conveyed in terms of this medium, and if I paint one in water colours, my conception will be conveyed in terms of that medium, and the methods of handling will be perfectly different in the two pictures.

This applies all round; and if we keep this generalisation in mind, it will render many things clear, especially in psychic matters, which would otherwise seem puzzling.

Personality

Now we ourselves are included in the general creation, and consequently we have in us a generic or type basis of personality, which is entirely impersonal. This is not a contradiction in terms, though it may look like one. We belong to the class Genus Homo, the distinctive quality of which is Personality --- that is to say, the possession of certain faculties which constitute us persons, and not things or animals; but at the same time this merely generic personality is common to all mankind and is not that which distinguishes one individual from another, and in this sense it is impersonal; so we may call it our Cosmic, or Impersonal, Personality. Now it is upon this cosmic element, inherent in all things from mineral to man, that Thought Power acts because, being