Therefore you begin to meditate upon Faith, letting that be your seed thought. It appears nothing but a word to you at first, just a dry seed and you wonder if it will amount to anything, but you proceed to plant that thought of Faith and this is the way you do it:

You mentally repeat the word seven times (I take seven because that is the perfect number). ‘To avoid counting, you repeat it three times, and three times and then once. Then going within yourself you shut the door of the senses and repeat it in your heart:

Faith faith, faith--- faith, faith, faith--- faith. Thoughts will begin to rise; you may remember certain texts of scripture; you may begin to feel stronger because it is the law that what you meditate upon you gravitate to. You begin to draw all the mentalities that are filled with faith. You are launched upon a stream of faith. You are contacting the mentalities that have confidence, strength and trust and your faith in yourself grows stronger. Some doubt falls down, some unbelief takes to itself wings. There rises up in you a new consciousness.

This may not take place at first, for sometimes your mind begins to go off into lines that have little or no connection with faith. But so long as your mind is upon a spiritual thought, you are in right meditation. The stems, leaves, branches and fruit may not look like the seed, but eventually there is a seed at the end that is just like the first. It comes as the divine promise. First the seed of the vine,