follow definite laws, although we may not yet understand them. This knowledge will come to us by degrees with the natural expansion of our powers, and when it arrives in its proper order, we shall be qualified to use it; and if we realise that there is a Universal Mind capable of guiding us at all, we may trust it not to keep back from us anything that it is necessary we should know at each stage of our onward journey. Do we want knowledge? The Master has promised that the Spirit of Truth shall guide us into all truth. "Should not a people seek unto their God instead of unto them that have familiar spirits?" (Isaiah 8:19). There is a reason at the back of all these things.

The Antidote

We thus see that the whole question of the power of evil turns on the two fundamental Laws which I spoke of in the opening pages of this book as forming the basis of Bible teaching: the Law of Suggestion and the Law of the Creative Power of Thought. The conception of an abstract principle of evil, the Devil, receives its power from our own autosuggestion of its existence; and the power of evil spirits results from a mental attitude which allows us to receive their suggestions.

Then in both cases, the suggestion having been accepted, our own creative power of Thought does the rest and so prepares the way for receiving still further suggestions of the same sort. Now the antidote to all this is a right conception of God or the