Spirit, because he does not see in it a mere blind force, but
reveres it as the Supreme Intelligence: and on the other hand he
does not grovel before it in doubt and fear, because he knows it
is one with himself and is realizing itself through him, and
therefore cannot have any purpose antagonistic to his own
individual welfare. Realizing this he deliberately places his
thoughts under the guidance of the Divine Spirit, knowing that
his outward acts and conditions must thereby be brought into
harmony with the great forward movement of the Spirit, not only
at the stage he has now reached, but at all future stages. He
does not at all deny the power of his own thought as the creative
agent in his own personal world,--on the contrary it is precisely
on the knowledge of this fact that his perception of the true
adjustment between the principles of Life is based; but for this
very reason he is the more solicitous to be led by that Wisdom
which can see what he cannot see, so that his personal control
over the conditions of his own life may be employed to its
continual increase and development.

In this way our affirmation of the "I am" ceases to be the
petulant assertion of our limited personality and becomes the
affirmation that the Great I AM affirms its own I AM-ness both in
us and through us, and thus our use of the words becomes in very
truth the Great Affirmative, or that which is the root of all
being as distinguished from that which has no being in itself but
is merely externalized by being as the vehicle for its
expression. We shall realize our true place as subordinate
creative centres, perfectly independent of existing conditions
because the creative process is that of monogenesis and requires
no other factor than the Spirit for its exercise, but at the same