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Hi. Mantras, Or Words of Power

Buddhism·49 of 54·Source ↗

A clue to the power of mantras, as referred to throughout the Lardo Thodol, lies in the ancient Greek theory of music; namely, that, if the key-note of any particular body or substance be known, by its use the particular body or substance can be disintegrated. Scientifically, the whole problem may be under- stood through understanding the law of vibration. Each organism exhibits its own vibratory rate, and so does every inanimate object from the grain of sand to the mountain and even to each planet and sun. When this rate of vibration is known, the organism or form can, by occult use of it, be disintegrated.

For the adept in occultism, to know the mantra of any deity is to know how to set up psychic or gift-wave com-

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