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The method of attaining supernatural powers was never lost. It was possible to find beings wielding the 8 great abilities, still recorded in certain ancient texts of Indu such as the Vedas and Upanishads; to walk on water, to raise the dead, to suspend breathing indefinitely, to become small, to become large, to appear in more than one place simultaneously, telepathic hearing and speech, and control over the weather.
These were attained through advanced purification of the senses and through the left hand, only after the practitioner had become a confirmed renunciant: he then practiced at the left hand of God by eating human flesh, drinking menstrual blood, drinking wine, performing ritual sex and/or necrophilia and homosexuality, and other activities which ordinarily are not found in devotional practice to God, considered at best taboo and which could perhaps cause people to consider the practitioner insane. Thus, he lived in cemeteries or caves, considering himself to already be dead, considering himself to be one with God. He might even be seen wearing a human-skin cape.
Yet, through total renunciation of the world and life, totally following the Way as given by his teacher, he actually attained union with God. Such a one could say, I and my Father are One. This reality of the Way to union with the Supreme Ultimate has been held as possible, except in the Western world, where the teachings of the perfected being called Jesus who bore my mantle, were misunderstood and interpreted by people in a quite preposterous fashion, and humans were subjugated even further.