are visited with visions and ecstasies. From these visions, they awake with renewed zeal and physical capacities.

We may note, too, that primitive language was always in pictures of some sort, as we may see from a study of the hieroglyphics of the ancient Egyptians, Chinese, Aztecs, Peruvians, and the American Indians.

All these facts show us that in some way the initial step in consciousness is by way of pictures. The imaging faculty is not the acquirement merely of education. It is native to us. It antecedes time and belongs to the subjective life. Most people use this faculty in remembering things. They have what is called a "visual memory." They remember by the way it looks. In my own experience as a student, I depended on this faculty to such an extent that I frequently quoted history and science in an examination, word for word with the page of my text-book. It often recalls the words of a speaker to think of just how he looked when he said what he did. We thus find ourselves drawing forth our memory or recollection from the primitive storehouse of the infallible memory of the picture-making mind.

Someone has said "the language of spirit is form"; and this fact is not only borne out by what we have said of actual experience, but also by all that we can conceive of the creative method. At the beginning of creation, the Cosmic Consciousness has no objective pattern for the things it will create. Nothing has appeared in form; and the only way it can be brought forth is by the Creative Imagination of Spirit. Spirit or Mind, therefore, makes a world by simply thinking of the form which it shall assume. Its language is the language of pictures. By that