and with the froward Thou wilt show Thyself froward" (Psalm 18:26 and 2 Sam. 22:27)

[More accurately translated "To the pure, you are seen as pure, to the trickster, you are seen as a master of strategy"], where the context makes it clear that these words are addressed to the Divine Being. If, therefore, we grasp this Law of Correspondence, we shall see that the only conception of the Divine Mind which will really vivify our souls with living and life-giving power is to realise it not merely as a tremendous force to be mapped out intellectually according to its successive stages of sequence --- though it is this also --- but above all things as the Universal Heart with which our own must beat in sympathetic vibration if we would attain the true development of that power the possession of which constitutes "the glorious liberty of the sons of God".

In all our operations we must always remember that the Creative Power is a process of feeling and not of reasoning. Reasoning analyses and dissects; feeling evolves and builds up. The relation between them is that reasoning explains how it is that feeling has this power; and the more plainly we see why it should be so, the more completely we are delivered from those negative feelings which act destructively by the same law by which affirmative feelings work constructively.

The first requisite, therefore, for drawing to ourselves that creative action of the Universal Spirit, which alone can set us free from the bondage of Limitation, is to call up its response on the side of feeling;