CHELA: Beloved Master, I feel that the emotional body is an enemy of spiritual progress. Like Saint Augustine, I am torn between what I know is right and what I constantly do in the generation of discord, which is wrong. “The good I would, I do not, and that which I would not, that I do.” (Saint Augustine)
GURU: Blessed disciple, this is not a correct attitude. It creates a rebellion in your feeling world. God created your emotional body for a definitive purpose. The emotional body was designed to emulate God’s feelings and expand the qualities of God’s nature in whatever sphere the individual consciousness is functioning. The mental body was designed to create form, the feeling body to nourish that form with qualified life. It is primarily a gift of the Holy Spirit. When one sins in feelings, he commits the “sin against the Holy Ghost,” which the orthodox world has described as unforgivable.
CHELA: Beloved Master, is there, then, such a thing as an “unforgiveable” sin of thought, feeling, or action?
GURU: Blessed disciple, no, because only perfection is eternal. Every mistake, no matter how great, is transitory and passing. The very Law of Compassion and Mercy, the Gift of the Seven Ray, is the manifest proof that all sins, mistakes, and errors can and will be wiped out when the individual chooses to apply for the way and means to do so.
However, the sins of feeling nature are the most difficult to overcome because the emotional body of mankind has ruled the mind and senses for many centuries. The emotional body is also the recipient of over 80% of the energies of the lifestream released through the Silver Cord into the use and control of the outer consciousness. It is, therefore, the most powerful of the instruments through which the soul seeks expression and ultimate mastery over energy, substance, and vibration. It is a better friend and servant than an adversary.
CHELA: Beloved Master, how then may I make my emotional body my friend and servant?
GURU: Blessed disciple, by understanding that all bodies, mental, emotional, physical, and etheric, are the servants of the Holy Presence that made you and gave you to life, intelligence, and being. Return then the authority to use those bodies to that Presence and check your thoughts, feelings, and actions daily with what your conscience and heart tell you would be the thoughts, feelings, and acts of your Own Christ. Gradually they will be trained in serving Him.
Master Koot Hoomi, The Guru and the Chela (Kindle Edition)