cannot be done, nor it cannot be understood, until the process of concentrating and “boring in” to the soul of a given thought is followed as described. Such priceless secrets are not to be had just for the asking or for the mere reading of them—they must be earned by the persistent practice of making yourself do all that is required, once you know that it is necessary.

And anyone who has made himself concentrate upon a given thought or idea in order to discover its inner meaning and all about it, so that he could release its power, and has stayed with it until the fullness of its purpose and glory has unfolded to him—knows; and thereby has also discovered within himself a power and an ability that means more to him than anything else in life.

This in a lesser way is the ability and power that has brought success to every great writer, poet, philosopher, teacher, scientist, inventor, financier, industrialist or statesman—the ability to stay with an idea until he made all of its possibilities a manifest reality.

WE WILL point to more of the mighty potentialities hidden in the meaning of the words quoted at the head of this article, and will take as illustrations some well known incidents from the New Testament and elsewhere. Yes, they were miracles—so-called, but when we explain the law back of them, you will learn that there are no miracles, but that when one knows the truth, the power of truth is so great that it contravenes all the laws known by the ordinary mind; because in the control of one who knows how to use it the truth works forth from out an inner plane of consciousness, bringing therefrom into visibility all things that appear to the outer senses.

Let us take first Jesus walking on the water, and Peter also, until he feared—in the 14th chapter of Matthew. Jesus of course knew the law, that whatever He thought He thus caused to be so, and that if He held His thought in consciousness, despite what appeared outwardly, He could do and be whatever He saw and felt Himself doing or appearing to do.

So knowing that water is but an idea in consciousness, and that in consciousness all is spirit, and that NOTHING HAS FORM UNTIL MIND SHAPES SPIRIT INTO FORM AND GIVES IT SUBSTANCE, LIFE, QUALITY AND NATURE, BY THINKING, He thinks and sees that idea as solid instead of fluidic, and smooth instead of stormy, and holding it in consciousness as solid and smooth only, He knows He can