ideas that are superior to those of the master minds, but we will in the effort create ideas of our own, thus taking the path to greatness and the path to greater truth. And by continuing in this path we shall soon rise to those heights from where we can give the world something better than has ever been given before.

To form superior ideas look at the subject under consideration from as many viewpoints as possible and enter into the finest grades of mental life during the process. Learn to feel deeply whenever you think, and try to see the very soul of all thought. All such effort, however, must be gentle, though filled with a strong, penetrating desire that gives the whole attention to the spirit of perfection that permeates all things. Refine the mind by training yourself to think through the feeling of your finest conception of refinement, and hold attention centered upon your highest realization of what may be termed cosmic substance. This substance is the perfect substance from which all substance is formed. Therefore it is the highest and finest that we can think of. It is the least material, and by thinking about it your mind enters into a finer consciousness through which superior ideas will invariably be formed.

Having realized this fine mental life, take up your various beliefs and try to form superior ideas about the principles or realities which those beliefs represent.