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feelings and to manifest ourselves to other individual entities who in the long course of evolution have been enabled
to construct and employ similar most ingenious, though imperfect, instruments of manifestation. By this means we
can become aware of a multitude of existences, the whole animal and vegetable kingdom, of which otherwise we
might have remained ignorant; by this means our conceptions of existence have been enlarged and extended, the
possibilities of friendship enhanced, the perception of a new realm of law and order attained. And thus is our own
nature enriched by the effort and experiences belonging to a new and most interesting-- though from our point of
view imperfect and rebellious--physical mode of existence.'
And his closing words:
'It is the primary instrument of Mind, the vehicle of Soul, the habitation of Spirit. Truly it may be called the Living
Garment of God.'
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This comparison between the writings of scientists of different centuries is interesting, since it seems to me that
while there may be some difference in actual verbal expression, each man refers to the same principle.
CHAPTER IV
THE QUINTESSENCE IN DAILY LIFE
Since it is not possible for everyone to follow its reactions in the laboratory, I am devoting this chapter to the
manifestation of the Quintessence in everyday life, for it is not merely in the laboratory that this vital principle
evinces itself, but through all phases and conditions of existence.
Vitamines.
First, what of our food? The physicist has found that for a food to be really worthy of that name it must contain a
certain vital essence, which he has called the Vitamine. Without this vital quality, which I believe to be this same
Quintessence or Divine Energy, any type of food whatsoever is just so much dead matter. For instance, expeditions
on which the men have subsisted entirely on a diet of tinned food have invariably shown that whilst ingesting the
bulk of food necessary for the satisfaction of their hunger, they yet suffered from starvation since that food was
devoid of its vital principle--the Quintessence or Vitamine. Most of us have read at some time or another of the
sufferings of the early navigators who would sail for weeks without sighting land, living the while on dried food.
From those islands which could provide anything
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in the way of fresh meat and fruit they would replenish their miserable stores, and for a time whilst these fresh
provisions lasted, the crew would improve in health and vitality, but with the exhaustion of the supply would come
depletion of vitality, scurvy, and other trials occasioned by a deficiency diet. Citrous fruits, in particular, were found
to be extremely effective for combating scurvy, and British sailors at one time in their history were called 'limies' by
reason of the citrous fruit included in their food quota.
This food problem, then, which we have confronting us is surely a proposition of vast dimensions. From all sides we
are bombarded with demands for a fitter people, for an A 1 nation, but if this high standard of national health is to be
attained, then the food problem of the people must be tackled in all seriousness. While the peoples of the world
depend for their sustenance (as the greater part of our Western civilization does today) on a diet of highly refined
food, from which all real food value has been extracted in the process of refinement, there is little hope of any
improvement in their physical status, and this lack of vitally charged food may easily be a reason, and a very
important reason, for such diseases as cancer and kindred complaints; infantile paralysis, sleepy sickness, and
influenza. As a preventative to many diseases, medical men are now recommending Vitamin D, but actually this
question of Vitamines is only touching the edge of a problem which is of very real importance and urgency to each
one of us--the necessity for a diet incorporating in its constituents that vital energy or quintessence without which a
food is no food at all.
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Digestion.
From the food itself let us turn our attention to the digestion of that food in the human body. In the process of
digestion we find a much more complex action taking place than physiology has so far been able to demonstrate.
The process of ingesting food into the human stomach is really a mild form of poisoning, and in order to utilize to
the best advantage the foodstuffs he is taking, the human being must transmute those foodstuffs, provided for him by
the animal and vegetable kingdoms, into a form that the cells of his body can readily take up and assimilate. Without
this process of change in digestion, man would probably die of poisoning! For an example of this changing process,
take albumen. Albumen in the process of digestion is split up into its amino acids and then brought together again as
a human albumen capable of absorption and assimilation by the cells of the human body.
Can any physiologist explain how this change takes place? Physiologically there is no explanation which would
elucidate this process, but that it does take place is a fact. In its enactment we have an instance of transmutation, of
man taking into his body a lower form of life for its transmutation into something higher, and what is that but an
alchemical process? The transmutation of a lower substance into a higher, when it takes place in the body of man, is
definitely a function of the unconscious part of the mind--a function not consciously performed by the ordinary
individual owing to the fact that the Mind of Man, in the process of building form from the Amoeba upwards, has
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relegated such functions to the unconscious or subconscious part of the mind, leaving the surface consciousness to
carry on with outside problems. Thus whilst all this work of digestion, circulation, breathing, etc., is being carried on
by the deeper strata of the mind, the upper strata are free, as I have just said, to deal with the demands of everyday
life. How many of us realize, I wonder, that here in this very process of digestion is taking place an act of magic
which the average man cannot understand, complacently though he accepts it. Occultists have taught that this
process of the transmutation of food in the human body can be helped by the conscious part of the mind (by what
some schools would call auto-suggestion).
Thus we have an example of man as the medium through which a transmutation of a lower form of matter into a
higher may take place.
Breathing.
To take another function of the human body--that of breathing. What has physiology to tell us of the process of
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