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The Instruments of Shakti. ..167 of the normal life-instincts and life-impulsos to the insufficient physical instrument they are obliged to use. And it will also be able to con. duct a full action of the spiritual psychic being not falsified, degraded or in any way marred by the lower instincts of the body and to use, physical action and expression as a free notas tion of the higher physical life. And in the body itself there will be a presence of a greato ness of sustaining force, an abounding strength, energy and puissance of outgoing and managing force, a lightness, swiftness and adaptability of the nervous and physical being a holding and responsive power in the whole physical machine and its driving springs of which it is now even at its strongest and best incapable. .
This energy will not be in its essence an outward, physical or muscular strength, but will be of the nature, first, of an unbounded lifepower or pranic force, secondly, sustaining and using this pranic energy, a superior, or aupreme will-power acting in the body. The play of the pranic shakti in the body or form is the condition of all action, even of the most apparently inanimate physical action. It is the universal Prana, as the ancients know, which in various forms sustains or drives material energy in all physical things from the electron and atom and gas up through the metal, plant, animal, physical man To get this pranic shakti to act more freely and forcibly in the body is knowingly or unknowingly the attempt of all who strive for a grater perfection of or in the body. The or--
