CHAPTER X
Exercises
Breath as Force–Muscle Tensing, with Fasting.
When we begin to fast, our first attention is to our flesh structure. We must tear down our old house of worn-out substances and gather new material for our new construction work. The body is always reconstructing itself but it is too slow a process to fit the whirlwind consciousness of the new Illuminatus.
Saint Paul said “I die daily” and this is true, but this death is in the form of a gradual change of which the individual is more or less unconscious; but with this new death of the flesh through fasting, the struggling cell consciousness must be helped out of its place by quick methods and these methods are breathing and muscle tensing.
Idle tissue atrophies, a breathless, airless blood stream putrefies and decays; while both together form a morgue for the half-dead ego man within the pulseless body.
As soon as a cell has outlived its usefulness, it should be cast out; as soon as air is thoroughly deoxygenized it should be exhaled from the body. There is no place in the true economy
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