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Method of mastery
            As for the method of mastery, it cannot be done by physical
        abstinence alone — it proceeds by a process of combined de-
        tachment and rejection. The consciousness stands back from the
        sex-impulse, feels it as not its own, as something alien thrown
        on it by Nature-force to which it refuses assent or identification
        — each time a certain movement of rejection throws it more
        and more outward. The mind remains unaffected; after a time
        the vital being which is the chief support withdraws from it in
        the same way, finally the physical consciousness no longer sup-
        ports it. This process continues until even the subconscient can
        no longer rouse it up in dream and no farther movement comes
        from the outer Nature-force to rekindle this lower fire. This is the
        course when the sex-propensity sticks obstinately; but there are
        some who can eliminate it decisively by a swift radical dropping
        away from the nature. That however is more rare.
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        It has to be said that the total elimination of the sex-impulse is
        one of the most difficult things in sadhana and one must be pre-
        pared for it to take time. But its total disappearance has been
        achieved and a practical liberation crossed only by occasional
        dream-movements from the subconscient is fairly common.
                                                     CWSA 31: 503-04

        Mastery through Detachment
            As to the sexual impulse. Regard it not as something sinful
        and horrible and attractive at the same time, but as a mistake
        and  wrong  movement  of  the  lower  nature.  Reject  it  entirely,
        not by struggling with it, but by drawing back from it, detach-
        ing yourself and refusing your consent; look at it as something
        not your own, but imposed on you by a force of Nature outside
        you. Refuse all consent to the imposition. If anything in your vital
        consents, insist on that part of you withdrawing its consent. Call


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