day fast. If it is taken alone without preparation, it will not do the work that is done at the close of an ordinary fast. Eat at night on the eighth day and then neither eat, sleep nor drink until twelve or three o’clock the morning of the eleventh day. Twelve o’clock is for those who feel unable to go farther.
Should this fast seem too hard you should use you own common sense and stop anywhere that the strain seems too great. A glass of milk, then off to bed will cure any sensation you may contact.
In this fast one often has extended vision and hearing. Clairvoyance, clairaudience, trance conditions, suspended animation, are all a part of the plan. The fast takes the dimness of the Soul away.
Do not try this fast unless you are not bound by the old race superstition and fear of the things of the other world. There are many new fields of discovery before the one who knows and is not afraid. There is no danger to the one who is afraid, for his own fear will send him to the table or to bed long before anyone is anxious but himself.
It is in this fast that we became adept with the mystic mirror and it is in this fast that we can discover, and afer a while interpret, the Akashic records, and here is where we learn the true power of our wireless mind and catch messages too high to translate into speech.
It is in this fast that we see the White Light of Reality and can commune, not with the
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