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AT THE FEET OF THE MASTER all cases I am using the names which the Master Himself employed when explaining them to me.]

1. Self-control as to the Mind.—The Qualification of Desirelessness shows that the astral body must be controlled; this shows the same thing as to the mental body. It means control of temper, so that you may feel no anger or impatience; of the mind itself, so that the thought may always be calm and unruffled; and (through the mind) of the nerves, so that they may be as little irritable as possible. This last is 39