85/115 SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS By FRANK H. SPRAGUE

Every psychical center is endowed with both active and passive instincts; it is capable of affecting other centers, and of being affected by them. Each cell, molecule and atom of our bodies, being a psychical center, responds, in some measure, to influences proceeding from other centers.

Every human being may regulate and determine, to a greater or less extent, the relations and operations of these inferior centers of his body, not merely by consciously and perpetually exercising control over them, but by awakening capacities latent in them, and inducing them to act in their proper channels.

Vital tendencies within the domain of body can be modified either by our own thought or by that of other minds; and, as such influences operate subconsciously, those changes may be wrought without our conscious knowledge. On the other hand, our bodies, being associated groups of psychical centers, are endowed with potency to affect our consciousness, whenever we are in a mood to accept suggestions from inferior sources.

They often echo back impressions they have previously received from their indwelling sovereign. Agreeable or disagreeable sensations may be occasioned by suggestions from a bodily source.
In the endeavor to realize our freedom, it is first necessary to conquer the opposing forces that most intimately and obstinately beset us, by establishing dominion over our own bodies.

This can only be achieved by encouraging that quality of emotion and thought which tends to transform the bodily realm into a Kingdom of orderly subjects, accustomed to obeying their ruler’s behests and co-operating with his purposes. Specific thoughts of disease, persistently indulged in, either promote extraneous growths or interfere with a normal exercise of the organic functions;

for, in time, the condition of the organs conforms to the prevailing character of the thought that dominates them. If that is healthy, positive and vital, corresponding tendencies will be induced in the bodily centers, and every constituent part of the complex organism will perform its natural functions in sympathy with the spirit that pervades the entire system.