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is of importance. Know that you can before you begin, and know that you do while you are at the lesson.

The ideal condition is that which while in it, you do not notice the external; you pay no attention to it, but when you take up the objective life again with positiveness, you will recall that certain sounds, persons and events occurred; and that all sounds seemed subdued and far away. Somnolence, sleepiness, passivity, is the ideal condition when entered into voluntarily. Do not let these seances degenerate into mere reverie or absentmindedness, nor allow yourself to go into these conditions when about your work. If, during your seance, you feel like sleeping let sleep come, with the Suggestion that you will waken when the time set has expired and will gain what you seek while in this condition. Fear not and let what will come. You will so waken. Be prompt to begin and to close! Bring yourself to time, system and order; this is mastery.

It is probable that you will fall to sleep for quite a period while you are learning. It is well. Do not resist. It is nature's way of producing an equilibrium. Most people live at such tension in this complex, strenuous life of ours, that nature by reaction rights our nervous system in these rests. Produces an equilibrium. "Thou shalt not come out thence till thou has paid the utmost farthing," we are told by Jesus. Enjoy these seances. Soul-growth comes in them. They are not the sleeps of the night, for you have given direction to the sub-conscious and while you are thus relaxing your will from; the body, Life is building the nervous system into condition for the expression of your desires. Take with you the right Ideal into the Silence, and then give Liberty to Soul, to have its way.