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OCCULT POWERS
discipline is passed through, a force is generated and that force is the direct cause of the occult act. That force may be stored to a very large extent in the body and it may have been stored either in this life or in some other life. All the forces that are generated do not manifest their results at once; they always take some time. It depends on the nature of such a force how much time it takes to manifest the results. We need not expect the results to come out in a short time or in this life, but they will appear at some time, there is no doubt as to that, because any force cannot be destroyed unless its full result is mapifested, therefore the moral force which is the cause ot occult phenomena might have been generated either in this life or in some other life, and in this the cause of the occult powers of a person may lie. Why is one person able to do what another cannot? If there is no future life And yo past life, if the moral forces generated in the past life do not become of any use in this life, then what is the cause of che person being able to manifest Occult powers, when another cannot. Why should not all persons have the same kind of surroundings, heredity, etc.? There are so many differences, and this shows that these are only the effects of some other past life-force. Can we generate this force anew in this life, so that it may be useful to us? Impatience is one great impediment. On account of a peculiar nature which we have gained by reason of leading a peculiar life, we want to see the result manifested at
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