j$2O fThe Law of the Rhythmic Breath 



IPrasad says, " Various diseases may be cured, and 

 good and bad tendencies imprinted on the Prana 

 by the power of sound;" because sound imparts 

 to the vital force its own colors, modified only 

 in degree by the individual Prana upon which sus- 

 ceptibility depends. Do you realize when listen- 

 ing to music that every tone has its distinguishing 

 color and throws the ether and the air into vibra- 

 tions of exquisite form, and thereby affects for 

 good or ill the hearer? 



Thus, a Tejas-coloTed song rouses heat and ex- 

 citement (as witness the effect of all patriotic 

 songs), and may provoke intense emotion. The 

 W kasha-colored song deepens melancholy and may 

 cause fear and f orgetfulness ; and as every emotion 

 of the human heart has its color, the sound of that 

 color tends to rouse its corresponding emotion. 

 The important science of color therapeutics, or 

 chromopathy is based upon this fact, as also all 

 musical therapeutics, or " medical music " as the 

 cult was called when first revived a hundred years 

 ago. 



The part that sound plays in our lives is so de- 

 preciated, so profoundly misunderstood, that too 

 great emphasis cannot be given to these particu- 

 lars; and repetition must be pardoned, for some 

 minds can be reached only by such reiteration. 



Here is a good maxim to be given a prominent 

 place in the home : 



