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THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING
piration is the result; later on the digestion becomes stronger and later on we feel that certain forces are evolved coming from the navel and proceeding upward to the brain and reaching the top part of the brain where a certain sound is heard and a power is evolved which enables the person to see many things which cannot be seen by ordinary vision. This power cannot be obtained in any cheap way; it is not like a microscope or a telescope; this power depends on our own life, on our own conduct. The very thoughts which we harbor will have something to do with the evolution of these powers. What are thoughts but vibrations ? They must be vibrations to give rise to vibrations. We say that vibrations and thought, however, are concurrent and not identical. Even when the vibrations do not come out from us they produce a peculiar change in the furctions of the different organs by the motion of the different subtle ethers of the body, and a corresponding change is made in the mental condition, in the whole condition of the system; and as we all depend for our mentality on the physical nature and for our morality on the physical and mental nature, the fact of this thought will be felt by the whole being, and unless, therefore, we observe these rules on the three planes, we should never expect to possess the powers possessed by the Yogis of India. To what extent the phenomena of Spiritualism in America correspond to the Mahatmas ane others in India, I cannot say, for I am no authority
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