THE UNIVERSALITY OF THE TATTVASIT should be plain to all my readers now that toneglect proper exercise of the lungs by deep,full inhalations of pure, unbreathed air, is apositive self-limitation of vital force which can bejustly named " slow suicide." The individualthus living, even under the most fortunate circumstancesotherwise, never attains the maximum ofhis or her efficiency and power, and invites everydisease. You thus feed the disintegrating forceswith the corruption which increases their activity;and shut out the renewing elements which upbuild,while furnishing the stimulus to cast out the wornout products of physical energy. And this mannerof living, which is the confirmed habit of multitudes,is the progenitor of most of the ills fromwhich humanity suffers.The day is dawning when that infamous oldaphorism anent the " ills that human flesh is heirto " will be recognized for what it is, the hideoussubterfuge of ignorance and credulity. Ithas caused the most flagrant violations of NaturalLaw, and weighed like an incubus upon the human6?68 (The Law of the Rhythmic Breathrace, encouraging fear and every other prolificagent of evil and suffering, being a common sourceof that weakness and inefficiency which producepoverty. Fear breaks down tissue, and disorganizesnerve cells as much as any acknowledged disease.It is only blindness to the latent, the potential,powers within that makes possible the conditionsfrom which a majority of mankind sufferdaily. As I shall show you, this is no digressionfrom our subject, the study of the Tattvas, butmost intimately connected therewith.When you pray for strength, for health, for relieffrom pain, do you realize what answer comesback to you from Divine silence ? It says to you :" Take them. The avenues are always open toyou. Nothing obstructs them but your own willand wrong thoughts."The moment you think health and strengthyourself, that moment you begin to clear from allobstructions the channels of communication withthe sources of life-force; for every vibration onthe mental plane reacts upon those of the physiologicalplane. Notice particularly that your verythought is instantly reflected in a fuller inflationof the lungs, which checks the disorder withinand improves the vibrations; and throughout theuniverse like seeks like. Therefore, by a simplechange of mental attitude simple, but oh, so imPage37The Law of the Rhythmic Breath - E. A. Fletcher.txtportant ! you invite harmony instead of disTheUniversality of the Tattvas 69cord, and co-operate with Nature in her ceaselessefforts to restore all the disordered vibrations inyour body to their normal conditions of perfectrhythmic balance.From the ever-blessed moment that you realizeyour soul to be the rightful ruler of its tenement,the physical body, and bring your will under thesoul's control thereby transmuting it into soulforcerhythmic vibrations will inaugurate theircurative, restorative work. Say in your heart:Peace! Peace! Peace! Ye warring f actions 1Ye can no longer have dominion over me. I amone with all the power for good in the Universe,and I will admit only good.The more you know of the Tattvic Law of theUniverse the deeper wil