CHAPTER XXXI 



HOW TO ACQUIRE RHYTHMIC BREATHING 



THE whole Law of the Rhythmic Breath 

 is now unfolded to you ; you know its im- 

 portance; you know that the vibrations 

 surrounding every human being (as also all thing 

 things from plants upward) are exactly sympto- 

 matic of internal conditions, being outward mani- 

 festations of those conditions; and you must real- 

 ize the importance of the character and purity of 

 the invisible color-forces which compose the hu- 

 man aura. Therefore, there remains but to con- 

 sider some details of the constant effect of the Law. 

 If we would hold ourselves receptive to the finer, 

 purer Tattvic currents flowing about us, it is im- 

 perative that the irregular fleeting waves of color 

 which commonly sweep rapidly as before gusts of 

 wind through the aura, be reduced to regular rhyth- 

 mic vibrations, otherwise they present a repellant 

 wall. Given an earnest desire to improve, with 

 control of those emotions generally recognized as 

 evil, nothing else so degrades and lowers the col- 

 ors as the all-too-common habit of depression; 

 nothing else so purifies and refines them, and en- 



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