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from the magnetism which is generated on the plane midway between the mental and emotional, or from the forces collected by reason of Karma. When a person has advanced on all these planes simultaneously, then he can express all these powers at the same time, but if a person is seeking to develop the higher powers without developing the lower, he must depress the lower nature for a short time; that is why mediums are obliged to be put into a state of trance, so that the communicating link between the mentality and the physicality is severed for a time, then the physical is not conscious of these things. Such powers would not be desirable. The powers which are desirable are those in which we may be conscious on the physical, eniotional, mental and moral planes. We have to take into consideration that there are such powers, and that they are expressed on three planes. No power can be of any use unless the person is conscious of his power. All powers must be exercised in such a way as to benefit the soul. If the object of life is to waste the forces of consciousness, we may be controlled by other beings, and then there is loss instead of gain. The real powers therefore would lie in a plane which is mental, moral and spiritual. What are the powers which can be expressed on the mental plane, and then on the moral, and then on the spiritual ? First of all take the mental. Mentality is only the relation of the soul and body, which relation is expres. sed in the form of thought, which is not to be confounded with consciousness. It is a lower stage.
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