by creating more and more original ideas of his own will tend to promote further development. Any system of thought or belief, therefore, that compels the mind to accept the ideas of others will retard the progress, not only of the individual but of the race. On the other hand, anything that teaches man how to create his own ideas and do his own original thinking will promote the development of greatness.

It is a well known fact that every form of greatness comes from original thinking, and those who understand the natures of mind and soul know that original thinking is the direct result of man's power to create consciously his own ideas according to his highest conception of what is truth. < The mind that can create ideas has begun to exercise its own creative powers. And when those powers are mastered anything can be created or recreated. Through these powers man can recreate his own personality, his own character and his own mentality. He can recreate his own mental world, change all his exterior surroundings, and create his own destiny.

Man has the power to become a master in the largest sense of that term. And the first step is to create consciously and intelligently his own ideas. To begin, the fact that ideas do not come from without must be realized. We may receive impressions from external sources, but we do not receive ideas from those sources. The only ideas that exist