Genevieve Behrend - Thomas Troward's Only Student

You know I like to read a lot and try different manifesting techniques.
I think my mind gets used to things and kind of "runs dry" after using one thing too long.
In looking around, I ran across Genevieve Behrend.
Born in Paris, France in 1881, Genevieve Behrend was the only student of legendary New Thought author Thomas Troward.

Genevieve, like a lot of other New Thought practioners back then, knew some of the greats.
She studied met Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science but left her studies there after awhile.
She then met the eldest son of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, Abdul Baha.
Abdul gave her direction saying that she would "travel the world over seeking the truth, and when she had found it, would speak it out".

After that she ran across the teachings of Thomas Troward and decided that was the way she wanted to go.
But he was in England and she was in New York.
So she had to get the money to go there.
And she did, manifesting $20,000.00 basically out of thin air.

Genevieve details in her book Your Invisible Power how she did it.

She memorized passages from Troward's The Dore Lectures on Mental Science.....
"My mind is a centre of Divine operation.
The Divine operation is always for expansion and 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 or growth.
Therefore, since the Divine cannot change its inherent nature, it must operate in the same manner with 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 any that have gone before."

And in a vein similar to what Neville Goddard would later teach, she visualized count out the money, buying the tickets and getting on the boat, twice a day every day.
In six weeks she had the money.

You can find her books, "Your Invisible Power" and "Attaining Your Heart's Desire" many places online for free.

There are even several audio versions of "Your Invisible Power" online....like this....

Thomas Troward (1847-1916) - New Thought Movement

Thomas Troward (1847-1916) is an author whose works influenced the New Thought Movement, Mind Sciences, and mystic Christianity. Influences on his writings include the teachings of Christ, Islamic and Hindu Teachings, and Buddhism.

Troward was the author of several books including the Edinburgh Lectures 1904.

Troward has been credited as a major influence on New Thought, Religious Science, Science of Mind and founder Ernest Holmes, and even in the History of Alcoholics Anonymous literature. In the beginning of the global best seller The Secret, the introduction remarks credit Troward's philosophy with inspiring the movie and it's production.

The philosopher William James characterized Troward’s Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science as "far and away the ablest statement of philosophy I have met, beautiful in its sustained clearness of thought and style, a really classic statement." Several of Troward's books are in the public domain due to their publication before the 1920s.

Dr. Frederick Bailes - Your Mind Can Heal You

Dr. Frederick Bailes was born into a family of pioneers in New Zealand in 1889 and was trained to be a medical missionary.
As he was completing his training he was diagnosed with diabetes, an incurable condition then.
After the diagnosis, he came across the writings of Thomas Troward (The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science 1904) and began to develop a philosophy for living, and within six years, he attained a complete recovery...before the discovery of insulin.
He went on to live until the age of 81.
After his healing, as a student at a large London hospital, Dr. Bailes closely observed the mental factors which entered into the recovery of patients and noticed that certain fundamental thought-patters invariable produced bodily reactions.
By stimulating his patients causative mental patterns toward healing, Dr. Bailes soon found remarkable results.

"with the fundamental truth that the person for whom we are treating is a perfect idea in the Mind of God, and our whole procedure during a treatment is intended to remove from our own mind any idea or picture of imperfection or sickness."
- Frederick Bailes

Dr. Bailes seven "R"s as outlined in his book In his book "Your Mind Can Heal You" are:
Relaxation
Recognition
Relationship
Reasoning
Realization
Release
Rejoice

You can read more about Dr. Bailes here:
http://frederickbailes.wwwhubs.com/



Dr. Frederick Bailes, posted to http://manifesting-reality.blogspot.com/ on 5-10-2008