Bliss sounds good today!

"My mind is a center of Divine operation. The Divine operation is always for expansion and a fuller expression, and this means the production of something beyond what has gone before, something entirely new, not included in the past experience, though proceeding out of it by an orderly sequence of growth. Therefore, since the Divine cannot change its inherent nature, it must operate in the same manner in me; consequently, in my own special world, of which I am the center, it will move forward to produce new conditions, always in advance of that have gone before." Judge Thomas Troward


This is a very powerful passage from The Dore Lectures by a formative voice of the New Thought movement, Judge Troward. He describes in his lectures the vortex of energy we create with our thoughts, which acts as a magnet for the things we keep our minds on. This describes what we currently refer to as the Law of Attraction, your level of vibration is the level at which you attract experiences to you.

At first this may strike you as a bit frightening if you know you have been letting the negativity of the present economic ideas take hold in your mind. Empowering if you have taken control of the focus of your mind and placed your attention on the infinite power and abundance of the universe. Can you picture the outward expression of these two choices? I can and I'd rather imagine the latter.

I think of the number of leaves on an oak tree, just one old oak tree or the grains of sand on a beach, numbers big or small make no difference in the universal infinite. The abundance cannot be counted.

In 1912 Genevieve Behrend took herself to England to study with Troward. This cost her a few shillings as you might imagine, $20,000 to be exact. This is what she felt she needed to follow her dream to be his student. She used the quote above as her daily mantra for six weeks and manifested all that she needed to make her dream a reality. As they say, it works if you work it and Miss Behrend really workd it. You can read her story in a little book called 'Your Invisible Power.' In Religious Science we call it "treating ( treating our minds or affirming what is Divinely True ) and moving your feet." Miss Behrend returned to America and opened schools on both coasts. Belief must be expressed in manifestation otherwise it is useless knowledge we hold on an intellectual level. Believing, we must take the steps directly before us.

"It ( the great impersonal power ) is intelligent and we are intelligent, and the two intelligences must co-operate. We must not fly in the face of the Law expecting it to do for us what it can only do through us; and we must therefore use our intelligence with the knowledge that it is acting as the instrument of a greater intelligence; and because we have this knowledge we may and should cease from all anxiety as to the final result." Behrend