subject. He says that "the Son can do nothing of
himself, but what he seeth the Father do these things doeth the Son in
like manner." It must now be sufficiently clear that "the Son" is a
generic appellation, not restricted to a particular individual, but
applicable to all; and this statement explains the manner of "the Son's"
working in relation to "the Father." The point this sentence
particularly emphasises is that it is what he sees the Father doing that
the Son does also. His doing corresponds to his seeing. If the seeing
expands, the doing expands along with it. But we are all sufficiently
familiar with this principle in other matters. What differentiates an
Edison or a Marconi from the apprentice who knows only how to fit up an
electric bell by rule of thumb? It is their capacity for seeing the
universal principles of electricity and bringing them into particular
application. The great painter is the one who sees the universal
principles of form and colour where the smaller man sees only a
particular combination; and so with the great surgeon, the great
chemist, the great lawyer--in every line it is the power of insight that
distinguishes the great man from the little one; it is the capacity for
making wide generalisations and perceiving far-reaching laws that raises
the exceptional mind above the ordinary level. The greater working
always results from the greater seeing into the abstract principles from
which any art or science is generated; and this same law carried up to
the universal principles of Life is the law by which "the Son's" working
is proportioned to his seeing the method of "the Father's" work. Thus
the source of "the Son's" power lies in the contemplation of "the
Father," the endeavour, that is, to realise the true nature of Being,
whether in the abstract or in its generic forms of manifestation.[3]
This is Bacon's maxim, "Work as God works"; and similarly the New
Thought consists before all things in the realisation of the laws of
Being.

[Footnote 3: Everything depends on this principle of
Reciprocity. By contemplation we come to realize the true
nature of "Spirit" or "the father." We learn to disengage the
_variable_ factors of particular _Modes_ from the
_invariable_ factors which are the essential qualities of
Spirit underlying _all_ Modes. Then when we realize these
essential qualities we see that we can apply them under any
mode that we will: in other words