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VRIL: Hidden Energy That Shapes Your Reality & Attracts Success - William Walker Atkinson · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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Speaker 1: Rill or vital magnetism the Secret Doctrine of Ancient Atlantis, Egypt,
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Speaker 1: Chaldea and Greece, being Volume six of The Arcane Teaching
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Speaker 1: by William Walker Atkinson less than one. The nature of
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Speaker 1: rill in the Arcane Teaching, the term rill indicates the
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Speaker 1: universal principle of vital energy, life force, or vital magnetism,
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Speaker 1: as it is sometimes called. The term itself is believed
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Speaker 1: to have had its origin in the language of ancient Atlantis.
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Speaker 1: Tradition holding that the Atlantean root free, meaning life, is
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Speaker 1: the source of the word rill, the latter expressing the
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Speaker 1: idea of the vital principle or life energy. This original
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Speaker 1: root term is believed to have influenced similar elementary terms
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Speaker 1: in the Sanskrit, and through this that great source of tongues,
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Speaker 1: the Latin, from which our own language is largely derived.
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Speaker 1: In many languages we find words indicating manly, vigor, energy, virility,
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Speaker 1: which undoubtedly owe their origin to the original Atlantean root termvree,
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Speaker 1: from which our term is derived. In the ancient Greek
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Speaker 1: we find the term viros, meaning a hero. In the
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Speaker 1: Sanskrit we discover vira, meaning a hero, And in the
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Speaker 1: ancient Irish yar meaning a man, the Gothic war and
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Speaker 1: the Anglo Saxon wr, each meaning a man, as well
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Speaker 1: as the Latin word verr meaning a man, from which
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Speaker 1: our terms virile virility originated, also appear to have been
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Speaker 1: derived from the Atlantean termvree, or life. It was very
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Speaker 1: natural to identify the concept of man with life in
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Speaker 1: our own language. The terms virile and virility indicate life
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Speaker 1: force or vital energy, particularly in the sense of procreative power.
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Speaker 1: The usage of these terms bearing out the above stated
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Speaker 1: theory of their origin. Bulwer, who was well versed in
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Speaker 1: occult tradition and terms, used the term rill in one
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Speaker 1: of his novels to indicate a mysterious form of energy
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Speaker 1: employed by a newly discovered innes highly advanced race of
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Speaker 1: people upon whose doings his story was based. It is
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Speaker 1: almost certain that Bulwer borrowed this term from some of
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Speaker 1: the ancient occult writings with which he was so familiar,
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Speaker 1: and that the ancient arcane term vrill was known to him.
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Speaker 1: In many of these ancient occult treatises, we find frequent
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Speaker 1: reference to vril, not only in its sense of the
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Speaker 1: principle of vital energy, but also in that sense of inherent,
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Speaker 1: usable energy, which we seek to express by the term
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Speaker 1: human magnetism. In such writings we find the term employed
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Speaker 1: to explain many of the phenomena of occultism. Nearly, if
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Speaker 1: not all, of the schools of occultism in all lands
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Speaker 1: and in all times, have taught the existence of this
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Speaker 1: wonderful principle of energy. In Persian mysticism, the term glomat
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Speaker 1: is used in the same sense. In Hindu occultism, we
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Speaker 1: find the word pranas serving a similar purpose. Mesmer seems
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Speaker 1: to have stumbled upon this truth when he taught the
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Speaker 1: existence of the universal fluid, although he was far from
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Speaker 1: the truth in his liad deductions therefrom in the revival
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Speaker 1: of interest in occult science in Western lands, so noticeable
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Speaker 1: in the past generation, and which continues to the present time,
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Speaker 1: we find frequent references to human magnetism, animal magnetism, vital magnetism,
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Speaker 1: and in the schools of magnetic healing, which attracted so
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Speaker 1: much attention. About ten years ago, we heard much of
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Speaker 1: the magnetic fluid. The existence of the principle of nature,
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Speaker 1: which we call vril in the arcane teaching, has been
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Speaker 1: recognized by many schools of thought. Throughout human history, many
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Speaker 1: names have been given to it, and many theories have
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Speaker 1: been advanced to account for its existence and to explain
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Speaker 1: its purposes and effects. We shall not attempt to go
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Speaker 1: into the history of this idea, nor to consider the
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Speaker 1: many attempted explanations above referred to. We prefer to go
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Speaker 1: to the fountain head and present the original arcane teaching
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Speaker 1: regarding the principle of rill. In the arcane teaching, then,
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Speaker 1: the term vrill is used in several senses, general and particular,
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Speaker 1: as we shall see as we proceed. In the first place,
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Speaker 1: rill is held to be a great cosmic principle of
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Speaker 1: very fine energy, permeating all forms of matter, and imminent
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Speaker 1: in thought processes, as well being employed by the principle
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Speaker 1: of mind in its work of thinking. But Rill is
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Speaker 1: not identical with mind. Mind is held to be a
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Speaker 1: prior manifestation of the infinite. From the mental principle arose
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Speaker 1: Rill and the grosser forms of energy, and then the
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Speaker 1: forms of matter fine and gross. In this original sense,
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Speaker 1: frill is perceived to be a great universal principle, from
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Speaker 1: which precedes a multitudinous manifestation of activities VRIL. In this
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Speaker 1: phase of existence cannot be defined any more than any
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Speaker 1: universal principle can be defined. We have no words with
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Speaker 1: which to define or explain when we descend to the
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Speaker 1: consideration of its manifestations, that we are able to explain
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Speaker 1: or define it in our finite terms. In the second
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Speaker 1: sense of the term, rille well is the principle of
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Speaker 1: inner vital power or energy found to be imminent in
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Speaker 1: all forms of specialized matter, inorganic or organic. It is
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Speaker 1: this recognition of universal imminence that has led science to
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Speaker 1: advance the new theories that life is present in all
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Speaker 1: forms of matter, even in the crudest and grossest states
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Speaker 1: phases and forms of matter. Heckel boldly asserts that the
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Speaker 1: atoms of matter possess something akin to life, and manifest
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Speaker 1: the capability of perceiving something like sensations and the ability
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Speaker 1: to respond thereto. Heckel says, the two fundamental forms of substance,
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Speaker 1: ponderable matter and ether, are not dead and only moved
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Speaker 1: about by extrinsic force, but they are endowed with sensation
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Speaker 1: and will, though naturally of the lowest grade, they experience
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Speaker 1: an inclination for condensation a dislike for strain. They strive
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Speaker 1: after the one and struggle against the other. Heckel also
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Speaker 1: says the different relations of the various elements toward each other,
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Speaker 1: which chemistry calls affinity, is one of the most important
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Speaker 1: properties of ponderable matter. It is manifested in the different
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Speaker 1: relative quantities or proportions of ponderable matter. It is manifested
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Speaker 1: in the different relative quantities or proportions of their combination,
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Speaker 1: in the intensity of its consummation. Every shade of inclination,
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Speaker 1: from complete indifference to the fiercest passion, is exemplified in
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Speaker 1: the chemical action of the various elements toward each other,
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Speaker 1: just as we find in the psychology of man, and
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Speaker 1: especially in the life of the sexes. Gerda, in his
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Speaker 1: classical romance affinities, compared the relation of a pair of
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Speaker 1: lovers with the phenomenon of the same name in the
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Speaker 1: formation of chemical combinations. The irresistible passion that draws Edward
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Speaker 1: to the sympathetic attilia or Paris to Helen and leaps
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Speaker 1: over all bounds of reason and morality is the same
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Speaker 1: unconscious attractive force which impels the living spermatozoon to force
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Speaker 1: an entrance into the ovum. In the fertilization of the
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Speaker 1: egg of the animal or plant, the same impetuous movement
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Speaker 1: which unites two atoms of hydrogen to one atom of
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Speaker 1: oxygen for the formation of a molecule of water. This
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Speaker 1: fundamental unity of affinity in the whole of nature, from
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Speaker 1: the simplest chemical process to the most complicated love story,
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Speaker 1: was recognized by the Greek scientist and Pedocles in the
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Speaker 1: fifth century b c. In his Theory of the Love
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Speaker 1: and Hate of the Elements. It receives empirical affirmation from
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Speaker 1: the interesting progress of cellular psychology, the great significance of
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Speaker 1: which we have learned to appreciate in the last thirty years.
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Speaker 1: On those phenomena we base our conviction that even the
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Speaker 1: atom is not without a rudimentary form of sensation and will, or,
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Speaker 1: as it is better expressed, of feeling, aesthesis and inclination tropesis,
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Speaker 1: that is, a universal soul of the simplest character. The
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Speaker 1: same must be said of the molecules which are composed
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Speaker 1: of two or more atoms. Further, combinations of different kinds
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Speaker 1: of these molecules give rise to simple and subsequently complex
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Speaker 1: chemical compounds, in the activity of which the same phenomena
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Speaker 1: are repeated in a more complicated form. Science now admits,
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Speaker 1: nay positively affirms that the principle of life is imminent
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Speaker 1: in and manifests through all forms of material things, inorganic
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Speaker 1: as well as organic. We are not now concerned with
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Speaker 1: the idea of the presence of mind in all of
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Speaker 1: these forms, except inasmuch as mind is always an accompaniment
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Speaker 1: of life. Life is generally defined as the quality of
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Speaker 1: sensation and will manifest it in forms of matter, but
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Speaker 1: a closer definition is now being advanced by science. The
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Speaker 1: latest conception is that life consists in the power of
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Speaker 1: independent action and movement, that is, in the ability to
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Speaker 1: act and move from inner and inherent power, and not
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Speaker 1: from power or force applied from without. It is this
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Speaker 1: very power to act and move which the Arcane teaching
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Speaker 1: holds to be the second phase of the existence of rill.
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Speaker 1: A body may possess sensation and will, ability to feel,
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Speaker 1: and ability to exercise volition, and yet not be able
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Speaker 1: to act and move. Feeling and will our mental states
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Speaker 1: or qualities. But the power which acts and moves is
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Speaker 1: something different from mind, for it is what is called
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Speaker 1: vital force, life, energy, or drill. A man may feel
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Speaker 1: the sting of an insect, and may then will to
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Speaker 1: brush aside the insect. But unless by the exercise of
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Speaker 1: his will, usually but sometimes by reflex activity, he sends
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Speaker 1: a current of vital force, life energy, nervous energy drill.
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Speaker 1: In short, his muscles will not contract, nor will his
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Speaker 1: hand move. Moreover, without rill, he cannot even perform the
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Speaker 1: processes of thought and come to a decision regarding the
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Speaker 1: brushing away of the insect. Vrill is the force which
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Speaker 1: operates the machinery of life, from the crudest movement up
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Speaker 1: to the highest exercise of the brain cells of the
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Speaker 1: philosopher or mathematician. Vrill, then, in its second phase of
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Speaker 1: manifestation or existence, is the inner power of action and
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Speaker 1: movement of all material force of the universe. It is
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Speaker 1: by the action of rill that the ions, electrons, corpusles,
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Speaker 1: or particles of elementary matter are attracted and repelled, and
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Speaker 1: by which they engage in the wild world around each other,
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Speaker 1: which resembles the movement of the planets around our Sun,
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Speaker 1: which attraction and repulsion in consequent whirl combine to form
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Speaker 1: what we know as the atom of matter. Likewise, it
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Speaker 1: is rill which causes these atoms to be attracted and repelled,
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Speaker 1: and to manifest constant vibration, thereby forming the combinations which
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Speaker 1: give to us our eighty elements of matter. And it
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Speaker 1: is by rill that the molecules formed of two or
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Speaker 1: more atoms manifest their varying degrees of cohesion and other
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Speaker 1: molecular qualities, properties, and attributes, and thus give us the
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Speaker 1: distinctive qualities of matter in all of its various forms. Vrill, then,
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Speaker 1: is the fine energy of force, which enables material things
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Speaker 1: to move of their own power, the power within them.
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Speaker 1: Rill is in itself this power within which enables the
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Speaker 1: particle or atom of matter to move to and fro,
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Speaker 1: which enables the atoms to form their combinations, which causes
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Speaker 1: the molecules to manifest their qualities, which enables man to
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Speaker 1: bend his arm and direct his pen at the behest
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Speaker 1: and command of his will, urged thereto by his feelings
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Speaker 1: or desires, and supervised by his intellectual reasoning. Moreover, Vrill
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Speaker 1: is at the heart of the great mystery of science, gravitation,
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Speaker 1: that force which operates over infinities of space without the
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Speaker 1: measure of time, and in spite of obstacles and interferences gravitation,
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Speaker 1: which contradicts all the minor laws of physics, is seen
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Speaker 1: really to be vrill, life energy and vital force in
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Speaker 1: its second phase of manifestation. VRIL in the second phase
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Speaker 1: of manifestation, pervades all space. It is imminent in the
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Speaker 1: universal ether wherever anything is. VRILL is in its second
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Speaker 1: phase of manifestation. The above is quite inadequate to give
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Speaker 1: a complete idea of the existence and nature of RILL,
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Speaker 1: but it is sufficient for our purposes at this time.
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Speaker 1: Lesson two Rill in organic life, DRILL in the third
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Speaker 1: sense of the term, or the third phase of its
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Speaker 1: manifestation or existence, is the life force or vital energy
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Speaker 1: of all organic forms of life of all living creatures,
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Speaker 1: from the single cell or monarin in the slime of
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Speaker 1: the ocean bed, or the lowly quasi organic forms of
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Speaker 1: green sediment or deposits on rocks and old trees, to
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Speaker 1: the highest forms of animal and human life. Rill is
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Speaker 1: ever present and operative. Just as protoplasm is the peculiar
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Speaker 1: phase of matter which serves as the body of living organisms,
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Speaker 1: so is this phase or form of RILL, the peculiar
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Speaker 1: force or energy which always accompanies organic life. In fact,
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Speaker 1: it is the distinctive property or attribute of organic life.
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Speaker 1: When science is forced to decide whether or not a
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Speaker 1: thing is living in the ordinary sense of the term,
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Speaker 1: it is the possession or non possession of this form
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Speaker 1: of rill which serves to decide the matter and make
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Speaker 1: the distinction. It is this third phase of manifestation of
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Speaker 1: rill which forms the subject matter of our present consideration
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Speaker 1: in this book. Vrill, in its third phase of manifestation,
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Speaker 1: is the energy which performs the functions of life in
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Speaker 1: the living organism. It is the power by which the
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Speaker 1: living creature carries on the processes of digestion, assimilation, excretion, nourishment, repair,
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Speaker 1: and elimination. It is the power by which it moves
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Speaker 1: its body by conscious will, and by which the subconscious
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Speaker 1: movements of the cells and organs of the body are performed.
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Speaker 1: Vrill causes the heart to beat, and the arteries and
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Speaker 1: veins to carry and propel the blood in its outward
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Speaker 1: and inward course. It causes the intestines and other canals
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Speaker 1: to manifest their peculiar peristaltic action. It is the power
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Speaker 1: by which the will moves the hand and fingers, and
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Speaker 1: by means of which these words are written, we are
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Speaker 1: accustomed to thinking that the will causes these movements, and
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Speaker 1: so it does, but only indirectly. The will is a
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Speaker 1: mental phase. It chooses to make the movement, after which
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Speaker 1: it releases or projects the rill along the channels of
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Speaker 1: the nerves to the muscles. The muscles then contract and
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Speaker 1: the movement is effected. The will is like the operator
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Speaker 1: managing one of the great cranes in a modern steel works, who,
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Speaker 1: touching a button here and a lever there, swings the
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Speaker 1: mighty instrument in any direction, causing it to descend upon
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Speaker 1: a great mass of steel, lift it up, and swing
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Speaker 1: it to any desired point. But the man and the
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Speaker 1: machinery could never cause the crane to do this work
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Speaker 1: if there was not available the power electricity or steam,
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Speaker 1: subject to the control and direction of the operator. VRILL
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Speaker 1: in the human body is like electricity in the trolley car.
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Speaker 1: It is that which makes things go. While vrill is
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Speaker 1: distributed all over the human body, even the tiniest cell
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Speaker 1: having its share, it is found principally in the two
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Speaker 1: great nervous systems, and is stored up in the great
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Speaker 1: reservoirs of the brain, vinal cord and the various plexi
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Speaker 1: or ganglia of the nervous system. For the purposes of
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Speaker 1: simple conception and easy thinking, we may regard this phase
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Speaker 1: of RILL as the nervous fluid or nerve force of physiology,
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Speaker 1: remembering always, however, that it is no more fluid than
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Speaker 1: is magnetism or electricity, and that it is not a
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Speaker 1: mechanical force. It is much nearer to mind power than
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Speaker 1: it is to ordinary physical force, and yet it is
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Speaker 1: different from either. Its place is between mind power and
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Speaker 1: physical force, while somewhat resembling both. All attempts to identify
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Speaker 1: RILL with mind power or physical force must fail, for
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Speaker 1: it is a thing of itself, a distinct manifestation of nature,
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Speaker 1: or that which lies behind nature. There is manifested in
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Speaker 1: some quarters, a disposition to consider vital force or vitality
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Speaker 1: as a distinct entity or soul which energizes the physical body,
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Speaker 1: and the same disposition may be manifested by students in
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Speaker 1: their consideration of the third phase of RILL. This is
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Speaker 1: an error, and all the best authorities positively condemn it
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Speaker 1: as such. For instance, Huxley, in speaking of the principle
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Speaker 1: of vitality, says, considered apart from the phenomena of consciousness,
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Speaker 1: the phenomena of life are all dependent upon the working
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Speaker 1: of the same physical and chemical forces as those which
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Speaker 1: are active in the rest of the world. It may
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Speaker 1: be convenient to use the terms vitality and the vital
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Speaker 1: force to denote the causes of certain great groups of
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Speaker 1: natural operations, as we employ the names of electricity and
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Speaker 1: electrical force to denote others. But it ceases to be
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Speaker 1: proper to do so if such a name implies the
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Speaker 1: absurd assumption that either electricity or the vitality are entities
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Speaker 1: playing the part of efficient causes electrical or vital phenomena.
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Speaker 1: In the same way, it is erroneous to consider drill
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Speaker 1: as an entity or soul directly and immediately causing the
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Speaker 1: activities and movements of the body. Rill is not the soul, spirit,
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Speaker 1: or mind of the person any more than it is
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Speaker 1: his physical body, but is a mighty natural force operating
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Speaker 1: upon the body under the control of the conscious or
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Speaker 1: subconscious mental faculties. Its activities manifest in and by means
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Speaker 1: of the physical bodily forms and structure. It is true,
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Speaker 1: but they are inspired and directed by the mind, conscious
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Speaker 1: or subconscious. The physical form may and does carry its
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Speaker 1: charge of rill, but does not produce the latter. Rill
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Speaker 1: energizes and moves the physical structure, but does not cause it.
