10. Psychology (2) To Develop Psychic Power
10. 心理學 (2) 發展靈能力量

2.1 To Develop Psychic Power
發展靈能力量

Concentration is the first necessary thing in developing psychic power, because it is exercise for the mind, as for the body there are gymnastics. No psychic has ever developed his power, nor has been able to make use of it, without the development of concentration. There are two great blessings in man’s life: power and inspiration. Concentration brings power; meditation, inspiration . . . the former being constructive while the latter is toward the ideal of annihilation, which in other words may be called absorption within.

在發展靈能力量時，第一項不可或缺的就是專注，因為專注之於頭腦，就像體操之於身體。沒有任何靈能者能夠在尚未發展專注力之前，就真正發展或運用自己的力量。人的生命中有兩項偉大的恩賜：力量與靈感。專注帶來力量；冥想帶來靈感。前者具有建設性，後者則朝向消融的理想，也可以稱為向內融入。

Psychic power is developed by making use of a thought at will, creating in the mind the object of concentration and retaining it — which takes a great deal of willpower. It is like lifting the chair on the tip of a finger under one of its feet, and keeping at the same time the balance, that it may not fall. Concentration is still more difficult. It is like making a pin stand on the tip of a finger, which has always a tendency to fall. The nature of the mind is such that it creates a thought and throws it over for another thought to take its place. This being the nature of the mind, it makes it difficult for one to concentrate upon one object steadily.

靈能力量的發展，是藉由能夠隨意運用一個思想：在頭腦中創造出專注的對象，並且將它保持住。這需要極大的意志力。它就像用一根手指頂住椅子的一隻腳，把整張椅子舉起來，同時還要保持平衡，不讓它倒下。然而，專注甚至比這更困難；它更像要讓一根針直立在手指尖上，而那根針永遠有倒下的傾向。頭腦的本性，就是創造出一個思想，接著把它拋開，讓另一個思想取而代之。正因為頭腦具有這種本性，要穩定地專注於單一對象便十分困難。

The mind of an average person may be pictured as an unruly horse that jumps and kicks and throws anyone that tries to ride it. Masters of the world are those who have mastered themselves, and mastery lies in the control of the mind. If the mind became your obedient servant, the whole world is at your service. The king of mind is greater than the king of a nation, and in order to get the mind into control, one ought to train the mind as one would train a horse, that afterwards can be used for the purpose for which it is.

一般人的頭腦，可以比喻成一匹難以馴服的馬，不斷跳躍、踢蹬，把任何試圖騎上它的人甩下來。真正能主宰世界的人，是先掌握自己的人；而真正的主宰，就在於能夠掌握頭腦。如果頭腦成為你順從的僕人，整個世界也就能為你所用。能夠統御自己頭腦的人，比統治一個國家的君王更偉大。要使頭腦受到掌握，就必須像訓練一匹馬那樣訓練它，使它日後能夠為它真正的目的所用。

People make concentration as a part of their everyday work, but mystics make their everyday’s work their concentration. When the concentration is developed, one may do one thing or two things, or ten or a hundred things at a time and at the same time.

一般人把專注當作日常工作中的一部分；祕士卻把每天所做的一切，都變成專注本身。當專注力真正發展之後，一個人可以同時做一件、兩件，甚至十件或一百件事，而仍然保持專注。

The one who concentrates well, his thought becomes living. When there is less power, it is as a vegetable; When more, it is as an animal; when more it is as man, and if still more it becomes superman. His thought becomes his friend, his ship in the sea and his airship in the air. If still more deeply we think on this subject, we shall find that the secret of all creation, natural and artificial, is mind, which has created this all by thought.

