making it yours through affirming your oneness with the Omnipresent Divine Mind, in which that plan exists in its righteousness. Say: "I, as the offspring of God and his executive power, am one with his perfect wisdom now ordering my life into Divine Harmony." Ask for-then affirm the Divine Order. Put yourself in touch with Spirit. Then you will come into consciousness of a new world in thought and act and find yourself doing many things differently, because the orderly mind that directs the universe is working through you. It will not be long until you break forth in original ways of doing many things; changes will come in the way you eat and dress, in the way you write your letters, and in everything that you do. A harmonious relation will be established in all of your ways. Things that were out of harmony will easily adjust themselves when you open the way in your mind for the manifestation of Divine Order.

There is an orderly procedure in bringing forth man, even in the material sense. The birth of Jesus Christ is an example. His coming was foretold and arranged beforehand. It was not left to chance. His mother "magnified" the Lord before he was born. This illustrates that it is necessary to have order from the very beginning. The bringing forth of John the Baptist is an example of the coming of another state of consciousness, and the necessity of law and order in prenatal culture.

The same law holds good in our houses and our food, in our daily intercourse with our fellows, in even the mottoes on our walls. Dr. Morgan, of London, was married when a young man, and his father, a strict religionist, came to see him. The father went all through the new home, then said to his son, "No man could tell whether this house was dedicated to God or the devil. There is nothing on the walls to indicate it." Dr. Morgan says he saw the point and did not fail to have his wall mottoes express his loyalty to God. The

power of the Word should be expressed in our houses. We should surround ourselves with words suggestive of spiritual things? If words count, and we know they do, should we not be careful of all, every idea, taken into consciousness through the eye as well as through the ear?

From their inception to their expression, words are important. The law is fulfilled not only in mind but in manifestation also. Every suggestion that enters the mind brings forth like expression in act. The time is coming when it will be unlawful to print in the daily papers any record of crime or of anything that will bring discord into the lives of readers. Recently I read of a man who committed a crime, and in his pocket was found a newspaper clipping describing almost identically the same criminal act. This was the fruit of suggestion. How many such suggestions does one large daily paper carry to its thousands of readers in its recital of the daily horrors that make up intense news? As the world comes more and more under the spiritual law, editors and publishers will not ask their readers what they want, but will give them what they should have for mental food. And as the people are raised to higher planes of consciousness they will demand reading of uplifting character. They will be just as careful what they read as they are now beginning to be of their foods. There will be the same demand for pure reading as for pure food. If it is against the law of thought to adulterate foods, how much more is it against the law of thought to adulterate the Truth. We can see the necessity of order and law according to Spirit. Every deteriorating thought should be kept out of our mental food, even more carefully than such elements are kept out of our material food.

This applies also to music. Is music in Divine Mind? Certainly. The religious tendency of man's soul reaches out for expression in music. When our thoughts are in right relation, our nerves will not be

twinged by inharmonious song. We bring about whatever we hold in thought. Our own does come to us. If we lay hold of Spirit only the Divine Harmony will be expressed in us, and the song celestial shall be sung by us.

This spiritual law is operative in food and clothing. If we think about order and harmony our taste in seeming material things will change. We will desire the purest foods, and there will be more harmony in the colors we choose to wear. "If God so clothe the lilies of the field will he not much more clothe you?" Some people think it impossible for man to be clothed like the lilies of the field. But if man stands above all creation has he not power to clothe himself in the richness and glory of Spirit? Out of the air we may manufacture the things we eat and wear. This is not a flight of fancy. Chemists are already considering the possibility. It is not an assumption of theoretical metaphysics that we may be able to make our food and clothing from the air, but a logical conclusion following the understanding of God as the Omnipresent Resource of all that appears. So long as we believe in the slow processes of what we call Nature, we shall place ourselves under that kind of a law. But if we know the spiritual law, and the power of the Word, we shall bring into operation in our lives an entirely different law. Where is the limit to the power of thought?

So let us begin anew, and lay down the law of order in all that we do. If there is a tendency to hurry, stop and affirm Divine Order and rest yourself in its poise. Geologists tell us that our world has been whirling around the sun for over five hundred million years, and that man has been on the planet for over fifty million years. So you see there is no hurry. Remember that you live in eternity now. This thought of omnipresent eternity will alleviate nervous tension. Put every thought and act under the Divine Law. Even if you think you are going to miss a car, do not hurry;

another car will be right along, and if your mind is in Divine Order, it will be your car.

If you are disorderly and indefinite along any line, put yourself at once under the Order of Divine Mind, by affirming daily that the same Law that swings the stars in the cushioned ethers, is operative in and through your life and all your affairs.

I Am

ful.

TRUST IN THYSELF

To have profound faith in my True Self.

To have faith that is strong, vital, positive, power

To have absolute trust.

To have all conquering courage.

To have deep, powerful confidence.

To have self reliance-absolute assurance.

To have true conscious knowledge.

To be brave.

To be wisely fearless.

To be constant.

To be unwavering.

To be absolutely true.

To have profound conviction.
To radiate, inspire and contage:

Courage, Trust, Calmness, Wisdom, Inspiration, Poise, Selfreliance, Enthusiasm, Assurance, Determination, Harmony, Safety, Self-Mastery, Conviction. To have positive, powerful persistence and perse

verance.

self.

To have calm, continuous insistence.

To have joy in persevering.

To always have wise patience, especially with my

To direct myself with a hand of steel.

To have absolute, vital, Divine determination.

-Helena J. Martin.

PURIFICATION. THE FOUNDATION PRINCIPLE OF SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT

IDA M. MINGLE

JURIFICATION is the essential foundation principle of a well-ordered life, and involves purity of action as well as of thought. The average person shies at the mention of the word purity because of a guilty conscience, and not until man arrives at a point in his unfoldment where he has courage enough to face himself, so to speak, is he able to enter into the purification of his ideas, which are the impelling motive of his activities along any line of expression.

When the necessity of purification is mentioned, man naturally associates it with the idea of overcoming sexual tendencies. This is because man instinctively knows that the cause of his maladies is an inharmonious relation of his creative forces. But purification must be entered into along every line of expression in both mind and body, and while sex-impurity is recognized as the breeding place of all the ills of mankind, yet the primal cause of impurity is separation from God in the realm of ideas.

Purification cannot be established in consciousness through suppression because expression is the law of growth. There is no growth without joyous activity, and this activity must have perfect expression in the realm of mind as well as in the manifest world. Simply refraining from doing that which might be detrimental is selfishness, and does not constitute a scientific step in building up a consciousness of purity, for purity must be based upon an unselfish and impersonal desire. "Whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it." The desire to express the Divine Self, that the glories of the