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THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING
mically in this way, because when the parts cannot move in a natural way there is an obstacle, any rhythmical breathing would interfere with digestion if practised immediately after eating, therefore it should be practised early in the morning and never just affer a meal. The rule of the Yogis is that they breathe in thig way four times a day, morning, noon, six p. m. and midnight. They do not sleep so much as many other people do, and their quantity of food is also limited. The rules have something to do with the different plexuses and centers of the occult powers. The spinal column is a great repository of many powers. There are at least six centers there; the plexuses located there are prostatic, epigastric, cardiac, sacral, laryngeal, and cavernous. One is on the back of the spinal column, the others near the navel, heart, throat, and in the forehead between the eyes; and there are also others all over the body. The five ethers also have different locations, in which they are predominat, although they are, as I have said, all over the body, and these I have explained to you in former lectures. The system of therapeutics which is used by the Yagis is based on this fact. If we wish to make the ether predominant in a certain part where there is a deficiency, it is simply necessary to concentrate on that part, because to concentrate means to send out the force to that part, which means stimulating the ether which is there and making it stronger. So we can in our thoughts control these ethers; we may know
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