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certain influence which you may call hypnotism every where; it was only the result of the practise of universal love. Where it is practised to its full extent, where the whole being is saturated with love and with nothing else, these vibrations are very powerful, and they will control the fierce nature of the wild beasts, and the wild beasts would feel the effect, the influence of these vibrations and dare not attack the person from whose body they are issuing. That is one reason why the Hindus have not advanced in manufactures of guns and cannons; they do not believe in destroying. other beings by means of man-killing machines; they have submitted to foreign rule because they have not learned the art of killing men. Their life is in submitting to the fierce nature of other people, and evolving the higher nature of the soul, and sending out vibrations which instead of exciting the fierce nature of other beings would pacify them. What is the result of truthfulness? A person is truthful and speaks nothing but the truth, not only in words but in acts also. Then all his acts become fruitful; there would be no obstacle in the way of his expressing his desires, for he will all. We find these not have any unjust desire at facts mentioned in the religious history of many nations, that when certain persons said, "Let this be," it always happened, because truthfulness the establishing of a harmonious relation with regard to their own and to with regard external means that a person's belief
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