STRESS DISOERS sotic Meaning and Healng
by
Dr. DOUGLAS BAKER B.A., MRCS LRCP
First ublished 177 Tis edition 1
Copyright 0 I993 Douglas Baker ISBN : 966 II 2 Pblished by: ak ca
'Little Elephant, High Road ssendon Hetfordshire, England
All the world's a stage, nd all the men and women merely players: They have their exts and their entrances, nd one mn in his time plays many parts, His act being seven ages. At rst the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms Then the whnng school boy, with hs satchel And shning moing face, creeping like a snail Unwillingly to school And then the lover, Sighing like a ace, with a woel balad Made to his mistresses' eyebrow. Then the soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like a pard, Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel Seeking the bubble reputation, Even in the cannon's mouth. nd then the justice, In fair round belly and good capon lin'd, With eyes severe and beard of foral cut, Full of wise saws and mode instances nd so he lays his art, The sixth age shis Into the lean and sliper'd pantaloon, With sectaces on nose and pouch on side� His youthl hose well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank and his big manly voice, Tung again towards childish treble, ipes nd whistles in hs sound Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventl histoy, Is second childishness, and mere oblivon, Sans tooth, sans eye, sans eveything -From As You Lik It, Act II, Scene VII, by John Rchardson
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter One Stress-A Dialogue with the Higher Self
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Chapter Two Deveopment of Stress Mechanisms
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Chapter Tree A New Yoga for a New Age
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Chapter Four Dealing with Stress Creatively
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Chapter Five General Adaptation Syndrome
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Capter Six Mneral Sats and Flower Remedes
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Capter Seven Degenerative and Regenerative Life Cycles
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Capter Eight Where Does Your Energy Come From?
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Cpter Nie Fruits of Stress
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Chapter Ten Some Exercises for Creative Living
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Appendix
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Chapter One Sss
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Eac member of e uman ingdom bears wiin imsef a sark of e diine Togeer ese for e rea Fame iine wic is a rea ar of e consciousness of e soar Logos Ta grea Being ermis ar of is consiousnes o become incar ceraed i form Te Fame iine is isef a force cere a cakra in e body of a grea cosmic BeingWe ca a suendous Eni 'Te One bouWom aug May Be Said n im our soar sysem a is eerc ee forms e ear cakra Te cecie uni known as e Fame iine eiss on e ies anes ineren eraing a ear cakra of wc i is a ery deie comonen dd f Md
Te more racica name we gie e sarks of e diine is 'monads Tey reside in and are e subsance of e arious cakras of e soar Logos Eac cakra is disseminaed by one of e Seen Rays e quaiies of Life a emanae from myserous sources in e 'dak maer of e gan sar Sirius Tere is a Ray us goeng eac o ese grous o monads Second ay monads are iuenced y e ear cakra of e Logos Tird Ray monads and e auor is one of ese ar ar ofis roa cakra. risnamui was aso one of ese monads on e Tird Ray is 'occu name cyone a sar in e Peiades indicaes is Firs Ray monads are reaed o is ead cakra and eir number comaraiey sma indicae e een o wic is cenre is eniened in e soar Logos comared wi e oer wo Te Ray ofe monad may cange in e inerening eriod beween is uing ou is mecanisms for ineracon wi e ower anes so a a weay raeer a rodiga son euig o e Faes ouse may reener i by a dieren 'door o e one om wic e e i
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Te disciines of yoga a a ees uman soar and cosmic conce e ransfer of energies of one cakra o is iger counera or aer ego. Tus a e uman ee e energy of e soar eus cenre is raised o is aer ego a of e ear cakra; and ere are denie disciines wic accomis is Furermore e rocess roduces sress in e reaed form a sress wic mus be resoed before rer rogress is under aken soar ees e woe rocess of monads coming o gris wi maeria form and en sgging ou of i consiues a corresonding energy ransfer o a iger cakra in is body and adds a quaiy o e One nWomWe Lie. f d w f mf ym
and roceeds aso a e ee of an aom a man and a ane Monads are unabe because of eir ig siriua ibraions o oerae beow e ee of e monadic ane and mus ere fore deeo mecanisms o carry some of eir consciousness ower and ower ino e denses anes e owes of wic is our ysica word. Via ese mecanisms e mona can reac down a any ime ino e owes e anes of subsance. Te owes ree anes are reaced roug a riad of eices wic make u e uman ersonaiy. Bu as e monad rogressiey akes on is eices is siriua ower in em is diminised; s abiiy roug em o conro e surround ings is greay reduced ence e maer of sress wic arises ou of is inner srugge of e monad o accomis e na acs of eeing isef from aacmens o e maeria word and is unrea eemens n eir descen e monads creae an inermediae eice for eir eression e Sefwic is formess and eiss on e anes of ma Buddi and Manas o eress e siriua inen 2
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of he moad We ed o sese he Sef ady o above us ad e heefoe aso use he expessos e Sef ad hghe Se y of hese hee s bee emoogy ha he use of he od sou he Chrsan sese. The oe ad and he hghe Se shae oe of he ve paes he mea pae The hghe pa s eaed o Manas and he oe s caed acve egece Ma as a pesoay cano ye use Maas eecvey ad s esced o mea expesso hough oe maas he e gece needed o opeae ou pesoaes he compex evome of he Earh I s hghe Maas ha peses Ma h hs ex spua oe and he aea of hs mea sugges hch he mus sumoun f he shes o pogess beyod he cones of hs pesoay ad o he eam of hs hghe Se Ma s o e o he compcaed ad sess aa of hdaa of eug o he Fahe The spak seeks he Fame ad he hoe pocess mgh ake a bo yeas o acheve ece he eed fo may ves o he Eah ad phaps eve o ohe paes efoe akg up he mae of he pesoays adjusme o sess e us ake a cose ook a he sucue hch e have descbed as he hghe Se f f
he hghe Sef s a u of eegy
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I has o shape pecua o sef bu uses oe o may foms o hough hch o expess se
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The eegy un s a vg beng I s exemey sube ad capabe of erpeneang a ohe foms of eegy and maea subsace ko o Man
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I possesses a cohesive or synesising quality capable of holding all substnces in association animate or inanimate, according to the leve of its o siritual vibrations.
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It may link, organise or inuence the movements o ositive negtive ositive atom element protein molecue cel organsm
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positive negative negative element molecue cell multicellular organism species, right up to man himsel
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In man, the energy of the higher Sef holds al his bodies subtle and oss in a loose union
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The Self interpenetrates and coheres all its bodies as water may nterenetrate and cohere sand paticles in a hanl of md
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The igher Self is not ure spit but is an inteediate enery lying between sirit and matter through hich the one interacts with the other Man is a blending of higher Self with form
As te energy of the higher Self enters the body e recognise its presence not only by its ility to hol our cells together but in subtler ways through the employment of the intuition tough the enery of the will n tough that 14
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energy wic maniess in us as absrac oug Tese ree uaiies e known in ease eacings as buddi ama and manas
Te Se is ereore a reeod energy uni wic is deiced in e Teme o Myseries as an riange. .
Te iges orm in gaiuid/soid wic e Se may inabi is e uman ysica body wi is aendan sube bodies making u e uman ersonaiy.
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Tis aer is symboised by an ERTE riange eac o is ree sides reresening e ree ower bodies caed e mena body e asra body and e eericoysica body
Te Se is ony abe o gras aerage man igy n mos e energies o e Se can ony be eressed o e een o e ercen o is caaciy is being sucien merey o od e bodies o e ower riad ogeer and o drie eir oaiy coninuousy owards inesigaing and ideniing wi a maniesaion o orms in our Ear Sceme.
n is resec e iger Se is e soreouse o a memories arising om suc inesigaions een aer e deas o e numerous ower riads in eir many incaa ions.
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Te Se suries a caasroes and is mans aen in wic e ress beween ies Te Se is is eme e ersonaiy is rison. 5
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In meditation, man may use his Self not only a retreat in wich he ca recoup his energies but as a place of leang about his immoality and what that implies.
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As lives unfold the Self leas increasingly to ood its lowertriads with more and more energies
t reaches them by means of the Antakarana or Rainow Bridge a brdgehead of subtle matter ising from the planes of tma Buddhi and Manas. t rst this is a teous thread but later as the lower tria also builds its ow par of the bdgehead of higher Manas through meditation the thre of the ntakarana becomes a gateway to a mghty ood om within
The gateways opening the ntakarana are progressively passe through in a process of what is nown nitiatios..
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In this way, the higher Self grasps its personality more closely is mbolis in the Mystees by the impositioing of the IGHT TIGLE over the INVERTED TIGLE This procedure takes man to the limt of his own kingdom and t has happene many times on this planet The completely Self-insed persoaity is then depicted as two SEOSED and NTERLACED TRIGLES...
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This is the STAR OF DV symol of perfected man
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he St of David is the symbol of the Master or dept of 6
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a Christ overshadowing a man, Jesus Tere are very few lvng examples of adeptshp on the planet at ths time 23.
By very speca tecnques and under certan crcum stances, a man may forego many lves of earnng by tra and error, and, instead, strengthen hs Antakarana under the gudance of One, Who as Hmself been competely Self nsed, a Master or Adept
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Encosing the star s the UROBOROS, te symbo of Immortaty, the comprehenson of whc s par of the initiatory process.
