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The application or the principles upon which that science is based will inevitably produce both expansion of consciousness and refinement of vehicles. The laws which govern the development and use of the faculties of seership are as exact and as inviolable as are the laws which govern chemical action, mechanics, or any other branch of physical science. If they are applied aright the result is definite and certain. Let us now consider the way to gain this expansion of consciousness. The method, which has seen taught throughout the ages, is that of meditation upon subjects which are normally beyond the range of thought. As the muscles of the body develop by being given progressively heavier tasks, so the mind and consciousness will grow and expand if forced to undertake a similar progressions. The mind can be deliberately trained and developed along certain lines by forcing it to dwell upon subjects which are normally beyond its range of comprehension. There are many systems of meditation, and many books have been written upon the subject. The student of the “kingly science”37 deliberately selects a series of great ideas and ideals, of an abstract and metaphysical character, and dwells on them with concentrated thought, until his mental capacity is gradually enlarged to include them within its normal comprehension, and to admit of an increasingly complete realization of their inherent truth. An example of such an idea is: “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”38 Meditation upon that text will reveal the fact that it is not so much a promise made by a great Teacher as a statement of an eternal truth, and of an inviolable law. Whenever two or three people are gathered together in His name— that is, in the name of Love and Unity—then the Christ, Who is the embodiment of Love and Unity, is indeed manifest in their midst. From that relatively intellectual conception the student may gradually attain to a full realization of the divine immanence and of the unity of life. The Lord’s Prayer is another subject suitable for meditation. In the West we think of prayers as something to be said, but if, in addition to “saying our prayers”, we meditate on them, depths of meaning will be revealed which otherwise we fail to appreciate. The Lord’s Prayer is an invocation to the God within to send His power and manifest His triple attributes through the