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Speaker 1: In a similar manner, while vrill is active in every
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Speaker 1: process of thought, it is not produced by thought, And
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Speaker 1: while it energizes thought processes, it does not produce thought
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Speaker 1: in the sense of causing it mind. In the ordinary sense, Rill,
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Speaker 1: either as a principle or in its manifestation, and matter,
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Speaker 1: either as a principle or in manifestation, are the three coordinate,
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Speaker 1: manifested principles of the infinite, and depend upon each other
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Speaker 1: for their activities. This is the teaching not only of
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Speaker 1: modern say science, but also of the ancient arcane sages.
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Speaker 1: In the previous volumes of this series devoted to the
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Speaker 1: arcane teaching, we have seen that matter exists in forms
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Speaker 1: far more tenuous, subtle, and fine than any known to
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Speaker 1: the senses of man, and also informs far more gross
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Speaker 1: than the imagination of man can picture. In the same teaching,
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Speaker 1: we may see that even more subtle than the finest
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Speaker 1: forms of matter mentioned there exist, If faeric substance is
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Speaker 1: infinitely rare, tenuous, and refined. The same is true regarding
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Speaker 1: the teaching concerning vrill. Not only do we see Vrill
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Speaker 1: manifesting in the inner movements of the ions, atoms, and
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Speaker 1: molecules of matter, and again in its finer phases of
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Speaker 1: animal and human life. But the teaching is that there
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Speaker 1: are forms and manifestations of Rill so much higher than
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Speaker 1: the latter that the ordinary human mind would be unable
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Speaker 1: to conceive of them. But the principle of Rill is
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Speaker 1: ever the same in high or low manifestation. Much that
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Speaker 1: is called psychic phenomena is explainable only by a knowledge
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Speaker 1: of the existence, principles, and laws of Rill. As set
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Speaker 1: forth in the Arcane teachings. Even the ordinary processes of
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Speaker 1: thought are performed by the aid of Rill in a
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Speaker 1: manner not as yet understood by ordinary men or even
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Speaker 1: by the physical scientists. It remains for the occultists to
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Speaker 1: state and understand the finer forces of nature as manifest
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Speaker 1: in the processes which we call thought. Many of us
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Speaker 1: confuse the idea of thought with that of mind, But
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Speaker 1: the occultist and scientist no better than this. Mind in
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Speaker 1: itself is a great principle, the exact nature of which
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Speaker 1: cannot be grasped by the ordinary mind. Thought, on the contrary,
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Speaker 1: is a manifestation of mind assisted by vrill. The material
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Speaker 1: scientist who perceives the operation of rill in the processes
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Speaker 1: of thought, and who recognizes the relationship between these processes
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Speaker 1: and that of the physical world, is right so far
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Speaker 1: as he goes, for the activities of rill are employed
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Speaker 1: therein just as they are in many physical and chemical processes,
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Speaker 1: for reasons which we have already stated. But he makes
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Speaker 1: a wrong induction who holds that by reason thereof thought
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Speaker 1: is merely a secretion of matter or a byproduct of matter.
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Speaker 1: He fails to realize that mind is the original cause
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Speaker 1: of thought, and that it employs rill in its thought processes,
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Speaker 1: just as it employs the fine matter of the brain
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Speaker 1: cells in these processes. It is only when we recognize
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Speaker 1: the coexistence and coordination mind, rill, and matter that we
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Speaker 1: are able to perceive the real underlying causes of the
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Speaker 1: phenomena of thought. Physical science is also in error when
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Speaker 1: it attempts to limit the activities of vital force or
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Speaker 1: nerve force, which are but names for the activities of
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Speaker 1: one phase of rill, to the particular human body in
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Speaker 1: which it is generated or stored. Science loses the opportunity
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Speaker 1: to satisfactorily account for much perplexing phenomena. By insisting upon
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Speaker 1: this antiquated and narrow conception, that which is generally termed
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Speaker 1: psychic phenomena is explainable only when the fact of the
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Speaker 1: long distance effect of rill is perceived and admitted. Likewise,
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Speaker 1: many of the metaphysicians and pseudo occultists are in error
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Speaker 1: when they attempt to account for certain psychic phenomena by
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Speaker 1: the hypothesis of mind action alone. The mind cannot produce
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Speaker 1: effect at a distance without the employment of the power
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Speaker 1: of rill, any more than the wireless telegraph operator can
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Speaker 1: produce his long distance effects by his own will, unaided
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Speaker 1: by the power employed in his wonderful instruments. The physiologist
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Speaker 1: who leaves rill out of his calculations is no more
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Speaker 1: at sea than is the modern metaphysician or mental scientist
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Speaker 1: who omits it from his theories, explanations, and experiments. Without
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Speaker 1: the power of rill, there could be none of the
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Speaker 1: phenomena of mentalism made so popular by the new schools
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Speaker 1: of mental science and the great revival of interest in
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Speaker 1: ancient occultism which has distinguished the present generation. The mental
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Speaker 1: scientist who understands the nature and methods of employment of
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Speaker 1: rill is enabled to double his successes. He uses rill,
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Speaker 1: of course, unconsciously and unknowingly in all of his experiments
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Speaker 1: and work, but he wastes more energy than he uses.
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Speaker 1: It is only when he understands the nature of rill
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Speaker 1: and the methods of its employment in his mental science work,
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Speaker 1: that he can hope to project his mental power effectively
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Speaker 1: and efficiently. Yet so carried away with their metaphysical theories
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Speaker 1: are some of these practitioners that they iterate and reiterate
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Speaker 1: all his mind, and deny even the existence of such
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Speaker 1: a principle as rill. Those who assert that thoughts are
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Speaker 1: things are right so far as they go, but they
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Speaker 1: do not go far enough. A thought cannot be generated
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Speaker 1: without rill, neither can it be projected to a distance
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Speaker 1: without a peculiar employment of the force of rill. The
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Speaker 1: earnest belief and active faith of many practitioners of mental
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Speaker 1: science causes them to unconsciously energize their thought with drill,
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Speaker 1: in spite of their denials of its existence. If they
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Speaker 1: would lay aside some of their prejudices and investigate the
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Speaker 1: subject of rill, they could and would be enabled so
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Speaker 1: to energize their thought that their power and success would
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Speaker 1: be redoubled the narrow metaphysician is as much in error
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Speaker 1: as is the narrow materialist. It is only when the
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Speaker 1: triangle of being mind, rill and matter is recognized that
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Speaker 1: one's full powers and energies may be manifested. Lesson three,
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Speaker 1: the mechanism of rill. The student should bear in mind
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Speaker 1: that rill is never manufactured in the human body. There
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Speaker 1: is just so much rill in existence, a certain amount
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Speaker 1: or quantity, and this amount or quantity never can be
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Speaker 1: added to nor subtracted from, by the organism of man.
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Speaker 1: Just as the instruments employed in electrical science gather up,
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Speaker 1: store up, and transform into various forms and phases the
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Speaker 1: electricity already in existence in nature, without creating or destroying
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Speaker 1: a single particle thereof, so does the organism of man
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Speaker 1: gather from the principle of rill that wei which it requires.
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Speaker 1: So does it store up a reserved supply of rill.
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Speaker 1: So does it transform drill into the various forms and
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Speaker 1: phases required for the purposes of the organism, And so
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Speaker 1: does it use rill in its activities. But the rill
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Speaker 1: so gathered, stored, and transformed is never created by the organism,
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Speaker 1: nor is the rill so used ever destroyed. The seeming
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Speaker 1: creation is merely the absorption of the rill needed from
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Speaker 1: the universal supply thereof, and the seeming destruction is merely
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Speaker 1: the return of rill to the universal supply thereof. Vrill
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Speaker 1: is never created nor destroyed. It merely undergoes transformation of phase,
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Speaker 1: form and use. The mechanism of the human body involved
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Speaker 1: in the absorption, storage, transformation and use of rill is
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Speaker 1: that which is known in ordinary physiology as the nervous system.
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Speaker 1: Very few persons know the facts concerning this most wonderful
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Speaker 1: mechanism of the human organism, which is employed as the
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Speaker 1: mechanism of the activities of rill. In order to understand
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Speaker 1: the activities of rill, the student should have at least
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Speaker 1: an elementary knowledge of the human nervous system. Accordingly, we
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Speaker 1: invite you to a brief consideration thereof. The nervous system
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Speaker 1: of the human being is divided into two great systems, viz.
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Speaker 1: The cerebrospinal system and the sympathetic system. The cerebrospinal nervous
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Speaker 1: system consists of that part of the general nervous system,
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Speaker 1: which is composed of the brain and the spinal cord,
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Speaker 1: together with the nerves which emerge from the latter. Its
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Speaker 1: functions are those connected with the processes of sensation, volition,
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Speaker 1: and the higher processes of thought. It conveys to the
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Speaker 1: brain the reports of the organs of feeling, seeing, smelling, hearing,
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Speaker 1: and tasting. It manifests consciousness and the phenomena thereof. It
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Speaker 1: attends to the functions of thought. It is the channel
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Speaker 1: and mechanism of action. Through it, the individual receives knowledge
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Speaker 1: of the outside world and communicates information to the outside world.
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Speaker 1: It has been compared to a telegraph system, the brain
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Speaker 1: being the great central station, the spinal column being the
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Speaker 1: cable running from the central office, and the nerves being
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Speaker 1: the connecting telegraph wires running to the minor stations of
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Speaker 1: the body. The brain of man consists of three parts,
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Speaker 1: known respectively as the medulla oblongata, the cerebellum, and the cerebrum.
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Speaker 1: The medulla oblongata is situated at the upper end of
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Speaker 1: the spinal cord and is an enlargement of the upper
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Speaker 1: portion thereof. It is a reflex center of a high order.
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Speaker 1: It controls to a certain extent certain functions of the
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Speaker 1: sympathetic nervous system, and therefore the activities of the heart, lungs,
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Speaker 1: blood vessels, and the abdominal organs. Its activities are out
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Speaker 1: of the ordinary field of consciousness and belong to those
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Speaker 1: of the subconscious mind. The cerebellum, sometimes known as the
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Speaker 1: little brain, lies just above the medulla oblongata, and like
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Speaker 1: it is a reflex center of a high order. Its
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Speaker 1: purpose is to coordinate the muscular movements of the body
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Speaker 1: and to function along the line of acquired reflexes. When
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Speaker 1: we have learned to perform certain regular muscular movements so
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Speaker 1: that they become habitual, we have really passed their execution
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Speaker 1: onto the cerebellum. As we all know, when we first
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Speaker 1: learn to perform a new and difficult task, such as walking, riding, skating, writing,
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Speaker 1: or running a machine, we must pay conscious attention to it,
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Speaker 1: the cerebrum being the part of the brain then employed.
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Speaker 1: But when we have mastered the rudimentary motions so that
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Speaker 1: they may be performed with very little conscious attention, the
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Speaker 1: cerebellum takes charge, and the actions are thereafter performed almost
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Speaker 1: automatically and unconsciously, by reason thereof in habitual muscular activity.
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Speaker 1: The cerebrum merely initiates the motion, and then the cerebellum
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Speaker 1: takes it up and continues it subconsciously. When the cerebellum
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Speaker 1: is injured, the gait is affected and the individual often
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Speaker 1: loses the power to perform many of the usual reflex actions.
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Speaker 1: Professor Halleck says of the importance of the reflex activities mentioned. Thus,
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Speaker 1: the mind is not only save the trouble of attending
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Speaker 1: to every little movement, but much time is gained. After
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Speaker 1: the child has learned the difficult art of balancing himself
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Speaker 1: on his feet, walking becomes largely a reflex act. At first,
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Speaker 1: the child must center his whole attention on movements to
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Speaker 1: balance the body. The man can think out the most
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Speaker 1: complex problems while walking because the reflex nervous centers are
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Speaker 1: superintending the balancing process. Few men remember which end of
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Speaker 1: the caller they button on first, or which shoe they
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Speaker 1: put on first. Yet the reflex nerve center, if left
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Speaker 1: to itself, has an invariable order in executing these movements.
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Speaker 1: Professor Gordy says the cerebellum is the organ for many
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Speaker 1: acquired reflexes. All that seems necessary for the mind or
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Speaker 1: consciousness to have to do with it is to set
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Speaker 1: the machine well going, so to speak. When some part
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Speaker 1: of the nervous mechanism relieves consciousness of all further work
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Speaker 1: in the matter. The cerebrum or large brain, occupies the
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Speaker 1: greater part of the entire cavity of the skull. It
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Speaker 1: is the headquarters of consciousness to which the nerves of
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Speaker 1: sensation report. A blow that affects the cerebrum produces unconsciousness.
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Speaker 1: The nervous connection with the cerebrum must be maintained, else
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Speaker 1: the sensation is not felt. An injury to the cerebrum
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Speaker 1: impairs the faculties of thought and of memory. From this
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Speaker 1: and other reasons, science knows that the cerebrum is the
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Speaker 1: part of the brain most closely related to consciousness and intelligence,
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Speaker 1: but its quality and functions vary materially in its various parts.
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Speaker 1: The cortex or thin rind or outer covering of gray
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Speaker 1: matter is held to be the seat of intellectual activity
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Speaker 1: and consciousness. Moreover, there exists in the cerebrum what is
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Speaker 1: known as localization of functions. That is to say that
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Speaker 1: certain parts or areas of the cerebrum are devoted to
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Speaker 1: special funcnctional activity. For instance, there is the motor zone,
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Speaker 1: from which are sent out the orders to transmit frill
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Speaker 1: so as to move any part of the body. Science
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Speaker 1: has so definitely located these zones that it is possible
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Speaker 1: for a surgeon to find the small center which moves
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Speaker 1: the vocal cords, directs a thumb, or winks an eye.
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Speaker 1: Then there are the sensory tracts, which receive impressions from
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Speaker 1: the senses. The various sense centers have been located with
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Speaker 1: a surprising degree of accuracy. Science has not as yet
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Speaker 1: succeeded in localizing the intellectual areas definitely, although phrenology has
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Speaker 1: done something in that direction. The spinal cord is continuous
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Speaker 1: with the brain, the two forming parts of the same system.
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Speaker 1: The spinal cord occupies the canal in the center of
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Speaker 1: the spinal column, or backbone. It is composed of gray
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Speaker 1: matter and white matter. It is almost separated into two
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Speaker 1: parts by fissures, but there always remains a ridge of
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Speaker 1: connecting nerve matter, something like the cane bar in the
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Speaker 1: letter H. From the spinal cord emerged thirty one pairs
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Speaker 1: of spinal nerves springing from either side of the cord,
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Speaker 1: each nerve having two roots, an anterior and a posterior.
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Speaker 1: An authority says of the functions of these nerves and roots.
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Speaker 1: If the foot were pricked, the sensory impulse would enter
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Speaker 1: the spinal cord by the posterior root the spinal ganglia
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Speaker 1: would set free a motor impulse, which would leave for
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Speaker 1: the foot by the anterior root of the nerve. If
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Speaker 1: the posterior root of the nerve supply of the foot
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Speaker 1: were cut, the foot might be crushed without a sensation
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Speaker 1: of pain, but a motor impulse could be sent as before.
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Speaker 1: If the anterior or motor root were cut, the application
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Speaker 1: of a hot iron would cause as much pain as ever,
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Speaker 1: but the sufferer could not move the foot an inch
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Speaker 1: from the iron, no matter how great the pain. A
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Speaker 1: large part of the body is absolutely dependent upon the
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Speaker 1: integrity of the spinal cord for the transmission of sensory
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Speaker 1: and motor impulses. If a person's back is broken, that
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Speaker 1: part of the body supplied by nerves attached to the
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Speaker 1: spinal cord below the seat of injury, is paralyzed. Such
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Speaker 1: an unfortunate might watch the amputation of his own leg
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Speaker 1: with as little feeling of pain as if the limb
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Speaker 1: belonged to another person. No act of will would suffice
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Speaker 1: to move such a limb. The above authority also says
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Speaker 1: regarding what is called reflex action. Reflex nervous action is
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Speaker 1: the result of that power resident in nervous ganglia, which
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Speaker 1: often unconsciously causes many muscular and vital movements. The spinal
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Speaker 1: cord is largely made up of such masses of nervous matter,
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Speaker 1: which have sometimes been called little brains. If one were
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Speaker 1: to prick the toe of a sleeper, the sensory nerve
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Speaker 1: at that point would report the fact to one of
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Speaker 1: the lower spinal nerve masses. This ganglion, without waiting to
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Speaker 1: hear from the brain, would issue a command to the
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Speaker 1: motor nerve, and the foot would be immediately withdrawn. Unless
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Speaker 1: the thrust were severe, the sleeper would not awake, nor
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Speaker 1: would he be conscious of pain or of movement of
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Speaker 1: his foot. This nervous action is called reflex because when
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Speaker 1: the sensory nerve conveys an impulse to the ganglion, this
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Speaker 1: impulse is at once and without the action of the
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Speaker 1: will reflected back by a motor nerve. Thus, the mind
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Speaker 1: is not only save the trouble of attending to every
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Speaker 1: little movement, but much time is gained the nerves emerging
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Speaker 1: from the spinal column, divide and subdivide, and finally reach
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Speaker 1: every part of the body. Like the wires of a
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Speaker 1: great telegraph system. They reach every point important or insignificant.
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Speaker 1: Without these nerves, thus reaching every part of the body,
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Speaker 1: some parts of the body would be without connection with
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Speaker 1: the brain and would be cut off from the supply
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Speaker 1: of rill or vital energy. These nerves serve to convey
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Speaker 1: sensation from a part to the brain and to carry
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Speaker 1: and return a motor or movement impulse and supply of
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Speaker 1: rill from the brain to the part. The nerves are
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Speaker 1: classed as follows. One after nerves which carry a stimulus
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Speaker 1: from some part of the body to the central nervous system,
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Speaker 1: and two efferent nerves which transmit the motor impulse or
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Speaker 1: incentive to movement from the central system to the part.
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Speaker 1: The sensory nerves are afferent nerves, the motor nerves are
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Speaker 1: efferent nerves. But there are other nerves of both afferent
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Speaker 1: and efferent classes in addition to the sensory and motor
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Speaker 1: nerves just mentioned, as an authority says. In addition to these,
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Speaker 1: there are nerves which regulate the size of the blood
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Speaker 1: vessels and the nourishment of the body, control the secretions,
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Speaker 1: and perform various other offices connected with transmitting stimuli which
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Speaker 1: are neither sensory nor motor. The nerve cells are tiny
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Speaker 1: knots of bunches of nerve matter connected with nerve fibers.
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Speaker 1: They are of various shapes. A ganglion, which as we
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Speaker 1: have seen, performs reflex action, is a group, confederation, or
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Speaker 1: aggregation of nerve cells. Each ganglion may be called up
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Speaker 1: little brain, for it resembles the brain in many respects.