一個真正能夠專注的人，他的思想會變成活的。力量較少時，思想彷彿植物；力量更強時，彷彿動物；再強一些，就像人；若更進一步，則如超越常人的存在。他的思想會成為他的朋友，成為他航行海上的船，也成為他飛越天空的飛行器。如果我們更深入思索這件事，就會發現，無論自然或人造的一切創造，其祕密都在頭腦；正是頭腦透過思想創造了這一切。

2.2 Stilling of the Mind and Body
使頭腦與身體寂靜

Activity weakens and repose strengthens the mind and the body. By the word “strengthens” is meant that they get life from within, not necessarily from their own element. One may ask, “Would sitting idle help a person to become muscular, and would lack of thinking make one wise?” The answer is, no; activity would help a person to be muscular rather than stillness, and thinking would make man wise rather than the silence of thought; but activity in both the mind and the body would bring them to their own element. In other words, the body by activity would become muscular, and the mind would become thoughtful. But it is stillness alone which can give them the life from within and the light from within. Therefore, the body and the mind of a master Sufi may not seem to be stronger than those of another person, and yet they have a life peculiar to them, which everybody does not possess.

活動使頭腦與身體消耗力量，而休息則使它們得到力量。這裡所說的「增強」，指的是它們從內在獲得生命，而不一定只是從各自所屬的層面得到力量。有人或許會問：「整天坐著不動，會使一個人的肌肉更強壯嗎？不思考會讓人更有智慧嗎？」答案是否定的。要使身體肌肉強健，活動比靜止更有效；要使人成為有思想的人，思考也比完全不思想更有作用。然而，身體與頭腦的活動，只會使它們發展自身所屬層面的能力。換句話說，身體透過活動變得強壯，頭腦透過思考變得有思維能力；唯有寂靜，才能把內在的生命與內在的光帶給它們。因此，一位蘇菲聖師的身體與頭腦，表面上未必比別人更強壯，然而其中卻具有一種特殊的生命，是一般人並不擁有的。

2.3 The Use of Psychic Power
靈能力量的運用

Psychic power must be used after having been collected. Therefore, the desire of healing and of magnetizing should be kept aside until the power is developed so that it will overflow, and that it the time to make use of it. Otherwise, instead of helping others, the psychic ruins himself.

靈能力量必須先累積之後，才能加以運用。因此，在力量尚未發展到充沛而自然滿溢之前，應當暫時放下想要療癒別人或磁化事物的願望；等到力量真正滿溢之時，才是使用它的時候。否則，靈能者非但無法幫助別人，反而會損傷自己。

The best vehicle that gives expression to this power are the eyes. The psychic first drills the eyes and makes them accustomed to operate in one direction in which he may desire them to work. The glance of the psychic must become, when required, as the sharp knife of the surgeon, and when required, it should work as gently as a powderpuff. Until this control is gained, the psychic may help some and harm some, not knowing what helped and what harmed.

表達這份力量最好的媒介是眼睛。靈能者首先訓練自己的眼睛，使它習慣按照他所希望的方向運作。需要時，他的目光必須像外科醫師鋒利的手術刀；而在另一種需要下，又要能像粉撲一樣輕柔。在獲得這樣的掌握之前，靈能者可能幫助了一些人，也傷害了一些人，卻甚至不知道究竟是什麼帶來了幫助，又是什麼造成了傷害。

The tips of the fingers of the psychic and the palm also must become the means of directing the power. The whole being of the psychic becomes a magnet. The great psychics have a healing effect even in the soles of their feet. It is therefore that an Eastern disciple prides himself on being even as dust under the feet of his master.

靈能者的指尖與手掌，也必須成為引導力量的媒介。最終，靈能者整個存在都會成為一塊磁石。偉大的靈能者甚至連腳底都具有療癒作用。正因如此，東方的弟子會以「願成為老師足下的塵土」為榮。

2.4 What Nourishes Psychic Power
什麼能滋養靈能力量

Psychic power is a power of mind, and it repose of mind that develops it; in other words, stillness of mind. Activity of mind lessens the power. A person who thinks more, who is always absorbed in imaginations, who worries more, fears, doubts or becomes anxious about anything loses this power. Of course, the mind should not always be still, for lack of activity also destroys power, but one must be able to exercise the mind by thought and to still the mind by the will. This gives health to the mind, and thereby, psychic power is developed.

