ABSTRACT
The progressive conquest of the ego and opening the innermost recesses of the mind to the flow of intuitive wisdom constitute an immense achievement, even if they stop far short of Liberation. The cumulative effect of the preliminaries is to prepare the faculties of body, speech and mind for the more advanced kinds of visualization and for performing the exceedingly difficult psycho-physical exercises which, under certain circumstances, are believed to lead to Liberation in this life. The nature of the sacred practice is such that they have to become both artists and psychologists in order to succeed—artists able to conjure in their minds living pictures more life-like than dreams or visions, psychologists with so intimate a knowledge of the functioning of their minds that they become masters of their thoughts and emotions.
