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THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING 115 of the system ; and as we all depend for our mentality on the physical nature and for our morality on the physical and mental nature, the fact of this thought will be felt by the whole being, and unless, therefore, we observe these rules on the three planes, we should never expect to possess the powers possessed by the Yogis of India. To what extent the phenomena of Spiritualism in America correspond to the Mahatmas and others in India, I cannot say, for I am no authority on Mahatmas, because I have never been in the place where they claim to live ; but in India there are many persons who live among the people who have wonderful powers, but they have nothing to do with the socalled occult powers of the mediums or of the spiritualists. The phenomena of spiritualism in this country imply a certain condition, passive, without any force on the part of the medium. A passive, negative condition is the first condition, then, the individuality being lust or merged in something else, the nature of which we do not know. A certain result is produced in this way. With us the case is different; there is no comparison between the phenomena of spiritualism here and the phenomena produced in India. Here the medium does not know anything of what is going on; the inediums have to be passive because nothing can come to them otherwise. They speak in an inspirational state, a state where speech comes to them without any effort on their part, and therefore the Hindus would say it is no credit to them that they do these things. If by living the right kind of life, by
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