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of the woman's faith on the Master's will was something like that which is produced by a piece of iron on a magnet, and actually furnished an occasion for the greater manifestation of power.
The training of the will, then, is the door to power. Many persons try to develop their will now-a-days, but derive little or no benefit from their exercises, on account of their ignorance of its nature. Some undergo severe tortures to acquire will power; and a class of literature has sprung up pretending to deal with the cultivation of occult and psychic forces, neither the authors nor the readers of which have the slightest idea of the mischief which is likely to result from the unnecessary and harmful exercises prescribed in the books. Will, in its purest form, is the holiest of forces in existence, and opposed to all moral failings. Hence, it cannot manifest itself, in its true character, till all taint of evil thoughts, passions and inclinations is not removed from the soul. Those who try to develop it from motives of worldly power and greatness, therefore, do the very thing which prevents its coming into manifestation. One may spend one's whole life in practising all conceivable kinds of breathing and other exercises, yet will not will condescend to manifest itself, so long as mind is not freed from all kinds of taint of selfishness. The utmost that can be had from these exercises is the development of such powers as the superficial clairvoyance with which the investigations of the Psychical Research Society have made us familiar. These powers, however, confer neither immortality nor bliss on the soul, but generally lead
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