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Ths Pat s avaiabe to al who are prepared to crowd into a few ives the pan and suering of many ves
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The neophye, tus under nstruction, rst registers the sudden inpourng of energy from the higer Self in three ways:-
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as LGT, a ight vibratng at a greater frequency than the light nown to the average personalty, one that traves at speeds far greater than 86000 mes per second The ower triad has to develop speca organs of percepton to become aware of te nner lght Physica eyes are not requred;
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as an expanson of consciousness which, for man approaces OMNSCENCE
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as a feeing of Oneness with al Life approaching OMNIPOTENCE
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The experience of tese three s called lluminaton or COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS 17
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T iscip is canging into a soar va as com a mnt of t i Kingom a soar Ag is om is now in t isc o t Sun By mitation can incrasingy rac it T natur of t igr Sf as gun to mrg as mnts of Trut Bauty an oonss is in t xprssion or non xpssion o ts tr tat strss ariss an tis ook concs t sujct of tis situation in uman aairs Maam Bavatsky pai triut to t symoogy of t intr ac triangs ncosing tm witin t cic ma up of a snak oing its tai tus forming a rotating oop symo of immortaity an of continuity of consciousnss T snak rprsnts tity an t procsss of gnation S cos tis arrangmnt as t ogo of t Tosopica Socity
T snak a n us y Ascuapius to signi t sta or crtc of if (S s Hg ./ y t autor) Ascuapius a pass troug t as of nitiation an foun is scoo on t isan of Cos Eai it a n t wan of Totrms t originator of Egyptian Micin utr aitions gav t caucus of t Romans carri y Mcuy Mssngr of t os an a go ofaing rom tis souc it was poac y t mica profssion of toay 18
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The message of the snakes entwined ound the rod of Aescul pius, the Initiate, is plain for ll those who hve eyes to see. Health (the continuity of the Life Force) d consciousness (within tht of the solr Logos) are the two skes which are supported by the rod of the indwelling Se Oy when the Sel the igher rid expresses tself purposelly and n harmony th the ower tria of personalty wil the ife forces ow endlessy nd healthily around and throgh the man Even the Se man's nucleus must grow for growth is characteristic of ife; and growth necessitates change. Rel change asting d spectacuar must come through the reease of energies from deep within s- om the nucleus a procedure that is ways accompanied and accomplished through stress an its correct mnagement Reaction to Stress
People react to stress in many dierent ways ech with a predilection which is generay stuck to A short plump lady I know, shis iture around in her estabishment erhps the changes introduce new perspectives tht reieve her stress or "get me out of my rut a s she puts it Peope whose reaction to mild stress is to smoe wi intensi the habit ccoring to evelopents A swami I new, smoked secretly and was eeply shamed of it presumaby because it was in direct contraiction to wht he taught the young persons about hm owever once he knew you ha tumbled to hs weakess he would smoke opely in ont of yo and hs personaty woud become convivi Others before going through some intense unavoidabe stress 19
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even rewaing cod ony svive he preimina sress of anxiey by inense smoing Someimes he ac of giving p smoing wod indce more sress han anyhing hiheo have had a wife beg me o save her marriage by my persading he smoing hsband o apse ino his od benig sef as a heavy smoer so changed had his behaior become Some respond o sress by panicing eing o a he sops ni he adrenaine ows and oher physioogica mechanisms come o he resce Ohers wi deep breahe in anicipaion of he sress even breahe aer i has occrred or may even seec specia yoga exercises whie he period of sress ass eacions o sress someimes igger psychic sysems and dring hem seership cairvoyance ec, may occr remember we a sodier in Word War who achieved his by forecasing js who in his paoon was iey o be ied or maimed Some go o o spending sprees he excieme of he prchase is he ony way hey can be diverted and he body mechanisms be given he opponiy o recop f he spose s he case of he sress he he eeme of spie eners and assss in he diversion have seen a negeced hsband go o and y himsef a sports car from o of he famiy savings o aay hs sress Ohers reieve hemseves by ing on he eevision and even provide for sch emergencies by obaining he bes TV eip me ha money can by They sh hemseves away for hors ni he soohing eecs of heir paricar diversion resores heir eanimiy Some may go compeey ino rerea perhaps way p in he moains or some oher nara hideo Perhaps ie obet Maxwe hey have a yach o reire o is signican 20
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that h wold rt to sch a hdout to cmt scd Scd tsl s of cors h ultmat n strss rl A a racton to strss som may tak n or a th most strssl staton thy hav xrncd Qt on ts s a smlatd asthmatc attack Th ct s sycho-homooathc Th sham atack gars th body to dal with th asthma but nstad cos wth th strss cts
Som wll t to atng scally whn th strss arss from lonlnss solaton or nglct Othrs sto atng or nd thy hav no tast for th food ord A clos rlatv nformd that h had cacr whch was sradng by mastass stod atng sayng that th food tastd lk toothast t s most qntly th factor of cachxa that klls th trmnally ll cancr vctm a condton of ntns starvaton Som lock thmslvs n thr own homs not gong to th front door barrng wndows and shttrs takng th tlhon o th hook Thy may srrndr to agorahoba or to somthng mor xotc that wll dvrt thr attnton Th oosng nm brs ak to long walks rhas wth th dog as comany Playng wth ts has bn shown to rdc th blood rssr of hyrtnsvs Som mothrs s thr chldrn as motonal wastar baskts ourg thr dstraught astral nt nto thm an nt ot of whch th chld must fashon hs own astral or motonal natr ths scarrng thm motonally for lf Evry on n a famly shars th strss cts of a sngl mmbr At unsn lvls th famly racts as a whol to th on strssd Usally t s th wakst on of th famly who wll rct ths
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esoeic eec Tus e sessed fae may nd compensaion in is famiy bu i is e weakes cid in a gouping wo wi mos oen sue aes unde sess wi someimes in ei disess su emseves o om membes of e famiy wo by ei ai udes ae adding o is sueing Ts appied paicuay in e US wee faes ex-sevicemen ofWodWa expeced ei sons o do e ig ing and g fo ei couny in Vienam n suc cicumsances and in oes wee e envion men pesens wi a pobem a coud be naiona in scae faes wi equeny suende cono of ei adoescen sons o e moe wo is moe ikey o undesand e siuaion know one suc sessed fae wo mainained suc a sae of aais even ae is spouse ad died Young men unde sess wo ae seen as dop-ous o wo ave faied o compee ei educaion as was expeced of em by ei paens wi nd soace in summing a guia fo ous on end o bae e ou of e keys of e piano and come ou of e session efesed n ese insances i is so easy o see a wiou suc compensaions on and e couse of e sess especiay in you mig be dieced owads ve descive ends fom wic e ncioning of bodiy ogans mig no be exemp Some sing sad songs; and we ae eminded a e Nego ace in e Mississippi vaey wen oug a ong peiod of coecive meancoia as ei naiona esponse o e dead sess a save and is side eecs imposed on em Tei eacions wee demonsaed in a vaiey of ways especiay in ei music and songs and o ese we owe 'Te Bi of e Bues Tis is no 22
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srprisig. s og bee obseed my ris s prodced is bes ork der e mos rrowig circmsces of is ife Weres oers re prysed by e sress of eir circmsces d eve if we eqipped s creive idivids my become oy ieec d serie s respose Some wi side io depressio wi sc ge coseqei oss of eergy s o be mos icpbe of spekig i dibe words Tese ypes re ivrby sscepibe o rpid depeio of e ro ckr der sress eve if i is mid simir circmsces we d e sczopreic wo s mos o resisce o sress d wi eve ccme is eecs so webs bewee iger ceres i e eeric body re wo rog d psycoic eperieces d cios foow. Tere re some riggers of sress re more poe eve e wors bd ews. To be der coios sere is cosid ered e wors ve see me crck der sc circmsces bo i eWese eser d er i y.We ey give wy d rs rod i pic ey wi eve r owrds e eemy d my ve o be rgby cked o eir ig. Some rec by skig edess qesios of emseves pcig e oor or siig oe i some secded spo fvored for sc prposes By so doig ey mke emseves e 'drmic e cere of e sge. Someow ey pick p eir ow spoig from coscios rems d c be grey reieved by e woe process. Tere is oig psycoic or eve ecceric bo is f sc idivids i siy cod ddress e ger Sef i is wy ey wod be grey rewrded d comfored e sme wy wid ims der sress of 2
ncagmn wi so o sang movmns o piiv pacics a sm o accompis insincivy sam su u y woud oug i iua in ouc wi anima goup sou A w psons wi unaccounay av suc innsid aciviis i y s and may poduc m in a on o soud wods somims ausiv usuay ony o a sor piod and mm noing o i in mong Os wi av nig os o vn nigmas av know sva wo ap ou o d wiou waing and us aound ous widy wi no paricua innion may ad o nd suc vns coad wi sss u usuay wo i is und nsion o som so Und avy sss many o my soic inds xpinc a gay incasd and supporiv dami ams com vivid adn i ngy ic in coou maning and on pdiciv W y kp a spiiua diay and cod daiy (and nigy) vns a ca coaions wn sss pord and innsing o dam i Ony os wo ca on suppo om iin wi cop adquay wi sss Tos in wod wo pacis goodwi os wo a knowingy o unknowingy ino cagoy o discips poaionay o accpd and os wo a iniia psn conscious amp o mankind o aous a caka o panary Logos a ic vs Uni now is cn as n awaknd ony a v o manas and uddi oug aciviis o wa a cad Mass o Wisdom :-
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They ha have pwe ht and will d nne, Tha d n d he hing hey ms d shw, Wh mving hes, ae hemselves as sne, Unmved, cld, and empain slw, They ighly d inhei heaven's gaces, And hsband naes iches fm expense They ae he lds and wnes f hei faces, Ohes b sewads f hei excellence nnt 94, by Jhn Richadsn
The ppniy peses f hmaniy iself each his plan eay gp, his planeay chaa en masse a his ime Thee ae vey few wh ide he smssed seas f sess wih hei pesnaliies wh have scien enegy le cpe wih his new emand f helping in asal f he paa hea chaa Thei sccess will be maed by he new fms f edcain a healing which will be enegise by ases f he Wisdm, Ls f ha chaa which is he ncles f man As he wld gws smalle, man's hea ms gw lage encmpass he change and he disess f i all Wha hen is disess an a sess isde?
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In an, there are chakras whch ust be awakened aroused ntegrated wth oter chakras and made radiant and donatve of ther energy. Ths s tre for all cakras n al organss fro a gestone up to a Logs Radiation of Energies
How does a cara becoe radant and donatve of ts energes to ts hgher chakra or alter ego? It st rst react wth ts edate envronent and then wt nearby chakras That great voex of energy whc we cal The Flae Dvne s n the process of arous ust nteract wth ITS envronent ust becoe radant and radoactve before t can donate ts essence - the spark of the dvne the onads to Srus What does ths ean n ters of a uan onad? Tey are Sons oecessty Tey need spiritual staying power before they can accopls ther own transfer They are sprtual n essence but lack the stayng power for te transfer to be accoplshed How can they sats ts rgent need? There s only one known and cean way: the onads ust progressvely enes teselves n te fors and actvtes of tese planes and hen wen copleely engaged n te densest planes of sbstance rght down to te physcal they ust extract theselves fro ther engulfent and at the sae te etract te essence of ter experences ganed fro the wole anoevre And so lly aware at the otset of he hazardous and desperately ardous journey ahead the onad begns to constrct ts pper and lower trads to act as ecanss for ts own eneshent n te sx planes When absolute nvolveent s acheved the onad begns to call back ts own The call of the Fater n Heaven (the onad) s eard by the dscple He s lled wth 29
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ivie ures a ie e roiga so, ay us (iwary) or ome sricig a a oeyg e mouig urges wii im or uio. Tis sage o eracio is reace aou e ime o e Tir iiaio we e iscie rs ees e ca o e moaWe egi o uersa ow a e circumsaces o our ives are wa ey are i orer o rovie us w jus e sor o eeriece require y e moa o eveo e siriua sayig ower i ees. Our wea, our riuaios, our amiy circum saces, our oor ea a are eier eaig ma io rer emesme or are eig im o wiraw om i Te wi a e comassio, e ower o ik asrac, e comree sio a ove-wisom a are wo y us i our srugges o ericae ourseves rom e maeria wor are e very eeri eces wic e moa ees s is were sress ays is ar. Sress is, ereore, o oy a aura eaure o aiy ie i e Wese wor, u i is e ieviae sie-eec o e urge o eress e Sous urose Sress rouces eie ois o esio i e suer oies avig e way or eir rai grow. eaiaio o e u o ay ower wi emo srae e esio a mous eore uome o e eas. Te uome o e eas o e egoic ous is o iere. Tesio, crisis a eir resouio are e cycic mecaisms o sou grow
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CONTINUITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS BTWfNT YBRWS
CLAIRVOYANE
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UNDERSTANDING
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Diagram from he eric ouble by Majo AE.Powell The mechanism wheeby one gains impressions ohe inner words and of physical paces a gr disance away, is hough he etheric cenres or chakras which ae shown ai o heir resctive sens and psychic wes in he picue ave Noe The diagram is of scia inees here cause i shows he paways ovialiy energising he cenes wi he energy of pna de mainy fm breath
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Development of the Stress Mechanism
