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 are grades of fasting which one must recognize when he begins his short cut to at-one-ment with finer forces.

The one who is taking the fast for the first time cannot expect to take the same kind of fast as those who have done the fast for several months or years. After we have established the habit of fasting, we can go as far as we like in experimenting with occult laws; but in the beginning we should take the Novitiate instructions and follow them faithfully; through these we reach the point of mental and psychical endurance and discipline which enables us to take up the Initiates’ fast or the fast of the Illuminati.

After one has taken many fasts, our several bodies become accustomed to the new action and reaction, and the new demands made upon them cannot throw them out of harmony or allow them to over-intensify in any of their sensations.

The Illuminati Fast is fast from food, water, emotional stimulus (sex) and sleep.

There are many who learn to fast from food more easily than from drink or sleep. It is as