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THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING
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the science of breathing, concentration, postures, and similar sciences for this purpose. Breathing in the right way does not directly bring out the moral forces and nothing that is physical can do this, but if the moral force is to be used, a corresponding progress ought to be made in the physical and mental planes, and then we can use all these forces without causing any inharmonious vibrations in the different parts of the humam nature, physical, mental and moral. After evolving the moral force, the results are manifested through the vehicle more or less material. It may be ethereal or subtle, but is nevertheless material, because ether is still matter and is in no sense spiritual, nor is it in any sense the soul itself. The vehicle is supplied by the subtle forces of the physical nature, which must be fit to manifest these forces, and if we do not make them fit for such use the forces beceme dangerous. I may be very desirous to have the purest water from some part of the country, any may lay a pipe and if I allow the pipe to be rusty the water will also be bad and injurious in character. It I want pure water I must have a clean pipe, and in the same manner if I want moral force to be manifested I must have a pure vehicle. There are so many nervous centers, blood and brain cennters which are depositories :of great powers, that if they are not operative they can never act as the active sources of these powers, and one of the ways to drive out the impurities is breathing, another way is obeying rules of diet, and another is physical
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