and this cleansing process is accomplished by the word of negation.

Every negative word erases, and to erase false thoughts from the mind the word of denial must be spoken.

In the first chapter of Genesis the mind that awaits the coming of Truth is spoken of in the language of symbolism as the earth, without form and void --- ”and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” Darkness is the symbol of ignorance, and light is the symbol of Truth. “And God said [to the waiting mind], Let there be light [Truth] : and there was light.”

Denial makes us receptive. “And God said, Let there be,” as though the earth must let the light shine. And so it is. The mind must let the Truth come in. “Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,” by beginning to clear out the rubbish of false thinking --- pulling up the “plants which my Father hath not planted.”

People who have sick bodies, or vices, or inharmonious surroundings are like pupils who have worked their problems incorrectly, and before they begin to work them aright they must first erase their old work, then begin the working anew with true principles for their bases of operations.

Right denial pulls down old, false structures built by vain imaginings, and leaves the mind ready to build anew.

Every religion has taught denial in some form. All fasting is but the symbol of the denying which is going