The facts are now too patent to be denied--what we want is a better knowledge of the power which accounts for them.

And if this beginning is now with us, by what reason can we limit it?
The difference between the healing of disease and the renewal of the entire organism and the perpetuation of life is only a difference of degree and not of kind; so that the actual experience of increasing numbers shows the working of a principle to which we can logically set no limits.
If we get the steps of the Creative Process clearly into our minds we shall see why we have hitherto had such small results.
Spirit creates by Self-contemplation; Therefore, What it contemplates itself as being, that it becomes.
You are individualized Spirit; Therefore, What you contemplate as the Law of your being becomes the Law of your being.
Hence, contemplate a Law of Death arising out of the Forces of the Material reacting against the Power of the Spirit and overcoming it, and you impress this mode of self-recognition upon Spirit in yourself.

Of course you cannot alter its inherent nature, but you cause it to work under negative conditions and thus make it produce negative results so far as you yourself are concerned.
But reverse the process, and contemplate a Law of Life as inherent in the very Being of the Spirit, and therefore as inherent in spirit in yourself; and contemplate the forces of the Material as practically non-existent in the Creative Process, because they are products of it and not causes--look at things in this way and you will impress a corresponding conception upon the Spirit which, by the Law of Reciprocity, thus enters into Self-contemplation on _these_ lines from the standpoint of your own individuality; and then by the nature of the Creative Process a corresponding externalization is bound to take place.

Thus our initial question, How did anything come into existence at all, brings us to the recognition of a Law of Life which we may each specialize for ourselves; and in the degree to which we specialize it we shall find the Creative Principle at work within us building up a healthier and happier personality in mind, body, and circumstances.
Only we must learn to distinguish the vehicles of Spirit from Spirit itself, for the distinction has very important bearings.

What distinguishes the vehicles from the Spirit is the Law of Growth.