DEVELOPING THE SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS: Page 70

If the horses are very strong and do not obey the reins, if the charioteer, the intellect, does not know how to control the horses, then this chariot will come to grief. But if the horses, i.e., the organs, are well-controlled, if the reins, i.e., the mind, are well held in the hands of the charioteer, i.e., the intellect, the chariot reaches the goal This then is the line of action. Developing the will-force, the second of the three requisites I spoke of. What is the principle of development? Exercise. How did Ram Murti develop his splendid physique, that today is the wonder of the world? Exercise. How did Vivekananda develop that terrific magnetism that inundated the entire Parliament of Religions at Chicago? Exercise. How did Sheridan who once stuttered in his speech, deliver an oration at the famous Impeachment of Warren Hastings that made the Speaker order an adjournment that the House might recover from the effect of the volcanic play of words. Exercise. Be con vinced, then, My reader! Exercise is the first, last, and the only condition of growth. The human will is the grandest culmination of all the complex workings in the realm of Consciousness. Schopenhauer the philosopher puts will a-top of all else in Nature. It is a grand thing, this human will. Its influence over man is one of compelling, forcing, driving, impelling, overpowering, commanding, demanding. This force is essentially Masculine. I told you something about the desire-force: drawing,