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BEFORE THE SOUL CAN STAND IN THE
PRESENCE OF THE MASTERS ITS Feet MUST BE WASHED IN THB BLOOD OP" THE HEART.
The word Soul, as used here, means the Divine Soul or "stany Spirit.”
"To be able to stand is to have confi. dence"; and to have confidence means that the disciple is sure of himself, that he has surrendered his emotions, his very self, even his humanity;" that he is incapable of fear and unconscious of pain; that his whole consciousness is centred in the Divine Life, which is expressed symbolically by the term, “the Masters"; that he has neither eyes, nor ears, nor speech, 'nor power, save in and for the
