How to Make Our Mental Pictures Come True by George Schubel ebook

INTRODUCTION

by Genevieve Behrend

I FIND a definite joy in the fact that the first of George Schubel's series of books on visualizing has been put into printed form. There is a thirst for knowledge and an increasing need at the present day for books of this kind. Each day the study of mental science is becoming more and more resorted to by those persons who, discovering the futility of their struggle against the laws of our increasingly complex life of today, are learning to adjust themselves, and to work with these laws. When this is done they find that they are working in harmony with a power which enables them to accomplish what otherwise would be seemingly impossible things.

To those who are but slightly acquainted with the universal truths of applied mental science, I recommend this book. The author was one of my early students, and his own wonderful prosperity and success in business and financial affairs is, to my mind, the best demonstration of the facts which he offers to others in this present volume. He has given us a clear, analytical exposition of visualizing, and any imagined veil of mysticism which may have surrounded this subject in the past, has been removed under the strong and comprehensive light which he has thrown upon it.

In my own experience, visualizing for practical purposes came as an inspiration after reading Judge Troward's works on Mental Science. It provided the necessary means for my sojourn in England and my extensive studies as Troward's personal pupil, and, in the six years of my work in New York I have demonstrated the practicability of this power with most remarkable results personally and for others.

Visualizing is nothing more than the process of the impersonal, universal, unspecialized, undifferentiated Mind seeing itself into the specialized, the concrete, and the particular; bringing the inward seemingly unseen universe with all its multitudinous and ever-shaping forms into outwardly visible existence. It is a specialized operation from a specific center for the specific purpose of bringing substance into outward concrete form, and all that is necessary is for us to personalize this power for our particular needs.

When thus deliberately applied, visualizing can be made to do away with hospitals, asylums, prisons, charitable homes, and institutions now devoted to the correction of poverty, disease and crime. The desire of each individual heart whether for health, wealth, love, harmony, peace, beauty, happiness or whatever other form of good may be sought, can be materialized into the outward without breaking a single law of society, without injury to oneself or anyone else, or without taking anything away from anybody else.

Visualizing serves as the means of a never-ending source of supply for all. We are able to get all that we want out of the everywhere of substance from which our pictures take form. The limitlessness of what we may have out of this unlimited immensity is proportioned only by the limit of our own consent to or recognition of these resources.

In conclusion may I say that the time will come when visualizing will be taught in the schools and universities of the world as a natural science, thereby providing a single, direct and orderly means for securing all those things of life which we need for our welfare and happiness here. It is the greatest effort and time saver that has so far come to the consciousness of man because by means of it, depending upon our ability of application, we can see into materialization all those good things which we now obtain by such laborious mental and manual efforts.

PART ONE —MECHANICS OF VISUALIZING

CHAPTER 1

PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE MIND

IN establishing a basis for the study of visualizing, we can think of no more simple beginning than to compare it to photography.

The theory, the mechanical principles and the technique applying to both are the same. Visualizing is the inner process, while photography merely is the outer process. Or we can say that the one is the hidden process, the other is the hidden process revealed.

In visualizing, a method of mental operation is employed which brings into play a group of principles operating innerly in mind; photography employs a method of operation which brings into play this same group of principles, the difference being that they are operating outwardly in reproducing outward things.

The various mental movements necessary in reproducing the thought-images or mental objects of our consciousness are no different as we shall see from the various movements necessary on the part of the photographer in reproducing an outer object.

Briefly stated, visualizing is an inner application of certain principles of which we can become cognizant by observing the corresponding outer application which we call photography. In fact, photography is visualizing made outwardly visible to our objective senses, it is visualizing visualized into outward form so that outward things can be reproduced for us in the same manner in which they are reproduced in the mind. Hence, if we begin our studies by an understanding of the theory and working processes of photography, we will begin to understand the theory and working processes involved in mental-photography, and at the same time we will lay the basis for an exact and definite science of visualizing which will serve us at all times and for every purpose.

We know that when we apply the principles of photography; when we operate the mechanical parts of the camera — the lens, the range-finder, the shutter, in a certain way; and when we apply the proper chemical elements in a proper manner, then we are able to reproduce an object with unerring accuracy. So with the mental-mechanical and chemical principles and faculties involved in reproducing our desires and thought-images. When we apply them correctly we will get outward results that are just as definite, just as truthful, just as accurate reproductions as those produced by the intelligent photographer.

Of course, diligent study and application are necessary. The photographer could not be successful in his reproductions if he were not completely familiar with the essentials and methods involved in reproducing objects, and in the same manner we must be completely familiar with the essentials and methods involved in visualizing if we are to expect the same positive results. The law of cause and effect applies here as elsewhere.

In addition, we need to believe in the outcome of our work. Somewhat later we will touch more fully upon this point. Let us simply say here that we do not disbelieve the fact of photography; we do not doubt that its employment will bring about certain definite results in the matter of reproduction. So, as we go forward in our studies we will find that there is as little occasion to disbelieve the fact of visualizing, or to doubt that its employment in our affairs will bring about just as definite results.

For the present it is sufficient to believe that everything into which our desire can fashion itself already exists and has always existed as a paradigm in the pattern-mind of the Infinite, otherwise it could not be conceived or formulated in our own mind as an object We can refer to photography itself, for instance, to make this more clear. The camera first of all had to be an object in someone's mind before it took outward form. Some one thought of it, or in other words pictured it before it could be assembled in the form of a camera which we can touch and see. So with all the other devices which are a part of photography.

If then, the camera and all the other essentials of photography can reproduce and out-picture the object toward which they are directed, how much more easily is it possible for the inner photographic equipment of the mind under like suitable conditions to reproduce and out-picture the object of our hearts' desire toward which it is directed by means of proper thinking.