nd it is they that differentiate this universal power
into all the varied forms of application which their different aptitudes
and opportunities suggest. We, as the hands, live and work because the
Central Mind lives and works in us. We are one with it, and it is one
with us; and so long as we keep this primal truth before us, we realise
ourselves as beings of unlimited goodness and intelligence and power,
and we work in the fulness of strength and confidence accordingly; but
if we lose sight of this truth, we shall find that the strongest will
must get exhausted at last in the unequal struggle of the individual
against the universe.

For if we do not recognise the Central Mind as the source of our
vitality, we are literally "fighting for our own hand," and all the
other hands are against us, for we have lost the principle of connection
with them. This is what must infallibly happen if we rely on nothing but
our individual will-power. But if we realise that the will is the power
by which we give out, and that every giving out implies a corresponding
taking in, then we shall find in the boundless ocean of central living
Spirit the source from which we can go on taking in _ad infinitum_, and
which thus enables us to give out to any extent we please. But for wise
and effective giving out a strong and enlightened will is an absolute
necessity, and therefore we do well to cultivate the will, or the active
side of our nature. But we must equally cultivate the receptive side
also; and when we do this rightly by seeing in the Infinite Mind the one
source of supply, our will-power becomes intensified by the knowledge
that the whole power of the Infinite is present to back it up; and with
this continual sense of Infinite Power behind us we can go calmly and
steadily to the accomplishment of any purpose, however difficult,
without straining or effort, knowing that it shall be achieved, not by
the hand only, but by the invincible Mind that works through it. "Not by
might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts."

1902.

XXIII

THE CENTRAL CONTROL

In contemplating the relations between body, soul, and spirit, between
Universal Mind and individual mind, the methodised study of which
constitutes Mental Science, we must never forget that these relations
indicate, not the separateness, but the unity of these principles. We
must learn not to attribute one part of our action to one part of our
being, and an