8.  Work with this affirmation.  Strongly implant it in your mind.  The use of strong, positive Affirmation in the Silence is valuable in that it gives you a firm hold of your thought so that you can “carry the thought” mentally.  The value of expressing thought in act and speech lies in this that it clinches your thought into a permanent habit.  Remember this psychologic axiom:  1.  Thoughts take form in action. 2.  Action induces thought and corresponding habits.  Therefore act out the part physically.  If you want a courageous mind—­“act out” the part physically, in your daily life, on suitable occasions, in all earnestness as you would in a theatre or drama.  In a very short time it shall become a confirmed habit.  Force yourself to it.  Take an interest in what you do and say.  Have confident expectations of SUCCESS.  Never be daunted and cowed down by initial difficulties and failures.  Never say die.  If you go down—­don’t remain lying and moaning.  Never, I say, never.  Get up.  Shake yourself up free and say, like the royal lion “Come one, come all, this rock shall fly sooner from its base than I.”  Have a will of your own and be a force for good.  Exercise your Will-power.  Be something.  Do something.

LOVE FOR HUMANITY, ENERGY, ASPIRATION, SELF-ESTEEM.

I cannot too strongly emphasise the difference between Self-Esteem and Self-Conceit.  I wish to drive and thoroughly pound this difference into your brain.  Self-Esteem is decidedly a manly trait.  It is based upon a conviction of the Kingship of God and the Sonship of Man.  Man is a dignified being with divine attributes.  He should not disgrace his Maker by crawling on the ground.  This is Self-Esteem.  Self-Esteem does not lower itself.  It never lowers others.  You shall never see a leader of mankind without tremendous faith in himself.  But equally truly you shall never see a true man or woman taking delight in having others crawl to dust before them.  They feel pained and shocked at such a sight.  There is infinite humiliation to them hi this sorry spectacle.  But Self-Conceit is that original obliquity that leads a man to make a hog of himself.  It is the old, dirty, unmanly “I-am-greater-than-you” feeling.  Such men are hogs, hogs, hogs.  They are not the true sons of their mothers.  They are bastards and imbeciles.  If you come across this type and get a chance to deal with him on your private strength open his eyes to his hoggishness.  If he has any manly stuff in himself, he shall reform.  If not, let him sizzle in his fat.  Nature and its rigorous Laws will rub the lesson home some day.  But don’t you stand their nonsense for want of moral backbone.  And the “I am” in you shall revolt against any such meanness and smallness in yourself.  Encourage it not.  Revere God.  Revere yourself.  Revere others.  Next, as to energy and aspiration—­these two characteristics transmute your mind from a negative into a positive type.  They give you an aura of thought-force such as never knows fear.  In point