Affirmation · “The Subconscious Says Yes”
The Invocation
Speak a reverent, present-tense ‘calling-in’ — naming a specific quality you need (peace, purity, strength, love) and the Master or Elohim who embodies it — then affirm that quality flooding in and accept it as already received, to evoke and settle that state in oneself.
The Invocation: Address a named source of the quality you need (“Beloved Elohim of Peace…”). Call that one quality in, now — “flood / fill / blaze peace through me.” Voice it with reverence and feeling. Then accept it as already received and give thanks (“…and I thank Thee that it is done”). Repeat a few times; then rest a moment and feel the quality settle. Keep acting in the real world; don’t defer your judgement to any group.
What it is
Geraldine Innocente’s Bridge to Freedom worked in two spoken modes — decrees (commanding affirmations, inherited from the Ballards) and invocations — and the invocation is the form most characteristic of her devotional, hierarchy-rich teaching.
An invocation is a reverent calling-in: rather than only commanding “I AM” as the Ballards did, or chanting an accelerating rhythmic decree as the Prophets later would, the petitioner names a specific quality needed — peace, purity, strength, wisdom, love — and the Master or Elohim who embodies it (e.g. the Elohim of Peace, Astrea for purity, the Maha Chohan for comfort), asks for that quality to pour in, and then accepts it as already received. The register is devotional and grateful rather than purely authoritative.
Stripped of the cosmology, this is autosuggestion in a reverent, devotional key: you name a target state precisely, address it with feeling and a tone of awe, affirm its arrival in the present, and accept it — a combination that reliably evokes and settles that very state in the speaker.
The Method
Faithfully described from Bridge to Freedom invocation practice (short fair-use quotes only; the structure is an attributed paraphrase):
- Name the quality and the One who embodies it. Begin by addressing a named Master or Elohim as the embodiment of the quality you need — “Beloved [Elohim of Peace] …”, “Beloved Mighty Astrea …”. The naming makes the abstract quality concrete and personal.
- Call it in, in the present. Ask for that specific quality to flood in now — “blaze,” “flood,” “fill,” “pour” the peace / purity / strength through you and your world. The call is specific (one quality) and present-tense.
- Voice it with reverence and feeling. The invocation is spoken with devotion and awe, not flatly. Feeling “qualifies” the call — the warmth and reverence are part of the method, not decoration.
- Accept it as received. Close by affirming the quality as already given and giving thanks — the Bridge form seals with acceptance language (e.g. “…and I thank Thee that it is done,” sealed “in the Light”). You move from asking to having.
- Repeat and sustain. Repeat the invocation a number of times, letting reverent rhythm build, and use it as part of a regular daily devotion. Repetition is held to deepen the “momentum.”
- Rest in the quality. After the call, sit a moment in the evoked state — let the peace, purity, or strength you have invoked actually be felt and settle before returning to activity. (Sourcing note: the name-the-Master-and-quality structure, the “flood/blaze/fill” calling-in, the reverent register, and the acceptance/sealing close are from Bridge to Freedom invocation and decree practice released through Innocente; the numbered sequence is an attributed paraphrase. Short fair-use quotes only.)
Source & Lineage
Bridge to Freedom decrees and invocations released through Geraldine Innocente (1950s), and the Seven Mighty Elohim dictations (1954–55).
Lineage: Innocente sits between the Ballards and the Prophets. Her invocation is distinct from its neighbours in the same library: Ballard’s is the originating “I AM”-as-divine-name affirmation (a self-definition, “I AM health”); Prophet’s is the chanted, speed-building command-decree.
Innocente’s signature is the reverent, devotional calling-in of a named Master’s specific quality, then accepting it — closer in tone to petition-and-thanksgiving than to command or self-definition.
The form fed forward into Summit Lighthouse’s invocations and the violet-flame decree.
The Traditions' versions
The deep move — name the state you need, address it with feeling and reverence, affirm its arrival, and accept it with thanks — recurs widely; Innocente’s version is distinctive in personifying the quality as a named being and closing with grateful acceptance: - Prophet’s spoken-word decree — the same current, delivered as a chanted accelerating command rather than a reverent call.
- Ballard’s “I AM” affirmation — the originating root, affirming the quality as one’s own identity.
- Affirmative / scientific prayer (New Thought) — affirming the good as already true and giving thanks, e.g. Murphy’s scientific prayer.
- Bailey’s invocation in occult meditation — invoking light/love into oneself and the world.
- Devotional name-remembrance (dhikr, japa, kirtan) — repeating a divine name with reverence to evoke its quality.
Common refinements
Reciting flatly. The reverent feeling is the active ingredient; a mumbled invocation does little. Mean it.
- Calling for everything at once. The form is sharpest when it names one specific quality (peace or strength or purity), not a vague heap.
- Asking but never accepting. Skipping the “accept it as done / give thanks” close leaves you in petition-and-lack. Move to having the quality.
- Not pausing to feel it. Rattling off the words without resting a moment in the evoked state wastes the effect; let the peace actually be felt.
- Outsourcing judgement to the Masters / the movement. Use the practice without ceding decisions to any group’s claimed hierarchy, leaders, or predictions (see Safety).
- Self-blame loops. If a condition lingers, do not read it as “the Masters refused” or “I invoked wrong” — that just installs fresh anxiety.