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The other method, which is called the lokottara , consists of Raj Yoga or spiritual progress, and though it may be somewhat slower than the other, whatever is acquired along this line is gained for the permanent individuality, and never lost again, while the guiding care of a Master ensures perfect safety from misuse of power as long as his orders are scrupulously obeyed. The opening of astral vision must be regarded then only as a stage in the development of something infinitely nobler—merely as a step, and a very small step, on thatgreat Upward Path which leads men to the sublime heights of Adeptship, and beyonc! even that through glorious vistas of wisdom .and potver such as our fiifite minds cannot now conceive.
Yet let no one think it an unmixed'blessing to have th< wider sight of the astral plane, for upon one in whom tha vision is opened, the sorrow and misery, the evil and tin greed of the world press as an ever-present burden, until In often feels inclined to echo the pa.ssia.Ae adjuration o Schiller :"Why