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INNER ^BREATH 
 
The Inner" ^Breath 
 
 11 Vivendi Causa " 
 
 By 3 
 GRACE cM. <BROWN 
 
 oA Revelation of Old 
 World Wisdom in 
 cNew World Form 
 
 'Published by 
 
 Ihe business Philosopher^ 
 
 cMemphis, Term. 
 

 
 COPYRIGHT, 1922 <By* 
 GRACE cM. 'BROWN 
 
 Western <Printin& & Lithographing Cc 
 'Racine, Wisconsin 
 
 A6 74 77 8 ^ 30 1922 
 
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FOREWORD 
 
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 In GOD'S own TIME all things are revealed. 
 
 In GOD'S own wisdom the accurate way is shown. 
 
 Saving the world means solving its problems and 
 absolving it from sorrow and sin. 
 
 We are alive according to the quality and degree 
 of our own desire and there are many who desire a 
 practical method of accomplishment, who know what 
 they want and they want to know how to obtain it. 
 
 For there is always the way. 
 
 GOD is great enough to solve and to save and to 
 show the way. 
 
 The philosophy of the Inner Breath has been the 
 way of salvation and of absolution on physical and 
 mental and spiritual lines in many parts of the 
 Orient for many thousands of years; but until this 
 last century almost nothing has been known con- 
 cerning it in the Occident. It has always been 
 taught by word of mouth as it has heretofore been 
 considered too sacred to be published. 
 
 Now however the time has come for this philoso- 
 phy to be taught openly that to all mankind shall be 
 related this method of accomplishment. 
 
 These Vivendi Causa lessons are a definite method 
 of utilizing the pure and simple as well as the prac- 
 tical philosophy of the Inner Breath. 
 
 GOD is all that IS and there is no height and no 
 Depth where THAT is not. 
 
 GRACE M. BROWN. 
 
Concerning The Life Force 
 
 This truth is not for babes, 
 
 Nor yet for prudes; 
 
 Neither is it for the man who fears 
 
 To look into the deeps 
 
 Of his soul consciousness. 
 
 This word goes forth 
 
 To those who dare to think; 
 
 Who have the courage 
 
 Of their own convictions 
 
 And who live the truth they know. 
 
 May the flame of love go with it. 
 
 May its force endure 
 
 Its puny teachings, into thought so mighty 
 
 That all sorrow and all sin, 
 
 All poverty and pain and death 
 
 Shall be no more. 
 
CHAPTER I. 
 
 Concerning the Life Force 
 
 The desire of the human raee is always to- 
 ward the light, that ever strengthening light 
 which leads to knowledge and its accompany- 
 ing power. 
 
 Mankind may not be consciously aware of 
 its own desire but the intelligence of the hu- 
 man heart always responds to the divine in- 
 tention which is for the good of all manifesta- 
 tion of life. 
 
 In the human manifestation, the good of 
 life means health and wealth and love and 
 wisdom, according to the present plane of its 
 universal journey toward the fulfillment of 
 life's intention and process. 
 
 The one vital essential for the success of 
 the human race toward knowledge and power 
 is that man shall understand his relation to 
 the universe and that he shall give his atten- 
 tion to the responsibility which he has as- 
 sumed concerning his part of the externali- 
 zation. 
 
 That he may understand his relation to the 
 universal life, the man will commence by de- 
 siring to know God — and any desire for true 
 understanding and true relationship, invari- 
 
8 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 ably brings its response in the opportunity 
 for fulfillment. 
 
 The heart which is uplifted toward the 
 truth is always related to the truth revelation 
 in the degree that it is ready and willing to 
 receive. 
 
 He who is not ready, whose desire has not 
 yet evolved from the animal plane of self- 
 gratification, is not to be criticised for his 
 apparent density; he may have selected a 
 more difficult path of evolution than we can 
 understand and he may at any moment finish 
 his journey thereon and enter upon another 
 pathway and we must know that his process 
 is the best for him and is not our concern. 
 
 Your problem and mine is that we do our 
 part according to our present highest under- 
 standing, thereby being true to ourselves and 
 to those who are related to our part of life. 
 
 There is no mystery in truth ; humanity is 
 a part of God or it could not be externalized 
 and existent — its goal is completeness and 
 according to its desire and its love for God 
 and His pure goodness, will the human creat- 
 ure know itself both relatively and abso- 
 lutely. 
 
 It is thru its desire and love for God that 
 humanity perceives its responsibility in and 
 with the whole divine manifestation of infi- 
 nite life. 
 
 Each human being is expressing as much 
 of God as he is willing to be and therefore to 
 externalize. 
 
CONCERNING THE LIFE FORCE 9 
 
 Therefore, Man is not only the master of 
 his own destiny, but he is the arbiter and 
 co-operator of and with the whole of his race. 
 
 He is here on the earth planet, not only to 
 solve his own life problem but to share in the 
 solving (saving) of his race. 
 
 Life is the energized action of the infinite 
 intelligence. 
 
 Breath is the sosrce and the intelligent 
 force underlying and interpenetrating all for- 
 mulation of the life wave. 
 
 Breath is the soul of life and the inspira- 
 tion in all of its activity and manifestation or 
 externalization. 
 
 Breath and Life are inseparable and co-op- 
 erative, both being absolutely essential in 
 the process of formulating the spirit sub- 
 stance into its external manifestation which 
 manifestation is necessary in order to give 
 the soul its required experience. 
 
 Life, energized and inspired by the breath, 
 is the actively intelligent force in the process 
 of the evolution of the universe. 
 
 Breath is responsive to the soul energy 
 alone. 
 
 Soul is the centralized consciousness of 
 the entire manifestation of Being, which 
 manifestation is the process of evolution; 
 Soul being good in essence and God in opera- 
 tion. 
 
 The human body, which is the present ve- 
 
10 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 hide of the soul, is the result of the life en- 
 ergy caused by the breath of its own Soul 
 intelligence. 
 
 Therefore, the human body creates and 
 qualifies itself, becoming thru its own selec- 
 tive power, universal in its operation and God- 
 like in its attributes. 
 
 Life is the force back of all evolution and 
 evolution implies involution. You cannot 
 evolve something which is not already in- 
 volved. 
 
 So Life must express both in inspiration 
 and expiration and the Breath of the ever- 
 living God evolves all form thru the inspir- 
 ing and expiring force of the universe — and 
 life being the energized action of a universal 
 intelligence, it naturally follows that there 
 are many differing phases of its manifest- 
 ing power — and these are recognized by stu- 
 dents of occult law as the finer forces of na- 
 ture. 
 
 Nature, which is the result of the mate- 
 rialization into form of the pure spirit sub- 
 stance as it responds to the life energy thru 
 the medium of mind, requires the dual force 
 for all of its operations ; — this dual force is 
 founded upon the life and the breath, — one 
 being spirit essence and the other being vi- 
 bratory action. 
 
 The breath energy qualifies the Life energy 
 by its divine attribute of intelligence; — and 
 in all of the dual operation in nature, the re- 
 sult of its qualifying process is evidenced in 
 its material as- well as its spiritual expres- 
 
CONCERNING THE LIFE FORCE 11 
 
 sion, in the lower animals as well as in the hu- 
 man manifestation. 
 
 Among the finer forces of nature, we see 
 that the love essence, which is cohesive in 
 quality, — requires the positive, expansive 
 energy of wisdom to render it constructively 
 operative. 
 
 We also see that the Hope Substance of 
 Spirit must have the force of intention to give 
 it motive power, while Faith is always accom- 
 panied by understanding to render it demon- 
 strable and practically operative. 
 
 There is no growth as we understand 
 growth ; the sum total of the Universe neither 
 increases nor diminishes. 
 
 There is only manifestation, — a constant 
 inhaling and exhaling of the divine energy, 
 which, adjusting and re-adjusting, directing 
 and re-directing, formulating and re-formu- 
 lating, generating and re-generating, and so 
 on until ages and ages have fulfilled the su- 
 preme intention of the allrknowing, all-con- 
 structive, ever-living and ever-breathing In- 
 telligence. 
 
 The human being is the epitome of the di- 
 vine being, — endowed with His attributes and 
 co-opertion with Him in the intention of real- 
 izing the truth of universal life and of fulfill- 
 ing the purpose of its divinely accurate and 
 mighty plan. 
 
 The race has evolved beyond the plane of 
 mere animal desire and gratification and its 
 soul intention is toward the God of itself. 
 
12 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 Humanity is merging into divinity, — there- 
 fore the human being is now entering a dif- 
 ferent and more definite plane of conscious- 
 ness, a new measurement as it were, than it 
 has heretofore touched, where its dominant 
 desire is to know completely the truth of it- 
 self and to demonstrate the thing it knows 
 which is goodness. 
 
 When the human being enters into the in- 
 ner consciousness of himself whereby he can, 
 thru his soul intention, control the breath of 
 his life, he becomes master of his part of life 
 and consequently master of himself and until 
 a man is master of himself, he is not equal to 
 the mastery of his life conditions. 
 
 The purpose of these lessons is to give a 
 method of self mastery thru the realization 
 of the inner breath control. 
 
 There are as many centers of consciousness 
 in universal life as there are souls in the Uni- 
 verse. 
 
 The soul of man is a portion of the soul of 
 the Universe, measured by himself, qualified 
 by himself and developed by himself, — just 
 as his mind is a portion of the infinite Mind. 
 
 Each soul is an entity of dynamic power, — 
 inbreathing and outbreathing the vitalized 
 and vitalizing energy of the soul breath of the 
 universe and each soul is generating and re- 
 generating its physical externalization ac- 
 cording to its desire and its quality and its 
 consequent selection. 
 
 Each atom of the cosmic substance which 
 
CONCERNING THE LIFE FORCE 13 
 
 is the spirit substance, is intelligent in the 
 degree of its breath activity. 
 
 No matter how inert a form may appear, 
 the fact that it appears in form, shows its in- 
 telligence and, as the atom selects and in- 
 breathes its own quality of energy from out 
 the universe — it assumes its part and place 
 in the universal externalization process of 
 evolution. 
 
 No form of intelligent life can be a victim 
 of circumstances because every formulated 
 expression of life attracts whatever its ne- 
 cessity and quality requires from out the uni- 
 verse and thereby it assumes its place of ex- 
 perience in the development of its individual- 
 ity thru consciousness. 
 
 Consciousness on any plane opens the ave- 
 nue for another step in evolution, and, when 
 a step is taken, naturally the view is broader, 
 and another kind of experience is attracted ; 
 and when that experience is assimilated and 
 its usefulness is finished the attraction is im- 
 mediately directed toward more and greater 
 forms of experience on other and broader 
 planes of life, possibly on another planet. 
 
 There could be no God were there not ab- 
 solute order expressed in justice in the life 
 of the universe wherein His life is in the pro- 
 cess of externalization. 
 
 We have lived thru many forms of the in- 
 finite manifestation and the quality in us, 
 which we ourselves have generated, is the 
 quality which attracts the circumstances in 
 which we find ourselves to-day. 
 
14 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 No thing can interfere with us but our- 
 selves and no one can glorify us but our- 
 selves, — we are responsible in and with the 
 whole of the universal experience which 
 means, in and with the whole of God's life. 
 
 Each human creature, indeed, each living 
 creature, must express his part of life dif- 
 ferently because his position is different and 
 he will naturally concentrate his energies ac- 
 cording to his own angle, which is the angle 
 of his own measurement. 
 
 While there is only one life, there are many 
 differentiations of that life and each expres- 
 sion of Being attracts its part of the one life 
 according to its own measurement of its ca- 
 pacity and it utilizes what it attracts accord- 
 ing to the power of its own intentive force. 
 
 The value of everything in the universe de- 
 pends upon its relation to every other thing 
 and therefore upon its usefulness in the di- 
 vine economy in the process of nature's ex- 
 ternalization of life thru the inbreathing and 
 outbreathing of an infinite intelligence. 
 
 Intelligence demands economy on all planes. 
 
 Infinite intelligence economizes divinely 
 and universally, — were it not so, the whole 
 scheme of creation would be one vast realm 
 of confusion with the human symbol unex- 
 pressed, — because the human creature is a 
 complete and mathematical adaptation of the 
 universal plan and is therefore the microcosm 
 of a divinely accurate macrocosm. 
 
 Human beings are finite centers of activity 
 
CONCERNING THE LIFE FORCE 15 
 
 and being such, they have the power of as- 
 similation and utilization on any and every 
 plane which has expression in the infinite life. 
 
 Therefore the human creature has a re- 
 sponsibility in connection with his part of the 
 universal manifestation because he has the 
 power, — whether or not he is conscious of it, 
 — to qualify with his breath intelligence 
 every element and every force which he can 
 reach and touch with his thought whenever 
 he is willing, which really means, ready to 
 know the truth of and for himself. 
 
 Divine economy demands utilization. 
 
 Universal economy demands externaliza- 
 tion. 
 
 The two in one, insisting that every force 
 shall be in accurate and orderly action and 
 that every formulated thought shall be ex- 
 pressed in life's manifestation. 
 
 Economy, Divine economy, is the accurate 
 adjustment of substance and energy; it has 
 nothing to do with stinginess or lavishness, — 
 both of which lead to waste and loss, one to 
 the loss of physical power and the other to 
 the loss of financial power. 
 
 One thing which is vitally important in all 
 human attainment is for men to realize that 
 they are a part of the whole manifestation of 
 life and not apart from it. Also, that they 
 are sharers in its process. Then they will 
 recognize their responsibility in the process 
 and will perceive that it is their privilege to 
 
1G THE INNER BREATH 
 
 control their part of the life force or it could 
 not be their responsibility. 
 
 Responsibility is the ability to respond to 
 the demand and there is never a demand upon 
 a soul unless the soul is equal or able to re- 
 spond to that demand. 
 
 It naturally follows that a man whose de- 
 sire is for good will desire to bring into his 
 part of Life the things which are good and 
 which relate to good, — he will see that opu- 
 lence on all planes is for him whenever he 
 is equal to responding to the opulent demand. 
 
 He will know that health and wealth and 
 joy are the result of intelligent co-operation 
 with intelligent life forces and then he rea- 
 lizes that there must be a method whereby 
 he can, thru his intelligent endeavor, reach 
 into that source of all goodness and attract 
 and use it for his own. 
 
 There is method in all process which pro- 
 duces results. 
 
 And it is the method which, defined and 
 applied gives an immediate touch with the 
 infinite intelligence thru the relation of the 
 breath with the finer forces of life and to the 
 brain centers of the man which we intend to 
 give in these lessons. 
 
 This knowledge will only be attracted and 
 accepted by those who will reverence its 
 truth and use it constructively. 
 
 In its operation lies the key to power, — not 
 the key to dominant personal supremacy, — 
 
CONCERNING THE LIFE FORCE 17 
 
 but the power of wise and loving accomplish- 
 ment which trends toward the emancipation 
 of a race which has placed itself in the bond- 
 age of disease and poverty and which, unless 
 it soon recalls itself, will lead to its dissolu- 
 tion. 
 
 Therefore, knowing our own responsibility 
 in giving this key to our students, we place 
 our faith in them in the firm belief that thru 
 this apparently simple method of the inner 
 breath control, it will become a vitalized and 
 practical outreach for the entire dissolution 
 of all so-called evil and for the enthronement 
 of supreme good. 
 
 Before a man can comprehend any method, 
 however simple it may be, he must under- 
 stand something of his instrument of opera- 
 tion and of the substance upon which he is 
 to operate, — so before we can understand the 
 process or the method of breath control, — we 
 will give our attention to the universal or 
 cosmic substance in its relation to the human 
 substance and to the law of their correspond- 
 ence and consequent co-operation. 
 
 No human science ever has or ever will ex- 
 plain the origin or the alchemy of the force 
 which we will call life or of its activity, — be- 
 cause science emerges from the reasoning 
 process of the human brain while the life 
 cause and effect is the essence of an infinitely 
 divine intelligence. 
 
 The first impulse of intelligent life is mani- 
 fested in desire. 
 
 Desire is the intelligent aspiration and the 
 
18 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 first conscious response to the call of evolu- 
 tion. 
 
 Desire is the soul attribute and invariably 
 leads to the experience which is necessary for 
 the soul development. 
 
 Every atom of the universe, whether ex- 
 pressed or unexpressed, is endowed with po- 
 tential substance and energy which will be 
 aroused by desire and manifested into form 
 by the constructive energy which is created 
 by the dynamic union of divine Love and 
 Wisdom thru divine Intention. 
 
 In human desire, it sometimes occurs that 
 an individual has allowed his physical senses 
 to dominate his mind instead of keeping his 
 mind free and clean for his soul inspiration. 
 
 Then impulse instead of desire dominates, 
 or rather animates his motive and may lead 
 him into destructive action; but if he will 
 steady his thought sufficiently to allow the 
 soul inspiration to become master, his soul 
 desire will lead him into the law of his own 
 orbit once more and his progress will not be 
 seriously impeded by the brief reign of the 
 sense impulse. 
 
 Desire, true desire, — always leads to intel- 
 ligent goodness. 
 
 Every activity of the divine intention is 
 aroused and stimulated thru desire. 
 
 Every formulation of mind in the whole 
 realm of spirit substance is outlined and fin- 
 ally impressed and expressed by the intentive 
 
CONCERNING THE LIFE FORCE 19 
 
 force which immediately follows the desire 
 energy. 
 
 No soul longing is; ever a trifle, no matter 
 how simple or how unworthy of time and at- 
 tention it may appear. 
 
 Ignoring of soul desire may lead to a mis- 
 understanding of one's self which is apt to 
 develop into unfaith and unfaith in one's self 
 soon leads to lack of faith in God. 
 
 Desire shows us in which grade of the earth 
 seminary we belong and it is expression in the 
 fulfillment of that desire which brings us 
 into the attainment of our earth education 
 and also gives us freedom to leave the earth 
 realm and go into another phase of universal 
 unf oldment and another plane of infinite pro- 
 gression. 
 
 When men know that there is nothing 
 small and nothing great in the God conscious- 
 ness, which means the whole of life, they will 
 recognize and respond to their soul desires, 
 whether or not they understand the impor- 
 tance of so doing; and their reward is that 
 knowledge which always leads to the realiza- 
 tion of the factual truth of life and its mani- 
 festation which is the expression of health 
 and opulence on all planes. 
 
 Knowledge is the absolute consciousness of 
 fact. 
 
 Knowledge admits of no argument and no 
 compromise and is entirely beyond the plane 
 of delusion. 
 
 Every manifestation of the life substance 
 
20 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 is in process at the point of its present knowl- 
 edge because creation is externalized accord- 
 ing to its awareness of the God power within 
 it. 
 
 God is the knower and His works are the 
 known, — and only that which is known can 
 live and endure and actually be alive. There- 
 fore every form manifest which is not con- 
 structed upon accurate lines, that is, upon the 
 truth of its known law of being, is in the wave 
 of dissolution and that part of it which is not 
 known and therefore not true, will eventually 
 disconnect from its immediate point of exter- 
 nalization and return to the unknown to wait 
 for its next opportunity. 
 
 The human manifestation creates himself 
 thru his own knowledge of himself according 
 to the desire of his soul and of his intention 
 to become what he knows. 
 
 Consequently the human creature is alive 
 at the point of his knowledge and he knows 
 just as much as he is willing to live ; — in truth 
 and in fact, he is the product of his own de- 
 sire, — becoming whatever he himself desires 
 and intends to know. 
 
 Truth is the evidence of God. 
 
 Truth is not a substance nor yet an energy ; 
 it is the perfectly balanced operation of the 
 finer forces of nature which are the substance 
 and energy of God's universe. 
 
 Freedom is the natural form as it is the 
 natural action of all truth expression, which 
 
CONCERNING THE LIFE FORCE 21 
 
 is the reason that it is the aspiration of all 
 true soul desire. 
 
 No matter how various and apparently in- 
 definite is the operation of the universal law, 
 the result of which is truth, it is always ac- 
 curately balanced, exactly proportioned and 
 consequently perfectly free. 
 
 Otherwise it is not true. 
 
 Truth and freedom are inseparable. 
 
 No force in nature can be bound ever so 
 slightly if it operates on truth lines and all 
 substance and all energy must be accurately 
 balanced before they become united for and 
 in the truth service. 
 
 The Soul knows its own necessity, — rthe 
 Mind, which we shall study in our next les- 
 son, is the soul medium and transmitter and 
 should be under the soul dominion, — also the 
 mind should be supreme master of the physi- 
 cal senses and all else which operates thru the 
 flesh body. 
 
 Under such balanced action there could be 
 no falsity in flesh or condition because the 
 man would be co-operative with himself, — 
 and all delusion comes to the man only when 
 the unit of himself is divided against itself, 
 thereby breaking the law of its unity. 
 
 However, the soul makes no impossible 
 demands ; the human being is never inspired 
 beyond his capacity, — beyond that it would 
 not be inspiration but ambition which is not 
 related to the soul plane. 
 
22 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 He who knows of himself will soon learn to 
 discriminate between his sense and his soul 
 desire. 
 
 It frequently occurs that the mind con- 
 sciously .ignores the sense requirement and 
 obeys the sense demand ; then sacrifice of the 
 flesh results and the man finds himself at a 
 disadvantage, he has weakened his magnetic 
 power and has weakened his magnetic brain 
 and so becomes blurred in consciousness and 
 indefinite in purpose. 
 
 Intelligence is only operative upon the 
 plane of truth. 
 
 All of the misdirection of the life force 
 and its accompanying pain is caused by the 
 externalized ignorant activity which results 
 from bondage thru thwarted truth expres- 
 sion. 
 
 The true man, he who loves the God of 
 himself and who dares to abide in that 
 stronghold, is free in body as well as in mind 
 and soul. 
 
 The deluded man, he who is bound in the 
 shackles of convention and opinion and a- 
 fraidness, is entirely unaware of his own 
 divine power and its great possibilities, — so 
 the joy of health and wealth and love and all 
 else of the human part of life, does not pene- 
 trate beneath the surface of his fear-encrust- 
 ed form. 
 
 Every universal quality is potential in the 
 human being because man is the epitome of 
 the universe and in him is the germ of every 
 
CONCERNING THE LIFE FORCE 23 
 
 force existent and he therefore has the power 
 to externalize and to bring into expression 
 everything upon which he centers his atten- 
 tion and intention. 
 
 The individual who is true to himself and 
 consequently true to every other soul is free 
 to respond to his desire, he is master of his 
 part of life because he knows himself and 
 knows that he is greater than any circum- 
 stance that he has attracted to himself; he 
 has become free in consciousness and is open 
 to every plane of truth. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 Concerning the Mind Action 
 
 I claim my own, the God of me 
 And lo, — it manifests. 
 
 I call the wondrous past, 
 
 The everlasting now and all there is 
 
 And it is mine. 
 
 I pray to know of Thee dear God, 
 The cause of all Thou art, — 
 Thy Mind, Thy Soul, Thy Form,—- 
 Of which I, Thy child, am part. 
 
 Ah, — blessed Truth, the veil is rent; 
 Thy living breath, love vitalized, 
 Enfolds the swooning race. 
 Behold a slumbering world responds 
 Inbreathes Thy breath of life 
 And God and Man are One. 
 
 Great breath of God's unrest. 
 By thought made manifest. 
 In living form expressed 
 Thru universal mind. 
 
 Mind is the medium of soul expression and 
 of all material'manifestation. 
 
CONCERNING THE MIND ACTION 25 
 
 Thru the intentive force of the divine Ego, 
 — that supreme Being whom we call God and 
 who is all substance and all action, the mind 
 is energized and becomes the transmitter of 
 infinite life. 
 
 Mental activity, known as thought, results 
 from the energizing process and thought 
 therefore, is the vibration of the mind which 
 formulates thru the projective power of life 
 and its breath intelligence, the primal sub- 
 stance. 
 
 The primal substance, which, from the 
 viewpoint of the occult student, is pure spirit, 
 is sometimes called the Azoic fluid which is 
 supposedly null and void, unintelligent be- 
 cause unexpressed. 
 
 Thought, being the activity of the mind, is 
 the universal current of consciousness and 
 does not relate alone to human mind action, — 
 any creature in the universe may use as much 
 of the thought energy as it is capable of at- 
 tracting and of assimilating,— consequently 
 thought becomes a human possession in the 
 degree that the human being responds and 
 relates himself to the universal intelligence. 
 
 Therefore the human mind is a portion of 
 the infinite or divine mind; it does not cre- 
 ate thought, — but it does attract and manifest 
 according to its power or rather according to 
 its capacity, all the attributes of the divine 
 mind and it selects and formulates and so 
 utilizes the finer forces of nature in response 
 to the individual's own intention and purpose. 
 
 There is but the one mind and all life's for- 
 
2G THE INNER BREATH 
 
 ces operate thru that one medium which can- 
 not be separated although its differentiation 
 is endless and unlimited and its possibilities 
 are greater than humanity has yet perceived. 
 
 These differentiations are classified by stu- 
 dents according to their quality. Those re- 
 lating to the finer forces of nature and per- 
 taining to the Fourth dimension are called 
 subjective or infinite, and those on the more 
 external plane are known as belonging to ob- 
 jective or finite form of mind. 
 
 These two classifications cover the differ- 
 ing expressions of the human creature in his 
 present limited power of formulation both as 
 to appearance and language; — the human 
 creature is only in the infancy of his glorious 
 and everlasting manifestation of life. 
 
 He who controls his thought is master of 
 his destiny. 
 
 All manifestation is the result of centered 
 and concentered mental action, operating in 
 response to life and its breath intelligence; 
 the spirit substance being formulated and 
 placed in practical relation by the mind en- 
 ergy which is controlled by the ego and ener- 
 gized by its desire. 
 
 Every thing which is expressed in externals 
 was first outlined in internals; — everything 
 which is formulated in matter was first for- 
 mulated in thought then expressed in spirit 
 essence and then in the grosser form of spirit 
 substance which we term matter. 
 
 Before we can enter into the subject of 
 
CONCERNING THE MIND ACTION 27 
 
 Breath Control, — we must understand some- 
 thing of Mind Control and we must perceive 
 the relation of the mind thru which we ope- 
 rate, to life and to breath and to our own Be- 
 ing; therefore we shall first glimpse some 
 suggestions concerning Mind Control. 
 
 Concentration is the conscious balancing of 
 the finite and the infinite Mind. 
 
 Concentration is an attitude of Mind rather 
 than an act of the Mind. 
 
 The power of the human thought lies in 
 the accurate adjustment and worthy utiliza- 
 tion of the thought energy by the human dy- 
 namo, that mighty man-magnet which co- 
 operates with the universal thought energy 
 until his portion of the infinite mind, trans- 
 mits his portion of life as he decrees. 
 
 The entire relation of human life to uni- 
 versal life depends upon the man's ability to 
 conserve and control and thereby concentrate 
 his thought action; — men are measured, or, 
 rather, they measure themselves, by their 
 capacity to contact the infinite mind action, 
 which is dynamic in action both in attraction 
 and projection; which Mind action is the vi- 
 bratory energy which we term Thought. 
 
 When concentration is once developed and 
 the mental power is strengthened in the pro- 
 cess, the evidence of that power is continu- 
 ous; the mind vibrates in a higher key, its 
 quality is purified and its power of attraction 
 is vitally increased. 
 
