Next, consider some of the emotions, such as anger; hate; love, in its ordinary forms; jealousy; ambition; and the hundred and one other emotions that sweep through our brains.  You will find that you are able to set each one of these emotions or feelings aside and study it; dissect it; analyze it; consider it.  You will be able to understand the rise, progress and end of each of these feelings, as they have come to you, and as you recall them in your memory or imagination, just as readily as you would were you observing their occurrence in the mind of a friend.  You will find them all stored away in some parts of your mental make-up, and you may (to use a modern American slang phrase) “make them trot before you, and show their paces.”  Don’t you see that they are not “You”—­that they are merely something that you carry around with you in a mental bag.  You can imagine yourself as living without them, and still being “I,” can you not?

And the very fact that you are able to set them aside and examine and consider them is a proof that they are “not I” things—­for there are two things in the matter (1) You who are examining and considering them, and (2) the thing itself which is the object of the examination and consideration at mental arm’s length.  So into the “not I” collection go these emotions, desirable and undesirable.  The collection is steadily growing, and will attain quite formidable proportions after a while.

Now, do not imagine that this is a lesson designed to teach you how to discard these emotions, although if it enables you to get rid of the undesirable ones, so much the better.  This is not our object, for we bid you place the desirable (at this time) ones in with the opposite kind, the idea being to bring you to a realization that the “I” is higher, above and independent of these mental somethings, and then when you have realized the nature of the “I,” you may return and use (as a Master) the things that have been using you as a slave.  So do not be afraid to throw these emotions (good and bad) into the “not I” collection.  You may go back to them, and use the good ones, after the Mental Drill is over.  No matter how much you may think that you are bound by any of these emotions, you will realize, by careful analysis, that it is of the “not I” kind, for the “I” existed before the emotion came into active play, and it will live long after the emotion has faded away.  The principal proof is that you are able to hold it out at arm’s length and examine it—­a proof that it is “not I.”

Run through the entire list of your feelings; emotions; moods; and what not, just as you would those of a well-known friend or relative, and you will see that each one—­every one—­is a “not I” thing, and you will lay it aside for the time, for the purpose of the scientific experiment, at least.