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as utterly to grasp its deep significance as in the 

 old familiar statement. 



Bearing in mind the previous explanation of the 

 positive and negative breath-currents, flowing in 

 regular alternation through the right and left nos- 

 trils respectively, and their differentiation into the 

 five Tattvas, we proceed now to an examination of 

 the character and properties of the separate Tatt- 

 t uas ) and the effect of their action upon the physi- 

 cal, or gross, body. 



Akdsha is the most refined or tenuous of the 

 elements, and on the gross plane of the physical 

 body is correctly classified as ether. Don't let it 

 confuse you when all the Tattvas are referred to 

 as ethers, for on their subtle planes of activity 

 they are so tenuous that wanting a strictly scientific 

 nomenclature, we must call the others also ethers. 

 They never, however, lose their distinctive quali- 

 ties; always, even in the closest union one with an- 

 other, they retain these characteristics of form, 

 color, and action which betray the presence of the 

 vibration, although every element restricts, and is 

 modified by, the vibrations of the elements with 

 which it is combined. Hence, there are manifold 

 permutations in form and color, producing vari- 



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Akdsha is circular or oblong in form, and gives 



this shape to the orifice of the ear, the organ of 

 hearing, whose perceptions its property of sound 