 The powerful vibration caused by a con- 
 
28 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 centrated thought is an absolute force and 
 when it is constructive in its quality — it is 
 eternal and enduring in its result as well as in 
 its radiation. 
 
 All human activity is the effect of the dy- 
 namic human desire and when we desire with 
 concentrated good intention, the action is 
 free from doubt and fear and we attract the 
 forces of divinity and therefore we manifest 
 the good of life. 
 
 It is the power of the divine attraction upon 
 which we shall herein concentrate. 
 
 The whole of God's great goodness 
 
 Is moulded on one plan 
 And it all emerges glorified 
 
 In the consciousness of man. 
 
 The concentrated mind gives its attention 
 directly and immediately, thus wasting nei- 
 ther time nor energy. 
 
 It selects and admits a thought without re- 
 servation and adjusts and formulates and 
 uses it with the courage of its own strength. 
 
 Men may be taught by others but until they 
 perceive a thing for themselves thru the 
 power of their own centered thought energy 
 and until they assimilate its force for them- 
 selves, they cannot know it, no matter how 
 much they have been taught. 
 
 And we must know things for ourselves 
 before they belong to us and before we can 
 assume them, — otherwise there could be no 
 
CONCERNING THE MIND ACTION 29 
 
 individual responsibility among men and they 
 would soon lose their divine right of indivi- 
 duality. 
 
 Each point in consciousness is the center 
 of its own universe. 
 
 Each individual, being the result of his own 
 concentrating and affinitizing capacity, is 
 the center of the universe from his especial 
 position therein and he naturally views life 
 from his own angle in that position and as he 
 views life from his own angle, he qualifies his 
 part of life according to his centralizing 
 power which emanates from his soul desire. 
 
 The quality of the human portion of the 
 infinite mind may be strengthened and puri- 
 fied in its action thru and by an effort of the 
 will and there is always a method for that 
 and every other accomplishment until the 
 man has grown greater than material mental 
 process. 
 
 Men are seldom conscious of the process of 
 their mental action which is the reason they 
 are seldom masters of it. 
 
 When we become aware that there is no at- 
 tainment without method of some sort we 
 may consider it worth while to center our at- 
 tention and to investigate a process which 
 will give us the ability to control our own 
 thought energy and thereby to rule our own 
 part of life. 
 
 Nothing satisfies the truth seeker but 
 reality, for no thing which is not true and real 
 can possibly endure for any length of time; 
 
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 30 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 therefore only real things are living things 
 and only good is alive. 
 
 With the desire of the human creature to 
 know the truth and to be alive in good, comes 
 a concentrated intention which causes a slip- 
 ping away of delusion and the advent of a 
 broader and finer perception of life and its 
 purpose. 
 
 Then the man is becoming conscious that 
 he is alive in the breath of God, — he is be- 
 coming good ; his humanity is blending with 
 his divinity and he is approaching the place 
 in infinite life where he can truthfully de- 
 clare his unity with good and truly say: "I 
 and the Father are one." 
 
 The Will is a soul attribute and the first 
 step in the process of Mind mastery is to 
 give attention to the soul intention and to 
 center that attention whenever and however 
 the soul directs. 
 
 Attention steadies the Mind, attracts the 
 selected thought and holds it objective until 
 contemplation, which is the next step in the 
 process of concentration, fixes and estab- 
 lishes the thought in the mind and adjusts 
 it to the immediate requirement and neces- 
 sity as well as to the desire. 
 
 Contemplation is upon the plane of reason ; 
 it analyzes and regulates and decides ; then, 
 having formulated a decision thru its bal- 
 ancing power, meditation naturally follows 
 and the student enters upon a realm of un- 
 derstanding which leads him to knowledge. 
 
CONCERNING THE MIND ACTION 31 
 
 Mental mastery must be inspired by the 
 soul, which is that more subtle part of God's 
 life which is the substance of the individual 
 ego of the human being and which is the 
 cause of the human expression and the in- 
 spiration of its action. 
 
 The physical body of man is the concen- 
 trated magnet for all of the finer forces of 
 nature and it is also the instrument for the 
 intelligent regulation of the universal thought 
 force. 
 
 In order to be master of himself and of his 
 part of life, the man must be master of his 
 flesh body and of his instruments of external- 
 ization which are the six brain centers and 
 the seven physical senses, which in his pres- 
 ent plane of evolution are his mediums of ex- 
 pression. 
 
 Every externalized atom of the great spir- 
 it substance is an intelligent atom. 
 
 These atoms which compose the flesh of 
 the human being, are developing into a more 
 conscious intelligence and so respond more 
 immediately to the dynamic and concentrated 
 thought energy. 
 
 Consequently a man becomes in actual flesh 
 substance whatever his thoughts represent; 
 if his thoughts are constructive, attaching 
 him to the life current, his body responds in 
 health and his environment to wealth; if on 
 the contrary his thoughts are destructive and 
 therefore weakening, — his soul energy has 
 not the necessary co-operation for its ex- 
 
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 32 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 pression and some sort of disintegration, us- 
 ually of the body, results. 
 
 As we become comprehensive of the divine 
 within us, or in other words of our relation 
 to the universe, we commence to interpret 
 our thought force and to realize that it is our 
 material and our capital for our human life 
 action and that in order to make the highest 
 use of it, we must control it. 
 
 So we commence to study ourselves and we 
 open our eyes and our ears to the possibilities 
 of this mighty mental energy which is so vast 
 that it is the transmitter for the entire ope- 
 ration of the universal life force and then we 
 perceive that we must give it our attention 
 and concentrate upon it if we would bring our- 
 selves into the opulence of life action which 
 we desire. 
 
 While we are studying truth from the uni- 
 versal standpoint and seeing ourselves as 
 part of the universe, we cannot ignore the 
 fact of our human requirement and its claim, 
 — also that we can only perceive the divinity 
 of ourselves thru our own humanity. 
 
 In order to do this we must work from our 
 human standpoint and commence by ruling 
 our part of life and we soon perceive that the 
 first step in such, or in any other mastery, is 
 to conserve our energy that we may eliminate 
 confusion and so center our forces for action ; 
 in other words, to concentrate our part of the 
 universal energy. 
 
 No thing can act outside of its own activity 
 as no thing can breathe outside of its own at^ 
 
CONCERNING THE MIND ACTION 33 
 
 mosphere; neither can we think outside and 
 apart from Mind, — but we can realize our dif- 
 ferentiation and our differing angle of vision 
 within ourselves and we can adjust our every 
 attribute and our every claim according to 
 the desire of our souls. 
 
 In order to practically formulate our own 
 conception of the infinite life so as to bring it 
 in line for our finite use, let us forget all the 
 abstract statements which have been written 
 and taught concerning the allness of Mind 
 and concentration and holding the thought, 
 etc., and let us perceive from the angle of 
 our own position in the universe, just where 
 we stand and where we are and where we de- 
 sire to be and what we desire to do. 
 
 For this hour, our concern shall be with 
 ourselves ; for this present moment we shall 
 give our attention to the deeps of our own im- 
 mediate problem ; we shall not find it difficult 
 to center our thought therein. 
 
 Are you manifesting health of body? 
 
 Are you attracting opulence of purse? 
 
 Are you filled with the joy of living? 
 
 Are you awake to the good and the beauty 
 of your fellow man ? 
 
 Are you deserving the love and the respect 
 of humanity ? 
 
 Are you aware of your own God-ness ? 
 
 If yes, — then you are balanced in the law of 
 your own Being and need not seek further for 
 
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 34 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 such attainment; you are. ready to take the 
 next step for the glorification of the race and 
 the upliftment of your part of life. 
 
 If no, — then something is out of balance, 
 something needs reconstructing, you are in 
 need of your own immediate attention and 
 you had better waste no time in directing 
 your attention and your intention toward the 
 lack, and then toward the method of relating 
 yourself to the place of health and wealth and 
 joy and love. 
 
 It is a waste of time and of energy to hold 
 to an abstract thought which you do not com- 
 prehend and which therefore cannot enter 
 your realm of consciousness because you are 
 not free from your own delusions which must 
 be dissolved by understanding as well as by 
 faith. 
 
 Before you can center your forces upon a 
 higher thing, you will make room for their 
 activity by displacing the lesser thing. 
 
 When people say they cannot concentrate, 
 they mean that they have not the ability to 
 abstract, or the power of abstraction. 
 
 Which means that they are holding on to 
 their troubles and personal grievances until 
 they imagine they cannot abstract them from 
 their thoughts long enough to think about 
 God and Good ; and of course they cannot vi- 
 brate in the opulent current of life because 
 they are holding on so intently to its poverty. 
 
 The entire trouble with the race is that it 
 closes its heart to God. We do not realize 
 
CONCERNING THE MIND ACTION 35 
 
 that good is the force which clarifies and 
 makes room for more good. We are so in 
 the habit of exalting our personality that our 
 motives become confused and we find our- 
 selves lacking in the good things of life. 
 
 It is not considered good form to speak 
 about God in polite society, — those who de- 
 clare their intimacy with God are avoided and 
 considered fanatical. 
 
 Please Heaven, this process shall be re- 
 versed when Humanity is ready to declare its 
 freedom from poverty of flesh and of purse 
 by abstracting its personal selfishness and at- 
 tracting the divine selflessness. 
 
 It is absolutely essential for the continu- 
 ance of the race as well as for its development 
 that men shall become individualized and 
 think individually and definitely and con- 
 structively for themselves, — only by so doing 
 can they use their mental energy accurately 
 and so become worthy to enter the plane of 
 mastery, the spirit of which is breath realiza- 
 tion and breath control. 
 
 If you declare that you cannot concentrate 
 for yourself, that you cannot control yourself, 
 — which you do declare when you depend up- 
 on the opinion of other people and when you 
 abide by their creed, whether you vibrate in 
 its key or not ; — you are de-energizing your- 
 self and detaching yourself from your own 
 spiritual breath force. 
 
 And if you would save yourself and free 
 yourself from grievous loss and pain you will 
 cultivate the practice of centering your at- 
 
36 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 tention according to your own soul desire and 
 thereby control your part of the universal 
 Mind and breathe your part of the universal 
 Breath. 
 
 Until you render your thought constructive 
 and until you are true to yourself by so do- 
 ing, it is useless to attempt to restore your 
 declining energy or to revitalize and perpet- 
 uate your part of life by studying the pro- 
 cess of Breath control. 
 
 You will not concentrate upon anything or 
 any condition which does not belong to you 
 and you certainly have the right to discard 
 what of your possessions you do not desire, 
 because desire being the cause of them, 
 should be the ruler of your possessions. 
 
 Suppose you have some grief which con- 
 stantly overshadows your mind action. You 
 can discard it, and place it where it belongs, 
 by realizing that grief is selfish, is really a 
 sort of self pity and that concentrating upon 
 it has a disintegrating effect upon you and all 
 that concerns you. And as you are claiming 
 life and the good of living things, you will no 
 longer relate yourself to the process of de- 
 struction. 
 
 Suppose the cause of your grief is the pas- 
 sing on of some dear one. You are making 
 his progress all the more difficult with your 
 wailings and you will surely disconnect your- 
 self from him by grieving because of the dis- 
 integrating vibration of grief; — and he, 
 knowing that there is no death, naturally de- 
 sires others to know it also, — so you will free 
 
CONCERNING THE MIND ACTION 37 
 
 yourself and your beloved and unite yourself 
 more nearly to him by dissolving grief with 
 understanding and so relating yourself to life 
 eternal, — which process means strength and 
 progression for every person concerned. 
 
 Every physical sense and every attribute 
 must be controlled by the intelligent center- 
 ing of thought force. 
 
 Otherwise the sense desires are liable to be 
 mistaken for the soul desires and such mis- 
 understanding may lead to confusion, — and 
 we especially want to avoid confusion of our 
 mind forces when we commence to intelli- 
 gently relate ourselves to life and thereby 
 to relate ourselves to our own part of life. 
 
 The practice of concentration gives us the 
 power to comprehend our own mind attri- 
 butes and their directive force, thereby en- 
 abling us to center our mental energy with 
 formulated intention toward our part of the 
 infinite Mind. 
 
 The ability to concentrate gives you the 
 strength to individualize your own personality 
 by placing your part of the infinite mind in 
 direct relation to the whole, — thereby to co- 
 operate with it instead of subjecting it to 
 some other human thought force which may 
 not be accurate or even true to itself and 
 which may deflect your portion of the uni- 
 versal thought energy to its angle of action 
 and so use your mind when you should have 
 the privilege of using your own mind accord- 
 ing to your own desire and intention. 
 
 Naturally you cannot enter into the power 
 
38 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 of self-mastery in one moment, especially if 
 it has been your habit to misunderstand your 
 part of life and so have attracted to yourself 
 poverty of body and poverty of purse ; indeed 
 it will require a positive, direct force to re- 
 direct the habit of confused mental action 
 toward constructive intention and construc- 
 tive attraction. 
 
 But with a definite desire it can be done and 
 you can learn to concentrate so accurately 
 that it will become as an attribute of your na- 
 ture by consistently taking one idea or one 
 object in your mind and abstracting every 
 other thought from your mental realm until 
 you have come into unity with that one idea. 
 
 You can concentrate with each and every 
 one of your physical senses and with each and 
 every one of your ganglionic brains; — just 
 try by taking a beautiful picture or a strain 
 of music, or a perfume or a sentence from a 
 favorite classic and give it your clear atten- 
 tion and meditate upon it until you absorb it 
 unto yourself and make it a part of you. 
 
 Always relate yourself and your sense con- 
 sciousness to that which is beautiful and good 
 — for only in a constructive vibration can the 
 harmonious and opulent idea become exter- 
 nalized. 
 
 It is thru the concentration and co-opera- 
 tion of many spirit atoms that you and I have 
 assumed the responsibility of being a crea- 
 ture made in the image of God and operative 
 in and with His divine Mind, — therefore it 
 is also our privilege and our responsibility to 
 
CONCERNING THE MIND ACTION 39 
 
 continually increase our capacity of construc- 
 tive mental activity, that we may do our 
 part in bringing the divine plan into its ul- 
 timate completeness and fulfillment. 
 
 You cannot assimilate any more of the uni- 
 versal thought energy than you have the abil- 
 ity to attract, — nor can you relate yourself 
 to the opulent life force while you are in a 
 confused mental atmosphere, but you can al- 
 ways create your own atmosphere according 
 to the strength of your intentive desire and 
 the steadiness of your thought control. 
 
 If you could assimilate any part of the uni- 
 versal Mind action which was not embryonic 
 within yourself and which you, in conse- 
 quence have the innate ability to attract, — 
 you would be in line for annihilation because 
 the universal Mind is charged with all of the 
 active externalization of the universe and if 
 you had not the power of selection and the 
 attribute of discriminative assimilation you 
 could not endure the environing thought at- 
 mosphere, — its myriads of cross currents 
 would disintegrate you. 
 
 When you disconnect your intention from 
 the mind energy and so weaken your indi- 
 viduality, you weaken your power of attract- 
 ing that which belongs to you. 
 
 You have no right, according to the law of 
 your own being, to express poverty on any 
 plane ; — by so doing you are false to yourself 
 and to your part of life because it is never the 
 will of divinely intelligent goodness that you 
 shall lack on any plane of your manifestation 
 
40 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 and when you relate yourself to and unify 
 with the divine good, — you will be one with 
 its perfect health of body, mind and condition. 
 
 Our personal recognition of our own power 
 is this ; that thru our own mind dominion, we 
 may give our attention according to our soul 
 desire, we may select our part of the universe 
 according to our own judgment and we may 
 utilize what we select according to our own 
 will. 
 
 In other words we are the manifestors of 
 our own manifestation of life and equality so 
 of all its varying experiences. 
 
 Our impersonal realization takes us just a 
 step farther and is this : — that we shall use 
 our part of life for the good of the all-life and 
 that our part of the all life upon the earth 
 planet is but one phase of ages of other forms 
 of the all-life expression and if you and I are 
 disconnected in consciousness from anything 
 or any part of the all-life that we shall re- 
 connect ourself by our love which always 
 leads to knowledge. 
 
 And Knowledge is the divine attribute 
 which attains the all-good. 
 
 You can only KNOW good. 
 
 You may think you know evil, but evil 
 never passes the realm of delusion. 
 
 Only the eternal goodness of God can pos- 
 sibly be knowledge. 
 
 Breath being the Life intelligence, corres- 
 
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CONCERNING THE MIND ACTION 41 
 
 ponds to Thought which is the Mind Intelli- 
 gence. 
 
 So the breath of the all-life operates in the 
 exact line with the thought of the all mind. 
 
 Therefore the quality of your breath will 
 be in accordance with the quality of your 
 thought. 
 
 And, as the entire being and its condition 
 as well as your future being and future ex- 
 pression, evolves from and by the breath 
 force, you can see the importance of thought 
 mastery in the process of self creation. 
 
 The doctrine of Unity has been accepted 
 by students of the Monastic school for ages, 
 but the differentiation in unity thru the oper- 
 ation of Nature's finer forces and the neces- 
 sity of their perfect co-operation in Mind, has 
 not been recognized until the present era 
 when the planet is entering upon its cycle in 
 the air symbol of Aquarius, where principles 
 are made clear and where effect from cause 
 is revealed and understood. 
 
 There is but the one mind although the one 
 mind is infinitely differentiated and in that 
 consciousness we may think transcendental- 
 ly in perfect reason. 
 
 In the realization of the whole of God's crea- 
 tion, we may think apart from our human 
 sense claim while yet in the sense realm and 
 we may enter any plane of the universal acti- 
 vity wherein our concentrated thought has 
 the power to extend, because the limitless 
 
42 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 power of the limitless mind is revealed to us 
 thru our own desire and effort. 
 
 We are, as it were co-related to the whole 
 of the universal life and love and we are 
 aware of that relation because we are aware 
 of the real of ourselves. 
 
 God IS the Knower and you and I are ex- 
 ternalized because HE KNOWS, and our part 
 of Him is our knowledge of the truth of our- 
 selves, — therefore the more of truth we know 
 the more of God we become. 
 
 Mind is the transmitter of knowledge, the 
 actual divine medium of God and His great 
 humanity which is the expression of His Be- 
 ing. 
 
 God is all. 
 
 God's law is the law of all manifestation. 
 
 God's truth is the result of the perfect 
 action of His law. 
 
 God's breath is the inspiring force of His 
 manifestation. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 Concerning the Sense Man 
 
 Mine eyes behold the glory of God 
 
 When I see only His goodness. 
 Mine ears hear the music of the Heavens 
 
 When I listen for His voice. 
 The freedom of life enters my nostrils 
 
 When I contact the love service. 
 I taste the joy of everlasting life 
 
 When I inbreathe the joy of truth. 
 I am conscious of God's great love 
 
 When my senses respond to Him 
 For in that love alone, — in His sure strength 
 
 Are you and I awake. 
 
 The man who wishes to control his own 
 life and its conditions will first relate himself 
 to knowledge. 
 
 God IS the knower and his desire to know 
 will relate him to God and his wisdom and 
 goodness so the man finds himself in direct 
 co-operation with an infinite intelligence and 
 thereby of the God of himself. 
 
 Man is a portion of God's universal life, — 
 he is created in the image and likeness of the 
 supreme Being ; — therefore he has, or, rather, 
 
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44 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 he is within himself, the whole of the intelli- 
 gent intention, including the power to develop 
 himself thru his cosmic attributes into 
 greater and ever increasing strength in the 
 manifestation of universal goodness and opu- 
 lence. 
 
 It is our desire to help the man to realize 
 the greatness of himself that he may perceive 
 that he has the actual energy within himself 
 to relate himself to the all good of the uni- 
 verse, — that he may BE health, BE wisdom, 
 BE opulent on every and all planes of the 
 earth life and thereby regulate himself and 
 his part of life according to his own quality 
 of desire and intention. 
 
 To this end we will suggest, some of the 
 instruments and their attributes in the hu- 
 man flesh form. 
 
 The soul of man having breathed itself into 
 centralized individuality, — has externalized 
 the flesh form for its use in expressing its 
 part of the life experience upon the earth 
 planet. 
 
 Having developed itself thus far in line 
 with the evolution of the universe, it must 
 take the next step in its process which is the 
 creation of its spiritual body thru which it 
 wall express its part of life upon the next 
 realm of its universal experience, — and in 
 order to create the spiritual body or as it is 
 often called the cosmic body, the soul must 
 use the physical flesh form which it has al- 
 ready manifested. 
 
 Every atom of the physical man has its 
 
CONCERNING THE SENSE MAN 45 
 
 own orderly position in his body, just as every 
 human atom has its own exact place in the 
 geometry of the universe. Each atom is 
 likewise intelligent and knows its own place 
 and its exact function and when recognized 
 with intelligence and love, it will do its work 
 accurately and lovingly, — but when it is not 
 given its proper privileges and its just recog- 
 nition, it becomes mutinous and in its process 
 of rebellion, it becomes uneasy and the thing 
 which we call disease is manifested, 
 
 From the atom to the man, there is no com- 
 promise with the law of God's evolution ; — if 
 mankind denies its own Godness, it simply de- 
 flects the good from its own center and dis- 
 integrates its atomic connection by dissolving 
 the atoms concerned in its manifestation 
 back into the primal substance of spirit until 
 they are again recalled into intelligent opera- 
 tion thru the universal breath energy. 
 
 Just as the human body throws off from 
 itself the atoms which it cannot assimilate 
 until nature again finds a place for them in 
 the divine economy of her manifestation of 
 all substance and all action. 
 
 The flesh form of man, his physical body, 
 appears to be incomplete because it is in pro- 
 cess of externalization as it is becoming mani- 
 fest according to the creative force of the 
 soul, — but it has potentially every faculty 
 and every sense which will eventually become 
 active although at present it sometimes seems 
 that its faculties are inadequate to meet the 
 human demand, — and the reason for the 
 seeming is that the man himself does not give 
 
46 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 them recognition and thereby realize his own 
 ability to understand and so control himself. 
 
 In the flesh body, partially developed are 
 six brain centers which are immediate instru- 
 ments of the mind in its soul service and 
 there are seven physical senses five of which 
 have externalized their instruments of opera- 
 tion. 
 
 Also in this earth body are twelve aper- 
 tures, the twelve gates of the holy temple, — 
 which exhale and inhale the breath intel- 
 ligence of the universe and have each its es- 
 sential and special place in the spiritualiza- 
 tion, or, in truth, in the creation of the spir- 
 itual body. 
 
 While the sense desire of the body is upon 
 an entirely different plane than the desire of 
 the soul — it is of vast importance and should 
 not be ignored because each step in conscious- 
 ness is necessary in evolution and each step 
 in evolution is in response to some necessity 
 and desire of the man, — so whether it be of 
 the body or of the soul, each desire of the man 
 has its immediate use in the externalization 
 of the universal spirit substance, 
 
 The one essential point is that the man 
 shall discriminate and direct his desire ac- 
 cording to his highest inspiration and each 
 sense should be recognized as an important 
 instrument in the process of evolution. 
 
 And the senses must be under control of 
 the mind as the mind should be under con- 
 trol of the soul. 
 
CONCERNING THE SENSE MAN 47 
 
 As the man evolves in consciousness, he not 
 only manifests other and different forms of 
 sense contact with life but the senses he is 
 already using become more balanced as they 
 respond to his finer intelligence and he awak- 
 ens to a realization that he has a far broader 
 understanding of life and that his possibilities 
 and his opportunities are unlimited. 
 
 The seven physical senses are : 
 
 Sight, Sound, Smell, Taste, Touch, Intuition 
 and Thought Transference. 
 
 The man may raise any bodily sense until 
 it vibrates with the soul quality and in so do- 
 ing, we will see or hear or smell or taste with 
 a clearer or finer consciousness of that or any 
 other sense. 
 
 When the senses are under the control of 
 the mind and when the mind is obeying the 
 soul impulse which is always for good, each 
 sense becomes purified and its instrument 
 responds, — the eye which sees only the good 
 is a healthy eye, the ear which vibrates with 
 harmonious sounds and shuts out discords is 
 assured of clear and fine hearing, — and so on 
 through all the phases of the sense of life. 
 
 While each of these senses is merged into 
 every other sense in degree, they each qualify 
 for a separate purpose and operate with a dis- 
 tinct and different intention. 
 
 Sight is the most external of all the senses 
 and is the least appreciated, the least develop- 
 ed and the most missed when the eye refuses 
 to give it service. 
 
48 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 As the eye is trained to become more steady 
 and more accurate, the vision becomes finer 
 in its vibration and the individual perceives 
 that his sight is more interpenetrative and 
 that barriers which have seemed impassible 
 are dissolving from his sight. He is seeing 
 with the inner eye, becoming clairvoyant as 
 it were. 
 
 The evolution of the man depends entirely 
 upon himself; he may clarify every atom of 
 his body, strengthen every sense of his being 
 and raise every faculty of his mind to such a 
 rapid activity that he becomes unified with 
 the infinite good, — until his humanity is in- 
 terpenetrated with divinity and he becomes 
 master of his body, of his mind and of his 
 environment. 
 
 Or, — he may become a weakling and rust 
 in the rut of inaction and vaguely breathe the 
 left over life forces of those who are alive in 
 good intention. 
 
 The object of spiritual study and training 
 is individualization because the law of the 
 creature as well as the law of the Universe 
 decrees that the Being which is made in the 
 image of God shall be supreme in his own 
 realm. 
 
 The higher vibration or the finer manifesta- 
 tion of the sense of sight is called Clairvoy- 
 ance; — not the sort of clairvoyance which 
 deals with astute guessing and conjecture, in- 
 deed that is far from the spiritual or even the 
 clear natural vision, but the Clairvoyance of 
 a chastened vision which perceives the finer 
 
CONCERNING THE SENSE MAN 49 
 
 essences of life, which deals with the unseen 
 we call it, but which are only unseen because 
 we have not developed the power which ac- 
 curately recognizes the more constructive 
 activity of an infinite intelligence. 
 
 Sound is more interpenetrative in its qual- 
 ity than sight, — it is more intrusive; — one 
 can easily close his eyes and shut out what 
 displeases his vision, — but it is not so easy 
 to close his ears to what he does not desire to 
 hear. 
 
 While it is not unusual in our present plane 
 of evolution to mentally master the senses 
 thru their physical organs, it is quite true 
 that eyes and ears and every other expressed 
 sense may be consciously controlled and con- 
 sciously related to the phases of life condi- 
 tions which we desire to contact. 
 
 Thru constructive intention and breath 
 concentration, all this and infinitely more of 
 our own spiritual mastery may be realized 
 while we are yet upon the earth planet. 
 
 In its constructive development, — the sense 
 of hearing may be accentuated to a marvelous 
 degree and those who hear the music of the 
 spheres and the voices of those in the far-off 
 universal realms, as well as the word of their 
 own soul revelation, are well aware that they 
 have become clairaudient or clear hearing. 
 
 Clairaudience may be cultivated by concen- 
 trating the attention of the ears upon con- 
 structive sounds ; — good music is a fine stimu- 
 lous for good hearing, — listening to fine lan- 
 guage and to words relating to divine uplift- 
 
50 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 ment is a wonderfully strengthening process, 
 — the ears very readily respond to the call of 
 harmony and they very soon develop the har- 
 monious habit of attracting only the sounds 
 of goodness and harmony and of excluding 
 sounds of destruction which are the sounds 
 which cause deficiency of hearing. 
 
