So far as I am concerned this (demonstration of miracles) is evidence of my divinity. It is not by any means an exhibition of divinity. All performance of magic as you know are done for the sake of income. These are tricks of magician’s trade. They constitute a kind of legalized cheating, the transfer of an object from one place to another by a trick of the hand, which goes, unnoticed. They involve no siddhi (occult power) or miraculous power. What I do is quite a different act of creation. It is neither magic, nor is it siddhi power either. For one thing, I seek no return. For another, I do not cheat people by transferring objects, but I can create them. Again, I do so not because of any need or desire of exhibition of my powers. For me, this is a kind of calling card to convince people of my love for them and secure their devotion in return. Since love is formless, I do materialization as evidence of my love. It is merely a symbol. (S&M, p. 240)
They are neither (healing and curing of ill health) magical tricks nor siddhic (occult) powers, which can come to every body with the appropriate discipline and yoga exercises, but my powers to protect, heal and save people and materialize objects originate in God and can be used only by an Avatar. They are in no way designed, disciplined or developed, but flow from cosmic power. There is no need for me to command invisible spirits since my own divine will materializes the objects. I am everything, everywhere, omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent; and so whatever I will, instantly happens. Like the qualities of truth, love and peace, these are things that generate the atmic (godly) or cosmic forces behind the universe. (S&M, p. 243)