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ceptively grateful for the invigorating rays of the 

 positive or solar vibrations. But there are high- 

 tides and low-tides of this influence according to 

 the direction of the solar rays; and every particle 

 of organic life upon the earth's teeming surface is 

 subjected further to the influence of minor currents 

 from the moon as she passes from one constella- 

 tion to another in her eccentric orbit. 



This varying strength of the solar and lunar 

 currents causes momentary changes in terrestrial 

 Prdna which are reflected in our bodies. It is an 

 ebb and flow, as it were ; a forward and backward 

 movement; and it is this Great Breath of the Uni- 

 verse that gives the impulse to organic breathing. 

 With its on-rush we inhale, and the current of 

 Prdna is sent to the farthest ends of the gross 

 vessels the nerve and blood channels of the 

 physique. The succeeding moment imparts the 

 backward impulse and with the receding flow of 

 the vital current, exhalation takes place. 



The throbbing of the heart, its expansion the 

 diastole and contraction the systole cor- 

 respond with the flow of Prdna. But the rapidity 

 of these inward and outward forward and back- 

 ward movements of Prdna varies in different 

 organisms. The influences which establish this in- 

 dividuality, inseparably associated with the corres- 

 pondencies between the macrocosm and the 



