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different energies are predominant in all these centres ; and by a proper course of discipline all these forces can be put in operation. Thus the whole body must be fit to become a vehicle of these powers, and if it is not fit the result will be ruin of the body itself. Therefore the Yogis have said that we should not try to exercise these powers until we have made the body fit to receive them. As a Latin maxim says, investi.gate, but do not experiment; because there are so many dangerous things whose laws we are not ready to obey. Really there is no danger in understanding anything in the universe, but the danger lies in experiment ; therefore the rules of the Yogis are very clear to us, that these things ought not to be practised by ordinary people, who are not willing to sacrifice the things necessary for the purpose. These six plexuses are the reservoirs of many occult powers ; they are situated in the line of the spinal column, and the nerves radiate in different directions from these. The plexus in the forehead is the seat of the power of sight, and through this we see many things which cannot otherwise be seen. Every person has this power but it must be brought out by the required discipline. It has been found that this light which is radiated from this plexus gives us the power of seeing the present state of a thing put in contact with it, and if the light is still stronger and comes out at the top of the head then the past history of the object can be known. This has been tried even in this country, and it is a fact, there is no doubt about that. It is only the power
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