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body. Do not make the deplorable mistake of thinking that the Brain secretes mind, like the Liver secretes bile. The brain is just as inert as the clay or stone until mind works through it.
The MIND and YOU, dear reader, existed before the physical brain and body, and will continue to exist long after its atoms have turned to dust. And remember this, for it is a great truth. You, the Real You, are absolute master of mind, energy and matter.
Hear what Victor Hugo has to say about man's powers. How beautifully he pictures your greatness over the body that you are now living in. He tells you that you are a soul, having a body, not a body having a something called a soul. He says:
"Man is an infinite little copy of God; this is glory enough for man. I am a man, an invisible atom, a drop in the ocean, a grain of sand on the shore. Little as I am, I feel the God in me, because I can also bring forth from out of my chaos. I make books which are creations ; I feel in myself the future life ; I am like a forest which has more than once been cut down --- the new shoots are stronger and livelier than ever. I am rising, I know, toward the sky. The sunshine is on my head. The earth gives me its generous sap, but heaven lights me with the reflection of unknown worlds. You say the soul is nothing but the result of bodily powers. Why, then, is my soul more luminous when my bodily powers begin to fail? Winter is on my head and eternal spring is in my heart. There I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets and roses as at twenty years ago. The nearer
