Imagination · “Feel It Real”
The Seven Steps to Precipitation
Walk a desired good through seven ordered inner steps — decide, perceive/design, love it into cohesion, purify the picture, concentrate on it without wavering, hold it in peace, and seal it with rhythmic gratitude — so that a clear, feeling-charged mental pattern is sustained steadily enough to draw itself into outer form.
Seven Steps to Precipitation: (1) Decide on one specific good — will it.
(2) Design it: build a clear, detailed mental picture.
(3) Love it — charge the picture with warm feeling.
(4) Purify it — clear out doubt and the opposite fear; hold only the wanted outcome.
(5) Concentrate — hold the one design steadily; don’t keep redesigning it.
(6) Peace — rest it in calm, not anxious grasping.
(7) Seal it with rhythmic thanks, as already done, and renew it daily. Pair the held design with real action.
What it is
This is Geraldine Innocente’s most distinctive practical teaching: a seven-step sequence for “precipitation” — the Bridge to Freedom’s word for bringing a desired good from idea into manifest form.
Where the Ballards’ and Prophets’ signature is the spoken decree, Innocente’s signature contribution here is a structured constructive-imagination drill: a fixed order in which you build a thing in consciousness, charge it, and hold it until it appears.
The sequence was released in 1954–55 through her as a set of dictations attributed to the “Seven Mighty Elohim” (compiled as The Seven Mighty Elohim Speak on the Seven Steps to Precipitation), each Elohim governing one step and one quality.
The practical skeleton is what matters: (1) decide and will it, (2) perceive and design it clearly, (3) love it into cohesion, (4) purify the picture, (5) concentrate on it without wavering, (6) hold it in peace, (7) seal it with rhythmic gratitude. Stripped of the cosmology, this is a complete and unusually disciplined goal-imagery method — and that disciplined ordering, not the metaphysics, is the reliable part.
The Method
Faithfully described from the Bridge to Freedom material (short fair-use quotes only; the seven Elohim/qualities are named, the numbered drill is an attributed paraphrase):
- Decide — the will to do (Hercules, the first ray / power). Innocente’s material teaches that “preceding all manifestation comes the desire — then the DECISION and WILL TO DO.” Choose one specific good and commit to it firmly. Without this initiating will, nothing follows.
- Perceive and design it (Cassiopea, wisdom / illumination). “Meditate upon it, and draw forth the ways and means.” Build the clear mental picture — see the finished thing in detail. This is the design stage: you cognise exactly what you intend, with definiteness.
- Love it into cohesion (Orion, love). Pour feeling and love into the design. In the teaching, love is the cohesive power that “draws into form” — it is what makes the mental pattern hold together and live, rather than stay a cold idea.
- Purify the picture (Claire/Astrea, purity). Keep the design clean and single. The student is to be “a clean pane of glass… through which that perfect idea is drawn down” — meaning: clear the picture of doubt, contradiction, and the opposite fear, so only the wanted outcome is held.
- Concentrate — hold without wavering (Vista/Cyclopea, concentration). “Hold to the pattern and not fly off at a tangent.” Sustain attention on the one design; do not keep redesigning it, second-guessing it, or swapping it for a new wish. Steadiness is the whole work of this step.
- Hold it in peace (Tranquility/Elohim of Peace). Rest the held design in calm — “beauty, harmony” — rather than anxious grasping. Agitation and impatience are treated as what break precipitation; serenity is what lets it mature.
- Seal it with rhythm and gratitude (Arcturus, the seventh ray). Close with rhythmic invocation and thanksgiving — give thanks as though it is already done, and renew the picture in this same order daily until it “precipitates.” Rhythm and repetition are held to give the work momentum. (Sourcing note: the seven Elohim, their qualities, and the quoted phrases are from the Bridge to Freedom’s Seven Mighty Elohim Speak dictations; the step-by-step drill is an attributed paraphrase. Short quotes only.)
Source & Lineage
The Seven Mighty Elohim Speak on the Seven Steps to Precipitation — dictations released through Geraldine Innocente at the Philadelphia Sanctuary (1954–55), compiled by Thomas Printz for the Bridge to Freedom.
Lineage: Innocente carried the ascended-master current forward from the Ballards’ “I AM” Activity toward the Prophets’ Summit Lighthouse. This seven-step precipitation drill, however, is her tradition’s own structured contribution — a constructive-imagination method, distinct from the Ballard “I AM” affirmation and the Prophet chanted decree.
Its design-then-charge logic is the same one New Thought stated plainly (Wattles’ “form a clear mental image,” Neville’s assumption); the Bridge to Freedom organises it into a seven-ray ladder.
The Traditions' versions
The deep move — form a vivid, specific picture of the end, charge it with feeling, hold it steadily and gratefully until it firms into reality — recurs everywhere; Innocente’s version is unusual mainly in breaking it into seven explicit, ordered stages with steadiness and purity as separate disciplines: - Wattles’ clear mental image — hold the definite picture of the thing wanted and act with gratitude.
- Neville’s state akin to sleep — sink into a drowsy state and feel the wish fulfilled as already real.
- Ballard’s “Mighty I AM Presence” chart — a fixed visual design held in mind.
- Prophet’s tube of light — sustaining a single protective visualization.
- Dispenza’s mental rehearsal — repeatedly imaging and feeling the outcome ahead of time.
Common refinements
Constantly redesigning the picture. Step 5 exists for a reason: “fly[ing] off at a tangent” — changing the goal every few days — is the commonest failure. Pick one design and hold it.
- Cold imagery without feeling. Skipping step 3 leaves a lifeless idea. The love/feeling charge is what makes the pattern engaging enough to pursue.
- Letting the opposite in. Step 4 (purity) is psychologically shrewd: rehearsing the picture while also rehearsing the fear installs both. Keep the picture clean.
- Anxious grasping. Skipping step 6 (peace) turns the practice into impatient monitoring, which corrodes follow-through. Hold it calmly.
- Treating it as a substitute for action. The steps prime and motivate; they do not act for you. Pair the held design with concrete steps.
- Self-blame if it lags. A delayed result is not proof you “wavered” or were “impure.” Read a lag as information, not as a verdict on your inner state.