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and placed it in the hands of an Ideal to-day, changing to another to-morrow, and then to another, till you have had as many Ideals as there are days Have you not changed the details of the work every hour? You decided in the morning you would have a statue of Health, but before noon you changed it to Pain, at midday to Grief, at mid-afternoon to Success, and at sunset to a Satyr laughing at Failure, and at bedtime to Remorse, and awaken at morn with a statue of Hope? Is not your life a composite of all these and a thousand more? And this because you have not held one picture before it long enough for the picture to become fixed as a mental habit. Concentration means holding the chosen mental picture to the exclusion of all others till your objective life becomes the picture.

"I AM THAT WHICH I THINK MYSELF TO BE!"

The Ideal Life is the Real Life and this unseen Ideal Life is the one that alone concerns us. The laws of matter, are the Laws of spirit. They are but reflections of the unseen Laws, because Nature is one. No line can be drawn between the Here and the There; between the present and the past, or the future; between Cause and Effect. The Universe is a Unit, and as such we are to live It. Not to live in it, but to live It, for we are It. This Life of the body that has so troubled us, is the life of appearance, and with appearances hereafter we are not to deal; will deal with eternal verities, i. e. with Ideals which cause these appearances. The goal of every endeavor is Ideal, and that Ideal is REALITY OF SPIRIT. Let this Ideal manifest in perfect faith, by letting it alone, save to hotel to it as Will. The Ideal will carry you to the goal of its own manifestation.