in my present state of evolution I have to follow the usual methods of travel, but so far as my Thought is concerned, I have been there all the time.  Indeed, such a case as the one I have mentioned, of my being seen in Edinburgh while I was physically in London, seems to point to the actual transference of some part of the personality to another locality, and similarly with my visit to Lanercost Abbey; and the reader must remember, that such phenomena are by no means uncommon—­they are the natural action of some part of our personality, and must therefore follow some natural law, even though we may at present know very little of how it works.

We see, therefore, both from a priori reasoning, and from observed facts, that it is the Word, Thought, or Desire of the Spirit, that localizes its activity in some definite centre.  The student should bear this in mind as a leading principle, for he will find that it is of general application, alike in the case of individuals, of groups of individuals, and of entire nations.  It is the key to the relation between Law and Personality, the opening of the Grand Arcanum, the equilibrating of Jachin and Boaz, and it is therefore of immediate importance to ourselves.

We may take, then, as a starting-point for further enquiry, the maxim that Volition creates Centres of Spiritual Activity.  But perhaps you will say:  “If this be true, what word or words am I to employ?” This is a question which has puzzled a good many people before you.  This “Word” which so many have been in search of, has been variously called “the Lost Word,” “the Word of Power,” “the Schemhammaphorasch or Secret Name of God,” and so on.  A quaint Jewish legend of the Middle Ages says that the “Hidden Name” was secretly inscribed in the innermost recesses of the Temple; but that, even if discovered, which was most unlikely, it could not be retained because, guarding it, were sculptured lions, which gave such a supernatural roar as the intruder was quitting the spot, that all memory of the “Hidden Name” was driven from his mind.  Jesus, however, says the legend, knew this and dodged the lions.  He transcribed the Name, and cutting open his thigh, hid the writing in the incision, which, by magical art, he at once closed up; then, after leaving the Temple, he took the writing out and so retained the knowledge of the Name.  In this way the legend accounts for his power to work miracles.

Jesus, indeed, possessed the Word of Power, though not in the way told in the legend, and he repeatedly proclaimed it in his teaching:—­“According to your Faith be it unto you”—­“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 what he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith” (Mark xi, 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. xxx, 14).  What keeps the Word of Power hidden, is our belief that nothing so simple could possibly be it.