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to the Spirit; will be led by intuition; will use your reason to apply Truth which flows into the consciousness by intuition to the objective life. Concentration, in the Silence, is not a thing for special occasions; it is the condition of the devotee made constant. "Pray without ceasing, is the law. Desire, suggest and let. That is all. It is the lesson Jesus learned when he said: "Thy will be done" May thy kingdom come, really means,Let thy kingdom come. The kingdom of self- control! The kingdom of self-mastery! Concentration is the shutting out of the objective life. It is closing the five senses and letting the Soul be felt and heard in the silence.

Follow these directions. Practice as suggested and the Silence will become vocal.

The exercise of the Will, or the lesson of power, is taught in every event. From the child's successive possession of his several senses, up to the hour when he says "Thy will be done!" he is learning the secret that he can reduce under his will, not only particular events, but great classes, nay, whole series 'of events, and so conform all facts to his character. Nature is thoroughly meditative. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Savior rode. It offers all its kingdoms to man in the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up. He forges the subtle and delicate air into wise and melodious words and gives them wings as angels of persuasion and command. One after another his victorious thought comes up with and reduces all things, until the world becomes at last only a realized will,-the double of man.
--- Emerson in "Nature".