THE MENTAL ATTITUDE is a great factor in this part of the breath, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” One must feel himself inside his own body, breathing his own breath out through his flesh just as he would if his face were covered and he was forced to breathe the breath through a thick veil. This is true Regenerative Power. “It is the breath of the Almighty that giveth us life.” This breath gives us life because it fans to a radiant flame the latent fires within the being.
The Temple Fires of the Ancients were only this living fire from within, which is the fire which consumeth not, yet transmutes the baser metals into pure gold.
With this divine alchemy, the Illuminatus melts out the coarser substance and keeps the Temple fires forever burning beneath his caldron of immaculate flesh.
NOW TO SUMMARIZE QUICKLY: First the emptying of the chalice (the lungs); then long, deep physical breathe until the blood stream of the body carries a current of crimson substance charged with the radio-active energy of the higher vibration; then the breath held in, yet driven out through the body by an iron will-force from behind, which is one with the pressure of the universal Energy. When this exercise is correctly followed, there will come a moment when the muscle, bone, brain, spinal cord and every tissue of the body will glow and tingle with an energy before unknown, while the cell nuclei have changed into shimmering
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