temple of the Spirit and you yourself its sanctuary. Bear this in
mind, and remember that nothing is too great or too small, too
interior or too external, for the Spirit's recognition and
operation, for the Spirit is itself both the Life and the
Substance of all things and it is also Self-recognition from the
stand-point of your own individuality; and therefore, because the
Self-recognition of Spirit is the Life of the creative process,
you will, by simply trusting the Spirit to work according to its
own nature, pass more and more completely into that New Order
which proceeds from the thought of Him who says, "Behold I make
all things new."



THE SHEPHERD AND THE STONE.

The metaphor of the Shepherd and the Sheep is of constant
occurrence throughout the Bible and naturally suggests the idea
of the guiding, guarding, and feeding both of the individual
sheep and of the whole flock and it is not difficult to see the
spiritual correspondence of these things in a general sort of
way. But we find that the Bible combines the metaphor of the
Shepherd with another metaphor that of "the Stone," and at first
sight the two seem rather incongruous.

"From thence is the Shepherd the Stone of Israel," says the Old
Testament (Genesis xlix. 24), and Jesus calls himself both "The
Good Shepherd" and "The Stone which the builders rejected." The
Shepherd and the Stone are thus identified and we must therefore
seek the interpretation in some conception which combines the