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Speaker 1: The spinal gangli receive sensory impulses and in return send
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Speaker 1: forth motor impulses to action. The second great division of
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Speaker 1: the general nervous system is that known as the sympathetic
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Speaker 1: nervous system. This great nervous system has control of the
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Speaker 1: involuntary processes such as nutrition, growth, repair, elimination, digestion, respiration, circulation.
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Speaker 1: It is situated principally in the thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic
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Speaker 1: cavities and is distributed to the internal organs. It consists
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Speaker 1: of a double chain of ganglia on the sides of
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Speaker 1: the spinal column, with scattered ganglia in the head, neck, chest,
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Speaker 1: and abdomen. These ganglia are connected with each other by filaments,
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Speaker 1: and are also connected with the cerebrospinal system by motor
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Speaker 1: and sensory nerves. From the ganglia, numerous branches of fibers
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Speaker 1: reach out to the various organs of the body, the blood, vessels,
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Speaker 1: et cetera. At various points in the body, the sympathetic
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Speaker 1: nerves meet and form nerve mass is called plexi, of
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Speaker 1: which the solar plexus is the principal and largest one.
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Speaker 1: The solar plexus is a great mat of sympathetic nerves
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Speaker 1: situated in the epigastric region on either side of the
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Speaker 1: spinal column, immediately back of what is generally known as
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Speaker 1: the pit of the stomach. It is composed of both
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Speaker 1: gray and white brain matter, similar to that which composes
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Speaker 1: the brains of man, and is quite a complex center.
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Speaker 1: It plays an important part in the subconscious processes of
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Speaker 1: the body and is very sensitive. A blow over its
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Speaker 1: region has been known to produce death, and in a
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Speaker 1: celebrated prize fight of some years ago, it was the
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Speaker 1: place to which the knockout blow was directed. Its importance
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Speaker 1: is being realized by science more particularly during the past
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Speaker 1: few years, by some authorities. It has been called the
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Speaker 1: abdomenal brain. It is the great storehouse of that form
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Speaker 1: of rill which supplies the organs of the body which
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Speaker 1: are concerned with nutrition, general vitality, the reproductive system, the circulation,
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Speaker 1: and the nerves themselves. Moreover, it serves as a reserved
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Speaker 1: storage battery from which even the brain may draw power
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Speaker 1: in times of necessity, and which, after effecting a slight transformation,
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Speaker 1: it may use effectively. It must be remembered that ordinarily
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Speaker 1: the processes of the sympathetic nervous system are performed subconsciously
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Speaker 1: and without calling on the conscious mind for aid or guidance.
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Speaker 1: But the sympathetic nervous system may be and often is,
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Speaker 1: affected by the action of the conscious mind, acting upon
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Speaker 1: it along the lines of suggestion, and often causing it
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Speaker 1: to perform its work improperly and poorly. In the same way, however,
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Speaker 1: the conscious mind may suggest to the subconscious and thus
37:42
Speaker 1: affect the sympathetic nervous system in the direction of helpful
37:45
Speaker 1: ideas and impulses. The conscious mind of the trained individual
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Speaker 1: may reach any of the organs of body, and not
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Speaker 1: only may send them currents of rill, and thus strengthen
37:54
Speaker 1: and build them up, but by moving the involuntary muscles
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Speaker 1: supporting them, may even give them internal exercise. The man
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Speaker 1: or woman who understands the art of suggesting to the
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Speaker 1: subconscious mind and of directing currents of rill to the
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Speaker 1: parts of the body, may keep his or her system
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Speaker 1: in perfect condition and functioning power, and thus reach an
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Speaker 1: old age of health, vigor, and virility. By this method,
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Speaker 1: not only an additional nerve stimulus may be given to
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Speaker 1: every part of the body by means of both sets
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Speaker 1: of nerves cerebrospinal and sympathetic, but the circulation of blood
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Speaker 1: may also be so directed by the will, and when
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Speaker 1: charged with rill, may invigorate any or all parts of
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Speaker 1: the body at will. All of these features of the
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Speaker 1: use of rill by means of the trained will will
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Speaker 1: be considered during our treatment of the subject in this book.
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Speaker 1: At present, our only purpose is to explain the mechanism
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Speaker 1: in by, over and through which RILL operates in the
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Speaker 1: human organism. Lesson four Vrill in physical manifestation. Vrill is
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Speaker 1: in physical manifestation in every activity or function of the body,
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Speaker 1: from the slightest movement of the cell to the more
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Speaker 1: complex activities of the organs of the physical body. Rill
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Speaker 1: is seen to be in manifestation and activity. The subconscious
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Speaker 1: planes of the mind of the individual have control of
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Speaker 1: the majority of the physical activities and functions, the conscious
39:16
Speaker 1: mind not being drawn into the activity. But in these
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Speaker 1: subconscious processes, rill is ever the active force and power
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Speaker 1: by means of which the work is performed. The subconscious
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Speaker 1: mind without the power of rill would be like a
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Speaker 1: man without arms, hands, or tools who would seek to
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Speaker 1: perform skilled manual labor. On the other hand, rill without
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Speaker 1: the directing impulses of the subconscious mind would be like
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Speaker 1: the arms, hands, and tools apart from the directing power
39:44
Speaker 1: of the brain of the workmen. It is by the
39:48
Speaker 1: power of rill that the acorn grows into the oak,
39:50
Speaker 1: and the blade of grass forces its way through the
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Speaker 1: hard soil. It is by the power of rill that
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Speaker 1: the single reproductive cell of the parents develops, grows, and
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Speaker 1: and evolves into the babe at birth, and later into
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Speaker 1: the adult man or woman. There is, of course, always
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Speaker 1: mind behind these activities, but there is also always rill
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Speaker 1: power to perform the work of that mind. Science teaches
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Speaker 1: us that the body is composed of a multitude of
40:16
Speaker 1: single cells, which forming in groups of greater or less
40:19
Speaker 1: size and degree of complexity constitute the organs and parts
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Speaker 1: of the body. Each tiny cell has its own degree
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Speaker 1: of mentality, and each its own little charge of rill.
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Speaker 1: These cells are as tireless workers as the bees in
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Speaker 1: a hive. There is constant activity in the realm of
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Speaker 1: the cells, day and night, without haste and without rest.
40:41
Speaker 1: These little cells are being born, are performing their life tasks,
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Speaker 1: and are dying, being cast from the system and supplanted
40:48
Speaker 1: by new cells which have evolved from them. Every cell
40:51
Speaker 1: is to an extent an independent entity, an individual, but
40:56
Speaker 1: this individuality is often merged with that of other cells,
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Speaker 1: and a cooperative cell community is formed for the purpose
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Speaker 1: of performing that portion of the common task of the
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Speaker 1: socialistic commonwealth of the body. Some of the cells are stationary,
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Speaker 1: while others are operating under a roving commission. Some are
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Speaker 1: on the scouting line, while others are engaged in actual
41:17
Speaker 1: warfare with the invaders of the body. Others still are
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Speaker 1: held as a reserve corps, awaiting a special call to action.
41:25
Speaker 1: A great body of cells performs the work of the
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Speaker 1: day labor and does the drudgery of the community. Others
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Speaker 1: are engaged in the processes of thought and are consumed
41:34
Speaker 1: by these activities millions of cells giving up their lives
41:38
Speaker 1: to produce a single piece of continued thought work. Some
41:41
Speaker 1: of the cells perform the work of carriers, conveying new
41:44
Speaker 1: material in the blood to all parts of the body,
41:47
Speaker 1: where other cells build it up into physical form. The
41:50
Speaker 1: carrying cells are the hot carriers and the brick carriers
41:53
Speaker 1: of the system, while the building cells are like the
41:55
Speaker 1: brick layers, carpenters, and other artisans. Others cells are busily
42:00
Speaker 1: engaged in carrying away the debris, worn out tissue, and
42:04
Speaker 1: dead cells to the great crematory of the lungs, where
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Speaker 1: the waste matter is burned up by the oxygen and
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Speaker 1: cast off through the exhaled breath. Other cells perform the
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Speaker 1: odd jobs of scavenger work and carry the waste matter
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Speaker 1: to other parts of the system, where it is cast
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Speaker 1: off in excrementitious form. Other cells attend to the work
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Speaker 1: of digestion, purification, assimilation, the chemical laboratories of the system
42:29
Speaker 1: being very extensive and complicated. Other cells are as living
42:33
Speaker 1: instruments and telegraph wires in the nervous system and receive, send,
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Speaker 1: and transmit the messages of the system. Acting as well
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Speaker 1: as transmitters of the additional supply of rill required in
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Speaker 1: various parts of the body. The standing army and police
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Speaker 1: force of the cell community are very large. These protectors
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Speaker 1: and guardians of the body protect the system from the
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Speaker 1: invading germs, bacteria, and other foreign organisms which have found
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Speaker 1: entrance to it. They attack the invaders and either devour
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Speaker 1: them or else cast them forth from the system through
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Speaker 1: the ordinary channels or by means of boils, pimples, and
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Speaker 1: other eruptions. The large force of cells employed in the
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Speaker 1: great chemical laboratories of the system is kept very busy
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Speaker 1: at all times. There is oxygen and food substances to
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Speaker 1: be used by cell groups in all parts of the body.
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Speaker 1: There is carbonic acid refuse and burnt up material to
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Speaker 1: be cast off. There is food to be converted into
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Speaker 1: proper form and condition to nourish the system. There is
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Speaker 1: gastric juice, saliva, pancreatic juices, bile milk, procreative fluids to
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Speaker 1: be manufactured constantly. To give one an idea of the
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Speaker 1: number of cells so employed, the authorities have estimated that
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Speaker 1: in each single cubic inch of blood there are at
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Speaker 1: least seventy five million of the red blood cells alone,
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Speaker 1: not to speak of the white corpusals and the other
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Speaker 1: classes of cells. Seventy five million in one single cubic inch.
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Speaker 1: Think of that, and each one of this army actuated
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Speaker 1: by mind and carrying its tiny charge of rill. And
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Speaker 1: we should remember that at every moment of our lives,
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Speaker 1: from birth to death, the great army of cells is
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Speaker 1: constantly at work, building, repairing, renovating, replacing every portion of
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Speaker 1: our bodies. In a few weeks, our bodies are almost
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Speaker 1: entirely made over. It requires an enormous amount of energy
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Speaker 1: and power to perform this work, and that power is
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Speaker 1: always rill power, for there is no other power that
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Speaker 1: can do the work, or by which the work can
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Speaker 1: be done. There is a constant using up of rill power,
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Speaker 1: and there must needs be a constant replenishing of the
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Speaker 1: store of rill in the body. In addition to the
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Speaker 1: expenditure of rill in the processes of the cells, we
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Speaker 1: find that there is also an enormous expenditure in the
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Speaker 1: voluntary activities of the individual. Each individual is like a
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Speaker 1: great piece of machinery. He moves about, walks, runs, or leaps.
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Speaker 1: He moves his arms and legs, his hands, his fingers,
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Speaker 1: and his entire body in the activities of waking life.
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Speaker 1: Every motion of the body, even the slightest, causes an
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Speaker 1: expenditure of rill power, and each expenditure must be paid
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Speaker 1: for by a decrease in the store of rill in
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Speaker 1: the system. Each item of expenditure must be counterbalanced by
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Speaker 1: a renewal of the supply, else there is physical deterioration
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Speaker 1: and loss of energy to the individual. Many persons are
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Speaker 1: so prodigal of their rill, and so ignorant or heedless
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Speaker 1: regarding the renewal of the supply that they become depleted
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Speaker 1: in vitality, virility, and general nervous energy, and become physical
45:39
Speaker 1: wrecks or else subjects of the so called neurasthenia or
45:42
Speaker 1: nervous prostration, which so sorely afflicts the modern race. This
45:47
Speaker 1: result is not caused by excessive thinking, as so many suppose,
45:51
Speaker 1: for the brain will stand an immense amount of regular,
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Speaker 1: arduous labor without manifesting evil results. It is the emotional
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Speaker 1: excesses in motion, consuming an enormous amount of rill and
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Speaker 1: a waste motion, which tends to this depletion. Moreover, the
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Speaker 1: average man or woman who suffers from nervous breakdown, is
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Speaker 1: not aware of the need of the system for calm, repose,
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Speaker 1: and relaxation for the purpose of recharging the system with rill.
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Speaker 1: Even in sleep, these persons keep their nervous system and
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Speaker 1: muscles at attention and exhaust their supply of drill, just
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Speaker 1: as the careless housewife exhausts the household supply of water
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Speaker 1: by allowing the faucets to dribble and drip. The prevention
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Speaker 1: of this waste of rill is a very important matter,
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Speaker 1: second only in importance to the knowledge of the proper
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Speaker 1: methods of acquiring a more than ordinary supply of rill
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Speaker 1: in order to meet the requirements of modern life. In
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Speaker 1: a civilization which is seemingly bent upon burning up nerve energy,
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Speaker 1: the ordinary person pursuing the even tenor of man's natural
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Speaker 1: life has very little need of instruction along these lines,
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Speaker 1: for he neither wastes nor expends and work more rill
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Speaker 1: than is normally supplied to the system by means of
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Speaker 1: the impulses of the subconscients. But the man of the
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Speaker 1: large cities of today persistently wastes an abnormal amount of rill,
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Speaker 1: as well as expends and work an also unreasonable amount,
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Speaker 1: And unless he makes up the deficit by the methods
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Speaker 1: made known by a study of the subject, he will suffer.
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Speaker 1: By reason thereof, It is deemed extremely probable, according to
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Speaker 1: eminent thinkers along these lines, that in the course of
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Speaker 1: the evolution of the race, nature will adapt the supply
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Speaker 1: of rill to the increased needs of the race, and
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Speaker 1: the whole matter will adjust itself accordingly. But nature works
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Speaker 1: as slowly as it works surely, and it will be
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Speaker 1: some time before it feels the necessity of automatically adjusting
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Speaker 1: the rill conditions to meet the unnatural requirements and expenditures
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Speaker 1: of modern life in our large centers of industry. Until then,
47:46
Speaker 1: man should help nature along as he has in many
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Speaker 1: other ways, and by preventing the unnatural waste and increasing
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Speaker 1: the supply of rill by methods such as we shall
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Speaker 1: describe in this book, he will be able to maintain
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Speaker 1: an equilibrium and balance with concert when preservation of health
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Speaker 1: and energy. He may even go still further, And by
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Speaker 1: increasing his supply of rill, he may so charge himself
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Speaker 1: with this life energy and nerve force as to become
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Speaker 1: a very dynamo of energy, activity and power. The man
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Speaker 1: or woman doing this will possess a mighty advantage over
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Speaker 1: the majority of the race at this time. Such a
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Speaker 1: course will mean increased efficiency, increased power, and increased success,
48:25
Speaker 1: and let us hope increased happiness less than five the
48:31
Speaker 1: transformation of rill. We have seen that rill in its
48:35
Speaker 1: second phase is inherent in all forms of atomic matter,
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Speaker 1: and consequently in all forms of matter resulting from combinations
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Speaker 1: of material atoms. As all matter is composed of material atoms,
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Speaker 1: it follows then that rill is to be found in
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Speaker 1: all matter. But there is a vast difference in the
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Speaker 1: forms and the conditions in and under which it so appears.
48:57
Speaker 1: Just as matter is the same weather appearing in the
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Speaker 1: form and condition of the diamond or hardest steel, or
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Speaker 1: in the form and condition of bread and butter, so
49:04
Speaker 1: in the same way, it may be said that rill
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Speaker 1: is the same in principle whether it appears in the
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Speaker 1: granite rock or in the air. But it is likewise
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Speaker 1: true that just as steel and diamond cannot be used
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Speaker 1: by man as a source of physical nourishment in the
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Speaker 1: same way that bread and butter can be so used,
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Speaker 1: so rill in the granite rock is not available to
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Speaker 1: man in the same way as is rill in the air.
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Speaker 1: The water and in protoplasmic food material. While all things
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Speaker 1: in nature are at the last one in substance and principle. Nevertheless,
49:33
Speaker 1: the laboratory of nature forms many combinations and imposes many
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Speaker 1: conditions upon these things, thereby fitting some things to one
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Speaker 1: purpose and other things to other purposes. Here is where
49:44
Speaker 1: science steps in and insists upon the practical side of things,
49:47
Speaker 1: as opposed to the pure principles of metaphysics. As an
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Speaker 1: authority once said, those who like to study the puzzles
49:56
Speaker 1: as to what mind and matter really are must go
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Speaker 1: to metaphysics. Should we ever find that salt, arsenic, and
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Speaker 1: all things else are the same substance with a different
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Speaker 1: molecular arrangement, we should still not use them interchangeably. And
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Speaker 1: so to the man who may object that rill is vrill,
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Speaker 1: we would remark that whilst matter is matter, he would
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Speaker 1: do well to select protoplasmic forms of matter for food
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Speaker 1: rather than diamonds or steel. The same principle applying to
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Speaker 1: vrill in its application to human requirements. Nature has so
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Speaker 1: wisely arranged matters that the supply of rill in its
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Speaker 1: second phase is found in its most usable form for man,
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Speaker 1: in the precise combinations which meet the requirements of its
50:38
Speaker 1: transmutation into the third phase condition in which a lone
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Speaker 1: man may use it in those very forms of substances
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Speaker 1: which man employs in his physical economy for other purposes.
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Speaker 1: Vrill in the precise combination required for transmutation for man's requirements,
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Speaker 1: is found one in the protoplasmic substances which man naturally
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Speaker 1: partakes of as food and nourishment, two in a lesser degree,
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Speaker 1: in the water which man drinks in order to preserve
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Speaker 1: his fluid balance and to eliminate from his system the
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Speaker 1: waste matter, and free in a high degree in the
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Speaker 1: atmospheric air which man breathes into his lungs for the
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Speaker 1: purpose of obtaining oxygen to serve in maintaining bodily heat,
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Speaker 1: and to burn up the waste matter of the system,
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Speaker 1: both in the cell itself and in the lungs. Thus
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Speaker 1: we see man may know nothing whatever regarding the principle
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Speaker 1: and uses of rill, and yet will be compelled by
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Speaker 1: nature to partake of those very substances to which it adheres.
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Speaker 1: Under normal circumstances, the individual will secure sufficient rill by
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Speaker 1: the hit or miss system of eating, drinking, and breathing
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Speaker 1: practice by him without any particular instruction on the subject.
