The Breath of Life and the Cycle of Nutrition

or the liquids but also of the finer airy and gaseous elements which are liberated in their processing and breakdown in our system. It is essential that every element - gross and subtle - must again return to the outside, to Nature's storehouse from which it came, to complete its cycle or travel. Source and supply or cause and effect complete this cycle.

Only small fractions and particles which the cells have the power to attract and hold are built into the body structure and can be called 'nourishment'. The finer essences are the energy principles in foods. These are far more important than the gross bulk. All moving energy attracts its own as it flows like spinning electrons, the same as in the atomic science. The grosser, denser and artificial foods lack these finer qualities; hence their escape back to Nature through oxidation is difficult and slow. These are causes of residue in the system and in the circulation, which in turn produce obstructions called energy blocks.

This is the cause of illness and disease from outside sources. The other causes of disease are mental and emotional cross currents and frustrations in man's own make-up as 'karmic' reactions of internal causes and external effects; for example: "But the things which proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adultries [adulteries], fornications, thefts, false witness, railings: these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man." (Mat. 15:18-21)

Life must ever flow as a fountain from within out, and we call the return currents the experience of life. Through pleasure and through pain our consciousness grows in awareness and self-realization. And through faith, love and greater vision it sees its path opening and expanding into the higher regions from where the soul came to dwell in the body. Then comes the path to GOD REALIZATION.