 Any sense or any force or any power or 
 any part of the human creature may become 
 atrophied, so far as he is concerned, by lack 
 of appreciation and consequent lack of faith 
 in its activity. 
 
 Ignoring the God in himself and disbeliev- 
 ing the truth of God in his part of life is a 
 degenerating neglect in the human creature 
 and one which definitely aids in his physical 
 dissolution. 
 
 The sense of smell which is the ability to 
 perceive odors both material and physical is 
 scarcely recognized as important, to say noth- 
 ing of its being understood and appreciated 
 by the children of earth. 
 
 Smell is the sense of discrimination and its 
 mission is to protect and to warn and to di- 
 rect the individual and it always performs its 
 mission when the man gives it his attention 
 and recognizes its value. 
 
 In the animal world the sense of smell is 
 always trusted and continually exercised, 
 consequently it is more highly developed in 
 the animal than in the man and is its great 
 safeguard because thru its sense of smell the 
 animal perceives the soul quality of the man 
 and guides himself thereby. 
 
CONCERNING THE SENSE MAN 51 
 
 In its higher vibration and in its soul qual- 
 ity the sense of smell gives the man the 
 power to distinguish the spiritual aromas of 
 nature ; — thru it he perceives the beauty and 
 harmony of odor as well as of color and sound, 
 even the landscape appeals to him more abun- 
 dantly when he absorbs the finer essence of 
 it thru his nostrils and realizes the actual 
 power within himself for perceiving in a finer 
 degree the all life which is consequently re- 
 sponding to his desire for soul unfoldment. 
 
 The sense of taste relates the man to his 
 power of selection, — thru selection he re- 
 sponds to his taste in every form of his life 
 expression, in its externalization and in his 
 environment. 
 
 The man knows the necessity of his body 
 thru his taste in selecting his food, also he 
 knows the requirements of his mind and of 
 his soul thru his taste concerning their de- 
 mands; — when the mind rules the body, he 
 will cultivate his taste to meet the soul de- 
 mand wherein his entire being can absorb 
 and assimilate the finer essence of the uni- 
 versal manifestation. 
 
 The sense of touch focusses within itself all 
 of the other senses. 
 
 Every living creature is conscious of its 
 sense of touch on the physical plane, but few 
 are aware of it on mental planes where it is 
 dominant or on spiritual planes where it is 
 absolute. 
 
 To the student of truth, the sense of 
 touch is most vital in its higher vibration 
 
52 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 where it becomes psychometry or soul mea- 
 surement; — therein the soul energy inter- 
 penetrates its instrument thru all of its sen- 
 ses becoming conscious in each of them and 
 feeling in each its particular point of contact 
 with the life wave. Then the student is con- 
 scious of his finer force of touch by and thru 
 which he measures his relation with every- 
 thing which he contacts. 
 
 Therefore psychometry relates the man to 
 the real estimate of himself because when 
 he appreciates that he is touching all of the 
 life he will see himself in his relative position 
 to the differing expressions of it all and he 
 will measure according to his own true un- 
 derstanding of himself rather than in the re- 
 flected idea of some one's else opinion. 
 
 And he who is capable of measuring him- 
 self in truth is already well along the path- 
 way toward mastering himself in truth. 
 
 Intuition is a sense so little trusted and so 
 little appreciated by the man that he regards 
 it in the light of superstition, and supersti- 
 tion, while it is merely measuring things in 
 the super realm is interpreted by most of the 
 present race as mysterious and something to 
 be avoided. 
 
 Intuition is the human sense which cor- 
 responds to the animal sense of instinct. It 
 is the power of such rapid reasoning that the 
 process is lost ; — in truth, intuition is knowl- 
 edge apparently thru reason and yet beyond 
 reason. 
 
 When it is allowed freedom of thought ac- 
 
CONCERNING THE SENSE MAN 53 
 
 tion, it is always correct, — but when it is 
 misdirected by argument or polluted by criti- 
 cism, it will not prove accurate in its results ; 
 — in fact, every sense demands liberty of ac- 
 tion if it would prove accurate, — nothing so 
 thwarts intuition on any plane as to have its 
 motive questioned or criticized or condemned. 
 
 In its higher vibration, intuition is the ca- 
 pacity or rather the faculty of receiving true 
 inspiration, — which is the chaste, uncharged, 
 unadulterated breath intelligence, direct from 
 the living source of all intelligence. 
 
 When the man directs his mental energy 
 to the receptivity of true inspiration his in- 
 tuition is brought into action and if allowed 
 to remain steady in that action, he may rely 
 absolutely upon it. 
 
 Some students speak of it as listening to 
 and obeying the voice ; — no matter what they 
 call it and no matter upon what plane it serves 
 them, when the man is true to his own in- 
 spiration, it never fails. 
 
 Thought transference is the faculty or the 
 power of directing the thought to another 
 mind so definitely that words are not neces- 
 sary to convey the idea: The thought car- 
 ries its message on the breath immediately. 
 
 Thought transference is the natural lan- 
 guage ; it is used entirely by all life forms in- 
 cluding the animal world except man ; — he is 
 the only creature which depends upon words 
 for thought expression and thru much voic- 
 ing of words he has weakened his sense of 
 thought transference which under the name 
 
54 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 of telepathy he is trying to recall to its nor- 
 mal place in his part of life. 
 
 In its higher vibration, thought transfer- 
 ence becomes the avenue of communication 
 with individual intelligences on all planes of 
 expression; thru the sense of telepathy we 
 speak to those who have gone on before us ; 
 it annihilates distance and dissolves barriers 
 of time as it unites those who vibrate in har- 
 mony although ages of hours and areas of 
 miles may intervene. 
 
 The man is in process of creation and he is 
 creating himself and attracting, according to 
 his quality and his strength, the forces which 
 he needs for his manifestation ; — his consti- 
 tution is diverse and the process is one of dif- 
 ferentiation but his intention is absolute and 
 unified, for the innate desire of every indi- 
 vidual soul is for unity with God. 
 
 God is good — and good is always balanced, 
 always accurate and always harmonious 
 which means heavenly, and to be in Heaven 
 he must express harmony on all planes ; that 
 is, he must be balanced in his mind, in his 
 body and in his purse thereby uniting himself 
 with the good of life ; in other words he must 
 be healthy in body, steady in his mind and 
 opulent in his possessions, — otherwise his in- 
 tention of being infinitely good is liable to be 
 thwarted. 
 
 In his process of manifesting himself in 
 ultimate perfection, the man progresses thru 
 ages of experiences and thru many solar sys- 
 tems with their varying planetary laws and 
 he creates for himself the necessary body for 
 
CONCERNING THE SENE MAN 55 
 
 each of these many incarnations in his uni- 
 versal journey, according to his desire and to 
 the law of the realm which he selects for his 
 experience, — his present body always ex- 
 presses his present quality and always meets 
 the requirement of his immediate experience. 
 
 It is well for the man, if, at the close of an 
 experience, he can truly say, "It is finished" 
 in the realization that he has fulfilled his 
 part of that experience constructively and 
 that he is ready and equipped to go on to the 
 next phase in his evolutionary journey be- 
 cause, while he will go on whether he is 
 ready or not, — it is a great advantage when 
 there are no overlapping karmic demands up- 
 on him for each experience has enough de- 
 mands of its own. 
 
 When the human creature understands 
 that the earth life is but a small part of his 
 part of the universal life, — and that upon the 
 use which he makes of his opportunity in his 
 earth experience depends his position and his 
 relation in and to his next experience, — he 
 will view his part of life from an entirely 
 different angle and he will perceive with a 
 broader and clearer vision that it is disorderly 
 and out of the divine law for him to be poor 
 or sick or sorrowful in any way, — and in that 
 broader vision he will realize his power to 
 change any and all of these unnecessary con- 
 ditions which in his ignorance, he may have 
 attracted to himself and which in his knowl- 
 edge, he may reverse and so relate himself 
 to health and joy by the strength of his truth 
 desire. 
 
56 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 He who would be free 
 Shall bind himself to God. 
 
 The human desire for freedom from its in- 
 harmony and for uplif tment is aroused when 
 its pain becomes greater than its power of 
 endurance; it is then that the man reaches 
 out his hands and lifts his thoughts in sup- 
 plication to an infinite intelligence, — knowing 
 within his soul center that only in his desire 
 for the truth of God, can the good of himself 
 be expressed. 
 
 Pain is the result of lack and all lack is the 
 result of the human misdirection of its por- 
 tion of the divine energy and it is the natural 
 eif ect that the man suffers on the plane of his 
 own action. 
 
 Misdirection of universal energy on any 
 plane, throws the one who is responsible out 
 of balance and it is an evidence of the divinity 
 in justice that having thrown himself out of 
 balance the man has the power to recall and 
 repent and readjust his confused forces and 
 so replace himself in the realm of health and 
 opulence which is also the realm of truth and 
 freedom. 
 
 Having reached the point in its evolution 
 where it perceives that the process of disso- 
 lution is actually dissolving its most vitalized 
 center, the human race is rising to its own 
 resource which is no more nor less than solv- 
 ing or saving itself, — and with its desire to 
 save itself by returning to truth, to the bal- 
 anced action of the universe, — in which bal- 
 
CONCERNING THE SENSE MAN 57 
 
 anced action disease and poverty and death 
 are impossible conditions, — it will emanci- 
 pate itself. 
 
 Health is the natural, normal and balanced 
 condition on any plane of being. It is the 
 term usually applied to completeness of the 
 body as wealth is usually the term applied to 
 express completeness of material conditions — 
 both terms however, having a broader and 
 finer meaning. 
 
 Death of the flesh form as man has exter- 
 nalized it, is unnatural; — the atoms of the 
 flesh should be allowed their natural process 
 of regenerating themselves by the breath en- 
 ergy instead of degenerating thru atrophy 
 and disease, — thereby spiritualizing them- 
 selves for use in the next plane of the man's 
 expression and enabling him to remain on the 
 earth planet in health and opulence so long 
 as he desires. 
 
 When the ego becomes sufficiently strong 
 in its universal position, to be created in the 
 image of God, — it manifests and takes its 
 position as a human being- on the planet of its 
 selection, — it has the God attribute of eternal 
 life and it may be that the earth body is 
 merely the beginning of that<life» expression; 
 — the soul has then passed its chrysalis' state 
 and is asserting its divine attribute of eternal 
 life and so becomes master of its externalized 
 form in whatever part of the universe it may 
 select to manifest itself. 
 
 The race has not availed itself of its di- 
 vine privileges, — its process has been one of 
 
58 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 degeneration rather than regeneration, — and 
 its hope rests in its healing attribute, — which 
 is the quality or the ability to re-call its wan- 
 ing power and so regenerate itself ; and while 
 as yet the man knows almost nothing of his 
 power in that direction, he is filled with de- 
 sire to do what little he knows, — and desire to 
 know and to do the truth and to be good, 
 creates a force which is constructively co- 
 hesive, which means that it is wise and lov- 
 ing and is therefore indestructively alive. 
 
 The force of regeneration is called healing 
 and is the process of reconstructing that 
 which has attracted destruction. 
 
 Healing may be accomplished on any plane 
 of life which has attracted pain and lack, — 
 pain is always the evidence of lack somewhere 
 and lack can always be made complete. 
 
 Pain is void and void is unnatural and the 
 healing process not only balances forces 
 which are out of the truth line, but recalls 
 substance which has apparently been lost. 
 
 Healing is a natural constructive operation 
 of nature's finer forces and there is no limit 
 to the power of any constructive current al- 
 though its intentioned course may be deflect- 
 ed by pain and confusion and misunderstand- 
 ing. 
 
 Whatever is expressed in human form is 
 manifest because of human generative 
 thought as it operates conjointly with the 
 breath energy. . 
 
 The man is the product of his own thought 
 
CONCERNING THE SENSE MAN 59 
 
 intention and he becomes the thing which he 
 himself decrees. 
 
 Fear is the great enemy of all manifested 
 life, and fear, being the opposite pole of faith, 
 which is the most magnetic of nature's finer 
 forces, brings to the man conditions the op- 
 posite of good, which he calls evil: — and 
 while in truth there is no evil, we are not all 
 living in the truth atmosphere, and some- 
 times the lack of good is so evident to the 
 human sense consciousness that the thing 
 we call evil seems definitely real. 
 
 Immensity of theory is of less importance 
 than one grain of fact. 
 
 Humanity needs less emotion in its thought 
 concerning God and more realization of the 
 practical fact of Him. 
 
 Men need more consciousness and less con- 
 science, less judgment and more justice, less 
 condemnation and more love. 
 
 All forms are the symbols of ideas; the 
 man is the symbol of his own idea and his 
 idea must not take the form of fear or his 
 flesh atoms will be filled with the thing he 
 fears and he will attract to them the distorted 
 images which cause disease and eventually 
 disintegration. 
 
 The man must know positively that his 
 part of life shall manifest pure goodness, that 
 his body may be filled with faith and charged 
 with his own good dynamic force which will 
 fill him with health on all planes. 
 
 There is much conjecture concerning the 
 
GO THE INNER BREATH 
 
 attributes of the man ; some schools of phil- 
 osophy divide the man into seven bodies and 
 elaborately analyze the qualifications of those 
 bodies. Others claim that the man is of mind 
 substance alone with no definite quality of 
 form. 
 
 It is our intention to deal with life princi- 
 ples and with man's known relation to those 
 principles, — and we shall study the practical 
 and already demonstrated method of using 
 them for the highest and holiest good. 
 
 The important thing is that the man shall 
 desire to know the real of himself. No desire 
 for truth ever fails in meeting its perfect 
 answer and the man can do with himself and 
 for himself just exactly what he wills to do; 
 — his part of life is his own and he may dis- 
 solve himself by his destructive introspection 
 or he may solve and save and eternalize him- 
 self in good. 
 
 The man is a marvellous creature, a glor- 
 ious instrument of power for good ; he may be 
 attuned thru his senses to all the radiations 
 of the universe, he may attract and assimilate 
 thru his brain centers the knowledge and 
 power of the infinite wisdom and love, — he 
 may express a symphony of truth and joy, — 
 this mighty man may do all this because he 
 has the ability and the opportunity, — when- 
 ever he has the desire of and for truth in his 
 heart. 
 
 In the light of an infinite intelligence and in 
 the name of a supreme love, may he prove 
 true. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Concerning the Body Brains 
 
 Because Thou art alive, oh God, — 
 The Suns and Stars breathe life. 
 Because of Thy great love, dear Lord, — 
 The universe exists. 
 
 There is no other life than Thine ; 
 Thine is the living breath 
 Of all that knows and feels and is 
 In all increasing strength. 
 
 And Earth and Heaven and Suns rejoice 
 While men and angels claim 
 Their share, their unity with all 
 That breathes in Thy great name. 
 
 No thing is more important and no thing is 
 less understood than the Inner Breath culti- 
 vation and control ; — partly because men have 
 no idea of its importance and partly because 
 they do not desire or possibly have not the 
 courage to investigate a force which will actu- 
 ally reveal the truth, or, what is more likely, 
 the lack of truth in themselves. 
 
 As a "race, men have centered themselves 
 upon money, They have made it the one and 
 
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62 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 only medium of their relationship with each 
 other, they have exalted it to the plane of 
 their most vitalized intention, with the natu- 
 ral and inevitable result that the greater 
 thing has vanished from their desire and is 
 lost to their intention because they chose to 
 ignore its value. 
 
 Breath is the motive energy of every force 
 in existence. It is the fulcrum beneath all 
 process as it is the vehicle of all intention or 
 will. 
 
 Breath is the soul of life and the inspira- 
 tion of the life wave. 
 
 The inner breath is the soul of the outer 
 and more external breath ; it is the enduring 
 energy of every manifestation of life and is 
 the actual esse of the man, as it is the esse of 
 divine manifestation in all and of all forms 
 of life. 
 
 The inner breath co-operates with the se- 
 cret intention of the man as the outer breath 
 co-operates with his emotions and his more 
 external intention. 
 
 The breath is the soul of the life energy 
 and the life energy responds to the thought 
 force in its directive power; therefore the 
 breath moves in line with the thought ; when 
 the man's thought is related to external sense 
 planes, he naturally breathes on that plane 
 and as he can only attract on the plane of his 
 breath, he attracts the things and the ex- 
 periences and the conditions which are related 
 to that plane, 
 
CONCERNING THE BODY BRAINS 63 
 
 When a man becomes aware that there is 
 a force within himself which will enable him 
 to become supreme knower of himself, and, 
 thereby, master of his part of life and his 
 conditions, — he will breathe with a finer and 
 more conscious desire toward the life which 
 will connect him, first, with the exoteric or 
 external method of control, and, then, if he 
 is true to himself, in its practice, it will re- 
 veal to him the esoteric or inner knowledge 
 of the breath control which gives him the 
 keynote to the gates of both Heaven and 
 Earth. 
 
 The externalizing power is in the breath. 
 Only living things breathe and the breath is 
 the intelligent cause of their being alive as it 
 is the intelligent force of all operation. 
 
 Therefore the human creature with other 
 living things, must externalize exactly in the 
 degree and upon the plane of his breath con- 
 trol. 
 
 The man breathes life into himself and 
 therefore breathes himself into life ; in other 
 words,* he manifests himself according to the 
 quality and the operation of his intelligent 
 soul breath. 
 
 When a man becomes sufficiently self -less 
 to allow his diviner self to dominate, wonder-' 
 ful things are revealed to him and marvel- 
 lous things are attracted to him because he 
 breathes freely and according to the truth of 
 himself; that is, he follows his own inspir- 
 ation and is true to his highest conviction. 
 Therein and thereby he attracts to himself 
 
64 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 every good thing which he has the capacity to 
 formulate in his mind. 
 
 On the contrary, when a man breathes in 
 externals and from selfish motives, his atmos- 
 phere becomes blurred and his thought forces 
 are deflected and become indirect and there- 
 fore inaccurate so that his imagining power 
 is indefinite. In such cases the man undoubt- 
 edly attracts what belongs to him, but it 
 frequently happens that what belongs to him 
 seems most undesirable to him; — he is false 
 to himself and life appears hard because he 
 does not meet it fair and square in and to 
 himself. 
 
 The breath realization of a destructive de- 
 sire causes disintegration and dissolution of 
 the flesh form. 
 
 The breath realization of a constructive de- 
 sire causes health and opulence on all planes 
 of manifestation. 
 
 While every atom of expressed spirit sub- 
 stance is intelligent in some degree, the ani- 
 mal world which includes the human creature, 
 is in process of externalizing centers of great- 
 er magnetic force and power than it now 
 possesses, — and these centers are adapted to 
 be the instruments for generating and focus- 
 ing and projecting and are generally known 
 as brain centers. 
 
 The human creature having evolved beyond 
 the plane of most of the earth creatures be- 
 cause of his development of the power to 
 think outside of his immediate environment, 
 
CONCERNING THE BODY BRAINS 65 
 
 has become sufficiently universal to respond 
 to the infinite intelligence of the divine breath 
 and so when God breaths into him the breath 
 of life, he becomes, as it were, the epitome 
 of the universe because he recognizes that he 
 is made in the image of God and has become 
 operative and good in and with Him in accept- 
 ing the divine service and in breathing the 
 divine atmosphere. 
 
 At the present point in evolution, the man 
 has in process of unfoldment six brain cen- 
 ters, — each of these six brain centers vibrate 
 to a certain key in the chord of human acti- 
 vity, and each center qualifies on the plane of 
 its human demand, thereby magnetizing it- 
 self thru its differentiation of the universal 
 life force. 
 
 Every point in evolution is symbolized by 
 a star ; the six pointed star which is now re- 
 garded as the perfect symbol, because it is 
 supposed to represent the double triangle, 
 may also symbolize the six brain and breath 
 centers of the human creature. 
 
 During any dimension in conscious evolu- 
 tion, its number becomes the occult number 
 of perfection; — therefore, during this, the 
 third dimension, the number three is the 
 supposedly charmed number and any ar- 
 rangement of the number three has its mean- 
 ing of present and immediate power. 
 
 In entering a new dimension, the advancing 
 thought, which is known to students as eso- 
 teric, because it is the inner unfolding the 
 outer, becomes united with conditions which 
 
66 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 are in process of the unfolding and not yet 
 developed; and at this present period the 
 human being is entering into and uniting 
 with the Fourth rate of vibration or the 
 fourth measurement of the intelligent life 
 called by some students the fourth system of 
 Yoga. 
 
 Because this is the psychological time for 
 the earth unity with the Fourth dimension of 
 Breath consciousness. 
 
 Briefly we will outline the four systems of 
 Yoga practise and the four rates of vibration 
 which correspond to the four dimensions, as 
 they are presented by the teachers of ancient 
 as well as modern occult philosophy and there- 
 by we shall more readily comprehend the 
 brain and breath centers of the man and the 
 process of their development and control. 
 
 Yoga means union and the entire system 
 and the many schools of Yoga training lead 
 thru and by the breath practises to a realiza- 
 tion of one-ness with all forms of life and con- 
 sequently of a consciousness of God. 
 
 Most of these teachers divide the Yoga 
 practise of breath control into four parts, 
 each one having a different and a special 
 method of training and each being a distinct 
 system of its own ; — yet each leading into the 
 others and each interpenetrating one with 
 the other. 
 
 Few students are interested beyond the 
 first school of the Yoga breath control which 
 is called the Hatha Yoga and which deals with 
 
OONCERNING THE BODY BRAINS 67 
 
 the physical body and its mastery, which of 
 course includes the control of material con- 
 ditions; — almost any school of physical cul- 
 ture gives you about as much concerning the 
 physical breath as does the Hatha Yoga sys- 
 tem. They all teach control of the body and 
 its muscles thru accurate breathing. 
 
 The more interested student of nature's 
 finer forces, however, recognizes the deeply 
 important meaning of all the symbols ex- 
 pressed in the exercises and knows that they 
 correspond to and also lead to the more eso- 
 teric and more dynamic method of Yoga 
 training. 
 
 Raja Yoga relates to the intellect ; it deals 
 with the mental energy in its contact with 
 the spirit force and it teaches along the lines 
 of bringing disconnected forces into balance 
 and harmony ; it teaches as unlimited a power 
 over conditions as does the Hatha Yoga over 
 flesh atoms. 
 
 From the Raja Yoga standpoint, all of this 
 external world is the gross form of the inter- 
 nal and more subtle world; the finer being 
 the cause and the grosser being the effect. 
 
 The Raja Yoga system starts at the inter- 
 nal point, studies internal nature and from 
 that angle controls the whole condition. 
 
 Many of the schools of the New Thought, 
 such as Christian Science and Divine Science, 
 etc., vibrate in the Raja Yoga key: it is a 
 realm of mental rather than physical quality 
 and claims dominion of mind and subordina- 
 
68 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 tion of matter and is close to the next step 
 into the Bakti Yoga. 
 
 Bakti Yoga is on the loftier plane of con- 
 sciousness which relates to the interpenetra- 
 tion of the human with the divine and to the 
 laying up of the treasures of harmony to 
 which all else of good is added. 
 
 Bakti deals with self surrender and with 
 material relinquishment ; it is far beyond the 
 immediate place of human realization al- 
 though it belongs to the third dimension of 
 human evolution which is the dimension of 
 the present form of human externalization in 
 its earth expression. 
 
 The still higher state of consciousness, in- 
 to which all else is immersed in the realiza- 
 tion of God, is called the Jnani Yoga ; therein 
 one exalts his personal loves into Divine love, 
 — he immerses his love for friend or family 
 or work into Universal love. 
 
 He who aspires to Jnani Yoga conscious- 
 ness forgets his human desire. 
 
 Only in states of spiritual exaltation which 
 are exceedingly rare, does any soul in human 
 form touch that plane of renunciation; and 
 it surely is divinely wise that such is the 
 truth because in its present plane of evolution 
 the earth planet is not attuned to the Jnani 
 Yoga vibration. 
 
 Vibration is motion, — not 'the law of mo- 
 tion, but motion, itself, caused by the action 
 of the life force in its breath projection. 
 
CONCERNING THE BODY BRAINS 69 
 
 Breath is the soul of life and thru the in- 
 telligent breath desire comes the force which 
 causes vibration and which operates on the 
 pure spirit substance causing its manifesta- 
 tion in form in exact accordance with its 
 quality. 
 
 Vibration responds to the perfectly accur- 
 ate direction of the law of the Lord which is 
 the mathematical, orderly evidence of the di- 
 vine intention. 
 
 Mathematics is the one known absolute 
 science, and upon its supreme truth of fact 
 is based all intention of an infinite intelli- 
 gence which expresses itself in every oper- 
 ation of nature on spiritual as well as mental 
 and material planes. 
 
 There are innumerable and unlimited rates 
 of vibration but there are only as many forms 
 in process of manifestation as the race 
 thought and quality will permit; the human 
 race has the power of selecting its own ex- 
 periences and at the present time there are 
 four distinct forms of motion which accord- 
 ing to their rate of vibratory force in its ac- 
 tion on the primal substance have caused the 
 externalization of every existent form and 
 have manifested every phaze of life expres- 
 sion. 
 
 We say four forms of motion although the 
 fourth is not yet in perfect expression on the 
 earth planet because the Jnani Yoga con- 
 sciousness is not yet expressed, — nor will it 
 be until the race enters fully into the fourth 
 
70 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 dimension of its journey thru universal space 
 into the broader and brighter path. 
 
 These four vibratory forms are, first, the 
 direct, the straight line which is the primitive 
 action of thought formulation and which 
 gives length to externalization on the ma- 
 terial plane and which corresponds to the 
 first measurement or dimension of space and 
 of form in the intelligent thought action. 
 
 The second vibratory motion in form is the 
 circle which unites the Alpha and the Omega, 
 the beginning and the end of the straight 
 line into one thereby blending the straight 
 line into the circle and giving breath to the 
 thought action and its consequent material- 
 ization into form. 
 
 This vibratory action corresponds to the 
 second dimension and is the beginning of con- 
 scious intellectual realization in the human 
 creature. 
 
 The third vibratory motion is the spiral 
 which separates while it combines the 
 straight line with the circular and thereby 
 gives the co-operative action into thickness 
 and height which gives the consciousness of 
 depth and diversity of action as well as pro- 
 gression. 
 
 The spiral motion corresponds to the third 
 dimension and operates on the plane of pres- 
 ent human consciousness ; its natural tenden- 
 cy is upward, leading the man into the fourth 
 vibratory motion which is called by some stu- 
 dents vortexian and which corresponds to the 
 fourth dimension, really the fourth measure- 
 
CONCERNING THE BODY BRAINS 71 
 
 ment of evolution into which the human race 
 is entering. 
 
 Each dimension into which the man enters, 
 unifies him with a finer element of life energy 
 and consequently with a finer consciousness 
 of his own power ; but, before he can use that 
 power, he must bring himself to that plane of 
 knowledge where his desire is constructive in 
 quality and therefore he is incapable of using 
 his power for any form of destruction. 
 
