214 The Law of the Rhythmic BreatK 



centration upon the solar plexus has an immediate 

 effect in calming and purifying the nerves and re- 

 storing the equilibrium. It is the most important 

 center upon which to concentrate for relief from any 

 disturbance of the digestive function, whether gas- 

 tric or intestinal. 



Next above Capricornus in the circle of the Zo- 

 diac, is the zodiacal influence of the soul, Aquarius. 

 The physical correspondence of this constellation 

 is with that part of the spinal cord situated between 

 the shoulders. Reference has already been made 

 to the mystic relations between Apas (water) and 

 the soul, and this makes still clearer the bond be- 

 tween the two. Soul is that Principle in all things 

 which relates the visible to the invisible; and in 

 humanity it is the real, immortal Self, the gar- 

 ment of the Spirit. It is that principle of univer- 

 sal love which makes the whole world kin. All 

 self-sacrifice and self-forgetfulness in devotion to 

 high principle is a manifestation of the soul. Only 

 by such exercise does the soul come into conscious 

 government of its own individual kingdom, a 

 conquest which must precede all realization of its 

 oneness with infinite life and with power. 



You must now have learned past forgetting that 

 our bodies are the fields of marvellously subtle ac- 

 tivities which, by reflection and transmutation from 

 one plane to another lower one, are gradually pre- 

 cipitated into the visible form that constitutes the 