Each chakra, in succeive order from the base of the spine upwards, ha been the target of stress. The very act of Man materialising on the Earth's surface some 70 million years ago produced intene interaction with the environmental conditions of that time. These included, of course, a rapidly forming oxygenated atmosphere- which held in uspenion heavier and heavier concentration of prana - and a gravity that was reaching towards its maximum There were also great variations in temperature on the Earth' surface with accompanying oscil lations in humidity. It was then that Man's primay stress mechanisms began to form Thee were integrated aout the base of the spine chakra and it corresponding endocrine glands - those seated above the kidneys, the uprarenals Their hormones assisted primitive an to face up to invasion of hi physical body by the viruses and bacteria thriving on the animal kingdom at that time. It was not so much the inaatory responses that were required, at this stage. Thee had already been set up in otion by the sympatetic nervou sytem, a reection of the atral atrix whose physical expression was the sympathetic cords and the edullary part of the adrenal glands. Inammation was one of Man's rst re spones and it was exceptionally violent It protected the early physical hadow as best it could, but tere was frequent overe phais so that this was as oen the cause of death as invasion of tisue itsel The cortex of the adrenals (ie, the suprarenals) became the site of ATIinammatory respones which dampened down the excessive reactions of the primitive physical strctures to bacte 32
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rial invasion. That which stimulated these anti-inammatory responses of the adrenal cortex was stress and tension, so that would be te to observe that the ability to li the body into a state of stress was a great advance in human development This avance was maintaine, rened and made increasingly specic to various stressor factors by successive opening of chakras. The rst true men began to ntion on the continent of Mu; and this Lemurian Root Race had, as its target, the opening of the sacral chakra A preliminary was separation of the sexes The pituitary action suppoted y the adrenal cortex helped in this ierentiation The stress and tension which we now regar as a natural part of courtship and mating had to be experienced by man for long ages before its rewards were won in the forming of heterosexuality and the variety of foms that resulted in separation of the sexes, an procreation by methos other than budding and those conceed with 'the sweat bo (S Anthropogeny, The Esoteric Histo ofMan 's Origin, by t uto.) This long conontation with stress is still reected in aoles cence an the transition of the child into the adult out of pubety into maturity Appropriate hormones were elaborate by the gonads and the pituitary to fashion the physical faculties for this important development Man became not only capable through stress, tension, and friction to create an image of himself but the path was laid, at the same time, that led him to the possibility of becoming creative again through stress at higher levels, i.e., emotionally and mentally, as the solar plexus and the throat chakras egan to unfold
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A whole new root race, based on the continent of Atlantis, developed the capacity for emotional stress and its rewards. The new stress called forth the need for more energy to sustain it The control of sugar release into the blood- a mechanism le hitherto almost entirely to the adrenal medulla was now regulated by the endocrine gland that became associated with the solar plexus chakra ie, the pancreas The secretion of sugar, stimulated by adrenalin released from the adrenal medulla by the tension and stress of fear and aggression was now counterbal anced by insulin from the pancreas which helped the organs to store the sugar and to release it as the body required it. Emotional control had to be won; and the Atlantean civilisation provided j ust the conditions that taught Man emotional discipline. That process is not yet completed but already the factor of stress is being lied into mental levels and the present Root Race, the Fih, is in the process of opening the throat chakra of Man The endocrine gland related to this centre is the thyroid. Beyond this lies a eld of development for a precious few and this involves the takin of stress into higher mental realms The creative forces released when this stress is adequately channeled takes Man into a hiher kingdom, the kingdom of Souls It is part of Man's endeavour which constitutes discipleship It can be easily deduced from this progressive unfoldent ofMan that the techniques for spiritual growth will, in some measure, have to change from time to time The yoa of ancient Lemuria is not suited for the vehicles of today Emphasis has chaned from physical integration to emotional interation, and from the latter into mental integration and this has necessitated new interpreta tions of yoga from age to ae Currently there is a change 35
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required for conditions as they now exist in the West, and for the h subrace of the Fih Root Race. Sustained creativeness is the mark, par excellence, of being able to deal with stress. The upper and lower triads become wholy engrossed in expressing he exquisite blending ofres tat produces the A ofLiving and our culture's Ever Living A also accompishes - incidentaly for most, but deliberately for the few - the PerfectedMan t takes time usually many lives We cannot light a lamp without its deicate lament, no matte how sustained the amperage of the curent Nor can we ripen an appe with a blowlamp. Mans laments are his chakras- each with a light and purpose of its own. Together they can produce a blaze of gor. Al men at any stage in their many lives, can expess beauty in themseves here is brute beauty in the instinctua life of the crudest animals and plants, as also in savage man : The summers ower is to the summer sweet, hough to itself it only live and die But more is expected ofMan - he soul of man is immortal and its ture is the future of a thing whose growth and splendour has NO LMT. Idyl of the White Lotus
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And whilst this inner urge of the higher Self to express Truth, Beauty and Goodness is there man will always involve himself in the stress ofexpressing it. hus there will always be stress and the sooner we lea to deal with it the better. Man achieves his aims through the rogressive oening of the chakras - at rst those below the diaphragm and later those above it
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It is trly sad that n the nineteenforties the crisis in human aairs was so intense that man was forced to look into the nature o the atom's nuceus for his savation. The resut was nucear ssion On the surface, ths was an event arge enough to change the word order o tngs for a time But bneath t a, there was an event tang place that was even more signicant In the body of the Logs of ths panet something unqe was occuring The mnera ngdom foms, n ts etherc asects, that chara in His body of cnsciousness which s, in man, madara- the centre at the base of the spne. In the same Great One, the human ingdom represents the hroat chara It means, n terms of the spritua unfoldment othe planetary consciousness that, for te rst time, te attention o a hgher chara was beng directed CON SCIOUSY to that of a lower. Manind, actg as the panetary throat chara, was stmulatng, directly and consciousy, the muladara of the planet an event fraught wth massive anger as wel as wth spiriual possibities nt then, the ctvity of ths centre of planetary undan hd been conned to natura events such as volcanc eruptons an ightning, and n responses to unar eclipses o the Earth, and solar magnetic storms Now, however, the reease of lght, heat and radiation from the atomc nuleus, added to the pressures coaxng panetary undalin from her air By recproca acton, humanity began to fee a seres of responses n her most senstive rganisms ocated in what Theosophy terms th Fh Root Race especialy that branch of t nown as the AngloSaxon We ca these symptoms of planetar growth, operatng through advanced humanity, qute simpy STRESS 41
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The stress imposed upon us by our way of life- its competitve ness reinforced by both church and school its standard of livng its codes of conduct, its ethics its aws all contribute to a situaton n which we are subj ected to sustained unremttent stress. Aer World War II, most of us fondly believed t would be merely a matter of time before the stress which was mounted by that mghty operation would e allevated but t was not Then we blamed the Iron Curtain nd the population ncrease and the unequal distribution of wealth etc etc fr our stress Now we have to face up to the btter fact that stress s here to stay It s part of our way of life More than this t s a challenge presented to the h subrace Now ths stress common to all n the West, s reaching such proportions that many are ard put to cope wth t ndeed few - only a very few know how to approach the problem, and of these less even know what are the causes of the ncreasng stress Not only s the factor of stress here to stay but it is one that s essental for the spiritual unfoldment of the race The problems of evolving spiritual technques for dealng wth ths entirely unque situation have been gven n The Psycholog of Discipleship, by the author A New Yoga
Somehow or other we must deal wth this factor of unremttent stress lve out our lves and still nd n them the possbiltes to express Truth Beauty and Goodness and more than anythng for Man on the Path to establsh ways and means of obtanng union wth e Supreme Being Ths s the real challege t esoteric leaders of the world today to pont the way through
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a New Yoga that will lead us, despite our very special circum stances to the Feet of the Master It is oen said that the Buddist monk must lea to sit under a tolling bel and meditate. Te bel tat tols for man in the West is stress - unabated and omnipresent Maybe it is part of the karma of living lives of leisure as rling casses in the save ridded Greek or Roman states but who knows? This is the conition prevailing and it must be mastered We have to ive with it even if we come back ten times into a physica vehice whose only response is, at rst, to produce diseases of stress origin Stress is a characteristic of our subrace and we must aapt to it and evove a yoga for it t must be a yoga tat does not require a sanctuary for ong periods of time in some hidden cave The only cave we have is 'a room of ones own There is to be n sitting in enss padmasana, but the soliloquising tmospere of crouc ing o the front seat of an automobile in endess trac jams Not for us to spend six hours in breathing exercises each day, but the breathing that comes from the forced, additional eot we must make to seve others in our communit besides ourseves The new yoga must be eective for the brief perios that we ca give to it The yoga must be working whie we work, whie we abour at our dharma, at ealing at teaching, at renovating, at being what we are The yoga must be acting on us whilst we ouseves are in action serving mankind, or studyig the cassica teachings of Ancient Wisdom, or in the half our of meitation that we snatch from tejaws of our timeconsuming occupations
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The crises of the Self....
We do know that another crisis is arising in which man wi be forced to explore his own nuceus for the werewithal to dea with it Tis is te crisis of the Se The Sef is a unit of energy*. It has its own radiative capacities and they dwel within every man A very small percentage of them surface into the personality to bring about transutation of it trough processes which migt be compared to chemica changes.
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Distress arises om the inability of man to adjust to the demands made upon him by the stress of life. This distress shows itself as a varety of stress disorders. Stress is always involved in growth -and growth is the way of the monad. The Lemurian civilisation provided conditions, ten milion years ago for te growt and integration of man's physical body, which reached perion in tose ties. In Atlantis, emotional growth was stimulated In te West, at tis time, empasis is now placed on growth and integration of ans mental body. One a ony to study te forces at work in the erste of any ant, and in paicular the opening bud of a ros, to conr tat where tere is growth, especialy rapid growth, tere is tension, coict and stress ese three-quaities and accopanets of ie itsef are apects of the Fourth Ray of A and Harony trough Coict. This is te Ray of humanty and in uanity it is, terefore, greatly empasised Add to ts the factors o our panet being te Fourth Globe of the Fouth Cain of our Eat cee, and of te panet being in its Fouth Round, and we can understand the pressures on umanity at this tie. (See Anthropogeny, Te Eoteric Histo ofMan's Orin, by te autor) e growth ofMan into a spiritually insed entity deand tat e exress th, Beauty and odness and tese afest outwardly in te world in the provinces of Science, A and Plosopy. e an of science stggling with secrets of the universe conrms that is discoveries by experimentation are aspects of th He expends uch energy in his arduous researc, as any genuine reearcher would tell you. hs stress 47
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makes demands on him at all levels but especially in his mental and physical bodies. The artist, no less, in his desire to express beauty in terms of pigment, poetry and plaster, nds that his best eorts come when he is most under stress:No wonder of it sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and bluebleak embers ah my dea, Fall gall themselves and gash goldvermillion. Gerard Manley Hopkins
an has o have a philosophy of life if he intends to do good in he world. He must be prepared for every sort of disillusion in his dealings with humanity before he can truly sere and to act ou of right motive. His way is surely the most stressl of all If you have ever worked with alcoholics or with those who are rich and wih those who are beauil, you will know that to be success wih all types you mst be a philosopher. A
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How do we deal with stress?
