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The Etheric body of the planet does not yet freely transmit and circulate the forces which are seeking entrance into the consciousness and the expression of man upon the Physical plane. These forces emanate from within himself as he functions on the subtler levels of consciousness and from the Soul; they come also from associated and contacted groups, from the planetary life, and eventually, in the last analysis, from the entire universe.

Each of the centers can, when fully awakened and consciously and scientifically employed, serve as an open door through which awareness of that which lies beyond the individual human life can enter. The Etheric body is fundamentally the most important response apparatus which man possesses, producing not only the right functioning of the five senses and consequently providing five major points of contact with the tangible world, but it also enables a man to register sensitively the subtler worlds, and, when energised and controlled by the Soul, the Spiritual realms stand wide open also.

There is much need today for the study of the following problems:

1. The problem of the right reception of force through the appropriate center. An instance of this might be found in the correct control of the Solar Plexus center as the one in which Astral sensitivity can be registered and properly handled.

2. The problem of the right relation of a particular center to its related gland, permitting the free play of the force pouring through the center to the allied glandular correspondence, thus conditioning its peculiar hormone and eventually conditioning the blood stream. If you grasp this sequence of contact, you will understand more clearly the occult significance of the words in the Old Testament that "the blood is the life." It is the vitality coming from the Etheric body which works through into the blood stream, via the center which is responsive to one of the seven peculiar types of force, and its allied gland. It will be apparent, therefore, that there is a close relation between:

a.   The Etheric body as a transmitter of a vast aggregate of energies and forces.

b.  The Endocrine system whose various glands are in reality the externalisation or materialisation of the centers, major and minor.

c.   The Heart, which is the center of life as the brain is the center of consciousness. From the heart, the blood circulates and is controlled. Thus these three great systems are related.

d.  The entire Glandular system to the Nervous system through the medium of the network of nerves and the "nadis" which underlie this network. These nadis are the threads of life force which underlie every part of the body and particularly the nervous system in all its aspects.

3.    The interrelation which must be established between all the centers, permitting the free play of force in

        correct rhythm throughout the physical vehicle.

You have, therefore, certain great interlocking directorates which control or fail to control the physical body. Where there is lack of control it is due to the failure to establish right relations within the body, or to lack of development. These interlocking groups are:

1. That of the Etheric body, which works primarily through its seven major centers but also through many other centers.

2. That of the Endocrine system, which works primarily through the seven major glandular groups, but also through many other less important glands.

3. That of the Nervous system (the sympathetic and the cerebro-spinal) with a peculiar emphasis laid upon the vagus nerve with its effect upon the heart and consequently upon the blood stream.

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