When you visualize, you must appeal to all of your senses. You need to appeal to your senses of sight, touch, taste, hearing, and smell because the five senses all have their inner counterparts. The five senses are both esoteric (internal) and exoteric (external); they are both inner and outer.

When we’ve often talked of the five senses, for the most part, we have thought of them only as exoteric; sight through the eyes, or the outer touch, or the physical taste, or the physical hearing, or the physical smelling. But from this moment on, you must learn to appreciate the five senses’ inner counterparts and use them.

You Must Experience the Senses in your Imagination

And I repeat the visional (seeing) sense is the leader of all the other esoteric senses. Now I’m dealing with a couple of words. First, let’s start with “exoteric,” since most people are out there, meaning “outer; external.” And then “esoteric,” meaning “inner; internal.” So when you visualize, see what you want and use all of your internal senses to experience that thing.

You’re going to have fun now, aren’t you?

You are constantly using your exoteric (outer) senses. Now you must become just as expert at using your esoteric or inner spiritual senses. Let’s stay in the commentary for a moment and let’s do a run down of these senses.

Let’s now take up the sense of sight.

When You Visualize Something, See What You Visualize and Connect Yourself With It

For example, don’t just see money. Yes, see money, but be careful to see yourself with that money. Don’t be like my custodian who saw the beautiful new Rolls Royce I had and exclaimed, “Oh, Rev. Ike, I just saw that in my visualization last week.” See yourself with it, with whatever it is you desire.

Say it with me now; say it out loud with feeling: “I see myself with it; I see myself being it; I see myself doing it; I see myself having it in the nowness of consciousness. I see it in the theater of my mind upon the stage of my imagination; I see it!”

Apply this technique to whatever you want to be, to do, and to have. You have to be definite and positive.

You Have to Be Definite with the Infinite

That’s why these prayers about, “Lord, you know what I need, now give me what I need,” that kind of prayer is no good. Yes, it’s correct; the Bible says the Father knows what you need even before you ask him. But the Father makes a big point out of telling you, “Ask, and it shall be given.”

People are going around just praying these unspecific prayers and wondering, “Why does the Lord not answer my prayers? Lord, help me,” and then they mess it up by adding something to the effect of, “If you will; if it’s according to your will, help me.” The problem is that this language is not specific because the infinite God tells the individual, “Command you me.” Oh my goodness, the power you have!

You Have the Power to Command God

Visualization is the strongest way of commanding the infinite. Visualization gives us a definite command to the infinite. It provides a specific command, a detailed command to the infinite.

When you are visualizing something, fully see what you envision. When you do this, you are appealing to the sense of sight. If you imagine yourself somewhere, you can appeal to your sense of sight by seeing yourself where you want to be, doing what you want to do, and having what you want to have. If you want to be in London, as I’ve taught you long ago, go to the travel agent, or wherever you want to be, and get brochures. We’ve had people who did this, people who’d never been here before, and they were just mystified because it worked! They would write me from the most exotic places and hotels.