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"BY your great enemy I mean yourself. If you have the power to face your Own Soul in the darkness and silence, you will have conquered the physical or Animal-Self that dwells in sensation only.'- "Light on the Path." The above sentence embodies in a nutshell the very cream of the Yoga Philosophy. It is the quintessence of Occultism. "The lips of wisdom are closed except to the ears of understanding.' You who read this will profit thereby only if you are bent upon spiritualising yourself. The One Thing that I want of you is Earnestness: not the earnestness of a-small-pot-soon-hot style, but one deep, abiding and constant impulsion that shall compel your being right through life. There is a widespread impression amongst those of the West that the Yogi is fit only for the lunatic asylum. But before you so clap them into Bedlam, please read, mark, and inwardly digest this lesson and judge it on its merits alone. "Never utter these words “I do not know f' this thing, therefore it is not true.” One must study to know, know to understand, and understand to judge." The man whose thoughts are matter-bound, 42