The Characteristics and the Power of an Integral Faith

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With our standpoint based in the
mental consciousness, we tend to

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believe that if we think
something, it is real.

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This viewpoint fails to account
for the different parts of the

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being and their different modes
of response.

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For example, we may hold a
mental conception to not fear

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something, and yet when
confronted with it, despite the

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mind's best efforts, we find our
vital being reacting with fear,

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and we feel palpitations or
weakness in the body itself,

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symptoms of a visceral fear that
we are experiencing despite the

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mind's effort to overcome the
fear.

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When we come to the question of
faith, we find a similar dynamic

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at work.
A mental faith is insufficient

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to achieve anything.
The mother refers to an integral

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faith.
This is a faith that encompasses

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not just a mental idea or even
an emotional energy of faith,

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but involves the coming forward
of the psychic being, which is

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in its very nature imbued with
faith, and includes a faith in

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the vital being and even in the
very cells of the body.

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All parts of the being organized
themselves around this faith.

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The issue then turns on how to
expand upon or transform the

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mental conception of faith into
something that even the body

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accepts and realizes at the
cellular level.

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The Mother provides a clue when
she indicates that work at the

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subconscious level of the being
is necessary to impact the

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body's cells.
A disciple asks, can mere faith

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create all, conquer all?
The Mother writes.

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Quote.
Yes, but it must be an integral

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faith, and it must be absolute,
and it must be of the right

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kind.
Not merely a force of mental

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thought or will, but something
more and deeper.

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The will put forth by the mind
sets up opposite reactions and

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creates a resistance.
You must have heard something of

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the method of COI in healing
diseases.

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He knew some secret of this
power and utilized it with

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considerable effort, but he
called it imagination, and his

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method gave the faith.
He called up too mental a form.

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Mental faith is not sufficient.
It must be completed and

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enforced by a vital and even a
physical faith, a faith of the

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body.
If you can create in yourself an

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integral force of this kind in
all your being, then nothing can

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resist it.
But you must reach down to the

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most subconscious.
You must fix the faith in the

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very cells of the body.
End Quote.

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Reference Srioro Bindu and the
Mother Powers within, Chapter 6,

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Faith, pages 56 to 57.