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for Prdna, per se, cannot be restricted to number 

 and sheath since it is the Life in every sheath. 

 Mme. Blavatsky gave emphasis to this fact, and 

 though she gave Prdna a number in some dia- 

 grams, she omitted it in others. In many classi- 

 fications it is included, generally as the third Prin- 

 ciple; but the lowest plane of Prdna is compounded 

 of the microbes of science. " Fiery lives " direct 

 the constructive work of the building microbes. 

 The co-ordinating power of all these sheaths lies 

 in Prdna. It is through Prdna, by means of the 

 nervous system that the " I," the personality of 

 the body, acts upon and through them all; and is 

 responsible for the development of individuality as 

 Desire yields to the direction of Will, and soul- 

 fofce becomes an active and determining principle 

 in the life. 



In all schemes of correspondence there is one 

 unvarying agreement, the relation of Mars to 

 the fire-element Tejas, and to red and the Kdmic 

 sheath, or desire body; but in number it is vari- 

 ously considered as first, third, and even fourth. 

 As the body of living fire within, the Tejas sheath 

 seems essentially the first, for without it life would 

 be impossible. The lowering of normal tempera- 

 ture is the first cause of most disease. The pre- 

 ponderating influence of desires in moulding the 

 physical form, emotions changing the expression 

 of the face even from moment to moment, and the 



