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of itself. Water is one with the ice that is formed on the surface, and thus is your mind, with its Thought-Forms, one with the Spirit. Your body, with its tissue-cells, being an output from your mind, is also one with the Spirit.

You cannot think at all without making some kind of a Thought-Form, and that Thought-Form is either receptive or non-receptive to Spirit. If all your Thought-Forms were receptive you would always think LIVE thoughts and be full of health, joy, and all the good things that come from Spirit. Your evolution consists in consciously creating new and better Thought-Forms. Had you started in life with the right beliefs you would have been an automaton instead of a living, growing creature, so do not deplore your mistaken beliefs, but set yourself gladly to correct, revise and remodel them. The process of thinking is largely mental picturing. What you think you picture mentally, and what you picture mentally is the FORM your thought assumes, for, as I have said before Mind is FORMATIVE. It is always creating Thought-Forms that the Spirit fills with life, according to the nature and capacity of those Thought-Forms.

If you hold a mental picture of God as a Great Person, or large type of Man, seated on a throne, in some remote region above the clouds, you are not thinking in accord with Truth, in accord with what God really is, and therefore your Thought-Form is a dead form, and not a fit receptacle for the Spirit.