But work and recreation are not essentially different in their true nature.  In both cases we have activities and vibrations.  In all cases some portion of the body is involved.  In all cases some features of the mind are active.  Action in either case is called work or recreation according to the idea entertained regarding it.  If the idea is that of task, the thing is work.  If the idea is relaxation, the thing is recreation.  I have taken the task-idea into recreation, and soon wearied.  I have taken the recreation-idea into work, and have been obliged to call self to account under that law of balance or harmony.  A boy, for example, is sawing wood alone:  this is work.  Neighboring boys join him, and soon invest the whole place with imagination, all busy sawing, splitting,—­playing.  It is the idea—­that is, the real thought, which determines the names we give the two general sets of activities.  Nature will check work-vibrations and restore recreation-vibrations, for A time, until harmony of the field is comparatively restored, if only suggestion use the magic word.

You are now invited to maintain, in all your work, the idea of harmony with the universal forces of nature, and the inspiration of the idea that your work is good and is building your self to better.

You are invited also to maintain, in all your recreation, the idea of harmony with the universal forces and the inspiration of the thought that your recreation is good and is building your self to better.

5.  Purity in the sex-life charges the personal field with the magnetic power of the universal forces.  In this respect the individual should be as a god.  The human body is designed for Temple-Presence of the Infinite White Life.  Epicurus regarded it as a husk, but Aristotle defined the soul as the “perfect expression of the body,” meaning, not that the soul is a product of physiological conditions, but that it is the truth of body, the idea, purpose, in which only do the bodily conditions gain their real meaning.  To this great Greek the chief of human virtues was high-mindedness, a crowning Self-Respect.  This attitude of the self toward the house in which it lives recognizes the perfect interaction of self and body, the one being influenced by the other, and so it insists that no injury shall come to the body from the inner sex-life, or from the sex-life to the inner self, but that both shall be maintained in harmony with the absolute whiteness of Eternal Being.

You are invited, then, to maintain purity under the law of liberty, and to adopt this thought as a permanent law:  My personal dignity Stoops not to physical degradation.