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NINETEENTH TALK 389 nobody need put himself in the way of that, but there is a definite outflowing of spiritual force, and those who know how can take advantage of that. There are plenty of other ways in which spiritual force can be brought down—not just identically that force, but other forces and powers in other ways. Here is a definite way arranged for a definite set of people, with a mechanical physical side to it, in order to bring the thing down to the physical plane. You must understand that all these forces, no matter how spiritual, no matter how glorious, work under the laws of Nature, and if, therefore, you wish that the benefit of them should be felt on the physical plane, there must be a physical mechanism through which they can» work. It is so with all such things. Electricity, for example, is a wonderful natural force ; it exists all about us all the time and is always in acti- vity. But if you want it to perform a particular work in a particular way in a particular place, you must provide certain physical machinery through which it can operate. If you want things done on this plane, then you must provide the machinery through which they can work, and that is so with these other quite spiritual forces. I do not say that you cannot get an outpouring of spiritual force in all sorts of other ways—certainly you can if you happen to be the kind of person to whom these other ways appeal. But there are many people who would always feel them- selves vague and uncertain with subjective methods,