GREATEST HANDICAP TO SPIRITUAL PROGRESS
Question—What do you believe to be man's greatest handicap to spiritual progress?

ANSWER-A lack of belief in the actual presence of Spirit as directing and Law as obeying, the lack of a spontaneous acceptance of Good as being an absolute power over evil. The lack of a belief in the possibility of directly approaching a conscious intelligence through one's own mind and receiving a direct answer from it. Doubt, fear, uncertainty and a sense of isolation hinder the progress of this desirable mental attitude.

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SEEKS SPIRITUAL UNFOLDMENT
Question—Above everything else I want spiritual enfoldment. I hear so many people say they would like to know God's universal law, but cannot know how to contact it or apply it or make it their own. Will you please give a simple, direct way in which beginners may understand the universal law, a direct way of applying it?

ANSWER—The first thing for beginners or those who are (page 20) not beginners to realize is that they are surrounded by intelligent Spirit operating through perfect law. Very few people have an adequate idea of the meaning of spiritual experience and fail to realize the simplicity of the application of the law. Learn to come to the Spirit WITHIN YOU as a child approaches its parents. Never try to use other people's words but put your thoughts in your own words and approach reality directly in your own thought. That which the sages and the saints have known you can know as well as they. Let nothing stand between you and It, and believe with all your mind that the Spirit is making Itself manifest to you.

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