through love and service. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of love, joy and a sound mind. People put up with things and places and other people that, in the true scheme of life, should have been unloaded long ago.
Old thought teachings, traditions, lack of discipline and a consciousness born from these teachings bind and enslave the mind of the evolving crowd; but the transmutation man, on the short cut, knows that as he climbs he must displace the old things of one level by the incoming things of the next, and, as he fasts and mentally unloads, he stands out―stripped to the spiritual skin, ready to call around himself all the things of this newfound kingdom. These things are fashioned through the fresh desires of his own mind.
Physical, mental and emotional baggage must be laid down, and new, fresh, unpolluted desires made ready for fulfillment.
When one has decided what he wishes to unload, planned carefully what he desires to attain, fasted and breathed for it, it can no more escape him than the budding flowers can escape the warm penetrating rays of the sun which, by natural law, drive them on into a wild burst of bloom.
The fourth reason for fasting is manifestation. There are so many who live, move and have being in a world of realization and never get farther than that in their unfoldment.
It is not enough to possess anything in thought that does not fulfill. We want to "kiss the lips
