To formulate a system of conduct that will be right, the principle upon which to work is that of perpetual advancement along all lines. The central purpose should be to change the mind completely so that everything that pertains to the mind will face the greater possibilities of life. To this end all the eyes of the mind should be turned upon the most perfect mental image of complete character that we can possibly conceive of, and every act should be expressed with the positive intention of building toward that ideal image.

When all the attitudes of the mind are facing the greater possibilities of life everything that we do will carry us forward toward those greater things that we have in view. In brief, all things will work together in promoting this purpose to reach the greater things, and we will reach some of them every day. When the attitudes of the mind are turned toward the ideal, the perfect and the larger life, all things in life will turn the same way, because the mental attitudes determine how all other things in life are to be.

When everything in life is ascending toward the higher and the greater, everything will be right because to be right is to follow the laws of life, or to act as these laws act; that is, to promote the purpose that is inherent in every law. And that purpose is growth, advancement and ascension. In this study the great principle to be born in mind