and delight in life.
Through this new level of human living we get a new contact with power. We cease to block the spiritual channels in our own being, through which we not only have life but may have it more abundantly.
The other side of these instructions are for the sentimental emotionalist who has so saturated his inner senses with indulgence that he knows nothing of a strong emotional control. Sex belongs to the emotional side of nature much more than to the physical or the mind.
Celibacy is the first step for fixed emtional control. The celibate learns not to yield to the erotic sensations either of mind or body. There are many who have been so long slaves to their slightest emotions that unless all the fine sensual sides are consciously satisfied, they are unhappy and morose.
Weakness is no part of the real plan of emotion, only the softness that is flexible so as to give a normal response to every situation. Whenever one enters an office where heavy perfumes, burning incense, luxurious couches, cozy exotic corners and alluring pillows are a part of the business scheme, he can know that he is in the presence of a sensualist whose greatest weakness is his over-stimulation of his emotional senses.
This individual, when he fasts, should hunt the lonely mystic cell where bread and water, hard floors to sleep upon and all things unlovely and unpleasant in appearance are his daily com-
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