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try to bring them out, become injurious. When & person has mastered all the rules of breathiog and of postures, and comes to the inental plane and begins to concentrate, then any of the ethers in the body may be made predominant and powerful, and as fhe negative vital force. is of a five-fold nature and is located in different perts of the body, the first kind from the feet to the knees, the second between the knees and the navel the third between the navel and the heart, the fourth between the heart and the throat, and the fifth from the throat upward, and as these ethers are more over present in the same degree in all parts of the body, when & person understands the physical rules and observes them, and the body itself has become fit to act as a vehicle for the lightening forces, then a person can control and bring out these forces and many phenomana will come out; for instance, levitation is one of these results. There is a certain influence in the body whose character is to go rather up than down, and the most common sign of this is to be found in breathing. When this ether becoines predominant through having observed the rules of breathing, if we can control it, then the polarity of the body will be changed with regard to the earth and it will have a tendency to rise in the air. If ws can understand the rules of the luminiferous ether and can control in such a way that we can stop these vibrations, then those vibrations cannot reack any person who is standing before us, and as the sense
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