I have seen a student, often, keep back his demonstration, through resistance, or pointing the way.
He pins his faith to one channel only, and dictates just the way he desires the manifestation to come, which brings things to a standstill.
“My way, not your way!” is the command of Infinite Intelligence. Like all Power, be it steam or electricity, it must have a nonresistant engine or instrument to work through, and man is that engine or instrument.
Over and over again, man is told to “stand still”. “Oh Judah, fear not; but tomorrow go out against them, for the Lord will be with you. You shall not need to fight this battle; set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you.”
We see this in the incidents of the two thousand dollars coming to the woman through the landlord when she became nonresistant and undisturbed, and the woman who won the man’s love “after all suffering had ceased.”
The student’s goal is Poise! Poise is Power, for it gives God-Power a chance to rush through man, to “will and to do Its good pleasure.”
Poised, he thinks clearly, and makes “right decisions quickly.” “He never misses a trick.”
Anger blurs the visions, poisons the blood, is the root of many diseases, and causes wrong decision leading to failure.
It has been named one of the worst “sins,” as its reaction is so harmful. The student learns that in metaphysics sin has a much broader meaning than in the old teaching. “Whatsoever is not of faith is sin.”
He finds that fear and worry are deadly sins. They are inverted faith, and through distorted mental pictures, bring to pass the thing he fears. His work is to drive out these enemies (from the subconscious mind). “When Man is fearless he is finished!” Maeterlinck says, that “Man is God afraid.”