CHAPTER XI 



THE ATMOSPHERIC CURRENTS OF PR^NA 



THE Chinese artist Shakaku, living in the 

 fifth century of our era, laid down six 

 canons of art, of which the first and most 

 important principle concerned itself with " The 

 Life-Movement of the Spirit through the Rhythm 

 of Things." It is this " Life-Movement of the 

 Spirit " that I shall now endeavor to make clear to 

 you, disclosing the subtle bonds of rhythmic in- 

 fluence that connect every human being with the 

 vast spaces of the Universe, and open to him its 

 illimitable resources, if he but use them aright. 



The broad and general divisions of influence 

 throughout the Kosmos are positive and negative, 

 and all life upon the earth reflects these in all of its 

 component parts, whatsoever their diversity and 

 complexity. Every human being is an electric bat- 

 tery with the regulation of " poles " and develop- 

 ment of power under his own control. The physi- 

 cal organism is an exquisitely adjusted system of 

 electrical and magnetic activities, every positive hav- 

 ing its receptive negative, and every negative its 

 corresponding positive; and the harmonious inter- 



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