CAN WRITER BE METAPHYSICAL?
Question—I enjoy your magazine immensely each month and would like to ask you some questions: (1) How may one use the power to accelerate a delayed musical education? (2) The metaphysical attitude is not, do you think, beneficial to a writer of fiction—who must live (mentally, at least) the conflicts of his stories?

ANSWER—All talent is subjective. It is the law of subjectivity to objectify itself. Somewhere in you there is a direct access to the Father of all characterizations and as Longfellow says, in Hiawatha, "to the master of all music." I see no reason why a writer or musician should not use the principle of spiritual perfection in his work. Place in your own mind an idea of the particular character you wish to bring out and then know that the intelligence within you will give birth, through your imagination, to this idea.

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THE OLD RUT
Question—Sometimes I catch a glimpse of truth and then I get back into the old rut, the old way of thinking, and a bunch of hard luck stares me in the face. How can I refuse to see limitations?

ANSWER—We do not always see the Truth clearly, but I should advise using the vision of your highest moments of thought as a pattern after which to work. Take the best your thought provides and repeatedly re-affirm it to be the truth about yourself, not fighting the images of limitation, but, as it were, gently pushing them aside mentally and re-affirming your position in the Divine Mind as being one of unity with good. Know that the Truth is not bound by any existing conditions, that the higher law governs the lower and endeavor to see yourself as being surrounded by everything which makes life happy and worthwhile. (page 161)

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