realised as the energising principle on the scale of the Macrocosm or "Great World" because, as we shall find later on, the same principle acts in the same way on the scale of the Microcosm, or "Small World", which is the individual man. This is why these things have a personal interest for us; otherwise they would not be worth troubling about.

But a mistake to be avoided at this point is that of supposing that the "Word" is something which dictates to the Spirit when and where to operate. The "Word" is the word of the Spirit itself, and not that of some higher authority for, the Spirit being First cause, there can be nothing anterior to dictate to it: there can be nothing before that which is First. The "Word", which centralises the activity of the Spirit, is therefore that of the Spirit itself.

We have an analogy in our own case. If I go to New York, the first movement in that direction is that of my Thought or Desire. It is true that in my present state of evolution I have to follow the usual methods of travel, but so far as my Thought is concerned, I have been there all the time. Indeed, such a case as the one I have mentioned, of my being seen in Edinburgh while I was physically in London, seems to