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12. Meditation or Spiritual Beings
When the sensation function or sensing faculty (eyes, ears, etc.) has to be developed, the form of concentration may be considered a passive states of mind.
For concentration to improve and develop the spiritual nature, use the characters of the five classes of holy persons as follows, who possess certain characteristic virtues, making special and not merely general application to oneself, trying to imitate the life.
First class of Holy man, are those who have actually worked out the injurious forces of nature and who live as human beings in the midst of society. He is a teacher to the community (and therefore a leader). You find one in perhaps a lapse of 2,000 years.
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