We have to draw on energy to meet it We set in motion cles which deliver energy to wherever stress is making its demands. We rest and sleep when we can We should replace materials lost from our body cells We should eliminate the by-products of stress, the toxins, waste, excreto materials and exhaust prod ucts of inteal respiration If we can manage all these, we resolve the stress Those who practise carelly the esoteric disciplines of discipleship can even thrive on stress; they can grow massively and spiritually through it Dealing with stress successively, leads to opening of chakras in te head region and, thereaer, to their integration and coordi nation This takes us into the Fih Kingdom and ees us from the Wheel of Rebirth The whole process of expression and of gaering the its of it, is a complete cycle in itself so that the process ends where it begins, but with tis dierence : That which started out as merely spiritualie, the monad and its veicle, the Self have become imbued with spiitual staying power 'Staying power is the cx of the matter To grow signicantly at A level, man must develop staying power, spiritually, mentally, emotionally as well as physically In the physical body, this operates as homeostasis, a mechanism whereby the body maintains an equilibrium of its physiological nctions, and between itself and its enviroment The body contains within it a whole climate, or as Claude Beard, a famous physiologist, called it a milieu interieur This inteal environ ment has a constant temperatre of984 degrees Fahrenheit Its 49
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acid-base balance is held at a delicate neutrality. The blood sugar is almost constant in nomal health and the blood pressure operates within cetain limits according to the need of the moment It is said that years ago, a physiologist tested the proposition of homeostasis in a dramatic wa. He heated a room up to a temperature of250 degrees Fahrenheit so that a beaker contain ing water was boiling gently as it stood. aking a esh piece of choice steak with him on an enamel plate and clothed nly in white linen, he entered the room and remained there for a period of more than half-anhour. Wen he emerged, is body tempera ture had hardly risen and he sat down and ate the steak which had been cooked propery by the room's heat. The story illustrates the capacity of the body to adjust or adapt itself to stress in this case a hostile temperature of more than double that of the blood he author can add is own testimony to the stress eects of being exposed to a temperature in excess of 140 degrees F. for many hours during the day while ghting on the nothe borders ofKenya as a youth during Word War II. Heat exhaustion was a constant threat during the mid-day heat when eggs could be ied on the bonnets of tcks. Energy is needed constantly to feed the mechanisms of adapta tion to heat, to excess of acid, or blood pressure, to the impact of hormones or dgs or even of just plain eating and sleeping. This energy of adaptation comes om the body's reseoirs and the eent of these, according to science, are detemined by our genetic background capacities which we have inherited with our stock It goes towards making up what has been known in the 50
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past as 'a good constitution or a poor one, according to or ability to draw energy om it for our daily nees. At the risk of being tedious, it should be emhsised here, once again, that homeostsis exists on ll levels - in the etherc marix, in the astrl body, in the mental body, and in the spirtual Growth of any f these involves stress and adaptation. The esoteric sciences, including yoga, teach specialised methods of charging the energy reseoirs and of drawing om them On this knowledge hang all the laws of Esoteric Healing A illustration of this understanding may be gained om studying the Caduceus of Hermes (See Esoteric Healing, Part I, by the author)
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Only when the opposing forces of heat and cold, of acid and alkali, etc., are nicely balanced, can the rod or wand of consciousness seat itself in the bodies. Without this equilibrium, consciousness lies from the body. The caduceus has layers of meaning . that which really achieves the energy equilibrium is the coordination of the three spinal tracts in etheric matter : ida, sushumna and pingala; and these are also symbolised by the snakes of the caduceus Whilst sushumna coincides anatomically with the central canal of the spinal cord, ida and pingala spiral about it in opposite directions They have no anatomical basis in gross matter. Their malnctioning produces many conitions of distress The possession of the intenal 'milieu gives man greater indepenence He has freedom to move into the coldest cimates o hottest deserts, into sustained and prolonged combat, into periods of long fasting, or into gluttony. With the growth of his inne bodies an their maintenance within the laws of homeostasis, there comes coesponding freedom but of a much higher order The na experience of man in the ecstasy of samadhi, healds liberation from ebirth The elgent light an the ecstasy of those experiences are reections of the huge movement of enegies fom his inner Self outwards We have now developed here the concept of what Hans Seye* has caled stresso factos, which we see as threats to homeostasis These ae not necessaily conned to sch simple factors like heat and col but to far more specic and even sophisticated expres sions The intsion of a singe persons sonaity into our lives, and no other, may be sucient to act as a stresso to disturb ou emotional balance in the astra body, to impinge upon the free 52
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passage ofprana in ida orpingala and, nally, to raise the blood pressure at aphysical leve A forcel intonation in the words of a dominant mother to her homosexual son might produce ultimately a powerl retarding inuence on endocrine glands that produce the masculinising hormone the faint odour of some rare dish may evoke a mmory that heightens the heart rate and brings out a cold sweat.
*NS SEL, MD., Profesr andDirtor of the Institute ofErimental Medicne an Surge in th Unversy of Montreal, is st known for his work on the y's physiologc resnse to stress, the major subject of his almost forty years of boratory researh In adition to his dtorate in medicine, Dr. Selye olds two ed dtorates in sciene plus sixteen honora egrees from universitis in Europe, South Amerca, Japan Canada an the nited States. He has contributed over 1400 articles to technicaouas and written 28 bks incuing the Stress of Life, a lassic and wiely alaimed study. Dr. Selye has reived numerous mals, awards, an Honoray Fellowshps from scientic sieties throughout the world, and has en made a Companion of the Order of Canada, his ountrys highest honour
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Before dealing wth the mechanisms of stress and stress disor ders, it is impoant to re-emphasise re-emphasise the basic vitue of stress and its necessity for growth. In locating the esoteric or hidden reseoirs of energy available to meet the demands of stress we avoid distress. Those reseoirs lie in the deep layers of the unconscious unconscious and can be made accessibe accessibe by various esoteric mechaniss, i.e., meditation dream remembrance, etc. In order to maintain the body in homeostasis, energy is required Eve action duing our waking and sleeping hours upsets homeostasis to some degree. Laughing, nning, eating and even seeping ing into pay forces that consume body energy and put homeostasis at risk. When bacteria invade massively, when persistent hard physical laour, or prolonged mental strain are iposed, then damaging stress may occur. This is distress� and whereas stress adequately and easily resolved is benecial for growth (and enightenent), distress is rarely desired y the hher Sef and is hal to its personality vehicles. In healthy indivduals, the coection of the various imbaances is is autoatic and in ceain welldened stages. Selye calls this a "resistance to stress, and points out the ody must adapt itsef to it, it , hence the General Adaptation Syndrome (G.A.S.), or the bioogical stress syndrome This is so ndaenta a device for restoring hamony to an organism in conict, that the student of esoteic healing methods cannot hep but recognise the t he action of the Fourth Fourth Ray here, the Ray of Harmony Harmony trough Conict Conict itself the basic basic Ray of humanity The important point for the disciple and for the 57
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esoteric healer to remember is that, in health, the GA.S. should operate at all leves of consciousness, that is, in all the inner bodies as well, for they are, in their own planes, units which possess their own physiological laws and have to maintain their own homeostasis despite changes in their emotional, mental or spiritual consciousnesses Constant exercise of these inner vehicles and their restoration to homeostasis gives them the same staying power so eaestly sought in their outward expression - the physical body. The highest qualities thus gained are reected inwards, nally reaching the level of the monad, the purpose of Whose whole involvement in a material body is just that -to gain spiritual staying power at its own levels in order that a cosmic transition can be achieved. Failure to adapt at any level to the stresses of this long monadic process, leads to distress, an attempt to adjust, and withdrawal of expression in the outer level, i.e., death, if the adjustment is not successl. Adjustment by the Self shows as disease Disease is a contrivance of the higher Self for adjusting its obdurate or disturbed vehicles to the demands beig made on them for change When those demands are within the framework of the soul's intent, every attempt will be made from within to puri the mental, emotional and physical bodies even through disease. Thus, disease is a puriing process' wherein the higher Self tries to adjust. Where it cannot or where the personality is obviously not ever, in that life, going to express the Soul's purpose, the Self will withdraw. These are statements that must be carelly pondered upon before the esoteric healer can coop erate eectively with the higher Self of the patient, from whence true and lasting healing should stem 58
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We are ready to examine now, with a broadened viewpoint, the three stages ofSelye's G.S II
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PHASE TWO: Here, resistance rises as the outer signs of the alarm reaction dimsh. Energy is required to sustain all the body organs and contrivances inolved in adapting to homeostasis, in te face of it. Selye says the energy of adaption, which we all possess, is nite. We can resist exposure to cold to muscular eo, bacterial invasion, etc, ony for so long; and the length of our resistance (shown as the attened summit ofPhase Two) is dependent on the nature and persistence of tat which is stressing us (stressor factor) and the body's inbo qualities to adapt. These are said to be determined by our genetic stctures, which we inhert Others would call this a good constitution' or a poor one. There is no scientic proof that we can call on any energies om any other sources except those whic we have inherited om our parents. It is ere that esoteric science must supplement te exoteric knowledge as to other energy sources vailable to the constitu tion Te whole science ofYoga is demonstrating acively in the West, today, that Man can tap energy sources om within. With Teosophy it gives clear and specic instrctions as to how energies om inner space can be made to surface into the physical body via its etheric matrx. Energy follows thought' and esoteric healers lea to employ tis maxim in their methods. Meditation itsel as I ave stressed (the pun is not intended!) endlessly in my other books, is basically anenergising process' Those who cn meditate have no better recomendation to 60
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quali as healers. They le to align themselves with that unit of energy which we cll the higher Sel They can help to align the patient wih his higher Sel They can stir the oul of the patient into reaching do to its dieased vehicles Energy om within can ustain resistance to stress in Phas Two Here lies the hope of the Fih Subrace-now suject to intene nd unremittent sress as a par of it daily existence. Orthodox medical cience has scraped the bottom of its barrel for he wherewithal to instct its patients how to meet stress disorder, and there i nothing le there Man must draw om within or perish mentally, emotion aly and physically under the stres of current life Of course, we can resolve reasonable amounts of stess with perfectly ordinary expedients. PASE TEE : Depending on how good the consitution and the capacity of the body to adust itsel resistance to the stres in Phase I will be mainained But eventualy, exposure to the stressor is not relieved he energy becomes exhausted and, as Selye asserts the alarm reaction which was described in Phase I reappears. But now eier because of age or energy depletion it can not be countered resistance drops invariably and the patien dies. It would appear that the inteention of the healer should be to Remove or at least reduce the harshness or persistence of tressors being encountered by the patient; and these might include the disease itsel 1
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par of Preventive Medicine, so that increasing amounts of stress can be dealt with. Old age and an inherited 'poor constitution need not condemn one to becoming a casualty of stress disorders The existence of pranic energy and of faculties in the subtle bodies for storing t, is not a new concept; but it has been almost entirely iored by drug-oriented medicine at a tme when its laboratories are frantically searching outardly for answers to stress, which really lie within! The rst indication that we have of stress moving into the realm of a stress disorder is when mental and emotional behaviour surfaces in disquietening signs and symptoms which are not beng resolved by the natural methods of sleep, celsalt replacement, elimination o waste etc If they persist these are early wang sgns that the personality bodes are unable to nd the where wthal to deal with the stresses of sef-expression When we understand the purpose of stress we are soon able to answer the questions : Who are we? Why are we here? Why do we have to suer pain?
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These early waing signs and symptoms are precursors of physical disease. If the origins of their motivation can be reached, adjustment will take place and disease ma be prevented. Or, if they have already reached physical expression in a disease, treating these symptoms, rather than the disease itsel can alleviate the condition at its causl level. Wen the sress disorder has already shown itself physically, the healer shoud make certain that the patient is seeing his physician before helping with what is surely the most important task reaching to those CAUSES which lie in the etheric astral and mental bodies Usually, if he disorder has not yet reached severe proportions, some simpe adjustments to the patients daily activities can eliminate distress A examination of the chart 'Aetiology of Stress shows six factors which can resolve stress f these are adequately implemented as a regimen they will permit exposure to large amounts of unremittent stress Balance of Rest and Seep
Rest and Sleep hardly needs comment except to add to this essential need that of planned leisure. The Tibetan Master emphasised this factor in his teachings on achieving the balance necessary for integrating the persoality of the chela The Master RB. used to insist that whether the individual thinks he needs it or not, he should t a period or two orecreation into his crowded day t is a characteristic of incipient hypertension that the suerer ignorant of his mounting blood pressure - progressively does
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away with his leisure. The simplest small chores or occupations can be us by some a leisure, especially for tose subjected to intense and sustain mental concentration. A leisurely walk into the market place or mall - just mixing your highly organised vbrations momenaly wth the huly burly of the marketing scene - wll stem the coroding eect of some stressor espe cially when it is a single and constant one in your life. This is a 'change of scene in miniature Even ohodoxy knows that a short holiday or change of scene can as as a tonic to those beset by stress. It is an occult fact that we excange energies with scenes of trmoil or tranquility spirituality or criminality harmony and poise sloth and gluttony.
