Him by identifying yourself with Him, in the face of appearances that deny you. This course will bring the quickening word of Truth into your consciousness, and you will be begotten by the Word and made a new creature in Christ.

The creature that you have seemed to be will no longer appear. The new man, image and likeness of God, will become manifest when you awaken to the consciousness of it. This new man does not appear all at once. His likeness must be held in mind in its absolute perfection or he will not appear at all.

The best way to prove that all wisdom and all understanding are in man is just to believe it to be true. Coming into the Christ consciousness is, in its first steps, all a matter of faith. The intellect, sense mind, thinks that it could understand if only somebody would explain Truth to it; but it never seems to understand.

The best way to prove this is to take some statement of Truth that is not clear. Hold it in mind. The power of the word will quicken the understanding, and light will flash from within. This is spiritual knowing.

Believe in the quickening power of the word. Hold the word in mind. It will reveal itself, for wrapped in the word is its meaning, and you, being the image and likeness of God, can understand it if you make connection with