Lastly, we get “the Word” as the final deliverance from all ill; “Into thy hand I commit my spirit:  thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of Truth” (Ps. xxxi, 5).

And the reason of all this is because “His Truth endureth to all generations” (Ps. c, 5); it is everlasting, Changeless Principle.  “By the Word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth” (Ps. xxxiii, 6), as is also said of the Word in the opening of St. John’s Gospel and First Epistle.

Now a careful comparison of these and similar passages will make it clear that the sequence presented to us is as follows:  The “Word” is the passing of the Verb Substantive of Being into Action.  It is always the same in Principle, on whatever scale, and therefore applies to ourselves also, so that each one of us is a “Word of God.”  We are this by the very essence of our being, and that is why the first thing we are told about Man is, that he is made in the image and likeness of God.  But how far any of us will become a really effective “Word,” depends upon our acceptance of the New Name which is ready to be bestowed upon each one.  “To as many as receive him, to them gives he power to become Sons of God, even to them that believe on his Name” (John 1-12).  We get the New Name by realizing the Truth, which Truth is that we ourselves are included in THE NAME, and that name is called “The Word of God.”

The meaning of which becomes clear if we remember that the spiritual name of anything is its “Noumenon” or essential being, which is manifested through its “Phenomenon” or outward reproduction in Form; so that the true order is first our “Name” or essential Being, then our “Word” or active manifestation of this essential Being, then the “Truth” or the unchangeable Law of Being passing into Manifestation—­and these three are ONE.  Then when we see that this is true of ourselves, not because of some arbitrary favouritism making us exceptions to the human race, but because it is the working on the plane of Human Individuality of the same Power and the same Law by which the world has come into existence, we can see that we have here a Principle which we can trust to work as infallibly as the principle of Mathematics; and that therefore the desire to become something more than we now are is nothing else than the Eternal Spirit of Life seeking ever fuller expression.

The correction which our mode of thinking needs therefore is to start with Being, not with Having, and we may then trust the Having to come along in its right order; and if we can get into this new manner of thinking, what a world of worry it will save us!  If we realize that the Law flows from the Word, and not vice versa, then the Law of attraction must work in this manner, and will bring to us all those conditions through which we shall be able to express the more expanded Being towards which we are directing our Word; and as a consequence, we shall have no need to trouble