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Speaker 1: But as we have said, the unusual conditions in which
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Speaker 1: modern man lives, particularly in the large cities, are such
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Speaker 1: that there is a greater waste and a greater use
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Speaker 1: of rill than Nature has intended or provided for. And accordingly,
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Speaker 1: the man whose so dissipates one of nature's greatest forces
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Speaker 1: must replace and replenish it by extraordinary means. He must
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Speaker 1: bring his intellect to the aid of his subconscious mind
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Speaker 1: and supply that which, in the ordinary course of his
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Speaker 1: life he may fail to secure. This is in no
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Speaker 1: way contrary to nature. It is merely aiding nature in
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Speaker 1: her work. We see instances of this in other features
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Speaker 1: connected with the physical well being of man. For instance,
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Speaker 1: man in a natural state does not need to be
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Speaker 1: urged to exercise for his ordinary vocation, and day's work
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Speaker 1: supplies him with all the exercise he requires. But the
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Speaker 1: man whose work keeps him indoors and at the desk
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Speaker 1: does not obtain the normal amount of exercise or out
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Speaker 1: of doors experience, and accordingly he is compelled to walk
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Speaker 1: for his health, and to practice various forms of artificial exercise.
52:50
Speaker 1: The natural man does not need to take a vacation
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Speaker 1: and indulge in fishing, boding, golfing for his physical well being,
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Speaker 1: while his brother in the city is advised to do
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Speaker 1: that for recreatation, which the natural man does from necessity.
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Speaker 1: The example of an eminent statesman felling trees for exercise
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Speaker 1: and recreation, while the woodcutter finds nothing but work in
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Speaker 1: the same employment is another illustration of this fact. So
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Speaker 1: in this little book we shall have something to say
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Speaker 1: regarding the means and methods whereby one who is deficient
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Speaker 1: in real force may obtain that which he needs and
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Speaker 1: which he cannot get in the ordinary way. The man
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Speaker 1: leading the natural life in the woods, and with sufficient
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Speaker 1: physical exercise to bring into action the real absorbing functions,
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Speaker 1: will not need this instruction. It is not for him.
53:35
Speaker 1: But it is highly important that the average individual who
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Speaker 1: reads this book should take advantage of a simple natural
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Speaker 1: rational system and methods. Herein advanced. This ancient teaching is
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Speaker 1: highly practicable and applicable to modern conditions. We may apply
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Speaker 1: these teachings of a past civilization to the requirements of
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Speaker 1: our own with great benefit. Lesson six Rill in food
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Speaker 1: and water. Ordinary physiology does not recognize the element of
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Speaker 1: rill and food, but concerns itself with much important discussion
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Speaker 1: of calorics, proteates, food units, all of which is very
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Speaker 1: well and proper. For a scientific knowledge of food elements
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Speaker 1: and the values thereof is important. In the state of nature,
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Speaker 1: man instinctively selects the class and variety of food best
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Speaker 1: adapted for his needs. The centuries of human experience have
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Speaker 1: built up an almost infallible instinct in this respect, which
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Speaker 1: man may safely follow under normal conditions. But so artificial
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Speaker 1: are the conditions under which the majority of us live
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Speaker 1: that instinct is almost stifled, and a most unnatural system
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Speaker 1: of nourishment prevails. Accordingly, instruction upon this point is much
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Speaker 1: needed by the race. But we have no intention of
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Speaker 1: discussing this phase of the question of nourishment or food.
54:52
Speaker 1: The work has been well done by many others, and
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Speaker 1: the information concerning the same is at the call of
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Speaker 1: nearly every person. Our purpose here is to consider food
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Speaker 1: merely from the standpoint of its rill containing properties. There
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Speaker 1: is a vast difference in the amount and form of
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Speaker 1: rill in the various forms and kinds of foods. The
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Speaker 1: foods rich in proteates contain much frill in a form
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Speaker 1: readily available to man. The carbohydrates are also charged with
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Speaker 1: considerable drill. The fats contain but little drill in a
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Speaker 1: form available for man, very little real energy, but much
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Speaker 1: heat producing material. But Man, in his unscientific methods of
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Speaker 1: obtaining nourishment, fails to secure either the best food value
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Speaker 1: or the greatest amount of rill from any class of foods.
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Speaker 1: Modern science, as well as the ancient teachings, informs man
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Speaker 1: regarding the wasteful methods employed by him and the methods
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Speaker 1: which will obviate these. Human food material may be divided
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Speaker 1: into three general classes as follows. One protet or nitrogenous
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Speaker 1: foods such as meats, nuts, peas, beans, et cetera, which
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Speaker 1: are the plastic foods or tissue builders of the system.
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Speaker 1: Two the carbohydrates such as sugars, starches, gums, et cetera,
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Speaker 1: which are both tissue builders and heat producers. Free the
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Speaker 1: fats such as animal fats, vegetable oils, butter, et cetera,
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Speaker 1: which serve principally as heat producers. Various authorities have many
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Speaker 1: differing theories regarding the proportions in which the various food
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Speaker 1: elements should enter into the ordinary diet. But all agree
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Speaker 1: that a variety is needed, and that a well balanced
56:29
Speaker 1: diet consists of articles of food from each class in
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Speaker 1: about the proportion usually observed in the usual menu of
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Speaker 1: middle class families. The very poor often are unable to
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Speaker 1: obtain many articles of nourishing food, while the very rich
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Speaker 1: often neglect the truly nourishing foods in favour of the
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Speaker 1: fancy dishes. The average gives us the best selection. A
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Speaker 1: well known authority was fond of stating that, in his opinion,
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Speaker 1: the well balanced diet was clearly represented by the sentence
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Speaker 1: bread and butter, beef, steak, potatoes, eggs, and milk, and
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Speaker 1: that variations of the menu would be equally well balanced
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Speaker 1: providing the same general rule was followed. It was one
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Speaker 1: of the favorite theories of the ancient occultists that all
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Speaker 1: sex foods contain more rill than other classes of food.
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Speaker 1: By sex foods is meant such animal or vegetable products
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Speaker 1: as contain either the reproductive cell or seed, or else
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Speaker 1: served to nourish the young animal or plant. In the
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Speaker 1: first mentioned class, we find eggs, nuts, fruits, grain, corn berries,
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Speaker 1: which contain the seed of reproductive life. In the second class,
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Speaker 1: we have milk, cream, butter, the fruit juices, syrups. The
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Speaker 1: theory was that nature gave in concentrated form the rill
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Speaker 1: needed by the young growing animal or plant. While modern
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Speaker 1: science has not as yet adopted this idea of the
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Speaker 1: ancient occultists, there are indications that such recognition and approval
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Speaker 1: is not so very far off. The growing popularity of
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Speaker 1: nuts and fruits as articles of diet, the increase of
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Speaker 1: interest in the milk diet, the increasing use of fruit
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Speaker 1: juices show that human experience is verifying the ancient theories.
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Speaker 1: But we are only indirectly concerned with the question of
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Speaker 1: what kind of food. Our principal concern in this book
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Speaker 1: is rather how food should be eaten. The ancient occultists
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Speaker 1: laid great stress upon the importance of the proper mastication
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Speaker 1: of food, and modern science is becoming very much interested
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Speaker 1: in the subject. In actual practice, the old occultists practiced
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Speaker 1: many of the fundamental principles that are found in the
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Speaker 1: modern popular theory called Fletcherism, except that they did not
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Speaker 1: carry the matter to such an extreme as some of
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Speaker 1: the modern teachers on the subject. The ancient teachers held
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Speaker 1: that all food should be thoroughly masticated until it was
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Speaker 1: reduced to a pulp and was then almost unconsciously swallowed.
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Speaker 1: They carried this to such an extent that they even
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Speaker 1: followed the plan of mastication when a mouthful of milk
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Speaker 1: was taken, and when the softest foods were placed in
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Speaker 1: the mouth. They did not have the knowledge of the
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Speaker 1: chemistry of foods possessed by modern science, but their experience
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Speaker 1: taught them that food masticated in this way gave the
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Speaker 1: greatest nourishment, and what to them was equally important that
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Speaker 1: in this way the nerve ends of the tongue and
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Speaker 1: mouth absorbed a supply of concentrated rill from the food.
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Speaker 1: They held that the nerves of the tongue and mouth
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Speaker 1: alone were capable of performing this office, and that after
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Speaker 1: the food passed down the throat, there was no possibility
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Speaker 1: of the absorption of rill from it. The ancient occultists
59:31
Speaker 1: held that so long as their remains taste in the
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Speaker 1: mouthful of food, there is rill to be found in it.
59:37
Speaker 1: When the taste disappears, the rill has been absorbed. Consequently,
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Speaker 1: they ate slowly and masticated each mouthful carefully, so as
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Speaker 1: to extract the greatest amount of taste from it. They
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Speaker 1: claimed that this method of eating not only served to
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Speaker 1: extract the largest amount of rill from the food, but
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Speaker 1: also gave to the person eating at the fullest epicurean
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Speaker 1: pleasure claim that they obtained a pleasure from eating that
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Speaker 1: the glutton could never experience or even conceive. Accepting this
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Speaker 1: as true, it is further evident by reason of the
1:00:09
Speaker 1: physiological principles involved, that food so eaten is thoroughly saturated
1:00:14
Speaker 1: with saliva and more easily digested by the stomach and
1:00:17
Speaker 1: intestines when finally swallowed, and that there is consequently but
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Speaker 1: a trifling amount of waste and a freedom from overloading
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Speaker 1: the stomach. By giving the stomach only an easy task
1:00:27
Speaker 1: to perform, we are enabled to employ the energy and
1:00:30
Speaker 1: blood generally used in the processes of digestion for service
1:00:35
Speaker 1: in the brain. The occultists were always clear in the
1:00:39
Speaker 1: head and never suffered the feeling of overeating and brain lethargy.
1:00:42
Speaker 1: Neither did they acquire dyspepsia or other disorders of the
1:00:45
Speaker 1: digestive organism. The student will do well to experiment with
1:00:50
Speaker 1: this plan of eating, or at least partially adopted in
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Speaker 1: his everyday life. We promise that if he does this,
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Speaker 1: he will before long experience a new feeling of energy, health, vigor, vitality,
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Speaker 1: and virility, which will prove to him the soundness of
1:01:04
Speaker 1: the method. We have no intention of prescribing a dietary
1:01:08
Speaker 1: for students of this book. Such information must be looked
1:01:12
Speaker 1: for in works on the subject of nutrition and diet.
1:01:16
Speaker 1: But in order to answer the very natural questions which
1:01:18
Speaker 1: frequently arise in this connection, we would say that the
1:01:21
Speaker 1: ancient occultists, as a rule, lived very simply and followed
1:01:25
Speaker 1: the rule of eating to live rather than living to eat.
1:01:29
Speaker 1: Yet such is the law of compensation to be found
1:01:31
Speaker 1: throughout nature, that they obtained far greater pleasure in their
1:01:34
Speaker 1: nourishment than did the Germans and Gluttons of their times.
1:01:38
Speaker 1: This principle is true throughout all nature. Avoid excesses and
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Speaker 1: thus experience the true normal satisfaction in all of nature's functionings.
1:01:48
Speaker 1: He who would seek satisfaction in excess but defeats his object,
1:01:52
Speaker 1: while he who religiously avoids excess attains at which the
1:01:55
Speaker 1: extremists miss. The ancient occultists, while avoiding artificial systems and
1:02:00
Speaker 1: while keeping as close to nature as possible, found that
1:02:03
Speaker 1: their natural instincts freed from excesses of any kind incline
1:02:08
Speaker 1: them toward a diet of nuts, fruits, milk, eggs, grain, butter, juices,
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Speaker 1: vegetable oils, all of which, it will be noticed, come
1:02:18
Speaker 1: under the classification of sex foods. As previously mentioned, even
1:02:23
Speaker 1: the vegetable oils such as olive oil are found to
1:02:26
Speaker 1: have some association with seeds or the material surrounding the same. Milk,
1:02:31
Speaker 1: butter and the fruit juices come under the category of
1:02:34
Speaker 1: nourishment for the sprouting seed or growing young thing. We
1:02:39
Speaker 1: are of the opinion that the ancient occultists did not
1:02:41
Speaker 1: deliberately select this dietary from any specialty preconceived theory, but that,
1:02:46
Speaker 1: on the contrary, they found, by experiment and experience that
1:02:49
Speaker 1: this class of foods served their purposes better than any other.
1:02:53
Speaker 1: Of course, the very natural explanation is seen in the
1:02:56
Speaker 1: fact that nature bends special energy towards supplying the embryo
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Speaker 1: with the most nourishing and the most vitally powerful material,
1:03:02
Speaker 1: this being true in both animal and plant life. It
1:03:06
Speaker 1: is very probable that this theory will be worked out
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Speaker 1: in detail in the light of modern science by some
1:03:12
Speaker 1: scientific investigators in the near future. In the meantime, we
1:03:16
Speaker 1: may do well to take this leaf of experience from
1:03:19
Speaker 1: the book of Life of the ancient occultists. Even in
1:03:21
Speaker 1: the absence of a detailed theory, the ancient occultists also
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Speaker 1: held that water contains a certain amount of available rill,
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Speaker 1: which man may extract to advantage by scientific methods of drinking. Accordingly,
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Speaker 1: they drank only in small SIPs, allowing the water to
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Speaker 1: remain in the mouth a few moments before swallowing, during
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Speaker 1: which time it came in continued contact with the nerves
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Speaker 1: of the tongue and mouth. They held that after being swallowed,
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Speaker 1: the water yields no vrill to the body, and serves
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Speaker 1: merely the very useful purpose of the irrigation of the
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Speaker 1: system and the carrying away of refuse material. That no
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Speaker 1: one could ever experience the real pleasure of drinking except
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Speaker 1: in this way. So long as available vrille remains in
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Speaker 1: the water, the tongue and mouth experience a peculiar feeling
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Speaker 1: or sense of satisfaction and gratification, which is unknown to
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Speaker 1: those who pour the water down their throats. The increasing
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Speaker 1: use of straws or sippers by modern persons in drinking lemonade,
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Speaker 1: iced tea, and other liquids would seem to indicate that
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Speaker 1: this satisfaction or gratification is becoming known, even though its
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Speaker 1: reason is not suspected. In this way, the very essence
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Speaker 1: of the water or cooling beverage is absorbed and the
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Speaker 1: person feels correspondingly refreshed. The plan may be employed to
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Speaker 1: equal advantage in hot drinks, although the ancient occultists refrain
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Speaker 1: from hot drinks except for the purpose of occasionally washing
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Speaker 1: out the stomach and intestines, or of correcting some physical indisposition,
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Speaker 1: the latter, however, being quite rare among them by reason
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Speaker 1: of the life they lad. We trust that, in a
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Speaker 1: spirit of investigation and knowledge, at least the student will
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Speaker 1: experiment with the above indicated method of eating and drinking
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Speaker 1: in order to demonstrate to his own satisfaction the advantages
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Speaker 1: of obtaining the rill contained in food and water. In
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Speaker 1: connection with the methods of breathing which will now be
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Speaker 1: taken up. The aforesaid methods will be found to afford
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Speaker 1: a method of cultivating in preserving physical well being which
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Speaker 1: will be far ahead of the more complicated systems advised
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Speaker 1: and exploited by the teachers of hygiene and physical culture.
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Speaker 1: The advantage lies in the quick results obtained, as well
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Speaker 1: as in the fact that one does not have to
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Speaker 1: seek for material outside of the everyday things of nature.
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Speaker 1: All that is required is that one manifests his appreciation
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Speaker 1: of nature's bounty in a rational manner. It is merely
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Speaker 1: an intelligent return to nature. Lesson seven. Vrill in the air,
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Speaker 1: As we have said in a preceding lesson, rill is
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Speaker 1: found in a high degree in the precise combination required
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Speaker 1: for transmutation into human vital energy and nervous force in
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Speaker 1: the atmospheric air which man constantly breathes into his lungs.
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Speaker 1: But science does not admit this any more than it
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Speaker 1: does the existence of drill in food and water. To science,
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Speaker 1: air is merely a combination of oxygen and nitrogen, with
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Speaker 1: a mixture of carbureted hydrogen and carbonic acid, a trace
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Speaker 1: of ammonia, and a suggestion of the four newly discovered
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Speaker 1: atmospheric elements viz. Argon, krypton, matargon, and neon, or more strictly,
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Speaker 1: oxygen and nitrogen holding a mixture of several other substances
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Speaker 1: in small proportions. But the occult teachings have always held
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Speaker 1: that in the atmospheric air of the Earth, there is
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Speaker 1: to be found drill in a high degree of potency,
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Speaker 1: and in a condition which renders it very easily absorbed
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Speaker 1: and assimilated by the nervous system of plants, animals, and
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Speaker 1: human beings. It would seem that the special combination of
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Speaker 1: oxygen and nitrogen produces a condition in which the element
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Speaker 1: of rill is easily liberated under certain conditions, in such
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Speaker 1: form as to be easily transmuted and absorbed. To the physiologists,
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Speaker 1: the sole purpose of breathing is that of oxygenating the
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Speaker 1: bad blood and burning up the waste matter of the system.
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Speaker 1: So important is this function that man is unable to
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Speaker 1: exist for more than a few minutes without fresh air.
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Speaker 1: Without correct habits of breathing, no living creature can hope
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Speaker 1: to live the average lifetime of its kind. So much
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Speaker 1: importance does modern hygiene attach to the subject of correct breathing,
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Speaker 1: that a vigorous attack is being made upon the old
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Speaker 1: fashioned habit of keeping houses and rooms tightly closed, and
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Speaker 1: a campaign of open air cure is underway under the
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Speaker 1: leadership of enthusiastic physicians. But highly important as is this
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Speaker 1: function of breathing, it is no more important than the
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Speaker 1: twin function attached to it by the arcane teaching. The
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Speaker 1: latter is the function by means of which the human
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Speaker 1: system absorbs, transmutes, and stores away a supply of rill
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Speaker 1: from the atmospheric air in the course of ordinary breathing.
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Speaker 1: When it is known that at least eighty five per
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Speaker 1: cent of the rille used in the human body is
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Speaker 1: obtained directly from the air, the importance of breathing in
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Speaker 1: relation to this function may be appreciated. Not only does
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Speaker 1: the human system obtain drilled directly from the air, but
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Speaker 1: it obtains it indirectly also from the same source. For instance,
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Speaker 1: the rill in the food has originally been obtained from
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Speaker 1: the air. Also, it is known that the inherent charge
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Speaker 1: of rill and water has been in some way absorbed
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Speaker 1: from the air. Water that has become stale may be
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Speaker 1: given new energy by being poured from cup to cup
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Speaker 1: in such a way as to allow it to pass
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Speaker 1: through the air. And it is a matter of common
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Speaker 1: knowledge that distilled water lacks something that can be given
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Speaker 1: it only by passing it through the air in the
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Speaker 1: manner above described That something is drill. The arcane teaching
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Speaker 1: is not explicit in the direction of explaining the exact
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Speaker 1: physiological process by which the system acquires its supply of
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Speaker 1: rill from the air in the ordinary process of breathing.
