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prevalence of A pas stimulator of taste in the 

 throat. 



Besides these profoundly important centers, the 

 little finger of the left hand is influenced by the 

 Etheric-double (through the spleen, as is the right 

 through the liver; the little fingers corresponding 

 with these organs), and it is this sheath which 

 transmits all sense perceptions to the Kama-rupa, 

 the sheath of feeling and sensation; hence, in the 

 Etheric-double lies the mysterious power to re- 

 ceive them in abnormal ways, as seeing through 

 the ears and smelling with the toes. By so much 

 as one sense is weakened or dulled is the connec- 

 tion between the Etheric body and its counterpart 

 impaired. 



One immediate benefit derived from practicing 

 the breathing exercise for Prandydma, or control 

 of Prdna the exercise distinguished as the 

 " Held Breath " is that it invigorates and har- 

 monizes all these immensely important connections, 

 restoring them when disordered to their normal 

 balance and union, and by so much as they are 

 strengthened, strengthens the hold upon life itself. 



The psychic breath is the breath of the spirit, 

 and we cannot limit it to the thought-power setting 

 into vibration the molecules of the nerve-cells. It 

 is also rhe subtle breath of the Etheric body 

 through the pores of the skin and it is something 



