and better acquaintance with them, enable you to see them in a different and clearer light, as it were; and then comes the inescapable conclusion that neither the outer nor the inner worlds are real—that they are only what you “see” or think them to be.

As you thus view and study these things, then thought may suddenly come—where do these things, these thoughts, come from? For the more interested you become in what you “see,” the more new ideas about these things will appear before you. Then as you watch and study what appears, you will become aware that you are viewing them through new eyes, bigger and more clear-seeing than your human eyes could ever see.

And then suddenly you will realize that there are what seem to be two “yous,” that your human mind that has been so interested in following these explanations and statements is one you, and that another you from somewhere within has been approving and giving you all these new ideas, supplementing and amplifying what we have said, and that they did not come from us!

And so you or rather your mind, for the first time will realize that it is your soul showing you these truths—these new ideas, that it is the soul that is the real you, and that you are thus trying to teach your mind who and what you are, and what it is; that it may take its proper place as your servant, instead of thinking it is you and can be or do anything of itself.

This we might call a preliminary study of your mind, or of the inner world of mind, given for the purpose of making you acquainted with your mind and to enable you to begin a real and earnest study of it. For in studying your mind, you are truly causing it to study itself and at the same time to become more and better acquainted with you. In such a study you can then teach it all about its self, its powers, weaknesses and shortcomings, to look to you as its master, and to realize that from you comes all that it can ever know, all its powers and all that it ever hopes to be.

If it is desired we will be glad to continue with you this study of the mind.