Genevieve Behrend was the only personal student of Thomas Troward (1847- 1916) the master of Mental Science.
From 1912 to 1914, Genevieve Behrend’s life focused solely on the wisdom and philosophy of Troward who’s influential and compelling ideas provided much of the groundwork to the spiritual philosophy known today as New Thought.
As the awareness of “mental science” was taking shape, Troward imparted his personal insight to only one pupil who could perpetuate this knowledge and share it with the world.
After her studies with Troward, Behrend began her mission in New York City where she established and ran The School of the Builders until 1925. She then established another school in Los Angeles before touring other major cities throughout North America for the next 35 years as a celebrated lecturer, teacher, and practitioner of “Mental Science”.
Millions heard and enjoyed her, not only on the public platform but over the radio. Her students numbered tens of thousands all over the English-speaking world. Paris, France was her native city, but she was half Scotch. The book, Your Invisible Power, was her first. However it remains the most popular of all her books and has been, since its first edition, one of the world’s best sellers on Mental Science. It has exhausted scores of editions.
Behrend presents the Troward philosophy at its best because of the way her incomparably direct, and dynamic personality relates the life-changing concepts on a personal level.
Your Invisible Power remains Behrend’s most powerful and popular work. This book can teach you how to use the power of visualization and other processes taught by Thomas Troward to transform your life. Your Invisible Power is a powerful, yet simple and easy guide.
Behrend says, “We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers. It brings other possibilities to our observation. When we pause to think for a moment, we realize that for a cosmos to exist at all, it must be the outcome of a cosmic mind.”