Practical Guide to Creative Visualization: Manifest Your Desires

227 Pages·2001·0.83 MB·English

by  Osborne Phillips

Body, Mind, Spirit / Self-Help / Creative Visualization
What Do You Desire?
What is it that you wish to bring into your life? New
opportunities? Better health? More money or a bigger
home?
You can make it happen! This practical guide tells you
how to get what you want using the power of creative
visualization. It presents proven and simple techniques,
including:
• The Mulplication Technique: a powerful way to
increase what you already have
• The Charging Technique: a potent way to make
your visualizations real
• The Star Technique: a simple way to quickly get
what you want
Learn what over 125,000 other readers have already
discovered - how to manifest your desires using creative
visualization.
Other Llewellyn titles by Denning & Phillips include:
The Llewellyn Astral Projection Kit, and three titles in the
"Practical Guide" series: Practical Guide to Astral
Projection, Practical Guide to Psychic Self-Defense, and
Practical Guide to Psychic Powers.
You Can Make It Happen
No matter what you desire, whether it is to quit
smoking or to find inner peace . . . lose weight or
travel overseas . . . find a better job or create
health - with Llewellyn's Practical Guide to Creative
Visualization, you can make it happen.
Now you can use creative visualization to trans
form the energy of desire into a powerful magnetic
force to attract the things that you want. Much
more than just a "positive thinking" manual, this
book presents proven, easy-to-follow techniques
for working with the creative flow of the universe
to manifest your desires.
About the Authors
Melita Denning and Osborne Phillips are internationally
recognized authorities on the mainstream Western Mys
teries and of the Ogdoadic Tradition, that premier hermetic
school whose keywords are knowledge and regeneration.
The authors received their major esoteric training in the
magical order Aurum Solis, a society that was founded in
1897 and that has continued in active existence to the present
day. On July 8,1987, the authors, then heads of Aurum Solis,
retired from the order; but on June 23, 1988, at the unani
mous request of the members, they resumed office.
Melita Denning passed over in 1996.
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Practical Guide to
Creative
Visualization
Manifest Your Desires
DENNING & PHILLIPS
2001
Llewellyn Publications
St. Paul, Minnesota 55164-0383, U.S.A.
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Other Books by Melita Denning and Osborne Phillips
Voudoun Fire
Magical States of Consciousness
Planetary Magick
The Inner World of Fitness (by Melita Denning)
The Magical Philosophy, Vols. 1-3
The Foundations of High Magick, Books I & II
The Sword and the Serpent, Books III & IV
Mysteria Magica, Book V
Practical Guides to
Psychic Powers
Psychic Self-Defense
Astral Projection
The Magick of Sex
The Magick of the Tarot
Creative Moneymaking
The Llewellyn Deep Mind Tapes
Astral Projection
Creative Visualization
The Llewellyn Inner Guide Tapes
Paths to Inner Worlds
Kit
Astral Projection Kit
Contents
Introduction xi
1 Control and Direct Your Personal Destiny 1
People visualize whether they know it or not. Visualization is
creative. Visualizing for what you want. Getting all levels of
yourself to cooperate. The Eastern mystic and the caveman:
image, action, chant. A vivid imagination? Link it to reality.
When to talk, when to be silent. How to make a start. Day
dreams can help: think of what you want most in the world.
"Seeing" a remembered image. Useful aids. You visualize with
your mind, not with your eyes.
2 The Potent Circle 23
Tension is a natural prelude to action. Unresolved tension is
the enemy, so cultivate relaxation for inner progress and bod
ily health. A yogi's secret. The Creative Plan of Relaxation.
Your real self is pure joy. The Potent Circle: greater bodily
awareness and relaxation. Pdiythmic Breath, the necessary
accompaniment to Creative Relaxation.
3 You Have a Great Future 43
Organizing your creative visualization practices. Getting
maximum help from the subrational levels of the psyche
but not letting them take control. The higher self, which
should control and direct the rational mind. Our need to
realize we are an integral part of the universe. Plan joyfully
for your future, and sing about it.
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4 The Life-Sustaining Flow 57
The true source of plenty needs to be understood for suc
cessful creative visualization. The four levels of human
existence and of the external universe: divine, mental,
astral, material. Interaction of the levels. Creating a channel
for divine power. Transience of changes caused by astral
means only. Do not inhibit your invocation of higher pow
ers by hidden guilt feelings. Ethics of creative visualization.
New Testament teachings. The meaning of money. The
higher self. Bringing through power and charging yourself
with it.
5 Spiritual Abundance 77
Work with your one spiritual source of supply, not with the
many possible material ones. The objective you visualize is
at once yours: astrally, mentally, spiritually. The material
realization is to come. Why you are warned not to visualize
a material source of supply. Other mistakes to avoid. Be fre
quently aware of the existence of your spiritual source of
supply. Song dispels fear.
6 The Stairway of Success 95
"Nothing succeeds like success." Do not attempt to try to
explain your secret: just manifest what it does for you.
Other people's imaginations will help you to further suc
cesses so long as those people can identify with you. The
Charging Technique and the Master Method: their use in
creative visualization to help yourself and others. Working
"divination in reverse" with the Charging Technique.
Contents ix
7 Star Points and Multiplication 123
Minor techniques of creative visualization are less sure than
the full Master Method because they are less complete, but
they are still very powerful. Their special value while you still
need practice in the Foundation Work. Benefits of the Star
Technique include bringing opportunities. The Star Tech
nique and how to use it. What happens if you already have
some of what you need but it is in some way inadequate. The
"secret" examined. The Multiplication Technique.
8 Dare to Be Powerful 141
Creative visualization for objectives you may not find simple
to visualize. Build for outer assets and inner development in
balanced measure to enjoy the best of both. Special values of
Creative Relaxation. Program to break a habit: how to stop
smoking as an example. Creative visualization for better
memory: speeches, drama, facts. Memorizing words versus
memorizing meanings. General absent-mindedness. What is
a gizmo? Family birthdays - elementary astrology can turn
"words" into "meanings."
Appendix A: Terminating a
Creative Visualization Process 163
Usually when one objective in creative visualization has been
sufficiently attained and the conscious mind resolves upon
the next objective, the emotional-instinctual nature will fol
low its lead. Why this may not always be so. Technique to ter
minate effectively a creative visualization process if necessary.
Use of this technique to stop the visualization of an image
created involuntarily.