靈能力量就是頭腦的力量，而發展這份力量的，是頭腦的休息，也就是頭腦的寂靜。頭腦活動過度，會使力量減弱。一個想得太多、總是沉浸在想像中、過度憂慮、恐懼、懷疑，或對任何事情充滿焦躁的人，都會失去這份力量。當然，頭腦也不應永遠保持寂靜，因為完全缺乏活動同樣會損害力量。真正需要的是：能夠藉由思想鍛鍊頭腦，也能藉由意志使頭腦寂靜。如此，頭腦便能保持健康，而靈能力量也會因此發展。

The breath is the principle thing in life which absorbs the real nourishment for both body and mind. It is therefore that those who cannot breathe rightly can never be healthy; no food can nourish their body. And it is always the disorder of the breath which is the hidden cause of unsoundness of mind. The breath absorbs from the sphere nourishing properties for both mind and body. Therefore, there is no psychic who has developed his power without the development of the breath.

呼吸是生命中最主要的事物，它吸收真正滋養身體與頭腦的養分。因此，無法正確呼吸的人，很難真正健康；沒有任何食物能完全滋養他的身體。而頭腦失衡背後隱藏的原因，往往也與呼吸失序有關。呼吸從周遭的空間中吸收滋養頭腦與身體的元素。因此，沒有任何真正發展出靈能力量的人，是在沒有發展呼吸的情況下做到的。

A person is not equally gifted with power and inspiration. These two are like two eyes, two hands, or two wings which are not equal in strength. Therefore, one finds that most inspirational people lack power, and most powerful people lack inspiration; and it is the constant striving of the Sufi to balance the two. The reason of this is that power is grosser. It produces a mist, so that the intelligence is confused. If the mist is cleared, the power is cleared away too, and then inspiration comes.

一個人所具有的力量與靈感，通常並不是同等的。這兩者就像人的兩隻眼睛、兩隻手或兩隻翅膀，力量往往並不完全相等。因此，我們常會發現，極富靈感的人往往缺乏力量，而力量很強的人則容易缺乏靈感；蘇菲所持續努力的，就是使這兩者取得平衡。原因在於，力量本身較為粗重，容易形成一層霧，使智性變得混濁；而當這層霧散去時，那種粗重的力量也隨之消散，靈感才會出現。

2.5 What Should Be Practiced in Everyday Life to Develop Psychic Power
日常生活中應如何修習以發展靈能力量

Psychic power, in plain words, may be called power of mind, and power of mind in reality is power of feeling. Feeling is the spirit of thought as speech is the spirit of action. Therefore, concentration is the first essential thing for the development of psychic power. Besides that, strong feeling, void of all bitterness, worries and sorrows, fears and anxieties, is necessary.

簡單地說，靈能力量可以稱為頭腦的力量，而頭腦的力量，實際上就是感受的力量。感受是思想的靈，就如言語是行動的靈。因此，發展靈能力量最首要的條件，就是專注。此外，也需要強而有力的感受，而且這份感受必須不受苦澀、憂慮、悲傷、恐懼與焦躁所污染。

In order to express psychic power, one must have strength of body. Regular breathing, with rhythm and good circulation of the blood, is necessary. If not, while sending power outside for healing, one gets the disease of the person whom he heals; or when wishing to master something in life, he himself becomes mastered; when wanting to catch someone, he becomes captive.

