emanate from Spirit and is nothing else than the record of
Spirit's conception of itself as finding expression in space and
time. And when this becomes clear it follows that Substance need
not be taken into calculation at all. The material form stands in
the same relation to Spirit that the image projected on the
screen stands to the slide in the lantern. If we wish to change
the exhibited subject we do not manipulate the reflection on the
screen, but we alter the slide; and in like manner, when we come
to realize the true nature of the creative process, we learn that
the exterior things are to be changed by a change of the interior
spiritual attitude. Our spiritual attitude will always be
determined by our conception of our relation to God or Infinite
Spirit; and so when we begin to see that this relation is one of
absolute reciprocity--that it is the self-recognition of Infinite
Spirit from our own centre of consciousness--then we find that
the whole Secret of Life consists in simple reliance upon the
Allcreating Spirit as consciously identifying itself with us. It
has, so to say, awakened to a new mode of self-recognition
peculiar to ourselves, in which we individually form the centre
of its creative energy. To realize this is to specialize the
Principle of Life. The logic of it is simple. We have found that
the originating movement of Spirit from which all creation
proceeds can only be Self-contemplation. Then, since the Original
Spirit cannot change its nature its self-contemplation through
our own minds must be as creative in, for, and through us as it
ever was in the beginning; and consequently we find the original
creative process repeated in ourselves and directed by the
conscious thought of our own minds.

In all this there is no place for the consideration of outward