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right so far as the physical laws are concerned, and if the physical force is used a large amount of heat would be the result. But what about a moral force ? That writer says that under all conditions if a physical object is to be sent from one place to another, you cannot do it without generating heat. But this is only the force on the physical plane ; but if a moral force is used you can send a thing from one place to another without generating any heat. A person using a moral force spends so much force and is a loser to that extent; but if by doing any good on the moral plane he may benefit another person, although he may be losing something so far as the physical force is concerned, the very act adds something to his soulnature ; therefore in the loss of our lower nature we gain in the higher nature, and the gain in the higher nature sets off every loss of the lower nature, and the lower must sink deeper and deeper in order that the higher may rise. This is really the way to the occult powers ; they do not depend on physical laws. It may be urged that the persons who have produced these wonderful phenomena are not always moral. What is the reason ? It is not morality itself that is able to produce these phenomena, but after certain discipline is passed through, a force is generated and that force is the direct cause of the occult act. That force may be stored to a very large extent in the body and it may have been stored either in this life or in some other life. All the forces that are generated do not manifest their results at once ; they always take
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