Energy

in the blood" (Lev. 17:ll). Three principal essences converge to make up the river of life called the BLOOD STREAM. The first is warmth, the fiery principle of the sun with its finer hidden 'Pranic' rays of Energy. Without this active principle in the blood stream it would be cold like it is in fish, frogs and some of the lower, cold-blooded animals. Man loves sunshine because it is part of his very blood. However, there are some individuals who cannot tolerate sunshine. That is because they have more of the 'moon essence' in their make-up.

The next river is the airy principle and essence in the blood stream. This makes oxidation and exchange possible between the store of the earth's oxygen outside and its own used up supply. Life is not possible on this planet without this universal essence in action. "Breath is life" with its hidden, vital energy. Oxidation also causes the inter-action [interaction] between the fiery essence and the water principle, which is the liquid quality of the blood stream as THE RIVER OF LIFE.

The Moon Energy, as the third principle, is the source of the watery essence in the blood stream. Oxidation has a cooling and evaporating effect on bodies in Nature. It fructifies the earthy nature of man and all vegetation by the flow of the three vital rivers through the earth.

The first river is the source out of which all four rivers flow and to which they must return. The last one is the earth, the result of the action of the other three rivers or essences of energy. The first becomes the last by expressing itself through it. The last becomes the first by returning to it constantly through disintegration and, in the end, it vanishes and becomes re-absorbed into its first essence of finer Reality in the energy field.

The three types of Consciousness or functions of the Mind, and the four grades of Matter or substances, and their relationship in their formation, are dealt with in the next chapter.