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Self-Mastery — book 26

My teachers have always extolled us seekers that all of our knowledge, and whatever powers we may have gained, are useless to us without self-mastery, and that any use we may have to others will be turned back against us unless we gain the attributes of self-mastery:

1. Awareness of our self-defeating habits and thoughts (they point out that virtually all of our thoughts and feelings are habits in the first place);
2. Humility: recognizing that we are nothing, and have no special value or place in the world, that there is no point in competing or contending, but still forging ahead single-mindedly despite it all.
3. Having knowledge and conscious control over all our own triggers, ego-positions and discontinuities; that is, connectedness among all our "subconscious" desires and perspectives;
4. Recognizing, accepting and making full use of the only Power, which is that of God, which is Love.

Therefore, the hymns of this 26th book are all pointed toward the attainment of these four attributes.

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