A Teacher
Anthony Norvell
Visualization and ‘cosmic’ mind-power applied to wealth, success, and personal magnetism
The transmission
Anthony Norvell (1908-1990) was an American writer and lecturer on mind-power, prosperity, and esoteric self-development who became one of the most popular motivational speakers of his era.
For many years he lectured weekly to large audiences at New York’s Carnegie Hall, and he had a gift for translating arcane metaphysical and occult ideas into workable, accessible methods - above all the deliberate use of visualization to shape one’s circumstances toward wealth, fame, and personal magnetism.
His best-known book, The Million Dollar Secret Hidden in Your Mind (first published 1963), distilled this “cosmic” prosperity teaching into a practical program: picture the desired result vividly and persistently, and the deeper mind moves to realize it.
Writing with modern clarity and forcefulness, Norvell produced many titles in the prosperity-and-visualization vein and remained a fixture of the popular mind-power circuit, sitting squarely in the lineage that runs from nineteenth-century New Thought to today’s manifestation culture.
What they gave
Visualization as prosperity method: taught the deliberate, repeated mental picturing of desired outcomes as the engine of wealth and success.
- Popularizing the esoteric: rendered occult and metaphysical concepts into plain, actionable techniques for a mass lay audience.
- The lecture-hall mind-power tradition: through his long Carnegie Hall run, embodied the public motivational-speaker model of teaching mental causation.
- Bridge to manifestation culture: his “cosmic” prosperity framing prefigures and feeds the modern law-of-attraction and manifestation stream.
In their words
There is a miracle-working power in the universe which man may tap and use for every purpose in his life.
When you once learn how to recognize this power and channel it through your own higher mind, you can literally become a miracle-worker.
Remember, thoughts are things; you create the outer circumstances of your life by your inner thoughts.
You possess within your mind a Metaphysical Brain Projector which is capable of projecting to the outer world the mental images that you have built within.
Dreams precede actions. God’s dream of His creation must have preceded the building of the universe from the tiniest atom to the most intricate constellations.
Most people live one-dimensional lives and they never know the pure joy of an expanded Cosmic Consciousness that comes to those who discover the four dimensions of life which this book explores.
The greatest things in the world were created by man through the spiritual fire released by the great emotion of Love.
The line they stand in
Influenced by: the New Thought movement; the law-of-attraction tradition; occult and esoteric self-help; the success-metaphysics stream.
- Influenced: popular prosperity and visualization literature; modern manifestation culture; the motivational-speaking circuit.
Revelations they taught
Essential Works
- The Million Dollar Secret Hidden in Your Mind1963
- Meta-Physics: New Dimensions of the Mind1967