The Prerogative of Spirit

Have fine ideals and let them materialise in life and character. It does not matter what work you have to do; do it beautifully, however trivial or mundane it may appear, for, on the things you touch, you leave some thought impression. A wound dressed with a bandage made by a woman who thought beautifully would carry with it what I might call almost the fragrance of purity and holiness and would be more efficacious in consequence. Thought of any kind has a power, it can be constructive or destructive. If you thought even beautiful thoughts for years without ever trying to materialise them, your mentality would degenerate, for you would become a recluse or a dreamer and get absent-minded or careless. Unless you express thought in a material way, it reacts upon the mind in time; this is what accounts often for religious mania. If you are intensely musical, you relieve your mind by materialising the thoughts in sound; if you are intensely emotionally religious, unless you relieve your overcharged brain by practical good work of some kind, the thoughts and emotions react on themselves and unbalance the mind.

Claude (Spirit)

On Mt Wank looking over Alpspitze and Zugspitze (that latter is Germany's highest peak). The town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen is under the clouds—W. Lloyd MacKenzie, via Flickr @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/saffron_blaze/