Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

189G.] SmiE PRACTICAL SuGGF.STIONS. 13t)
narrow is the way, which leadeth unto lift>, and few there be that
tiod it."
Yon 'ihonhl banish from your min1l all idt>a of tlw connterpartallife,
:uul be IMMOVABLY decided to find all the sati!!­
faction for both soul and body in God and in the cause worl1l,
living in the body, but not as the hotly. Yon will find, hy
keP.ping the consciowmes~ llt'tive in every movement of the
phyRieal body, that you, the thinking intelligence, are
mo\·ing the mnRcles, are carrying on the wm·k nf digestion an1l
asRimlation, an1l that every function an1l faculty of mind and
body are your instmments for accomplishing the desired results.
Keep in mind, that, while yon are in the fleRh, yet yon
are not the fle!-!h: and if yon feel the influence of woman's
thmaght or min1l upon yon, or any other psychic foa·ce, daim
the in.lisputable right to the absolute posses~ion and control of
the physical bo1ly, with the same poRitive force of min1l, and
will and contidenee in your divine right that you have in your
own house M to the gold in your pocket book. It is yours to
keep and protect, and to use, and no powea· has a right to touch
it. Herein the pa·iawiple that has grown to a monRter___:selfishness-has
it~ legitimate sphet·e of action; but remember that
your right of ~~ontl'Ol does not exteaul beyond your own body.
Take tlmt thought into yom· eonseionsness, cause the bn1ly to
aetas much a!! is needful fo1· health and vig111·, or as mneh as
lle,~esRity demand~; believe, will, and cause the hody to takt>
all the nona·ishnwnt that it nee1l~. so a~ to ohtain the strength
yon l'elJIIire. Thus ~·on will he enable1l to eRtahlisla within
Y••nr~clf the conseionsness of the ab!ololutP. llont.rol of the physi­
'cal hody. whethea· Hleeping m· waking. When this is 1lone, yon
willa·ealize the fa1lt that yon are master of that old seqwnt, the
Devil, that ·• decei veth the whole wodJ:" and yon will fin llow is: "Let
thet·e'he truth ht>tween us forevermore." The man that stan1ls
hy himself, the univea·se stan1ls hy him also.-Emersnn.
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