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tion of sight depends on the vibrations of the lumini ferous ether, the body can be made to disappear and become invisible to the person standing before us. The actual disappearance of the object could be explained only from the fact that, there are persons who can chang the substance of a body into something of a very ethere! nature, and can take this body through any gross su. stance that may be in the way; and in this way anythis. inay be made to disappear. There are many persons ; India who are able to control their feeling of hung and thirst because there is a plexus in the throat th is the cause of this sensation, and if this plexus ca be controlled by concentration, the person may rema without food cr drink for many days. A grad" rising of the power dormant in the navel until it react the plexus between the eyebrows can make able to see many things which we are not able to si otherwise. The real spiritual powers of the soul or not levitation or aerial navigation or any such thing. Such powers may be exercised even by jugglers, and there is a Sanskrit verse in one of the Jain books addressed to one of these. The powers of celestial beings or of many human beings are not to be seen; we see the manifestations such as aerial navigation and mony other powers of the body, but it is not on account of this that we consider them to be great, but on account of the spiritual knowledge and spiritual powers. When persons delight in the mere manifestation of
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