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The Fourth Lesson: Mental Control.537
The Fourth Lesson: Mental Control.
In our first three lessons of this series, we have endeavored to bring into
realization within your mind (1) the consciousness of the “I”; its independence
from the body; its immortality; its invincibility and invulnerability; (2) the
superiority of the “I” over the mind, as well as over the body; the fact that the
mind is not the “I,” but is merely an instrument for the expression of the “I”;
the fact that the “I” is master of the mind, as well as of the body; that the “I” is
behind all thought; that the “I” can set aside for consideration the sensations,
emotions, passions, desires, and the rest of the mental phenomena, and still
realize that it, the “I,” is apart from these mental manifestations, and remains
unchanged, real and fully existent; that the “I” can set aside any and all of its
mental tools and instruments, as “not I” things, and still consciously realize
that after so setting them aside there remains something—itself—the “I”
which cannot be set aside or taken from; that the “I” is the master of the
mind, and not its slave; (3) that the “I” is a much greater thing than the little
personal “I” we have been considering it to be; that the “I” is a part of that
great One Reality which pervades all the Universe; that it is connected with
all other forms of life by countless ties, mental and spiritual filaments and
relations; that the “I” is a Centre of Consciousness in that great One Reality or
Spirit, which is behind and back of all Life and Existence, the Centre of which