Mental Power Within Yourself

For the Development of Mental Power Within Yourself

Seat yourself in a chair, in your own room
if possible, or in one in which you will be
undisturbed. Take a positive position,
sitting upright, but comfortably, so that you
will be as unconscious of your body as
possible.

Now close your eyes and try to visualize
the room as a mental room, or one within
your mind in which you are going to fill full
of and confine the mental qualities of
Discrimination, Strength, the Power to
Concentrate, and Truth, for your future and
continuous use.

Then try to realize that you are actually a
center of God’s consciousness, for in His
consciousness we all live, move and have
our being; and that this mind which you call
your mind is a center or focal point of His
Mind – just as the consciousness of each
cell of your body is a center or focal point
of your mind – and that therefore deep
within your mind there must be always
present and ever available God’s Love,
Intelligence and Power; in fact, all that God
Is in His Consciousness.

Now try to “see” this Consciousness – the
Holy Love or Spirit of God – pouring forth
from deep within and flowing through and
radiating from you to all other centers of His
Consciousness as a brilliant White Light;
which Light in very truth is the Spiritual Self
to one who has the inner sight, for It is the
Light which lighteth every man that cometh
into the world. Therefore realize that you
are that Light, and that your mind being a
part of God’s Mind, you can consciously
and actually call forth from within that Mind
– if motivated and accompanied only by
unselfish Love – any needed quality, for in
It of course exist all God qualities.

Therefore “see” your Light ever shining and
going thus before you, lighting fully your
path and making everything so clear that
no possible shadow can intrude to deceive
or hinder your perfect spiritual sight and
hence your fullest understanding. This
gives true Discrimination.

Likewise, to your right see this Light
radiating and pouring forth from you into
the mental atmosphere of that part of your
room as the Strength of Divine Mind, ever
ready to support and sustain you in any
need, and to enable you to do anything you
wish to do.

While on your left see the great Light of
Truth likewise flowing forth to fill that part of
your mentality, so that whenever you need
to know anything, no matter what, it is ever
ready to flood your consciousness and to
make all clear to you.

And then back of you, see this great Light
from within pouring forth and filling that part
of your mentality with the Power to
concentrate and focus it, whenever you
want to direct your mind upon any given
idea or to any desired end.

Just see this Light as a mighty Power ever
back of you, waiting to pour through your
consciousness (as through a funnel) in
which is held the idea you wish clearly to
understand or the picture that you wish to
outmanifest – whenever you call upon this
Power to direct the Light of Divine Mind
upon it. See your intellect or visioning
faculty (located in the front of your mind
back of center of forehead) serving as a
lens to focus the Light and reflect the
perfect picture in the outer realms of
consciousness or of physical manifestation.

Just as the light pours through the small
lens of a magic lantern, when you turn on
the electric power, and throws the picture
on the plate upon the screen, so will this
Power, when you thus consciously direct it
with intense purpose, cause the Light, Life
and Substance of Divine Mind to pour into
and through the idea or picture you are
holding in your mind and will outmanifest it
either as a perfect knowing or as the
fulfillment of your desire.

Study this last carefully and prove it, for it
can be used to acquire any needed
wisdom, power or ability, or to create and
make manifest any righteous thing or
condition. But be very sure you have the
approval of your Higher Self of that which
you wish manifested; for it should never be
attempted unless inspired by a loving
desire to help someone or to fit yourself for
the Father’s use.

This rounds out your mentality, filling it full
of those qualities that you want ever
available for use. Any other qualities can be
similarly brought forth and made available.
The practice of actually calling forth these
qualities from within you and “seeing” them
surrounding you and filling your mental
room, thereby creates an aura that will
always surround and protect you. For it will
be of such high vibration, because of the
brilliancy of its Light and the Power of Love
radiating from it, that none of the forces of
darkness can penetrate or even approach.
The powers of Discrimination and Truth
thus built into your aura will instantly detect
any inimical or inharmonious vibrations and
enable you to know how to deal with them.

This practice also will gradually, if you do it
faithfully day after day, make you
conscious of the mighty Power you are,
and of the wonderful instrument you have
in this mind of yours, as you learn to make
it obey your slightest command. This is
what is meant above where it said that
these exercises are for the development of
mental power within yourself; they are that
you may not only develop power, but that
you may become Power, may learn to
know Who you are and of What you are a
part. But always remember that Power and
Knowledge avail nothing unless Love
inspires and directs their use.