Book Title: Comparative and Critical Study of Mantrashastra
Author(s): Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri, K V Abhayankar
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab
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INTRODUCTION
design, business, or course commenced or undertaken; perseverance in the face of obstacles and discouragements; steadfastness and determination in the face of opposition or hindrance. Stability; decision; perseverence; fixedness of purpose; tenacity--these are the terins applied to the persistent Will. Persistency combines the qualities of continuity and firmness-steadfastness and "stick-to-it-iveness !"
Another writer says: "He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed, distanced, crushed; he who ceases to become greater, becomes smaller; he who leaves off gives up; the stationary is the beginning of the end-it precedes death; to live is to achieve, to Will without ceasing."
MENTATIVE ENERGY AND MAGIC The reason why we are dealing with Imagination, Desire and Will at some length is that they form the Substratum of Magic, White as well as Black. Desire-Force and Will Power are but Phases of the same force-Mentative Energy. They are really its two poles. The Will Power being the motive and the Desire Force being the emotive pole. Arthur Lovell in his book entitled "Imagination and its Wonders", says that the pith and marrow of Magic Power is Imagination and Will employed in the right way in case of White Magic and Imagination and Will employed for evil in case of Black Art or Sorcery. Certain Laws of nature such as the Sympathy and Antipathy of particular objects to each other are observed and made use of and certain methods more or less efficacious for exciting the Imagination and strengthening the Will are employed. We would refer the readers who are interested in the details of the working of Magic on an object near as well as distant, to the work "The Secret of Mental Magic" by William Walker Atkinson. All the same, we would give in substance what is stated on the subject in the said work. Mentative Influence consists in the Induction of Mental State in other persons. This Induction operates along two lines. (1) The line af Mental Suggestion which requires a physical agent; and (2) the line of Mentative Currents,
