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is more or less an emotional relation with what one feels to be a Divine Power –
it is a relation very intimate, emotive and intense with something invisible
which one takes for the Divine.<o:p></o:p></p>

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is the knowledge of invisible forces and the power to handle them. It is a
science, altogether a science. I always compare occultism with chemistry or
physics; for occult knowledge is very much like scientific knowledge, only
science deals with material objects and forces, while occultism deals with invisible
entities and energies, their potentials of combination and association. And as
by your chemical or physical knowledge you control material phenomena, in the
same way by the occult knowledge you control subtle phenomena, make them active
and effective. The procedure also is quite scientific. It is to be learnt
exactly as you do a science. It is not a matter of feeling or emotion: it is
nothing vague or uncertain. You must work as in a laboratory. You have to learn
the laws of action and reaction and apply them. Only there are not many people
to teach you. Also it is not without danger. There are in <span class=GramE>this
field combinations</span> as explosive as any chemical combination.</p>

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is a thing, however, that can be learnt. But one must have the aptitude. If you
have the power latent in you, you can develop it by practice; but if you have
not, you can try for 50 years, it will come to nothing. Everybody cannot have
the occult power; it is as if you said that everybody in the world could be a
musician or a painter or a poet. There are people who can and there are those
who cannot. Usually, if you are interested in the subject, unless it is a mere
idle curiosity, it is a sign that you have the gift. You then try. But, as I
say, it is to be done with great precaution.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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example, when one goes out of the body – I have often spoken to you of this
phenomenon-even if it be just to a little extent, even if only mentally – then
what goes out is a part of the consciousness that controls the normal
activities of the body, what remains is the portion that is automatic,
producing the spontaneous involuntary movements such as blood circulation or
secretion etc., also other nervous or automatic thought movements; this region
is no longer under the control of the conscious thinking part. Now, there is
always in the atmosphere around you a good number of small entities, quite
small often, that are generally formed out of the disintegrated remains of a
dead human being: they are like microbes, the microbes of the vital. They have
forms and can be visible and they have a will of their own. You cannot say they
are always wicked, but they are full of mischief, that is to say, they like
amusing themselves at the cost of human beings. &amp; soon as they see that
someone is not sufficiently protected, they rush in and take possession of the
mechanical mind and bring about all kinds of disagreeable happenings – nightmares,
various physical disturbances – you feel choked, bite or swallow your tongue
and even more serious things. When you wish to go into trance, to have the
experience of being outside the body, you must have someone by your side, not
only to keep watch on your physical body, but also to prevent the vital
entities from getting possession of the nerve centres which, as I said, are no
longer under the control and protection of the conscious intelligence. There is
a still greater danger. When one goes out of the body in a more or less concrete
or material way, retaining only a thin and fragile contact – a thread of light,
as it were – with the body, this thread of contact must be protected, for the
attack of the hostiles may come upon it and cut it; if it is cut one can no
longer return into the body, and that means death.</p>

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All that signifies that occultism is not a joke or a mere play; you cannot take 
to it simply to amuse yourself. It must be done as it ought to be done, under 
proper conditions and with great care. The one thing absolutely essential is, I 
repeat once more, to be totally fearless. If you happen to meet in your dreams 
terrible scenes and are frightened, then you must not approach occultism. If, on 
the contrary, you can remain per<span
class=SpellE><span class=GramE>fectly</span> </span></p>

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<span
class=SpellE>tranquil in the face of the
most frightful menaces, they simply amuse you; if you can handle such
situations safely and successfully, that would show that you have some capacity
and then you can try seriously. There are people who are real fighters in their
sleep; if they meet an enemy they can face him, they can not only defend themselves,
but can attack and conquer.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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