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A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga542
and by which they manage and direct their vigorous, healthy minds, and
master the material world, acting positively upon Energy and Matter. This
control extends to all planes of the Mind, and the Yogis not only control the
Instinctive Mind, holding in subjection its lower qualities and making use of
its other parts, but they also develop and enlarge the field of their Intellect
and obtain from it wonderful results. Even the Spiritual Mind is mastered,
and aided in its unfoldment, and urged to pass down into the field of
consciousness some of the wonderful secrets to be found within its area. By
means of Raja Yoga many of the secrets of existence and Being—many of
the Riddles of the Universe—are answered and solved. And by it the latent
powers inherent in the constitution of Man are unfolded and brought into
action. Those highly advanced in the science are believed to have obtained
such a wonderful degree of power and control over the forces of the
universe, that they are as gods compared with the ordinary man.
Raja Yoga teaches that not only may power of this kind be secured, but
that a wonderful field of Knowledge is opened out through its practice. It
holds that when the concentrated mind is focused upon thing or subject,
the true nature and inner meaning, of, and concerning, that thing or
subject will be brought to view. The concentrated mind passes through the
object or subject just as the X-Ray passes through a block of wood, and
the thing is seen by the “I” as it is—in truth—and not as it had appeared
before, imperfectly and erroneously. Not only may the outside world be
thus explored, but the mental ray may be turned inward, and the secret
places of the mind explored. When it is remembered that the bit of mind
that each man possesses, is like a drop of the ocean which contains within
its tiny compass all the elements that make up the ocean, and that to know
perfectly the drop is to know perfectly the ocean, then we begin to see
what such a power really means.
Many in the Western world who have attained great results in the
intellectual and scientific fields of endeavor, have developed these powers
more or less unconsciously. Many great inventors are practical Yogis, although