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The Eleventh Lesson: Subconscious Character Building.659
The Eleventh Lesson: Subconscious Character Building.
In our last lesson (the Tenth Lesson) we called your attention to the
wonderful work of the sub-conscious regions of mentation in the direction
of the performance of Intellectual work. Great as are the possibilities of
this field of mentation in the direction named, they are equaled by the
possibilities of building up character by similar methods.
Every one realizes that one may change his character by a strenuous
course of repression and training, and nearly all who read these lines have
modified their characteristics somewhat by similar methods. But it is only of
late years that the general public have become aware that Character might
be modified, changed, and sometimes completely altered by means of an
intelligent use of the sub-conscious faculties of the mind.
The word “Character” is derived from ancient terms meaning “to mark,”
“to engrave,” etc., and some authorities inform us that the term originally
arose from the word used by the Babylonian brickmakers to designate the
trade mark impressed by them upon their bricks, each maker having his
own mark. This is interesting, in view of the recent theories regarding the
cultivation of characteristics which may be found in the current Western
works on psychology. But these theories are not new to the Yogi teachers of
the East, who have employed similar methods for centuries past in training