being necessarily much on their food, thus giving it undue importance—making it first, before the finding of the Kingdom—and often making them a nuisance to their friends; not to speak of the trouble it takes to find just the kind of food they think they require.

This in the face of Jesus’ definite word to “take no thought (or be not anxious about) what ye shall eat,” and Paul’s “there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. For the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.”

Which all bears out the law that “Whatever you think and believe is so, is so to you,” and because those who believe the eating of flesh feeds and stimulates their animal passions, it would be so for them. But the contrary then must be so, for such by not eating meat allow their animal passions to die, and their natural force and energy to become weakened so that they grow negative and anemic, opening themselves thereby to the more subtle forces of the psychic realms, not realizing they have no longer the needed power of their animal nature to protect and repel these forces.

How foolish to believe that by eating meat it makes man more animal! Why should not eating only vegetables then make him more vegetable in nature? How could the lower kingdoms draw or pull down their Lord to their estate? The fact is, God gave man dominion over these kingdoms, and it is man’s mission to raise and prepare them for his estate in the human kingdom.

Such believers forget they are spiritual beings and are not their minds or their bodies; these are but vehicles for their expression in the outer world and which they as souls are ever seeking to make perfect for their highest use. Therefore all animal forces in man must not only be mastered but be transmuted, trained and fully developed in order to make them into faithful and efficient servants. Can servants become strong and efficient when they are not fed and are denied recognition and proper care?

The animal part of man is just as important for his perfect expression as is his mind and soul; for while on the Earth he cannot fully do the work he came here to do without a fully developed and well rounded-out physical nature—and by that