 At the present time humanity realizes that 
 it is its divine right to be good, which means 
 that it is our divine right to express God in 
 health of body, opulence of environment, and 
 joy of experience. He is in the awareness of 
 spiritual opulence wherein all else is added 
 and he perceives that there is a practical way 
 of bringing to him all of the treasures of hea- 
 ven and earth, which he can think about ; and 
 whenever a man can think concerning a thing, 
 he is capable of attracting and assimilating 
 that thing whether he does so or not. 
 
 In process of development in the human 
 creature are six centers of activity each of 
 which is definitely attracting to itself those 
 intelligent atoms which correspond to its 
 quality of desire. 
 
 The centers are developing into brains 
 which are the instruments of the thought 
 force of the universe and as the man is the 
 microcosm of the universe he attracts, accord- 
 ing to his strength, his part of this universal 
 thought into the brain center which is de- 
 veloping according to its quality. 
 
72 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 Although science is slow in recognizing the 
 fact of nature's finer forces becoming a part 
 of the flesh of man, medical science admits 
 that the flesh of the human body is more sen- 
 sitive than it was in past generations and that 
 certain parts of the body are distinctively 
 showing the gray matter which belongs to 
 brain substance. 
 
 Occult science relates the material and vis- 
 ible part of the Cosmic substance to the spir- 
 itual and unseen part of the cosmic substance 
 and its activity ; we shall work from the angle 
 of occult science and then we shall compre- 
 hend the finite and the infinite and the merg- 
 ing of the human into the divine which is in 
 truth the at-one-ment, — or atonement. 
 
 The first of these brain centers, sometimes 
 called the sun center, is the constructive brain 
 of the man ; it includes the trinity consisting 
 of the heart, the lungs and the liver. 
 
 The heart corresponds to love, the lungs 
 correspond to wisdom, and the liver, being the 
 assimilator, their trinity of action results in 
 a constructive force which is the utilizing 
 force of the action of the entire body. 
 
 The second of the brain centers which is 
 developing consciousness is the solar plexus, 
 called by some occult students the brain of 
 discrimination because it is sensitive to the 
 material and physical desires of the man. 
 
 The solar plexus warns the body concerning 
 its food; it warns it of approaching danger; 
 it discriminates between what the man knows 
 as right or wrong. 
 
CONCERNING THE BODY BRAINS 73 
 
 The solar plexus is the seat of emotion and 
 regulates the human intention ; — in fact it is 
 the regulator of all physical conditions. 
 
 The third of the intelligent brain centers 
 is the generative center which includes the 
 generative and creative organs of the human 
 being and this brain relates him to the divine 
 energy of all manifestation. 
 
 Thru the generative brain, the man has 
 the divine attribute of creation on all the 
 planes of his present evolution, — and it is in 
 that attribute that he expresses his diviner 
 quality or his quality of divinity. 
 
 The fourth center is the brain of magnet- 
 ism known as the spleen ; while the spleen is 
 one of the most important brain centers of 
 the flesh form, it is as yet entirely misunder- 
 stood both as to its nature and its use, there- 
 fore it is given very little attention, or even 
 recognition ; and naturally its important func- 
 tion in the creation of magnetism, which is 
 one of the greatest missions of the breath en- 
 ergy, is practically ignored. 
 
 The fifth center is the brain of the head 
 which has formed itself so positively and defi- 
 nitely around the pineal gland that it is the 
 dominant and recognized brain of the body 
 and consequently the most accurate and the 
 strongest in his physical development. 
 
 The pineal gland is regarded by occult stu- 
 dents as the center of soul consciousness and 
 therefore is the point of the soul anchorage 
 to its earthly body. 
 
74 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 The sixth center is the brain of power and 
 power in the true sense means poise or bal- 
 anced action. 
 
 Power is not a smashing sorb of a force, 
 rather it is an equalizing energy and is a po- 
 larizing influence which regulates and ad- 
 justs and balances every other force. • 
 
 The brain of power in co-operation with the 
 pineal gland is the center of the intelligent 
 force which has enabled the man to raise 
 self to an upright position and also to uplift 
 himself toward the infinite as he is taking 
 his next step in evolution which is the step 
 toward divinity. 
 
 We shall devote an entire chapter to each 
 of these six brain centers, — so it is not nec- 
 essary to enter into detail concerning them in 
 this one ; but we will explain in some slight de- 
 gree their relation to the inner breath. 
 
 The only connection the man or any other 
 animal, or indeed any other formulated thing, 
 can have with the life wave is thru the breath 
 which is the soul and therefore the inspira- 
 tion and the impetus of all expressed forms 
 of life. 
 
 The physical body of man is united with 
 the life wave by the external breath which 
 the natural motion of his lungs inhale and 
 exhale, — the lungs being the engine of the 
 body; — whenever the body has assimilated 
 what it requires for its necessity, the lungs 
 expel what has not been used and so the pro- 
 cess goes on until the flesh form has mani- 
 
CONCERNING THE BODY BRAINS 75 
 
 fested its life according to the quality of the 
 breath which it has attracted and used. 
 
 The physical flesh form depends for its 
 every activity upon the external breath which 
 the man is constantly inhaling and exhaling 
 and he has the ability to attract and to assi- 
 milate as much, and of the quality as he de- 
 sires. 
 
 If he breathes deeply and intelligently with 
 the desire to relate himself vitally with the 
 life current, — then he will be charged thru 
 his breath desire with physical strength. 
 
 On the contrary, if he is indifferent and 
 careless and selfish in his attitude to his fel- 
 low man, if he does not appreciate his divine 
 attribute of cleanness of pure creative abil- 
 ity, and of God's gift of health and work ; in 
 fact if he ceases to realize his own responsi- 
 bility in the infinite plan he will easily loosen 
 his hold on the breath which controls his phy- 
 sical forces and it will be a natural and simple 
 result that the breath shall depart from the 
 flesh form. 
 
 The same law prevails and the same pro- 
 cess takes place in the astral, and pranic, and 
 other bodies of the man; — when his con- 
 sciousness is related to the astral breath, — 
 his astral body responds and thrives thereon, 
 likewise when his consciousness is related to 
 the spiritual breath, he is strengthening his 
 spiritual body and when he is balanced in his 
 desire for good and so is relating himself to 
 all planes of good, he finds himself developing 
 naturally and joyously and creating his cos- 
 
7G THE INNER BREATH 
 
 mic body which is the spiritual body, — so 
 that it shall prove equal and worthy to em- 
 body his soul, his true self when he is ready 
 to give up his earth body. 
 
 There is a spiritual body and there is a 
 corporal body as St. Paul says ; also there are 
 intermediate bodies and each body is brought 
 into form by the breath energy according to 
 the desire motive of the man. 
 
 When the desire to enter any sphere of life 
 manifestation becomes sufficiently strong in 
 the ego to enable the man to think definitely 
 concerning it, he naturally vibrates in the 
 thought atmosphere of that plane and as the 
 man always breathes the atmosphere of his 
 desired thought, he attracts it to him and re- 
 lates himself to it thru the force of his breath 
 intelligence which is the soul of the living en- 
 ergy of his desire. 
 
 When the man is sufficiently developed to 
 place his will and his intention back of his de- 
 sire thought, he will consciously and natur- 
 ally control his entire atmosphere and live 
 in and become as in the condition and the ideal 
 of his desire. 
 
 Thru and by his breath intelligence the 
 man controls his life and his mastery of his 
 breath results from mastery of his thought 
 concerning it. 
 
 Each brain center in the man corresponds 
 and is related to a certain plane of conscious- 
 ness and its office or mission in the human 
 body relates to that special plane; therefore 
 
CONCERNING THE BODY BRAINS 77 
 
 as the man thinks concerning certain quali- 
 ties of his expression and certain desires of 
 his body, that thought which relates to their 
 particular plane of being, naturally gravita- 
 tes to the center of the brain which is of 
 their quality; — also quite naturally he de- 
 velops the quality of force which he is 
 strengthening by giving it his attention. 
 
 To illustrate : — If I desire to relate myself 
 to the financial current of the earth life, I will 
 cultivate my center of magnetism on that 
 plane by centering my thought upon the 
 brain which corresponds to and so qualifies 
 with it, — and when I realize that it is in my 
 power to awaken that center by breathing to 
 it, — I shall develop it consciously and imme- 
 diately and so attract the thing which I de- 
 sire because I have awakened and cultivated 
 that quality within myself and the only way 
 to attract any thing from the outside is to 
 generate it from within. 
 
 Every form of life breathes or it could not 
 have taken upon itself form. 
 
 Every atom is made manifest according to 
 the quality of its breath energy. 
 
 The rose plant breathes itself into expres- 
 sion and breathes itself into dissolution as it 
 breathes itself thru process into its next high- 
 er form of manifestation. 
 
 Likewise humanity has breathed itself in- 
 to^ its present dimension in universal con- 
 sciousness and it is now in process of breath- 
 ing itself into the next dimension or measure- 
 
78 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 ment of consciousness which is but another 
 step in its journey along the pathway of 
 infinite life expression. 
 
 The man actually is the thing he breathes 
 and his breath follows his thought both ex- 
 ternally and internally, he will study himself 
 and regulate his thought, thereby freeing 
 himself from judgment lest he suffer the re- 
 action of breathing into his flesh atoms the 
 very thing he condemns in others. 
 
 Because the breath is the inspiring and ex- 
 piring consciousness of the infinite whole Be- 
 ing, — the supreme knower in whom and of 
 whom all form is made manifest and apart 
 from whom there is only the Void. 
 
 When the race becomes aware that the 
 breath of the infinite life is actually the plane 
 of the infinite consciousness, it will also be 
 aware that the breath of the human life is the 
 plane or the expression of the human con- 
 sciousness, and when it enters into that real- 
 ization it is ready for its great surrender into 
 the realization of immortality wherein it 
 knows its own divine Godness. 
 
 There is no emotion in the realm of truth, 
 neither is there worship of personality or of 
 earthly treasure, both of which are lack of 
 knowledge. 
 
 Knowledge is factual reality and is always 
 steady, always just, and always uplifting in 
 its incentive force. 
 
 The soul whose desire is toward God has no 
 lesser idol than That, — his love is impersonal 
 
CONCERNING THE BODY BRAINS 79 
 
 because it is universal, his desire is chaste 
 because of his divine intention ; therefore he 
 breathes the fullness of universal opulence 
 and he cannot escape the reaction of his 
 breath because the atoms of his flesh respond 
 to his inspiring breath, — therefore opulence 
 of health and wealth on all planes of his being 
 are inevitable. 
 
 The man who loves life because he knows 
 the truth of life, is master of his part of the 
 life energy because thru his conscious knowl- 
 edge he will relate himself to that quality of 
 its force which is the immortal generator and 
 regenerator of himself and of that which con- 
 cerns himself. 
 
 Each man has his opportunity according to 
 his desire ;— desire leads to opportunity ;— 
 there are no favors in the law as there are no 
 favors in truth. 
 
 He whose desire is for good is already on 
 the path of his great attainment and all 
 things shall be revealed to him and all things 
 shall be added whenever he loves to live the 
 truth he knows. 
 
 That I may know my God, — 
 That I may serve my race, — 
 That I may be true to truth, — 
 I shall master my part of life. 
 
CHAPTER V, 
 
 Concerning the Constructive Center 
 
 Should love depart from life 
 
 For one brief hour — 
 
 The earth would be no more. 
 
 Cemented with divinest fire 
 And energized by wisdom- 
 Love generates all form. 
 
 Love glorified by chaste desire 
 Becometh free and holy — 
 And infills all life with power. 
 
 Wherein the universe responds 
 Throbbing with ecstacy — 
 That love and life are one. 
 
 The truth of love made manifest 
 Is nature's revelation of God. 
 
 The unified action of Love and Wisdom 
 creates the Constructive force which is the 
 operative power underlying the God manifes- 
 tation of life. 
 
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THE CONSTRUCTIVE CENTER 81 
 
 Love is the cohesive substance of the uni- 
 verse: Therefore it is the essential sub- 
 stance because without it there could be no 
 affinitizing of atoms and consequently no 
 formation of the azoic fluid — the supposed- 
 ly null and void, unintelligent nothingness, 
 but in reality, the spirit essence of the uni- 
 verse, composed of unexpressed and as yet 
 unrelated atoms. 
 
 Love awakened and made fruitful by the 
 dynamic contact of Wisdom, becomes opera- 
 tive — construction results which is the ne- 
 cessary activity for all formulation and all 
 manifestation. In the divine economy of 
 nature's finer forces, the cohesive substance 
 of love accompanied by the positive action of 
 wisdom Is the absolute and uncompromising 
 power for the attraction and adjustment of 
 the atoms and energy in their relation one 
 with the other. 
 
 The human race has added to the weakness 
 of its introspective angle of vision by using 
 the cohesive substance in a purely personal 
 manner ; it mistakes its generative desire for 
 love and relates its most selfish intention to 
 the great cohesive substance of the uni- 
 verse without wisdom and with an emotional 
 motive force which, from the very nature of 
 its quality, causes destructive rather than 
 constructive action. And the mighty I and 
 the small you and the far off God are the re- 
 sult of this perversion of the divine inten- 
 tion, which intention is for the universal 
 good. 
 
 There is no sentiment in the operation of 
 
82 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 nature's finer forces. Sentiment belongs to 
 personality, it is related to the physical sense 
 consciousness while the finer forces of nature 
 are related to every plane and every realm of 
 the universe, and while they may be used ac- 
 cording to his capacity by the human dyna- 
 mo, they are not exclusively his. 
 
 However, when the man does select and 
 absorb unto himself the finer forces of con- 
 struction and uses them according to his 
 highest perception of their use, he not only 
 has the power of balancing his own life but 
 of helping others to relate themselves to 
 health and opulence on all planes. 
 
 The organs of the flesh form which corre- 
 spond to the constructive energy and which 
 are its brain medium of operation, are the 
 heart, the lungs and the liver. The heart be- 
 ing the center of love, the lungs the wisdom 
 center and the liver being the assimilator of 
 their unified action. 
 
 The dominant part of the man is the part 
 to which his thought is immediately related ; 
 he can atrophy any part of his body by en- 
 tirely removing his thought from it and he 
 can likewise strengthen any part of himself 
 by constructively centering his thought upon 
 it and he can destroy his entire flesh form by 
 destructive concentration. 
 
 Because the conscious breath follows the 
 conscious thought and only through the 
 breath is any part of the life energy attracted 
 or expressed. 
 
 When we speak of breathing to any part of 
 
THE CONSTRUCTIVE CENTER 83 
 
 the body, we mean, to center the thought up- 
 on that part of the body, and direct the breath 
 to it with the intention of filling it with living 
 energy because when the brain center is 
 aroused, it naturally attracts to itself that 
 which qualifies itself and which is therefore 
 related to it as the law of affinitization draws 
 together corresponding atoms of substance 
 and similar forms of vibratory force. 
 
 So in breathing to the the constructive cen- 
 ter with the desire to relate ourselves to the 
 constructive force of the universe, we will 
 focus our thought upon that center and draw 
 in a deep external breath, which embodies the 
 inner spiritual breath, with the intention of 
 retaining the spiritual force of that breath. 
 
 But before inbreathing with any conscious 
 intention, we will expel every destructive 
 thought from our minds by exhaling the 
 breath already in the lungs with the intention 
 of eliminating every image of destruction and 
 every suggestion of anxiety from our 
 thought. 
 
 The heart action responds immediately to 
 the breath, more immediately than does any 
 other brain of the man because the lungs be- 
 ing the engine of the flesh form and using the 
 breath for its energizing power and being the 
 medium of the wisdom force of the construc- 
 tive center, act directly upon the heart which 
 is the love medium. 
 
 Therefore the heart is the dynamo for the 
 action of the entire body and it qualifies the 
 whole manifestation of the man. If the 
 
84 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 thought of the heart, its inner breath; is con- 
 structive, the man generates and radiates the 
 divine energy of construction ; if, on the con- 
 trary, he thinks destructively, his destructive 
 breath action operates immediately upon the 
 heart, which controls his flesh form, causing 
 his body and also his environing atmosphere 
 to manifest destruction. 
 
 The man thinks in his heart in response to 
 his inner breath desire and he becomes the 
 thing he breathes. It is not a new saying 
 that "as a man thinketh in his heart, so is 
 he;" but few people have stopped to realize 
 that the thought of the heart is of a different 
 quality and with a different cause and a dif- 
 ferent intention than the thought of the head 
 or of the generative brain or any of the other 
 ganglionic brains of the man. 
 
 It is disastrous to judge another or to con- 
 demn another or to give recognition to any 
 force which is called evil because the man im- 
 mediately breathes into his heart the inner 
 breath of his thought and according to its in- 
 tentive strength, it will remain in the atoms 
 of his flesh and impregnate him with its de- 
 structive force. 
 
 Let us suppose that you have, in your mis- 
 direction of your breath intention, filled your 
 body with disease or your atmosphere with 
 sorrow — possibly you may have done so in ig- 
 norance, which is merely lack of understand- 
 ing, and supposing that you do come into suf- 
 ficient understanding of the law of opulence 
 to desire to relate yourself to its activity— 
 
THE CONSTRUCTIVE CENTER 85 
 
 it is not necessary to wait until you know any 
 complete process of reconstruction — you can 
 utilize what little you do know and can com- 
 mence the good work by concentrating upon 
 your desire to be constructive in your atti- 
 tude of mind and to fill your flesh atoms with 
 the constructive energy; then inhale con- 
 sciously and with intention upon your desire 
 until you know that you are infilling yourself 
 with love and wisdom and all that such union 
 symbolizes. 
 
 Every energy operates in the degree and in 
 the vibration of the inspired breath which 
 actuates it, so the highest vibratory force 
 will respond to the loftiest intention of the 
 mind and the breath energy which is related 
 to it. 
 
 There is infinite variety as there are unend- 
 ing shades of quality and forms of intention 
 and of expression upon the earth planet — the 
 man must select as he must live, and the good 
 of his life is determined by the quality of his 
 selection — for the man is the manifestor of 
 his own part of life and in no way can he se- 
 lect what he desires so accurately and so eas- 
 ily as by his power of using, his inner breath 
 according to his highest intention. 
 
 But the same force which responds to a 
 constructive vibration will respond in a re- 
 verse action to a destructive vibration, and 
 the man may breathe with a destructive in- 
 tention and destroy himself as easily as he 
 can breathe with a constructive intention 
 and generate good in himself; therefore the 
 knowledge of the inner breath control is 
 
86 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 never given indiscriminately or to those who 
 desire less than pure goodness. 
 
 Each brain center of the body qualifies with 
 and for a different activity. The generative 
 center operates in the cause of creation as the 
 brain center of magnetism generates magnet- 
 ism according to the degree of its intelligent 
 strength, and as the brain of constructive 
 quality generates the cohesive and its ac- 
 companying radiative force, so when you per- 
 ceive the power of the operation of the spir- 
 itual breath upon these centers you will see 
 the absolute necessity of being constructive 
 in your consciousness before you breathe to 
 any one of the brain centers with intention. 
 
 To develop this constructive consciousness, 
 you will strengthen the constructive brain 
 which is centered in the heart and the lungs 
 and in the liver by concentrating upon it with 
 the intention of breathing to it with the in- 
 ner breath and thereby of consciously gener- 
 ating the love and wisdom energy known as 
 construction and diffusing it throughout 
 your entire being. 
 
 What you do and what you say is of far less 
 importance than what you ARE and you be- 
 come the thing you inbreathe; therefore 
 whenever you take a breathing exercise of 
 any sort commence by breathing to the con- 
 structive center, in other words THINK IN 
 YOUR HEART thereby filling your entire 
 body with goodness and purity, that what- 
 ever you attract may be 'divinely good. 
 
 Should the entire race declare for construe- 
 
THE CONSTRUCTIVE CENTER 87 
 
 tion, should every child in the earth home 
 realize the wonderful power of the inner 
 breath and then should each and all take the 
 spiritual constructive breath in togetherness 
 for just one five minutes or even less time — 
 the atmosphere of the whole earth would im- 
 mediately become so charged with construc- 
 tive life energy that disease and poverty and 
 death and woe could not exist therein, be- 
 cause no thing can exist out of its own atmos- 
 phere, and all of destruction and its sorrow- 
 ful result would dissolve in the glory of the 
 momentary freedom from the bondage of 
 ignorance and its accompanying tyranny of 
 sin. 
 
 You will never take the inner breath ex- 
 cept in the free consciousness, that is, you 
 will hold no limiting thought over yourself 
 or over any other soul because freedom is the 
 natural form of all truth expression and the 
 free breath is the truth avenue for all of the 
 universal opulence. 
 
 When the breath of your own inspiration 
 is free to permeate you, all things of your 
 heart's desire shall be revealed to you and 
 nothing of good can be with-held, so if you 
 would consciously draw to yourself all that, 
 you desire, you will free yourself from all 
 judgment of yourself or others, and relate 
 yourself to truth by uniting your breath with 
 the divine breath of life in the freedom of 
 your realization of God. 
 
 Any reverse action of a force may take its 
 expression in a form which appears to be evil. 
 To illustrate: the substance of Faith when 
 
88 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 unaccompanied by understanding takes the 
 form of fear; when it appears as fear it at- 
 tracts a distorted atmosphere which attracts 
 confusion resulting in the absence of peace 
 and the lack of power and which admits all 
 sorts of poverty and sickness. 
 
 When you realize that you are in the throes 
 of fear, you should also realize that there is 
 an antidote for the fear poison and any anti- 
 dote is always the more rapid vibration of the 
 same substance of the poison, so you can dis- 
 solve the fear in faith by thinking in your 
 heart, which is breathing faith into the con- 
 structive center. 
 
 The thing called evil is a temporary form of 
 confusion caused by a misdirection of energy 
 and on whatever plane of action the misdi- 
 rection of energy occurs, that is the quality 
 of the physical body, usually in the digestive 
 organs — if the action is resentful the reac- 
 tion will be on the physical body, usually in 
 the digestive organs, — if the action is tem- 
 pestuous through anger the reaction will be 
 congestive and probably take the form of a 
 severe cold and so on indefinitely because 
 wherever the man has placed himself out of 
 balance the flesh atoms respond on that* 
 plane. 
 
 Again we cannot ignore the reaction of the 
 destructive force upon financial and other 
 conditions ; that disastrous appearance of evil 
 called jealousy is responsible for poverty on 
 many planes, it is the most primitive of all 
 diseases and the most contemptible because 
 it is absolutely false to its claim and seeks to 
 
THE CONSTRUCTIVE CENTER 89 
 
 bind and blemish that which it pretends to 
 love. 
 
 No appearance of evil can endure in the at- 
 mosphere of construction and when you think 
 in your heart with construction by breathing 
 to that love center with such intention, you 
 create an atmosphere so charged with the 
 divine life energy that you free yourself from 
 the consciousness of the delusion of the 
 shadow of evil and it disappears from your 
 life manifestation. 
 
 When you decide to bring your part of life 
 into its orderly relation with the universal 
 life and so clear it from all confusion, you will 
 first eliminate anxiety from your thought 
 because anxiety breeds confusion and disaster 
 and you will breathe deeply and consciously 
 with the desire to be free and to know your 
 part in the infinite expression of pure good- 
 ness that you may relate yourself to it in the 
 fullness of opulence and love. 
 
 Then you will forget your grievances and 
 your grief by forgiving yourself, for griev- 
 ances because of slights are usually self con- 
 demnation and grief is usually selfish, and 
 having thrown out those forms of selfishness 
 you will relate yourself to opulence by desir- 
 ing to serve others and you will breathe to 
 the constructive center with your inner 
 breath and as it permeates that sensitive 
 brain you will see the clouds dispel and the 
 dark places becoming light and you then 
 know that the light is shining for you. 
 
 Suppose that you stop now and make this 
 
90 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 statement practical by proving this truth. 
 Stand or sit erect, being sure that the air is 
 pure, take a deep physical breath and as you 
 expel that which you do not use, let it carry 
 with it every destructive thought of your 
 mind, thereby making your spiritual atmos- 
 phere pure. Do this three or four times so 
 that you are in the chaste consciousness 
 which renders you capable of receiving a 
 chaste vibration. 
 
 Then relate yourself to the universal good 
 by desiring to draw within you its purity and 
 strength, give your attention to the construc- 
 tive center and inbreathe to that center with 
 the desire upon the inner breath which desire 
 thought always establishes it in the outer 
 breath. 
 
 As you breathe you will feel an awakening 
 in your heart consciousness and when you 
 take that pure constructive breath a few 
 times you will place yourself in a realm of 
 power beyond anything you have yet touched 
 and from which you will never be entirely re- 
 called, because a brain center once conscious- 
 ly awakened is always awake to your demand 
 no matter what the seeming. 
 
 There has been a great deal said about the 
 danger of the Yoga Breath and there are in- 
 stances cited where people have destroyed 
 their bodies through its practices; those 
 warnings refer entirely to the Hatha Yoga or 
 physical breath practices which are given pub- 
 licly and used by those who do not understand 
 that all breath control is dynamic and may be 
 used destructively as well as constructively. 
 
THE CONSTRUCTIVE CENTER 91 
 
 There is absolutely no danger in the spir- 
 itual breath practice, because until a man 
 is beyond the plane of ulterior or destructive 
 desire, he cannot exist in a spiritual atmos- 
 phere and therefore cannot contact its breath 
 energy. 
 
 When, however, he is weary of battling 
 with life and ready to accept its glorious priv- 
 ileges in freedom and opulence, he will throw 
 off his scales of delusion and immediately will 
 desire to know the truth of life which he has 
 heretofore ignored, and then he will think in 
 his heart and the way will be open for him to 
 perceive the God of his own manifestation. 
 
 When you learn to consciously breathe to 
 the constructive center, you soon learn to di- 
 rect the force so generated to any other part 
 of your body and then it is but a step to re- 
 late it to your outside conditions and inter- 
 penetrate them with the constructive energy. 
 Every physical sense is strengthened and de- 
 veloped through the conscious relation to and 
 with the constructive breath and you will 
 soon learn to breathe through your ears as 
 well as through your nostrils, thereby raising 
 the vibration of your sense of hearing — 
 which process you can also apply to every 
 other one of your sense organs. 
 
 Also you will breathe to the constructive 
 center first in all process of generating power 
 because the force of construction is incapa- 
 ble of producing or of operating in any but a 
 perfectly constructive manner and anything 
 you may do under its influence is sure to re- 
 sult in good, 
 
92 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 The constructive breath is immediately 
 operative in all process of reconstruction, es- 
 pecially in the healing of bodily disease ; when 
 a sick person desires your services and you 
 and he agree that he shall be healed, if you 
 will breathe to your constructive center and 
 then breathe with him just as he breathes — 
 you will reach him and restore him immedi- 
 ately because you will be thinking in your 
 heart for him and spiritually suggesting and 
 creating the life-giving energy for him which 
 is far more accurate and dynamic because 
 more interpenetrative than any mental pro- 
 cess could possibly be. 
 
 But you will be careful not to let your pa- 
 tient know your process unless he has reach- 
 ed the plane of spiritual desire, for the rea- 
 son that sick people are usually afraid of any- 
 thing which belongs to the super or spiritual 
 realm and while it is the only plane of power 
 and of freedom, very few people are ready to 
 accept either. 
 
