ABSTRACT
The pupil is taught to concentrate on the light of the innermost region and, at the same time, to free him from all outer and inner entanglements. The vital impulses are guided towards a consciousness void of content, which permits all contents to exist. Death is psychologically as important as an integral part of life. The Chinese are without the impulse towards violent repression of the instincts that poisons our spirituality and makes it hysterically exaggerated. Any idea of heroic self-conquest would be entirely foreign to the spirit of our text, but that is what it would infallibly amount to if we followed the instructions literally. A safe foundation is found only when the instinctive premises of the unconscious win the same respect as the views of the conscious mind. The development of the Western intellect and will has given us a fiendish capacity for aping such an attitude, with apparent success, despite the protests of the unconscious.
