The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-07-17
PRANA
BULWER-LYTTON BRANCH.

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Or vitality is the third principal in our
classification An aspect itself Of the
4 universal life principle Contrary
to general belief, we hold that it is the
life energy that kills as we'll as being i
factor OF physical existence A body
lives because s'the combination of or
gans IS able to absorb the life around It,
and is put to sleep by the oyerpowering
strength of the stream OF life. These
| processes, sleep and waking are simply
and solely the restoring OF the equilibrium
IN sleep and the action produced by dis
turbing it when awake. 1T may be COM
pared with the arc-electric light wherein
the brilliant arc of light at the point of
resistance is the symbol 81 the waking
active man. This power Of restoring
equilibrium is necessarily limited When
we fall asleep we are more fnll OF life
than Ill the morning; II has exhausted
us; it finally kills the body. Life is not
the result OF the opera ton Of the organs
nor is it gone when the body tIlssoves.
At death Prina instead OF acting in the
body as a whole acts on the separate
molecules and this causes dislutegration.
Life is universal principle, its source.
the supreme life itself Mrs Besant uses
the following Illustration
Figure 81 living sponge, stretching
itself out in the water which bathes it,
envelopes it, permtates 1t; there is
water, still the oceancmculating ia every
passage, filling every pore; but we may
think OF the ocean outside the sponge or
| the part OF the ocean appropriated by
the sponge, distinguishing them in
thought ii we want to make sta tements
about each severally Sosach organism
is Ia sponge, bathed in the ocean Of lie
universal, of Jiva, and contaisrissg with
in itself some of that ocean as it's own"
DR.. Baradue Of Paris was engaged for
more than two years Investigating and
photographing what he calls vital hu.
man fluid the cosmic vital force and
other super physical manifestions OF
energy. The human vital force possesses
the quality ct passing through glass and
1T can thus be separated from electricity
OF which glass is a non conductor The
human fluid impresses iteelf on a pho
tographic film AS dappled clouds show
ing vibrating points like stars sur
rounded by a zone. The cosmlc vital
force shows a cellular TISSUE like frog
spawn. This is somewhat interesting
physical proof OF the fact that the cos
mic vital force Jiva, is changed in the
body and If specialized, therein becom-
ing Prana. DR.. Baradue states further
that psychic image framed by an effort
OF the mind and projected by the will
can he received and reproduced bv q
Photographic plate and that such a
plate shows lights and shadows.
Thus far in our study Of the quarter
nary personality we have but barely
touched upon the real man, the ego For
the personality is no more the mdivi-
dual than the te. .egraph instrument that
that uses the instrument.
The study OF man is as important now
as when the divine iprecept, KNOW thy
SELF was written over the temple of
Delphos, knowledge OF self is necessary
to evolution. So long as we establish
nothing si permanence during earth life
we have nothing immortal with which
to enter into relationship after death.
Wasting our opportunities, fvlng bal
looms and grasping at shadows, living
either in a FOOLS paradise Of illusion or
IN hell more real than that which has
served to all the money bags OF Brah-
Minis and church Golfers; using our ener-
gies in the chase after political Or social
preferment; obtaining labor without
giving it's equivalent or obtaining money
without giving its equivalent. "Souls
are saved" and bodies doctored for the
highest price; fame and reputation. law,
justice, all subordinate to greed for that
which though it represents the principle
OF equity has no permanent value
whether gold, silver or paper.