 It is only necessary for us to be willing to 
 know truth by being true to ourselves in or- 
 der to have the good of life revealed or rather 
 glorified in us, because as you and I think in 
 our hearts shall we manifest our flesh form. 
 
 We speak much but we cannot speak too 
 much of the importance of the constructive 
 consciousness, it is the foundation of all of 
 the life operation and the inspiration of its 
 process. 
 
 The constructive brain of the body is the 
 center of the Christ consciousness which is 
 
THE CONSTRUCTIVE CENTER 93 
 
 the child love, that undoubting, untroubled, 
 primitive awareness of God; therefore it is 
 the beginning, the first step, as it were, of 
 knowledge. 
 
 Also the constructive brain is absolutely 
 essential for the manifestation of the flesh 
 form. If the breath of its life is withdrawn 
 for the length of two heart beats, it with 
 every other brain of the body is stilled and a 
 disconnection is made with the infinite mind 
 which is difficult to recall and which is apt 
 to lead to a disconnection with physical life, 
 and then physical dissolution naturally oc- 
 curs. 
 
 When you know how to use your inner 
 breath and when you do use it constructively, 
 you will need no more instructions from other 
 minds because you can then relate yourself 
 consciously to every form and every degree of 
 knowledge which you have the capacity to 
 desire; your touch with the whole life and 
 with all of knowledge is through the breath 
 but when it is unconscious you are not cap- 
 able of demanding your own path of under- 
 standing so you spend years of accumulating 
 through other people's minds what you could 
 draw to yourself with greater accuracy 
 through your own if you were conscious of 
 your own relation to the universe through 
 your inner breath. 
 
 When you become conscious you perceive 
 your own power and then you are gentle in 
 that power and non-resistant in your attitude 
 toward every other thing than yourself be r 
 
94 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 cause you will see so clearly that it all rests 
 with you and that you may know and have 
 and be all that you are willing to become in 
 yourself. 
 
 For that is the keynote of all attainment, to 
 BECOME goodness and knowledge and health 
 and wealth and all that you desire that the 
 great dynamic force of such attainment shall 
 attract to you exactly the thing that you are. 
 
 For verily — as a man thinketh in his heart, 
 so is he. 
 
 There is no sin. 
 
 Whatever heart declares its love for God 
 No matter what the outer claim — 
 
 Is heart of good. 
 
 There can be no impure love. No matter 
 how exalted the love may be, should it become 
 sufficiently confused and distorted to be un- 
 clean, it ceases to be love for the love sub- 
 stance however expressed is always chaste 
 in essence, chaste in action and chaste in 
 manifestation. 
 
 When you and I through our inner breath 
 consciousness become alive to the fact that 
 confusion is transient and that all of misdi- 
 rected energy is but the shadow of reality — 
 and that all shadows dissolve under a con- 
 structive realization we will breathe the spir- 
 it of love and wisdom in the full strength of 
 our own soul consciousness that no other 
 thing than good can possibly endure. 
 
THE CONSTRUCTIVE CENTER 95 
 
 And then we shall know the unswerving 
 truth concerning the vastness of God and the 
 vastness of His human manifestation through 
 His divinity. 
 
 God is supreme — 
 And he who lives and loves 
 Giving the best of him — 
 Knows that great truth. 
 
CHAPTER VL 
 
 Concerning the Solar Plexus 
 
 Great Truth exalted,-— 
 Thou evidence of God ; 
 Aye evidence of men and angels 
 And all of good that lives. 
 
 We claim to know of Thee, 
 
 Thy every phase, 
 
 Thy heights and depths and holy proof 
 
 That God is all. 
 
 And in His mighty Allness 
 The human heart shall know 
 None else but God can be. 
 
 The Solar Plexus is the sun brain of the 
 flesh body and centralizes its intelligent for- 
 ces as the constructive center centralizes the 
 breath intelligence of the entire man. 
 
 The man thinks with his whole body in 
 some degree but the thought is focussed in 
 some one of the brain centers according to 
 its capacity and quality. 
 
 The physical thought, that is, the thought 
 which relates to his physical condition, its 
 
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CONCERNING THE SOLAR PLEXUS 97 
 
 desire and its necessity, is generated and op- 
 erated thru that brain of the flesh body 
 which is known as the Solar Plexus. 
 
 Occult Students regard the Solar Plexus 
 as the discriminating brain of the physical 
 body and call it the center of discrimination ; 
 — in correspondence with the sense, they re- 
 late it to the sense of smell because when it 
 is given recognition and allowed to be true, 
 it always gives warning of danger and guides 
 on the accurate lines of action. 
 
 The outer and physical breath when con- 
 sciously directed, is reflected on the solar 
 plexus brain in such a manner that those who 
 do not understand the inner breath can by 
 ordinary deep breathing awaken the physical 
 consciousness and so strengthen their un- 
 derstanding of themselves. 
 
 But he who is coming into spiritual con- 
 sciousness thru his inner breath control, will 
 find a far greater awakening than he has ever 
 thought possible, if he directs his attention 
 and his intention thru the medium of the in- 
 ner or soul breath to the solar plexus, thereby 
 arousing its conscious activity toward its true 
 cosmic or spiritual relation. 
 
 Any part and any organ of the man may 
 become atrophied until it is unconscious or it 
 may become strengthened until it is super- 
 intelligent and acts in immediate response to 
 the soul desire,— then it is in direct relation 
 to and with the infinite mind and in line with 
 mental strength. 
 
98 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 When anything is partially disconnected 
 from the infinite mind, it becomes confused 
 or even atrophied because of confused and un- 
 certain contact. 
 
 The great trouble with the solar plexus as 
 with many other parts of our wonderful bod- 
 ies is, that we know almost nothing about it 
 and its dynamic possibility. 
 
 If it gives warning of some impending dan- 
 ger, we conclude that our stomachs are dis- 
 turbed, — if it demands more freedom of ac- 
 tion and more breath attention, we think that 
 we crave something to eat or drink, — and if it 
 rebels against such stupidity then we are sure 
 that we have acute indigestion and load it 
 with medicine to help dissolve the over supply 
 of food in our stomachs and enable us to eat 
 some more and of course the medicine acting 
 as an anesthesia on this solar brain it is quiet- 
 ed and suppressed for the time being. 
 
 Most stomach trouble can be immediately 
 relieved by straightening the body and 
 breathing with conscious attention to the 
 solar plexus because it is in direct relation to 
 the stomach and corresponds to it in discri- 
 minative and assimilative quality, although 
 the solar plexus brain is ganglionic and has 
 nothing to do with the digestive organs. 
 
 In breathing to any center of the body, it 
 is always advisable, until one has become per- 
 fectly constructive in his consciousness, to 
 breathe first to the constructive center,-— 
 thereby making of himself a chaste avenue 
 for the' operation of the inner and more dy- 
 
CONCERNING THE SOLAR PLEXUS 99 
 
 namic breath and rendering the result accur- 
 ate. 
 
 Should you breathe to any center of the 
 body with the inner breath when a destruc- 
 tive vibration dominates, you are quite liable 
 to defeat yourself and produce an opposite 
 result than you intend. 
 
 If you are in doubt concerning any person 
 or his or her mental attitude to you just 
 breathe to the constructive center with the 
 inner breath intelligence and exhale every 
 thought which is not perfectly clean and just, 
 — then take your deep inner breath with the 
 soul intention to know the truth. 
 
 You will find the response immediate and 
 accurate; you will not only know the truth 
 concerning that person, but you will know it 
 concerning yourself which is far more impor- 
 tant, as your great responsibility is with 
 yourself and if you are true to yourself you 
 will expect very little from other people. 
 
 In the same manner and with like result, 
 you can breathe to your solar plexus to know 
 concerning conditions and to relate yourself 
 to the understanding of the wise method in 
 all affairs concerning your physical and ma- 
 terial conditions until you so strengthen your 
 power of discrimination and of truth selec- 
 tion that you know without reason and with- 
 out process because you have reached thru 
 reason and thru process to the plane beyond 
 both. 
 
 The solar plexus is especially responsive to 
 all demands upon it for analysis concerning 
 
100 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 the finer forces of nature and their operation, 
 as well as for the most useful process of 
 utilizing the different brains of the body in 
 their creative and assimilative method. 
 
 In fact the conscious and natural control of 
 the solar plexus thru the process of the in- 
 ner breath action, will lead you surely and 
 directly to the place where you will know 
 yourself and your own capacity and you will 
 be able to enlarge your capacity thru your 
 knowledge. 
 
 The student of truth does not require a lot 
 of vague statements or many accounts of 
 phenomenon to strengthen his faith and un- 
 derstanding and so increase his power; his 
 truth desire will develop his ability to seek 
 and to know truth for himself; — we cannot 
 teach each other anything but we may all in- 
 spire each other to put in operation the desire 
 actively which will enable us to know and to 
 do for ourselves. 
 
 You are a God in embryo. 
 
 You will unfold and be born anew in the 
 divine consciousness of your universal rela- 
 tionship. 
 
 The soul that has the true desire meets 
 always the response and when you are ready, 
 the method of your unf oldment is made plain. 
 
 Even should you be in the vastness of hu- 
 man aloneness, still would the way be open, 
 for the inner breath intelligence of the uni- 
 verse would reveal to you all that you are 
 and all that you need. 
 
CONCERNING THE SOLAR PLEXUS 101 
 
 And this great breath of the Infinite also 
 will reveal to you the inner force of its own 
 life and love energy whenever you are willing 
 to know that the hour of your deliverance ar- 
 rives. 
 
 And the hour of your deliverance comes 
 when you put your selfish and personal in- 
 tentions out of your consciousness long 
 enough to allow the divine and impersonal 
 intention to enter and interpenetrate you. 
 
 If you would have intelligent response from 
 your solar brain, you will give it room to 
 breathe and to think. 
 
 There is no more certain process of atro- 
 phying your solar plexus and rendering it 
 stupid and unresponsive to your demand, 
 than by compressing it and smothering its 
 life energy. 
 
 Also the accurate process of ruining your 
 digestive organs and of weakening the intel- 
 ligence of your bowels is to compress the so- 
 lar plexus ; because while the solar plexus is 
 somewhat protected by the ribs as 
 the brain of the head is protected by 
 the skull, it is more frequently suppressed 
 and compressed by the clothing until the 
 ganglionic nerves become confused and 
 weakened and the flesh form loses its intel- 
 ligent vigor. 
 
 We do not breathe to the solar plexus for 
 especial accomplishment or for definite re- 
 sults as we do to the generative and to the 
 magnetic brains; — we breathe to it for the 
 power of that revelation which gives us the 
 
102 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 understanding of methods and the inspira- 
 tion in the power of selection. 
 
 What we want is knowledge for ourselves 
 and not the opinion of other people ; and the 
 solar plexus brain responds to that demand 
 as well as to the desire for readjustment and 
 the accuracy of differentiation which we call 
 knowledge. 
 
 When you understand the dynamic accur- 
 acy of this solar brain as it responds to the 
 inner breath intention, you will be able to di- 
 agnose the cause and the location of disease 
 and to know the method of thought and of 
 breath to employ in healing instead of using 
 a promiscuous process of indirect and scatter- 
 ed thought. 
 
 The Solar plexus is the center of the phy- 
 sical healing activity, — it is under the imme- 
 diate influence of the sign of Virgo which is 
 the one sign of the Zodiac which is perfectly 
 balanced in its physical equalization, thereby 
 giving it great power in adjusting the claims 
 of physical inharmony. 
 
 You do not have to wait thru days of prac- 
 tice in order to utilize what you know con- 
 cerning the inner breath because you cannot 
 use the inner breath or even touch it until 
 you are conscious of it. 
 
 When you do become conscious of it, your 
 progress is very rapid because of its dynamic 
 quality and the result is not only accurate 
 but immediate. 
 
 Suppose you stop now, — right where you 
 
CONCERNING THE SOLAR PLEXUS 103 
 
 are and take your deep constructive breath 
 as we have explained in Chapter Five, to the 
 Solar Plexus and see if you perceive the warm 
 glow of an added consciousness which will re- 
 veal to you the actual fact of the inner breath 
 intelligence. 
 
 You see it is no effort, — it requires no 
 strenuous action, neither does is demand any 
 great mental capacity and culture. 
 
 The only thing really necessary is that you 
 shall be truly desirous to know and therefore 
 to try this very simple method of awakening 
 the brains of your body to their normal plane 
 of use. 
 
 We cannot ignore the fact that all result 
 comes from some sort of process and neither 
 can we fail to see that different process means 
 different result, that inaccurate process leads 
 to inaccurate result and that differentiation 
 both of action and process requires orderly 
 intelligence. 
 
 No matter what our human aim, we must 
 discriminate in process, — and the Solar brain, 
 when given our breath attention, will not only 
 discriminate for us but will direct us to that 
 which truly belongs to us, — thereby saving 
 us from reaching into the universe for that 
 which we have not yet attained. 
 
 It is a waste of energy, as well as of time, 
 to make claims and statements which are 
 mere words,— to declare that "all is mind" 
 or that "Mind is absolute" when we have no 
 more comprehension of Mind or of the Abso- 
 
104 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 lute any more than we understand ourselves 
 and our part of the infinite Mind or of what 
 is the Absolute. 
 
 It is well sometimes to get very still and re- 
 late ourselves to our child consciousness and 
 to balance in our common sense; — it is so 
 very easy to swim out of our depth and to 
 think in unrealities. 
 
 We want to know the truth and our rela- 
 tion to it and we will know the truth in its 
 daily relation to our part of life just as soon 
 as we are willing to know concerning the 
 breath. 
 
 In the healing of the flesh form, the Solar 
 brain is especially intelligent. 
 
 There is an ethereal connection between the 
 Solar Plexus of all humanity, — it is the cen- 
 ter of their psychic physical relationship and 
 in the healing work, you not only know the 
 quality of your patient thru the solar breath, 
 — but you also know his body and its condi- 
 tion. 
 
 Another thing which you know is the es- 
 pecial process which your patient needs, he 
 may require the touch of your hand, or he 
 may require to be inspired thru understand- 
 ing of himself and of the law ; again, he may 
 have the quality of faith which responds to 
 prayer alone, which is, of course the most im- 
 mediate form of healing which exists. 
 
 When you are working with the usual type 
 of patient, — you will differentiate thru the 
 breath of the Solar Plexus, — you will know 
 
CONCERNING THE SOLAR PLEXUS 105 
 
 that you do not use the same quality of 
 thought energy to heal a cancer that you do 
 to heal nervous prostration, that a cold in 
 the head differs from the shock of an acci- 
 dent. 
 
 You will know that upon the cause of a 
 heart ache will depend the strength of its 
 cure; — in fact the method of dissolving all 
 confusion depends upon the quality of the 
 cause, — and this is true of every form and 
 condition of disease. 
 
 One of the modern schools of metaphysics 
 has adopted from the oriental a method of 
 healing which is founded upon the position of 
 the patient in the Zodiac. They claim, which 
 seems quite reasonable, that the sluggish 
 temperament requires the intense and more 
 rapid suggestion and that the excitable tem- 
 perament requires the steady, calm and cool- 
 ing suggestion and that they can judge their 
 patients and qualify them according to their 
 astrological positions. 
 
 We appreciate the accuracy of such a 
 method but how much more simple and more 
 direct is the process which knows without 
 mathematical calculation and which arrives 
 at that knowledge thru the simple contact of 
 the inner breath intelligence which directly 
 and immediately relates us to the knowledge 
 of the lack in the patient as well as to the 
 faith and the understanding to make it whole. 
 
 There are very many methods of flesh 
 healing, — surgery and medicine, suggestion 
 mesmeric and suggestion therapeutic, — Di- 
 
106 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 vine Science and Christian Science and vary- 
 ing schools of occultism and New Thought are 
 all working toward the healing of the body 
 and the upliftment of the man. 
 
 Some of these methods seem accurate and 
 definite; — others seem less defined but we 
 must realize that all are good and even tho 
 we do not always approve and seldom under- 
 stand it does not help us and may harm others 
 if we criticise any process which helps in the 
 upliftment of the race. 
 
 And we will always remember that the re- 
 action of any force which we send out is al- 
 ways directly upon our own selves, especially 
 vital does it become when we understand 
 what we are doing. 
 
 It is in permanently dissolving disease and 
 poverty of all sorts that the Solar brain is es- 
 pecially dynamic, — and when you have freed 
 your patient and have recreated harmony in 
 him, you will breathe with the inner breath to 
 the Solar Plexus with the intention of dis- 
 solving all memory of past inharmony and 
 then you will agree with your patient to for- 
 give and forget a condition with which he 
 has finished. 
 
 For it is written : "Let the dead bury the 
 dead." 
 
 All things with which we have finished are 
 dead and all things which linger in our con- 
 sciousness are still alive and cling to us. 
 
 It is the mission of the Solar Brain to free 
 the living from the dead, to separate the 
 
CONCERNING THE SOLAR PLEXUS 107 
 
 wheat from the chaff and to place in true re- 
 lationship the finer forces of nature and to 
 render unto life what belongs to life. 
 
 The overcoming of surplus flesh, as also of 
 surplus energy belongs to the Solar Brain, — 
 if you have more adipose tissue in your body 
 than you need for your health and comfort, 
 you can refer the condition to your solar 
 plexus and then give it the attention of your 
 inner breath and its desire to be free from 
 surplus flesh, your breath intelligence, so di- 
 rected will not only inspire you as to your 
 action concerning it but will act immediately 
 on the super flesh atoms and show them their 
 proper place and their normal activity in 
 your body. 
 
 As you utilize the power and strengthen 
 the capacity of your solar brain by relating 
 it to your inner breath intelligence, it devel- 
 ops the grey matter which is the brain sub- 
 stance and becomes not only a ganglionic 
 brain center in process but a brain in factual 
 expression. 
 
 The solar brain is also the center of the 
 hope substance and its companion force of 
 intention, — you will notice how the practice of 
 awakening the solar brain thru the breath 
 process, arouses your hope and accentuates 
 your incentive force, whereas with a sluggish 
 and dazed solar plexus, your attitude to life 
 seems hopeless and weary and heavy. 
 
 Again, — control of the Solar brain controls 
 many conditions of nausea, such as have no 
 relation to local disturbances in the stomach 
 
108 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 like sea sickness, pregnancy, unpleasant 
 odors and disagreeable suggestions. 
 
 The Solar Plexus is very sensitive to any 
 disturbed sense and so is responsive to their 
 abuse, — so when eyes and ears and taste 
 are in trouble, the solar brain takes that con- 
 dition upon itself and we think we are sick 
 in the stomach. 
 
 So it becomes a great regulator and we do 
 not over-eat and over-drink or abuse our eyes 
 or get over weary when we know the result 
 which follows. 
 
 But when we discover that we have so 
 abused our senses and our bodies, — we will 
 give ourselves a rest and then breathe to our 
 solar brain and balance the condition, — by 
 first breathing to the heart center or rather 
 the constructive center and then to the Solar 
 Plexus center with the intention that it shall 
 be intelligently regulated in its service to you 
 and you will soon find yourself quite normal 
 and comfortable. 
 
 Any one who has attracted the habit of 
 taking drugs and is therefore a slave to them 
 can free himself by utilizing the solar breath 
 in that direction. 
 
 Or any other habit because all habits en- 
 slave us and we never amount to much until 
 we are free from them. 
 
 If you have a patient who desires your help 
 in the freeing of himself from any sort of 
 bondage, — you can direct your constructive 
 breath to your Solar Brain and suggest thru 
 
CONCERNING THE SOLAR PLEXUS 109 
 
 it to the Solar brain of your patient that he 
 has no desire for the condition which he has 
 assumed, that he has no craving for any thing 
 but good, that his greatest desire is free- 
 dom of mind and body and that he has for- 
 gotten and forgiven all that can possibly 
 enslave him. 
 
 Your patient will be free for always, unless 
 he deliberately recalls the condition. 
 
 But be very sure, whenever you use the in- 
 ner breath to accomplish a purpose as in the 
 case of habit, — that your patient truly desir- 
 es your service, because the inner breath is 
 dynamic and responds immediately and un- 
 less you project it constructively and in ac- 
 curate co-operation, it may carry a reaction 
 to you rather unexpectedly because it is most 
 destructive to intrude your service where it 
 is not wanted. 
 
 For instance a healer who did not realize 
 the power of the inner breath almost died 
 from treating a man for habitual drinking 
 when he resented it although his wife asked 
 for the help. 
 
 Freedom is the divine right of every in- 
 telligent human creature. 
 
 Fortunately, however, until a soul arrives 
 at a point where he is willing to allow the 
 same privileges which he claims for himself, 
 he is very rarely capable of grasping the 
 truths of occult power because he places him- 
 self in a bondage which only a free conscious- 
 ness can unloose. 
 
110 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 The disease called old age dissolves in the 
 light of the inner breath consciousness for 
 the breath intelligence has no recognition of 
 any destructive effect of time; the flesh 
 atoms become filled with living intelligent 
 energy when they relate themselves to the 
 soul of life itself, — and the soul of life is the 
 spiritual or cosmic breath. 
 
 Where there is consciousness of life, there 
 can be no degeneracy and consequently no 
 process of destructive dissolution. 
 
 Therefore with the constructive dissolu- 
 tion of atomic degeneracy, enters, atomic re- 
 generation which leads to perfect flesh mas- 
 tery wherein the "last enemy" is overcome. 
 
 As a race, men do not breathe ; — to be sure 
 the lung engine moves and throbs regularly 
 so that sufficient of the outside air is taken 
 into the engine to enable it to keep on mov- 
 ing and so keep the heart action steady 
 enough for sufficient force to keep the blood 
 in circulation and to enable the body to keep 
 in touch with the life current, — but as for 
 really living, there are very few human be- 
 ings who have intelligent breath force in their 
 physical forms to enable them to attract 
 enough of the infinite mind to really think 
 for themselves. 
 
 And no man is really alive until he thinks 
 and breathes for himself. 
 
 The solar brain is the home of what is 
 known as conscience because it is the dis- 
 criminator, the brain of selection. 
 
CONCERNING THE SOLAR PLEXUS 111 
 
 If you do a thing which you think is wrong, 
 your idea of that wrong naturally vibrates 
 to the brain of its selection because any idea 
 of wrong is more or less confused ; and if you 
 decide thru your power of selection that you 
 have done wrong, — then you have selected 
 to be uncomfortable, the sentiment is painful 
 and your conscience hurts. 
 
 Only upon the plane of conscience can there 
 be such a thing as the idea of wrong because 
 consciousness is the realm of truth and knowl- 
 edge and in that realm confusion and injus- 
 tice cannot exist. 
 
 The man who is conscious and who knows 
 his relation to God is never disturbed by any 
 shivers of conscience, — in his consciousness 
 there can be only his right angle of action and 
 whatever he does is exactly right for him, no 
 matter what may be the standard and opin- 
 ion of other people. 
 
 The soul whose conscience has merged 
 into consciousness always finds his path of 
 truth which is his right angle of action lead- 
 ing him exactly in the way of leaving every 
 other soul in perfect freedom, — he knows 
 better than to interfere with the rights of 
 another living creature. 
 
 The Universe is opulent with bigness of 
 every shade and variety of God's life and 
 there is plenty of place for every vibration of 
 that life. 
 
 And the whole of that life, with you and me 
 and all that concerns us, sweeps on and on in 
 the opulent and infinite good. 
 
112 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 In the onrushing process of the evolution of 
 this race, the human principle has not yet 
 subjected the animal principle although the 
 divine principle is commencing to interpene- 
 trate the human. 
 
 The race moves as one but there is always 
 the head of that one and while there are those 
 who seem to be far in advance, — there is in 
 truth no separation because unless a soul in- 
 tentionally lets go and is willing to be thrown 
 off from the body of the race as waste matter, 
 he will go with the whole as a part of it. 
 
 So long as the desire of the individual soul 
 is for good and for God, no matter how faint 
 the spark of that desire, he will be part of the 
 life of the race operating with it in purpose 
 and intention. 
 
 God's evolution is man's evolution. 
 God's interest is man's interest. 
 God's hope is man's hope. 
 
 Blessed is the man who claims his privi- 
 lege of interpenetrating his humanity with 
 divinity and so becoming divine in interest 
 and in intention. 
 
 And blessed indeed is he who mistakes not 
 in his thought concerning the great and most 
 glorious God for in the recognition of his uni- 
 versality alone can humanity become divine. 
 
 To know the law dear Lord 
 
 That naught can go astray, 
 
 I live Thy life in love 
 
 As unto Thee I pray 
 
 That I may breathe with Thee. 
 
CONCERNING THE SOLAR PLEXUS 113 
 
 To hope with Thee oh God, — 
 No lesser thing I see 
 Than I may know the whole 
 And all that hope may be 
 When I shall breathe with Thee. 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 
 Concerning the Generative Brain 
 
 Tis only when I purify 
 
 My love 
 
 That I am free. 
 
 'Tis only when I purify 
 
 Desire 
 
 That I am chaste. 
 
 For herein lies the law. 
 
 'Tis raising unto heaven's harmony 
 
 My human love, 
 
 And not in crushing and destroying 
 
 Its great force 
 
 That I am one with life 
 
 In perfect and in conscious strength. 
 
 It is imperative in the face of the present 
 human demand that mankind shall become 
 sufficiently chaste to perceive the truth of his 
 divine inheritance of the power of creation, 
 that men may realize their own immaculate 
 conception and thereby their relation to God. 
 
 The confused idea of the most holy rela- 
 tion of man to God and of God to life in mani- 
 
 114 
 
THE GENERATIVE BRAIN 115 
 
 fest form shall be dissolved in the flaming 
 radiation of a mighty truth revealed, — be- 
 cause men are awakening to a realization of 
 their responsibility in the matter of the re- 
 generation of the race thru a chaste expres- 
 sion of their own generative power. 
 
 Because humanity misdirects its power, 
 misuses its opportunity and perverts its sa- 
 cred privileges, it does not lessen the truth of 
 the fact that the creative energy is the most 
 dynamic as well as the most divine of all of 
 the attributes of God which are engendered 
 in the human kind. 
 
 The generative brain of the human crea- 
 ture is the center of all of its creative activ- 
 ity ; it is intelligent in the degree of its chas- 
 tity which means in the degree of its clean 
 desire and action for good. 
 
 When it is misused with perverted purpose 
 or misdirected thru the action of lust instead 
 of thru the attraction of love, the generative 
 brain becomes confused and is quite as lia- 
 ble to create a destructive force as a construc- 
 tive one, thereby producing destructive ef- 
 fects both as to conditions and to forms. 
 
 It is not my intention to write concerning 
 the sacred and holy things of the past, or of 
 the mighty symbology of the map of the 
 heavens as it is given in the book of wisdom ; 
 it is merely my desire to relate you as quick- 
 ly and as easily as possible to a method of the 
 inner breath control which will cleanse and 
 purify and chasten the generative brain as 
 well as the entire sex consciousness, thereby 
 
116 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 rendering it capable of creative utilization on 
 all planes of your constructive desire and in- 
 tention. 
 
 Human thought concerning sex has become 
 so impure and so perverted and therefore so 
 unclean that it is regarded as improper to 
 speak openly about this marvelous creative 
 brain of the human creature, — so our youth 
 grow up in ignorance, with little or no un- 
 derstanding about their natural functions 
 and their innocent desire, — except what they 
 learn from a deflected angle thru the distort- 
 ed vision of other children equally ignorant. 
 
