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see what your thoughts really are. I mean, you should see what you think concerning God, concerning yourself and concerning the world in general. If your thoughts are shaped according to REALITY, or what REALLY is, then you have good mental forms for the receiving of Spirit. Otherwise you have not.

When I speak of the receiving of Spirit I do not mean that Spirit is a Something separate and apart from you. Spirit is at the Centre of Being, and as it flows outward into externals it produces YOU, first in your inner self and then in your outer self. This outer self is an outer part of your mind, and it is this which is formative. It is this that shapes thoughts for the receiving of Spirit.

Let me illustrate more fully — Suppose a liquid, plastic substance should solidify at its boundary lines, thus forming cells or receptacles into which the liquid part of the substance continued to flow. This would describe, as well as any material terms could, your actual oneness with, but apparent separateness from, Spirit. At the centre is Spirit, liquid, plastic, flowing, so to speak, although this does not really define it, and as it flows outward to the circumference of your mind and body, it solidifies into form, making thus receptacles for itself to flow into, first becoming Thought-Forms, and later, Body-Cells. In itself Spirit is formless, but it evolves forms out of itself in which to hold itself. It builds forms as the spider weaves its web out of its own substance, and then dwells in the web, made out