thereby becomes more natural to be in it, she will grow to hear as well as she now sees.

An interesting phase of the way what one learns in the soul realm is later transferred to the mind is illustrated by how it came through into her consciousness during study and meditation. From this it can be seen the purpose of such study and meditation upon spiritual subjects, which permits the mind to be drawn inward into the soul’s consciousness and there receive from it what the soul wishes it to know. For remember you are the soul—not the mind, and you are always teaching your mind—what you have first been taught by your Teachers in Spirit, or by your Higher Self.

By the same token, it would be natural for us to attract and meet our soul comrades—those who belong with us because of their being interested in the same truths and therefore being on our plane of consciousness—first in the soul realm, before they appear in the outer. This often accounts for the sense of familiarity felt when first meeting a new friend. We will have occasion to give further illustrations of this truth.

KNOWLEDGE is power, but knowledge without being applied is useless. It is as a machine that is not running; as a river that is still; as a train that has stopped.

This is only a paraphrase of Paul’s “Faith without works is dead.” But a new phraseology is needed, for we are prone to overlook statements we have heard all our lives, ignoring the import of their words.

Use knowledge if you have any. If you do not use it, it proves that you do not have it.—L. G.