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368 whatsoever. This attitude will prevent any misuse of the knowledge of the truth thus gained, and also keep the desire to that only which is legitimate. The desire for that which is not legitimate destroys the condition of reliability.

This twofold attitude is an absolute necessity for the successful development and exercise of the psychometric power and true spiritual seership, and the holding of this attitude will most certainly enable any one to do this. But for one to hold this impersonal and impartial attitude absolutely, he will need, as I have said, to come in touch and sympathetic unity with the Impersonal Life and Spirit of the Divine and Absolute, which should be the first or supreme desire of every one. This awakens and enthrones the divine and impersonal ego of his own being, which is always in unity and oneness with God, and holds the personal life in the consciousness of its spiritual supremacy. This is why the writer emphasizes the necessity of first opening the spiritual consciousness and enthroning the spiritual nature in the personal life, in which the impersonal and impartial attitude becomes the spontaneous and permanent law of the life.

The three successive steps, then, which open the soul to free and unobstructed activity and communication on both the psychic and spiritual planes, may be summed up and briefly stated thus: First, get the personal ego still, and empty the mind and feelings of every bias and standard of self and sense; that is, put out of the mind everything relating to the sense-life and the desires of self, thus putting the soul in a perfectly receptive attitude for the unbiased and unobstructed revelation of truth. Second: When this passive state is fully induced, fix and hold the attention in the passive yet expectant attitude upon the specific object about which the truth is desired. Third: These two steps having been fully taken, stand firmly and persistently in the receptive and listening attitude toward the object for the immediate revelation of the truth concerning it, and in the full expectation of getting it, and "according to your faith" shall it be done unto you. This receptive state, and listening, expectant attitude, will certainly open the consciousness to the psychic vibrations which write unerringly their story on the receptive mind.

If, in this third step, we entertain doubts and questionings, we are not holding the receptive and listening attitude. This was the constant attitude and normal condition of the Christ mind, and so without study or effort he always stood in the light of absolute truth concerning everything with which he came into personal relations. He said:

"I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge (always in the listening attitude for the inner voice or revelation): and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me."