unreality of poverty and lack before we can trust in Divine Providence
or the working of Spiritual (at the same time, mental) law. It is
necessary to know that the universe is Spiritual: that God is Spirit,
in whom we live and move and have our being, and that because we are
a part, very small, but yet a part, of the Whole, all our wants, all
through the ages, must be supplied. Supply, sufficient for all our
needs, is the reality. Poverty and lack, the product of lack of faith,
of fear, of ignorance, of weakness of character, have their origin
in the human mind, and are the unreality--the negative which has no
permanence or reality.

When we have learnt the truth, it is necessary to live in the
Consciousness of it, and to think and act and praise God as though
sufficiency were already ours. Not to spend money that we cannot
afford to spend, nor to incur debt, but to live mentally in an
atmosphere of abundant supply. We have to remember that the change
in consciousness must take place first and become well-established,
before its effects can be seen to manifest in the outer life.

The entering of this higher consciousness where we know and realize
the truth, viz., that the Source of all our supply is Spirit, and
that the Divine Source is limitless, is not easy, although it is less
difficult to some than to others. It demands constant mental activity
and watchfulness: it requires persistence and perseverance in right
thinking, yet it is possible to those who are in earnest. By living
in the consciousness of God's Supply and exercising a lively faith,
the life becomes affected, principally due to both conscious and
unconscious change of action.

Having dealt with the esoteric or inner side of the subject of supply,