thoughts in the heart, and then you “shall not want for any good thing.” --- Ps. 34:10.

Knowledge of spiritual law gives us also knowledge of its shadow, called “natural law.”Mind decides the character of natural laws by ruling the thoughts that

Man, master of natural law.

form them. Material appearances are formed, reformed, made to appear or disappear, by dealing with their causes, just as men govern the pictures cast upon a magic-lantern screen by their handling of the light and slides, or as we cast a shadow upon the wall or a reflection in the mirror by our management of the objects we wish to be reflected. All nature is a great parable of the processes of Mind.

Man must have dominion over the earth, as it is commanded (Gen. I :26), and this dominion is manifest as he proves his power over all false thinking. By ruling the elements within himself lie governs those without; by mastery over his passions, and by the understanding of the law of love all the animal world becomes subject to his word. He takes all the poison out of plant and reptile, all cruelty and rapacity from the beasts, and then is fulfilled the prophet’s words:

“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb . . . the lion shall eat straw like the ox . . . they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.” --- Is. I I :6-9.

Because Jesus knew the law of Spirit and had overcome worldly thinking he knew that power of Mind by which he could walk on the water as well as on the