Ophiel - Art & Practice of Creative Visualization

Revised edition published in 1997 by

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Copyright 1997 The Estate of Edward C. Peach

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ophiel.

Art & Practice of creative visualization / Ophiel

p. cm.

Rev. ed. of: The art & practice of getting material things through creative visualization. 1967.

Includes index.

ISBN 1-57863-001-0 (pbk : alk. paper)

1. Imagery (Psychology). 2. Visualization. 3. Creative ability. I. Ophiel. Art & practice of getting material things through creative visualization. II. Title.

BF367.065 1997

133.3'2dc21

96-51424

Typeset in Benguiat

Printed in the United States of America

BJ

09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

The paper used in this publication meets the minimun requirements of the American national Standard for Information SciencesPermanece of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1992(R1997).

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I dedicate this book to all those who are endeavoring to better themselves, mentally, physically, and materially through the study, practice, and application of the occult.

I hope you will acquire the knowledge and understanding to use the material offered in this book. And, through its successful practice, I hope you attain the happiness you desire.

(Publisher's Note: Ophiel died in 1988 and although this message is dated, and Ophiel can't answer reader's questions, we left the introductory material as he would have presented it.)

Without doubt the greatest mystery on Earth is the mystery of our physical existence. We are stuck here, and what do we know about why we are here? And what can we do about it?

There are some who say they know what physical existence is all about and some people listen to and follow them, hanging on their every word and gesture; believing everything they say completely.

Fortunately it happens that I have a defect(?) in my character, which probably comes from my Capricorn birth sign, because Capricorn is ruled by Saturn, the tester. I wish quite often that I didn't have this defect(?). For then I could live in peace, in a fool's paradise like the others!

This defect consists of not being about to accept self-styled prophets' sayings and teachings without raising the following awkward question: Is what they say true? And the test is: Does what they say work, and produce results? And if what they say does not work, then it is not true, and into the garbage with it!

But out of all these years of turmoil and search has come something for you! I have found that peopleall peoplehave certain definite powers. Powers of which they are often not aware of having and powers that seem almost divine!

Henceforth your objective in life should be the discovery and development of your personal powers, for your use and benefit, to bring you happiness, and enlightenment, and illumination.

I wrote this book to bring to you definite workable knowledge about one of your powersthe power of creative visualization.

If you will stop, analyze, examine, and consider, you must find that our physical existence consists almost wholly of things coming into our personal-life-physical-existence-surroundings. These physical incoming things are of two types or kinds. The First type is mental-emotional-circumstantial-events; and the other type is material. As students, you should be deeply interested in the modus operandi of your powers of mental-visualization-creation-creating, and all its ramifications. You should also think about how the development of these powers pertains to your personal lifewith an emphasis on the idea of conquering physical matter by learning to control it, as well as bringing into your personal possession the material things that seem to be so necessary now for your happiness and physical-plane-well-being.

Do not be afraid to do this. Attempts at creative-visualization are nothing new in human evolutionary development. Untold ages of times ago, your cave-man-ancestors secured needed-desired-circumstances-things by various types of creative visualization combined, of course, with endless kinds of devices, both physical and mental, to assist in the creative visualization work.

As you know, your stone age ancestor's creative visualization consisted of picture-drawings on the walls of cavespictures showing them successfully hunting game and successfully defending themselves against enemies; and these creative visualizations must have worked, also successfully, because our ancestors did survive, and we are here today as a result of their survival! A modern application of the cave wall pictures will be given in this book. For your own advancement and understanding I ask you to study carefully this ancient application of this magic art, and the modern one, and make the connection in your own thinking.

Also for untold ages human beings have engaged in asking the supposed higher powers for the favorable circumstances wanted or needed. These higher powers were supposed to be outside of us. There are powers outside of us, but I cannot go into the question of these outside powers, called God or Gods, in this book. All I want to do in this book is to direct your attention to your latent powers, those powers that you possess now. I will repeatyou, all of you, possess powers, which, if used properlyare able to handle the creation of circumstances favorable to your physical being. One of these powers is the power of creative visualization:

Do not worry about not learning to use the laws of these powers perfectly. If you learn the laws, and use them, as well as you can, they will work, maybe a little slower, but they will work. Do remember that all the things that you have now, things that you do not want, you brought to yourself by the unconscious use of these laws, and you did not special practice on that did you?

Also have no fear about using the laws. These laws, the embodiment of your powers, are as much a part of you as your life is. There is nothing wrong in using them. The only wrong is in not using them and allowing physical life to hurt you.

Now go to it. Make your life the life you want. GoGoGo.

Millions of human beings suffer from the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, not knowing that we each possess many powers which, if used properly, could enable us to control our material physical existence to a large extent, and relieve ourselves of a lot of trouble. One of the unknown, unused powers, we possess is the power of creative visualization.

Creative visualization is the name for a magical operation wherein we create in our mind's eye, or in our imagination, the idea-image of something, or some circumstance, or some circumstances we fancy would be of benefit to our physical life comfort and add to our physical well being. This well being is usually called happiness.