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Speaker 1: All that is said on this score would seem to
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Speaker 1: indicate that the sympathetic nervous system plays an important part
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Speaker 1: in the absorption and transmutation, and that the various ganglia
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Speaker 1: and pleuee of the system act as storage batteries or
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Speaker 1: reservoirs of rill from which the entire nervous system draws
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Speaker 1: its regular supply and its emergency supply in case of
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Speaker 1: unusual need. Moreover All, the occult teachings insist that the
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Speaker 1: preliminary absorption of rill is dependent to some extent upon
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Speaker 1: the passage of air through the nasal passages and the
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Speaker 1: continuation thereof, and that mouth breathing in some way fails
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Speaker 1: to produce the same result. It is thought probable that
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Speaker 1: some of the delicate nerves which are involved in the
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Speaker 1: sense of smell may in some way have a secondary
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Speaker 1: part to play in the preliminary function of the absorption
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Speaker 1: of rill. It is a fact acknowledged by physiologists that
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Speaker 1: persons who breathe through the mouth are not nearly so
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Speaker 1: healthy as those who habitually breathe through the nostrils. This
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Speaker 1: fact is known to the Savage races, many of whom
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Speaker 1: take great care in forcing their infants to acquire the
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Speaker 1: habit of nostril breathing and to avoid mouth breathing. Children
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Speaker 1: afflicted with adenoids, a growth or swelling produced by the
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Speaker 1: overgrowth of the adenoid tissue in the roof of the
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Speaker 1: pharynx which interfere with correct nasal breathing, are usually deficient
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Speaker 1: in physical and mental vigor. The slight operation required for
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Speaker 1: the removal of the growth works almost a miracle, the
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Speaker 1: former sufferers, manifesting from the start increased physical vitality and
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Speaker 1: mental energy. In many other ways. The report of modern
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Speaker 1: physiology agrees with that of the ancient occult teachings regarding
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Speaker 1: the matter of nostril breathing as compared with mouth breathing.
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Speaker 1: Occultists who practice breathing methods for the purpose of the
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Speaker 1: absorption of rial frequently moisten each nostril before beginning their exercises.
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Speaker 1: This plan is held to increase the power of the
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Speaker 1: nerves of the nasal channel and to increase the sense
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Speaker 1: of smell as well. Some of the Oriental occultists draw
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Speaker 1: water by suction up through the nasal passages, allowing it
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Speaker 1: to escape through the mouth by means of the canal
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Speaker 1: connecting the nose with the throat. This plan, by the way,
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Speaker 1: is said to be a preventive of nasal disorders such
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Speaker 1: as katar. The nostrils should all be kept clear of
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Speaker 1: obstructions and a healthy condition preserved. Another fact known to
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Speaker 1: the ancient occultists, which also is unknown to modern physiology,
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Speaker 1: is that the individual may largely influence the power of
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Speaker 1: absorption of rill by the action of the mind in
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Speaker 1: the form of ideation and use of will power, that
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Speaker 1: is to say, by the familiar process of visualization or
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Speaker 1: the forming of a mental picture backed up by the
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Speaker 1: use of the will. To those who may be skeptical
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Speaker 1: as to the effect of the mind over a physical
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Speaker 1: function of this kind, we would say that, in the
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Speaker 1: first place, the absorption of rill is somewhat different from
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Speaker 1: the ordinary physiological function, and in fact may be considered
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Speaker 1: rather as a psychophysiological process than a purely physiological one.
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Speaker 1: Vrill is not a material substance, but a form of
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Speaker 1: energy of a very subtle nature, filling a space in
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Speaker 1: the scale between matter and mind, and being in a
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Speaker 1: way associated with both. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to
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Speaker 1: suppose that mind may exercise an effect in its absorption.
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Speaker 1: In the second place, it is a well known fact
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Speaker 1: that the mind may and often does have a very
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Speaker 1: marked effect over the ordinary involuntary processes and organs of
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Speaker 1: the body. The history of psychic healing establishes this fact,
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Speaker 1: and moreover, it is known that certain men have developed
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Speaker 1: the power of moving and affecting the involuntary muscles and
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Speaker 1: the sympathetic nervous system by pure acts of will. It
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Speaker 1: is known that thoughts and mental images in the mind
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Speaker 1: of a person may react upon his physical condition, not
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Speaker 1: only in a general way, but even as regards a
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Speaker 1: particular organ or part Thus, thoughts and mental pictures of
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Speaker 1: diseased lungs or liver or a weak heart often result
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Speaker 1: in the manifestation of the exact condition previously pictured in
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Speaker 1: the mind. The subconscious mind, operating upon the sympathetic nervous
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Speaker 1: system and guided by the harmful auto suggestion of the person,
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Speaker 1: frequently adversely affects the organ in question and impairs its
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Speaker 1: normal functioning. In the same way, the mental picture of
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Speaker 1: a healthy, normal condition backed up by a strong will
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Speaker 1: to manifest. Such condition very often results in the materialization
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Speaker 1: of the ideal. This is the essence of psychic healing,
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Speaker 1: the very heart of mental science, and of what is
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Speaker 1: called the new thought, which is attracting so much attention
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Speaker 1: at this time. It may be seen that if the
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Speaker 1: mind is capable of influencing the functions of the body
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Speaker 1: in any way whatsoever, and there is a mass of
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Speaker 1: testimony regarding the same, which is unquestioned and indisputable, there
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Speaker 1: is nothing to prevent it from influencing the delicate psychophysiological
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Speaker 1: functions involved in the absorption and transmutation of rill. The
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Speaker 1: gastric juices of the stomach are increased by thoughts and
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Speaker 1: mental pictures of favorite foods. The liver is quickened into
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Speaker 1: activity by good spirits and a happy frame of mind.
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Speaker 1: The reproductive organism is peculiarly affected by the imagination. The
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Speaker 1: saliva flows in response to the thought or memory of
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Speaker 1: some pleasant taste. In short, all the bodily functions seem
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Speaker 1: to be more or less under the influence of the
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Speaker 1: power of the mind, and particularly of the imagination backed
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Speaker 1: up by the will. It is known that the nervous
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Speaker 1: system often gets in a jangle by reason of worry
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Speaker 1: and fear. Excessive emotion affects the nerves and often the
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Speaker 1: brain itself. What is there, then, to seem strange in
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Speaker 1: the idea that the part of the nervous system which
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Speaker 1: is employed in the process of real absorption may be
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Speaker 1: encouraged to increased activity by the action of the mind
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Speaker 1: in its phases of ideation and volition. In fact, it
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Speaker 1: would seem very strange if this were not found to
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Speaker 1: be so when we consider the general principle of the
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Speaker 1: action of mind upon body. When this is understood, we
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Speaker 1: may see the real reason and explanation of much in
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Speaker 1: psychic phenomena that has heretofore perplexed us Lesson eight drill
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Speaker 1: and the breath. Occultists in ancient and modern times have
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Speaker 1: bestowed great attention upon the matter of the influence of
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Speaker 1: the breath upon psychic power and physical well being. Under
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Speaker 1: various theories. They have laid down complex rules and announced
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Speaker 1: phantast bastic methods of breathing for the purpose of increasing
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Speaker 1: one's vitality, physical energy, and psychic power. As is nearly
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Speaker 1: always the case, we find here an example of the
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Speaker 1: bit of truth surrounded by the mass of rubbish, the
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Speaker 1: center of facts surrounded by the fringe of superstition. Let
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Speaker 1: us consider the matter in the spirit of fairness and understanding,
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Speaker 1: but with the sole purpose of discovering the core of
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Speaker 1: truth and exposing the error with which it is surrounded.
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Speaker 1: In the first place, physiology teaches that correct and normal
1:15:30
Speaker 1: habits of breathing are necessary to perfect health and tend
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Speaker 1: to restore health to those who have lost it. It
1:15:37
Speaker 1: is an elementary truth of physiology that the quality of
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Speaker 1: the blood depends largely upon correct habits of breathing. Unless
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Speaker 1: the blood be properly oxygenated, the waste matter of the
1:15:47
Speaker 1: system is not properly consumed, the result being that the
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Speaker 1: system is dogged and poisoned by broken down tissue and
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Speaker 1: other debris. Moreover, in such case, the cells of the
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Speaker 1: body suffer from the lack of a sufficient amount of oxygen, which,
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Speaker 1: under normal conditions they receive from the blood. Again, the
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Speaker 1: processes of digestion depend to a certain extent upon the
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Speaker 1: presence of oxygen in the blood, and an absence of
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Speaker 1: oxygen reacts materially upon the digestion and assimilation of food,
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Speaker 1: and consequently upon the welfare of the entire system. Not
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Speaker 1: only this, but the nervous system also and even the
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Speaker 1: brain depend upon the condition of the blood for the
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Speaker 1: nourishment and stimulus which is necessary in their processes. In short,
1:16:30
Speaker 1: unless the blood be sufficiently oxygenated, the entire system suffers
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Speaker 1: and is unable to function normally and naturally. And as
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Speaker 1: the oxygenation of the blood is accomplished only by correct
1:16:42
Speaker 1: habits of breathing, it is seen that the whole system
1:16:44
Speaker 1: is dependent upon proper breathing. The natural man breathes properly
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Speaker 1: by reason of his habits of life, But the man
1:16:51
Speaker 1: of our complex and artificial civilization has lost the natural method,
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Speaker 1: and few men or women breathe as nature intended. They should.
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Speaker 1: So much for the physiological aspect of the question. In
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Speaker 1: addition to the physiological side of the case, as above stated,
1:17:07
Speaker 1: there is also the side which ordinary physiology ignores, but
1:17:11
Speaker 1: which is of equal importance to the more familiar side,
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Speaker 1: the phase of breath, which is concerned with the absorption
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Speaker 1: of rill. We have seen that the natural man absorbs
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Speaker 1: sufficient thrill in his ordinary breathing without knowing anything about
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Speaker 1: the matter. His instinctive mentality regulates the matter and coordinates
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Speaker 1: the work of breathing for oxygen and breathing for rill
1:17:31
Speaker 1: to such a nicety of degree that a perfect harmony exists,
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Speaker 1: and the observer may fail to even notice the existence
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Speaker 1: of the dual function because of the perfect unity thereof.
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Speaker 1: But the civilized man of the nervous strain and unnatural
1:17:45
Speaker 1: rush of life in the large cities not only does
1:17:47
Speaker 1: not receive the normal amount of oxygen, but also fails
1:17:50
Speaker 1: to absorb the normal amount of rill. This is especially
1:17:54
Speaker 1: deplorable by reason of the fact that, while absorbing much
1:17:57
Speaker 1: less than the normal amount of rill, he uses and
1:17:59
Speaker 1: will wastes much more than the normal amount. With such
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Speaker 1: a man, it is indeed a burning of the candle
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Speaker 1: at both ends, and the result is seen in the
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Speaker 1: nervous wrecks and shattered constitutions that are evident on all sides.
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Speaker 1: It will be seen by the student that before we
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Speaker 1: can consider the special methods of absorbing drill by breathing,
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Speaker 1: we must first take up the matter of the establishment
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Speaker 1: of natural, normal methods of breathing, which will not only
1:18:24
Speaker 1: result in one absorbing the normal amount of rill, but
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Speaker 1: will at the same time give him the proper amount
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Speaker 1: of oxygen. As indicated by the authorities of physiology. So
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Speaker 1: in indicating the normal, natural process of breathing, we not
1:18:37
Speaker 1: only aid the student in increasing his drill supply, but
1:18:40
Speaker 1: at the same time establish him in habits which must
1:18:42
Speaker 1: result in an improvement of his general health and state
1:18:45
Speaker 1: of physical well being. This is as it should be,
1:18:48
Speaker 1: for the various phases of the physical being are more
1:18:51
Speaker 1: or less interdependent, and harmony between them is always desirable.
1:18:55
Speaker 1: To many, the idea of instructing the race in correct
1:18:58
Speaker 1: habits of breathing may seem ridiculous, and so would it
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Speaker 1: be if the race live normally and naturally. The animal
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Speaker 1: needs no instruction in breathing. Neither does the barbarian, unspoiled
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Speaker 1: by contact with civilization, the infant born under desirable conditions,
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Speaker 1: or the young child properly reared at least before it
1:19:18
Speaker 1: makes the acquaintance of the school desk. But when it
1:19:21
Speaker 1: is remembered that physiology informs us that the great majority
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Speaker 1: of civilized persons breathe incorrectly and contrary to Nature's evident plan,
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Speaker 1: then we think it may be admitted that instruction along
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Speaker 1: these lines is not unreasonable or unnecessary. Physiology informs us
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Speaker 1: that There are three general forms of breathing practice by
1:19:39
Speaker 1: the race of men, which forms are known by the
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Speaker 1: following names, viz. One clovicular breathing, two intercostal breathing, three
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Speaker 1: abdominal breathing. The distinctive features of each are described as follows.
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Speaker 1: Clovicular breathing. This form of breathing is also termed collarbone breathing.
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Speaker 1: It is the form of breathing common to many persons,
1:20:03
Speaker 1: particularly women, and is considered by the best authorities to
1:20:06
Speaker 1: be the very worst form of breathing known to the race.
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Speaker 1: It necessitates the expenditure of the greatest amount of effort
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Speaker 1: with the least return, a maximum of energy with a
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Speaker 1: minimum of result. It is held accountable for many diseases
1:20:20
Speaker 1: of lungs and throat. Persons practicing it habitually often have harsh,
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Speaker 1: discordant voices. It is found frequently in connection with mouth breathing.
1:20:31
Speaker 1: In this form of breathing, the person raises the collar
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Speaker 1: bone and shoulders and pulls up the ribs at the
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Speaker 1: same time, drawing in the abdomen. This movement allows only
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Speaker 1: the upper part of the chest to be inflated, and
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Speaker 1: only the upper part of the lungs to be filled,
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Speaker 1: but a small quantity of air is admitted to the lungs,
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Speaker 1: as only the upper and smaller portion of the lungs
1:20:52
Speaker 1: is employed. One may easily convince himself of the folly
1:20:56
Speaker 1: and inefficacy of this form of breathing by trying the
1:20:59
Speaker 1: experiment of rape raising his shoulders and endeavoring to take
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Speaker 1: a full breath. Then let him drop the shoulders and
1:21:05
Speaker 1: take a full natural breath, and notice the difference. This
1:21:09
Speaker 1: experiment is the best possible argument against this injurious method
1:21:13
Speaker 1: of breathing, which is too often habitual with men and
1:21:15
Speaker 1: women who work over desks, sewing machines, and typewriters. Intercostal breathing.
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Speaker 1: This form of breathing is also sometimes called rib breathing.
1:21:26
Speaker 1: It is a compromise at the best. While an improvement
1:21:30
Speaker 1: over clovicular breathing, it is inferior to abdominal breathing and
1:21:34
Speaker 1: far below the standard of the full breath. In it,
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Speaker 1: the upper ribs are inflated, the abdomen drawn in, and
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Speaker 1: the diaphragm pushed upward. It employs the middle part of
1:21:45
Speaker 1: the chest and lungs, neglecting the lower and upper It
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Speaker 1: is a favorite method of breathing with many men. Women
1:21:53
Speaker 1: seldom practice intercostal breathing, but pass on to the clavicular
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Speaker 1: breathing mentioned above. It is only a halfway mes method
1:22:00
Speaker 1: at the best abdominal breathing. This form of breathing is
1:22:05
Speaker 1: often referred to as deep breathing or diaphragmatic breathing. It
1:22:10
Speaker 1: has been highly recommended by a number of eminent authorities
1:22:13
Speaker 1: of late years, and many of the health magazines have
1:22:16
Speaker 1: made a leading feature of it. Systems and methods of
1:22:19
Speaker 1: teaching it have been widely advertised, and large prices have
1:22:22
Speaker 1: been often obtained for a little simple instruction, decorated with
1:22:25
Speaker 1: frills and dressed up with fancy titles and terms. The
1:22:30
Speaker 1: principle of abdominal breathing is, however, really quite simple, and
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Speaker 1: its benefits will repay the student who acquaints himself with
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Speaker 1: it and practices it until he has fully mastered it.
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Speaker 1: But we feel that it is but a part of
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Speaker 1: a larger method known as the full breath, which we
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Speaker 1: shall describe a little further on. To understand abdominal breathing,
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Speaker 1: we must first acquaint ourselves with that wonderful piece of
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Speaker 1: physical mechanism known as the diaphragm. The diaphragm is defined
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Speaker 1: as an inspiratory must and the sole agent in tranquil respiration.
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Speaker 1: It is the muscular septum between the thorax and the abdomen.
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Speaker 1: It assists the abdominal muscles powerfully in expulsion, each act
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Speaker 1: of that kind being accompanied or preceded by a deep inspiration.
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Speaker 1: It also comes into play in hiccup and sobbing, laughing,
1:23:19
Speaker 1: and crying. In simple terms, the diaphragm is a strong,
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Speaker 1: plate shaped muscle which divides the chest and its contents
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Speaker 1: from the abdomen and its contents. At rest, it is
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Speaker 1: arched upward in the center, like the inside of an
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Speaker 1: inverted bowl the sky, or as an arched dome appears
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Speaker 1: to us from below. Viewed from the chest, the upper
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Speaker 1: side or surface of the diaphragm would seem like the
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Speaker 1: round top of a man's derby hat or the rounded
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Speaker 1: top of a hill. In normal breathing, the diaphragm is
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Speaker 1: flattened out by the arched dome pressing downward. This movement
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Speaker 1: causes the diaphragm to bear downward on the contents of
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Speaker 1: the abdomen, and the abdomen is pressed outward in front
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Speaker 1: and at the sides. This movement occurs in abdominal breathing.
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Speaker 1: In abdominal breathing, the lower part of the lungs is filled,
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Speaker 1: the diaphragm is pressed down, and the abdomen is pressed
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Speaker 1: out in front and at the sides. As above described,
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Speaker 1: it is difficult to correctly describe the exact motions of
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Speaker 1: abdominal breathing, but the student may acquire the same by
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Speaker 1: practice using the above description as a basis. By bearing
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Speaker 1: down on the abdomen, by lowering the diaphragm and pressing
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Speaker 1: out the abdominal muscles, the lower lungs are given space
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Speaker 1: and free movement, and the deep breath is instinctively inhaled.
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Speaker 1: A little practice will enable anyone to demonstrate this for
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Speaker 1: himself or herself, much better than by reading pages of
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Speaker 1: printed instruction full breathing. The best authorities agree that the
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Speaker 1: best possible form of breathing is that which is based
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Speaker 1: on abdominal breathing, but which also includes the filling of
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Speaker 1: the middle and upper part of the lungs as well.
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Speaker 1: By what may seem to be a striking coincidence, it
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Speaker 1: is noted that this this particular form of breathing is
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Speaker 1: that which was taught by the ancient arcane teachers to
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Speaker 1: their students as a means increasing the absorption of rill.
