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OCCULT POWERS even to express our powers through all these different carriers. It is not the true soul-power which is expressed under the conditions which are to be found in this country, when we see these powers exhibited by mediums in a trance state, because they themselves are not able of their own accord to do these things; it must be some other influence, under which alone they can give certain results. Why? Because it is only one part of their nature which is fit to manifest the power ; the other parts are not in accord with it, it is working only on one plane ; the other planes must be separated or disconnected from that plane, and that is the reason why physically and mentally they are separated from the spiritual or astral nature, and even then, that which is given them is lost to them afterwards. Our mode is different. We say that all the planes must progress simultaneously by acting in harmony, and instead of being controlled by 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 powers 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
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