Julia Seton

“ What shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Ask this question of yourself and then answer it by giving steadfast allegiance to the thought, words, and vision of that desire.
There can be no changing base for the consciousness that wants to outstrip the old limiting things of our flesh and our material world. It takes some mental force to displace a hovel, a weak flesh body, a broken heart, or a long line of saturated failure atmosphere. ”

“ We train ourself into fixed thinking and induce the state of mind in which we want to fast. We know that when thinking has passed into a fixed form we are able to stamp the atomic mind of the intelligence of our body and environment. So we clean up our mind; unload our mental rubbish, just as we are unloading our physical. There are very few thoughts worth thinking; we seek them out and resolutely refrain from thinking any thought that is below a true standard of selection. ”

“ Then, standing with this freedom as a spiritual springboard, we leap again into conscious mastery over a still finer law of being, and we begin the dominion of our emotional self. Subjecting feeling into a finer force, we mingle it with the stream of higher thought force and pour a new inspiration into life. ”

“ Take out from your mind the thought that does not make you a new, strong, altogether lovely creature, then passing all these things into a perfect vision, fast on and turn the attention to your emotions. ”

“ We want health, wealth, happiness, freedom, love and usefulness, and, since this is so, it is folly to stamp upon the mind of the new body anything less than our heart’s best desires.
While we fast we set the mental task for self of thinking about the things for which we are fasting; we refuse to think of anything else. ”

“ And while we do want to eat,–think the old destructive thoughts, we want a thousands times more than all else, the new freedom of the body, mind and spirit, and the possession of the dear desires of our soul. ”

“ The medium through which all action is transferred from mind to flesh is the blood current; the life of the body is the blood. The blood carries thought-force as waves of vibration and these waves of vibration establish action and reaction in the tissues.
We say without a chance for contradiction, that all disease of the flesh is the result of disordered states of mind; that back of all disease is the long, discordant line of thinking which it and that as the disease of the in mind, it is to the mind we must has produced flesh begins look for its cure. ”

“ Every atom of our flesh intelligence and it is under the influence of every thought we think. Thoughts establish a force or action in our tissues and upon our own thought force is quality of our physical flesh. ”

“ Before one can understand the influence of thoughts upon the physical body he must learn the occult relationship between Cosmic Mind as expressed in the man, and atomic mind as expressed in his flesh. ”

“ Until the mental plate is changed the body and environment will reprint the old pictures, no matter how often we fast, for there is always an insulation of cells from which the new cells build and these will keep the old registrations if they are not changed by new mentation. The cell intelligence is extended through cell continuity and cell contiguity, and the cells are changed every month to the marrow of the bones. In fasting, the new cell must be charged with the new intelligence or it can only repeat the old law. ”

“ Think of the fine mechanism of the brain like the works of the finest watch. Through worry or fear, some prolonged abnormal attitude of mind, some part of the brain is deluged with more blood than is needed in normal action and a low, prolonged headache is the result. ”

“ Increased action of any organs means an increased determination of blood to that organ; an increased determination of blood to any organ means increased action of the old that organ, hence we have a vicious circle established, which at first causes functional disturbances and later anatomical change. ”

“ Get the kidneys congested and nephritis is sure; take all the blood away from the stomach by some big mental strain and indigestion is the result; indigestion and lack of normal blood pressure will eventually give ulcers and complete changes in the mucous membranes of the body. ”