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Mazzini, the Italian patriot and statesman, said to his countrymen:-
Love and reverence the Ideal; it is the country of the Spirit; the city of the Soul!
In no other country can the Human Mind live. The Imagination is the "home of the Soul." No happiness save the Ideal. Hope dwells there and Peace makes the Ideal her habitation. From that realm come all the manifestations of Thought. Man, through thought, is creator. His workshop is the unseen. His material, divine ideas. His tool, the Imagination. The product, Ideals. Amid Ideals, we live. They are our only companions. No man buys, wears, marries, or buries aught but his Ideals. He lives among them always and enjoys or suffers only through the creations of his mind. Life, world, men, conditions, the hereafter are to me what I think them; are to me what my Ideals of them are. It is important that you realize this, for your health, happiness, and success depend upon your realization of your creative power.
To realize that you possess, and that you do, either consciously or unconsciously, create every condition, is for you to become a conscious creator at all times, so that by creating Ideals to your desire and concentrating upon them, they become material actualities.
Concentration is the only mental attitude under which Ideals shape themselves into the physical life. As long as you hold an Ideal before you, that long is it shaping itself in your body, your business and your social life. When you change your Ideal, then the new begins to shape itself. What has been your practice Have you, like the sculptor, held to one Ideal till it "Carves itself in the marble real?" Or have you taken the Life-block