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Esoteric research has shown that within the cytoplasm of all living cells, there are twelve basic 'tissue salts which need to be replaced when the body is subjected to stress. Normally, the cells can cope with the exgencies of liing and with short excursions into physico-etheric, astral and mental activity. Energy expendi ture at harsher and or sustained levels requires cell salt replace ment above what can normally be provided from the bodys stores; and they must be in a rened, etheric state in order to move rapidly out of tissue uids through cell walls to the sites of energy expenditure The twelve tissue salts as elaborated by Dr. WH Schuessler*, not only supply the immediate deciencies of a cell under stress, but aouse and stimulate the natural recuperatve forces of the body as a whole. The use f biochemic salts in the reatment of stress disorders now forms part of what we call alteative or complementary medicine In no way do they interfere with the therapy of the orthodox physician which should be continued where prescribed. In 183 2 a medical paper announced that : "All the essential components of the human body are great remedies. he Tissue Salts are all body components and are, therefore, natural remedies.
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Silica Calcium Sulphate Potassium Phosphate Sodium Phosphate Calcium Fluoride Potassium Chloride Magnesium Phosphate Calcium Phosphate Sodium Chloride Iron Phosphate Sodium Sulphate Potassium Sulphate Through the consumption of these salts, the stress of the body can normally be compensated for. In Dr Schuessler's and other works, the mental, emotonal and vital signs and syptoms of stress disorders have been correlated to each of the twelve salts We may tae dosages of the appropriate cell salts in order to compensate for a particular stress symtom that is presenting From experience however we have found that the easiest way of dealing with stress signs and syptoms is slowly to introduce foods containing the appropriate salt into the diet (See paes 28 for an extract from Guide To Biochemic Treatment by C Stirlin aunder listing the chemical contents of foods) The Twelve Tissue Salts also have their correspondences in the Twelve Zodiacal Signs so that the eecient astrologer can detect latent weaknesses in body constittio in terms of the salts and assess and give prognosis in cycles of time when these weaknesses are most likely to manfest
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Generally, the patient should have the cell salt corresponding to his sun sign. For example, Sun in Cancer will always receive, as part of the repertoire, Calcium Flouride Thereaer, you can prescribe according to aicted areas of the horoscope and the specic symptoms presenting. In our consideration of the action of the twelve salts correlated to the Zodiac and therfore to anatomical types, we should be carel not to think in terms of the salts themselves acheving the results which are oen so spectacular Just as an enzyme acts upon a substrate as a sort of catalyst so, too, do the twelve salts act as cataysts in the sbstrate of etheric substance of the body In the more subtle substance of etheric matter the innitely small dilutions of homoeopathic remedies have an even more powerl action In my work Esoteric Heang, Part I I have shown how etheric vitamins can reinforce the etheric body Another treatment of stress disorders that is becoming very popuar ineed is the use of wer remedies, and these have been deat with extensively in Esoterc Heaing, Part & III, and Bach Flower Remed Repertore, Part I & II by the author Generaly speaking, the biochemic salts do best with the physico etheric body and the ower remedies are better employed on the signs and symptoms of the astral-mental bodies (See Appendix for the correlation of ower remedies with the signs of the Zodiac)
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n the following extract om Gide To Biochemc Treatment, Dr. tirling aunder gives a summary of the various minerals and sals as contained in the various foods, together with a brief report on the necessity and nction of each mineral or salt A list of the various foods is also given and it should be noted that some foods contain a preponderance of one mineral or salt over others, but all foods contain more than one mineral or salt. CHCALCNTES F FDS
GNESIUM (Mag.) Magnesium is the great vitaliser of muscular and lung tissues, and the bones; a nourisher of brain and nee tissues. Working with other elements like Phosphorus,Calcium, etc, it gives hardiness to the bones, teeth, and skull, elasticity to the muscles, and ease to the nees and brain Magnesium promotes sleep at night and normal activi during the day It soothes pain and prevents fever It relieves jaundice and auto-intoxication It balances other minerals and tends to make the by alkaline Magnesium reduces pain. Lack of Magnesium causes the tissues to be inamed, ding them up, especially the brain Deciency of Magnesium may produce constipation, headache, and insanity Acid people need agnesium. The body contains about following fs:
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Almonds, Apples, Asparagus, Avacodo, Bananas, Barley, Fresh String Beans, Green imas Beans, Beech Nuts, Beet eaves, Beets, Blackberries, Brazil Nuts, Brssels Sprouts, Buttermilk,Cabbage,Caraway Seed,Carrots, Cauliower,Cele,Cherres,Chives,Chocolate,Cucumbers, Dandelion, Black Figs, Filberts, Sea Fish, Pecans, Green Pepper, Pineapple, Pinions, Potats, Pumpeickel, Pumpkins, adish, Kohl Rabi, emons, Lettuce, Goat's ilk, Mushrooms, ats, nions, ranges, ysters, Parsley, Pars nips, Peanuts, Green Peas, aisins, Rutabagas, Whole Rye, Fresh Salmon,
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Spinach, Fresh Sweet Co, Tomatoes, Tips, Walnuts, Watercress, Water Melons, Whole Wheat. Magnesium gives rmness to the bones. CIM
Lack of Calcium means rickets, aemia, defective bones and teeth Carbon takes Calcium from the teeth, causing them to decay Sium keeps Calcium in solution, thereby preventng the nes from becoming t brittle or too hard, and the joints from ing encumbered with Calcium desits. Aer maturity we do not need s much Calcium, or we should eat plen of Sodium with it. Four unds of the y are Calcium, and the following fs contain Calcium: Asparagus, French String Beans, Beech Nuts, Beets, Blackrries, Brazil Nuts, Buttermilk, Cabbage, Caraway Seed, Carrots, Cauliower, Cele, Ceese, Cottag Cheese, hives, Cranberries, Cucumbers, Dandelion, Eggs, Filrs, Horseradish, Kale, KohlRabi, Lemons, Lettuce, Goat's Milk, aw Milk, Molasses, Onions, Oranges, Parsnips, Peaches, Pike, Pnes, Pumpkins, Radish, Rhuba, Rutabagas, Spinach, Strawberries, Tomats, Turnips, Watercress, Water Melons Calcium forms the bones and tth. It gives strength to the walls of the blood vessels and is necessa for a strong pulse Calcium is needed for a strong, healthy body Endurance, good memoy, execuive abili and long life come from having pleny of calcium in the bld and body Cacium helps iron in making the blood red Calcium and Magnesium also work together POTASSIM (Kali)
Potassium is the builder and healer of he body. It supplies materials for the muscles, making them pliant and elastic It is not only a muscle builder, but also a healing agent Poassium attracts oxygen, giving life and energy to he mind and body It oen prevents infection and reduces pain Potassium gives enthusiasm to the brain and y "Without Potassium there is no life is an 73
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old sayng. Vegetabes contain arge quantities of Potassium Potassium should be baanced by Sodium Lack of Potassium eads to muscuar wekness, inabii to recuperate, and opens the way for infectious diseases Four ounces of Potassium are found in the body, and the foowng foods contain Potassium: Appes, Apricots, Green Lima Beans, String Beans, Beet, Backberres, Brusses Sprouts, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauiower, Celery, Cherries, Chest nuts, Coconuts, Cucumbers, Currants, White Currants, Dandelon, Egg Plant, Figs, Gra Frut, Grapes, Horseradish Huckeberres, Kae, Lem ons, Lettuce, Limes, Dried Olives, Onons, Oranges, Parsnips, Peaches, Pears, Pneappe, Pums, Pomegranates, Potatoes, Prunes, adish, asins, Raspberries, Rhuba, Rutabagas, Spnach, Strawberries, Tomatoes, Tur nps, Watercress, Water Meons
IN (Ferrum) ron gves armth and magnetism to the body It mkes the blood red and bran actve. Unted with Oygen, Iron gves man hope, happness and success. Iron causes Hydrogen to be taken into the system through the ungs and thus breaks up fevers. Lack of Iron poduces pae people. Insucent Iron n the bood s the cause of cold hands and feet Peope who lack ron are rrtabe, lack self-contro and pose Excess of ron sometimes produces haemorrhages and bleedng from the nose Ony 4 ounces of Iron are in the body, but t s ron that gives the body ts vtay, and the mind its endurance ron strenthens the wll, produces fearlessness, and mkes it possibe for us to see thngs through Iron s found n all red fruits and vegetables The followng foods contain Iron Apples, Asparagus, Avacado, Barey, Beech uts, Beets, Braz uts, 74
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Brssels Sprouts, Buttermilk, Cabbage, Caaway Seed, Carrots, Cauli ower, Celery Cherries Chives Conuts Cucumbers Dandelion, Eggs, Figs Filberts Gserries, Grape ruit Gras Horseradish, Kohl abi, Leek, Letuce, Lentils Goats Milk Mushrms Oats, Onions, Oranges, Peaches Pears ineapple nions lums Potats runes, umpernickel, Ppkins R adish aisins, Rhubarb Rutabas Salmon, Fresh Salon, Sorrel, Spinach, Strawrries, Tomats Tups Walnuts, Water Melos, Wheat SIN (Silicea) Silicon is the great hair grower and dsease ghter. ts antiseptic qalities protect the body from ulcers, and prevent tumours, cancers and tuberculosis Silicon gives lstre to the hair and lish to the skin nails and teeth Silico akes te eyes bright Silicon breeds optimism joy, hope, courage, a happiness t is Silicon which makes it ssible for wheat to hol its head up ad stad against adverse winds Silicon does the same thig for people Lack of Silicon means loss of hair ad pr teeth and eye-sight t is oen the lack of Silicon which akes us depressed and open to ifection Expectant mothers should eat plety of Slicon and Calcium foos Oly an ounce ad a half of Silico s fond in the y, but it is a powerl and ecessary element. e can obtain Silcon from the following fos: Apricots, Asparags, Barley, Beets Cele, Cherries cubers ade lio, Black Figs orseradish, Lettuce, Oats, Onions Parsle, Parsnips, upkins Radish, Spinach, Strawberries ater Melos, hole rai heat CN (Mur) Chlorine is called the laundma of the body because of its cleasing properties, especially of the intestial tract t is also a powerl reducing aget t is therefore a purer ad fat redcer ths stimulating the activity of the cells of the body Chlorine is a very iportant element i eliinatio, as it epels waste atter from the bod Chlorine breks down albe ad aids digestion 75
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Lack of Chorine is likely to produce catarrh, bloated abdomen and albmiuria. A deciency of Chlorine is depressing, makes one neous, and oen gives the face a greenish pallor Chlorine is good for Bright's disease aching joints, and auto-intoxication t oen prevents pyorrhea. Chorne foods are an aid i suppying hydrochlorc acid to the stomach Chlorine overcomes constipation On the other hand, too much Chorine produces the mental eect of fear, cowardice, and suspicion From 8 to
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Chorine is prominent in the foowing fs: Fresh Strng Beans, Beets, Butter, Cabbage, Cee, Cheese, Cucumbers, Dandeion, Horseradish, Lettuce, Goat's Mik, Oleomargarine, Oysters, Parsnips, Sweet Potatoes, adishes, ubarb, Samon, Spinach, Tomatoes, Tuips, Watercress. FRINE (Four) Fluorine is called the youth preserver, and is the body's poice ocer, protecting he bones and spina cord from ifection and the teeth from decay Fluorine forms the ename o the teeth and nails, and cements the bones and skull Fuorine seems to keep the glandular system well balanced t also strengthens the eyesight Fluorine gives genius to the mind. t is the mother of inspiration Lack of Fuorne tends to produce ulcers in the body ts deciency is the cause of anaemia, necrosis, decomposition and short life Flourine is needed in tuberculosis, syphiis, esipeas, varicose veins, bladder and kidney stones, paraysis and hardening of the glands t is especiay eective for crumbling teeth and proapsus Too much Fluorne makes one goomy, foreboding, eccentric, and psychic Three to four ounces of Fluorine are found in the body, and can b supplied from the foowing foods Black Bass, Beets, Bussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauiower, Goats Cheese, Garlic, Mackere, Goats Milk, Steel cut Oats, Spinach, Watercress 76
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Phosphorus is the great brain and nerve f also gives sex power Eve time we think we consume phosphorus Phosphorus is nessary to other elements for the creation ofne brain and red blo Phosphorus gives us the wer to put thngs over Lack ofPhosphorus pruces mental weakness, anaemia rickets excitability or stupidity Too uch Phosphorus may produce neous irritability and lead to abnor mal and cancerous growts unless balanced by Sulphur Posphorus is ve volatile and food that is cooked loses its Posporus Te y contins about two pounds of Phosphorus and Pospous may be found in te following foods: Almonds Apples Aspragus Avado Barley Kidney Beans Beets Blackrries Brazil Nuts BsselsSprouts Buttermilk Cabbage Craway Seed Cauliower Cele Ceese Crries Cucumers Dandelio Eggs Figs Sea Fis Gooseerries Grpes Horseradis Hucleeies Kale Lemons entils Lettuce Limes Meat Milk Goat's Mil aw Milk Mushrms Oats rnges Peces Pears Gree Peas Pie Piions Plums Prunes Pumpkins Large adis Seed Radis Risis Red Rasp rries Rubarb Rutabagas Rye SalmonSorrelSpinacSroutsStraw eies Tomatoes Turnips Walnuts Watercress Water Melons Weat ULPHU (Sulp
