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 registered at once, like sight reading as compared to the old tiresome way of spelling and pronouncing.

This registration part of the mind is the “flash consciousness” used by seers, prophets and revelators.

“Before ye call, I hear” the masters said of old, and this is the part of man’s divine mind which IS and only needs to be contracted to know. Back of the knowing and the thing known stands the KNOWER, which is ever ready to flash all wisdom into the human idea centers when the human himself will get the wireless machine of his own mind in perfect accord with the within.

The Illuminati Fast subordinates the flesh, it stills the discordant thinking, it hushes the emotional call and clears the field of consciousness for the flash lights of the higher self.

Sometimes the bodily senses become a thousand times more acute, but this acuteness only serves as a springboard for the higher bodies; the mind then becomes equally alert, all five senses over-intensified, the emotions quickened, until joy can be so intense it almost becomes pain; or pain so sweet that it becomes a pleasure to match it against the ever widening reaches of the self conscious attainment.

One often has to go far on in extended sensation before he will understand how pleasure is pain and pain is pleasure, but there is a spot where they blend, just as there is a change of normal sensation in the body in which one