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110 THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING be fit to manifest these forces, and if we do not make them fit for such use the forces become dangerous. I may be very desirous to have the purest water from some part of the country, and inay lay a pipe and if I allow the pipe to be rusty the water will also be bad and injurious in character. If 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 centers 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 purity, external purity, and a fourth way is that of postures, and there are many other ways. But our proper subject is breathing, and in order that all the parts of the body inay respond to the working of the subtle forces we must first of all breathe rhythmically, first through the right lung and then through the left, so that both of them will be supplied with the necessary quantity of air, so that all the ethiers may be equally supplied to all the parts of the body; and for that purpose as much ether as can enter into the system is necessary. When I say that the breathing must be of such a kind that we must breathe through the right Iung and then through the left I mean that both lungs and both sides of the body, positive and negative alike, must receive the same amount of these ethers, and the commonest way of doing this is first to breathe
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