the flesh body of the individual and it is stored up as fat or deposits. Then the individual becomes the unsanitary receptacle of his own waste products. This substance is often dissolved into fine solutions and finds its way into the circulation, poisoning the blood, overweighting it and congesting it in many different parts of the body.
Every pain that racks the flesh is the voice of Nature saying "Unload, purify, purify, PURIFY!" With purification comes peace.
There is only one real cause of disease in the world and that is congestion; there is only one cure and that is circulation. Circulation cannot be normal when the blood current of the body is a heavy stream loaded down with the waste products of the naturally changing flesh.
Purification is, too, a matter of the mind. After we have paid attention to the purification of the body, we have yet the mind and the emotions to unload and, beyond these, the higher part of the mind which, like a dusty mirror, shuts us out from the full light of the higher registration of the Celestial light.
The second reason for Fasting is discipline. No one can ever hope to outstrip the evolutionary laws of life while he sets for himself only the tasks of the ordinary human. Only to the breathless runner up life's hill who, spent and dust covered, beats his breast against the tape of wisdom, will higher Truth reveal or Mystery explain.
The price of the better part is understanding,
