Word Before Law

Which comes first, the Law or the Word? The distribution of the solar systems in space, the localisation of the Spirit in specific areas of cosmic activity, proclaims the starting of all manifestations through the "Word". Then the operation of Law follows with mathematical precision, just as when we write 2 x 2 we cannot avoid getting 4 as the result --- only there is no reason why we should not write 2 x 3 and so get 6 instead of 4. Let it be borne in mind that the Law flows from the Word, and not vice versa, and you have got the clue to the enigma of life.

How far we shall be able to make practical use of this clue depends, of course, on our acceptance of its principle.

The Directing Power of the Word is inherent in the Word, and we cannot alter it. It is the Law OF the Law, and so, like any other law, it cannot be broken, but its action can be inverted. We cannot deprive the Word of its efficacy, but our denial of it as the Word of Expansion is equivalent to an affirmation of it as the Word of Contraction, and so the Law acts towards us as a Limitation. But the fault is not in the Law, but in the way we use the Word.

Now if the reader grasps this, he will