and added: “For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.” All great spiritual geniuses have understood this.

Our trouble is not with Reality or with the Truth. It is with ourselves – our confusions, our doubts, our fears. These we shall have to convert, and it may take time, and it may take patience. But how far have we come by adding confusion to confusion, and fear to fear, and doubt to uncertainty, and misery to unhappiness? We do not extinguish a fire by throwing on more fuel.

There is no use for us to wait for things to become better in our outside world, no use to wait for some terrific experience to come to us, which will make everything right, no use to wait at all. The place to begin is right where we are, and the time to start is now. The Power already exists, the Law is already operating, and the Divine Presence has never left us. God is still in His heaven, and His kingdom is already within us.

I believe that we are surrounded by spiritual Law which executes Itself. I have no doubt at all that Jesus understood this perfectly and used It completely. Nor do I have the slightest doubt but that we can use it. Perhaps we are using It now in reverse. Perhaps the very faith we have in our fear causes the thing we fear to come into our experience. Perhaps all we have to do is to reverse this process in our own thinking.

It seems to me that this is true and that we are not really dealing with good and evil, but only with one Power, which we can use, in two ways. But it is a Power, which finally delivers Itself to us completely only when we use It for good and constructive purposes. If we can just come to feel that nothing is really against us and everything is for us (“If God be for us, who can be against us?”), I believe this would be the supreme affirmation, the complete abandonment of our faith to spiritual Law.

This is the experiment you and I are embarked on. This is the thing we wish to prove above everything else. This is, it seems to me, the great lesson that the world needs, so we should enter