Lastly, Bramhacharya or Celibacy, as practised by Sannyasis in India, has a strictly spiritual significance although it certainly has much as everything to do with Personal Magnetism.  To the average man I would say:  “Strive for CONTINENCE, chastity and control in this direction.”  Do not emasculate, as that would be a waste of force.  The stronger this force, the better.  All Sannyasis learn consciously or unconsciously to transmute this energy into mental and spiritual force and generally their minds dwell on a plane of mental and spiritual effort where there cannot be even a breath of sensuality or grossness.  They have gone beyond such things utterly; the same statement applies to all advanced thinkers, philosophers and workers, whether married or unmarried.  To me the very name of philosophy carries with it an atmosphere of Chastity, Solemnity, and Divinity.

But although there is some measure of truth in all the above four statements, they all miss the real thing.  The question resolves itself into this:  “What makes one man superior to another?” The study of nature shows us that the higher form of intelligence controls the lower.  All leaders of mankind, such as Napoleon, Alexander, etc., were clearly ahead of the times.  But they strove for low things and their SUCCESS from our point of view is doubtful.  Let us take higher ground.  Buddha, Christ, Zoroaster, etc., etc., of ancient times and Vivekananda and a few others in modern times exhibited tremendous powers of influencing men.  You study their lives and writings and try to find out just those things that constituted the basic cause of their heroic fibre.

If I were asked to sum up the secrets of their Power I would say:  1. “Their Intelligence and Thought-Power. 2.  Awakened Will-Power and Self-Control.”

1.  It was by their intelligence that they could take fearless possession of the world, handle men and women easily, read human nature at a glance and “be all things to all men,” i.e.., put their fingers direct on the spiritual, mental, and physical necessities of widely varying temperaments and help each right where he stood in the ladder of evolution.

2.  It was by their developed thought-force that they drew the whole world to themselves.  The positive thinker generates a force that draws all such as are negative to him.  Nearly the whole world was negative to these Masters and hence felt attracted to them. These were the human touchstones.

3.  It was by their strong, manly, marvellous Will-Power that they drove their suggestions into other minds and gained an immediate ascendency over whatever environments they were placed in.  The whole man is summed up in his Will.  Every other power in man is subservient to the Will.  And say what you will, it is this power more than any other that we respect in others.  It is the central staff in our character.  Intelligence is the directive energy.  Will-Power is the propulsive energy.  And the latter when wielded under the guidance of the former makes of man a veritable God.