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FAITH KNOWLEDGE AND CONDUCT
notwithstanding all this, the characteristic feeling of delight will arise in the heart the moment the message is believed to be true! This is sufficient to show that the feeling of joy (of freedom) is not a sensation, and arises independently of the senses.
Complete cessation of worry, or rather its eradication, is thus the occasion for the manifestation of joy. The cessation itself may be due to external causes, as for instance, success in an enterprise, or it may arise from voluntary abandonment, but not suspension, of the enterprise itself. For suspension of worries is not the same thing as their cessation. In suspension relief may be had from the mental strain, but not the innate inborn joy of the soul. It is the exploding away of a worry-complex, if the expression be permissible, which brings the natural exhilaration that lay smothered within to show itself. Every tendency is a worry-complex in this sense. When it is in full operation depression (from de, down and pressum, to press) which may be extreme in the worst cases is felt; when the de-pressing elements have been destroyed, delight (from de, intense and light, lightness) is felt.
Thus the general idea underlying a tendency is also in its innate nature a form of de-light. It is lying smothered under the weight of the subtle invisible matter which flows into the soul with desire, especially with worry. By the voluntary abandonment, that is,
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