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The Declaration is a word, statement, or verse, affirmation or invocation, which is committed to memory and then often repeated. The purpose is twofold: first, to achieve a state of concentration; second, to direct the concentrative mind upon the idea to be expressed, so constantly or continuously that the idea begins to influence him deeply and almost hypnotically.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 6 : Mantrams, Affirmations > # 99