The Art & Practice of Creative Visualization [Paperback]

Ophiel (Author)

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This revised, updated edition of Ophiel's classic on creative visualization provides an organized analysis of the ten laws governing creative visualization. Perfect for any study of the process and its results. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Weiser Books (August 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578630010
• ISBN-13: 978-1578630011
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,175,456 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best book on visualization, June 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Art & Practice of Creative Visualization (Paperback)

This book is a classic in visualization. It treats visualization from a magickal viewpoint. What seperates this book from other texts on the subject, is the authors use of visualization practice on the earth, air, water, fire and spirit symbols which are given in the book. Any true occultist knows that these symbols represent the elements of all reality. By their mastery through visualization, one can gain tremendous control over reality. It is for this reason that this book is so special. He also gives the laws that go into making visualization into something that works.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Seeing is Believing, February 12, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The Art & Practice of Creative Visualization (Paperback)

The exercises in this book can help you see. You aren't just told to imagine a blue flame -- but told steps to help you learn to see the blue flame. You are told about the sphere of availability -- that is, something that is not out of your range of possiblity when you apply your mind to drawing the desired object to you. Things are explained that are not explained anywhere else I know of. For instance, have you ever noticed that sometimes a person may win a lot of money or be given money and then it is gone quickly. Ophiel explains why this happens. He tells how to stop this from happening. He explains how to draw to you the things you need and want and how to stop your new blessings from becoming a burden. If you underestand occult principles at all, this book will be a help to you. If you don't understand, perhaps you'll miss it as a couple of the other reviewers has. If you don't understand, but are open to want to understand, then this is a good place to start. What is told here works. That is the bottom line.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thanks, From A Much Older And Wiser Mystic, July 20, 2009

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Doc Edwards (Knoxville, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Art & Practice of Creative Visualization (Paperback)

I read this book many years ago when I was first beginning my own journey towards the light that compelled me. While at first I found the writing style quaint, redundant, and certainly curious, still something beyond the writer's compositional skills rose to the surface as I read, a feeling of appropriateness and truth that anyone who is sensitive to the golden currents of true occult wisdom recognizes almost immediately.
In fact, the book and its most specialized and rare knowledge truly affected the course of my metaphysical life in positive ways and to amazing degrees of occult success that will forever in debt me to this wonderful, quirky, and rare author.
It so affected my magical life that I later contacted Mr. Peach(Ophiel) at his home in California, and in only a ten minute conversation, I knew and recognized him and his incredible information for the REAL thing they both were.
It is with the greatest pleasure, as now I once again get to revisit some of the most wonderful places of my own past, that I open to read these amazing, mysterious old pages.
Doc Edwards, Knoxville, TN 2009