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Speaker 1: But the coincidence is quite a natural one, and it
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Speaker 1: would be indeed strange had it not occurred. For this
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Speaker 1: full breathing method is the true, natural, normal method of
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Speaker 1: breathing which natural man instinctively employs. It not only fills
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Speaker 1: every part of the lungs and exercises every part of
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Speaker 1: the chest, not only secures the greatest possible amount of
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Speaker 1: oxygen and rill, but also obtains the greatest returns from
1:25:32
Speaker 1: the least comparative effort. It is an example of the
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Speaker 1: universal economy of nature, just as marked as is the
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Speaker 1: economy of the form of the wax cell of the
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Speaker 1: bee's honeycomb. In full breathing, all of the respiratory muscles
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Speaker 1: are called into play, the entire area of the lungs
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Speaker 1: is used, the entire machinery of the respiratory organism is exercised, strengthened,
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Speaker 1: and developed. There is every evidence that this, and this
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Speaker 1: alone is nature's normal mens method of breathing. Moreover, it
1:26:02
Speaker 1: is known that the hardiest races of men have practiced
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Speaker 1: this form of breathing. We know this from the modern instances,
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Speaker 1: and because the statuary of ancient Greece shows that muscular
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Speaker 1: development of the abdomen and chest which comes only from
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Speaker 1: this form of breathing. It is the first word of
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Speaker 1: nature to man regarding breathing. It is the last word
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Speaker 1: of science to man on the same subject. It is
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Speaker 1: the best natural method. It is the best scientific method.
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Speaker 1: Full breathing is not an artificial system or method of breathing,
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Speaker 1: but is rather a return to natural, normal methods and habits.
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Speaker 1: But nevertheless, it will require some practice on the part
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Speaker 1: of many students hereof by reason of the fact that
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Speaker 1: they have lost their natural instinct in the matter and
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Speaker 1: are under the dominion of the second nature of false habit.
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Speaker 1: Before the instinctive habit may be resumed, the effect of
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Speaker 1: the false habit must be overcome, and this usually takes time.
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Speaker 1: The best, and indeed almost the only way of counteracting
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Speaker 1: and defeating any objectionable habit is to practice its opposite,
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Speaker 1: And this rule applies here with great force. The only
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Speaker 1: way to get rid of the old habit is to
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Speaker 1: practice the new, and the only way to acquire the
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Speaker 1: new is to practice it. So from both angles the
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Speaker 1: importance of practice is seen exercise. The following exercise will
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Speaker 1: serve to develop the full breath if conscientiously practiced, one
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Speaker 1: standing erect or sitting in a natural position, inhale slowly
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Speaker 1: through the nostrils, and, according to the method of abdominal breathing,
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Speaker 1: fill the lower lungs, press down the diaphragm, and push
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Speaker 1: out the abdomen in front and at the sides. Then,
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Speaker 1: in a continuous effort two fill the middle part of
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Speaker 1: the chest and lungs as in intercostal breathing, pressing outward
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Speaker 1: the mid ribs, breastbone and chest. Then in the same
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Speaker 1: continuous effort free fill the upper portion of the lungs
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Speaker 1: as in clavicular breathing, lifting the upper portion of the
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Speaker 1: chest slightly, raising the collarbone slightly, drawing in the abdomen,
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Speaker 1: and thus raising the diaphragm. As heretofore explained, it will
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Speaker 1: be noticed that this method of full breathing is really
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Speaker 1: a combination of the three forms of breathing previously described,
1:28:16
Speaker 1: beginning with the abdominal, proceeding to the intercostal, and finishing
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Speaker 1: with the clavicular method. But the student is cautioned against
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Speaker 1: proceeding as if there were three distinct and separated stages
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Speaker 1: of the process. There is but one continuous process, rising
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Speaker 1: gradually from the lower part of the lungs to the
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Speaker 1: middle portion, and then to the upper portion. A uniform
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Speaker 1: continuous muscular movement is affected the several regions being called
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Speaker 1: into action in a rising sequence. All disconnected spasmodic jerky
1:28:48
Speaker 1: motion should be avoided. A little practice will result in
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Speaker 1: the acquirement of the continuous inhalation. The inhaled air should
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Speaker 1: be retained for a moment and then exhaled naturally and easily.
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Speaker 1: No attempt should be made to unduly retain the breath,
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Speaker 1: as is taught by some schools of breathing. There is
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Speaker 1: nothing to be gained by the retention in the lungs
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Speaker 1: of stale, exhausted air, besides which there is always more
1:29:13
Speaker 1: or less of strain in this forced retention, as the
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Speaker 1: whole process is unnatural. In natural, normal breathing, there is
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Speaker 1: no sense of strain or effort when once the habit
1:29:23
Speaker 1: is acquired, or rather reacquired, The infant for young child
1:29:27
Speaker 1: manifests no effort or strain in breathing, and neither should
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Speaker 1: the adult. Some teachers announce a variety of methods of breathing, which,
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Speaker 1: upon examination, are found, for the most part to consist
1:29:39
Speaker 1: of fantastic and fanciful processes, designed evidently to impress the
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Speaker 1: student with the novelty and presumably great virtue of these
1:29:46
Speaker 1: newly invented methods. There is only one safe and sane rule,
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Speaker 1: and that is to go back to nature. The full
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Speaker 1: breath is nature's own method. If you doubt this, watch
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Speaker 1: the motions of a sleeping, healthy child or sturdy infant
1:30:03
Speaker 1: lesson nine secret of real absorption. In many treatises upon
1:30:09
Speaker 1: psychic breathing or other occult teachings in which the breath
1:30:12
Speaker 1: is employed in the process of the absorption of rill
1:30:14
Speaker 1: under some one of the names applied to it, we
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Speaker 1: find many fanciful methods of breathing, given great stress being
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Speaker 1: laid upon the supposed merits of each. A little close
1:30:24
Speaker 1: analysis will show that these methods are divided into two classes, viz.
1:30:28
Speaker 1: One methods in which the breath is inhaled, retained, and
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Speaker 1: exhaled in some fanciful manner, often according to the count
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Speaker 1: of so many moments to each step in the process,
1:30:39
Speaker 1: or else in some fantastic accompaniment. Another variation of this
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Speaker 1: class of methods is that of inhaling through one nostril,
1:30:47
Speaker 1: exhaling through the other, and then reversing the order of nostrils.
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Speaker 1: The best authorities hold that there is no virtue whatsoever
1:30:55
Speaker 1: in the fanciful form of these methods, outside of the
1:30:58
Speaker 1: suggestive effect upon the imagination of the person, the auto
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Speaker 1: suggestion causing some benefit by reason of the belief of
1:31:04
Speaker 1: the person setting into effect the activities of the subconscious mind,
1:31:08
Speaker 1: and accordingly of the physical organs by means of the
1:31:10
Speaker 1: sympathetic nervous system. These methods are but variations of the
1:31:15
Speaker 1: principle underlying faith healing, and their results are obtained in
1:31:18
Speaker 1: the same way. Two. The second class of these fanciful
1:31:22
Speaker 1: methods consists simply of combinations of well known physical culture movements,
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Speaker 1: with an emphasis laid upon the use of the breath
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Speaker 1: in their performance. These exercises, of course, have their value
1:31:34
Speaker 1: in the direction of promoting physical culture, the breathing phase
1:31:37
Speaker 1: being merely incidental and secondary. It will be seen that
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Speaker 1: the above explain fanciful methods, while possessing no special value
1:31:45
Speaker 1: in themselves, nevertheless may result in good if practiced in
1:31:49
Speaker 1: moderation and if excess is avoided. There are some exercises given, however,
1:31:54
Speaker 1: which we feel lay undue emphasis upon the retained breath
1:31:57
Speaker 1: and upon the length of time employed in a hiring
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Speaker 1: and exhaling. In our opinion, there is a possibility of
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Speaker 1: a strain in such practices, and we do not recommend them,
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Speaker 1: particularly when it is remembered that they have no real
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Speaker 1: physiological or psychical value. We have heard of teachers of
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Speaker 1: some of these systems teaching classes of persons to inhale
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Speaker 1: very slowly and to retain the breath until a feeling
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Speaker 1: of giddiness arose. The peculiar swimmy feeling thus experienced being
1:32:24
Speaker 1: held to be proof of the development of some high
1:32:26
Speaker 1: psychic state. The slightest acquaintance with elementary physiology, however, should
1:32:33
Speaker 1: teach one that the dizziness is not a psychic state,
1:32:35
Speaker 1: but arises from the poisoning of the body by the
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Speaker 1: carbonic acid gas generated in the system, which under natural
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Speaker 1: conditions would have been expelled, and also from the fact
1:32:44
Speaker 1: that the body and brain are crying out oxygen. Send
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Speaker 1: us oxygen or we perish. In short, instead of a
1:32:52
Speaker 1: state of psychic power, being attained, there is really a
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Speaker 1: state of partial asphyxiation induced. The arcane teachers do not
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Speaker 1: teach any of the above mentioned fantastic or fanciful methods.
1:33:04
Speaker 1: On the contrary, they hold that there is no better
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Speaker 1: way of absorbing drill under ordinary circumstances than the full
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Speaker 1: breathing method of nature. They hold that the man or
1:33:15
Speaker 1: woman who acquires or reacquires the habit of proper natural
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Speaker 1: full breathing will usually absorb a normal degree of rill.
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Speaker 1: But they hold also that an additional amount of rill
1:33:25
Speaker 1: is often needed by those living under conditions which tend
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Speaker 1: to deplete them of their rill by excessive use or
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Speaker 1: excessive waste. They accordingly teach methods by which additional drill
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Speaker 1: may be absorbed according to the desire or need of
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Speaker 1: the person. But this method of absorption does not consist
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Speaker 1: of any fanciful physical method or exercise, but depends upon
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Speaker 1: the use of the mind in connection with the natural,
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Speaker 1: normal process of breathing. The arcane method is psychophysical rather
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Speaker 1: than physical. Those of our students who have studied the
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Speaker 1: previous works of this series will understand the power and
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Speaker 1: effect of the mind upon the felce physical functions without
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Speaker 1: our going into the matter in detail. In this place,
1:34:04
Speaker 1: the secret of the arcane method of real absorption consists
1:34:07
Speaker 1: of the fact that the nervous system may be spurred
1:34:10
Speaker 1: to redoubled efficiency by the action of the mind directed
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Speaker 1: upon it. In Lesson X of the arcane formulas or
1:34:17
Speaker 1: mental alchemy, which lesson is entitled mentalism in a nutshell,
1:34:21
Speaker 1: is explained the method of psychic visualization, or the forming
1:34:25
Speaker 1: and holding of the mental image of things and conditions
1:34:27
Speaker 1: which one wishes to realize objectively and in material form.
1:34:32
Speaker 1: In the same lesson is explained the use of the
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Speaker 1: will in the materialization and objectification of desired conditions. On
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Speaker 1: page ninety seven of the said book and lesson you
1:34:42
Speaker 1: will find the following paragraph. The secret of mental alchemy
1:34:46
Speaker 1: may be stated as consisting, first, last, and always of
1:34:50
Speaker 1: the art of mental imaging, reinforced by the will. While
1:34:53
Speaker 1: to the beginner the subject of mentalism may seem a
1:34:56
Speaker 1: very complicated one, the advanced occultist knows it to be
1:34:59
Speaker 1: the very extra dream of simplicity. Mental alchemy, under whatever
1:35:04
Speaker 1: name it may masquerade, may be found to consist, at
1:35:07
Speaker 1: the last of simply the power to create strong, clear
1:35:10
Speaker 1: mental images and to project them into the outer world.
1:35:13
Speaker 1: By means of the concentrated will, you will find that
1:35:16
Speaker 1: all you have ever read on the subject may be
1:35:18
Speaker 1: boiled down to the above stated principle. The rest is
1:35:22
Speaker 1: a mere matter of detail. This single statement is mentalism
1:35:26
Speaker 1: in a nutshell. We have quoted from the earlier work
1:35:30
Speaker 1: of this series in order to emphasize the fact that
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Speaker 1: the power of psychic visualization, backed by the power of
1:35:35
Speaker 1: the will, is the secret of real absorption, as it
1:35:38
Speaker 1: is of all psychic or psychophysical phenomena. The first step
1:35:43
Speaker 1: in real absorption is the realization by the student that
1:35:45
Speaker 1: there exists, in the atmospheric era, universal supply of rill
1:35:49
Speaker 1: in such phase and condition as to render it easily
1:35:51
Speaker 1: assimilated by the nervous system of man and other living creatures.
1:35:56
Speaker 1: The second step is the formation of a clear mental
1:35:59
Speaker 1: picture of this universe versal supply of rill. Of course,
1:36:03
Speaker 1: drill having no definite shape or form, color, or outward appearance,
1:36:07
Speaker 1: the mind cannot form a picture of it as a
1:36:09
Speaker 1: thing of form, color, or other tangible attribute. But the
1:36:13
Speaker 1: mind can image it as it would image a space
1:36:15
Speaker 1: filled with electrical power, magnetism, or ether. The mind must
1:36:21
Speaker 1: enter into a consciousness of the presence of drill and
1:36:23
Speaker 1: space all around one, and in every atom of air
1:36:26
Speaker 1: that is breathed. This consciousness of that presence must be
1:36:30
Speaker 1: gained before further progress is possible. It must be dwelt
1:36:33
Speaker 1: upon mentally until the mind grasps its reality and becomes
1:36:36
Speaker 1: conscious of its presence, just as one is conscious of
1:36:39
Speaker 1: the presence of space itself. In the degree that this
1:36:42
Speaker 1: consciousness is gained, so is the degree of manifestation possible.
1:36:48
Speaker 1: The next step is the realization and mental imaging of
1:36:50
Speaker 1: the faculty of the nervous system. To absorb such amount
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Speaker 1: of rill as is required in response to the mandate
1:36:56
Speaker 1: of the will, the mind must visualize the nerves as
1:36:59
Speaker 1: abstbsorbing the vrill from the air, just as it can
1:37:02
Speaker 1: visualize the lungs absorbing oxygen from the same source. The
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Speaker 1: one must be seen to be as real as the other.
1:37:09
Speaker 1: Of course, the nerves will absorb drill in the ordinary way,
1:37:12
Speaker 1: whether or not one is conscious of the process. In fact,
1:37:17
Speaker 1: this is the way that the average person absorbs rill.
1:37:19
Speaker 1: But in order to increase the absorptive power of the system,
1:37:23
Speaker 1: the mind must be employed in the manner above described.
1:37:26
Speaker 1: This process imparts to the absorptive function and increased efficiency,
1:37:30
Speaker 1: just as thought force is known to increase the efficiency
1:37:33
Speaker 1: of the stomach, liver, or other organs of the body.
1:37:36
Speaker 1: The final step is the use of the will in
1:37:38
Speaker 1: the direction of commanding the system to absorb a greater
1:37:41
Speaker 1: amount of rill. After the reason recognizes the possibility of
1:37:46
Speaker 1: this process, and the imagination pictures it as being performed,
1:37:49
Speaker 1: then the will may be directed to the task of
1:37:51
Speaker 1: demanding its performance. To those to whom this may seem
1:37:55
Speaker 1: a strange statement, We would say that the majority of
1:37:58
Speaker 1: our physical actions are evolved in justice this way, with
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Speaker 1: the exception of a few elementary instinctive actions which are
1:38:05
Speaker 1: performed almost automatically. The young animal, and particularly the young
1:38:09
Speaker 1: human child, first realizes that a movement may be made,
1:38:12
Speaker 1: then sees it being made by the imaginative or ideative faculties,
1:38:16
Speaker 1: and then deliberately wills it to be made. The child
1:38:19
Speaker 1: follows this process in learning to use its legs and walking,
1:38:23
Speaker 1: in using its hands and taking hold of a thing,
1:38:25
Speaker 1: in guiding it to its mouth, and afterward in directing
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Speaker 1: its hand to write, use the knife and fork, or
1:38:31
Speaker 1: perform similar offices. The story of evolution as told by
1:38:36
Speaker 1: Lamarck and his school, tells us that the life forms
1:38:38
Speaker 1: have gradually developed new functions. In this way, the physical
1:38:41
Speaker 1: organ evolving in response to the mental picture and desire,
1:38:46
Speaker 1: in forming the mental picture until it becomes firmly fixed
1:38:49
Speaker 1: in the subconscious mind, and then reinforcing and enforcing it
1:38:52
Speaker 1: by the will. That nature of the person develops the
1:38:55
Speaker 1: faculty of increased power of absorption of rill, which is
1:38:58
Speaker 1: manifested in response to the will of the person. Rill
1:39:02
Speaker 1: absorption exercise. The following exercise will serve as a general
1:39:07
Speaker 1: guide to those who wish to increase their power of
1:39:09
Speaker 1: real absorption. One practice the full breath as heretofore described,
1:39:16
Speaker 1: and while inhaling, picture in your mind the absorption of rill,
1:39:19
Speaker 1: first by the nerves of a nasal cavity in the
1:39:21
Speaker 1: back of the head, and then by the cells of
1:39:24
Speaker 1: the lungs at the same time, willing that the rill
1:39:26
Speaker 1: be so absorbed, or if it is preferred, it may
1:39:30
Speaker 1: be stated in this manner, will that the system absorb
1:39:33
Speaker 1: an increased amount of rill, and that the same mentally
1:39:36
Speaker 1: picture the process of absorption, or perhaps a third form
1:39:40
Speaker 1: will be easier for some will the rill absorption and
1:39:44
Speaker 1: at the same time feel that it is under way.
1:39:47
Speaker 1: After a little practice, the student will find that the
1:39:50
Speaker 1: system will become as responsive to the will in this
1:39:52
Speaker 1: function as the lungs are responsive to the will. When
1:39:55
Speaker 1: one decides to take a breath fuller and deeper than usual,
1:39:59
Speaker 1: and in the same the person will become almost as
1:40:02
Speaker 1: vividly conscious of the influx of rill as he is
1:40:04
Speaker 1: of the influx of air in breathing. A little practice
1:40:08
Speaker 1: will demonstrate this to the student of his own actual experience,
1:40:12
Speaker 1: much better than can we in pages of written description
1:40:14
Speaker 1: and statement. Imagine what it would be to attempt to
1:40:17
Speaker 1: describe the sensation of breathing to a creature that had
1:40:20
Speaker 1: never breathed, a visitor, for instance, from some distant star
1:40:24
Speaker 1: where breathing was unknown. Or imagine describing the sensation of
1:40:28
Speaker 1: seeing the color scarlet to a man born blind, or
1:40:33
Speaker 1: the sensation of the taste of sugar to one who
1:40:35
Speaker 1: had never tasted anything sweet. Sensations of this kind must
1:40:40
Speaker 1: be experienced in order to be understood. The student has
1:40:43
Speaker 1: the matter in his own hands. His experience and actual
1:40:46
Speaker 1: knowledge depend upon his own practice. It is not intended
1:40:50
Speaker 1: that one shall practice this conscious rill absorption all the time.
