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hysteria; the condition of meditation; the condition of absent-mindedness. All these we enter into instinctively. You are to learn to enter them at will, and to understand the method and the purpose. Drifting is not navigation. Neither are these instinctive conditions, --- even though they are productive of good,--- self-control. All instructions under the New Thought name lead to self-control, which is the culmination of all true education.
Paul enumerated the "fruits of the Spirit" thus, --- "Love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance." Temperance is also given in the margin of the revised edition as "self-control," which is the pure meaning of the word. Therefore temperance is the realization of spiritual consciousness. Temperance is self-control; is man's coming into his inheritance of power; is man taking possession of that kingdom which is his. He can never take it until he shall realize that he is one with Infinity.
This is accomplished only by hammering and forging the Self into the expression desired."Man is a bundle of habits," says Emerson. Whence come they? Many by inheritance. Are they mine or do I belong to them? Only that which I appropriate from heredity by choice, belongs to me. All the rest if I continue to manifest it, I belong to. Heredity owns me till I convert it to my desire. That which I do not thus choose and which yet remains in me, is uncontrolled tendencies which bear me on as wind bears the leaf and as hunger bears the wolf. I yield to them and when the habit of yielding is formed, I excuse myself by saying: --- "Heredity. I can't master." When the fact is, I have not tried.
