Illusion is dispelled, rejected, and thrust away through the conscious use of the intuition. The initiate insulates himself from the world of illusion and of illusory forms and from the attractive urges of a personality nature and thereby - through the medium of isolation - comes into touch with the reality in all forms, hidden hitherto by the veil of illusion. This is one of the paradoxes of the Path. Insulation and isolation of the right kind lead to the right relationships and the correct contacts with the real. They produce eventual identification with reality, through insulation of oneself against the unreal. It is this idea which lies [83] behind the teaching given in the last book in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. These have often been misinterpreted and their meaning twisted into a plea for the wrong kind of isolation by those with separate tendencies and for selfish ends.

1. They omit to discriminate between illusion and glamor.
2. They endeavor to dispel glamor through what they believe to be right method, - by calling in the soul, whereas they really need to use the mind correctly.

When one is in the midst of fogs and glamors, however, it is much easier to sit down and hypnotize oneself into the belief that one is "calling in the soul" than it is to subject one's astral and emotional nature to the effect of hard straight thinking, using the mind as the instrument whereby glamor can be dispelled. Strange as it may seem, the "calling in of the soul" to deal directly with glamor may (and frequently does) lead to an intensification of the difficulty. The mind is the means whereby light can be brought to bear on all conditions of glamor, and students would do well to bear this thought constantly in their consciousness. The process is one of linking up the mind with the soul and then focusing oneself consciously and with precision in the mind nature or in the mental body, and not in the soul nature or the egoic form. Then, through analysis, discrimination and right thought one proceeds to deal with the problem of glamor. The trouble is that disciples often do not recognize [84] the condition as one of glamor and it is difficult to give a clear and infallible rule whereby that recognition can come. It might be stated, however, that glamor can always be found where there exists:

1. Criticism, when careful analysis would show that no criticism is really warranted.
2. Criticism, where there is no personal responsibility involved. By that I mean, where it is not the place or the duty of the man to criticize.
3. Pride in achievement or satisfaction that one is a disciple.
4. Any sense of superiority or separate tendency.

Many other clues to a right recognition of glamor might be given, but if all of you would pay close attention to the above four suggestions, you would release your lives most perceptibly from the influence of glamor and be of greater service consequently to your fellowmen. I have endeavored to give you here some practical assistance in this difficult battle between the pairs of opposites, which is the major cause of glamor.