no longer goes to bed, by day or night, to indulge in pleasurable indolence, but rather to give his body the rest it needs; he therefore regulates his hours of sleep, rising early, and never encouraging the animal desire to indulge in dreamy indolence after waking. Such food and drink as is particularly associated with gluttony, cruelty, and animalism he will dispense with altogether, selecting the mild and refreshing sustenance which Nature provides in such rich profusion.
These preliminary steps will be at once adopted; and as the path of self-government and self-examination is pursued, a clearer and ever clearer perception of the nature, meaning, and effects of desire will be developed, until it is seen that the mere regulation of one’s desires is altogether inadequate and insufficient, and that the desires themselves must be abandoned, must be allowed to fall out of the mind and to have no part in the character and life. It is at this point that the soul of the seeker the dark Valley of Temptation; for these desires will not die without a
