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some unnatural force they will be the controller. The difference therefore between the western mediums and the Eastern adepts is that the Western medium is controlled by something, and the Eastern adept is the controller of something. We know that there is a similarity to a certain extent between the ,powers called wonderful in this country and those of india. For instance the power of psychometry is only the power of reading the history of past and present events connected with anything. And how can this be done? Is there any ground for the existence of such a power ? The soul itself is consciousness, and if it is inherently perfect and omniscient, then under favourable circumstances it can exercise its full consciousness, and if the organ through which consciousness is recognized, the brain through which thought works, the moral nature of a person, is perfect, then all these things may be seen. At the same time the person is fully conscious, without being put into a trance state. The power itself is nothing connected with trances; the real point to be discussed is whether there can be any such power, any understanding of the history of a thing not known to us by experience. The scientists have proved the existence of a subtle ether without which light, heat, electricity, etc., cannot be proved. Its laws cannot be fully understood; cannot be this ether is not defined in a satisfactory
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