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our will power, with our desires, our emotions, and the change produced in that person is just according to our desire. All the philsophy of mental power, mind-cure, etc., depends on a correct understanding of the powers existing in every human being. How are these powers to be used? For making money? For doing good to other people? I have found after living in this country for more than a year that the object of life to human beings is to make money. When a new idea is introduced the question is always asked, "Will it pay?" and if it will not pay it is considered of no use. People will not do things to accommodate a friend if they are likely to lose money by it. Now, if this human magnetism is evloved at the cost of our best impulses and endeavors, if it is used for the purpose of making money it is prostituted. But, it is said, a person cannot live without money. Certainly, one is free to use these forces in any way he pleases but if he uses them for the purpose of making money, he ought not to claim that he uses them for benevolent purposes. These powers can be used for the purpose of curing diseases. No person can with justice have any doubt as to this matter, but whether it is advisable to use these powers or not is a different matter. The ordinary objection is that no person has a right to interfere with the Karma of another person. But can he do so? If he can, he is the same person as the Chriatians call God, for only God could interfere to regulate the facts or the laws of the universe. The laws of nature, which are
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