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THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING
a healthy state. If we do not breathe in such a way as to give full freedom to all these parts health cannot be the result. What do we do when we breathe ? The air which is taken into the system goes into the lungs, and is absorbed by the cells, when it imparts its oxygen to the blood and the blood carries it by means of the arteries until by the process of combination it has changed into carbunic acid, when it goes off as carbonic acid gas. This is the result of breathing. The one result of all breathing is the giving of oxygen to the blood and making it pure. So any man of common sense would think it necessary to breathe rightly. We go a step further and say that there are occult functions of different parts of the body. While the functions of the heart as given by the scientists are correct as far as they go, we say that it has other functions also. According to our philosophy the heart has eight petals, of which different parts or emotions or faculties, the heart itself is a great center or plexus. There are others in different parts of the body, and they are all supplied by the spiritual life-current present in the atmosphere, and we must breathe in such a way that all are supplied properly. The result, when we breathe the air into the human system, is in the first place that, it goes to the lungs, then it imparts force to the different centers, and later on, these centers evolve two kinds of force after receiving the air into them. There is a positive force and there is a negative force. As I said in the lecture on the Science of Vibraticns, there are two great centers,
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