creative, but we do not make it so; it was so before we realized it --- not will but willingness; not coercion but conclusion.

We must come to feel that there is a universal goodness, a perfect law and a divine reality flowing through our word. It is impossible to really erase this spiritual conviction. It is implanted by a reality greater than the human mind. There is a power which descends into and operates through the consciousness of the one sensing such power. Real in itself and being ever present, it is as actual as we allow it to become. There is an essence in the invisible world, the emanation of which is the passing of beauty into the form of that which is beautiful, of life into the form of that which lives, the passing of Spirit from an abstract into a concrete state. It is this principle which the practitioner seeks to demonstrate.

Conviction compels the attention of the intellect; it is Reality which floods it. It is the essence of Spirit descending into the intellect, illumining the mind and healing the body. The healing is automatic. The cause is invisible. The effect is tangible and real. The timeless passes into time, the formless into form, the uncreated into that which is created, the prayer into the performance, the treatment into its own demonstration.

The Originating Power descends into the consciousness which meditates upon It and receives It. The intellect abandons itself to the divine ideal. It is a feeling, a sense,