Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-06
EFFECT OF REFINEDDIET
MENTAL, MORAL AND PsYcHI-
CAL RESULTS OF SIMPLE FOOD.
Clean and Plain Eating Often Causes
Men to Abstain From Liquor
and Tobacco.

In my first article 1 considered the in
huence of pure system of diet on the
| physical part of man. Another plane
| winch viii be necessarily and beneficialy
! ahected Is the mental. II follows that
! mentality will become more or less clari-
NED IN proportion as the brain receives
| through its blood supply pure and assimi-
| latable nutriment.
the brain receives the nourisbment
/ best adapted for the exercise Of its mar
ticuiar function, 1t will of course. be able
| 10 carry out that function to the best adj
vantage or, IN other words the healthier
the pody the healthier and more active
will be the mind. The same law of vibra
ton to which I referred in nv first article
| rs also operative here; mentation will be
| quickened because the vibrations on the
mental plane are quickened
. Experience appears to prove that simpIe
| livers think more clearly after they have
changed their diet, that new thoughts occur
more readily. and that ideas flow more
II this is SO we may change all our block
heads Into better man by forcing them to
become vegetarians. To this of course the
answer is that all that is claimed is that
with a refined diet the thinkers are able
10 think more clearly and that there
fore, the mediocre in intellect will have a
better chance of having their intellect
given at least a chance of beginning to
think.
Not at Their Best.
Although, of course, there are MANY
men of great acumen and ability who are
flesh eaters, 1 maintain that they are not
living at their best, and that they would
Go still better and more sustained mental
work with change of food
The law of vibration holds good also on
tn" rh"sie al plane, which is a counter
part and reflex Of the material. If the
atoms Comprising the material part of a
man vibrate slowly, will the CORE
spending spiritual atoms
1t Is generally recognized now that there
is subtly Invisible, though none the less
real, radiation proceeding from us all. We
are always, though 1t may be unconscious
~, emanatfng rays, to which may be given
the name of personal magnetism, the
aura" or ''odc force
OF this fact personally can have no
longer the slightest doubt, having proved
1t by nunlberless experiments in the realms
of the inner perception. The man who is
living a gross life will be surrounded with
more or less dark rays, from a deep red
to chocolate colored.
These would be of slow, heavy, coarse
rate of vibration, for We know that when
dealing with the physical spectrum the
red rays are low down in the scale of vibra-
tion But If that individual refines himself
at all points of his system, these radia-
tions change their rate of vibration-that
is to say, their colors; for, as we have
seen before, the difference in percepted
colors simply means difference in the
rate of vibration in the ether; so many
millions of etheric vibrations giving us the
perception Of red, so many more that of
yellow, more still and we have violet, and
SO on, so that as the individual improves
In character and in general living he will
lose the dark-eye rays and take the lighter
Cnes.
Absorbing and Radiating.
This subtle efiuence will be radiatng
from him for good or for Ill, for man both
absorbs and radiates light and color.
Now 1t is my contention that the desir-
able change In color of the rays thrown Off
from our bodies may be materially assisted
by adopting refined dietary l have in
my mind one case, man who ten years
ago was leading an ordinary, anxious life,
living on ordinary fare. with unsatisfactory
health and poor will power. He was a man
of some aspirations. which did not find ade-
qrate expression. AT this time he was ema-
mating dark green and gray rays. few
years afterward he had materially changed
his mode of living, and had become more
refined feeder and more refined thinker,
and the rays which he now threw off were
rosy red lined with gray-the gray dis
appearing as his anxieties decreased
1t is quite an error to suppose that man
must become a pale attenuated being in
order TO be spiritually minded. The ideal
would be that he should develop equally on
all planes, and that he should possess a
perfectly healthy body. a well-balanced
mind and keen, spiritual faculties, all dove
tailed into one another, forming the perfect
whole.
Simple Tastes.
1t might be mentioned here, though 1t is
perhaps little out of place, that the more
simply a man lives with regard to his food
the more he is satisfied with the simplicity:
no condiments are longed for, no fresh
dishes are wanted to tickle the palate, no
stimulants are required to make one enjoy
| ones meal; what the man eats he enjoys,
| and his palate becomes refined in Its acute
ness of favor and its appreciation of taste.
Further, the one who adopts the refined
| diet as a rule ceases to care for strong
| drinks / have many cases In my
| practice where instead of the ordinary fare
| plenty of fruit and the simplest possible
| diet has been suggested, all desire for alco-
| holic beverages has ceased.
The same may be often found as regards
| smoking. There are vegetarians who still
| enjoy their pipe, but l think, as rule,
| that the cleaner diet seems to create a de-
| sire for cleaner palate, and all wish for
smoking simply drops off. There is no eff
| fort required 10 give 1t up; but in this, as
| in the case of alcohol, the desire dies nat
ural death.
| Undoubtedly If a simple diet could be
popularized among much larger class or
| individuals 1t would follow that the collect
i've life of the nation would be purer, clean
| er and less criminal: much of the animal
would die out of the individual, and there
| fore out of the people generally; and there
would occur a common longing after lie
| that is sweeter, more beautiful and more
| simple.
The man who eats moderately and simply
| is the man who can best control his teE-
per and his passions; and he 1t Is VINO can
| walk through life with composure and Sc
renity Therefore, IT is evident that tie
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