La Iniciación · Año III, Nº 24 · April 1944

1the streets or the atmosphere have been "relatively hygienised" by the nocturnal stoppage of factory and other activities, and Nature has done us the favour of employing that time to clean — with the wind, the rain, the dew, the insects and a thousand other diverse resources — all that humanity had soiled during the day with the various residues and eliminations of its bodies, apparatus and other activities.

2That is the reason that explains why the true sanctuaries are always situated in elevated parts, geographically speaking, little populated, in which the lungs can obtain prana vehicled by an uncontaminated or almost clean air.

3But we breathe not only by the bronchial ways but also by the skin — which explains the necessity of ablutions, to keep the respiration through the "pores" in good functional state, whether in the sense of elimination of toxins (perspiration) or in the sense of the entry by the cutaneous way of the various gases, to call them thus generically.

4But when I speak of "gases" I do not refer only to the air.

5In that air go "mixed", or in suspension, or interpenetrated — that would be the most appropriate term — many other ponderable factors we must take into account: 1st) Ozone, produced by a quantity of electrical discharges, machines, atmospheric reactions and the electricity proper to objects and beings — a phenomenon to which due attention has not been paid, and which has great importance from the microbicidal point of view and that of more elevated purification.

6Whoever cares to meditate on the fact that in water oxygen is in the atomic state (one of oxygen to two of hydrogen), in air in the molecular state O2, and that ozone is precisely O3, will easily understand the correspondence of that different form of aggregation of the physical "support" of the higher ethers.

72nd) Through our respiratory ways, through the physical and etheric pores of the body, through the antennae of all the hairs of our body [Sic: the original phrase runs the hairs together with an intruded word.], and through all the receptor (active-passive) and receptive (passive-passive) points of our organism, there constantly enter all the diverse types of ethers — that is, subtler states of MATTER in vibration — which are: luminous, magnetic, telluric waves, and of every species that are in the ambience in which we act.

8Therefore it is not the same whether our food is prepared by a healthy or a sick person, clean or dirty, calm or nervous, joyful or sad; and of course, also, it is not the same air nor the same ether that enters us with a beautiful fruit as with a sinister steak soaked with all the suffering of the sacrificed animal, with all the slaughterhouse air, with all the vibrations of the killer, of the butcher, etc., etc… In the knowledge of these factors resides the key — which extends to minutiae of infinite complexity if one wished to reach the details — of the conscious management of respiration; and so as not to extend myself indefinitely, I shall try to suggest the basis of the key for those who WISH TO MEDITATE: Every food encloses gases and subtler particles analogous to the environments from which it proceeds and to the facts that unfold there.

9Every suit of clothes preserves — as does every piece of furniture, carpet, curtain, etc. — the gaseous and etheric emanations of all the facts and persons that have been in contact or presence with it — as a psychometer reveals immediately.

10Every reserved object consecrated to a determined purpose, by us or by third parties, puts us physically in contact with the special etheric vibration of the person, the fact and the end in view.

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