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on the way, which a persistent will is sure to overcome.
(CWM 12: 261–262)

Directing the Spiritual Force
Moreover, it [spiritual Force] is not only in its results but in its
movements that the Force is tangible and concrete. When I speak
of feeling Force or Power, I do not mean simply having a vague
sense of it, but feeling it concretely and consequently being able
to direct it, manipulate it, watch its movement, be conscious of its
mass and intensity and in the same way of that of other perhaps
opposing forces; all these things are possible and usual by the de-
velopment of Yoga.

(CWSA 29: 181–182)

Concrete? what do you mean by “concrete”? It [spiritual force] has
its own concreteness; it can take a form (like a stream for instance)
of which one is aware and can send it quite concretely in whatever
“direction” or on whatever object one chooses.
This is a statement of fact about the power inherent in spiri-
tual consciousness. What I was speaking of was a willed use of
any subtle force (it may be spiritual or mental or vital) to secure
a particular result at some point in the world. Just as there are
waves of unseen physical forces (cosmic waves etc.) or currents
of electricity, so there are mind waves, thought currents, waves of
emotion, e.g. anger, sorrow, etc., which go out and affect others
without their knowing whence they come or that they come at all
— they only feel the result. One who has the occult or inner senses
awake can feel them coming and invading him. Influences good
or bad can propagate themselves in that way; that can happen
without intention, automatically, but also a deliberate use can be
made of them. There can also be a purposeful generation of force,
spiritual or other. There can be too the use of the effective will or
idea acting directly without the aid of any outward action, speech

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