sion, so does emotion; feeling must pass to outward manifestation and that which is outwardly expressed must pass inward into some thing too deep for words.
Through fasting we may established a normal balance and come back into that place of exquisite emotional sensation, where every moment of our life is full of a sort of unexplained exaltation, which the mystics call “bliss.”
Under this new power, the flesh body takes on a new radiance; it becomes beautiful with some subtle, occult radiance half-defined. Beauty is a perfect balance in the flesh of all of life’s finer forces. Without this one may have points of beauty but not a real physical radiance. It is this balance which gives one a “striking,” “attractive,” or “magnetic” personality. It is powerless to try to win one’s way with a physical body cold as ice, void of magnetic currents. Life must speak to life on all planes and it demands a rapturous response, whether it be from a physical, mental or emotional embrace.
The question of “Why do I not attract?” is answered; magnetize yourself with the warm glow of true emotion; live it in all things and through all things; not trashy sentimental gush, but that true, gentle sense of understanding and appreciation; then fast, holding this concept, and slowly you become a magnet attracting to yourself whatever you fling your desire around. It is the heart that wins and all practised arts of cold mentality and the
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