CHELA: Beloved Master. How can one control the feelings, which rise unbidden from the undisciplined soul and rush forth to add to the shadows of this earth plane?

GURU: Blessed disciple! There is but ONE POWER by which you can accomplish anything. That is the Power of God that flows through your own Individualized Presence and gives the life to your feeling world. When you return the authority for the qualification of that life to your Presence and refuse to allow your feeling world the license to which it is accustomed in the seizing and misqualifying of pure God life, then that beautiful Presence controls for you and through you your emotions.

CHELA: Beloved Master! I feel that the emotional body is an enemy to spiritual progress. Like Saint Augustine, I am torn between what I know is right and what I constantly do in the generation of discord, which is wrong. "The good I would, I do not, and that which I would not, that I do." (St. Augustine)

GURU: Blessed disciple! This is not a correct attitude. It creates a rebellion in your feeling world. Your emotional body was created by God for a definite purpose. The emotional body was designed to emulate the feelings of God and to expand the qualities of the God nature in whatever sphere the individual consciousness is functioning. The mental body was designed to create form, the feeling body to nourish that form with qualified life. It is primarily a gift of the Holy Spirit and when one sins in feeling he commits the "sin against the Holy Ghost" which the orthodox world has described as unforgiveable.

CHELA: Beloved Master! Is there, then, such a thing as an "unforgiveable" sin of thought, feeling or action?

GURU: Blessed disciple! No, because only perfection is eternal.

Every mistake, no matter how great, is transitory and passing. The very Law of Compassion and Mercy, which is the Gift of the Seventh Ray, is the manifest proof that all sins, mistakes and errors can and will be wiped out when the individual chooses to apply for the way and means to do so.

The sins of the feeling nature, however, are the most difficult to overcome because the emotional body of mankind has ruled the mind and senses for many centuries. The emotional body is also the recipient of over 80% of the energies of the lifestream released through the Silver Cord into the use and control of the outer consciousness. It is, therefore, the most powerful of the instruments through which the soul seeks expression and ultimate mastery over energy, substance and vibration. It is a better friend and servant than adversary.

CHELA: Beloved Master! How then may I make my emotional body my friend and servant?

GURU: Blessed disciple. By understanding that all your bodies. mental, emotional, physical and etheric arc the servants of the Holy Presence which made you and which gives to you life, intelligence and being. Return then the authority for the use of those bodies to that Presence and check our thoughts, feelings and actions daily with what your conscience and heart tells you would he the thoughts, feelings and actions of your own Christ. Gradually they will be trained in serving him.