y thoughts," he finished.

"But these thoughts do not come from God," she insisted.

"No," he replied slowly, "because they often manifest discord and
error. I think I grasp what is struggling in your mind _chiquita_. God
is--"

"Everywhere," she interrupted.

"He is everywhere, and therefore He is the soul--the inside--the heart
and core--of everything. He is mind, and His thoughts are real, and
are the only real thoughts there are. He is truth. The opposite of
truth is a lie. But, in reality, truth cannot have an opposite.
Therefore, a lie is a supposition. And so the thought that we seem to
see externalized all about us, and that we call physical objects, is
supposition only. And, a supposition being unreal, the whole physical
universe, including material man, is unreal--is a supposition, a
supposition of mixed good and evil, for it manifests both. It is the
lie about God. And, since a lie has no real existence, this human
concept of a universe and mankind composed of matter is utterly
unreal, an image of thought, an illusion, existing in false thought
only--a belief--a supposition pure and simple!"

As he talked he grew more and more animated. He seemed to forget the
presence of the child, and appeared to be addressing only his own
insistent questionings.

They walked along together in silence for some moments. Then the girl
again took up the conversation.

"Padre," she said, "you know, you taught me to prove my problems in
arithmetic and algebra. Well, I have proved something about thinking,
too. If I think a thing, and just keep thinking it, pretty soon I see
it--in some way--outside of me."

A light seemed to flash through Jose's mental chambers, and he
recalled the words of the explorer in Cartagena. Yes, that was exactly
what he had said--"every thought that comes into the mind tends to
become _externalized_, either upon the body as a physical condition,
or in the environment, or as an event, good or bad." It was a law,
dimly perceived, but nevertheless sufficiently understood in its
workings to indicate a tremendous field as yet all but unknown. The
explorer had called it the law of the externalization of thought. "As
a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," said the Master, twenty
centuries before. Did he recognize the law?

Jose's thought swept over his past. Had his own wrong thinking, or the
wrong thought of others, been the cause of his unhappiness and acute
mental suffering? But why personaliz