Not repression, but elevation. Would that this could be repeated a thousand times over!  Not repression, but elevation.  Every part, every organ, every function of the body is given for use, but not for misuse or abuse; and the moment the latter takes place in connection with any function it loses its higher powers of use, and there goes with this the higher powers of true enjoyment.  It is thus that we get that large class known as abnormals, resorting to the methods they resort to for enjoyment, but which, in its true sense, they always fail in finding, because law will admit of no violations; and, if violated, it takes away the very powers of enjoyment, it takes away the very things that through its violation they thought they had secured, or it turns them into ashes in their very hands.  God, nature, law, the higher self, is not mocked.

Not repression, but elevation,—­repression only in the sense of mastery; but this means—­nay, this is—­elevation.  In other words, we should be the master, and not the body.  We should dictate to the body, and should never, even for an instant, allow it to dictate to us.

Oh, the thousands, the hundreds of thousands of men and women who are everywhere being driven hither and thither, led into this and into that which their own better selves would not enter into, simply because they have allowed the body to assume the mastery; while they have taken the place of the weakling, the slave, and all on account of their own weakness,—­weakness through ignorance, ignorance of the tremendous forces and powers within, the forces and powers of the mind and spirit.

It would be a right royal plan for those who are thus enslaved by the body,—­and we all are more or less, each in his own particular way, and not one is absolutely free,—­it would be a good plan to hold immediately, at this very hour, a conversation with the body somewhat after this fashion:  Body, we have for some time been dwelling together.  Life for neither has been in the highest degree satisfactory.  The cause is now apparent to me.  The mastery I have voluntarily handed over to you.  You have not assumed it of your own accord; but I have given it over to you little by little, and just in the degree that you have appropriated it.  Neither one is to blame.  It has been by virtue of ignorance.  But henceforth we will reverse positions.  You shall become the servant, and I the master.  From this time forth you shall no longer dictate to me, but I will dictate to you.

I, one with Infinite intelligence, wisdom, and power, longing for a fuller and ever fuller realization of this oneness, will assume control, and will call upon you to help in the fuller and ever fuller external manifestation of this realization.  We will thus regain the ground both of us have lost.  We will thus be truly married instead of farcically so.  And thus we will help each the other to a realization of the highest, most satisfying and most enduring pleasures and joys, possibilities and powers, loves and realizations, that human life can know; and so, hand in hand, we will help each the other to the higher and ever-increasing life instead of degrading each the other to the lower and ever-decreasing.  I will become the imperial master, and you the royal companion; and thus we will go forth to an ever larger life of love and service, and so of true enjoyment.