DEVELOPING THE SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS: Page 68

with him. He does not go about-anxious for recogni-tion. He is master of himself, and therefore of others. His mere presence brings peace to the troubled souls of others. His speech is as a dash of cold water. It makes you sit up and listen. It stimulates you; it uplifts you; it expands you. Nothing is impossible to you. You seem or feel as if you were another being. The chaste man has communicated himself to you in all his fulness and breadth of nature. He has stirred up forces in you of which perhaps you were never before conscious. See how the chaste man seems to purify the very air he breathes. See how dauntless is the courage that bubbles up from within him. See how he is idolized by humanity. The mere sight of him puts new life and vigor in others. His power of doing good seems to have an inexhaustible reservoir behind it. Thus go on picturing to yourself the all-inclusive uses of chastity. This is the positive process of Visualization; Mental photography. Now if your case is desperate, one of long standing, take up the negative process. Picture to yourself the disappointment, the loss of spiritual force, the gloom and the melancholy, that cloy all passion; the swinish, grovelling, aspect of the sensual soul: the consequent exhaustion: the jeer and ridicule of the world: the breaking-down of all your fond