The Psychosomatic Relationship of Man with the Universe (The Microcosm and the Macrocosm)

enlivens the sympathetic nervous system, and links the body to Nature in this Energy field in matter.

The third river out of Eden's one river is Hiddekel (Tigris or black). This is the 'earth' element of the ancients. It built and operates the third cavity or oval -- the abdomen -- with its digestive, assimilative and eliminative activity. The Hindus call it 'Saman'. We call it the gastro-intestinal [gastrointestinal] tract. It is a fiery energy which digests our food in the earthy elements of the bowels as the earthy field.

The fourth river is the Euphrates, the great river, or water wheel. The ancients called this the 'water' element. It is situated in the fourth cavity of the body, the pelvic cavity. As earth and water landmarks are irregular, so is this space, with the earth element above it. Science calls this the genito-urinary [genitourinary, urogenital] system, including the kidneys, which are post-peritoneal structures.

The earth is said to have been created out of water; and is surrounded by it, like the embryo is surrounded and floats in amniotic fluid. The 'Great Wheel' refers to constant births in this river of life, as incarnations into the 'Wheel' of eight million, four hundred thousand varieties of species of life forms. It contains the seed power which is the one evidence of the eternal power of perpetuation in all life -- human, animal and vegetable. The billionth descendant of any life form or pattern has the power to reproduce, the same as the original pair had. This is the only perpetual motion power we know of; namely, the seed power in all creation.

This is the story of the four elements of the ancients, and the four systems of the body of modern science. AS LONG AS THESE FOUR ELEMENTS OR ENERGIES FLOW INTO AND THROUGH EACH OTHER, AND SUPPORT EACH OTHER IN FUNCTION, ALL IS WELL. WHEN ONE OR MORE RIVER OF ENERGY IS STOPPED UP OR CANNOT FLOW, LIFE DEPARTS FROM IT AND GOES BACK TO WHENCE IT CAME.

The good minister, at the funeral service, revives our memory of this mystic lore not now understood, when he picks up a handful of earth and says, as he throws it on the casket, "earth to earth, dust to dust and ashes to ashes". A doctor wrote out a death certificate which probably stated 'heart failure' or 'endocarditis' as the cause of death. But the minister tells us the true reason why this person died. The earth element in this body could no longer function nor draw energy from the great earth element outside, which is the cosmos, and co-operate with the other elements, so now this earth element of the individual body goes back to mother earth.

"Dust to dust". The element of air has dust as its symbol of precipitation, and when the air principle can no longer breathe or flow in rhythm with the universal air principle outside, the