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these powers, their power is only that of the juggler.
moral and spiritual exercise these powers, But how can we
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When their life itself is on the plane, he will never desire to but they will come of themselves. come spiritual? That is the most important point. irituality does not mean the acquirement of psychi'occult powers, but the unveiling of the soul itself; d that cannot be done by any power of the body, t of the soul itself. Some such power we oftenthes see in some experiments of hypnotism, etc. be person in the hypnotic state, according to the tetitioner, develops lucidity, and he says many things fich are remarkable, which he would not say in his alinary state; but when he comes out of the hypnotic dition, ask him what he has been saying or doing
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he does not know anything about it. If a patient 1 at any time put himself in such a condition that he self can see these things, being conscious of what sees, then he has indeed advanced. If the laws of puotism are true on their own plane then the laws of the spiritual nature must also be true on their own plane. A suggestion is acted upon by the subject, and he, as it were, surrenders his own individuality completely, and makes his mentality subservient to the will of the operator, and this becomes a part of the mental nature of the subject. If this same thing can be accomplished by the patient himself, then he receives a suggestion from himself; his own individuality is strong and positive, and he is not weakened. Y. 6
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