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light, the person liberates his mind from passions, evils and all the lower emotions. If he can do this he can possess all the power the world holds.
There are one or two points I will mention in connection with the subject. Astral vision implies there must be an astral substance. What is it ? It is a fluid, a subtle substance which permeates the whole universe. It is in the body and in the entire world. It is the force that gives life and also causes death. It is a pliant force as it were. It can be used for good, or evil. It is a great dynamo. It may be used for imparting life, or for the destruction of life. Vicious persons will use it to the injury of other people. Unconsciously persons harboring thoughts of a lower nature will create a commotion in the astral substance, and vibrations so generated will be injurious to all around.
This Force is very contageous and may be taken form one person to another. Persons will feel the influence but not know why they feel such and such incligations, but because certain people generate certain vibrations in this astral ether, they cause similar vibrations in the astral bodies of other people, and the vibrations so generated react on the physical. Those astral vibrations will be interpreted and they will be acted upon by those people. That is the scientific reason why thoughts of an injurious
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