Power of Prosperity Series
June 2007: Imagination

Unity Church of Christianity Appleton, Wisconsin

Dear Congregant,

Last year we explored The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity by Edwene Gaines. Edwene bases her work on Charles Fillmore’s book Prosperity.

In 2007 we look at prosperity through another Charles Fillmore perspective, The Twelve Powers of Man.

Charles explains these as the attributes of God expressed through man. Each month we will take a power and see what an important part each power plays in bring abundant prosperity into our lives. As we journey into the "Twelve Powers of Prosperity," I wish you a year of abundance.

Unlimited blessings,



Rev. Morgan

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Power of Prosperity
June 2007: Imagination

Your imagination is among your most creative mind powers. You are always creating through your imaging faculty. By deliberately directing your imagination towards what you want you can begin to transform your life. Through your thinking, you accumulate a mass of ideas and with your imagination you make them come into a definite form of prosperity.

Charles Fillmore tells us that, “With our imagination we lay hold of ideas and clothe them in substance.” Through our imagination we behold things in spiritual essence, in true perfection. The imagination is the universal language as it pertains to a language of pictures. A picture of a cup of water is understood by people of every language. How are you clothing your prosperity? With lack or abundance?

There are two basic uses of imagination—conditioned and open-ended. Conditioned imagination concentrates on what you want. Seeing it, speaking it, imagine yourself with it. This can work in quick and spectacular ways but it can be limiting. Getting a lot of what other people already have is not proof of a “prosperity consciousness.” It is important to stay open and receptive to what God has in mind for you. In the open-ended use you don’t just ask for those things you already know exist but for those ideas that are not yet manifested into the material. This is the realm in which all new things are created. This is the realm of prosperity.

We are created in the image of God and we have the power to create mental images that then can be brought into the physical plane. This does take focus plus the support of the power of faith, wisdom and understanding. Together these powers can create prosperity in the form of peace, joy, health, love and the new heaven on earth.

What the Bible says:

“The wealth of the rich is their strong city; in their imagination it is like a high wall.” Proverbs 18:11

"Go, do all that you have in mind; for the Lord is with you." 2 Samuel 7:3

“Truly the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.” Job 3:25

“If there is anything worth praise, think [imagine] on these things.” Phil. 4:8

What Unity says:

“You never outgrow your picturing power of mind (imagination). It is with you from birth to death and you should stay busy using it constructively. You should constantly be picturing something better than the best of what you are now experiencing.” Catherine Ponder, The Healing Secrets of the Ages

“It is our imagination that gives us the hope of being more than what we seem to be. Imagination is the creative faculty of mind, and many of the most useful, productive, and extraordinary works in the world of us human beings begin as works of imagination.” James Dillet Freeman, “Imagination: The Wondrous Power of Conception,” New Thought for a New Millennium

“When people say, ‘It’s all your imagination.’ They seem to mean it is nothing. On the contrary, imagination is probably the most powerful faculty of the human mind and thousands of practical men today know that what the mind images becomes experience and fact.” Dr. Phineas P. Quimby, “The Quimby Manuscripts”

“What man pictures or imagines in his mind will eventually appear in the body. In the communication of God with man, the imaging power of the mind plays an important part. It receives divine ideas and reflects their character into the consciousness.” Charles Fillmore, The Revealing Word

Ideas for practice:

• Try to pray with images and not just words. Even in our prayers, sometimes words just do not convey what it is we want. Try praying in images and leave the words out. Think of a situation that can be irritating, visualize it. For example, you are in heavy traffic. Now without words see the traffic clearing and your way made clear and easy. Remember imagination is a universal language. A picture is worth a thousand words. Show God what you desire true prosperity through your imagination.
  
  
• What is going on in your life right now? Is there something you would like to imagine to be different? Imagine what it would be like to have your definition of a prosperous life. Become like a little child, get crayons and color a picture of this. Do it without really engaging your “thinking.” Afterwards, take up your thinking cap again and let the picture speak to you. How is it true in your life right now? What is the meaning of the picture—are there symbols that stand for something else you were unaware of consciously? Take some time to understand the picture. Take note of this in your journal.
  
  
• Would you like to develop your power of imagination more? Try these steps and affirmations:
  
  
  • Cleanse—clear away the picture on your mind’s screen that you no longer want. Replace it with something you really want. Affirm: I erase all false images from the screen of my mind.
  • Consideration—reflect on images which show you the way you want to look and be. Affirm: I reflect on pictures in keeping with my spiritual goals.
  • Discriminate—old thought and pictures may return. Be discriminate about what you give “free rent” in your head. Affirm: With God’s power I can sort out the good and discard the false images from my mind.
  • Observation—the more good you see and incorporate into your life the more that will come. Take time to give thanks for what is and to savor the good around you. Affirm: I observe God’s good everywhere.
  • Behold—what we persistently behold we manifest. Affirm: I behold the Christ in myself and in others.
  • Discernment—prayerful time on what is mine to do or have. Affirm: I am open and receptive to spiritual insights from God.
  • Vision—see through the eyes of spirit. Affirm: My eye is single to the good.
    
    
• Discuss these practices and any new ideas with your prayer triad and how they can apply to your prosperity. In what ways can you offer support for one another as you study imagination? Pray with each other for the month.

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