THE SCIENCE OF NUMBERS
portant that its reality should be maintained with all the force that it is possible for the mind to exert. As long as we require its influence we must think of it as a real name, just as we now think of the name that was bestowed upon us by our parents.
If we feel that we must continue to use the old name in business or social affairs, it is possible for us to do this, but only when we are more than ordinarily persistent in impressing the reality of the new name upon the mental organism. In other words, we must think of ourselves frequently by this new name. Two or three times each day we must devote at least a few minutes to concentration, with the new name as the object of our thought, for it is by wrapping ourselves in this new name, as we would mentally wrap a cloak about us, that we can secure the beneficent effects of the new and more harmonious conditions that we have aspired to attain. As the result, it is decidedly
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