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thoughts of worry, we surround ourselves with
them, they recur again and again until we are
in a net-work of worry from which it is very
difficult to extricate ourselves. Thought controls
actions, and if we would control our actions we
must start by controlling our thoughts. In
these articles we have not attempted to deal
with the method of controlling thought, but
have only referred to it in passing, and we
further refer you to many books on the subject
in Theosophical literature. I think among the
many important points upon which Theosophy
brings light perhaps this is one of the most
important, for unless we can gain control of
thought we cannot gain complete control of
speech or action, and control of mind is behind
all these. The mind must be our servant, the
servant of the ego, else is it of little use. We
might go further and say that it is worse than
useless, for an uncontrolled servant is liable to
run away with us and run us off the lines. The
fact is we have to get control into the right
hands, and the right hands are those of the
Higher Self. With most of us the control is in
the hands of the lower self and we shut out
the Higher.

I spoke in a previous article of how the living
hope of future lives, implanted by Theosophy,