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parently similar, should not experience the same. things. Unless we have a scientific understanding of these things it is difficult to give a satisfactory explanation that will not confuse us, or give us an erroneous idea as to their cause and effect.
Let us take ordinary clairvoyance or clairvoyance as it is generally known and practised. Of course we know there are many different kinds of clairvoyance, and that most of them mix up, or confuse one thing with another. We will divide that subject under two heads, induced or artificial clairvoyance, and natural clairvoyance. While the induced clairvoyance is produced artificially, of course, unless there is the seed of a certain force, nothing can be done, and a person altogether igno. rant, having no ethical or moral idea, at the same time having no seed of that force in him, cannot see clairvoyantly. Why it is so, and why the ethical lessons would help such a person, I will speak later on.
In induced clairvoyance certain conditions are produced artificially by the operator, and the subtle body manifests activity. Under this induced activity many things may be seen. In the previous lectures I have explained the constitution of the subtle body, and it is clear to us that when the physical body stops its wotk, and ceases manifesting through its
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