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corresponding exactly with the planets of the solar 

 system and influenced by them, which flow around 

 the spinal Chakras, every Chakra being itself, in 

 the activities therein centered, a minature copy of 

 the Zodiac with divisions of influence corresponding 

 to its heavenly signs. Several of these currents, 

 or even all, may be passing along at the same time 

 over the same nerve and around the same Chakra, 

 just as varying electric currents pass simultaneously 

 over the same wire. The multitudinous fibers in 

 a single nerve prevent any " interference." But 

 every Tattva will be more active in certain divis- 

 ions of the Chakra according to the position in the 

 Zodiac of the planetary influence; for the vibra- 

 tions of the microcosm correspond with those of 

 the macrocosm. 



These seven variations are all to be understood 

 as Tattvic modifications of Prana, and they would 

 flow on forever and aye within the body as with- 

 out in undisturbed harmony when Nature is serene, 

 and affected by her storms only when in planetary, 

 or Tattvic sympathy with them, but for the erratic 

 working of human free will. As already stated 

 many times, all disease is the result of disturbances 

 in the regular balance of the positive and negative, 

 or solar and lunar, currents of Prana, and of the 

 normal flow of the Tattvas; and human errors, 

 emotions, and deeds are the most common dis- 

 turbing factors. But the changes thus injected 



