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 helpful if we can persuade several sympathetic friends to assist us by thinking of us and referring to us always by this name that we have adopted. With such help, and our own sincere meditations, this new garment in which we have clothed our being will soon become real to us. Without such a helpful influence, the desired results may be long deferred, while any failure to recognize the existence of this new name on our own part will make it impossible for the expected change to occur in any of our affairs.

As may easily be seen, a name, if it is to be a perfect name, must consist of an uneven number of letters. A name that possesses an even number of letters,—like Mary, John, Anne, etc.—cannot be a perfect name, for, though it may have its Cornerstone and Capstone in harmony, it lacks the forceful vibrations of the harmonious Keystone.