. What do we know about the nature of this form of mental power? Very little. It is barely as yet within the grasp of our comprehension. But we have taken cognizance of its operation and results just as we have of electricity, radio-activ‐ ity and other forms of power. In what manner does it operate? The question is best answered by observing its inner- conscious, inter-conscious and objectively unconscious working in us and through us. In our lives we have noted very definitely that certain things which we have strongly desired and held as thought-images in our consciousness, have after a time "come true." From the seemingly invisible side of things they have made their appearance on the outwardly visible side of things. This is not a miracle. It is not some rare phenomenon. It is not even unusual. It is simply the normal continuous, unconscious functioning of this form of power.