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THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING
in which we can find which ether is predominant, and that is by the color which is predomipant, for each has a different color, the first having no color, or simply darkness, the second blue, the third red, the fourth white and the fifth yellow; and if we close our ears, eyes, nose and mouth, in a room where there is no light, we shall see some kind of color or combination of colors, and in this way we may know which color is predominant in us. There may of course be two or three predominant over the others. While there are these different modes of discovering the predominant ethers, there are people, who have reached an advanced stage, who can see the colors of the predominant ethers without passing through all these preparations, and can therefore divine the characters of others. These ethers have physical properties and mental properties. While they produce cohesion or contraction, etc., they have a corresponding influence on the mental plane. That which produces cohesion on the physical plane, produces stability on the mental plane; that wbich produces expansion on the physical plane, produces fervor and ardor on the mental plane, and so with the other ethers. This theory of ethers corresponds to the theory : of science and corresponds with the science of the ancient nations. The Hindus believe in breathing in and breathing out of Brahma, and the Brahmins say that the rising and falling of the soul life is nothing less than the rising and falling of Brahma. We differ from
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