o those who in a
rigorous winter draw near the fire as often as they can, go as often as
you can to that ardent fire which will warm your soul."[62]

[62] Quoted by Lejeune: Introd. a la vie Mystique, 1899, p. 66.

All the external associations of the Catholic discipline are of course
unlike anything in mind-cure thought, but the purely spiritual part of
the exercise is identical in both communions, and in both communions
those who urge it write with authority, for they have evidently
experienced in their own persons that whereof they tell. Compare again
some mind-cure utterances:--

"High, healthful, pure thinking can be encouraged, promoted, and
strengthened. Its current can be turned upon grand ideals until it
forms a habit and wears a channel. By means of such discipline the
mental horizon can be flooded with the sunshine of beauty, wholeness,
and harmony. To inaugurate pure and lofty thinking may at first seem
difficult, even almost mechanical, but perseverance will at length
render it easy, then pleasant, and finally delightful.

"The soul's real world is that which it has built of its thoughts,
mental states, and imaginations. If we WILL, we can turn our backs
upon the lower and sensuous plane, and lift ourselves into the realm of
the spiritual and Real, and there gain a residence. The assumption of
states of expectancy and receptivity will attract spiritual sunshine,
and it will flow in as naturally as air inclines to a vacuum....
Whenever the though; is not occupied with one's daily duty or
profession, it should he sent aloft into the spiritual atmosphere.
There are quiet leisure moments by day, and wakeful hours at night,
when this wholesome and delightful exercise may be engaged in to great
advantage. If one who has never made any systematic effort to lift and
control the thought-forces will, for a single month, earnestly pursue
the course here suggested, he will be surprised and delighted at the
result, and nothing will induce him to go back to careless, aimless,
and superficial thinking. At such favorable seasons the outside world,
with all its current of daily events, is barred out, and one goes into
the silent sanctuary of the inner temple of soul to commune and aspire.
The spiritual hearing becomes delicately sensitive, so that the 'still,
small voice' is audible, the tumultuous waves of external sense are
hushed, and there is a great calm. The ego gradually becomes conscious
that it is