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OCCULT POWERS
experiment;
therefore the tules of the Yogis are very clear to us, that these things ought not to be practised by ordinary people, who are not willing to sacrifice the things necessary for the purpose. These six plexuses are the reservoirs of many occult powers; they are situated in the line of the spinal column, and the nerves radiate in different directions from these. The plexus in the forehead is the seat of the power ot sight, and through this we see many things which cannot otherwise be seen. Every person has this power but it must be brought out by the required discipline. It has been found that this light which is radiated from this plexus gives us the power of seeing the present state of a thing put in contact with it, and if the light is still stronger and comes out at the top of the head then the past history of the object can be known. This has been tried even in this country, and it is a fact, there is no doubt about that. It is only the power of knowing the history of other things. What is levitation? It is indeed an occult power. How can anything set aside the law of gravitation? Really speaking, no law is set aside when anything happens, but the law of gravitation only means that the weight of a certain object will be so many pounds under certain conditions, and when the conditions themselves are changed, or if, in a human body, the polarity is changed, either by changing the position of the atoms or evolving another force by moral acts the body, instead of being pressed down by the force of gravitation, may
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