CHAPTER XVIII 



.VITAL CENTERS FOR CONCENTRATION 



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IT should be very clear to my readers, now, that 

 subtle bonds of rhythmic influence connect 

 every human being with the vast spaces of the 

 universe, and open to him illimitable resources if 

 he but uses them aright. But alas! This is the 

 crux of the problem. How many use them aright ? 

 Even the knowing how does not confer the power 

 to do. Desire and will decide that! IT IS 

 ONLY THROUGH USE THAT KNOW- 

 LEDGE BECOMES A HABIT AND THEN 

 A POWER! 



What is the purpose of concentration? It is to 

 develop power; to develop the best there is in the 

 individual through gaining control of the lower 

 Principles and using the higher ones latent in 

 every human being. But let me say at the out- 

 set of this study, lest some students have an en- 

 tirely erroneous idea of our object: // is not to 

 develop psychic powers. No ; our object a fore- 

 cast of which was given in the last chapter is 

 far higher, vastly more important. It is, first, to 

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