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Rh sun, and warms the soil, and forms the rain, and as the great supernal Law lives in all law, and universally throbs through all the laws which make and keep this universe, from its greatest to its least things, so wonderfully grand and so transcendently beautiful?

Nay, we scarcely ever think of it. Yet if any wise mentor calls our attention to the fact, if we read in some reverent book or in the Word of God that we are indebted to the Lord of the universe for all that glory of natural creation which every where surrounds us, for our knowledge, our understanding, our love, for the truth we gain and the good we get, then, perhaps, we will acknowledge that it is so. But the idea is not an ever present, conscious, living idea, which lifts us in our daily life above ourselves, and which feels the breath of the Lord's mercy and love in every act of a busy life, and along every path of a righteous walk.

But when you have arrived at that stage of spiritual life which is represented in the parable by the creation of the living soul, then the situation changes. Then you begin to bear about with you the consciousness of the Divine origin of all you have and enjoy, and of the Divine presence in all you are. I do not mean that your active thoughts will at all times be actively centered on God, or that in all your discourse you will be ever repeating