re-establish a normal insulation throughout the physical self.
There are those who are really dead in their shell of food cells; no matter what they eat or what they do, they cannot bring any effect to bear on their flesh. It is just as much a sign of error to have a body that never responds to food never puts on a pound of flesh, as to have one which calls for food continually and builds it all into excess flesh.
Our first step, then, in the physical fast, is just to stop eating long enough wholly to rearrange the food body. We must want to fast more than we want to eat and have spiritual discipline enough to set the law for our own cell calls. All appetite is in the food body and as it lives by the stimulation of food, it must die if it does not receive it.
There are several different degrees of vitality in the food cells. In the first day's fast, millions of soft cells will perish but there are others which will still persist. We must fast until, from every organ of the physical body, the food body has died out, leaving just the one natural layer which nature gave in the beginning as insulation of the life cells.
The thirst of the drunkard and the habit of the drug fiend is in his food body. It is the appetite of the cell that calls for its continual satisfaction, which keeps them both returning to the drink and the dope long after the mind has weakly determined that they will reform. The united call of the cell intelligence for their
