Most of you mortals have been made to that imagination belongs to the mystical, or to fairy stories which have handed down for ages past, and to believe that it does not exist in any particular phase except in the so-called "make-believe," but I wish you to know that the faculty of dearly imagining within is a very definite thing. It is indeed as definite as that which we call faith, which so many feel is also only mystical. There are those who will say to you, “Oh, that is nothing! It is entirely your imagination!" Therefore you believe that to have an imagination is to be just a little unbalanced and not quite normal or not quite practical, and as a thought comes into your mind that you cannot correlate or place with the rest of your ideas, you immediately label it imagination or make-believe, something that you should discard and forget.

Yet there are many individuals whose whole Jives are confused because they are unable to distinguish between imagination and the real. They do not know whether they are living their own thoughts or whether they are thinking the thoughts of another. There are also individuals giving the thoughts of others out to humanity and declaring them to be their own, and they are unable to know the difference.

Therefore, I would try to assist you to know that imagination is a very real thing. It is that something that you must have within yourself if you hope to know life. You cannot conceive within your own mind anything upon the earth plane unless you are able to clearly visualize within the image which you hope to form.

Many inventors have brought forth marvelous inventions which each one feels he has studied out, that he has worked from the point of zero to a point of perfection in methods and in all phases pertaining to that particular invention and yet none have ever thought of methods or proof of inventons in OUTWARD manifestation until they perfected them by imagining WITHIN. They conceived the idea and the idea was brought forth and was born like a flower grows. When the idea was given and the individual was able to image it WITHIN then he began to cast about for ways and means to put it into manifestation go he could prove it to others who would not believe in anything they could not see or smell or taste, and so it is that anyone who has created an idea was one who was able to visualize it clearly enough to bring it through.

Now if you would create anything you must be able to picture it within yourself. Think what it means to draw this particular Life Force which is within yourself (which is the Real of you, your God-self,) out into manifestation. You must first picture that which you would have. If you can picture it clearly, you can bring forth the picture into being.

It has been declared unto you again and again that you can create for yourself if you will, and if your desire is great enough, but remember, desire must be the motivating power. You must first desire so strongly that you gather all your forces together within your own brain cells, draw within, and in your silence create so strongly the idea that nothing outside of it can in any way distort it. Do you not notice that the seed when placed in the ground almost shrivels to nothing. draws within itself after it has started to sprout a likeness of itself? Then you, too, should draw within yourself and gather all your strength that you might bring it forth into being. It is a truth that “as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” and his life is the outpicturing of his mental conception of himself, of his ability to image that which he would have WITHOUT. How could life hope to explain all the idiosyncracies of mankind if it were not a truth that each is the law giver and dispenser for himself? He makes the law and he dispenses it for himself and for others as much as they will permit. But even so, if you are capable of doing for another, or if you rule the life of another, even then it is because the other permits it or you could not do it. You may say “Certain individuals rule my life. I have nothing to do about it," but I declare unto you, you Do have all to say about it if you will utilize your powers, if you will utilize that which belongs to you, but so many mortals fear to do this. They do not have the courage to stand forth and declare mastery over their own domains and to say to the world, “l will rule my own life.”

If you would have perfect health, do you think that you could gain it by picturing, by seeing the lack of health! lf you would choose to have finances in abundance do you think you can have them by continually thinking of lack? These not new things that I am telling you, but I would like, at times, to say them in the hope that the time will be right for you to quickly grasp something that I have given to you and it will come through and find a fertile spot in your minds and grow.

For instance, like the ovum and the life cell that must find its center of fertileness. There are hun dreds, let us say, of that activating part of life sent forth into manifestation, but only one ever enters a particular ovum at one time, just one out of hundreds. Then can you realize why I must give to you over and over again these ideal, for only one at a time actually goes into your brain cells and finds a fertile place to grow. But as they are given out continuously, as they are driven against the membranes of your mind, of your mentalities, finally the door opens and you can reach out and see for yourself that which I am attempting to give to you.

I hear some of you say, “I would like to have this thing, or that thing but I cannot have it. You could have it, but I cannot." There is no reason why one person cannot do so if another can and that which stops you from doing all that another does is your own idea which walls you in. You are like the individual who goes straight toward a wall never looking right nor left. You cannot climb the wall for which you are aiming, but “If ye seek, ye shall find” and often all you need to do is to turn right or left and pass around the wall to see that it is a very short span and you yourself created it with your idea that you could not accomplish.