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The Healing Papers
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1,6: Purity
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30. Purity from one's identity
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The Healing Papers
1,6: Purity
30. Purity from one's identity
The real purification of mind is in purifying it from thoughts and impressions which live in it as a germ of disease. The best way of cleansing the mind from all this is to be able to empty the mind of any thought, feeling or impression. To be pure means to be natural. The spirit in man in its natural condition is not a thought but mind, not love but heart. For as the thought is the outcome of mind, so is love the outcome of the heart.
To attain to the purity which is the seeking of the mystic one must be able to purify one's spirit from every thought and feeling, however deeply impressed or engraved in one's heart. The mystic goes as far as purifying oneself from one's identity, by removing it for a certain time and by putting something else in its place. From beginning to end the whole process of spiritual development depends upon this.
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