30 The Law of the Rhythmic Breath 



lites (see Standard Dictionary) show Prithivi vi- 

 brations. The skin of a rattle-snake is a most in- 

 teresting study in the proof of the Tattvic Law. 

 This creature that hugs the earth and lives in it, 

 is striped down its back with cubes placed point to 

 point, the outer scales of which are yellow. Tejas 

 is the next most prominent influence, giving sharp 

 points to the scales, and its color is seen in the red- 

 dish brown of the darkest scales. Every scale 

 has a mid-rib dividing the positive from the nega- 

 tive. In snow crystals every Tattvic vibration 

 can be traced; and, when examined separately, 

 within their dazzling whiteness it is found that 

 all the colors of the spectrum are held latently. 



Significant corroboration of Tantrik teaching 

 with regard to the structural effects everywhere 

 in the body of the varied Tattvic activities, is 

 found in Bain's description of the nerves. The 

 blue-white matter is in nerve threads composed of 

 bundles of microscopical fibres, of which it is es- 

 timated as many as 15,000 to 100,000 are united 

 in a single nerve. The grey-red nerve substance 

 is a mixture of these fibres and neurons or cells 

 " of various shapes, round, oval, pear-shaped, 

 tailed, and star-like, or radiated " (Mind and 

 Body). 



In the Cosmopolitan for September, 1905, is 

 an interesting article, " Artificial Creation of 

 Life," by Garrett P. Serviss, the illustrations in 



