Cause where energy, intelligence or power exists without any limiting circumstances whatsoever. To do this would be to think in the Absolute.

The use of affirmations and denials is for the purpose of clarifying our thought, both conscious and subjective, thus enabling us to get back to First Cause and to start a new chain of causation in motion. Every creation starts as a thought image or idea which exists in complete independence of the form it takes. This is the way the Cosmic Spirit works. It is our privilege to reproduce Its operation in our own lives.

Consciously or unconsciously, we are always using First Cause, because, we are always impressing some idea upon It. If, then, we find negation in our lives, we must reverse our process of thinking, starting out with a pure ideal as a pattern for our thought. We must regard the ideas as real. We must bring our unconscious thought action under control of conscious volition. This is the only way we can determine our destiny.

We may easily discover whether or not we are doing this by watching our thought processes and seeing if their fulfillment depends upon any known existing circumstance.

We think in the realm of the Absolute in such degree as we withdraw our thought from thinking in terms of the relative. All ideas are formed in the present, since there is neither past nor future to Reality. Thus we must picture our desires as