CHAPTER III
The Physical Fast
The Phvsical Fast is directed to the correction of all physical errors. The ordinary human has any number of faults in his physical body. Neglect in posture has given him errors of physical angles by throwing the bony skeleton out of its normal relationships. The shoulders are stooped, the backbone out of plumb, the chest sunken, the hip bones protruding or twisted from a parallel, the facial muscles are wrinkled and the eyes squinted out of all normal balance. Hardly one person in a hundred is true to the type nature intended him to be; not one in a hundred but might be the image and likeness of God if he had the spiritual backbone and knowledge enough to take himself in hand.
One meets real flesh-pots creeping along the human pathway. They have eaten themselves out of shape—filled full of fatty deposits, all harmony of flesh lost in the deformity of too much food and lack of purification of the flesh body.
The great flesh-pots who call themselves men and women are really not so at all, they are simply walking sanitary vats into which appetite and self-indulgence have poured too big a stream
