same creative process of Thought to which alone it is possible to attribute the origin of anything. He is the image of God because he is the individualisation of the Universal Mind at that stage of self-evolution in which the individual attains the capacity for reasoning from the seen to the unseen, and thus for penetrating behind the veil of outward appearances; so that, because of the reproduction of the Divine creative faculty in himself, the man's mental states or modes of Thought are bound to externalise themselves in his body and his circumstances.

This, then, is the Law of Man's Being. I do not stop to discuss it in detail as, writing for New Thought readers, I assume at least an elementary knowledge of these things on their part; and accordingly, this being the Law, we see that the more closely our conception of ourselves approximates to a broad generalisation of the factors which go to make human personality, rather than that narrow conception which limits our notion of ourselves to certain particular relations that have gathered around us, the more fully we shall externalise this idea of ourselves. And because the idea is a generalisation independent of any particular circumstance, it must necessarily externalise as a corresponding independence of circumstances; in other words, it must result in a control over conditions, whether of body or environment, proportioned to the completeness of our generalisation.