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OCCULT POWERS
of our acts and thoughts, and if we carry about us our own personality, that personality itself is full of pictures of our past life, and any person who is sensitive enough can see these things. The history of a physical object also is imprinted not on the material particles, but on the ethereal part, and these waves are carried in the ether, so that a person who has the power of psychometry can read the history of anything in this way. There are different subtle or rather occult organs of the body through which these powers are manifested. The Hindus have also determined the organs which are fitted for these things; they have studied these organs. There are several plexuses in the human body, all of which are centers of the nervous system. The situated in all the different parts of the body and different energies are predominant in all these centres; and by a proper course of dlscipline all these forces can be put in operation. Thus the whole body must be fit to become a vehicle of these powers, and if it is not fit the result will be ruin of the body itself. Therefore the Yogis have said that we should not try to exercise these powers until we bave made the body fit to receive them. As a Latin maxim says, investigate, but do not experiment; because there are so many dangerous things whose laws we are not ready to obey. Really there is no danger in understanding anything in the universe, but the danger lies in
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