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THE POWER OF KARMA only been the instrument used to write these books, which were really written by the Great White Brotherhood, to whom we both belong. You will have uphill fights, but you will conquer, and be used as a power for good in the bringing about of a new Heaven and a new earth.”
The face of my venerable visitor was that of a Patriarch, his beard that of a savage, and his clothes those of another generation; he was dressed all in white.
He next proceeded to demonstrate his astrophysical powers, telling me to watch the wall of my room. I obeyed, and at first nothing happened. Then the wall became more and more cloudy, and at the same time transparent, and soon I felt a sensation as if I were riding on air. He then said, "Turn round and look down.” On doing so, I saw the room beneath me where I had been sitting a few moments ago, and my "sleeping" physical body in the chair. Indicating the body, he said: “That is only a case you use for a time to make yourself visible to men, but I tell you of a truth, the day is not far distant when the astral world will be visible to those on the physical plane, just as the physical world is now visible to the astral.” After some further experiences, which it would take too long to record here, I returned to my physical body,