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HOW TO ACQUIRE CONVICTION
Question—How can a person be convinced of this law when he has not experienced a demonstration of it?

ANSWER-By intelligently and scientifically working until he does make a demonstration. He should take some simple problem and mentally treat it until he sees it objectify. Then he knows and has created a foundation upon which to build.


CONCENTRATION AND MEDITATION
Question—What is the difference between concentration and meditation?

ANSWER—From our viewpoint, concentration means to bring some definite thought to the conscious attention. It is self-evident that we do not need to concentrate Divine Energy' since it is Omnipresent. What we do is to focus our conscious attention, and in this way permit Divine Energy to take they form of our desire. The degree of power focused will be according to our mental and spiritual equivalent. In other words, our power is equal to our faith in it. For example, if you wish to concentrate on some particular thought, bring your attention to it, then hold it, but without effort. At first you will find other thoughts coming in to interfere, but do not oppose them, brush them aside and resume your contemplation.


WHY DO WE THINK EVIL?
Question—If there is a Thinker behind all, who does the thinking, and if He is all good, why do we think evil? (page 16)
ANSWER—There is but one Thinker and one Mind behind all. To think otherwise is to suppose duality, and duality cannot be. That this One is the essence of Goodness is necessary, else the universe would be self-destructive. That this One is the Original Cause is certain and that this Cause is a perfect Unit is self-evident.
Man exists in this One, but with perfect freed0m, since he is an individual with the power of selection or choice, without which power there could be no real freedom. But man is on the pathway of unfoldment and does not yet fully comprehend his true nature. In ignorance of this nature he brings calamity upon himself through a misuse of the creative powers of his being. In reality God is the first Thinker, the true Cause. This Cause flows through man at the level of his comprehension of It. Man thinks limitation. The result which follows is n0t REAL limitation but an expression of his freedom, which freedom is so COMPLETE that it causes him to APPEAR limited. MAN IS BOUND BY HIS FREEDOM RATHER THAN BY ANY REAL BONDAGE.
To believe only in the good is to demonstrate that the good ALONE has real power.

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