Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

1917 HEALTH BY MEANS OF MENTAL CONTROL 327
the necessity of the name YAHVEH, "I will be what I will
to be."
There recurs to him a condition active within
him as a child, when, in play with other children, he was
continually creating and overcoming obstacles; one striving
to do what the other could not. Thus the childish
mind lays the foundation for that all-important faculty,
faith, and an independent individuality which says, "If
you cannot do it, I can."
But in the experience of the Esoterist it is not necessary
to create obstacles in order to overcome them-he
finds them in his pathway, at every turn; and if he wish
to advance, to make progress, he must
assume the attitude
of the fearless warrior who, determined to conquer
or die, goes forward to meet the enemy.
In this mental
attitude he cannot let the body down into a sleepy,
dreamy, passive state, but learns not only to command it,
but to hold it under control as an instrument of use. He
learns to live, so to speak, in the mind, and when undesirable
conditions creep over the physical body, he rises
in the dignity and power of his mentality and repels
them; he does not for a moment permit their existence in
his organism. By the power of the conquering will he
says to the iniirmity, "You must go," and the will put
into the word causes it to go. Thus he learns-from
the experiences forced upon him by the necessities
of his attainment-that all is mind, and that he, the
organic, thinking intelligence, must rise superior to all
lower forms of mind: and we are prepared to say that
no man or woman will ever reach the high goal of attainment
without thus having complete control of his or her
own body.
One who talks of possessing these attainments and
who has not perfect control of his physical organism, is
like the soldier who boasts of his bravery, but trembles
and runs away at the approach of the enemy.
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