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important connection, and unless it is strictly observed there is no chance of rising higher at all. Morality affects not only the high ideal but even little acts, and if we do not observe the true rules of every-day life we can never hope to rise morally or spiritually. Now we come to the moral plane and these forces act also on this plane. The result of moral acts I have described in another lecture, i.e., the effect on all the different planes of charity, absencence of greed, etc., is to act as great reservoirs from which the subtle powers will flow. Unless they are filled in this way, with magnetism and electricity generated on the moral plane, we cannot do anything. We may be able to remember some things and to form intelligent concepts on various subjects, but when it comes to actual power of the soul to live on the higher plane, it is always difficult, unless that reservoir is full and can be filled by the moral acts. On all these planes, while they are progressing, the results would become possible to us by degrees. Take for instance the physical plane and if we observe tain rules of diet, of drink, of breathing, of postures, the first result is that we feel that the body becomes lighter, and humors which are injurious indeed, begin to disappear from the body, and lightening forces begin to arise from the lowest plexus and proceed to the higher. If the body is made fit by a long course of descipline, then the lightening forces will come out, but otherwise the lightening forces themselves, wife
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