r of the Word.
Then, if a similar Creative Power is to be reproduced in ourselves, it
must be by the same method: the localizing of the same Spirit in
ourselves by the power of the same "Word." Then our Word, or Thought,
will no longer be that of separate personality, but that of the Eternal
Spirit finding a fresh centre from which to specialize the working of
the Law, and so produce still further results than that of the First or
simply Cosmic and Generic Creation, according to the two maxims that
"Nature unaided fails," and that "Principle is not limited by
Precedent."

I want to make this sequence clear to the student before proceeding
further:

1. Localization of the Spirit in specific areas of Creative Activity.

2. Cosmic or Generic Creation, including ourselves as a race resulting
from this, and providing both the material and the instruments for
carrying the work further by _specializing the Original Creative Power_
through individual Thought, just as in all cases of scientific
discovery.

3. Then, since what is to be specialized through our individual Thought
is the Word of the Originating Power itself, in order to do this we must
think in terms of the Originating Word, on the general principle, that
any power must always exhibit itself in terms of the instrument through
which it works.

This, it appears to me, is a clear logical sequence, just as a tree
cannot make itself into a box, unless there be first the idea of a box
which does not exist in the tree itself, and also the tools with which
to fashion the wood into a box; while on the other hand there could
never be any box unless there be first a tree. Now it is just such a
sequence as this that is set before us in the Bible, and I do not find
it adequately set forth in any other teaching, either philosophical or
religious, with which I am acquainted. Some of these systems contain a
great deal of truth, and are therefore helpful as far as they go; but
they do not go the whole way, and for the most part stop short at the
first or simply Cosmic Creation; or, if they attempt to pass beyond
this, it is on the line of making unaided power of the individual the
sole means by which to do so, and thus in fact always keeping us at the
merely generic level. Such a mode of Thought as this, fails to meet the
requirements of our conception of a happy life as one entirely exempt
from fear and anxiety. In like manner also it fails to meet the first
requirements of