until we assume the attitude of receptivity. "Ask and ye shall receive; seek, and ye shall find." The great seekers are the great finders. This is faith which launches out on the unknown sea and finds the undiscovered country. The supreme affirmation is therefore the supreme attitude of mind toward the law. It is the highest statement. It is faith, for faith is a confident attitude of expectancy of the thing you are seeking.

The question then arises as to what is the highest attitude of mind. And the answer is that there is no attitude of mind so high as the conscious recognition of the spiritual reality of being. To be conscious of one's self as spirit; to be conscious of the universe as thought in form (Lesson VIII) and to be conscious of thought as the ruling power over all things, this is supreme. That is why all statements of being begin with God as all; man as His child, sharing His nature and resources; and the necessary conclusion that all power is therefore given unto man in heaven and on earth.

The supreme attitude, we say, is the consciousness of being. It is the consciousness of that which is. Jesus said, "God is spirit and they which worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." That God is spirit is not something to be proven by the intellect and reason; it is rather something that we intuitively feel to be true. The supreme attitude is therefore not some intellectual proof of being, but is rather a feeling of reality. It is to know in one's heart that what we