為了能夠表達靈能力量，一個人必須具有強健的身體。規律而有節奏的呼吸，以及良好的血液循環，都是必要的。否則，當他把力量向外送出去療癒別人時，反而可能承接了被療癒者的疾病；當他想掌握生命中的某件事時，自己反而被那件事所掌握；當他想捕捉別人時，自己反而成為囚徒。

Sometimes, in people psychically weak, one finds great psychic power, but it is neither useful for them nor for another, because it makes a person weaker when he is already weak in constitution. In the Hindu religion, where harmlessness is the ideal and flesh-eating is prohibited among them, Shiva, Lord of Yogis, has allowed meat for the psychics, for the very reason that psychic power is power of mind and the body must be so strong as to sustain it. Another thing that is necessary for a psychic is steadiness in his habits and tranquility of mind.

有時，在靈能體質本身很虛弱的人身上，也會發現很強的靈能力量；然而，這樣的力量對他自己或他人都未必有益，因為當一個人的體質已經虛弱時，它只會使他更加耗弱。在印度教傳統中，不傷害生命是一項理想，並且通常禁止食肉；然而瑜伽士之主濕婆（Shiva）卻允許靈能修習者食肉，其原因正是：靈能力量屬於頭腦的力量，因此身體必須足夠強健，才能承載它。靈能者另一項必要條件，是生活習慣的穩定，以及頭腦的寧靜。

2.6 The Development of Power in the Fingertips
發展指尖的力量

The hand is the most active organ that man has; and at every inclination of doing any sort of work, man puts his hand forward to accomplish it. This shows that man’s power of action is expressed through his hand, so psychic power can also be better expressed by the hand than by any other organ. The fingertips are as rays of this light which is called psychic power. Fine rays of power manifest through man’s fingertips. This is the secret of shaking hands, which in reality is a psychic help to each other.

手是人身上最活躍的器官；每當一個人想要完成任何事情，自然而然便會伸出雙手去做。這顯示人的行動力量，是透過雙手表達的，因此靈能力量也能比透過其他器官更容易地由手表達出來。指尖就像這道稱為靈能力量之光所放射出的光芒；細微的力量光線會透過人的指尖顯現。這正是握手背後的祕密——從本質而言，握手也是彼此之間的一種靈能幫助。

As by working with a machine, a person makes his hands capable of mastering the machine, and as by playing the `cello a person makes his fingers capable not only to play the right notes but even to express his feeling, his emotion through them. So it is with psychic power. Every person has more or less of this power, but he can develop it by certain exercises which the initiate learns from the Murshid. When the power is developed, then the fingertips throw out the psychic power that attracts and heals. Its development also depends upon the health and strength of body and mind. By the power so developed, man can work wonder.

正如一個人藉由操作機器，使雙手逐漸能夠熟練掌握那部機器；又如大提琴演奏者透過練習，使手指不但能準確奏出音符，更能透過手指表達自己的感受與情感；靈能力量也是如此。每個人或多或少都具有這種力量，但可以透過某些練習加以發展，而接受啟蒙者會從穆希德那裡學習這些方法。當力量發展之後，指尖便能放射出具有吸引與療癒作用的靈能力量。這份力量的發展，也取決於身體與頭腦的健康和強健。藉由如此發展出來的力量，人能成就令人驚奇之事。

2.7 The Development of Power Through the Eyes
透過眼睛發展力量

The finest means of reflecting power is the eyes in the body, for they are radiant and the radiance of psychic power can easily pass through them. Therefore, the power of the eyes can help more in healing than anything else. As weakness is seen in the body by its unsteadiness, and by the lack of control in one’s movements (which we term nervousness), that is most seen in the eyes. The eyes are strained more than the other organs of the body, for every moment they are busy. That takes away the steadiness of the sight and the control of the glance from every man, and it is never considered a lack, it being a general disease.

在人的身體中，反映力量最精微的媒介是眼睛，因為眼睛本身具有光輝，靈能力量的光芒很容易透過它們傳遞。因此，在療癒上，眼睛的力量比其他任何方式更能提供幫助。身體的虛弱會表現在不穩定，以及無法掌握自己的動作上——我們稱之為緊張；而這種狀態在眼睛中最容易被看見。眼睛比身體其他器官承受更多耗損，因為它們每一刻都在活動。久而久之，人便失去了目光的穩定以及掌握視線的能力；但由於這種情況太過普遍，人們甚至不再把它視為一種缺失。

A child in his infancy shows in the steadiness of his eyes what nature has given to man, but as he grows older, he is curious and attracted by every object that invites his attention, and so activity in time takes away the steadiness of the glance. It is for this reason that many people complain about their eyes.

