The problem of physical transformation can be seen, and tackled, in three ways: the spiritual, the occult, and the intellectual. In the first, the material cells should be made capable of coming directly in contact with Love-Consciousness-Power. In the occult process various powers of the intermediary worlds, the Overmind Gods and Goddesses enter into operation, their detailed knowledge helping it. In the last possibility, it is the spirit itself which seizes the problem and starts working from below; this has the merit of giving precision to the action, something which is kind of scientific, science being done by the spirit itself. If the three can be combined then, evidently, the thing will go faster. Without the first nothing is possible, without it the other two are even illusory. But if the first is combined with them, then the action becomes much more precise and direct, and rapid.

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