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and cramping, and nerves and muscles respond in- 

 stantly to the iniquitous maldirection. Discord 

 has set in and there is no more normal freedom. 

 Fear clamps the lungs in a vice more harmful even 

 than the external strictures of senseless clothing. 



The long-suffering body, restored to its rights, 

 and relegated to its true position in the septenary 

 chain of human principles, becomes a totally dif- 

 ferent thing from the incubus which generations 

 of men have dragged through life in the belief that 

 ills of the flesh were the natural and unavoidable 

 evils of living. Only the gross ignorance of the 

 primest necessities of healthful living has created 

 and fostered most of these ills, an ignorance 

 which in spite of a decade and a half of the most 

 active propaganda to spread the cult of health and 

 prevention of disease through healthful living, still 

 blinds the majority of mankind; and to the neg- 

 lect of no one prime need is so much suffering due 

 as to deprivation of fresh pure air! The purer the 

 air the purer are the Tattvic vibrations and the 

 higher their potencies. 



As life exists only from breath to breath, he who 

 but half-breaths only half-lives; and reduces his 

 tenure upon life to but a slender thread. The vi- 

 tal forces which are the source of all life and which 

 maintain and renew it, enter our bodies with every 

 breath; are rhythmic in the degree of its regular- 

 ity, and their harmony and normal balance depend 



