also explains the esoteric use of the masculine gender to denote the positive, creative, or life-giving function of spirit.*

Law is simply God's way of acting. Above the law is the Intelligence that acts through it. In fact, in the absolute sense there is no law. That means that Spirit simply acts as it chooses without reference to any idea of law, or any consciousness of it on Its own part. But, since Spirit is perfect harmony, every act fits every other act with perfect order; and man, viewing the expression of God's thought, calls it law. Viewed from the absolute, then, there is no law; viewed from the relative, or man's limited modes of vision, all is law. The seer has truly said, "All's love, yet all's law"; and yet that is only from man's point of view. He cannot act independent of the law nor need he try because the law is beneficent and full of life.

Law, then, is, from man's point of view, simply the instrument through which God acts to perform his purpose. His acts are generic or along certain definite lines or tendencies. As law, these tendencies are impersonal and without individual purpose. No amount of personal or impassioned pleading on our part will persuade deity to act outside of its law, since it can "do above all we can ask or think" within the law. The law seems inexorable only as we strive to reverse its workings or plead for favors contrary to its nature.

ANSWER TO PRAYER

Does this, then, exclude Deity from answering our prayers? By no means, but the way it will answer them is already established. Do I mean, then, that

(*See my "Being and Becoming," pages 22-23, and "The Law of Mind in Action," pages 166 to 171 and 179-185, for Personality of Spirit)