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FAITH KNOWLEDGE AND CONDUCT
Indestructible and uncreate, it must have been there all along, not in a manifested but in the unmanifest state, lying locked up within the crippling embrace of an inimical material agent. Nothing short of a material agent will suffice to keep down a function, or to render a natural condition or state unmanifest.
The breaking up of a worry-complex takes place in the central organ of the mind, for in other parts the covering of matter is too thick, in normal circumstances, to be altogether destroyed. In more definite language, it is the attention in which the relaxation of tension is effected that way. This also explains the fact that as soon as attention is engaged again in the attainment of the object of another worry-complex the exhilaration of joy is lost at once.
Physical pleasure is the agreeable effect of the state of well-being of the organism, or produced by external things. Physical pain is the reverse of this. Both pleasure and pain would be impossible if the soul were rid of the body. But spiritual joy would be infinitely intensified by the mere fact of the riddance of all flesh, the sole source of all mischief !
The soul is a substance that can feel its own modifications. When these modifications are agreeable, they constitute pleasure; when they are disagreeable, they are termed painful. When modifications under external
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