 Then when nature over-reaches herself 
 thru repression or misdirected expression, the 
 result which naturally follows, leads to de- 
 struction and grief instead of to construction 
 and its accompanying joy. 
 
 There can be no deflection from the truth 
 angle of nature's inexorable law without great 
 pain. 
 
 The use of the generative brain is quite as 
 vital in its creation of life conditions as in its 
 creation of life forms : — one who understands 
 himself may thru his generative brain and its 
 chaste use, draw from out the universal mind, 
 the most glorious manifestation of genius in 
 art or invention or science, or any other form 
 of expression, by simply generating within 
 himself the constructive forces which cor- 
 respond to, and which consequently attract 
 the quality of the thing which he desires. 
 
 On the contrary he may by misunderstand- 
 ing himself and thereby misdirecting his ere- 
 
THE GENERATIVE BRAIN 117 
 
 ative energy, create a force which disconnects 
 him from the finer forces of nature and so 
 externalize their lack and express disease or 
 disaster or poverty on some plane of his life. 
 
 Every form of disease in existence is caus- 
 ed by the misuse and abuse of the generative 
 brain center ; not necessarily the fault of the 
 person now expressing the disease, indeed its 
 origin may have been in past generations ; — 
 but the race is one, — and the mistakes and 
 confusion of the father and of his father's 
 father may be overshadowing the son. 
 
 Were it not for the light of the newer reve- 
 lation and for the upreach of the present 
 generation to meet it, the race of the present 
 day would soon be entirely disintegrated by 
 the many phases of death thru disease and 
 hate and fear and war which it has attracted 
 because of its appalling ignorance concerning 
 the sacred and holy brain of creative energy. 
 
 Well indeed did the earlier races under- 
 stand the holy of holies of the Temple of the 
 ever living God, (the creative brain of the 
 flesh body,) and they respected it in chastity 
 of thought and symbolized the creative act in 
 the rites of the old Phallic religion upon 
 which was founded all religions both ancient 
 and modern. 
 
 The spires of the Temples are symbols of 
 the male organ of generation and the within 
 altars symbolize those of the female, — while 
 the modern church buildings correspond in 
 their symbolical architecture, — 
 
 The spiritual significance has been lost to 
 
118 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 all but the Catholic church which still holds 
 to many forms of ancient symbology. 
 
 The dances of modern times are the reflec- 
 tion of the sacred dances which were a part of 
 the rites in the ceremonies to the Phallic Dei- 
 ty whose power was held to be the most dy- 
 namic force in existence and who was wor- 
 shipped above all of the other gods. 
 
 Many of the dances now, as did all of them 
 in ancient times, symbolize the act of sex ex- 
 pression, and, while we may look with a cer- 
 tain contempt upon many of the ancient cus- 
 toms, — the truth is, that before the prostitu- 
 tion of sex energy became common, there was 
 far more reverence and a finer chastity in the 
 minds and hearts of mankind then than there 
 is now. 
 
 The first thing you will do when you think 
 concerning your creative brain, if you would 
 be true to yourself and to your every func- 
 tion of life is to think in your heart. 
 
 We. have already discussed the process of 
 thinking in the heart brain. 
 
 Having filled your body with the construc- 
 tive breath, you will breathe to the organs of 
 generation which are the creative brain, — 
 with the pure desire of awakening and devel- 
 oping that brain in chastity and power and in- 
 telligence so that it will be under your con- 
 scious control. 
 
 It is not advisable to practise the creative 
 breath until you understand the other five of 
 the six ganglionic centers because the crea- 
 
THE GENERATIVE BRAIN 119 
 
 tive brain usually operates in connection with 
 one or more of the other brains and you will 
 find it easier and more effective to use it when 
 you know them all and their different quali- 
 ties of inter-relation. 
 
 The inner-breath is the actual spiritual ve- 
 hicle of all such inter relation and it can be 
 directed so accurately and so dynamically 
 that you will find yourself touching hitherto 
 unknown forces and accomplishing things 
 which you had not dreamed were in your 
 province of action. 
 
 Indeed you will enter a new world when you 
 realize the glorious possibilities of the inner 
 breath and its active relationships. 
 
 There is absolutely no hope of a healthy, 
 happy or permanent race until the quality of 
 its generative force is made clean. 
 
 There can be no conscious accurate genera- 
 tion of humanity until its creative process is 
 honest in its inception and loving in its con- 
 ception. 
 
 An accidental humanity such as is the ma- 
 jority of the present mediocre generation, is 
 never beautiful, is rarely balanced and is 
 sadly lacking in intelligence. 
 
 Every child has the divine right to breathe 
 the breath of God which contains every good 
 in life, and it should not be compelled to 
 breathe the breath of the devil and its ac- 
 companying evil. 
 
 Devil being the symbolic term of and for 
 
120 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 the delusion of evil which we call sin and sick- 
 ness and poverty and death. 
 
 And the breath of God's life is the clean, 
 accurate, pure breath of a chaste generative 
 act, — clean in intention, accurate in desire 
 and pure in freedom and love. 
 
 In that breath shall mankind be truly 
 awake. 
 
 Before the race is healthy and powerful, it 
 must understand something of chastity, not 
 according to perverted human opinion but ac- 
 cording to the principles of universal life 
 which are the laws of an infinite intelligence, 
 — also, before we can have a race of clean 
 thinkers, we must have free mothers. 
 
 Licentiousness and rape must be abolished 
 from the marriage relation which, too fre- 
 quently is utterly unchaste, — and human 
 mothers must have, at least, the considera- 
 tion and privilege which is shown to the beast 
 mothers in being the keepers of their own 
 persons. 
 
 The mother who truly loves the father of 
 her child and who breathes freely, even 
 though unconsciously in her heart concerning 
 him, — impregnates her child with the God 
 idea of him because she thinks in her heart 
 and with chastity concerning him, — she is 
 expressing her motherhood in freedom and in 
 love and not in fear and compulsion. 
 
 On the contrary, the mother who loathes 
 the father of her child, even though that 
 loathing is momentary thru the despairing 
 
THE GENERATIVE BRAIN 121 
 
 idea that she is pregnant against her will, — 
 impregnates the helpless creature lying be- 
 neath her heart with a force which is not 
 promising for the health and happiness and 
 opulence of its future life. 
 
 Parenthood should be the glory of human 
 expression, — the prayerful, careful faith of 
 human desire and intention and not the care- 
 less, unfaith and the fear and dread of lust. 
 
 The great marvel is that the race is as or- 
 derly and as intelligent as it is, considering 
 the inexcusable misdirection of the seminal 
 fluids which are the most etheric and most 
 volatile of all the physical secretions and 
 which contain the secretion of human nature. 
 
 The desire of a man and a woman for each 
 other, when it is thru chaste love, leads to 
 generative expression and becomes a dynamic 
 force of manifest creative power. 
 
 In its constructive relation, it is the im- 
 maculate conception of their ideal on some 
 plane of manifestation, — but should it become 
 dissolved in passion, it may lead to destructive 
 results. 
 
 There should never be any sex contact be- 
 tween two people unless they love each other 
 truly and purely. 
 
 Any violation of that law leads to poverty 
 on some plane of their human expression. 
 
 Let judgment dissolve from the heart 
 That love and wisdom may enter in. 
 
122 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 The generative brain is the center thru 
 which the intentive idea is focussed and for- 
 mulated and made ready for physical or 
 mental manifestation. 
 
 The creation of a human being is only one 
 phase of the active creative work of the 
 generative brain. 
 
 It is also the brain instrument for every 
 other creative result in the life accomplish- 
 ment,— but on the plane of child creation, 
 the dual forces of male and female are abso- 
 lutely essential in co-operation for the desired 
 result. 
 
 Any other plane of creation does not re- 
 quire the dual physical contact; the inner 
 breath relation and inspiration is essential. 
 
 Also it is only on the plane of physical and 
 animal creation that an orgasm is necessary 
 for accomplishment and the spasmodic con- 
 clusion of the sex act should never be ex- 
 pressed except for the generation of a child- 
 
 A physical sex contact when the parties 
 are chaste in their love for each other, may 
 be held in perfect control until the two lovers 
 are entirely satisfied and know that they not 
 only have generated the life expression but 
 that they have strengthened and reinforced 
 themselves on all planes. 
 
 This balanced control comes thru the in- 
 ner breath consciousness and solves all the 
 problems concerning flesh mastery and con- 
 trol. 
 
THE -GENERATIVE BRAIN 123 
 
 The chief of which is the regulation of pro- 
 creation. 
 
 Thru this inner breath consciousness, a 
 man and woman who truly love each other 
 and who freely and lovingly and mutually de- 
 sire the creative expression of their love, — 
 may during that contact, generate forces 
 which will relate them to untold happiness 
 and usefulness, — also which will strengthen 
 and develop and render them avenues of per- 
 fect health and wonderful opulence on any 
 plane they may desire to touch. 
 
 Another thing which these two lovers may 
 do during their conscious and constructive 
 interblending, is to give to each other every 
 spiritual gift which they possess ; talents and 
 temperament and qualities and even charac- 
 teristics may be exchanged, — for it is in very 
 truth, the joining together by God which only 
 the death of love can possibly put asunder. 
 
 On the contrary, if the expression is merely 
 one of passion on one side and of accommoda- 
 tion on the other, — or of passion on both sides 
 and concluding with an uncontrolled orgasm, 
 — the relation will not strengthen the mu- 
 tual love neither will it add to the opulence 
 of the life expression ; rather does it lead to 
 weariness of body and mind and heart. 
 
 In each human creature is the divine at- 
 tribute of being able to generate within him- 
 self the dual force required in the manifes- 
 tation of the finer forces of life ; — not for the 
 purpose of physical child creation because 
 that is on the animal plane and requires no 
 
124 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 more control of the finer forces of nature 
 than the animal requires in creating its kind 
 — but like the animal it must have the co- 
 habitation of male and female. 
 
 On the plane of mental and spiritual ideal- 
 ization the individual may use his genera- 
 tive brain, may charge it with the fire of his 
 inner breath desire and so manifest of him- 
 self and within himself, that part of the 
 universal substance and its action which re- 
 lates to his desire and his activity. 
 
 And this ability does not apply alone to 
 constructive materialization because he who 
 once develops that power, uses it for every 
 externalization of his thought formulation 
 whether it be constructive or destructive. 
 
 It may not be done consciously or with 
 definite intention any more than one volun- 
 tarily raises his hand to ward off a blow or 
 to receive something offered to him, those 
 are subconscious acts; but if this power is 
 developed and is used destructively, it may 
 account for some dynamic and very unhappy 
 happenings which are not comprehended by 
 those who have supposed themselves on ex- 
 alted planes of spiritual understanding. 
 
 When you come into practical comprehen- 
 sion of the creative power, you will use it 
 first by thinking in your heart concerning it, 
 you know it is a God energy, a divine force, 
 good, beautiful and holy; — you will breathe 
 to your constructive brain first and then to 
 your generative brain and then breathe to 
 the force you would use thru it with con- 
 scious intention, 
 
THE GENERATIVE BRAIN 125 
 
 When you perceive that you have enliv- 
 ened your creative brain, you will concentrate 
 your thought and then breathe deeply and 
 consciously with your mind centered on 
 whichever one of the brain centers you de- 
 sire to use in expressing your intention. 
 
 When you intend to generate magnetism 
 on financial lines, you will use the same pro- 
 cess; you will breathe first in your heart 
 and then to the creative brain which is, in 
 truth, constructively generating your forces, 
 and then you will concentrate with the inner 
 breath to the magnetic brain. 
 
 With the desire to express on musical or 
 literary or any other artistic lines, you will 
 breathe to the constructive brain, then to 
 the creative brain and then concentrate on 
 the intellectual brain, which is explained 
 later; and thru this method and process you 
 can attain any quality of force which you 
 require in externalizing your life purpose. 
 
 All conception, whether mental or spirit- 
 ual, originates in the creative brain and re- 
 sults in birth. 
 
 Every immaculate conception brings forth 
 a christ child and if your desire is good, 
 which means from God, — and if you formu- 
 late your desire in goodness, whether it be 
 for perfect child of brain or perfect child of 
 flesh, your conception is immaculate and 
 your desire shall be brought forth; — it may 
 be born in the shadow of an humble manger. 
 — or it may be born in the palace of the king, 
 — but it is born in the kingdom of God and 
 
126 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 treated to help solve the problem of the 
 race which means to save the race. 
 
 Every idea which is conceived in pure good- 
 ness and born thru and by faith is one of 
 the glorified saviours of the world. 
 
 Heretofore men have idealized in personal- 
 ity, — they could not formulate their thought 
 outside of a material form, — but as we ap- 
 proach the next dimension of consciousness, 
 we are commencing to idealize in principles, 
 we are touching reality in the finer essences 
 of the life wave and so we are entering the 
 Temple of the holy Ghost, which means the 
 whole consciousness of the Universe and we 
 are entering it thru the gate of the recog- 
 nition of spiritual or cosmic fact. 
 
 The Universal man is here, — he is breath- 
 ing the divine life, he is charged with the 
 fire of God's love, he is pulsing in its every 
 living flame, — the dead Christ of him is 
 arisen, — behold the resurrection is at hand 
 and the rock of ages is cleft in the shining 
 light of the newer day. 
 
 There is no compromising with the forces 
 of the inner breath consciousness, — it re- 
 flects and absorbs all that it touches in flaw- 
 less accuracy. 
 
 The soul that declares its unity with God's 
 work and who therefore breathes the atmos- 
 phere of that holy (wholly) intention, must 
 not deflect the line of that intention from the 
 right angle of the truth line unless he wants 
 to attract intense pain on the plane and in 
 the line of its deflection. 
 
THE GENERATIVE BRAIN 127 
 
 In fact and in the divine law that is the 
 only he 1 ! he can ever really know. 
 
 God manifests thru the accurate flawless 
 goodness of his mighty work in the grand 
 externalization of himself in the Uinverse. 
 
 You and I are part of that externalization. 
 
 We are part of the good manifestation of 
 God's work. 
 
 According to the claims of symbology and 
 its version of the race origin, Adam corres- 
 ponds to the earthly exterior man, the wis- 
 dom Father, while Eve symbolizes the divine 
 interior woman, the love Mother. 
 
 These two are united in one and are ob- 
 jectively and subjectively indispensable to 
 each other, as they are the parents of all 
 constructive form, being the constructive 
 unit out of which emanates all of the intel- 
 ligently expressed life upon the earth planet. 
 
 If you and I could apply our divine attri- 
 butes of creation, and if we would thereby 
 draw to ourselves the opulence of the uni- 
 verse in love and wisdom, — we would soon 
 connect our inner breath desire with the 
 generative force of the universe by breathing 
 with our conscious spiritual breath to our 
 own generative brain and then realizing that 
 it is a portion of the generative brain of the 
 universe and that we may utilize as much of 
 the creative energy of the universe as we 
 have the power to attract and the strength 
 and the capacity to assimilate. 
 
 We will strengthen our power and broaden 
 
128 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 our capacity by eliminating from our thought 
 all criticism and all judgment for each other 
 or for any other living thing. 
 
 We will know that whatever I do is exactly 
 right for me according to my universal right 
 angle of action, — and that what you do is 
 exactly right for you and we will give every 
 other human being freedom of expression 
 that we also may be free to express our divine 
 attribute of manifesting our part of God's 
 life according to our own position in the uni- 
 verse and according to our own conception 
 of life. 
 
 The universal lover gives himself to God 
 by giving himself to all of God's children, — 
 he endows them with faith and love. 
 
 The universal lover sees the infinite re- 
 lation and value in every plane of universal 
 life, — he knows that life is good. 
 
 The universal lover is free in his faith as 
 well as in his love, — he exacts no tribute 
 from any other soul. 
 
 The universal lover has entered the portals 
 of the ever living truth ; in his soul is chas- 
 tity and in his heart is the purity of a 
 mighty tenderness which enables him to per- 
 ceive and to realize the infinite intelligence 
 which is the God of the universe in every 
 living thing. 
 
 For only the pure in heart shall see the 
 omnipresent, omniactive, omniscient, omni- 
 potent Being, than whom there is none other, 
 and in whom all life is expressed. 
 
THE GENERATIVE BRAIN 129 
 
 As you think in your heart, you will breathe 
 purity from out the Universe and so generate 
 in your creative brain the force of purity un- 
 til you have become pure in consciousness and 
 then you will see another promise fulfilled, — 
 for it is written, — "The pure in heart shall 
 see God." 
 
 No creature can perceive what is not in 
 itself, — and therefore being chaste and pure 
 in your generative consciousness, you will 
 see your own God-ness as it relates you to 
 the wholly pure good. 
 
 For ages the great souls who have gone 
 before have warned the race, — "Thou shalt 
 not commit adultery," — and men in their 
 egotistic weakness, have interpreted the 
 warning to suit their own limited idea which 
 varies in every generation and in every small 
 section on the face of the earth, — and, while 
 they have chanted the commandment, they 
 have so adulterated the forces of life thru 
 their own misconception of their generative 
 force, that they have used that force to de- 
 feat their own heart desire and have thwarted 
 their own intention instead of using it to 
 strengthen the operation of nature and to 
 co-operate with the laws of life. 
 
 You can generate any quality concerning 
 which you can think, within yourself by 
 breathing with the inner breath to the gen- 
 erative brain with pure desire and if you 
 would become the thing which you desire, you 
 will tiiink in love that your motive may be 
 chaste in every sense of the word. 
 
 
130 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 Thereby you will generate such a force of 
 constructive power that you can calm the 
 tempests of a lifetime which are the result 
 of misdirected energy, when your desire for 
 pure good has related you to the infinite, 
 divine breath of universal consciousness. 
 
 Men and women are the reflex of the uni- 
 versal substance and its activities, — and as 
 they become less introspective and more uni- 
 versal, less personal and more individual in 
 their relation to infinite life, they breathe 
 more cosmically, — which really means uni- 
 versally and so think and live more univer- 
 sally. 
 
 Then they cease to apply everything writ- 
 ten and spoken to their own small person- 
 alities ; — rather perceive their own and every 
 other person's divinity thru their strength- 
 ening realization of their human Christ con- 
 sciousness. 
 
 When a man and a woman unite, that is 
 when they, for generative or regenerative 
 purposes, become a unit in intention, — they 
 have a far greater opportunity for develop- 
 ment in all lines and on all planes than when 
 they were separate and apart and so long as 
 their union is useful and operates for good, — 
 it will not be divided or rent asunder, — be- 
 cause good or God has joined it and man 
 cannot sever the body of his God which is 
 his own goodness. 
 
 Nothing will defeat the humanly divine 
 intention more effectively than to hold to- 
 gether that which does not belong together. 
 
THE GENERATIVE BRAIN 131 
 
 The union may be of conscious flesh atoms 
 or of dynamic etheric atoms; it may be the 
 union of conscious human beings who misin- 
 terpret their opinions and call them truths, — 
 but whatever it is, of substance or of ac- 
 tivities, if they cannot or will not blend in 
 harmony, — the result is unholy, and inev- 
 itably leads to the hell of destruction which 
 leads to death. 
 
 It is for those who know the law of the 
 inner breath to breathe with the full free 
 consciousness of universal love and its su- 
 preme activity in purity that they shall has- 
 ten the awakening of the race. 
 
 And it is for these knowers of the law to 
 breathe with the full free consciousness of 
 their wholly creative power until all their 
 conscious manifestations of life respond in 
 another soul realization that another step 
 in the onward march of the race has been 
 taken and that human creatures are one 
 step nearer to understanding and so loving 
 each other and consequently they are one 
 step nearer to God. 
 
 The race must claim its right to generate 
 a clean humanity. 
 
 The accidents of lust must give way be- 
 fore the intention of love and in the purity 
 of divine desire shall be made manifest the 
 chaste free goodness of human creative con- 
 sciousness in its perfect union of love and 
 wisdom. 
 
 When you and I are lifted up, all mankind 
 
132 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 shall be so lifted because in spirit and in 
 truth we are one. 
 
 Oh mighty man, 
 Within your wondrous form 
 Behold, the God of you 
 Aroused to Power untold. 
 For in your sleeping brain, 
 Deep in your breathing heart, 
 Stirring your swooning soul, 
 Is God's own attribute 
 Of Love's creation. 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 Concerning the Magnetic Brain 
 
 That I may have the power 
 
 To draw unto myself Thy opulence 
 
 Dear Lord, I pray. 
 
 For fullness of the earth is mine 
 
 As well as freedom of Thy mind and heart. 
 
 And nothing else than all 
 
 Of Thy great loving life 
 
 Can satisfy my human claim. 
 
 Each Planet and each sun and each con- 
 dition in the Universe is perfectly orderly 
 in its relation, one with the other. 
 
 The use of all things depends on their re- 
 lation, — that which relates to the earth 
 planet naturally gravitates to the earth plan- 
 et because there it finds its opportunity and 
 its use, — and while it is upon the earth, it 
 will attract the forces which belong to it 
 in the degree of its cohesive relation with 
 the earth. 
 
 Love is the cohesive substance of the en- 
 tire universe, belonging to every planet in 
 the degree of its planetary power to attract it. 
 133 
 
134 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 Magnetism is one of the attributes of this 
 substance which we call love, but magnetism 
 relates only to the earth planet. 
 
 Each planet has its own quality of attrac- 
 tive energy and its own individual atmos- 
 phere, — which energy is its especial attri- 
 bute of the universal cohesive substance and 
 enables it to hold itself in its orderly posi- 
 tion and to draw its share of life energy to 
 itself and on this planet this is known as the 
 attraction of gravitation. 
 
 When any form of life loses its magnetic 
 connection with the earth, it assumes the 
 force which corresponds to the earth mag- 
 netism of its next plane of experience; — it 
 is then enabled to disconnect from the earth 
 relation and to enter its next plane of life 
 manifestation and whatever form has encas- 
 ed it upon the earth, naturally dissolves into 
 the earth elements, there to remain until 
 those elements can be used again. 
 
 If the soul desires to remain in the earth 
 body which it has selected, it need only know 
 how to generate and radiate the earth mag- 
 netism ; — if it desires to go on to other realms 
 it need only to know how to demagnetize its 
 body and let go of it. 
 
 Should it desire to attract to itself the 
 earth opulence, it may do so by understand- 
 ing what quality of magnetic energy it re- 
 quires in the process and then intelligently 
 generating it within itself and thereby at- 
 tracting it. 
 
 Because the man always attracts exactly 
 
THE MAGNETIC BRAIN 135 
 
 what is qualified within himself according to 
 the thought of his heart brain. 
 
 It is necessary for you to understand the 
 magnetic force and its dynamic activity, so 
 that you may be consciously alive to your 
 position on the earth home and that you may 
 consciously control your part of life. 
 
 It is the heart thinking which determines" 
 quality, — because as a man thinks in his 
 heart, so he becomes in all of his life exter- 
 nalization. 
 
 As you think in your heart concerning 
 your constructive desires and activities, — 
 as you think in your solar plexus for your 
 discriminative faculties and your realization, 
 as you think in your generative brain con- 
 cerning your creative intention, — so you 
 will think in your magnetic brain which is 
 the Spleen for the cultivation of magnetic 
 energy and for the ability and the quality 
 to attract to yourself the earth treasure. 
 
 You can concentrate on any part of your 
 body, and strengthen it and enliven it by so 
 doing, — but when you give your attention to 
 a. one of the brain centers consciously, you im- 
 mediately connect with its special quality 
 of the life wave, — and when you breathe to 
 it with conscious intention with the inner 
 breath, you relate it to your soul conscious- 
 ness and so develop and strengthen its in- 
 telligent capacity and power. 
 
 Few people have given the spleen any 
 thought whatever. Most students of the finer 
 
136 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 forces of nature are just commencing to 
 realize that the solar brain, the solar plexus, 
 is an intelligent center of power altho they 
 scarcely dare mention it in conservative so- 
 ciety, — but the spleen is, to most people, 
 rather a vague and indefinite portion of their 
 being which is not recognized as being of the 
 slightest value or use. 
 
 But the average thinker is vague and in- 
 definite in his life, — when he does not claim 
 poverty, he accepts it as part of his griev- 
 ance, he says and even declares that he can- 
 not afford this and that, thereby making it 
 a truth to him; also he talks and thinks 
 hard times and thinks misunderstandingly 
 of himself and so decreases his supply of 
 magnetism and also weakens his opportunity 
 on all planes. 
 
 Now those of us who are waking up to 
 the accurate action of the law, will let go 
 of this sort of thought and will desire to 
 relate themselves to the opulence of the uni- 
 verse by developing the brain of magnetic 
 energy which is the brain center of opulence 
 because it is the generating brain of the 
 magnetic force which attracts opulence and 
 we will charge it with its own natural in- 
 telligent power that it may attract opulence 
 for us. 
 
 First we will come into intimate conscious- 
 ness of our own marvellous bodies, — we will 
 know every atom of the flesh is intelligent 
 and has its special quality of work to do 
 and it is a work of vital importance; — there 
 is no thing small in God's plan and we can 
 
THE MAGNETIC BRAIN 137 
 
 ignore no part of our responsibility in that 
 plan. 
 
 The magnetic brain having been ignored 
 as to its most vital attribute, we will re- 
 awaken it and restore its operative faculty by 
 realizing our inner breath connection with 
 God's infinite intelligence and then relate 
 that intelligence to our magnetic brain by 
 breathing deeply to the spleen until we are 
 conscious that it responds to our intention. 
 
 You will not plunge too rapidly into any 
 of these inner breath practises because every 
 power you develop and every possession you 
 attain leads to added responsibilities and 
 you will need all of your strength to meet 
 the natural orderly increase of power and 
 possession which the inner breath knowledge 
 gives you. 
 
 While you can strengthen your magnetic 
 brain so that it will relate you to money 
 and to any other material thing which you 
 think you desire, it is advisable to be per- 
 fectly constructive and to use discrimination 
 of the highest quality in the practise or the 
 result of your effort may be destructive, that 
 is, you may gain what you think you want 
 at the sacrifice of some other thing which 
 may make the cost heavier than necessary. 
 
 So you will breathe first to your construc- 
 tive brain that your motive may be pure, and 
 then you will breathe to your brain of dis- 
 crimination that your judgment may be ac- 
 curate, and then you will breath to your 
 generative brain for creative power, and 
 then you will relate your inner breath con- 
 
13S THE INNER BREATH 
 
 sciousness to the magnetic brain and so 
 charge it with the magnetism which will re- 
 late you to opulence of the quality which you 
 need. 
 
 There is always differentiation in every in- 
 tention, there is always the soul quality in 
 every motive and there is alwavs a process 
 in every attainment and you and I intend to 
 master our part of life and its condition ac- 
 cording to our own conviction of truth, — 
 thereby we are true to ourselves. 
 
 Supposing you have come to a place in 
 your life where you feel discouraged, — pos- 
 sibly you think that you are a victim of hard 
 luck and you may imagine that you are a- 
 bused by fate in the form of your fellow man 
 so that life on earth is hardly worth while; 
 — the trouble is simply and only that your 
 supply of magnetic energy is depleted and 
 that instead of regenerating and restoring 
 it in its own center where you can draw upon 
 it with discrimination and at will, — you are 
 losing what little you have thru worry and 
 fear and grief, — all of which are delusions 
 of your own ignorance concerning the prac- 
 tical and immediate power within yourself. 
 
