whenever it calls upon the Father’s Will-power and proceeds to put It into action, the very consciousness of doing His Will connects it with that power and uses it to do His Will.

Answering your questions, it is not a “puffing up” of your personality to care how others regard you, especially when you truly know your Divine Identity. In saying that Love should always rule over self, was meant over the mind concept of a separate self. When you get your mind to believe it is a part of the One Mind, and that it partakes of Its Divinity, and then you let Love rule in your consciousness, you cannot help but receive from and feel the power and reality of God.

By the same token, the God within is but the mind’s attempt to define that Inner part of itself that is ever pushing forth Its ideas for the outer part’s guidance; and early in The Impersonal Life, in the second chapter, it plainly asks you to consider just for the time being the mind as a separate personality which is being instructed by the Inner Mind or the Higher or Divine Self. When the whole tenor of the message that follows is to show that there are not two minds or two selves, but only One—You, the I AM, or Divine Self.

You see, in the beginning of one’s spiritual awakening, it becomes necessary to instruct the mind and explain all about the different phases of itself; just what is the mind, and of what it is a part. Then it must learn to go in consciousness back within the All Mind of which it is a part, and realize itself as the whole of That Mind and not as a separate part; for no part could separate from the Whole. In that realization it gets a glimpse of many of the realities of life and sees that all outside in its former consciousness were illusions—thought-forms created out of its ignorance and belief in being a separate-self. Then it has to go back, as it were, into its outer consciousness, and there begin to act on these truths, to live according to the realities it saw in the inner and higher consciousness.

That is what your mind is now trying to explain in your letter. You do not speak as yet as one fully knowing your Divine Identity, but you switch back and forth in consciousness from your inner and outer centers. The time will come when you will fully know you are a Divine Being, and you will speak always as such, whether in your inner or outer center of consciousness; and when referring