Book 4 Part II Magick.pdf
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there at the time when he would normally do the forbidden thing, to warn him<br />
against its repetition.<br />
There will thus be a clear connection in his mind of cause and effect,<br />
until he will be just as careful in avoiding this particular act which he has<br />
consciously determined, as in those other things which in childhood<br />
he has been trained to avoid.<br />
Just as the eyelid unconsciously closes when the eye is<br />
threatened, 1 so must he build up in consciousness this<br />
power of inhibition until it sinks below consciousness,<br />
adding to his store of automatic force, so that he is free to devote his<br />
conscious energy to a yet higher task.<br />
It is impossible to overrate the value of this inhibition to the man<br />
when he comes to meditate. He has guarded his mind against thoughts<br />
A, B, and C; he has told the sentries to allow no one to pass who is<br />
not in uniform. And it will be very easy for him to extend that power,<br />
and to lower the portcullis.<br />
Let him remember, too, that there is a difference not only in the<br />
frequency of thoughts—but in their intensity.<br />
The worst of all is of course the ego, which is almost omnipresent<br />
1 If it were not so there would be very few people in the world who were not<br />
blind.