Spiritual Principles can only be acquired after long discipline in the pursuit and practice of Virtue.

Dearly Beloved,

THE schoolmaster never attempts to teach his pupils the abstract principles of mathematics at the commencement; he knows that by such a method teaching would be vain, and learning impossible.

He first places before them a very simple sum, and, having explained it, leaves them to do it.

When, after repeated failures and ever-renewed effort, they have succeeded in doing it correctly, a more difficult task is set for them, and then another and another; and not until the pupils have, through many years of diligent application, mastered all the lessons in arithmetic does he attempt to unfold to them the
underlying mathematical principles.

Thus practice ever precedes knowledge even in the ordinary things of the world, and in spiritual things, in the living of the higher life, this law is rigid in its exactions.

So my brothers and sisters,

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the Loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts,
for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you will remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

Guard well thy mind, and, noble, strong, and free, Nothing shall harm, disturb or conquer thee;
For all thy foes are in thy heart and mind, There also thy salvation thou shalt find.

Always remember...

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream so shall you become.

Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be.

your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream.

The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so when you perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

Be Inspired.