Chapter 9 - Principle and Practice

The first principle fundamental to an understanding of mental and spiritual science is that we are surrounded by an Infinite Intelligence. We do not comprehend the meaning of such an Intelligence, except in a very small degree, but because we are intelligent beings we can sense the presence of an Intelligence which is beyond our human comprehension, an Intelligence which is great enough in Its own nature to encompass the past, to understand perfectly the present and to be the creator of the future. It is the cause of everything that has been and is that out of which will unfold everything that is to be. Our own intelligence is

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