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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 rise up. Is that force of gravitation set aside? No, but another force is brought into existence, which being more powerful produces a contrary result from the law of gravitation. The law of gravitation is still true, but not fully understood by us.
While no psychometer would actually see the impressions in the ether in thought-transference, we make certain impressions on the ether, and the waves created by these go on until they reach the desired object. We must make a distinction between the ordinary power of electricity and the power of thoughttransference. We cannot make electricity go in any direction except that in which the wire is set, but in the other case we can change the direction at once at any moment that we like. There are many conditions of these occult powers; certain powers of the Yogis are very important. Their practices, their views, their life, would become clear to us if we understood the occult reasons. The rule is that our monks ought
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