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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. To Write to the Author If you wish to contact the author or would like more infor mation about this book, please write to the author in care of Llewellyn Worldwide and we will forward your request. Both the author and publisher appreciate hearing from you and learning of your enjoyment of this book and how it has helped you. Llewellyn Worldwide cannot guarantee that every letter written to the author can be answered, but all will be forwarded. Please write to: Osborne Phillips c/o Llewellyn Worldwide P.O. Box 64383, Dept. 0-87542-183-0 St. Paul, MN 55164-0383, U.S.A. Please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope for reply, or $1.00 to cover costs. If outside U.S.A., enclose international postal reply coupon. Practical Guide to Creative Visualization Manifest Your Desires DENNING & PHILLIPS 2001 Llewellyn Publications St. Paul, Minnesota 55164-0383, U.S.A. Practical Guide to Creative Visualization: Manifest Your Desires © 1983, 1986, and 2001 by Melita Denning and Osborne Phillips. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any man ner whatsoever, including Internet usage, without written permission from Llewellyn Publications except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Third Edition First Printing, 2001 Book design by Pam Keesey and Kimberly Nightingale Cover design by William Merlin Cannon Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Denning, Melita. Practical guide to creative visualization: manifest your desires / Denning & Phillips. - 3rd ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-87542-183-0 1. Success - Psychological aspects. 2. Imagery (Psychology). 3. Visualiza tion. I. Philips, Osborne. II. Title. BF637.S8 D373 2000 131 - dc21 00-053463 Llewellyn Worldwide does not participate in, endorse, or have any authority or responsibility concerning private business transactions between our authors and the public. All mail addressed to the author is forwarded but the publisher cannot, unless specifically instructed by the author, give out an address or phone number. Any Internet references contained in this work are current at publica tion time, but the publisher cannot guarantee that a specific location will continue to be maintained. Please refer to the publisher's website for links to authors' websites and other sources. Llewellyn Publications A Division of Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. P.O. Box 64383, Dept. 0-87542-183-0 St. Paul, MN 55164-0383, U.S.A. www.llewellyn.com Printed in the United States of America 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. vii viii Contents 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.