Sulphur is te great "toner of te by promoting te secretio of the bile and creating interal heat and energySulphur beauties and clears te skin and stimultes te growt of the hair Sulpur as insulatig power protecting te ody fom ifection and loss of magnetism Sulpur trough its elimintive qualities keeps te body in good tone A good supply of Supur prevents te formation of tumours and other cancerous growts Lack of Sulpur causes oesity asthma rheumatism and toxic conditions Sulpur alances Posporus and prevents abnormal mental excitements Cooked sulphur creates gas and causes biliousness 77
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There are from4 to8 ounces ofSulphurin the body, andSulphur canfound n the followng fods: Asparagus, Avacado, Fresh Strng Beans, Beef, Beets, Brazl Nuts, Brussels Sprouts, Butter, Cabbage, Carrots, Caulower, Celery, Cheese, Chcken, Chves, Cranberres, Cucumbers, Egg Plant, Flberts, Sea Fsh, Horseradsh, Kale, Lettuce, Oysters, Parsnps, Peaches, Green Peas, Pneapple, Radshes, Red Rasperries, Red Currants, Rutabagas, Salmon, Spnach, Tomatoes, Turnps, Watercress. SD (Natrum) Sodum s the great dssolver of the ody, keepng Calcum n soluton, and noursng the lgaments and tendons, as wel s alkalzng the blood Sodum gves grace and elastcty to the jonts, strength and speed to te muscles, and keeps the bones and teeth from becomng brttle. The presence of Sodum helps the body to take up Iron Sodum prevents hardenng of the arters It prevents the formaton of kdney and gall stones. t gves relef n dphthera, dabetes, and constpaton Sodum removes carbonc acd from the blood, and those who exercse a great deal should eat pleny of Sodum foods The followng foods contan Sodum Apples, Asparagus, Avocado, Bananas, Green Limas Beans, Beets, Butter, Buttermlk, Cabbage, Crrots, Celery, Cheese, Chcken, Cucumbers, an delon, Eggs, Black Fgs, Lentls, Lettuce, Oysters, Pke, Pomegranates, Pumpkns, Radsh, Rhubarb, Rutabagas, Spnach, Strawberres, Tomatoes,
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Chapter Seven Dgi d Rgi Lif ycls
Of the six factors listed in the aetioogy of stress, especiay s contrbutors to the resoution of stress, probably one of the most important is the elimination of waste products through the various systems of the body. Energy gained by the purely physica body is directly fro food, its digestion, absorption, assimation and metabolism The books n diet and nutrition are legion But there is a matter of great importance to the esoteric heaer that is rarey brought to ight Energy foows thought" is the basic maxim of Esoteric Hea ing. On it hang al the laws of that spiritua science which we call Yoga Physiologicay man is a tube His head, arms and egs are mere appendages The assemby of food in the 22-foot human tube which we ca the aimentary tract eads to the production of huge amounts of energy But what if this maxim is te? The matter also gives rse to an eterna question not nike the chicken and the egg" When we swaow food is it in the body? It ies inside that tbe but may not yet be, or ever be inside th cels It is truy said in the Bible that man does not ive by bread alone" Food sustains his gasiquid/solid body but etheric energies, especiay prana, sustai his vita body which interpenetrates his physical body It is then true to say that every partice of food devored has an etheric matrix, a mental and an emotiona sheath The absotion of food eads to the passage of energies not only into Man's physico-etheric body but the approprate eements of the food 81
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pass into the emotional and mental bodies of the eater. Where those energies ow to, is greatly decided by the attitude of mind o the indivdual and the state o his emotions at the time of eating. Edgar Cayce said "what we think and what we eat - combined together mae what we are, physically and metaly In the anguage of esoteric science ths means that the energes reed from the ood wl eergise what thoughts and feegs we have at the tme of eating and dgesting, and those parts of the aura reated to them and, via the aura, various correated orgas will be mpacted negatvey or postivey by the quaty of those thoughts and feelings "Never (whe) under stran, when very tired, very excited, very mad, should the body tae foods nto the system, see?* Through these observatons we should better understad the occut mplicatons of sayng grace before a meal The dedcation of food, the thansgiving for it, were all originay caculated to rase the awareness of the individual out of the wragles of eveday problems or that period of extreme importace when he was receptive to energy t is tly sad "Joy s Wisdom and "Love s a Cohesve
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Loving thoughts (ofHim) during grace compose the mind and armonise the emotions so that the passage of energy through nutrition into te body, with its arious interpenetrating auras, c-an be a "state o grace. In practical terms, this means that the one who can relax rapid into a condition of detachment from his worldy cares (stress), at eas while he is eating and digesting, is someone who wi e abe to resole the eects of stress massiely The mre relaxe the ody, the more compsed the emotions, the more setted the mind, and the higher the spiritual aspiration, dring eating, the deeper the penetration of the acquired energies of oth prana and metaolism The eimination of waste has a far more ilusie eanin for the esoteric heaer than it has for the ecient nurse who merely sees to it that her patient is 'regular* Eliminatin from the physica body is important, and it is reeant hee to mention excretion. Bioogically, excreting means the eimination of matrials that were once part of the ody cells materials that were actualy iside the cels and are now eing discarded Materias in the alimentary cana that are the esidues of digestion ike res, ceulose, and acteria, hae not come ot f ces Technically they hae not en inside the ody ut merely lying in the alimentary canal, moe along or eimination as faeces by peristaltic action Excretion from cels in the ier, ike bile pigments, are added to ths waste *Those conceed with natural mehods ofphysical elimination would n hell he very usel book recently ublished, The Edgar Cayce Hanbook for Health trough Drugless Therapy, ublished by MacMillan Publishing Co New York. 84
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From the standpoint of the esoteric healer each individual has some control over what is contained in his cells. The life force and that which bestows consciousness are cohesive They hold the cells of the body together, constantly informing the sentient lives in the nuclei of the cells he cells respond to 'the one in whom they live and move and have their being."* The phase of excretion in ir lives coincides with the outbreathing of the One in Whom they live and move and have their being This should be pondered Innr Bif Cnr Or Prc
There is nothing but thinking makes it so!" Thoughts of elimination directed to all cells during the period of exhalation assist them in their ejection of excretory materials especially when these are being generated powerlly by stress Tension reated in muscle cells continually exposed to stress is easily recognised by their parial ontractions and stiness; but we should remember that tension exists in all cells burdened excessively with the elimination of their excretions under stress All cells exrete carbon dioxide into the tissue uids and from there it is arried by the blood for excretion from the surface of the lungs Aother organ concerned with excretion is the skin which through perspiration eliminates water salts and minute quantities of urea (the product of protein digestion) The skin is not dicult to visualise when directing attention to it durng exhalation
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The kidneys lter a huge variety of excretory materials om the blood, not only water and mineral salts, but the waste products of liver cells breaking down the amino acids deived om the digestion of proteins hese are nitrogenos substances like urea, uric acid, creatin and creatinine. heir retenion in the body leads to coma in the pysical body but long efore that, there are eects on the etheric body and the capacit othe brain to register mental and emotional directions coming from the inner bodies A examination of the anatomy of thy kidneys and the ability to visualise them or those of a patient suering from kidney disorders "in the space between thoughts, especially during outbreathing, can be invigorating to their cells Whilst much of their work of ltration is passive, even passivity can be enhanced The writer has observed in himsel for instance, that intense one pointed concentration or study produces a diuretic eect on the kidneys with consequently greater excretion. It can also be stated that tissues which have become sites for abnormal deposits of toxins and excretory products during stress can be reached reexly through Zone herapy* The Ancient Wisdom teaches that the attitude of Man's mind during eating and digestion of food is a powerl factor in three aspects:(a) The amount of energy that is nally appropriated (from the canal), (b) the quality of the energy, (c) the destination of the energy *Zone erapy is a therapeutc treatment of body organs through manpulaton of certain pressure ponts on the feet. 86
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Any picture of Man, depicting his energy reurces, would be totally inadequate without it showing those that ow into him om within. The graph ofResistance bomes more meaingl if it is shown tat there are two major inuxes. There is the energy of metabolism that we have already refe to including reser voirs of energy in liver, muscle and the cells in general, which are ours through biological inheritance These are purely physical in nature, and are shown by the arrow at 'A :-
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But there is another oup 'B that reaches us om stctures unknown to science Mans etheric body is not oly itself able to absorb the energy of prana and convert it to a force that vitalises the neous system but is a receiing plate, and a transformer of 89
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energies that ow into the aura from the unit of energy we call the higher Self. The electromagnetic energies of the Self are of extremely high voltage But with transmission down through the planes into the etheric body, the voltage is greatl reduced A idea of the transforming rocess can be grasped om the spiral stcture of the anu, the ultimate physical atom, out of which all matter is constructed Their outer spirillae complete the nal transformation of inner energy into 'matter
The eteric body of Man, which vitalises his gross physical strctures, is made of atoms which lack the outer spirillae In the diagram, part of the spirillae are shown of a single anu This would be an anu involved in the construction of a gas, liquid and solid f such as the physical body 90
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Progressively increasing the relative number of these etheric anu in the physico-etheric body makes available more and more energies stemming om the higher Sel We can achieve this through a variety of ways : ( 1) Expressing the purpose of the soul 2 Carel attention to diet vegetarian diet is helpl 3 Rhythmic breathing 4 Meditation and the meditative way of life 5 Opening the chakras above the diaphragm The gross physical body is not a pathway for spiritual forces. Its anu are 'deadends and saturated heir numbers can be greatly added to by gross, animal or earthly behaviour and by enslave ment to senso perception The passage of spiritual re beyond the etheric into gas liquid and solid tissues of the body can only be brought about through passing the re down the vagus nerve and its wide ramications, and even then only under rare circu stances which do not conce us here Disases Begin in the Subtle Bodie
The etheric body is the end plate for the outpourings of all bodies om the monad down to the astral When the Souls purpose is eing expressed adequately in terms of the rounding out of its personality and, later, in terms of Tth Beauty and Goodness there is progressive transforming of its energy through each successive body down into the etheric matrix
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An inhibition of that ow, at a spirtual, mental, astral or etheic level, will lead to dsease. Pockets of statc energy roduce nodules of reressed groth, sites which can harbour emotional and mental dsorders that may or may not work through to the ethec matrix and hyscal body but whch wll certainly show up somewhere in the psyche if not n outward sgns or vague mental and emotional symtoms Through meditaton, the down ow of soul force can be progres sively ncreased, but this necesstates expresson o the energies thus released It s unwise for the Westeer to ractse medita tion without aprorate adjustments to hs way of lfe The stream of dvne force thus encouraged to ow must be channeled
STESS DISORDERS
