conditions, whether of body or circumstances; for they are only
effects and not the cause; and therefore when we reach this
stand-point we cease to take them into our calculations. Instead
we employ the method of self-contemplation knowing that this is
the creative method, and so we contemplate ourselves as allied
to the infinite Love and Wisdom of the Divine Spirit which will
take form through our conscious thought, and so act creatively
as a Special Providence entirely devoted to guarding, guiding,
providing for, and illuminating us. The whole thing is perfectly
natural when seen from a clear recognition of what the creative
working of Spirit must be in itself; and when it is realized in
this perfectly natural manner all strain and effort to compel
its action ceases--we are at one with the All-creating Power
which has now found a new centre in ourselves from which to
continue its creative work to more perfect manifestation than
could be attained through the unspecialized generic conditions
of the merely cosmic order.

Now this is what Messiah stands for, and therefore it is written
that "to them gave He power to become sons of God, even to as
many as believe on His Name." This "belief" is the recognition of
a universal principle and personal reliance upon it as a law
which cannot be broken; for it is the Law of the whole creative
process specialized in our own individuality. Then, too, however
great may be the mystery, the removal and cleansing away of all
sin follows as an essential part of this realization of new life;
and it is in this sense that we may read all that the Bible tells
us on this aspect of the subject. The PRINCIPLE of it is Love;
for when we are reunited to the Parent Spirit in mutual
confidence and love, what room is there on either side for any