22O The Law of the Rhythmic Breath 



used faculties of the human mind deteriorate; 

 while some powers remain ever latent from utter 

 failure to exercise them. 



Activity in a center quickens the sensitiveness 

 of that center to receive impressions and to de- 

 velop its latent powers. The spiritual nature 

 within all is striving for unfoldment, and thus it is 

 with every latent quality or power. It waits only 

 the unlocking of its secret chamber through com- 

 mand of desire and searching intelligence. The 

 weak-willed are governed by their desires excited 

 by external objects; the strong-willed govern their 

 desires through Internal choice, the ethical exer- 

 cise of a discriminating will. 



In the heart-silence to which concentration leads, 

 sources of power undreamed-of are opened to us. 

 The clear realization by the conscious self of con- 

 ditions fields of activity usually veiled by sub- 

 consciousness, is developed through the increased 

 activity of the soul when thus freed, and of 

 a will-power which becomes in its every exercise a 

 manifestation of soul-force. Not till we thus unite 

 our wills with our real selves can we have any con- 

 ception of the might of the invisible into whose 

 realms we are gradually and gently led through 

 this concentration of psychic power and consequent 

 development of psychic senses. The keenness of 

 these on the subtle planes where alone they act is 

 another incontestable proof of the building power 



