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THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING 107 nostril. We shall find by actual experiment in our own body that it is very seldom that we breathe through both nostrils with equal force. In this case the breath, or lise-current, would be located in the middle channel, which is the vehicle of many occult forces. Our rules also say that this positive side of the body has a peculiar meaning, and that the negative side has also a peculiar meaning. The physiological condition of the body is fit for a certain kind of acts. If we do the positive kind of acts in that condition in which the body is in a negative state, the result would be a failure and the act would be disagreeable and inharnianious. The body, when in a negative condition, is fit for acts which require a passive condition. These two forces, while they are part of the same entity, have each of them a different aspect. Both of them are only different sides of the same force; one may be very active, another very passive, but still passivity is not to be understood in the sense of rest altogether, of stopping the functions; it means only the condition in which certain acts requiring passivity ought to be performed, and activity the condition in which certain other acts ought to be performed. On these laws we base the science of breathing. There are certain acts which ought to be performed only when we are in a passive condition, because they require activity, an ardent and fervent condition of the body, and if we are altogether in a different condition there will be a conflict between the object or the act and the condition of the body and there
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