t is, that the human
mind thinks it sees, feels, hears; but that the whole process is
mental, and that it is but regarding its thoughts, instead of actually
regarding and cognizing objects outside of itself. Do you follow me?"

"Of course," she replied with animation. "Isn't that just what I am
trying to tell you?"

"But--and here is the great obstacle--we differentiate between good
and bad thoughts. We agree that a fountain can not send forth sweet
and bitter waters at the same time. And so, good and bad thoughts do
not come from the infinite mind that we call God. But where do the
others originate? Answer that, _chiquita_, and my problems will all be
solved."

She looked at him in perplexity for some time. It seemed to her
that she never would understand him. But, with a little sigh of
resignation, she replied:

"Padre, you answered that question yourself, long ago. You worked it
all out three or four years ago. But--you haven't stuck to it. You let
the false testimony of the physical senses mesmerize you again.
Instead of sticking to the thoughts that you knew to be good, and
holding to them, in spite of the pelting you got from the others, you
have looked first at the good, and then at the bad, and then believed
them all to be real, and all to be powerful. And so you got miserably
mixed up. And the result is that you don't know where you stand. Do
you? Or, you think you don't; for that thought, too, is a bad one, and
has no power at all, excepting the power that you seem willing--and
glad--to give it."

He winced under the poignant rebuke. He knew in his heart that she was
right. He had not clung to the good, despite the roars of Satan. He
had not "resisted unto blood." Far from it; he had fallen, almost
invariably, at the first shower of the adversary's darts. And now, was
he not trying, desperately, to show her that Ana's babe was blind,
hopelessly so? Was he not fighting on evil's side, and vigorously,
though with shame suffusing his face, waving aloft the banner of
error?

"The trouble with you, Padre," the girl resumed, after some moments of
reflection, "is that you--you see everything--well, you see everything
as a person, or a thing."

"You mean that I always associate thought with personality?" he
suggested.

"That's it! But you have got to learn to deal with thoughts and ideas
by themselves, apart from any person or thing. You have got to learn
to deal with facts and their opposites entirely apa