嬰兒時期的孩子，從眼神的穩定中顯示出大自然原本賦予人的能力。然而隨著年齡增長，他變得好奇，注意力不斷被各種事物吸引；長久下來，這些活動便奪走了目光原本的穩定。正因如此，許多人後來都會出現眼睛方面的困擾。

The mystic, therefore, takes great care of the eyes. In ancient times, the mystics, kings, and commanders used to wear a thin veil over their eyes to protect them against being much strained, thereby preserving the psychic power of the eyesight.

因此，祕士對眼睛格外珍重。在古代，祕士、君王與統帥有時會在眼前覆上一層薄紗，使眼睛免於過度耗損，藉此保存視線之中的靈能力量。

What difference is there when one speaks on the telephone and when one speaks in presence? What is absent? The voice is not absent, it is the eyes. Words can never convey that which the eyes can.

隔著電話交談，與面對面說話有什麼差別？究竟少了什麼？聲音並沒有缺少，真正缺少的是眼睛。眼睛所能傳達的，言語永遠無法完全傳達。

Humor, fear, strength, weakness, pleasure, displeasure, willingness, unwillingness, the eyes can express most. The steadier they are, the deeper the man is; and as much control of the glance he has, so much power he possesses.

幽默、恐懼、力量、軟弱、喜悅、不悅、願意或不願意，眼睛幾乎都能表達。一個人的目光越穩定，他的內在便越深；一個人能在多大程度上掌握自己的目光，他便具有多大程度的力量。

No doubt, the power is of the mind, not of the eyes, and yet the eyes are the only means through which the psychic power can work satisfactorily.

毫無疑問，真正的力量來自頭腦，而不是眼睛本身；然而，眼睛卻是靈能力量最能充分發揮作用的媒介。

There are three necessary things, therefore:

因此，有三件必要之事：

to keep the eyes clean,

保持眼睛潔淨；

to keep them from straining,

避免眼睛過度疲勞；

and to control the glance by concentration.

藉由專注來掌握目光。

2.8 Development of Power Through the Breath
透過呼吸發展力量

The breath is the only power which works directly or indirectly. It works indirectly when it works through channels. It works directly when one is inhaling and exhaling. Its channels are not only the physical organs of the body, but all organs of the body radiate the power of the breath. One who knows how to direct its power can even turn water into tonic and food into medicine; he can send with a flower the healing power; he can charge any object with the electricity of his breath. The finer the substance the more power it absorbs. For instance, bread or wine can be more charged with psychic power than stone or wood, although powerful breath can affect anything, however fine or gross it be.

呼吸是唯一能夠直接或間接運作的力量。當它透過各種管道作用時，是間接運作；當人直接吸氣與呼氣時，則是直接運作。呼吸的管道不只是身體中的各種器官；事實上，身體所有器官都在放射呼吸的力量。懂得如何引導這份力量的人，甚至能使水成為補劑，使食物成為藥物；他可以藉由一朵花傳遞療癒力量，也能用自己的呼吸為任何物件注入能量。物質越精微，能夠吸收的力量越多。例如，麵包或酒比石頭或木頭更容易承載靈能力量；然而，強而有力的呼吸仍然能夠作用於任何事物，無論其質地精微或粗重。

The presence of a spiritual person has a soothing and healing effect, and cures a patient. The secret is that the breath which is purified and developed becomes a stream of nectar. In the first place, breath is life, and when its current is attached to the inner life, the life eternal, it becomes more radiant life and it gives life to all mortals. It cures illness, because illness is caused by lack of life. It takes away depression, for it is light; when it is arisen, it takes away the clouds of depression.