 But the law shows no favor on account of 
 ignorance; — ignorance is the result of ig- 
 noring the law of divine intention that men 
 shall know and abide with God, — that is, that 
 they shall be good and do good, — men must 
 realize the one essential thing of knowing 
 themselves which knowledge they attain by 
 forgetting their personality long enough to 
 remember God's reality. 
 
THE MAGNETIC BRAIN 139 
 
 The man who forgets himself long enough 
 to remember God knows that in the abode 
 of good is all opulence and all knowledge and 
 that it only requires a desire to know God 
 to have all of opulence and all of good freely 
 his very own. 
 
 The knowledge of the inner breath con- 
 trol has always been alive in the world since 
 men were made in the image of God and 
 thereby made free in His name and one with 
 Him in their consciousness. 
 
 But the money madness and the unchaste 
 use of the brain centers soon weakened their 
 power because a destructive action weakens 
 the source of its activity, — so gradually men 
 forgot God in their worship of themselves, 
 lost their consciousness by cultivating their 
 emotions and left the greater things in the 
 hands of the very few who are willing to be 
 true to themselves by abiding with God, — 
 and those few have kept the knowledge sa- 
 cred until such time as men are ready to be 
 recalled to the God of themselves. 
 
 For there is no limitation to truth and no 
 limitation to knowledge except that which 
 the soul places upon itself thru its own lack 
 of divine desire and of divine self-appreci- 
 ation. 
 
 If men would know the truth they must 
 be true to themselves, — if they would abide 
 in God's realm which is the realm of op- 
 ulence, — they must do their part in THAT 
 service and if they would share in the divine 
 opulence, they must give opulently of all 
 
140 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 that they possess and share opulently in all 
 that they ARE. 
 
 Weariness of body or of mind causes weari- 
 ness of heart thru the depletion of magnetic 
 energy which is the motor force of the en- 
 tire human engine. 
 
 When you are false to yourself by over- 
 work or by de-energizing yourself thru anger 
 or resentment or any other destructive pro- 
 cess, you exhaust your stored up supply of 
 magnetism and say you are tired out. 
 
 Should you keep on in the de-energizing 
 process until the supply is entirely exhaust- 
 ed, — the motor engine of your body would 
 stop and your soul would disconnect from its 
 body, die, as it is called because magnetism 
 is the one force which is absolutely essen- 
 tial in the process of holding the ego upon 
 the earth planet. 
 
 There are two ways of restoring the mag- 
 netic energy and so bringing the scattered 
 forces into cohesive relation. 
 
 One is by sleep which is nature's method 
 of magnetic restoration because during sleep 
 relaxation, the spleen more easily generates 
 and stores again or re-stores its normal mag- 
 netic supply. 
 
 The other way is by raising the vibration 
 of the body thru the inner breath of the con- 
 structive brain and then breathing to the 
 magnetic brain with the intention of charg- 
 ing it with magnetism which belongs to the 
 earth forces, — then you connect the soul ener- 
 gy with the earth body. 
 
THE MAGNETIC BRAIN 141 
 
 The inner breath is the breath of the uni- 
 verse and while we live upon this planet 
 earth, it is our home and our center in the 
 universe. 
 
 The Radiating power of Magnetism is 
 equal to its attracting power. 
 
 When it is constructively radiative, it at- 
 tracts as constructively as it gives out. 
 
 When it is destructively radiative, it at- 
 tracts destruction to its own center and de- 
 stroys itself. 
 
 Which is the reason that any violation of 
 any law of being, especially concerning the 
 generative and creative forces, causes a de- 
 structive reaction on the flesh form and also 
 upon all relation to the earth opulence. 
 
 Therefore the more constructively you ra- 
 diate the life force, the greater will be your 
 power of attraction and the finer you will 
 become in your conscious knowledge of na- 
 ture's finer forces. 
 
 Then you will be enabled, not only to at- 
 tract opulence for yourself, but to give more 
 freely of your own treasure, in service for 
 others. 
 
 There is an aura surrounding every Life 
 form, — it is the magnetic emanation which 
 colors the immediate atmosphere environing 
 the life form and which shows its quality 
 and the strength of its relation upon the 
 earth. 
 
 Sometimes this aura becomes shadowed 
 
142 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 and gives the suggestion of being void or 
 blank, — that shows a depletion of magne- 
 tism and, as in the case of severe illness 
 which approaches the dissolution of the mag- 
 netic energy, it gives the signal of the final 
 separation of the life form from the earth. 
 
 Each planet has its peculiar and individual 
 aura, — and like the others, the earth has the 
 aura of its own magnetic atmosphere which 
 extends about fifty miles beyond its surface, 
 becoming rarer as it gets farther away. 
 
 All vegetable life forms subsist upon the 
 earth' elements as they are attracted to them 
 by their differing quality of the magnetic 
 attraction, in fact all of the life forms upon 
 the earth planet subsist upon the quality of 
 the earth elements which they have the 
 strength and the capacity to attract. 
 
 Because the law says that it shall be meted 
 unto you as you mete unto others, — which 
 simply means that you measure your own 
 quality of life unto yourself. 
 
 You can so qualify and strengthen your 
 aura that it becomes a tangible armor of 
 protection from any and every form of dan- 
 ger; — Adepts in the understanding and con- 
 trol of the inner breath, have walked im- 
 mune thru fire as do the Parsee Priests and 
 their disciples in the present times. 
 
 Bullets will glance from the protective 
 aura and wild beasts will sneak away from 
 it, — even diseases will dissolve from before 
 its powerful radiative force. 
 
THE MAGNETIC BRAIN 143 
 
 The process of manifesting this protective 
 aura is on,e of breathing with the inner 
 breath consciousness, first to the construc- 
 tive brain, then to the generative brain with 
 the intention of co-operating with the mag- 
 netic brain in its generation of magnetic en- 
 ergy. 
 
 After that you will center your attention 
 upon the pineal gland which is the focusing 
 point of the brain of the head and which we 
 will study later, — then with the inner breath 
 draw the magnetic substance in a fine line 
 which you will wrap around your entire 
 body as an insect wraps itself within its chry- 
 salis. 
 
 Before environing yourself with this mag- 
 netic, protective aura, you will breathe out 
 of yourself every destructive thought you 
 may have permitted to take lodgement with- 
 in you because any form of fear will weaken 
 this aura which must be created and sus- 
 tained with the faith substance. 
 
 No outside thing can possibly intrude or 
 interfere, the slightest confused or destruc- 
 tive vibration inside will mar it and render 
 you vulnerable at the weak point. 
 
 All the process and practice in the world 
 is valueless to the destructive thinker, in 
 fact it is worse than valueless because it is 
 dangerous to work with the finer forces of 
 life in a destructive atmosphere. 
 
 Magnetism being an attribute of the uni- 
 versal cohesive substance is generated by 
 love desire and is also dissolved by the fear 
 
144 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 or hate emotion, which emotions both create 
 an atmosphere and a vibration which natur- 
 ally scatter the magnetic substance. 
 
 There is, of course, much unconscious gen- 
 eration of magnetism, — otherwise the earth 
 planet would become void of life formula- 
 tion, — but when we become sufficiently con- 
 scious to be in control of our lives and their 
 expression and when we come into relation 
 with the inner breath and its subtle reach 
 into infinite things, — we will manifest only 
 good because we will have only the con- 
 structive desire and destructive thots and 
 their disastrous results will be foreign to 
 our life externalization. 
 
 Because we naturally live in the atmos- 
 phere which our thoughts generate. 
 
 You may unconsciously generate magne- 
 tism thru love for your work or your play 
 or your art or any other thing which con- 
 cerns your life activity and you may also 
 deplete and degenerate your magnetism by 
 expressing your part of life in fear or hate 
 and thereby destroy the force which creates 
 magnetism. 
 
 You generate magnetism when you are 
 kind and when you desire to be good and to 
 do good. 
 
 You generate magnetism when you smile 
 upon your fellow man and give him a cheer- 
 ful word in the spirit of love. 
 
 Whatever the motive of your heart 
 thought, therein is the quality of magnetism 
 
THE MAGNETIC BRAIN 145 
 
 which your heart breath attracts, — therefore, 
 you and you alone are the arbiter of your 
 destiny. 
 
 All de-generative, de-magnetized heart 
 thinking leads to poverty on the plane of its 
 action because poverty is merely the lack 
 of magnetism upon whatever plane of life 
 the poverty is expressed. 
 
 Therefore if you would free yourself from 
 poverty, breathe opulently to your magnetic 
 brain, — think in your heart with opulence of 
 love, knowing that the fullness of the uni- 
 verse is open to your hand and that you are 
 filled with God's abundance, — think it into 
 your consciousness and then breathe deep 
 into your soul consciousness and then into 
 the deeps of your human consciousness, the 
 finer breath of God's life, all vibrant with 
 universal richness and glorified with univer- 
 sal gloriousness, — thereby making your union 
 with God and His infinite Opulence. 
 
 Do not imagine that you can claim any 
 part of the universal opulence with the idea 
 of selfish exclusion. 
 
 There are no misers in God's kingdom and 
 if you would be big with the divine fullness, 
 you will be free in your heart thought and 
 free with your purse strings, — but always 
 and always with discrimination that you 
 may not deprive your brother of his oppor- 
 tunity and take from him his responsibility 
 of doing his part of the universal work in 
 the law. 
 
 The Egyptian occultists place an exalted 
 
146 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 value upon the magnetic energy and its brain 
 
 center. 
 
 They have many, many mantrims and ex- 
 ercises for the cultivation of magnetism, many 
 weird dances and chants accompanying them 
 and all sorts of prayers and breath practises 
 before the rising sun; — they believe that 
 magnetism is the great antiseptic for all 
 confusion and disease, as well as being the 
 regenerator of the life force and it is no 
 small part of their religion to stimulate the 
 magnetic brain. 
 
 I will give you one of their commonly used 
 breath practises with its accompanying 
 chant which may prove, not only interesting, 
 but very valuable as it said td drive away 
 unwelcome entities and to purify the atmos- 
 phere, cleansing it from disease and poverty 
 by charging it with vitalized magnetism 
 which always creates health. 
 
 And health is a balanced expression of life 
 and its activity. 
 
 Remember, however, that any practise or 
 process toward any ultimatum, has its value 
 according to the motive with which you ap- 
 proach it and according to the spirit of faith 
 and love with which you practise it. 
 
 First you will throw out by breathing out 
 of your body and your mind and your heart, 
 every thought which is in any way destruc- 
 tive and the first part of this exercise is for 
 that purpose.- 
 
 Stand facing the North, hold up the arms 
 
THE MAGNETIC BRAIN 147 
 
 with the palms of the hands up and the fin- 
 gers spread, and repeat this prayer from the 
 heart. 
 
 "Oh, thou Love supreme, — Illumine me 
 with thy wisdom. Vivify me with Thy Love 
 and grant that in all that I think and say, 
 I shall more and more resemble Thee." 
 
 Now you will breathe deeply and conscious- 
 ly to the brain of magnetic energy and 
 breathe in new magnetism. 
 
 Having charged yourself with fresh pure 
 magnetism, draw the fingers of each hand 
 across the palm of the other three times, 
 which is supposed to lock up your forces, — 
 and retire without speaking. 
 
 I am giving you these exercises as a re- 
 production of an Egyptian form, just as one 
 would repeat a poem or a dance or a song. 
 
 We do not advise this practise or recom- 
 mend its use. It is one of many such things 
 and to some students of the finer forces of 
 nature, these symbolic exercises and chants 
 are particularly helpful. 
 
 Many people are coming into the recog- 
 nition of the fact that seemingly simple meth- 
 ods ©f exercises and certain relations of num- 
 bers and letters have an underlying power 
 and meaning far beyond and beneath their 
 mere surface expression. 
 
 Sometimes it seems that the occidental 
 race is destroying its magnetism thru its 
 scorn of elementary truth. 
 
148 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 The more nearly we hold to simple facts, 
 the more nearly we are to the fact of our 
 approach to magnetic opulence on all planes. 
 
 When you breathe with the inner con- 
 sciousness to the magnetic brain, — you will 
 find that it is related physiologically to the 
 stomach and liver and psychologically to the 
 heart, — also that it varies according to the 
 condition of the bodily health and that it 
 responds accurately to your thought and to 
 your respiration. 
 
 Magnetism has many attributes and among 
 them is a radiation emanating from the head 
 brain and known as the odyllic force which 
 is the protection as well as the inspiring ener- 
 gy of that brain; — there is also the force 
 w T hich protects the magnetic brain which is 
 the spleen brain and you may, when you 
 once realize this brain of your body, feel 
 that you have not appreciated the power that 
 is within you and that you have neglected 
 this knowledge for too long a time because 
 it is an easy matter to allow the magnetism 
 to degenerate both as to quality and quan- 
 tity. 
 
 The occidental race is destroying its mag- 
 netic energy by many customs which point 
 the way to delusion, not the least of them 
 being their scornful attitude toward holy and 
 sacred symbols of truth, — and something 
 must be done and something will be done to 
 free it from its chains and restore it to a 
 normal condition of physical and mental bal- 
 ance; — otherwise, as a race, we shall be 
 
THE MAGNETIC BRAIN 149 
 
 hurled into dissolution thru the lack of our 
 magnetic energy. 
 
 The time is now, — we can no longer ignore 
 the ominous warning of misapplied forces 
 which are aroused; it is the hour of con- 
 structive life manifestation and it is the hour 
 when we shall unite with the redeemers of 
 the earth in their mighty work of construc- 
 tion and reconstruction; — with them we de- 
 clare for the regeneration of the children of 
 men. 
 
 In Thy gracious presence, 
 
 Oh Lord of life and love, — 
 
 Behold Thy children, 
 
 May they know Thy strength, 
 
 May they rest in Thy heart 
 
 And may they abide in Thy consciousness 
 
 For always. 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 The Spiritual or Cosmic Brain 
 
 Behold the hour has come 
 
 Oh soul of me — 
 
 My heart responds anew 
 
 To thy free song. 
 
 I waken to thy call 
 
 Beloved one — 
 
 For I have slumbered long — 
 
 So very long. 
 
 Arise and claim thine own 
 Oh soul of me — 
 The breath of God revives 
 My throbbing heart, 
 Together shall we journey far 
 Most faithful one — 
 For thou and I and life 
 Shall never part. 
 
 Each conscious soul knows its relation to 
 God ; therein lies its consciousness. 
 
 Every living human creature may become 
 conscious by and through its desire to know 
 the truth of itself which is the real of it- 
 self, and by striving with a chaste motive 
 
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THE SPIRITUAL BRAIN 151 
 
 m 
 
 for that realization which means the exter- 
 nalizing of the real. 
 
 The way of tha truth is the easy way. He 
 who walks in the path of realization dis- 
 penses with all confusion, he perceives that 
 good is the only reality which perception 
 gives him — the divine recognition whereby 
 the door of knowledge opens for him. 
 
 Every thought from out the universal 
 mind which is once attracted by the mind 
 of an earth child, belongs to the earth chil- 
 dren and every human creature upon the 
 earth is a child of earth co-operating with 
 God's children in every realm of His mighty 
 kingdom, and each human aim with its in- 
 creasing and more accurate reach into the 
 infinite mind, adds to the strength and the 
 unity and the glory of the entire race. 
 
 There is no random, indiscriminate abso- 
 luteness in the divine plan. Every substance 
 and every quality of that substance, every 
 action and every vibration of that action has 
 its essential place and its orderly activity in 
 the law of God's supreme intention. 
 
 While it is true that the universe is in pro- 
 cess and while much of the process, especial- 
 ly within this solar system, is embryonic, its 
 every intention and it every formulation is 
 orderly, and all that does not respond to 
 the good of the whole orderly plan is cast 
 aside and dissolved by the force of its own 
 dissension because there is no compromise 
 with the law and God's great desire is the 
 inspiration and the activity of that law, than 
 which there can be no finer justice. 
 
152 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 And so along the ages of its chastening 
 journey — through all the varying process of 
 its affinitization and consequent assimila- 
 tion of spirit atoms, the soul in the natural 
 order of its own law, must have an embodi- 
 ment, an abiding place wherein it can live 
 upon the plane of its immediate experience. 
 
 Therefore, and also in the nature and or- 
 der of its own law the soul must create or 
 manifest its own embodiment of the quality 
 of substance and of the character of the plane 
 and the condition which it requires in the 
 place of its selection and its accompanying 
 Bxperience. 
 
 The soul may have yet attained only suffi- 
 cient conscious desire for a rose body and a 
 rose experience — it may have developed 
 strength in the animal desire so that it can 
 create the animal body, but as it strengthens 
 through each experience, it becomes more 
 and more cosmic in its desire until it devel- 
 ops sufficient consciousness to desire and to 
 consequently require a human body which 
 it will manifest as soon as it reaches the place 
 in its evolution where the earth experience 
 comes next in the orderly natural process of 
 soul attainment. 
 
 And the supreme human opportunity be- 
 longs to every human being upon the earth 
 and is the opportunity of manifesting a cos- 
 mic body — that is, a body composed of that 
 quality of pure spirit substance which has in 
 it every essence and element in the universe 
 and which will embody the soul for always 
 
THE SPIRITUAL BRAIN 153 
 
 and will be of the quality which will enable 
 it to abide in any realms in the universe. 
 
 The creation of the spiritual body renders 
 the man immune from what is called death 
 and from what is called birth, because it is 
 the final birth for the soul expression. 
 
 This spiritual body is created when the 
 soul energy becomes sufficiently cohesive to 
 attract and retain the necessary substance 
 for this body. Love being the cohesive force 
 and wisdom 1 being its active power, you can 
 easily see just what is required during all 
 life's journey to give the soul the required 
 strength for its final achievement — that of 
 becoming one with God in body, mind and 
 soul, which achievement is nothing vague or 
 indefinite, but a practical natural process in 
 the ultimate attainment of the soul. 
 
 For there is nothing difficult and nothing 
 indefinite to the soul whose desire is to know 
 God. 
 
 All along the way the soul of us has clothed 
 itself in form according to the strength 
 of its love and the power of its faith and now 
 with added knowledge of its privileges of 
 life it can, through its great love and wisdom, 
 actually embody itself in a spiritual body, 
 composed of its own quality of pure cosmic 
 substance and this spiritual body, being of 
 the cohesive substance vivified by the di- 
 vine force itself, is indestructible and will 
 endure so long as God endures, because it is 
 pure goodness, life of His life, or it could not 
 BE. 
 
154 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 This mighty fact is the climax to which 
 we have led through all of these teachings — 
 the climax of the realization that here and 
 now is your opportunity to bring into actual 
 manifestation your spiritual body. 
 
 Which does not mean that you may live 
 forever upon this earth, although you can 
 live so long as you are willing to pay the 
 price for so doing, which would be merely to 
 retard the process of your own evolution and 
 ■so would not be a valuable experience. 
 
 But it does mean this: That you may 
 consciously and with perfect accuracy in your 
 process, use your inner breath to so relate 
 yourself to God and His law, that you can ac- 
 tually create your spiritual and eternal body 
 while you are living in your earth body and 
 that thereby when you leave this earth planet 
 your individual self will be equipped for its 
 free life and its greater service for always — 
 you will be in no bondage to any realm, there 
 will be nothing to hold you to earth and yet 
 you can abide upon this earth, visible and as 
 one with its people — moreover you can 
 breathe with perfect ease in any realm in 
 this entire universe when your soul embodi- 
 ment has become so attuned, so spiritually 
 cosmic, as it were, that you understand how 
 to breathe in pure goodness and in perfect 
 /ibration with the God breath- 
 
 And then you become one with life, one 
 with love, one with the ever enduring God 
 intention. 
 
 That is the meaning of the term "Merg- 
 ing into Nirvana," concerning which so many 
 
THE SPIRITUAL BRAIN 155 
 
 students are trying to adjust their belief 
 to their reason. It simply means bringing the 
 breath of the microcosm (the man) in per- 
 fect rhythm with the macrocosm (the uni- 
 verse) becoming so unified with God that 
 you literally are breath of His breath and 
 life of His life. It is not going back into noth- 
 ingness but merging into vibrant intelligent 
 somethingness, charged with dynamic whole- 
 ness — completely electrified, completely mag_ 
 netized, intensely individualized because in- 
 tensely cosmic, which, summed up, means 
 spiritualized in eternal consciousness and uni- 
 ty with all of the divinely universal forces. 
 
 Naturally the knowledge of so mighty a 
 truth and the fact of its accomplishment 
 could not be forced upon the race, because 
 until it was capable of a divine desire in- 
 stead of an emotional demand it could not 
 endure such subtle power — and in misdirect- 
 ing so dynamic a power it would destroy it- 
 self. At the present era of its evolution the 
 race as a whole does not desire the knowl- 
 edge of reality. As a rule men desire any 
 information which will bring them money 
 and its attendant physical ease — therefore 
 they must live upon the plane of their im- 
 mediate desire because they are free and if 
 they decree for life upon the plane of phys- 
 ical demand they must have it and must be- 
 come vitalized there and overcome there 
 before they can desire and claim the broader 
 spiritual consciousness. 
 
 However, when the few awakened and vivi- 
 fied souls reach out into far distant realms 
 
156 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 of life and light for their life breath, it is 
 not long before their radiation and their 
 strengthening love interpenetrate all lesser 
 truth and then come the eras in history when 
 the race quivers with its glorious revelation 
 and the earth and the entire life of the earth 
 responds and another day has dawned upon 
 the children of the ever-living God, 
 
 Today we are in the dawning of a new day 
 wherein the old heavens and the old earth 
 have passed away. 
 
 Today we shall breathe the breath of the 
 new heavens and the new earth. 
 
 St. Paul and many others of the occult 
 teachers recognized the corporeal body as 
 distinct from the spiritual body and they 
 undoubtedly knew as all of those mystic mas- 
 ters do, that the soul must enshrine itself in 
 its perfect and universal form, created from 
 the cosmic spirit substance before it can 
 become complete in manifestation and ex- 
 pression. 
 
 In the creation of any embodiment which 
 it may require, the soul can only select accord- 
 ing to its quality and its strength, therefore 
 when the soul desire is centered upon any 
 point in development it will naturally relate 
 itself to its desire; the medium of all oper- 
 ation being the mind, the soul will use as 
 much of the infinite and universal mind as 
 it has the strength to attract and qualify, and 
 so it concentrates mental energy through the 
 centers of its already developed body and 
 
THE SPIRITUAL BRAIN 157 
 
 brings itself into direct relation with that 
 which it desires. 
 
 In the human evolution the human body 
 responds to the soul through the medium 
 of the mind, and the body and the mind and 
 the soul must work in harmony for the at- 
 traction and utilization and assimilation and 
 final individualization of the universal spirit 
 substance if the individual would relate him- 
 self in unity and power with the infinitely 
 intelligent law. 
 
 For this purpose there are the brain in- 
 struments of the flesh body each of which 
 qualifies for a certain element of substance 
 and a certain quality of action and we desire 
 to give the finer and more subtle realization 
 of the immediate and conscious relation of 
 the soul and its human embodiment through 
 understanding its more spiritual instrument 
 of the inner breath control. 
 
 The brain of the head surrounds a gland 
 situated in its center between the cerebrum 
 and the cerebellum called the pineal gland, 
 which is the most vital and most dynamic of 
 the entire flesh form because it is the center 
 of immediate connection between the soul 
 and its human embodiment. 
 
 Those who have the psychic vision, which 
 means those who can perceive with the phy- 
 sical senses things which relate to the soul 
 realm, can see the fine connecting line be- 
 tween the soul in its astral embodiment and 
 the pineal gland of its physical embodiment 
 when it leaves its earth body — when the soul 
 
158 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 leaves its physical body permanently, the line 
 is entirely disconnected but until the sev- 
 erance is final the delicate ethereal cord, cor- 
 responding to the umbilical cord of the flesh 
 body, holds it to its embryonic earth life. 
 
 It is not necessary to give you much in- 
 teresting information but to give you the 
 process, as it were, of attaining spiritualiza- 
 tion through a practical method and of de- 
 veloping your inner vision while you are de- 
 veloping your inner breath. 
 
 The pineal gland is sometimes called the 
 eye of the soul. Certain it is that even the 
 awareness of it relates you to a more con- 
 scious vision and that its awakening, through 
 the inner breath control, renders you uni- 
 versally alive, that is, conscious that you are 
 one and a part of every expression of the 
 cosmic life. 
 
 In the first practice of the inner breath 
 concentration to the pineal gland, you will 
 commence by breathing to the constructive 
 center which will balance you in love and 
 wisdom and render your intention chaste 
 and direct, thereby protecting you from any 
 misdirection of forces which otherwise might 
 prove of too rapid a vibration and more dy- 
 namic than you are ready to contact. 
 
 Then you will direct your thought with 
 conscious intention to the pineal gland of 
 your flesh body and with the spiritual breath 
 relate it to your soul energy; you will im- 
 mediately feel a distinct sensation as of a 
 dual life action in the brain of your head, 
 
THE SPIRITUAL BRAIN 159 
 
 provided of course your motive is chaste, and 
 then will come to your consciousness an in- 
 ner glow like a tiny vivid flame in the interior 
 part of your head which is the awakening 
 desire for consciousness in the heretofore ir- 
 responsive pineal gland — awakening to the 
 realization of its place in the flesh form which 
 is that of the inspiring pivot of the intellec- 
 tual and spiritual connecting center. 
 
 With steady concentration and with con- 
 structive intention you will continue to 
 breathe to that central point of consciousness 
 until, with a vivid awareness as of a living 
 flame of fire, it reveals its light to you and 
 you perceive with your inner vision its actual 
 power as the connecting energy of conscious 
 spirit substance between your human flesh 
 form, and its finer soul form which is now in 
 process of bringing into manifestation its 
 spiritual body. 
 
 To occult students this is sometimes known 
 as the divine spark which gives us the as- 
 surance and the realization that we are eter- 
 nally manifest, eternally responsible beings, 
 with each our individual share of and in the 
 evolution of the infinitely divine intention. 
 
 When your desire becomes sufficiently bal- 
 anced so that it centers its aim toward spirit- 
 ual consciousness concerning the soul devel- 
 opment, you can acquire that revelation by 
 relating your inner breath in constructive 
 concentration upon the pineal gland with the 
 steady desire for such knowledge. 
 
 As you progress in your understanding of 
 
160 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 the finer forces of nature, you will see that 
 it is much easier to bring into expression 
 what are called the more spiritual activities 
 of life than those considered more material 
 and you will also see that the spiritual center 
 is immediately responsive to the cosmic de- 
 sire and develops with marvelous rapidity 
 under your inner breath concentration; the 
 reason for this is that spiritual substance 
 means cosmic substance, spiritual activity 
 means cosmic activity, therefore the spiritual 
 center being all conscious vibrates in a more 
 exalted key, with less relation to the physical 
 sense desires and being rarer and finer in its 
 action and consequently more inclusive, it 
 naturally qualifies with the rarer and finer 
 and more inclusive breath action. 
 