1:40:54
Speaker 1: This is not necessary. Moreover, it is not practicable for
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Speaker 1: the process with requires the concentration of attention upon the task,
1:41:02
Speaker 1: and one requires the attention for other purposes. It is
1:41:06
Speaker 1: sufficient for one to practice this method only when he
1:41:09
Speaker 1: feels that his rill supply is depleted, or just before
1:41:12
Speaker 1: engaging in work that will probably require additional energy. One
1:41:16
Speaker 1: may absorb additional thrill while engaged in other work without
1:41:20
Speaker 1: disturbing his occupation. It requires but a moment or two,
1:41:25
Speaker 1: just as the flying locomotive takes up water without stopping.
1:41:29
Speaker 1: It will be found to be an excellent plan to
1:41:31
Speaker 1: practice some light physical culture exercise in the morning before arising,
1:41:34
Speaker 1: and then to devote a few moments to rial absorption.
1:41:38
Speaker 1: This will start one well in the work of the day.
1:41:41
Speaker 1: When fatigued during the day, a moment's relaxation and practice
1:41:45
Speaker 1: of real absorption will yield great benefit. There are no
1:41:48
Speaker 1: set rules to be observed in this matter. Each one
1:41:52
Speaker 1: must use his own judgment and fit the method to
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Speaker 1: his own inclination and necessities. Absorb rill whenever you feel
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Speaker 1: you need it. Lesson ten application of rill power. When
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Speaker 1: the student has acquired the knack of real absorption. He
1:42:09
Speaker 1: may apply the power of rill to his physical requirements
1:42:11
Speaker 1: in many ways. He will have laid up a reserved
1:42:15
Speaker 1: store of rill in the solar plexus and other centers,
1:42:17
Speaker 1: which he may direct and distribute to the various parts
1:42:20
Speaker 1: and organs of his body at will. It is possible
1:42:23
Speaker 1: for anyone with a little practice to acquire the art
1:42:27
Speaker 1: of directing the flow of rill to any particular part
1:42:29
Speaker 1: of the body. This will be found very advantageous in
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Speaker 1: the treatment of physical troubles and weaknesses. When any part
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Speaker 1: of the body is found to lack proper vitality, or
1:42:40
Speaker 1: when any organ shows signs of imperfect functioning, a supply
1:42:44
Speaker 1: of rill directed to that part or organ will be
1:42:46
Speaker 1: found to be highly beneficial in the direction of vitalizing
1:42:49
Speaker 1: and stimulating the part or organ in question. This is
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Speaker 1: true not only of organs like the stomach or liver,
1:42:56
Speaker 1: but also of the great nerve centers of the body,
1:42:58
Speaker 1: including the spinal core and even the brain itself. Treatment
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Speaker 1: of the spinal cord in this way will result in
1:43:04
Speaker 1: imparting a new spirit of vitality and energy to the
1:43:07
Speaker 1: entire system, and is one of the best tonic treatments
1:43:10
Speaker 1: known to psychophysiology. The following general directions will serve to
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Speaker 1: give the student the key to the many forms of
1:43:17
Speaker 1: application possible under it. The general principle, once clearly understood
1:43:22
Speaker 1: and firmly grasped, the student may apply it as indicated
1:43:25
Speaker 1: by his own particular requirements and necessities, and in such
1:43:29
Speaker 1: manner as seems preferable to him. General directions. Either sit
1:43:34
Speaker 1: in a comfortable position, or else recline in an easy position,
1:43:38
Speaker 1: relaxing every muscle and quieting every nerve. Then concentrate the
1:43:42
Speaker 1: attention upon the solar plexus, or the region of the
1:43:45
Speaker 1: pit of the stomach, just where the ribs spread apart,
1:43:49
Speaker 1: and awaken your consciousness of the storage of a reserved
1:43:52
Speaker 1: supply of rill. At this point, then will that some
1:43:55
Speaker 1: of this rill supply shall flow along the nerves to
1:43:58
Speaker 1: whatever part of the body you wish to energize. If
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Speaker 1: the part to be energized is situated above the solar plexus,
1:44:05
Speaker 1: you must mentally and by an effort of the will
1:44:07
Speaker 1: draw upward the rial current. If the part to be
1:44:10
Speaker 1: energized is situated below the solar plexus, you must, in
1:44:13
Speaker 1: the same way mentally pushed downward the current. In either case,
1:44:17
Speaker 1: you must accompany the will effort by the mental picture
1:44:20
Speaker 1: and consciousness of the actual passage of the current. It
1:44:23
Speaker 1: may take you a little time to acquire the peculiar
1:44:26
Speaker 1: knack of directing the current in this way, but after
1:44:29
Speaker 1: a little practice you will find it very easy. In fact,
1:44:32
Speaker 1: it will become almost second nature to you to send
1:44:34
Speaker 1: a current whenever you recognize the need of it, when
1:44:38
Speaker 1: you feel generally tired, exhausted, or used up. It will
1:44:42
Speaker 1: be found beneficial to treat the whole body in this way.
1:44:46
Speaker 1: In special cases, particular parts or organs may be so treated.
1:44:51
Speaker 1: A feeling of relief will be experienced in the part
1:44:53
Speaker 1: treated in a few moments. In case of headaches or
1:44:57
Speaker 1: other pains, relief may often be of attained by first
1:45:00
Speaker 1: flushing the affected part with rill in the manner above described,
1:45:04
Speaker 1: and then reversing the process and drawing away the current.
1:45:08
Speaker 1: This plan tending to equalize the circulation and the nerve currents,
1:45:12
Speaker 1: and thus to restore normal conditions. Cold feet often may
1:45:16
Speaker 1: be relieved by stimulating them with a supply of rill.
1:45:20
Speaker 1: Stiff muscles or rheumatic joints often are relieved in this way.
1:45:24
Speaker 1: In fact, one who can so direct and distribute the
1:45:27
Speaker 1: rill currents is practical master of his or her own body,
1:45:30
Speaker 1: and may successfully treat himself or herself in this way
1:45:34
Speaker 1: to great advantage. The brain may be stimulated by sending
1:45:38
Speaker 1: it a strong current of rill, or it may be
1:45:40
Speaker 1: rested by first flushing it with drill and then drawing
1:45:43
Speaker 1: away the supply, in allowing the brain to rest quietly
1:45:46
Speaker 1: in a relaxed condition of peace and comfort. General self treatment,
1:45:51
Speaker 1: a form of general self treatment by rill currents in
1:45:55
Speaker 1: the direction of a general vitalization and energization of the
1:45:58
Speaker 1: entire system, is Herewith cisgested, one lie in a comfortable
1:46:03
Speaker 1: position and concentrate the attention upon the solar plexus, awakening
1:46:07
Speaker 1: a consciousness of the presence there of the reserve supply
1:46:10
Speaker 1: of rill. Then direct the current downward to the feet,
1:46:14
Speaker 1: first to the left foot, and then to the right,
1:46:16
Speaker 1: until you can feel the energy manifesting in them. In
1:46:19
Speaker 1: some cases a slight tingling may be felt, while in
1:46:22
Speaker 1: others merely a general feeling or subconscious awareness is manifest
1:46:28
Speaker 1: Then treat the lower part of the legs in the
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Speaker 1: same order, then the thighs, then the reproductive region, then
1:46:35
Speaker 1: the abdomen, and the lower internal organs. Then stimulate the
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Speaker 1: solar plexus itself, then the lungs and throat. After having
1:46:43
Speaker 1: treated the various organs and parts of the body in
1:46:45
Speaker 1: this manner, reverse the current and cause it to flow
1:46:48
Speaker 1: down the spinal column, sweeping it repeatedly from top to bottom,
1:46:51
Speaker 1: allowing some of the current to flow out through the
1:46:53
Speaker 1: connected nerves. Next, concentrate the attention upon the sacral plexus
1:46:59
Speaker 1: at the lower part of the spine, giving to this
1:47:01
Speaker 1: region a decided stimulation. Finally, direct the rill to the
1:47:06
Speaker 1: nerves and muscles of the neck, and then to the brain,
1:47:09
Speaker 1: giving the latter a good flushing, and then withdrawing the
1:47:12
Speaker 1: current by a reverse impulse and direction of the will
1:47:15
Speaker 1: rest quietly a few moments, and you will arise refreshed
1:47:19
Speaker 1: and energized. Variations may be applied to this general treatment,
1:47:24
Speaker 1: but the general order above suggested will be found to
1:47:26
Speaker 1: be adapted to the majority of cases. Special self treatment.
1:47:31
Speaker 1: In cases of local pain or physical disorder, one may
1:47:34
Speaker 1: treat himself not only in the above stated general manner,
1:47:37
Speaker 1: but also by specially concentrated currents of rill directed by
1:47:40
Speaker 1: the use of the hands. In this case, the rill
1:47:44
Speaker 1: flows down the nerves of the arm and hands and
1:47:46
Speaker 1: into the affected parts with renewed and increased force and effect,
1:47:51
Speaker 1: passing the hands over the affected parts or holding them
1:47:54
Speaker 1: there at the same time, willing that a steady, continuous
1:47:57
Speaker 1: and powerful flow of rill passed through them and in
1:47:59
Speaker 1: as into the part will be found quite effective in
1:48:02
Speaker 1: many instances. If preferred, the rill may be forced into
1:48:06
Speaker 1: the part in this manner by a series of mental
1:48:08
Speaker 1: pushes or pumping motions. Some prefer one plan and some
1:48:14
Speaker 1: the other. Both should be tried, and the one best
1:48:17
Speaker 1: adapted to the particular wants of the person adopted and
1:48:20
Speaker 1: applied thereafter. Treatment of other persons, the student may treat
1:48:25
Speaker 1: other persons in the same way as indicated in the
1:48:27
Speaker 1: above directions. For self treatment, the principle is the same
1:48:31
Speaker 1: in all cases. The knowledge of the direction and distribution
1:48:35
Speaker 1: of rill to the bodies of other persons constitutes the
1:48:38
Speaker 1: secret of what is popularly known as magnetic healing. There
1:48:42
Speaker 1: is no special new principle involved in the treatment of others.
1:48:46
Speaker 1: Treat the other person just as you would treat a
1:48:48
Speaker 1: part of your own body. The current of rill will
1:48:51
Speaker 1: flow into the affected part of the other person and
1:48:54
Speaker 1: back to yourself. Always place both hands on the other
1:48:57
Speaker 1: person during the treatment in order to complete the connection
1:49:00
Speaker 1: in this way. After the treatment, it will be well
1:49:04
Speaker 1: for the healer to treat himself briefly and to recharge
1:49:07
Speaker 1: himself with drill by the method previously described. In this way,
1:49:11
Speaker 1: he will never suffer from depletion of rill and will
1:49:14
Speaker 1: avoid taking on the condition of the patient, which often
1:49:17
Speaker 1: occurs to psychic healers who are not acquainted with the
1:49:20
Speaker 1: means of recuperating and protecting themselves. Interesting experiments have been
1:49:25
Speaker 1: tried along the lines of charging water with drill by
1:49:28
Speaker 1: holding the glass in one's hands and sending the current
1:49:30
Speaker 1: into it. Some magnetic healers have made quite a feature
1:49:34
Speaker 1: of charging water in this way and then giving it
1:49:37
Speaker 1: to their patients to drink in SIPs in addition to
1:49:39
Speaker 1: the regular treatment. We mention it here merely as a
1:49:43
Speaker 1: matter of general interest and as a suggestion for experiment
1:49:46
Speaker 1: on the part of our students. We feel that interesting
1:49:50
Speaker 1: though it may be, it is not a necessary or
1:49:53
Speaker 1: important part of treatment by rill, for the reason that
1:49:56
Speaker 1: the course above outline should be sufficiently successful without the
1:49:59
Speaker 1: assistance of so such methods. By reason of the simplicity
1:50:03
Speaker 1: of the methods suggested, and the absence of all attempts
1:50:06
Speaker 1: to dress the subject in fanciful and mystic verbal garb
1:50:09
Speaker 1: and imagery. There is danger of the average student failing
1:50:12
Speaker 1: to appreciate the benefits that may be gained by the
1:50:14
Speaker 1: use of rill in the manner indicated in this lesson,
1:50:17
Speaker 1: and of his failing to realize the importance of the
1:50:19
Speaker 1: information herein given. We warn the student against undervaluing any
1:50:24
Speaker 1: knowledge or instruction merely because it may be stated simply
1:50:27
Speaker 1: and plainly. It is no easy matter to reduce teaching
1:50:31
Speaker 1: of this kind to simple, plain terms and equally simple methods.
1:50:35
Speaker 1: For this task is really the condensation into a few
1:50:37
Speaker 1: lines of the experience of many years and of many persons.
1:50:42
Speaker 1: It is much easier to elaborate the matter in detailed,
1:50:45
Speaker 1: technical style than to reduce it to terms and methods
1:50:48
Speaker 1: capable of being understood and applied by all persons of
1:50:51
Speaker 1: average intelligence. The student must not forget that behind this
1:50:55
Speaker 1: simple exposition and explanation, and the equally simple methods of application,
1:51:00
Speaker 1: there is to be found one of the greatest and
1:51:01
Speaker 1: most wonderful of nature's forces, the real inner meaning of
1:51:05
Speaker 1: which will probably never be fully known to the mind
1:51:07
Speaker 1: of man. The final secret is bound up with the
1:51:11
Speaker 1: secret of life itself. The student who masters these instructions
1:51:15
Speaker 1: and methods is brought in touch with this great force
1:51:17
Speaker 1: of life, and is enabled to apply its energies at will.
1:51:21
Speaker 1: Let him beware of undervaluing the power he is using
1:51:24
Speaker 1: simply because it is capable of simple, plain application. And
1:51:29
Speaker 1: let him beware further of allowing familiarity with this power
1:51:32
Speaker 1: to develop into contempt of it. Nature does not approve
1:51:36
Speaker 1: of belittling or trifling with her great forces. Triflers who
1:51:41
Speaker 1: enter the field of psychism or occultism frequently are brought
1:51:44
Speaker 1: to a rather vigorous realization of the fact that they
1:51:46
Speaker 1: are but pigmies playing with titanic forces. On the other hand,
1:51:51
Speaker 1: there is something in Nature which seems to approve of
1:51:53
Speaker 1: the right use of its mighty forces, and which encourages
1:51:56
Speaker 1: and aids those who employ these forces in the proper
1:51:59
Speaker 1: spirit and tory worthy ends, and the right use of
1:52:02
Speaker 1: vital energy life force rill is always in the direction
1:52:06
Speaker 1: of life and health, conserving drill power. The Arcane teachings
1:52:10
Speaker 1: hold that not only does the wise person store up
1:52:13
Speaker 1: a sufficient supply of rill to meet sudden and unexpected demands.
1:52:17
Speaker 1: Not only does he direct and distribute drill to meet
1:52:19
Speaker 1: the requirements of his physical and mental system, but he
1:52:22
Speaker 1: also avoids unnecessary waste and dissipation of rill power and
1:52:26
Speaker 1: strives to stop all leaks of energy. Such person practices
1:52:30
Speaker 1: not only industry and thrift in relation to rill, but
1:52:34
Speaker 1: also manifests a wise economy regarding its conservation. Drill waste
1:52:38
Speaker 1: and dissipation occurs in two ways viz. One emotional waste
1:52:43
Speaker 1: and two physical waste. The majority of persons are more
1:52:48
Speaker 1: or less prodigals along one or both of the above
1:52:51
Speaker 1: stated lines. They turn on the emotional or physical faucet
1:52:55
Speaker 1: and allow vrill to drip and dribble almost constantly. Pure waste.
1:53:00
Speaker 1: Emotional waste is habitual with many persons who fail to
1:53:03
Speaker 1: realize that in every useless flow of emotional activity, they
1:53:07
Speaker 1: are really dissipating a portion of the life power and
1:53:09
Speaker 1: vital energy. Not only does this emotional dissipation result in
1:53:14
Speaker 1: a drain on the life energies, but like any other
1:53:17
Speaker 1: form of dissipation, it results also in killing the healthy
1:53:20
Speaker 1: and normal emotional expression, replacing the latter with a false
1:53:23
Speaker 1: emotional activity which is without real feeling, and which seeks
1:53:27
Speaker 1: constant excitement and stimulus. As the drunkard seeks drink, and
1:53:30
Speaker 1: the drug habituate is particular narcotic or stimulant. One may
1:53:35
Speaker 1: avoid this emotional waste by watching carefully the formation of
1:53:38
Speaker 1: emotional habits. As an authority says, all emotions deepen by repetition.
1:53:45
Speaker 1: If one allows an undesirable feeling to master him once,
1:53:48
Speaker 1: he should be on the watch to check that feeling
1:53:50
Speaker 1: at the start on the occasion of the second manifestation.
1:53:54
Speaker 1: The man who falls into a rage once falls into
1:53:57
Speaker 1: the same emotion easier as second time. The man who
1:54:01
Speaker 1: keeps cool once under trying circumstances will be more easily
1:54:04
Speaker 1: able to control himself the next time. The truth cannot
1:54:08
Speaker 1: be too strongly emphasized that a habit of emotional feeling
1:54:11
Speaker 1: is at the outset often the result of an intellectual habit.
1:54:16
Speaker 1: Summon different ideas to the mind and notice how the
1:54:19
Speaker 1: emotion changes with the idea. To repress certain trains of feeling,
1:54:22
Speaker 1: repress the ideas that give them birth. This will have
1:54:26
Speaker 1: restraining power even when the emotional state tends to bring
1:54:29
Speaker 1: up a consonant idea Just as a fire may suggest
1:54:32
Speaker 1: putting fuel on it, emotional waste may also be prevented
1:54:36
Speaker 1: by carefully training oneself to control the physical expression usually
1:54:40
Speaker 1: accompanying the feeling or emotion. An authority says, by restraining
1:54:45
Speaker 1: the expression of an emotion, we can frequently throttle it.
1:54:48
Speaker 1: By inducing an expression, we can often cause its allied emotion.
1:54:53
Speaker 1: We know that animals, barbarians, and children generally allow motor
1:54:57
Speaker 1: discharges without inhibition, and that that control comes in some
1:55:01
Speaker 1: way or other with culture. Another eminent authority says, even
1:55:05
Speaker 1: if we cannot prevent a feeling from arising, we may
1:55:08
Speaker 1: possibly prevent it from spreading by inhibiting the organic movement
1:55:11
Speaker 1: which accompanies it, an indulgence in which augments it. An
1:55:15
Speaker 1: authority says, novices frequently make the mistake of thinking that
1:55:20
Speaker 1: intense expression of emotion indicates not only a character rich
1:55:24
Speaker 1: in feeling, but also one that will make great, unselfish
1:55:27
Speaker 1: sacrifices for the welfare of others. The truth lies generally
1:55:31
Speaker 1: in the opposite direction. Many persons expend all their energies
1:55:35
Speaker 1: in the expression of emotion and have none left for action.
