produce no effect.  Then it must be a Word that does not compromise itself by antagonizing the Law of unity, and so producing disruptive forces instead of constructive ones.  And finally, we must be quite sure that it really is the right Word, and that we have been making no mistake about it.  If these conditions be fulfilled the logical result will be entire freedom from anxiety.  Similarly with regard to maintaining a continued interest in life.  We must have a continued succession of ideals, whether great or small, that will carry us on with something always just ahead of us; and we must work the ideals out, and not let them evaporate in dreams.  If these conditions be fulfilled we have before us a life of never-ending interest and activity, and therefore a life worth living.  Where then are we to find the Word which will produce these conditions:  perfect freedom from anxiety and continual, happy interest?  I do not think it is to be found in any way but by identifying our own Word with the Word which brings all creation into existence, and keeps it always moving onward in that continuous forward movement which we call Evolution.  We must come back to the old teaching, that the Macrocosm is reproduced in the Microcosm, with the further perception that this identity of principle can only be produced by identity of cause.  Law cannot be other than eternal and self-demonstrating, just as 2 x 2 must eternally = 4; but it remains only an abstract conception until the Creative Word affords it a field of operation, just as twice two is four remains only a mathematical abstraction until there is something for you to count; and accordingly, as we have already seen, all our reasoning concerning the origin of Creation, whether based on metaphysical or scientific grounds, brings us to the conception of a Universal and Eternal Living Spirit localizing itself in particular areas of cosmic activity by the power of the Word.  Then, if a similar Creative Power is to be reproduced in ourselves, it must be by the same method:  the localizing of the same Spirit in ourselves by the power of the same “Word.”  Then our Word, or Thought, will no longer be that of separate personality, but that of the Eternal Spirit finding a fresh centre from which to specialize the working of the Law, and so produce still further results than that of the First or simply Cosmic and Generic Creation, according to the two maxims that “Nature unaided fails,” and that “Principle is not limited by Precedent.”

I want to make this sequence clear to the student before proceeding further: 

1.  Localization of the Spirit in specific areas of Creative Activity.

2.  Cosmic or Generic Creation, including ourselves as a race resulting from this, and providing both the material and the instruments for carrying the work further by specializing the Original Creative Power through individual Thought, just as in all cases of scientific discovery.

3.  Then, since what is to be specialized through our individual Thought is the Word of the Originating Power itself, in order to do this we must think in terms of the Originating Word, on the general principle, that any power must always exhibit itself in terms of the instrument through which it works.