Attaining Your Desires

Geneviè ve Behrend was born in Paris in 1881 and died in the United States in 1960. She wrote books and taught Mental Science, a branch of New Thought taught by Thomas Troward. We don't know much about her childhood, except that one of her parents was from Scotland. After her husband died, she went on many trips. She studied Christian Science and met the religion's founder, Mary Baker Eddy, but she eventually stopped believing in it. She met Abdul Baha, whose father had started the Bahá Faith. He told her, "You will travel the world looking for the truth, and when you find it, you will tell everyone about it." She later wrote about finding a book of Thomas Troward's talks in her book Your Invisible Power. After studying with Troward, she started a New Thought school in New York City called The School of the Builders around 1915. She ran it herself until 1925. She then started a second New Thought school in Los Angeles. For the next 35 years, she lectured on mental science and New Thought all over North America and did radio shows.