Chart No. 1: The Vital Creative Flame

nor trimmed for such a long journey. This necessitates the conquest of the mind and its desires, under proper guidance, in the search of our soul's ORIGIN, through devotion to TRUTH.

Souls came to earth and lost their true course in earthiness. Now, by search and effort, they can re-discover and find themselves in this outer-space wandering. While we all know that God and the soul are one (we are but an infinitesmal [infinitesimal] ray which emanates from the Supreme Being), yet our consciousness has for many aeons traveled far away from the Light and Life of our True Home, all the while becoming more and more involved and entangled in the meshes of material things. The nostalgia of the awakened soul of the seeker for Truth is like the symptoms of the prodigal son, in the beautiful parable given by Jesus. (Luke 15:12-24.)

Home, the haven or heaven of rest for the eternal wanderer in space, where our soul, the lost child of Life becomes the returning son to the hearth fire of Vitality itself! We can find the way by reversing our attention currents with a feeling of longing for our True Home. If we would give even only a fraction of the time, attention and effort to that for which we really came into this world, we would be well on the way to Liberation from the bonds of our own lower mind and desires.

As our soul can realize and find itself, so do our sins find us out and detour us from our eternal North Star of Reality. Selfish interest and pleasure must be renounced in this search for the Goal of life. Jesus truly said:

"If any man will come after me, let him deny himself," etc. etc. (Luke 9:23-26.)

The course of Life and True Happiness is a straight and narrow path - inward and upward. The course of pleasure and selfishness is downward and outward. In the former we have everything to gain while in the latter the soul becomes further entangled and the precious Vitality, the Elixir of Life, is wasted.

VITAL BALANCE, as a practical approach to the problem of life and health is both possible and applicable. Since the Life Energy is the Builder and Architect of our body, it is also the Maintainer and Sustainer of it. It operates in and through the body, not by chance or guess, nor by chemical formulas, nor by gravity stress as its cause of function. These are but effects, produced by a lack of total Vital Action in all organs of the body. Vitality is above all these conditions and end results proposed by man. "Man proposes, but God disposes."^[1]

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¹ From "The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas à Kempis (c.1380-1471).