An inhibition of that ow, at a spirtual, mental, astral or etheic level, will lead to dsease. Pockets of statc energy roduce nodules of reressed groth, sites which can harbour emotional and mental dsorders that may or may not work through to the ethec matrix and hyscal body but whch wll certainly show up somewhere in the psyche if not n outward sgns or vague mental and emotional symtoms Through meditaton, the down ow of soul force can be progres sively ncreased, but this necesstates expresson o the energies thus released It s unwise for the Westeer to ractse medita tion without aprorate adjustments to hs way of lfe The stream of dvne force thus encouraged to ow must be channeled nto creatve acts as well as nto the mundane necesstes o everyday lving. The disciple o today leas to balance hard work n servce to mankind, creative exresson ohs Soul's urose, medtation, and study o the occult classics. Were there s a dseased conditon already resent edtaton should NOT be recomende. The illness should be resolved and the personality adjusted before meditation- or for that matter, any spirtualising rocess, .e., energisng om hgher levels to be undertaken. In English mystcsm eekes aer the Holy Gral (whch they ultmately found to be wt emselves) were only successl if they wore coats omal and shning armoursymbols of purity and rened mental and emotonal health. 94
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Disease - an attempt by the higher Self to puri its bodies must rst be resov. Wen the puriing process is t n end, the tashed armour gistens once more nd the Kght reaches a stte of grace, becomes himsef the Cup or Holy Grail redy to receive the downpourng of spiritual re
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Stress results om growth om ttempts to express Trth, Beauty and Goodness It invoves s in something more than merely ling out 24hour day Anyone can do that. But where there are rges and spirations to do something more than exist entirely for our ow individual personlity ends there comes spitul growth fed y spiritual eneres 95
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Vey few can cope with the energies available to them in terms of their spiritual status. Those 'treading the Path of discipleship use the disciplines and psychology of discipleship to guide them, or they quickly become prone to over-stimulation and the diseases of discipeship. For the masses of mankind in the West, who are not yet consciousy treading the Path, and, therefore, to whom disciplineship is unknown, their sensitivity is their undo ing They are urged by their inner natures to express themselves, or to round out personality defects that clash with their growing conscience or soul awareness, but do not know the souls purpose because they never relax, nor even sit in silence, nor pay attention to their dream ife, not to archetypal pattes that wel up into their consciousness om time to time Even where they do what there igher nature is teling them, they are so enmeshed in Maya, the Grand Illusion, in purely objective living, that they cant extract themselves om it These are the candidates for distress "If only knew I am paced in this situation, I coud manage, is a common cry heard. "If thee were a meaning to it al "If coud oly have a sign om on igh that I am on the right path, I wouldnt mind the pressure! In thousands of consultations with the spirituay oriented, this reain or variations of it have conrmed to me that the Fih Sub race, cononted daily with unremittent stress, is at last searching for its soul and uless it is introduced to the basic mechanisms for unocing the energies of the higher Se this stress will increas ingly tu to stress disorders
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It is not sucient to bring down ashes of hgh voltage energy om the higher Sel Thes an be had cheaply and aberrantly throgh momenta sho-rcitry of the transforming eqip ment, throgh destrction of he etheric webs between chakras, throgh acohol, drgs, pranayama in the nready, sex emphasis and other back magical devies. Bt the price will have to be paid for sch abse of etheric nadis and tracts. There is a far srer and safer way to obtain rgenerating energies om the higher trad which hens to conform wth the so's intent I am oen asked how get the energy to manage my own very heavy schee. On average, over a period of one year, I gve approximtey 600 pblic lectres, 300 consellings, write three books, rn a printing works, organise inteationa festivals, condct a schoo of esoteric science and research into a vriety of esoteric elds, travel 50,000 mies as well as practise strict esoterc disciines. My answer is always the same: "Where do get my energy from? I get rid of it! know of no better advice to give nyone than that t is never tre to sy that we canot get enogh energy for or needs The problem say is the opposite The energy is available, bt we jst cannot express it My own complement ofRays enable me, now, aer years of adjstment, to express myself amost eqally in at least six dierent ways artisticaly, in teahing, in healing, in writing, in pblishing and in mysticism. We shod be open channels for the bondless energes of or higher Seves. nstead, we constantly inhibit the ow Or fears, or imitations of expression, lack of codence, or sloth, kaa, pbringing, religios attitdes, entrenched codes of condct, 97
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concretised thought, all inhibit our expression of soul-energy as Tth, Beauty and Goodness. Stress is healty for us when we can deal with it. It not only brings down spiritual enegy but increases our access to it. Constant resolution of stress leads to increased capacity to deal ith stress The device has produced, throughout histo, our most precious souls poets, men of action, scientist, artists, humanitarians, and sages who have been creative into extreme old age Their stayng power has been inward and outward. How have they achieved ths? There are ther assets that come to those who submit themselves to stress for mankind's sake. We could call them the intrinsic rewards. They arise out of the Law o Innite Supply. he disciple really and tly involved, totally pledged and committed, knows well that in the heat ofattle under the constant welter of expressiveness, the ccult or idden law helps him, for. . . . . In teaching he is taught, In healing is is healed, In sering he is seed In lovng he is loved.... so that all things are ven him This great law, in operation, experenced and demonstrated by the trly great leaders of the race, gives the initiate under stress that serene condence and certainty that relieves him of much of his burden, that he shoulders so nobly for makind.
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It is taught in esotec science that there is always an inner side to the manifestation of a phenomena. So call ts the noumenon There is a hidden re that is masked by eve visible re There is an inner counterpart to the glucose molecule and that is the itity gobule The fomer is the basis of nutition and sustains through metbolic energy the oss physical body. The vitality obule reeases praic energy to the etheric matrix thouh the mechanism of breathing. We talk of esoteric Christiaity an esoteric Bddhism- teachings that lie hidden behind the outer orms of religion as presented to the masses of manind We have considered the impotance of spiritual staying power or the mond Is there any evidence that this quality is being roressie synthesised b the outer shells of the monad? The stayin ower of an athlete is important Whether he is a boxer or a londistance nner, he must kee himself t Fitness means coordination of nees with muscles and musces with mscles, remembering that blood carries oxygen and tht oxen is the bearer of prana- the life force No mountaineer attempts the ciace without due preparation and much hard work He reires musces strengthened into steellike qualities; he needs to deelo the head to withstand veigo and fear of heights The disciple must also withstand the attractive forces that are asso cited with spiitual heights, and also needs the courae to cling on to the cliface to maintain his foothold on the mountain of initition when the whole hillside seems to be cmbling beneath his eet Such staying power bings ve quicly integration of ersonaity- an outer sign that the discile is reall prepred for the mor initiations 103
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Altruistic Egotism
Hans Selye was once asked a question that has a drect bearing o our subj ect here. Having the reputation of knowing more about the eects of stress on ndvidual cells of the body, he was asked to compare cels to mankind and to suggest what factors n a man's lfe mght help him most to adapt himsef to stress- to deal with it, and not only to survve but to tve in the process. His answer was that a man should practce altstic egotism'. He had obseed that when ces worked i cooperation with each other, amost thinking of other ces groups in ther conce whie mantaining ther own strength and resourcelness, they dd best n stress stuatons. There s a lesson for disciples here, a of whom shoud be aware of the great Par of ncent Wsdom that asserts "all me live within the body of a greater Beng Ths postuate shoud be examined carely and the signcance of atrustc egotsm will become apparent Atrusm the regard for others as a prncipe of action - meas esoterically, recognton of the Geater Entty Whom we ve and move ad have our beg, and cooperation with Hm ad al parts of m, whch clude me and other kgdoms of nature Ths means the obserg of Natura Law The more we work wth Natura Law, the more e recognse that we are pat of the Logos .. the greater our degree of uion wth Him, the greater our tegraton with Hs Body. It s the that Hs lf and Hs conscousness ood us increasingy. In this way, spritua stayg power suses our ves. It shows as increased WltoBe, wthout a alieating ego. 104
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Personal ambition becomes transmuted nto desire to see the Plan, and to help maknd to do the ame. Ye the energies whch are found n the ambtous are no ess present here They are, in fact, more emphassed but the ambton s no longer personal ... "Not my will, but T WL be done These steps, taken, ead the dscpe progressvely to the feet of the Master. They brng into his aura, eneres that transform his way of life, giving hm the capacities to realse the powers latent within him, as they are within eve man These energies make of the discple a many splendoured thing. They gve the itiate the power to adapt; the same energies which, reacig down as far as the physcal body -maily va the vagus nee -adapt the disciple to stress and feed the powers of resstance to those forces which would upset homeostass n the normal idivdual. They eable a Socrates to stand barefooted for hours in the sow and ice n deep cotemplation and communion with hs daemon -ad a Xenophon, eader of the immortal ten thousad Greeks out of certain death Asia Minor back to the safety of ther homeland, by his mmortal examples of courage and endurance he pages of histo oud th examples of altristic egotsm he egotism we have today n abundance showig n our compettve way of life; and the altism s growng. he bleding of both to the pont of stress will pave the way for the ew yoga It's target? The roundng out of the personalty, its integration ad ts dedcato to the higher Self as an instment of servce to maknd
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Man is a blending of two res, Soar and Kundain. The rst is related to, and stems from, the Heart of the Sun It ows down the spine, pa of the centra neous system The second pusates out of the core of the panet and moves majesticay up the spine om chakra to chakra No man is baed from access to Soar Fire but that access is intimatey coreated to spirtua growth. More than this, Soar Fire is responsibe for the impeing force behind al evoution as that term is understood by the esoteic sciences Invoution is compementa to evoution and marks the descent of ife into ever-grossening, denser forms Solar Fire stimulates the opposite eect It encourages the constuction of subter and ner forms for the indweing life. Solar Fire empoys soar devas for the construction of such foms and the diving of al ife towads perfection in expression. It is though the opening of the chakas above the diapagm that the soar deva in each individua is abe to anchor itself and begin the regeneraton of the menta, astra and etherc forms The rapidity and eectiveness in ths task of the soar deva in each ife is determined by the extent to which chakras AOV the diaphragm have been opened, especially those in the head. Until they are opened, and engagement with stress ensures their opening, the work of the deva is hampered and the amount of soar Fire that can be brought down into the personaity though its vehicular transformers, down as far as the physica basepate, is restrcted 107
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Solar Fire ows in all Man. However, its voltage, thoug gh, has no signicant amperage Average man can only register the presence of Solar Fire as ases of insight, momentary urgings of conscience, faltering inspiration But wen his chakras above the diaphragm are opening rapidly and are interacting wth each other, then amperage is increased, the Solar Fire is haessed to express Truth, Beaty and Goodness in any of those many variations of the triplicity whic we call the ar of living The more the cakras are open and nctionng, te more sustained is the resistance to the stress of living It is as simple as tat Stress that is habitual is an excellent medium for the opening of the chakras They, in their tu, draw o energy from their lower counter parts, those chakras which lie below the diaphragm :Head Chakra from the Base of the Spine Chakra Heart Chakra form te Solar Plexus Chakra Throat Chakra from te Sacral Chakra Alta Major Chakra om the Thoat Chakra Ajna Cakra om the Heart Chakra Where this is done scientically, we call the process YOGA. Where it is done through creative expression in the outer and inner worlds we call it the A of Livng. Where it fails to be done, where chakras are not transferrng energies to their higher centres (alter ego), we get stress disor ders appearing.
