---"Verily, I say unto you, whosoever shall say to this mountain, 'Be thou taken up and cast into the sea'; and shall not doubt in his heart but shall believe that which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatever he saith" (Mark 11:23). And similarly in the Old Testament we are told that the Word is nigh to us, even in our hearts and in our mouth (Deut. 30:14). What keeps the Word of Power hidden is our belief that nothing so simple could possibly be it.

At the same time, simple though it may be, it has Law and Reason at the back of it, like everything else. The ancient Egyptians seem to have had clearer ideas on this subject than we have. "The name was to the Egyptians the idea of the thing, without which it could not exist, and the knowledge of which therefore gave power over that which answered to it. The idea of the thing represented its soul" * This is the same conception as the "archetypal ideas" of Plato, only carried further, so as to apply not only to classes but to each individual of the class; and, as we shall see later, there is a good deal of truth in it.

*Out of Egypt by Miss Crouse. Gorham Press, Boston, USA