life of the world,–no work at night can take on the wear and tear of the day to those who are in harmony with the forces of the hours. The stillness, the lack of noises that fret the nerves and brain, the soft, slow turning of the table of time, the changing vibrations of the hours themselves,–the white light of the midnight hours,–the dull gray of the coming dawn–all bring their own subtleties and weave them into the life substance of those who have the strength of character to seek and find.
Fasting, breathing, meditation, concentration, and sleepnessness, this is the discipline whereby the race man opens the doors to higher power and perfected perception. “He who puts his hand to the plow and turns back, is not fit for the kingdom of God,” the olden mystics said.
There are seven bodies, with their own existing states of consciousness, which are at all times in action in the physical one, and when one fasts from sleep he intensifies the second, or astral body, and through this he can register all the wisdom of the Akashic records of his physical brain.
One part of the brain is for registration–a form of thought higher than mental thinking. In this part of mind one does not think–the thoughts think him. His own mind is a receiving radio center and not a generator of thought force; he receives a stream of thought force so big that he does not need to translate it into thought, form or speech. It flashes into his idea centers and the ideas, words and all are
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