Excerpt from Thoughts on Things PsychicThere is the ascetic who emphasizes the union with Self, the soul of the soul. Like the Christ, he gives up life that he may truly live. The ascetic is the ideal in the struggle for realiza tion. There is the sensuous, decadent, and de generate psychopathic study, whose delight in bestial desire is far beyond normal viciousness. This monster devises individual and shockingly retrogressive methods of self indulgence. Re ligion and Spiritual effort are mythical to him. He turns his back upon the Spirit of love and compassion. Before him is the pit of unspeak able foulness which purer nature cannot ap proach without scorching itself. In gloom and darkness, the personality is blind to the light of truth and goodness.This state is the severance between the spirit ual individual and its personal ray. The re deeming light of Self vanishes and leaves the human being, a brute of retrogressive instincts.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works._,