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the healing Word is mighty with spiritual vibrations. The power of the Word is great or small according to the state of the mind projecting it. There are comparatively "dead words" and there are "live words." All depends upon the amount of Spirit that is in them.

To speak the Word, then, is of no more avail than a passing breeze unless that Word be alive with spiritual energy, and the way to fill it with spiritual energy is to first produce within yourself the mental state that calls forth the spiritual current from your centre in God.

You can do this because of the very nature of Mind, for it is by nature FORMATIVE, that is, it forms receptacles that the Spirit fills with life. These receptacles are called Thought-Forms. To illustrate — Let us suppose that before you is a spring of water from which you would drink. To do so you must have a receptacle to catch the water and convey it to your mouth. You shape a leaf, or curve your hands into the needed receptacle, for one of some kind you must have to make use of the water. Or you bend down and place your mouth to the stream, in which event your mouth becomes the receptacle.

Not in so mechanical a manner does the mind shape its Thought-Forms for the receiving of Spirit, but nevertheless it does shape actual forms, and those forms are THOUGHTS that are images or pictures of Truth, and the deeper, broader and more capacious those Thought-Forms, the more Spirit do they hold.

You need, therefore, to examine your mind to