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The Importance of the Brachial Plexus

or the neuter [neutral] essence hidden in the oxygen of the blood, which is the secret of respiration and oxidation of every blood cell. Physical life is not possible without it. It manifests in a triune field of matter. The blood is the liquid conveyor and the negative pole of the air or oxygen. The energy unit is the life in the breath, plus the heat or caloric energy as a fiery conveyor, the positive pole of the life principle.

These three elements of air, fire and water were the basis of the Ayurvedic Medicine of old in India and the lost healing art of the present age. Close observation of the pulse beat, in all its phases, was considered diagnostic of the proportionate flow of the three energy currents. These are the mysterious elements of sulphur (as fire), mercury (as air), salt (as water), spoken of so highly by the great Swiss doctor and philospher [philosopher] named Erastus Bombastus Theophrastus von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus the Great Healer and Occultist of the sixteenth century.[1]

Viewpoints on Therapy and Progress

THE MECHANICAL ASPECT OF VERTEBRAL ADJUSTMENT TO GRAVITY: Every joint is a neuter [neutral] point where polarity currents of a positive and negative variety cross. This makes it a neuter [neutral] field and a fulcrum for flexion to overcome gravity by muscular contraction. However, it will be observed that it is not gravity, but muscular contraction which primarily controls this relationship of the joints. The polarity principles of the electrodynamic forces within the body determine the tension in the fields of the superior or positive pole action to the negative or inferior pole of action in the human body. Gravity comes in later as a relationship of action and motion when the body is in an upright position, overcoming gravity through joint action leverage and muscular contraction. Then it becomes a mechanical factor of leverage force plus weight. More weight of active tissue gives more power to pull a similar weight in relation to gravity or the foundation fulcrum, or grip on that basis for the lift or pull, like the tread on tires.

THE PLUMB LINE is at least as old as the pyramids.[2] The plumb line indicates the relationship of a horizontal base - representing the earth or foundation - to the upright line of force as the supporting beam from north to south - head to feet - as the shortest line of gravity pull. For checking the body's muscular contractions in relation to gravity by the plumb line method, the feet are placed in a square angle like a cross, and the plumb line should be in line with the center part of the board. Then minor deviations of angles and joints are clearly discernable [discernible] against this background of a central line in perfect relation to the gravity pull. This is also referred to in Book I[3], and is illustrated in charts 10 and 11 in this book. This employs the principle of the square of matter (the cross) in relation to motion and balance. In sum total, it is a relative viewpoint of the body of matter in relation to the earth-field of matter in its position for motion and overcoming gravity by the shortest line of force to the earth. It is more of an indicator of motion capacity and relationship of parts rather than a standard of health in general.

Each individual has a gravity center of his own, relating all polarity fields and functions to his central core of being. It is the neuter [neutral] pattern field of mind action in expression of sensation and motor actions to fulfill desires and impulses, sensory and motor. The capacity of sensory and motor currents is determined from within their neuter [neutral] field of being, mind and consciousness. It is this factor which makes the individual a free unit of being, having a selective choice in the primary fields of pattern. What it likes, it attracts; what it does not like, it repels. After that first choice, all impulses and forces come under the law of polarity and the five modes of motion or expression in matter.

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1 Paracelsus, born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), a German-Swiss doctor, alchemist, botanist, astrologist and occultist.
2 Roughly 2500 BC.
3 Charts 6 and 7, their Explanation and Balancing by Contour.

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