一個靈性之人的臨在具有安撫與療癒的作用，甚至能使病人康復。其中的祕密在於，經過淨化與發展的呼吸，會變成一道甘露之流。首先，呼吸本身就是生命；而當這股生命之流連結到內在生命、永恆生命時，它便成為更加光明燦爛的生命，並把生命帶給所有凡人。它之所以能療癒疾病，是因為疾病源於生命的不足；它也能驅散低落，因為它就是光，當這道光升起時，低落的陰雲便會散去。

In the East, people seek the presence of a spiritual person, and often among them are such who never speak or teach or argue or discuss. There are some who do not even utter a word of blessing, and yet their contact gives life to the lifeless, takes away depression and sorrows, clears away confusion and heals all maladies, for it is life that they radiate, and those in contact with them are benefited. It is an evident phenomenon which needs no proof.

在東方，人們會尋求靈性之人的臨在；而其中有些人從不說話、不教導、不爭辯，也不討論。有些甚至連一句祝福的話都不說，然而只要與他們接觸，便能使失去生命力的人重新得到生命，驅散低落與悲傷，清除混亂，並療癒各種疾病。因為他們所放射出的就是生命，而與他們接觸的人自然從中受益。這是一種明顯可見的現象，並不需要任何證明。

The atmosphere that a spiritual person charges with his magnetism is the testimony of his power. People call it psychic power, and yet psychic power without spirituality is a lame power and a blind power. When the psychic becomes spiritual, or when the spiritual person develops in him psychic power, he becomes the fountain of life, continually flowing in this mortal world.

靈性之人以自身磁力所充滿的氛圍，就是他力量的見證。人們稱這為靈能力量；然而，沒有靈性作為基礎的靈能力量，是跛足的力量，也是盲目的力量。當靈能者發展出靈性，或一個靈性之人在自身發展出靈能力量時，他便成為生命的泉源，在這個有限的世間持續流淌。

2.9 Development of Power by Blowing
透過吹氣發展力量

One sees healers among the Sufis who magnetize water, a flower or fruit, as a remedy for any disease. The secret of it lies in the power of the breath. When a person repeats a word over a thing, then the vibrations caused by that word magnetize the thing accordingly. Even by blowing on the affected part, a person can heal another from pain. But this power is developed by the development of the breath. In the East, the poison of the snakebite and of the scorpion and of the mad dog and of the bee is always cured by blowing.

在蘇菲之中，可以看見有些療癒者會磁化水、花朵或水果，用來作為疾病的療癒之物。其中的祕密就在呼吸的力量。當一個人對著某樣東西反覆念誦一個詞，那個詞所造成的振動便會相應地磁化該物。甚至只是對著疼痛的部位吹氣，也可能幫助另一個人解除疼痛。然而，這種力量必須藉由發展呼吸而得到。在東方，蛇咬、蠍螫、狂犬咬傷以及蜂螫所造成的毒，人們也常以吹氣的方式加以處理。

The Hindus call magnetized food or drink or a flower prasad, and the Sufis call it tabarruk. They repeat words over it. Really speaking, it is the breath which charges the food or drink with life. After all, every illness is caused by lack of life, and its cure lies in life. All curatives, besides nourishing food and fresh air, help to develop life in a person. But if one person gives from his life, life to another, it is more than food, drink, or even fresh air.

印度人把經過磁化的食物、飲料或花朵稱為「聖供」（prasad），蘇菲則稱之為「蒙福物」（tabarruk）。人們會在這些物品上反覆念誦詞語。真正說來，是呼吸將生命注入了食物或飲料之中。歸根究柢，每一種疾病都源於生命的不足，而療癒也必須來自生命。除了有營養的食物與新鮮空氣之外，一切療癒方法，本質上都是在幫助一個人增強生命。然而，如果一個人能從自己的生命之中，把生命給予另一個人，那便比食物、飲料，甚至新鮮空氣更加直接。

When the breath is developed, only then may one make use of it for every purpose. But so long as it is not developed, it is advisable not to make use of it, for one may, instead of curing another, partake pains, diseases and depressions from another. When a person’s breath is not sufficiently developed, he, instead of curing, would do harm to himself as well as to the other. Therefore, development is necessary before its use.

