Circulation of Prana 135* 



Nature's warning signals to halt, the hour for 

 rest has come. When the positive current gains 

 more than ordinary strength, as when will-power 

 flogs an exhausted mind or body to continued ef- 

 fort, the senses are so over-stimulated that they 

 cease to respond to external excitants, and pro- 

 longed abuse causes their breakdown. After sun- 

 down, the heart the negative southern center 

 gathers the Prana to itself, whence it spreads grad- 

 ually into the left-side Nddls of the blood, and 

 returns from them into the nerves. At midnight 

 the two systems are again equalized in strength; 

 but at sunrise, the Prana has passed into the nerves 

 and is ready for the daily circuit, descending to the 

 spinal Chakra succeeding the one through which 

 it streamed the previous day. 



The moon, moving twelve times faster than the 

 sun, is the source of minor lunar currents of Prana 

 that move correspondingly faster than the solar 

 current whose diurnal circuit we have just traced. 

 These movements correspond with the movements 

 of the sun and moon through the zodiacal signs; 

 and their interaction is the immediate cause of the 

 periodical changes of breath. Thus while the/ 

 sun's rays are reflected in one Chakra, those or 

 the moon pass through twelve odd Chakras; and 

 the lunar current of Prana streams from the spine 

 to the heart in a fraction less than an hour, 58 

 m. 4 s. and returns in the same time. While it 



