The ideal made real;

Christian D. Larson’s work offers an inspirational New Thought account of how ideals can be translated into lived experience through constructive thinking and disciplined aspiration. A notable figure in the success-and-self-help movement, Larson frames spiritual and practical growth as mutually reinforcing, and readers will find guidance on visualization, character formation, and realizing one’s highest aims.

Christian D. Larson (often cataloged with only the initial and surname) was an American New Thought writer and lecturer whose books and essays promoted mental discipline, optimism, and spiritual self-culture. He was a significant popularizer of metaphysical and practical idealist ideas in early 20th-century religious literature.