somewhere, saying it is bound by reason of some existing forms.
The remedy is to go back to the original starting point of the
Cosmic Creation and ask, Where were the pre-existing forms that
dictated to the Spirit then? Then because the Spirit never
changes it is STILL THE SAME, and is just as independent of
existing conditions now as it was in the beginning; and so we
must pass over all existing conditions, however apparently
adverse, and go straight to the Spirit as the originator of new
forms and new conditions. This is real New Thought, for it does
not trouble about the old things, but is going straight ahead
from where we are now. When we do this, just trusting the Spirit,
and not laying down the particular details of its action--just
telling it what we want without dictating HOW we are to get it--
we shall find that things will open out more and more clearly day
by day both on the inner and the outer plane. Remember that the
Spirit is alive and working here and now, for if ever the Spirit
is to get from the past into the future it must be by passing
through the present; therefore what you have to do is to acquire
the habit of living direct -from the Spirit here and now. You
will soon find that this is a matter of personal intercourse,
perfectly natural and not requiring any abnormal conditions for
its production. You just treat the Spirit as you would any other
kind-hearted sensible person, remembering that it is always
there--"closer than hands and feet," as Tennyson says--and you
will gradually begin to appreciate its reciprocity as a very
practical fact indeed.

This is the relation of Hephzibah to Ishi, and is that worship in
Spirit and in truth which needs neither the temple in Jerusalem
nor yet in Samaria for its acceptance, for the whole world is the