DEAR Father, I cannot yet see how it all depends on a person’s thinking what manifests in his life. For instance, a certain husband in a family is unable to get a job and has grown very much discouraged. His wife is a student of The Way Out and has tried hard to know the truth and not to see this situation, and to get her husband to help; but he po-poos it all and says there is nothing in it. Why then should she in any way be responsible for his condition, and how can she help it?

Dear One, I know it is hard to see how this woman is responsible for her present situation; but if you will heed carefully I will show you the real cause of what is here manifesting.

If you will remember, everything is controlled by law, and the law, “Whatever is thought and believed to be so is what manifests,” is truly in evidence here as it is in the lives and affairs of every husband and wife, not to speak of every person in the world. This being so, it must be that the predominating thoughts and beliefs of this woman and her husband are what are manifesting.

Try to realize fully what this means. When one actually believes a thing is so, it is so to that one; and therefore it outmanifests and seems very real. No, it is not that one believes it because it is manifesting; it is manifesting because the belief is so real that the belief is all one can see in one’s mind. Get the full import of this truth before we go on—for truth it is.

In the case of this woman, whom we will chiefly consider because she is studying truth, she immediately becomes responsible once she has been taught the law. Why? Because if she accepts it she evidently believes it, therefore she is called upon by the law itself to prove it and apply it.

No one can accept a truth into his consciousness but it becomes like a seed sown in fertile soil; it begins at once to take root, to put up shoots and to make itself felt. That is what is happening to this woman.

It is like this, dear Son; when I bring a truth to you, having prepared your mind to receive it, and I cause you to respond to and become interested in it, it is for one purpose only—to get you to build that truth into your consciousness, so that you can use and apply it; or that I can cause you to express and use it as you do any other truth you know. Thus does your consciousness connect up more fully with My Consciousness.

And when I have brought to you all the truth that I Know and have stayed with you until you have similarly built it into your consciousness, then will your consciousness become One with My Consciousness, and we will actually be One Consciousness—you will know all that I know, that I am really you and there is no other “I;” that I AM and have always been All that you are—your life, power, nature, self, everything; and that I alone have been expressing through you, who are but an outer extension of My Consciousness—are My Self.

Therefore, having brought you a truth and got you to respond to it, in a way I hold you responsible for that truth until you have made it a part of your consciousness and are able to use it as intended.

It is likewise so with this woman. She has accepted this law as a truth. Her Higher Self is now calling upon her to learn to apply it. She does not know how—yet. So she is allowed to see the outworking of the law of her own wrong thinking and to suffer the results, until her Higher Self is able sufficiently to impress upon her mind the cause, and the necessity of doing conscious right thinking and thereby of changing what is manifesting, if she really wants a change. You see after she has suffered long enough she will want so strongly a change and to apply the law as taught her, that she will draw from within the power and the guidance that will enable her to do it properly and successfully.

That is why We let these outer expressions of Ours suffer—seemingly, for in reality it is only self, the mind’s creation, that suffers. When they get really tired of suffering, enough to demand a change, they thereby change their negative vibrations and begin to think positive and constructive thoughts, opening themselves to Our inspiration and guidance. After that the change soon manifests.

As for the woman, when she really begins to change the picture of lack and limitation she is holding in her mind—despite what she claims, and which is naturally affecting and encouraging her husband’s mind in its negative attitude, and she starts consciously and determinedly to build and hold in her consciousness what she wants to manifest, her Higher Self will not only encourage her but will give her the power to create and vitalize the new picture she wants to bring forth in her life, regardless of what her husband believes or does; in fact, her Conscious right thinking will bring about a change in his beliefs and actions.

Remember, each one creates his or her own world of consciousness and everything in it. Everything one sees in the outer world is only what one sees in his mind and has accepted and believes is so; therefore all these things are established facts in the world of consciousness. One is sick or poor or out of a job only because he has thought, sees in his mind, and finally believes himself in such condition, and of course the law brings it to pass outwardly in his life.

I know it is hard to see and accept this, but it is true nevertheless; and when you can get your mind finally to accept and believe it, you will see all you or this woman needs to do is to refuse longer to believe what appears is so, and to begin determinedly and persistently to see and live with the condition you want to manifest, believing it will outmanifest; and it will—for the law will bring it to pass quickly or slowly, according to the strength of your belief.