BUILDING THE TEMPLE OF FAITH You see the beauty of the divine Truth, and now you desire to build the temple of your mind after its pattern. You desire to manifest the truth that you now understand. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for.” Faith is a mental energy that you can cultivate. Every time you think a thought of truth you are adding one more word of faith to the mental energy that is building up your spiritual body. Every time you make a strong affirmation of the strength, health and prosperity which are inherent attributes of your soul, you are formulating the quality of mental energy that your soul can use to come into strong, perfect manifestation.
The faith that you have generated in the past has been a negative form of faith. You have not known the wonderful power of thought, and you have allowed various kinds of false beliefs to occupy your mind; consequently, your mind-body, the spiritual body that is formed of your thoughts, has been open to the influences and beliefs that fill the mind of the world, and has not realized the dominion of the Mind of the Creator.
Your mind has exercised a certain negative dominion over the flesh, and its limiting beliefs are the cause of much bodily 108
