I think we should all be well pleased to go on living ad infinitum. Now can we conceive any combination of the Law and the Word which would produce such results? That is the question before us.

The first step is to generalise our principle as widely as possible, for the wider the generalisation, the larger becomes the scope for specialisation. The invariable factor we already know. It is the Law, always creating in accordance with the Word that sets it in motion, whether constructive or destructive; so what we really have to consider is the sort of Word (i.e. Thought or Desire) which will set the Law working in the right direction.

It must be a Word of confidence in its own power; otherwise by the hypothesis of the case it would be giving contradictory directions to the Law --- or, to borrow a simile from what we have learnt about waves in ether, it would be sending out vibrations that would cancel one another and so produce no effect. Then it must be a Word that does not compromise itself by antagonising the Law of Unity, and so producing disruptive forces instead of constructive ones. And finally, we must be quite sure that it really is the right Word, and that we have been making no