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The five practices to be applied in this life and near the time of death. They are (1) the power of the white seed; (2) the power of intention; (3) the power of blaming the self-cherishing thought; (4) the power of prayer; and (5) the power of habituation. See also Liberation on the Palm of Your Hand, pp. 560–63.