只有當呼吸真正發展之後，才適合將它運用於各種目的。在呼吸尚未充分發展之前，最好不要貿然使用這份力量，因為一個人非但可能無法療癒別人，反而會承接對方的疼痛、疾病與低落。當一個人的呼吸尚未充分發展時，他不但無法療癒，還可能傷害自己，也傷害對方。因此，在運用之前，首先必須發展這份力量。

2.10 Development of the Power of Presence
臨在力量的發展

There are different ways through which the psychic uses his power, but the power of presence is most powerful and best of all. By a keen study of life, we shall notice, especially with people who are sensitive or ill, that one person, when he comes into the room, brings with him an atmosphere of ease; and there is another person who, when he comes, adds to the pain or restlessness of the patient; and also, one experiences that the presence of a person may be so that it may bring illness to the one who is well. This proves that there is a certain power in the presence of man that heals or that brings ease, sometimes without an effort. The mystics develop this power.

靈能者運用其力量的方式有許多種，但其中最強大、也最好的一種，就是臨在的力量。若我們細心觀察人生，便會注意到，尤其在敏感或生病的人身上，有些人一走進房間，便會帶來一種令人安適的氛圍；另一些人一來，卻會加重病人的痛苦或不安。有時我們甚至會發現，某個人的臨在本身，就可能使原本健康的人感到不適。這證明人的臨在之中確實存在著某種力量，它能夠療癒，或帶來舒緩，而且有時甚至無須刻意施為。祕士所發展的，正是這種力量。

The whole secret of this power is life. A person with life in the body, in the mind, in the soul gives life to those with whom he comes in contact; a person without that, instead of giving life, takes it. The mystic, therefore, by the development of power means the development of life, that he absorbs life from within and without, since the space is full of life, if one only knew how to get from it. Mystical practices, especially those with the breath, are meant to help man to absorb life which is so ample around and about him. But when man does not know this, he is thirsty on the bank of a river. Water is there and he does not see it. More than drugs or herbs or any kind of tonic, the absorption of energy from the space is beneficial.

這種力量全部的祕密，就在於生命。當一個人的身體、頭腦與靈魂之中充滿生命，他便會把生命帶給所有與他接觸的人；而一個缺少這份生命的人，不但無法給予生命，反而會吸取別人的生命。因此，祕士所謂「發展力量」，其實就是發展生命本身；他從內在與外在吸收生命，因為整個空間都充滿著生命，只要人懂得如何從中汲取。神祕修習，尤其是與呼吸有關的修習，正是為了幫助人吸收環繞在自己周遭、如此充沛的生命。然而，當人不知道這件事時，就像一個站在河岸邊卻仍然口渴的人；水就在那裡，他卻看不見。相較於藥物、草藥或任何種類的補劑，從空間中吸收能量，對人更有益處。

Then, use is made of this energy for the purpose of healing, and the person who has developed this power of presence does no other way of healing. His presence itself is energy. He can change the atmosphere of a room in which he may be sitting or of a hall in which he may be walking. He can spread the atmosphere round and about him which can give ease to anybody in contact with him. This is the secret of the great healing power of sages.

接著，這份能量便被運用於療癒。而一個已經發展出這種臨在力量的人，甚至不需要採取其他療癒方式；他的臨在本身就是能量。他可以改變自己所坐房間的氛圍，也可以改變自己所行走的大廳中的氛圍。他能將一種氣息散布在自己的周圍，使任何與他接觸的人都感到安適。這正是聖哲之所以具有強大療癒力量的祕密。

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