Thought Elimination and Dangers Inherent in the Personality

What are the right methods of thought elimination? How can placidity of mind be achieved without the use of the will in inhibition? The following suggestions may be found useful and helpful:

* The student having withdrawn his consciousness on to the mental plane at some point within the brain, let him sound forth the Sacred Word gently three times. Let him picture the breath sent forth as a clarifying, expurgating force that in its progress onward sweeps away the thought-forms circulating within the mental ovoid. Let him then at the close realize that the mental body is free and clear of thought-forms.