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QUESTIONS AND ANSWEES 275
our senses have been dulled by alcohol and tobacco, when
the system is forced to exert all its energy to digest or
eliminate coarse food, is it to be expected that the man
should be a sensitive? We cannot serve God and mammon;
ours is the choice. If we want spiritual powers we
must pay the price of clean lives ; we must give our bodies
pure food and conform to the rules of the simple life; we
must abstain from everything that dulls the senses alco-
hol, tobacco, and similar abuses. If that is called "a life
of asceticism," then asceticism is absolutely necessary.
QUESTION No. 139.
Are all children clairvoyant tip to a certain age?
Answer: Yes, all are clairvoyant at least during the first
year of their life. It depends upon the spirituality of the
child to a great extent, also upon its environment, how
long it will keep the faculty, for most children communicate
all they see to their elders and the faculty of clair-
voyance is affected by
their attitude. Often children are
lidiculed, and nothing so hurts their sensitive little na-
tures. They
soon learn to shut out the scenes which en-
gender the ridicule of their elders, or at least they will
learn to keep such experiences to themselves. When