La Iniciación · Año III, Nº 24 · April 1944

1Is it possible to prolong youth?

2Does a Spiritual Alchemy exist capable of restoring our youth? – Causes of old age and of death.

3By Asuri Kapila S∴I∴ — CELLULAR VIBRATION, THE INDIVIDUAL VIBRATORY KEYNOTE, ILLNESS AS CAUSE [Sic: the sense requires "as effect"] OF CELLULAR DISEQUILIBRIUM.

4Why, after having submitted ourselves for a long time to a natural regime of fruits and vegetables, do we feel lighter — that is, more etheric? [Sic: the original prints "no sentimos" for "nos sentimos".]

5Why, inversely, do we feel heavier?

6Why do we suddenly fall ill without apparent causes?

7These are the problems we are going to study in this chapter.

8It is necessary to know, first, that each cell of our body has a very special vibration, and that each of them vibrates truly like small oscillating circuits.

9Now, the ensemble of all these cells, which add up to millions and millions of vibrations, forms "the great vibration" which, synthesised, forms what may be called "the personal vibratory keynote".

10Now, the derangement or disharmony of that great vibratory circuit translates into illness, which we provoke, as we shall see by some examples, by our mistaken alimentation and unnatural way of living.

11New illnesses are not born in certain epochs; rather the new ones (if one wishes so to call them) are nothing but derivations of the old, the classic illnesses, which are produced in all parts of the world, in all races and climates.

12The cold, rheumatism, the ulcer, cancer, tuberculosis, bronchitis, asthma, influenza, urticaria, eczema, paralysis in all its manifestations — all are illnesses old as the world and universally known.

13The Chinese, the Japanese, the Turk, the Hindu, the Italian, the Spaniard, the Eskimo, and all beings of all races and latitudes are attacked in greater or lesser degree by all these classic illnesses.

14If a people, apathetic and phlegmatic through its state of stagnation in material progress, suddenly lets itself be dragged by a wave of "progress", beginning to live a more febrile, more hurried, more mechanical, more nervous, more material, more gross life, where the struggle to earn each day's bread and sustenance obliges it to lie, to cheat, to deceive, to compete — in the long run this people begins to feel the first symptoms of nervous and cardiac illness. Does a new illness then arise?

15No! — provoke the cause and the effect is born, like the Law of Karma.

16And then, why does one fall ill — what is the true cause?

17The single cause is "cellular disequilibrium", provoked by the vibratory changes of all those masses of cells which together form what we call the human body.

18Now, this change is provoked by the shock of the brusque change from one vibration to another, when we submit our body to an alimentation that is brutal, excessive, heavy — or gentle, frugal and light, as the case may be.

19Every food contains, besides its material, nutritive part, energetic, electric or Pranic elements, which saturate our whole body and communicate to it a vibration "sui generis".

20A man who eats only rice does not have the same vibrations as one who nourishes himself only on meat or on fruits; the proteins, the · 15

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