SELF-DE-HYPNOTISATION: Page 159

In the foregoing papers, I have tried to enforce upon my readers the indispensable necessity of shifting our point of view from the lower to the higher planes of thought-life. It may be with regard to our physical self or our intellectual self or our emotional self;-we must view and manipulate them all from but one standpoint-the plane of the Spirit. This is one of the most important principles of Yoga. Yoga means Union. The human will trying to come into the plane of the Divine Creative Principles practises Yoga. The Creative thought in the Divine Spirit must of necessity exist in our minds. Then why do we not act up to it? Why are not our efforts directed purely to the working out of the great plan? Why, if we are really Divine, do I we grovel in the puppet-play of a false worldly life? The answer is we have been thinking invertedly. We have been basing our conclusions upon the suggestions of the sense-born intellect-the mind of the Mesh. We have to pass from this standpoint to that of the Spirit-God-the Absolute. We have to translate Our highest conception of our relation to the Spirit into con-