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The Holy Breath

Beloved Holy Æolus

July 28, 1968

Beloved chelas, I have counseled you from time to time to train yourselves in not using the breath in a shallow manner but to permit the prana of life to flow through you in a steady, rhythmic manner. 

If you will, try the deep breath. Inbreathe as much air as your lungs will hold and then feel that air press down through the trunk of your body into your lungs, arms and feet, out through your arms and up through the top of your head, and just hold it there as long as you can comfortably retain it. 

While the breath is in the body, try to visualize that added Life which is in the air within your lungs as pure deep gold. Feel it energizing, building and rejuvenating your human form. Then let the breath out very slowly and deliberately, controlled - not all at once. Feel it leaving the tips of your ears and the inside of your scalp first and then draw it up from your toes, through the calves of your legs and through the trunk of your body, back into the lungs, and then gently, but steadily, press it outward until there is not a remaining ounce of air within your form. 

If you will do this just four times to begin with, it will give you more rest than a full night's sleep, more strength than a week of complete relaxation. 

The initiates in a Retreat within the period of an hour are enabled in this manner to rebuild their bodies that have been through the rigorous disciplines of advanced initiations and have become depleted thereby. The advanced initiates can take the breath and concentrate it in the earlobe or through a forefinger and sustain it there until it can rebuild diseased or destroyed cells into perfect manifestation. 

Oh, how lightly the chela takes the sacred activity of the breath! Contemplation would reveal to him that there is no reason for any disease, exhaustion or age on the Planet Earth when man has the capacity to draw breath, sustain it, and find what is within it through practice. 

I come to you from time to time to stimulate your interest in the proper use of breath. I do so now, hoping that in some awakening souls I may convey the desirability of learning the controlled use of the breath. You know, beloved chelas, were you sufficiently interested in the Elixir of Life, you would determine, without hesitation, that the time had arrived when you would heed my counsel, and assiduously practice the controlled, rhythmic action of the breath. 

I assure you that, in a matter of months, your consciousness and vehicles would have become so energized that the vibratory action resulting there from would be that of the very advanced initiate, in control of his lower vehicles, enjoying peace, poise, good health and the myriad benefits of living as true children of the Father-Mother God while still walking the Planet Earth. 

The western consciousness is so vacillating, but I believe that there are some among you who will be wise enough to heed my advice. I shall await with great interest the manner in which you have received this message and remember always that "practice makes perfect".