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or agitation takes place. One is apt to feel very nervous and seared way down in the depths of himself. If he has ever been sick, he will begin to feel the old diseases; if he has been morally bad, the old desires and habits will take possession of him with new force; if he has been holding denials and affirmations about business affairs until they have looked hopeful, all at once they collapse and seem darker and more hopeless than ever. All the new beliefs that lifted him into a new world for a few days seem failures, and he seems on the very verge of breaking up generally.

What has happened? Why, simply this. There has been a clash between the old condition --- which was based on falsehood, fear, and wrong ways of thinking --- and the new thought or Truth entering into you. The old mortal is kicking vigorously against the Truth. You have a feeling of discouragement or of fear, a feeling such as one would have if caught at something disreputable. Do not be frightened. That which you feel is, on the spiritual plane, a similar excitement and agitation to that which was seen in the chemical action between the alkali and acid on the material plane. And something higher and better always results.

This agitation does not always take place with everyone but is most apt to occur with those who have been most fixed and (as it were) solidified in the old beliefs. Such people break up with more