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

1918 sous PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS 567
what they eat, and give freedom to the senses while
taking food.
And again, when they lie down to sleep, they should
study how to let go of the sense system, giving to it its
normal course of action, and discriminating carefully so
as to put no restsaint upon the reproductive system,
other than a complete retention all the life generated
thereby. The god of creation has made ample provision
for producing activity of the sex, and the consequent
supply of vitality for every thing that lives; and the individual
has nothing to do but to remove the obstacles
that have been put in the way by abnormal conditions of
the mind and abuses of the body.
The mental conditions wholly govern the entire nerve
structure and sensational system of the body,-in short,
the mind is the man or the woman, without which the
body is a lifeless clod; therefore the most important study
is how to create in one's self and to hold continually the
right mental attitude, remembering that belief and disbelief
are conditions of the mind, and that they affect both
body and mind more directly and positively than any
other mental state, and that these are the special conditions
which are most diilicult to control. Whatever you
believe without a doubt arising from within or without,
from that moment becomes an accomplished fact.
In strength and importance the principle of desire
stands next to belief; and it apparently acts without the
volition of the individual.
Desire is, like hunger, seemingly
independent of the mentality; but both are only
seemingly so: many will tell you that they never get
hungry when their mind is intense in another direction;
and it is so with desire. 'To those who are struggling to
conquer generation, the desire of sex becomes even
stronger than the appetite for food; and that desire has
caused many of our Esoteric students to begin to reach