Part Eighteen - Study Questions with Answers

171. How is the difference in individual lives measured?
     By the degree of intelligence which they manifest.
172. What is the law by which the individual may control other forms of intelligence?
     A recognition of the self as an individualization of the Universal Intelligence.
173. Where does the creative power originate?
     In the Universal.
174. How does the Universal create form?
     By means of the individual.
175. What is the connecting link between the individual and the Universal?
     Thought.
176. What is the principle by which the means of existence is carried into effect?
     The Law of Love.
177. How is this principle brought into expression?
     By the law of growth.
178. Upon what condition does the law of growth depend?
     Upon reciprocal action. The individual is complete at all times and this makes it possible to receive only as we give.
179. What is it that we give?
     Thought.
180. What do we receive?
     Thought, which is substance in equilibrium and which is constantly being differentiated in form by what we think.

Part Fifteen - Study Questions with Answers

141. What determines the degree of harmony which we attain?
     Our ability to appropriate what we require for our growth from each experience.
142. What do easiness and bonuses indicate?
     That we have gained wisdom and spiritual growth.
143. How may easiness be achieved?
     By a conscious understanding of and cooperation with Natural laws.
144. What is the principle by which thought manifests itself in form?
     The Law of Attraction.
145. How is the necessary material secured by which the growth, development and maturity of the idea take form?
     The law of love, which is the creative principle of the Universe, imparts vitality to the thought, and the law of attraction brings the necessary substance by the law of growth.
146. How are desirable conditions secured?
     By only entertaining desirable thoughts.
147. How are desirable conditions brought about?
     By thinking, discussing and visualizing conditions of abundance, freedom, health, harmony and accord of every kind. This mental photography of correct conceptions is taken up by the subconscious and the law of attraction will inevitably crystallize it into objective form. That we reap what we sow is scientifically exact.
148. How can we achieve every kind of love, abundance, freedom, wealth and harmony?
     By instituting principle.
149. How may we recognize principle?
     By a conscious realization of the fact that Truth invariably conquers all. All that is necessary is to turn on the light. The same principle applies to every form of non positive thought.
150. What is the value of Insight?
     It enables us to understand the value of making application of the knowledge which we gain. Some think that knowledge needs application, which is by all means true.

To every person there openeth a way,

And the high soul climbs the high way,

To every person there openeth

A high way

And every person decideth

The way their soul shall go.

Part Fourteen - Introduction

You have found from your study thus far that thought is a spiritual activity and is therefore endowed with creative power. This means that all thought is creative. This same principle can be brought into operation in a positive way, through the process of allowing.

The conscious and subconscious are but two phases of action in connection with one mind. The relation of the subconscious to the conscious is quite analogous to that existing between a weather vane and the atmosphere. Just as the least pressure of the atmosphere causes an action on the part of the weather vane, so does the least thought entertained by the conscious mind produce within your subconscious mind action in exact proportion to the depth of feeling characterizing the thought and the intensity with which the thought is indulged.

It follows that if you allow satisfactory conditions, you are bringing the creative power of your thought to these conditions. You are feeding them right at the root. You are giving them vitality.

Remember that the law of growth necessarily governs every manifestation in the objective, so that an allowance of satisfactory conditions will bring about instant change. A plant will remain visible for some time after its roots have been fed, and it will gradually strengthen and eventually grow, so the addition of your thought to the contemplation of satisfactory conditions will gradually, but surely germinate these conditions.

Some people concentrate intently upon satisfactory conditions, thereby giving the condition that measure of energy and vitality which is necessary in order to supply a vigorous growth.

Part Ten - Page 3

9. Thought is the connecting link between the Infinite and the finite, between the Universal and the individual. We have seen that there is an impassable barrier between the organic and the inorganic, and that the only way that matter can unfold is to be impregnated with life; as a seed reaches down into the mineral world and begins to unfold and reach out, the dead matter begins to live, a thousand invisible fingers begin to weave a suitable environment for the new arrival, and as the law of growth begins to take effect, we see the process continue until the Lily finally appears, and it is glorious.
10. Even so, a thought is dropped into the invisible substance of the Universal Mind, that substance from which all things are created, and as it takes root, the law of growth begins to take effect and we find that conditions and environment are but the objective form of our thought.
11. The law is that Thought is an active vital form of dynamic energy which has the power to correlate with its object and bring it out of the invisible substance from which all things are created into the visible or objective world. This is the law by which, and through which all things come into manifestation; it is the Master Key by which you are admitted into the Secret Place of the Most High and are given dominion over all things. With an understanding of this law you may decree a thing and it shall be established unto thee.
12. It can only be so; if the soul of the Universe as we know it is the Universal Spirit, then the Universe is simply the condition which the Universal Spirit has made for itself. We are simply individualized spirit and are creating the conditions for our growth in exactly the same way.
13. This creative power depends upon our recognition of the potential power of spirit or mind. Creation is the calling into existence of that which currently only exists in the subjective world.

Part Nine - Introduction

In this Part you may learn to fashion the tools by which you may build for yourself any condition you desire. If you wish to change conditions you must change yourself. Your inmost thoughts will find expression just as certainly as the plant springs from the seed.

Suppose, then, we desire to change conditions, how are we to bring this about? The reply is simple: By the law of growth. Cause and effect are as absolute and consistent in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of material things.

Hold in mind the condition desired; affirm it as an already existing fact by giving thanks for it happening. This indicates the value of a powerful affirmation. By constant repetition it becomes a part of ourselves. We are actually changing ourselves; are making ourselves what we want to be.

Character is the result of continued effort. If you are bold, assertive, self-confident, and if you are calm and visited by thoughts of love or continued safety remember that is axiomatic that only one thing can exist in the same place at the same time. Exactly the same thing is true in the mental and spiritual world; so that your remedy is plainly to institute thoughts of courage, power, self-reliance and confidence.

The easiest and most natural way to do this is to select an affirmation which seems to fit your particular case. The positive thought will destroy the non positive as certainly as light will destroy darkness, and the results will be just as effectual.

Action is the blossom of thought, and conditions are the result of action, so that you constantly have in your possession the tools by which you will certainly and inevitably make yourself, and joy will be the reward.