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indispensable factor. Yogic science knows of other ways of acquir-
ing energy, and we shall mention two of the most important.
The first is to put oneself in relation with the energies accumu-
lated in the terrestrial material world and to draw freely from this
inexhaustible source. These material energies are obscure and half
unconscious; they encourage animality in man, but, at the same
time, they establish a kind of harmonious relationship between
the human being and material Nature. Those who know how to
receive and use these energies are usually successful in life and
succeed in everything they undertake. But they are still largely de-
pendent on their living conditions and their state of bodily health.
The harmony created in them is not immune from all attack; it
usually vanishes when circumstances become adverse. The child
spontaneously receives this energy from material Nature as he ex-
pends all his energies without calculating, joyfully and freely. But
in most human beings, as they grow up, this faculty is blunted
by the worries of life, as a result of the predominant place which
mental activities come to occupy in the consciousness.
However, there is a source of energy which, once discovered,
is never exhausted, whatever the outer circumstances and physi-
cal conditions of life may be. It is the energy that can be described
as spiritual, and is received no longer from below, from the incon-
scient depths, but from above, from the supreme origin of the uni-
verse and man, from the all-powerful and eternal splendours of the
superconscient. It is there, all around us, permeating everything;
and to enter into contact with it and to receive it, it is enough
to aspire sincerely for it, to open oneself to it in faith and trust,
to widen one's consciousness and identify it with the universal
Consciousness.
At the outset, this may seem very difficult, if not impossible.
Yet by examining this phenomenon more closely, one can see that
it is not so alien, not so remote from the normally developed hu-
man consciousness. Indeed, there are very few people who have

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