This is what is meant by the Affirmativeness of the Spirit.

It cannot _per se_ act negatively, that is to say uncreatively, for by the very nature of its Self-recognition such a negative action would be impossible.

Of course if _we_ act negatively then, since the Spirit is always acting affirmatively, we are moving in the opposite direction to it; and consequently so long as we regard our own negative action as being affirmative, the Spirit's action must appear to us negative, and thus it is that all the negative conditions of the world have their root in negative or inverted thought: but the more we bring our thought into harmony with the Life, Love, and Beauty which the Spirit is, the less these inverted conditions will obtain, until at last they will be eliminated altogether.

To accomplish this is our great object; for though the progress may be slow it will be steady if we proceed on a definite principle; and to lay hold of the true principle is the purpose of our studies.

And the principle to lay hold of is the Ceaseless Creativeness of Spirit.