He [CWL's Master] recommended me to make efforts along certain lines, which he pledged me not to divulge to anyone else except with his direct authorization, and told me that he would himself watch over those efforts to see that no danger should ensue. Naturally I took the hint at once, and worked very steadily, and I think I may say intensely, at that particular kind of meditation day after day. I must admit that it was very hard work and sometimes distinctly painful, but of course I persevered, and in due course began to achieve the results that I had been led to expect. Certain channels had to be opened and certain partitions broken down. I was told that fourty days was a fair estimate of the average time required if the effort was really energetic and persevering. I worked at it fourty-two days, and seemed to myself to be on the brink of the final victory, when the Master himself intervened and performed the final act of breaking through which completed the process, and enabled me thereafter to use astral sight while still retaining full consciousness in the physical body, which is equivalent to saying that the astral consciousness and memory became continuous whether the physical body is awake or asleep.

It must not for a moment be supposed, however, that the attainment of this particular power was the end of the occult training. On the contrary, it proved to be only the beginning of a year of the hardest work that I have ever known.