The Peaceful Path of Inner Christianity

Emotional storms of resentments

Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood

Dear friends,

Yes, it is always more or less the same problem, that of dealing with states of mind, and as we have told you before, they are nothing but challenging thoughts rearing up to attack you. When we first told you that all things human can be resolved to thought you received an intellectual perception; you received also that when your mind is tempted from its spiritual center your defenses are lowered and you automatically allow the outer you to have more freedom than is his right. Now that you have come into a small degree of realization of this truth there is still a tonal recollection of the fear contained in the old thoughts and that fear lies heavy on the spirit. Try to throw all that into the limbo where it belongs, give it no fastening room; it will then clutch emptiness and be swept away. Your task is to remain eternally unshaken within, to meet untoward states with what we have called action thought. Heavenly thought is divine order; it is clean, it is joy, serenity and peace, and it will bring about your victory . . . . (read more)