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Access to Solar Fire is almost always elated to the degree of sensitivity and repivity f the individual. Man on the Path seeks constantly aise his consciousness, and with it his vibrations He seeks hrough he practice of specic discilines to become the 'shining bowl - a Hoy Grai, a vessel for the inoring ofSolar Fire-rearato to pouring it ot in servce to mankind "Playing With Fire
It is not an easy task Playing with re never is wthout its danger and the gretest danger tht cononts the average discile- or, for that mtter, anyone with more than average sensitivity, is to become so involved with what is'u there as to lose touch with what is'down here- he cannot kee hs feet on the grond Hs 'earthing mechnisms are lost This is the cndidate for stress disorders of a mental and emotional natre tht bsically stem om the incaacity to transform, to channel, and to exress the energies of Solar Fire a they our into the ower bodies Loss of contact wth the hysical world, and excessive sensory with drw, nd cofrontation with even orinary amonts of stress cn bring bot a 'bowing of the se of ersonality Where the individual is a schizohrenic (and most of them are without any knowedge of esoteric matters) there is tremendous vlnerabiity to this sitution Geneticaly, they re strctred in ways which make it imossible for them to deal with stress At a ersonality leve the Soar Fire, which should anchor the vehicles of the lower triad into a stable ersonaity under the hegemony of a single (personait) identity, becomes too easily directed away om hs cohesive mission into dramatising a current scene of agment of the central ersonality. In such a 109
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personality the Sla Fire becmes diected t whatever is the bjt f attentin. Sme causes f schizphreia - as related in Pat One f Esoteric Healing by the authr are imprant t the esteric healer in csidering this all t prevalent stress disrer: The instability f relatinships between the astral bdy and the mental bdy are exagger ated when cetain genetic factrs are present. In schizpreia, the cnectins between the persnality and its vehices becme tenuus. There is disrder f assciati Trains f thught take unusual paths away m the hegemny f the persnality which, already lacking synthesis, becmes ther weakened Illgical thinig and incherence in the men tal bdy and its parts ccur; and tis situatin allws categies and cmplexes f thught t becme independet ad islated m he persnality. It may be uderstd nw why the symbl fr this cnditin, in the English asam, is buncing gby ball- its directin is unpredictable In advanced iniiates, the Fire is excessive; but where it cant be channeled int head chakras, it can be rediveted t thers in teachig ad healing r even t alchemisatin f aimal, plant r minerl.
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There is a ame within me that has stood Unmoved, untroubl through a mist of years, Knowing not love nor laughter, hope nor fears, Nor foolish trob of il, nor wine of good. -John Spencer Mirhead Bcke! A the re that breaks om thee then, a bilion Times tod lovelier, more dangerous, 0 my chevalier -Gerard Maney Hpkins This soar ener, a manifestatin of spirita re, reects twary om the inner Self to the other vehices an hows through these facets of a hman entity in any ways . . .
as SACRICE throgh the Throat Chakra as COASSION trogh the Heart Chaka as ILLUATION throgh the Brow Chakra as INTUTON trough the Slar Plexs Chakra as the WLTOBE throgh the Sacra Chakra, etc The re is vey rea, though an inner ne, and to st, invisible; ut then the 're or combustion which prodces the heat of etaoism of food is also invisie, thogh it stil conmes oxygen in what we call intea respiration
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The inward re released in meditation is as real as that vsible re we call re y iction. The ancients noted tha the only re they ever saw was induc y lightning ... lightning which cme om the gods .. a miraculous event. Even today, we know practically nothing aout re and still less aout that inward re which H.P. Blavatsky called fohat and which stems om the centre of the sun. But one day, in the middle of the next Round, the Fih, four-hs of humaity will have 'seen hat inward re for themselves in their iitiations The, the goats {Initiaion in Caprico the goat) will e sored om the sheep (those in Aries, the ram) who have ye to enter the zodiacal whl of reirth in an ani-clockwise fashion which means treading the Pah. The inward re is as real as the outward re; and the nature of the inward re can e assessed, with limiatins, o an understand ing of the outer re. This was the asic tecniqe f he alchemist who noed he puriing eect of re, the way in which it meled metal or made it more malleale so hat i could e molded into the form cosen for it y the one who wielded the re. This was applied t the inner re and we got the irth of he concept of divine alcey in which M on the Pah sujects himsel in meditation, to the inn�r res and ecomes puied and more malleale "My God is an allconsuming re has real meaning for those who meditate We live in a sea of re and to the eye of an adept, at re is visile
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Pause a moment and visualise eve atom that exists. Each emits the light of its re eleons in the atom move outwards om oit to ot Visualse eve cell that is and the res they emit as the combus on of eabolism provides it with energy Conser ten also, that beneath eve living form there s a re ragng; an ten you will have a concept of what s meant by that 'sea of re The Go ofFire and te re of God interacting upon each other, tll all the res blend and ble, an tll all tat exss s passe through the re - om a solar syste to an at - and emerges a a triple perfec to. The weel of re tus an all within that weel is subject to the treefol ae, and eventually will san perfece.* Tis is the ystery of all yseries, and it is aequately gared o e uintiate by the simplest of all devices: the human min "The ind s te slayer of the real, sad Madame Blaatsky; an se meant t Whle the mnd is iverted by the ve sese a he unredandone thngs of the outer world, no symbol of power can be placed in the sacred square ich of the eyebrow .. n te space bween thoughts. The brain is lock in beta rhm and eergy is being irected outwards in massive an exhaustg * Trat n m Fr Lucis Publshg Co., New Yo.
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esions. When the eyes are closed and awareness of the outer world is greatly reduced, the brain slips into alpha-rhythm� the stream o thoughts is slowed down� the mind becomes more manageable By various techniques it can be virtually stied� and in at stillness the visual image of a symbol can be wrought out of manas, itself the substance o the higher kingdoms :But om these create he can, Forms more real than living man, Nurslings o immoality. P.B Shelley Visualisation, and the ocus o attention on the symbol visualised, is an ancient and well-td step of meditation dhrana. It is because the West is so obsessed with the notion that intellect and its instrument, the mind, are the ultimate targets for attention of the intelligentsia of the world, that meditation is so dicut The Weste mind is an obdurate cael, set in cerain ways and will not tolerate change The traditional method of releasing the stressresovin eneries of soar Fire into the aura is through meditation* This enerising rocess is achieved by slowing down the thouhts (A) and the ositing of a symbo or any other object for meditation in the space between thoughts (B). This leads to an inux of enery directed towards the symbol (C) which is the outer manifestation o a whole line of archetypes reaching om the spiritual anes of Atma, Buddhi and Manas right down into the sace between thoughts •s
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In this way the disciple engaged unremittent stress always has on al whenever he mitates, all the energy his work needs.
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But where do these reseoirs of energy exist? New discoveries are upon us- or, rather, we have old wine in new bottles. We are fast becoming aware that shape conveys a quality to an object, and that that quality is liked to the energy of the shape. V recently, the ageold knowledge that the shape of a pyramid will produce conditions favouring the preseation of mamma lian tissue placed in it, has become widely circulated Many testi that the sharpness of a blade's edge can be maintained so long as it is kept in a pyramidshaped box when not in use. In public demonstrations, carelly devised instruments have shown that the type of energy found in a pyramid varies according to its location. Thus, the energy found in a pyramd varies according to its location. Thus, the energy that presees tissue is about onethird of the distance upwards om the base of the pyramid to its apex. But the energy found in the apex of the pyramid is dierent It has much hgher and more spiritual applications. The energy found there is a Ray correspondence, in fact, of the same energies which are released in the science of meditation. The Platonc Solids
It is now realised that ALL shapes of some regularity, irrespective of the material out of wch they are formed, contain energy of some quality or the other. Shapes are accumulators The surfaces of a pyramid must be orientated towards the poles of the Earth's magnetic eld to be most eective. In fact the pyramid's 118
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energies, more tha ay, are relat to magnetism. The ancients belv he uve t e consted t of cetin basic shapes, ad we stll efe t thee in terms of the 'Platonic Solids Wa s sll nt ye econised s that i thes shapes are placed abut us, they can tough thei qalities, aect the natre o the vbations of ou envonment More than this, i these shapes could be b e ceat vsally in the mind, they cold be used as acmulatos of specialised energies which cold be released int he vaus bdies, and directed to the opening o the chakas and thei related petals Ths a sphere, isualised meticulosly in meditation, old generate and and accmulate accmulat e the Ray type o energy fo a sphee; and this wold be aailable aailable t a chaka, chaka, in the head region region sa, which is in Ra correspondence with a sphere. The maerial maerial ot o hich the regular shape is constcted co nstcted is o no cnseqence It can be constrcted constrct ed as as eectively out o thoght substance subs tance as ot o the rock rock mateial o the pyramids pyramids at Gzeh This imortant knowledge can be applied in discileship, discileship, both or the sensitisation of the envionment and for creative creat ive ses in healing and teaching at a vsiona or abstract mental lel Key to the Energies of Shap
We need here, here, a ke to the enees of shape Ho can e e llocate the qalities o the Seven Sev en Rays and their their coespondences, to the accmulating capacities o shape? It is ell-kno in esoteic science that the last solar system was materialised throgh a heic matrix constcted out o square shapes. The qality ultimately adiat by ths system was on the 119
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Third Ray of Active Intelligence. We can, therefore, safely ascribe square shapes and cubes to this Ray Thus, cuboid stctures hold energies in haony with the colour green, the lanet Satu the throat chakra, the zodiacal sign ofLibra, etc., etc Consultation of the chat of Ray Correspondences would give rther rther examples n environment bathed in green would be a harmonious one for a disciple eesty endeavouing to open his throat centre to direct the energies of the sacral centre to it Another shape, found to be the most eective om the point of view of storing energy was the helix, made of copper wire. A similar device is us in Deawar' s radionic instments. When a man sits in the lotus posture (padmasana), he forms, morphologicaly, morphologicaly, a perft pyramid. The elongated transformer transformer shown on page 63 becomes concetinaed to a helix. The eect is to give giv e man the ideal posture for ene energy rgy accumuation accumuati on and storage.
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EXRCISE Seat yourself in a relaxed posture . it does not even have to be an asana, so long as you are reaed I wel remember during my period of tree years of isolatio in the wilds ofPillipi, carrying an old easy chair to the top of a sand dune, pointing it towards the east, and using it for my mitation at dawn and dusk It was a eat success Ge at the huge orange/gold shere of the evel sun either at dawn or sunset, and then, sualising it inwardly beind the brow, bring into the etheric matrix pra energy of the type that regenerates the nadis that underlie the neous system Neous haustion is a equent preliminary to stress disorders Visualise a spheroid shae in gold or, better sti, ateatey in gold and in violet, and see it take in a golden torrent of prana through its vortex at each inspiration and exel violet into your neous system with each expiration The brething should be, in seconds :Inspire
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If we had access to a variety of energies with qualities more appropriate to the astral and metal planes, ere imbalance in ninety percent of all diseases manifest, we would nd a more appropriate way of treating the whole man, rather than his outer shell. Symmetry of shape makes any object an accumulator of energy. Even the sculpture, the hymn, and the sonnet are all energy accumulators We ignore the great heritage which is our culture Few people, in these stressl times, bother to read poetry, to sing the simplest songs, or treat themselves to a new painting or a visit to the art galleries Yet the recitation of some stirring ballad or soothing sonnet is as good as any planned recreation. Try out Wordswoth's sonnet: Upon Westminster Bridge feel is great energies lapping at your nerve endings and mark what a tonic it is for you-even if you only get the hang of it aer many recitings .
Earth has not anything to show more fair Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty This city now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the elds, and to the sky All bright and glittering in he smokeless air Never did sun more beautilly steep In his rst splendour, valley, rock, or hill Neer saw I, never felt, a calm so deep The river glideth at his own sweet will Dear God the very houses seem asleep And all that mighty heart is lying still 124
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