ld any other law, and it is this
study that is the essence of true worship.

The word "worship" means to count worthy; to count worthy, that is, of
observation. The proverb says that "imitation is the sincerest form of
flattery" more truly we may say that it is the sincerest worship. Hence
the true worship is the study of the Universal Life-Principle "the
Father," in its nature and in its modes of action; and when we have thus
realised "the Law of God," the law that is inherent in the nature of
Infinite Being, we shall know that by conforming our own particular
action to this generic law, we shall find that this law will in every
instance work out the results that we desire. This is nothing more or
less miraculous than what occurs in every case of applied science. He
only is the true chemist or engineer who, by first learning how to obey
the generic tendency of natural laws, is able to command them to the
fulfilment of his individual purposes; no other method will succeed.
Similarly with the student of the divine mystery of Life. He must first
learn the great laws of its generic tendency, and then he will be in a
position to apply that tendency to the working of any specific effect he
will.

Common sense tells us what the law of this tendency must be. The Master
taught that a house divided against itself cannot stand; and for the
Life-Principle to do anything restrictive of the fullest expansion of
life, would be for it to act to its own destruction. The test,
therefore, in every case, whether our intention falls within the scope
of the great law, is this: Does it operate for the expansion or for the
restriction of life? and according to the answer we can say positively
whether or not our purpose is according to "the will of God." Therefore
so long as we work within the scope of this generic "will of the Father"
we need have no fear of the Divine Providence, as an agency, acting
adversely to us. We may dismiss this bugbear, for we ourselves are
manifestations of the very power which we call "the Father." The I am is
one; and so long as we preserve this unity by conforming to the generic
nature of the I am in the universal, it will certainly never destroy the
unity by entering upon a specific course of action on its own account.

Here, then, we find the secret of power. It is contained in the true
worship of "the Father," which is the constant recognition of the
lifegivingness of Originating Spirit, and of the fact tha