1:55:39
Speaker 1: Some demonstrative people find it difficult to understand that to
1:55:42
Speaker 1: feel intense sympathy is not the same as to exert
1:55:45
Speaker 1: themselves in actually relieving distress. The world could very well
1:55:49
Speaker 1: spare a million of those who only feel for a
1:55:51
Speaker 1: dozen of those who act. In the volume of this
1:55:55
Speaker 1: series entitled the Arcane Formulas, we have devoted considerable space
1:55:59
Speaker 1: to struction along the lines of mastering and controlling the
1:56:02
Speaker 1: emotional nature, not in the direction of killing out or
1:56:05
Speaker 1: destroying that part of one's mental and spiritual being, but
1:56:08
Speaker 1: rather in the direction of attaining perfect mastery and control thereof.
1:56:13
Speaker 1: We have therein instructed the student in the art of
1:56:16
Speaker 1: mastering the opposites of feeling and emotion, that he may
1:56:19
Speaker 1: secure and maintain the true mental, moral, and spiritual balance
1:56:23
Speaker 1: and poise. We have said therein acquire the mental knack
1:56:28
Speaker 1: of rising above the plane of emotional feeling onto the
1:56:31
Speaker 1: plane of will, and their calmly watch and observe the
1:56:33
Speaker 1: storm of emotion without being influenced by it. This is
1:56:38
Speaker 1: like one sailing in a balloon above the storm clouds
1:56:40
Speaker 1: which are thundering and flashing lightning beneath him. On the
1:56:44
Speaker 1: plane of will, there is peace and power undreamt of
1:56:46
Speaker 1: by those still on the emotional plane. Never allow yourself
1:56:50
Speaker 1: to become enmeshed and involved in the emotional storms or activities.
1:56:54
Speaker 1: Handle the emotions as the master does an instrument, but
1:56:58
Speaker 1: never yield yourself to the power and influence of slave
1:57:01
Speaker 1: or instrument, any more than you would yield yourself to
1:57:04
Speaker 1: the power and influence of some entity outside of yourself.
1:57:08
Speaker 1: The study of the Arcane teachings in the preceding volumes
1:57:11
Speaker 1: of the series will do much for anyone who has
1:57:13
Speaker 1: found himself or herself carried away by emotional storms or
1:57:17
Speaker 1: cyclones of feeling which result in rill, dissipation, and waste.
1:57:22
Speaker 1: The principles therein taught and the methods therein stated, will
1:57:26
Speaker 1: do much to impart balance and poise, self control, and
1:57:29
Speaker 1: self mastery to those who seek poise and power. Emotion
1:57:33
Speaker 1: and feeling play an important part in our lives, and
1:57:36
Speaker 1: when properly employed, are good for us to use. But
1:57:39
Speaker 1: even when normally good, they become bad when we allow
1:57:42
Speaker 1: them to use us to the extent that we become
1:57:44
Speaker 1: subject to them and under their control. Even the divine
1:57:48
Speaker 1: gift of sympathy may become a veritable curse in this way,
1:57:52
Speaker 1: and may tend to wreck the mental and physical well
1:57:54
Speaker 1: being of a person, without in the least benefiting the
1:57:57
Speaker 1: objects which aroused it Originally. It must be strong ourselves
1:58:01
Speaker 1: before we may help others, As in everything else in life,
1:58:05
Speaker 1: so in this case we must avoid the extremes or
1:58:08
Speaker 1: opposites and preserve the happy mean in the center, where
1:58:11
Speaker 1: alone is poise, power, and balance to be found. Passing
1:58:15
Speaker 1: from the consideration of this first form of emotional waste
1:58:18
Speaker 1: of real power, we perceive that the average person manifests
1:58:22
Speaker 1: an equally harmful waste in his physical life. Waste motion,
1:58:26
Speaker 1: waste nervous strain, excessive nervous tension, and excessive purposeless physical
1:58:30
Speaker 1: motion is seen on all sides. The majority of persons
1:58:34
Speaker 1: are in a state of unrelaxed, nervous and muscular tension.
1:58:37
Speaker 1: During their waking hours. Their nerves are tense and the
1:58:41
Speaker 1: muscles contracted without any real cause. Their fingers are beating
1:58:46
Speaker 1: the devil's tattoo, and they waste nervous energy to no
1:58:50
Speaker 1: purpose whatsoever. They whittle pencils, chew toothpicks, or masticate chewing gum.
1:58:56
Speaker 1: They do not know the meaning of the word relaxation
1:58:59
Speaker 1: and have no conception of its physical expression. When talking,
1:59:04
Speaker 1: these persons throw into the task sufficient energy to sustain
1:59:07
Speaker 1: a vigorous order through the strain of his greatest effort.
1:59:10
Speaker 1: When walking, they expend enough energy to carry a giant
1:59:14
Speaker 1: up a steep hill. When riding, they sit on the
1:59:17
Speaker 1: edge of the car seat, leaning forward, as if they
1:59:20
Speaker 1: imagined that they were using their energy to help propel
1:59:22
Speaker 1: the train to their destination. Poise is unknown to these people,
1:59:26
Speaker 1: who are burning their rill candle at both ends. Such
1:59:30
Speaker 1: persons should take an object lesson from a young resting
1:59:33
Speaker 1: infant or from a cat in a relaxed position. The
1:59:36
Speaker 1: child lets go to perfection. The cat relaxes every muscle
1:59:42
Speaker 1: and nerve, and yet so finely organized. Is it that,
1:59:44
Speaker 1: in the twinkling of an eye, when necessity for possible
1:59:47
Speaker 1: action arises, its muscles become as steel and its nerves
1:59:50
Speaker 1: as hair triggers. The cat, crouching before a mousehole gives
1:59:54
Speaker 1: one of nature's best object lessons in the quality of
1:59:57
Speaker 1: relaxed power. Find the latent hair trigger nerves and the
2:00:02
Speaker 1: potential steel muscles in a state of perfection. The only
2:00:06
Speaker 1: way to relax properly is to withdraw the real tension
2:00:09
Speaker 1: from the muscles. And this is not so easy for
2:00:13
Speaker 1: those who have contracted the unnatural habits of unnecessary tension.
2:00:17
Speaker 1: They must first learn how to let go. The student
2:00:21
Speaker 1: wishing to learn how to relax should begin by practicing
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Speaker 1: with the hands, first taking away all tension, and then
2:00:27
Speaker 1: swinging the hands from the wrists until they become perfectly limp.
2:00:31
Speaker 1: Then practice limbering up the fingers. Then swing the arms
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Speaker 1: to and fro in the same manner. Then tense the
2:00:40
Speaker 1: upper arm and swing the forearms freely from the elbow.
2:00:43
Speaker 1: Then follow the same general course with the legs until
2:00:46
Speaker 1: you have them thoroughly loosened up. Then swing the head
2:00:50
Speaker 1: about the neck being made limp, and finally, lying down,
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Speaker 1: manage to take every bit of real force from the
2:00:57
Speaker 1: muscles of the whole body, imitating the act, attitude, position,
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Speaker 1: and general condition of the tired baby who has dropped
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Speaker 1: to sleep over its play. A variation of the loosening
2:01:08
Speaker 1: up exercises may be found in the imitation of a
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Speaker 1: Newfoundland dog shaking himself vigorously. This will give you a
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Speaker 1: good general limbering up. Stretching the limbs in the familiar
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Speaker 1: motion of the lazy boy will also be found to
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Speaker 1: give relaxation and rest, and to relieve tension. Conclude the
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Speaker 1: relaxation exercises with the bracing up exercise given below, which
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Speaker 1: will also be found excellent in case of the tired
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Speaker 1: feeling caused by sitting or standing in one position, or
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Speaker 1: when the brain feels fagged and tired, or when from
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Speaker 1: any mental or physical cause one may feel stale and
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Speaker 1: not fit. Bracing up exercise. Stand erect and take several natural, easy,
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Speaker 1: full breaths, combining with them the mental exercise of re
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Speaker 1: real absorption. Then, holding your arms out in front of you,
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Speaker 1: clench your fists and draw them slowly towards your breath,
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Speaker 1: gradually increasing the muscular tension. Then push your fists out
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Speaker 1: and draw them in muscles still tensed, several times. Then
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Speaker 1: drop your fists to your sides and gradually draw them
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Speaker 1: straight up as far as they will go, tensing the
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Speaker 1: muscles as the fists ascend. Repeat several times, then moving
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Speaker 1: your arms about with clenched fists alternately tense and relax
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Speaker 1: the muscles. A few moments of this exercise will fill
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Speaker 1: the upper part of the body with fresh frill and
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Speaker 1: will impart a wonderful feeling of energy and power. Similar
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Speaker 1: exercises employing the legs in alternate tension and relaxation will
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Speaker 1: likewise vitalize and energize the body below the waist. There
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Speaker 1: are no set motions in this exercise, the whole principle
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Speaker 1: being that of alternate tension and relaxation. The benefits of
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Speaker 1: this exercise, or any similar light exercise, will be doubled
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Speaker 1: if one will throw his mind into it, picture the
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Speaker 1: benefit to be derived from it, and while performing the exercise,
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Speaker 1: endeavor to enter into the consciousness of the action of rill,
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Speaker 1: and you will find that the action of the mind
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Speaker 1: will serve to give to vrill a mighty force and
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Speaker 1: impulse in the direction of the exercised parts and their vicinity.
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Speaker 1: In the field of emotional rill waste, we find that
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Speaker 1: the emotional states of anger, hate, jealousy, fear, worry and
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Speaker 1: over anxiety, and the attempt to vicariously live out the
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Speaker 1: life of another for him or her are the ones
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Speaker 1: which produce the greatest strain, tension, waste, and dissipation. Steady,
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Speaker 1: calm mental work seldom RECs one, while the above emotional
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Speaker 1: states and others express to too great a degree slowly
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Speaker 1: but surely undermine the nervous system and react upon mind
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Speaker 1: and body in the same way. Steady, normal physical exercise
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Speaker 1: or work seldom affects one injuriously, while the unnatural nervous
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Speaker 1: and muscular tension before mentioned, and the nervous physical actions
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Speaker 1: resulting from the presence of the injurious emotions to which
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Speaker 1: we have alluded frequently straan the physical nature to the utmost,
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Speaker 1: and as in the majority of cases, the emotional waste
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Speaker 1: is manifested in connection with the physical waste, each serving
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Speaker 1: to feed the other by action and reaction. We may
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Speaker 1: readily see that in rill waste and dissipation we have
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Speaker 1: the secret of that curse of the age known as
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Speaker 1: neurasthenia or nervous prostration. This is not the result of overwork,
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Speaker 1: as is generally supposed, but is the result of overworry,
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Speaker 1: undue tension, and lack of mental balance and poise, which
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Speaker 1: serve to waste the life forces, the vital energies or drill.
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Speaker 1: To overcome this trouble, it is first necessary to recognize
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Speaker 1: its cause, and then to counteract the cause by following
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Speaker 1: the course directly opposed to it. We trust that in
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Speaker 1: this book we have explained the former and pointed the
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Speaker 1: way toward the latter Lessen twelve, the psychic phase of Rill.
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Speaker 1: It is not our purpose to enter into a detailed
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Speaker 1: discussion of mental science, psychic phenomena, or occultism in in
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Speaker 1: this book. In the preceding books of this series, we
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Speaker 1: have dwelt upon this subject in some detail, and we
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Speaker 1: must refer there to the student who is specially interested
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Speaker 1: in this particular field of the teaching. But our consideration
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Speaker 1: of the subject of Rill would be incomplete did we
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Speaker 1: not at least call attention to the part played by
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Speaker 1: Vrill and the phenomena generally classed as psychic, mental science,
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Speaker 1: or the cult. Therefore, we shall in this lesson point
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Speaker 1: out in a general way the office and function of
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Speaker 1: Rill in such phenomena psychic influence. In the various phases
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Speaker 1: of what is known as psychic influence, or the effect
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Speaker 1: of the mind of one person over that of another,
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Speaker 1: Rill plays an important part in the degree that the
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Speaker 1: thought projections, thought waves, thought vibrations, or whatever term may
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Speaker 1: be used, are charged with RILL, so is their effect
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Speaker 1: upon the person receiving them. Just as the degree of
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Speaker 1: clearness in the sound of the telephone depends materially upon
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Speaker 1: the strength of the current operating the system. So does
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Speaker 1: the strength of the rill current materially determine the power
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Speaker 1: of the thought vibrations sent from one person to another
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Speaker 1: over a short or long distance. In fact, vrill is
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Speaker 1: the real force or energy in all manifestations of thought force,
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Speaker 1: the mind merely serving to project that force by the
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Speaker 1: will and to color it by the idea or feeling
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Speaker 1: held in the mind. The thought sent forth is colored
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Speaker 1: and charged with rill by the strength of the feeling
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Speaker 1: or desire manifested in the majority of cases. But the
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Speaker 1: trained mental scientist or occultist uses his direct will power
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Speaker 1: to accomplish the same result, using precisely the same method
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Speaker 1: that he does in directing and distributing the vrill to
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Speaker 1: parts of his own body or to the body of
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Speaker 1: another person when he is giving personal psychic treatments as
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Speaker 1: described in preceding lessons. This fact, understood in connection with
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Speaker 1: what we have said on the subject in the other
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Speaker 1: books of the series above mentioned, gives one the complete
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Speaker 1: key to psychic influence, mental science treatments, and other occult
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Speaker 1: phenomena in which mind acts upon mind or body over
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Speaker 1: a distance. The general principle is the same. In all
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Speaker 1: of these cases, persons may be treated by sending them
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Speaker 1: thoughts of strength and vitality, or of courage and success,
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Speaker 1: charged with strong currents of rill, impelled by the will
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Speaker 1: of the sender. In the same way, one may send
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Speaker 1: to another direct currents of rill and thus increase his
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Speaker 1: or her vitality, energy, force, and power. Telepathic messages may
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Speaker 1: be increased in power by charging them with an increased
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Speaker 1: supply of rill. Thought forms sent forth in the manner
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Speaker 1: familiar to occultists may be energized and vitalized by charging
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Speaker 1: them with the dynamic force of rill. The student who
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Speaker 1: is interested in this phase of the matter should study
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Speaker 1: carefully the lesson mentalism in a Nutshell in the book
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Speaker 1: of this series entitled the Arcane Formulas self protection. In
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Speaker 1: the same way, the self protection by thought or as
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Speaker 1: psychic armour, et cetera, familiar to all occultists, may be
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Speaker 1: wonderfully increased least by charging the protective thought force with
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Speaker 1: a strong current of rill. The ideative power of the
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Speaker 1: mind and the will are used in this process by
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Speaker 1: forming a strong mental image of the presence of the
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Speaker 1: protective thought or a surrounding the body and which is
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Speaker 1: rendered dynamic by currents of rill, the occultist may surround
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Speaker 1: himself with an armor of protection that will defy all
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Speaker 1: attacks on the part of others. In the same way,
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Speaker 1: one may use rill in connection with the thought atmosphere
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Speaker 1: with which he surrounds himself and which gives the keynote
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Speaker 1: to the attitude of other persons toward him. He may
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Speaker 1: create this mental atmosphere by the character of the thoughts
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Speaker 1: held by him, his mental attitude, or his affirmations according
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Speaker 1: to the system followed by him, and in either case
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Speaker 1: he may greatly increase the power of this mental atmosphere
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Speaker 1: by charging it with rill, according to the general method
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Speaker 1: which we have repeatedly mentioned in this book, Visualization and
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Speaker 1: will Power. This is the explanation of that peculiar force
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Speaker 1: or power which we feel emanating or flowing from the
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Speaker 1: presence of strong individuals, a force or power which strikes
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Speaker 1: us with almost a physical impact. As we have already said,
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Speaker 1: we do not purpose entering into a detailed consideration of
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Speaker 1: psychic phenomena in this book. In the above mention of rill,
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Speaker 1: in this connection, we have given, in a few words
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Speaker 1: and in simple form, an occult secret which should prove
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Speaker 1: very valuable to all occultists who are not already acquainted
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Speaker 1: with it, and who have been contenting themselves by merely
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Speaker 1: using thought in their psychic experiments or work. It will
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Speaker 1: be found that this use of rill will prove to
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Speaker 1: be the missing keystone which is essential to give to
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Speaker 1: the whole psychic arch that strength, unity, and power which
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Speaker 1: it needs. The student will find that it may be
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Speaker 1: added or adapted to any of the many systems of
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Speaker 1: occult practice with which students of the subject may be familiar.
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Speaker 1: It is an attachment which may be used in connection
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Speaker 1: with any or all the systems, old or new, ancient
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Speaker 1: or modern. In this matter, as in a number of others,
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Speaker 1: in this book, we have given you the spirit of
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Speaker 1: a great occult method or system in a few plain words.
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Speaker 1: We have condensed it and given you the essence. We
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Speaker 1: have stated the whole thing in a nutshell. Once more,
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Speaker 1: we warn you not to overlook the value and importance
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Speaker 1: of the thing by reason of its simplicity and plainness.
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Speaker 1: Final advice. You have now read this book through in
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Speaker 1: a more or less hasty way. You have seen some
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Speaker 1: things which have attracted you, and which you have decided
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Speaker 1: to apply in your own life and work, but you
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Speaker 1: have missed many other things of equal or perhaps greater value. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: we ask that you lay this book aside for a
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Speaker 1: few days and mentally assimilate that which you have learned
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Speaker 1: from it. Then take it up again and carefully re
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Speaker 1: read and re study it from beginning to end. Much
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Speaker 1: to your surprise, you will find that there are many
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Speaker 1: things in it which you have entirely overlooked. Also that
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Speaker 1: many things will appear to you in a new light
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Speaker 1: and with an added meaning. A week or so late,
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Speaker 1: read and study it for the third time, and you
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Speaker 1: will have a like result. You will not begin to
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Speaker 1: understand the real value of the principles announced in this
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Speaker 1: book in less than the three readings above advised in
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Speaker 1: this connection, you should re read and re study the
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Speaker 1: other books of the series, and each will serve to
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Speaker 1: throw light on the others. The Arcane teaching is based
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Speaker 1: upon certain general principles which are imminent in every branch
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Speaker 1: and in every phase of it. Each phase blends into
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Speaker 1: the others. Thus does the teaching present a unity and
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Speaker 1: a harmony when each phase is studied and considered in
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Speaker 1: relation to the others. In conclusion, let us use words
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Speaker 1: once before used in this series, Oh neophyte, In the
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Speaker 1: center of life, shalt thou indeed find poise and power.
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Speaker 1: In the heart of the storm, shalt thou find peace.
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Speaker 1: He who finds the center of himself finds the center
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Speaker 1: of the cosmos. For at last they are one, finest