 No man is spiritual until he becomes all 
 inclusive in his consciousness — forgetting 
 and forgiving all resentment and all judg- 
 ment of his fellow man : he may be psychic 
 and see a glimpse of phenomenon, but the 
 spiritual man is attuned to the finer as well 
 as the grosser forces of life, therefore he is 
 aware of the whole of God. 
 
 Then comes to the student of nature's finer 
 forces the realization that he has the power 
 to consciously create the spiritual embodi- 
 ment of his soul, for as we have seen, the 
 soul must have an embodiment and until it 
 is sufficiently cosmic to create its spiritual 
 body in which it can abide in any and every 
 realm in the entire universe, it must remain 
 upon the planet in which its present body 
 can breathe; so if you are only capable of 
 
THE SPIRITUAL BRAIN 1G1 
 
 breathing upon the earth planet or upon its 
 astral environment, your soul must abide 
 upon the earth plane or within its astral 
 atmosphere until through repeated experi- 
 ences you are ready and willing to enter 
 your next and more exalted plane of ex- 
 pression. 
 
 But supposing that here, within the earth 
 home, you have been willing to be true to 
 yourself, which means true to every other 
 living creature; suppose you have been kind 
 to yourself, which means kind to all the 
 world ; suppose you have freed yourself from 
 fear and disease and from poverty and have 
 come to the realization that there is only 
 good, that sin is NOT, and suppose that in 
 that realization you are breathing with your 
 inner breath consciousness into the very 
 atoms of your flesh, the glory and the power 
 and the knowledge and the goodness of the 
 universe, you are then in process of mani- 
 festing your spiritual or your cosmic body, 
 you are becoming a servant of the Lord with 
 power to enter and to work in every part of 
 the whole of the vast universal domain, with 
 its many mansions and its infinite life ac- 
 tivity. 
 
 In the process of creating your spiritual 
 body every act of love becomes solidified, as 
 it were, through the strengthening of its co- 
 hesive quality and every constructive inten- 
 tion increases in momentum as it increases 
 in cohesive strength. 
 
 With the fervent desire to know God and 
 in that knowledge to become good, is evi- 
 
162 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 denced the conception of the spiritual form 
 which is the marvellously immaculate con- 
 ception of a marvellously divine desire and 
 under normal conditions the birth of the spir- 
 itual body, which will develop into a child of 
 the law, a son of the ever living God, one 
 with him in possession and power is assured. 
 
 No one but yourself can possibly do the 
 work for you which endures ; others may give 
 you possessions and may make your life 
 comfortable and easy by protecting you from 
 the responsibilities which in reality belong 
 to you, but their kindness may be, and prob- 
 ably is, delaying you on the path toward 
 your ultimate attainment and the experience 
 and the responsibility will eventually be met 
 and overcome by you. 
 
 Herein is the ke*y note, which will reveal 
 to you the combination chord of your own 
 soul necessity, that through that revelation 
 you will evolve here and now the soul em- 
 bodiment which gives you supreme free- 
 dom and relates you to the universal life, 
 cosmically and consciously, one with the di- 
 vine intention and assured of its ultimate at- 
 tainment. 
 
 For the universe is in process, were it not 
 so any misdirection of force would be utterly 
 impossible— and when we, you and I, become 
 willing to relate ourselves to God in con- 
 scious desire and to vibrate with His will, 
 and to breathe with His desire— and when 
 all of our other selves become so willing to 
 be one with the divine intention, all poverty 
 of health and poverty of joy and poverty of 
 
THE SPIRITUAL BRAIN 163 
 
 purse and poverty of goodness shall dissolve 
 because of the influx of reality which renders 
 all lack of God as naught. 
 
 The inner breath is, as it were, the breath 
 of your soul, the breath of your true eternal 
 self, and therefore when you breathe with 
 your soul consciousness, you not only become 
 more and more cosmic, but you are breathing 
 the enduring breath of God's eternal life. 
 
 Should you desire any knowledge relating 
 to a finer understanding than seems yet to 
 belong to the human race, you can always re- 
 late yourself to that knowledge by breathing 
 with the inner breath to the spiritual or cos- 
 mic center, and that inner eye of the soul will 
 open with and for you the truth which you 
 consciously seek — and will so relate you to 
 it that you can absorb it and express it ac- 
 cording to the strength of your desire and the 
 development of your capacity. 
 
 Should this lesson seem indefinite or less 
 practical than those which have preceded it, 
 you may know that it is because it touches 
 a plane of action which is less common to 
 the immediate present day thought, but it 
 is quite as useful if not more so, because it 
 is more universal and therefore more inclu- 
 sive. 
 
 The inner breath concentration to the pi- 
 neal gland will enable you to strengthen your 
 capacity on every plane of your thought and 
 life, it will broaden your entire sphere of 
 activity and will give you an interpenetrative 
 power. 
 
164 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 Breathing to the spiritual or cosmic cen- 
 ter relates you to an exalted and immaculate 
 conception of art. The musician, the painter, 
 the writer, the orator, become radiant with 
 a more vivid realization of the infinite intel- 
 ligence which their art portrays, for verily 
 art belongs to the God interpreter even as 
 science belongs to human realization and the 
 human reflector of the great God man. 
 
 There is no limit to the desire as there is 
 no limit to the claim of the man who is be- 
 coming consciously cosmic, because in cosmic 
 thought all idea of lack is lost ; in that spirit- 
 ual realization you reach into the heights 
 and depths of the universe and you know 
 that it is free to you whenever you are will- 
 ing to accept its lesser as well as its greater 
 responsibility ; in other words, whenever you 
 are willing to be unified with the universal 
 manifestation of God's life, one with the low- 
 est as well as with the highest of His creat- 
 ures in the supreme awareness that life be- 
 longs to each and all of the comic manifesta- 
 tions according to its claim. 
 
 It is time to awaken to the call of intel- 
 ligence. 
 
 It is time to respond to the claim of life. 
 
 It is time to know the truth of your own 
 being and to breathe with the inner breath 
 of your soul that you may realize your in- 
 timate responsibility in and with the divine 
 plan. 
 
CHAPTER X, 
 Power 
 
 No force which reeks of fear 
 Knows aught of Power. 
 E'en shrieking tempest blast 
 Filled with weird threatening vast, 
 Rendering joy overcast, — 
 Is lost in the impotence 
 Caused by the nothingness 
 Of its false fury. 
 
 Life charged with mighty faith 
 Knows all of Power. 
 Balanced in love and light, 
 Pulsing with truth and right, 
 Enfolded by God's own right, — 
 Man breathes omnipotence 
 Caused by the consciousness 
 Of the truth glory. 
 
 Power is the force resulting from the bal- 
 anced adjustment of all of nature's finer 
 ~orces in their relation one with the other. 
 
 Power is the intelligent force back of all 
 accomplishment as it is the inspiration back 
 of all attainment. 
 
 Power is not a tangible substance created 
 
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166 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 by the will and attracted by human demand 
 and claim; it is a subtle, spiritual energy 
 balanced in the trinity of Desire and Faith 
 and Intention which is its triangle of Cause 
 and Effect and Action. 
 
 While Desire is first in all process, Faith 
 and Intention co-operate in their own natural 
 order because any and all attainment on any 
 and all planes results from the mathematical 
 process of a supreme law which is the law of 
 life itself, — perfectly flawless and perfectly 
 uncompromising. 
 
 Power is fundamentally intelligent, — there 
 can be no accomplishment without intelligent 
 action ; the finer the intelligence, the more 
 powerful the action, — because Power de- 
 pends for its life upon balanced, intelligent 
 force and it vibrates and qualifies whatever 
 it touches according to the strength of its 
 intelligent intentive force. 
 
 Before one can enter the realm of con- 
 scious power, he will first, thru his desire 
 and his faith and his intention, recognize his 
 ability to do so because all conscious control 
 of the finer forces of nature must follow re- 
 cognition and Power, being co-operative with 
 all qualities of force, responds with dynamic 
 intensity to the recognition of itself in all 
 forms of life action. 
 
 The soul which has ceased to desire per- 
 sonal power becomes imbued with true indi- 
 vidual power just as he who enters the ser- 
 vice of God becomes free in his own realm. 
 
 Power is easily imitated and while it may 
 
THE POWER BRAIN 167 
 
 be so imitated as to generate much delusion, 
 such delusion is as the candle light to the 
 sunlight and is as easily puffed out as the 
 candle light because only power endures and 
 power is the esse of soul energy and endures 
 forever. 
 
 Power is everlastingly and universally in- 
 telligent; there is no delusion, no fear and 
 no weakness in Power. 
 
 Conscious Power belongs to the man who 
 thinks construction in his heart and who, in 
 that thought breathes consciously to each 
 center of his body with desire and intention 
 and faith. 
 
 Desire to know good, 
 Faith in the all-good, 
 Intention to be good. 
 
 The Desire to know good thru the inner 
 breath, will give you the understanding of 
 how to reach the heart of every experience 
 and every condition and every creature whom 
 you may encounter on your pathway along 
 your part of the infinite life expression. 
 
 Faith in the all-good will give you the 
 quality of magnetic energy which will at- 
 tract to you the fullness of life's require- 
 ments ; it will relate you to opulence of health 
 and wealth in love and it will generate in 
 you efficiency in your work and ability in the 
 accomplishment of all that you desire to do. 
 
 Intention to be good, which means to be- 
 come of the God-quality, interpenetrates you 
 
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 168 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 with constructive life energy ; ft renders you 
 immune from what you call danger because 
 the God-conscious soul knows no fear and in 
 the fearless atmosphere is only balanced ac- 
 tion which fills you with joy resulting from 
 being a chaste and therefore an exact ser- 
 vant of good. 
 
 The Center of Power or the brain of Power 
 is immediately back of the tongue; if you 
 will hold your head erect, your shoulders also 
 erect, then straighten your whole body and 
 breathe deeply with the intention of discov- 
 ering the exact location of the Power center, 
 — you will feel at once every cell belonging to 
 that center tingling with a sense of recog- 
 nized and conscious life because you have 
 responded to its claim of and for attention 
 and each intelligent cell is perfectly aware 
 of its unity with the vital source of being 
 which centers in you as well as in it and 
 which it perceives that you are bringing in- 
 to consciousness of life and unity with it 
 thru your inner breath control. 
 
 The Atom is the intelligent microcosm of 
 you as you are the intelligent microcosm of 
 the Universe. 
 
 Therefore the atom is indespensable to you 
 as you are indispensable to the Universe. 
 
 The Inner Breath, being the life essence, 
 the soul esse, as it were, of the Universal 
 or Cosmic and therefore the Spiritual Breath, 
 — you can easily see that it is the one and 
 only avenue whereby the human soul can 
 realize its relation and thereby its unity with 
 
THE POWER BRAIN 
 
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 the Cosmic and Universal soul; in other 
 words, it is the one and only channel where- 
 by the human creature may become inter- 
 penetrated and so consciously united with its 
 diviner part. 
 
 Thru this spiritual breath of the infinite 
 life, the finite life which is now expressing 
 you, becomes awakened to God or aware of 
 the all good and then you soon know that 
 only thought and action which is of the con- 
 structive quality can formulate into expres- 
 sion in the realm of the inner breath and 
 no destructive form or condition can exist 
 in its atmosphere because it is the breath of 
 God, the esse of the infinite intelligent ex- 
 ternalization and that in all goodness is un- 
 aware of that which is unclean or ungodly 
 or untrue. 
 
 The esse of the divine being is absolute 
 good, therefore absolute Power; — in and of 
 That, no other thing can possibly exist. 
 
 If the human being would be one with God 
 and filled with Power in That name, — he will 
 be no less than good or God-like in thought 
 which also means in word and in action. 
 
 If you and I find ourselves sick or poor or 
 sorrowful or lacking on any plane of our life 
 expression, we may know that we have dis- 
 connected from God at some point, — not at 
 all points because unless we express some 
 part of God's life we are not existent, which 
 means externalized, — and whenever and 
 wherever we look, we suffer and pain is the 
 warning cry of weakening Power and con- 
 sequent dissolution. 
 
170 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 The way of our freedom, of our health and 
 of our opulence, all of which relate us to 
 Power is thru universal good, — the way of 
 universal good is the way of God and His 
 way is always the way of and thru and by 
 the living spiritual breath of His great Cos- 
 mic life. 
 
 As you realize this vital and fundamental 
 necessity, you will find yourself desiring to 
 truly comprehend its truth and. with the de- 
 sire, as with all forms of desire, you will 
 breathe more and more with your inner 
 breath consciousness until the divine spark 
 becomes ablaze and your conscious control 
 of the inner breath of your part of life, be- 
 comes a living fact and you then know that 
 you have the key to your own portion of life 
 and of the varying manifestation of the in- 
 finite life which you may desire to select and 
 to claim. 
 
 It is well, until you become attuned to 
 the practise of the inner breath that you 
 become one with it, to breathe first to the 
 constructive brain or to the center of Con- 
 struction as it is sometimes called. 
 
 Breathing to the constructive center chast- 
 ens the whole brain and circulatory system 
 and consequently it purifies the entire flesh 
 form and makes the entire breath practise 
 clean and constructive. 
 
 Whenever you desire to make any special 
 or definite connection with the universal 
 mind, — you will breathe first to the construc- 
 tive brain, then to the brain center which 
 
THE POWER BRAIN 171 
 
 qualifies with what you desire to contact, and 
 last to the Brain or Center of Power which 
 will balance and vivify your intention and 
 render more dynamic the projection of its 
 force. 
 
 Herein I am giving you a mantrim to use 
 as you breathe for the awakening of your 
 power brain ; you will recognize its vitalizing 
 current at once and you will perceive that 
 you have touched a different plane of con- 
 sciousness from which you will never be 
 entirely recalled; for whenever you once 
 touch a plane of life which is beyond where 
 you have hitherto been exalted, you never 
 quite let go of it and you can always con- 
 sciously return to it whenever you again 
 create the condition and the atmosphere 
 which makes it possible even tho you may 
 seem to have forgotten. 
 
 This is the Mantrim : 
 
 I rise unto my God. 
 
 I breathe His heart breath. 
 
 My soul breathes God's word. 
 
 My body breathes His Love. 
 
 My breath unites with God's breath. 
 
 I am one with my God. 
 
 You will repeat this mantrim as you stand 
 erect, facing the rising sun, — and again re- 
 peat it as you turn, first *to the North, and 
 then to the West and then to the South, and 
 then back to the East, — each time inbreath- 
 ing to the center of Power. 
 
 This you will do on rising in the morning. 
 
172 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 At night you will stand facing the setting 
 sun and repeat it at each point of the com- 
 pass, turning to the right, first to the North, 
 then to the East, and next to the South, and 
 last to the West. 
 
 The Mantrim given is not only for the 
 generation but for the realization of Power 
 and will give you the consciousness that 
 Power is a quality of divinity and that in 
 order to become full of Power, you must be- 
 come filled with God: — in other words, you 
 must be good in the full acceptance of that 
 marvellous and most mis-used phrase. 
 
 For being good is nothing less than being 
 God. 
 
 Nature is not promiscuous ; its law is abso- 
 lutely accurate. 
 
 God is never vague or various ; His mercy 
 is supreme justice and favors no human 
 creature and excludes no part of His own 
 creation. 
 
 In practising any exercise of the breath, 
 whether of the outer or inner breath, — 
 whether of the Hatha Yoga or the Raja Yoga 
 or the Batki or even of the Jnani Yoga meth- 
 ods, — should you feel a too rapid change of 
 vibration or for one instant notice that you 
 are not in perfect control of yourself, — you 
 will cease the practise at once and breathe 
 with the outer breath gently and with per- 
 fect regularity for a few moments ; then when 
 you are entirely relaxed, if you will breathe 
 to the constructive center, you will find your- 
 self quite balanced and perfectly normal. 
 
THE POWER BRAIN 173 
 
 Breathing to the constructive brain will 
 relate you to the substance of cohesion which 
 instantly cements all scattered forces, — also 
 it connects with the activity of Wisdom 
 which is the guide and regulator of the cos- 
 mic intelligence. 
 
 God's law is absolutely, mathematically 
 unwavering and if you would be powerful on 
 any and all planes of That life and That na- 
 ture, you will seek only the quality of pure 
 good which knows no compromise with the 
 law, — but which is, in truth, the polarized 
 activity of life which is the law. 
 
 When you know how to breathe with the 
 inner breath of consciousness to the center of 
 Power, having mastered the previous brain 
 centers, you have made the complete circuit 
 of the brains of the flesh form which your 
 soul has demonstrated the capacity to man- 
 ifest, — and you are then able to connect your- 
 self at will to any place or any plane in and 
 of the universal or cosmic life expression 
 which you have the capacity and the qual- 
 ity to desire. 
 
 You cannot destroy your capacity of gen- 
 erating Power more effectively than by using 
 what you have already generated for the per- 
 sonal or selfish control of others ; — while it 
 may seem for a brief time that you are suc- 
 ceeding, — you will be as one dazed in a sea 
 of confusion which leads into the abyss of 
 fear unless you balance your power energy 
 upon the plane of freedom and truth. 
 
 The particular form of delusion which the 
 
174 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 misuse of spiritual power attracts to the 
 physical man is Palsy, — and in healing or 
 rather, in balancing that condition, — you will 
 breathe with the inner breath, first to the 
 constructive brain, then to the discrimina- 
 tive brain and then to the Power brain ; — this 
 practise will create the trinity necessary to 
 generate the atmosphere which is required 
 before you can dissolve that particular dis- 
 order. 
 
 Having created the atmosphere and gen- 
 erated the balancing force by so doing, — 
 you will interpenetrate your patient with it 
 by the process already given and he will be 
 freed ; provided, of course, he is co-operating 
 with you by desiring to be freed; otherwise 
 he will re-manifest the same condition. 
 
 When you enter the consciousness which 
 is yours when you are really aware that you 
 have related yourself consciously to the di- 
 vine inner breath of your part of the cosmic 
 life, — you will feel yourself expanding to 
 meet the whole human family — and then you 
 perceive the fine realization of true love both 
 for yourself and others because only in the 
 awareness of your love for all can you love 
 yourself; — the self love which includes the 
 whole of you is also the whole of God and 
 only in That Holiness (wholiness) which is 
 also your holiness (wholiness) is that abso- 
 lute and infinite touch in and with Power 
 which never falters and never fails. 
 
 Love, — true love, — which is the cosmic 
 love, the all love, is superbly good, superbly 
 chaste and superbly powerful. 
 
THE POWER BRAIN 175 
 
 To give your love powerfully and unre- 
 servedly to God's children, is the sure and ac- 
 curate way to serve in His holy (wholly) 
 realm. 
 
 And God's realm is yours and mine when- 
 ever we desire to live in the law of His life, — 
 whenever we realize our part of that life 
 and whenever we are capable of breathing the 
 Cosmic breath, which we shall be when our 
 one supreme desire is to be good. 
 
 Now suppose we take a breathing exer- 
 cise which will include all of the brain cen- 
 ters which we have studied and then you 
 can feel and see and hear and touch the 
 force which results from the balanced Power 
 which you will generate by your conscious 
 relation to a finer and more subtle life cur- 
 rent than you have heretofore known. 
 
 And as you continue the practise and be- 
 come more and more of your part of the 
 all-life, — you will realize the marvelous pow- 
 er of the inner breath which, when under- 
 stood, — unlocks the treasure of the universe 
 and which you have made your own. 
 
 First you will relax your body by breathing 
 quietly and regularly and consciously; — re- 
 lax your mind by letting go of every thought 
 which you are now formulating and make 
 your mind a blank, as it were, for about five 
 minutes. 
 
 Then take a deep breath and as you ex- 
 hale it, expel from your entire being every 
 thought of resentment and every suggestion 
 
176 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 of fear, indeed every idea of destruction 
 which has ever been breathed into you, — 
 throw it all out with the exhaling breath, — 
 you want to purge your entire body of every 
 distorted thought form which you have ever 
 imaged because you are going to generate 
 power and you do not want any force of your 
 own creation to turn upon you like a boom- 
 erang and destroy you as it surely will un- 
 less you create it constructively. 
 
 Now turn your attention to the soul of 
 you; — see with the eyes of your soul, the 
 heart of your flesh form which it has created, 
 and as you look within, let the divine part 
 of you become dominant which you can do 
 by realizing your divine unity with the all- 
 life ; — then breathe with the soul breath the 
 inner breath to your constructive brain and 
 in so doing you will feel the love current 
 surging thru you and you will surrender 
 every atom of your body and every activity 
 of your mind and every desire of your soul 
 to the living esse of love that will interpen- 
 etrate you and render you capable of taking 
 the next universal or divine breath. 
 
 After a moment's relaxation, you will 
 gently and steadily breathe to the brain of 
 discrimination and you will balance yourself 
 in the thought that you are polarized on this 
 earth planet, that your work and your serv- 
 ice belong here and that you will not become 
 emotional or fanatical over the realization of 
 the power which you are developing because 
 you will know that you are one with every 
 part of God ? s life and that you are simply 
 
THE POWER BRAIN 177 
 
 learning how to serve the least as well as 
 the greatest of His creatures. 
 
 In breathing to the discriminative brain, 
 you become steady in your consciousness and 
 wise in your love and loving in your wisdom ; 
 you will be polarized in your desire and con- 
 structive in your intentive force, then when 
 you take the next breath to the generative 
 center, — you will be ready to manifest the 
 forces which formulate only the good. 
 
 In the- clear chaste atmosphere which you 
 are now creating around you, you can only 
 manifest conditions and qualities of pure 
 goodness and so you will breathe to the gen- 
 erative center with the understanding that 
 you are generating a dynamic energy which 
 will strengthen your power to touch the whole 
 cosmic life and to draw from its infinite en- 
 ergy as much of its force as you need and 
 of the quality that you have the capacity to 
 claim. 
 
 Now a moment's relaxation and you will 
 turn your attention to the magnetic brain 
 and breathe with the inner breath to this 
 center with the consciousness that you are 
 strengthening your relation with all of the 
 earth forces and that you are not only gen- 
 erating the energy which will relate you to 
 the opulence of this planet but that you are 
 also strengthening your touch with the op- 
 ulence of nature's finer forces— because as 
 your magnetism strengthens, it naturally 
 qualifies all that concerns your touch with life 
 on all planes. 
 
178 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 Now that your vibration is steadily bal- 
 ancing with the cohesive force of love and 
 with the earth magnetism, you will center 
 your attention upon the brain of spiritual 
 consciousness, then you will breathe with the 
 inner breath to this center and image in 
 your thought as you breathe, the vision of 
 the whole of the cosmic life expression, which 
 is the entire universe, the whole of God's life. 
 
 Now relate yourself to every part of that 
 life and feel the God within you expanding 
 as you reach with your breath consciousness 
 into the infinite. This is the more rapid pro- 
 cess of spiritualization for Cosmic Conscious- 
 ness is spiritualization. 
 
 Next and finally you will give your atten- 
 tion to the center of Power and while you 
 are filled with the conscious realization of 
 each and all of the brain centers of the body, 
 you will breathe with the? inner breath to the 
 center of Power and you will recognize an 
 uplift which comes with the consciousness 
 that you are one with the universal knowl- 
 edge and are so .enabled to touch every part 
 of life intelligently and at will. 
 
 Therefore you will know that the opulence 
 and .the good of life are yours because they 
 are one with life as are you and you may 
 possess all of its treasures and its knowledge, 
 that in truth, relates you to all that is worth 
 while. 
 
 From this day you will speak the word 
 with authority because you are good, which 
 means that you are not confused by delusion 
 
THE POWER BRAIN 179 
 
 and that you are as much of God as you have 
 the capacity to be of life, — and the word of 
 good is you so long as you are true to your- 
 self. 
 
 The inner breath of life relates you to be- 
 ing rather than action, — but being controls 
 action when you are constructive in that 
 being. When a man is destructive in con- 
 sciousness, he sometimes acts constructively 
 because of his fear to do otherwise, — which is 
 merely increasing his own delusion because of 
 his deceit ; — such a man never breathes with 
 his inner breath because only in constructive 
 consciousness can the inner breath be 
 touched. 
 
 Having assimilated the different qualities 
 relating to the different brains of your body 
 and having become powerful thru your real- 
 ization of yourself in God, you will per- 
 ceive the fact that you are actually manifest- 
 ing your spiritual body. 
 
 Also you will perceive that you have taken 
 a step in consciousness which frees you from 
 carnal expression ever again unless you se- 
 lect to take a physical form on some darkened 
 planet in order to assist its mortal children 
 to come into the light. 
 
 When you become a thing you do not strive 
 to attain it; when you can read perfectly so 
 that you no longer think of process, you no 
 longer study your primer, — so it is with at- 
 taining to the power of mastering your part 
 of God's life ; — you have grown greater than 
 process and your breath is the breath of the 
 
180 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 all good and you are incapable of attracting 
 any less. 
 
 No man can teach you concerning cosmic 
 truth, — language relates only to limited ex- 
 pression, to the third dimension, as it were, 
 — but he may inspire you with infinite knowl- 
 edge for inspiration is the inbreathing of 
 divine life. 
 
 In the knowledge that you are master of 
 your part of God's great life day by day and 
 hour by hour, your strength of life increases, 
 your force of love is more radiative and when 
 you have finished your work upon the earth 
 planet and your desire for service takes you 
 into another realm, you will be fully awake 
 and fully equipped for your next plane of 
 the divine service. 
 
 The Soul that is willing to know the truth 
 of itself inevitably attracts that knowledge. 
 
 The truth lover who feels the urge within 
 his soul to give to the children of earth the 
 mighty thing which is so marvellously re- 
 constructing his part of God's life, inevitably 
 is given the power to do so. 
 
After - Word 
 
 God is the knower. 
 
 Man is as much of God as he is willing to 
 know. 
 
 All externalized life is as much of knowl- 
 edge as it breathes and therefore knows. 
 
 The bird knows how to fly, it breathes the 
 knowledge and the strength which enables 
 it to fly. 
 
 When men learn how to breath, they will 
 have the knowledge which will give them the 
 quality and the power to fly because they will 
 relate themselves to the consciousness which 
 is cosmic and which gives the realization of 
 infinite accomplishment. 
 
 Breath is the soul of life and all knowledge 
 which is real, truth knowledge, or psychic 
 knowledge comes thru the soul of life which 
 is the breath; never thru opinion or reason. 
 
 There is no argument in truth, its facts 
 are obvious and evident. The earth and all 
 that is thereon has breathed itself into form 
 ,and is breathing itself into universal con- 
 sciousness and therefore into a cosmic touch 
 with God's life. 
 
 We wonder at the rapidity of present day 
 happenings when the simple truth is that 
 
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182 THE INNER BREATH 
 
 the soul of us is becoming aware of our 
 unity with God. 
 
 When we know that truth already is and 
 that all we need to know and to do is to be 
 at ease and allow ourselves to breathe in the 
 spirit of love and truth, all things good shall 
 be our own. 
 
 The greatest thing in the world is the 
 awareness of an infinite intelligence and the 
 sure consciousness of its interpenetrative om- 
 niactive force. 
 
 God is all life infinitely expressed, breath- 
 ing into His children the vitalizing soul 
 knowledge. 
 
 May they recognize their own. 
 
 May they desire God's truth. 
 
 May they breathe with that breath 
 
 Which knows. 
 
 GRACE M. BROWN. 
 
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