CHAPTER VII
The Vision
(Creating In Consciousness)
There is no use fasting without the VISION and this begins on the Mental plane,–it is built by thought. All the fasting of the past was, to a certain extent, futile just because those who fasted never knew that they had to destroy completely the mental picture, before they could set in a new one. They simply fasted off the flesh and made a feeble change in mental pressure without changing the mental image, often aggravating the old emotional conditions without destroying them.
“Without vision, the people perish” the masters of the past taught and true it is today. Without the vision of health the individual will perish away from health; with the vision of poverty he will build a hovel, with the vision of misery he attracts misery, for on the path of life like attracts like. “Whatever man sows, he reaps and with what measure he metes it is meted unto him.”
We know today that we never live for an hour without some sort of mental vision or or thought form; after we begin to find these the past taught and true mental forms or pictures we can have a moving
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