Tigerlilly - Lobsang Rampa

may be absorbed, thus providing the extra energy which re-
sults in a quicker and healthier growth. A certain person I
know possesses an abundance of the Taurus and Capricorn
qualities and, as you may imagine, his garden is his hobby and
his great love—he spends hours and hours nurturing his plot,
and the results are the envy of all his gardening friends.
Those possessed of this particular make-up can do much to
sustain a sick person by transmitting energy through touch,
because the etheric emanations are very powerful around the
hands.
Carl and I spent a good deal of time in our photo-
graphic darkroom and this entailed much work since it was
something of a make-shift affair. Being war-time the blackout
curtains were useful in making the room dark but there was no
‘running water’ so we were kept busy transporting solutions
back and forth from the bathroom, being particularly careful
to prevent as much as possible the collection of dust in the
dishes. I soon learned how careful one must be in maintaining
cleanliness when processing film and making prints, almost as
careful as preparing for an operation in a hospital. I also
learned that if one is interested, dedicated if you like, in what-
ever one undertakes, it is possible to obtain good results in
spite of difficult working conditions. One supposes it is only
the bad workman who blames his tools, the proficient photo-
grapher overcomes the obstacles.
By watching and listening to Carl's procedures and ex-
planations I was able to learn a great deal; with the big
Thorton Pickard reflex, and the small Agfa 35-mm size, the
range of photographic possibilities was fairly wide.
Why the small size film at all, one wonders. It seems that
when someone was making cine films they decided it would be
a good idea to make some of this size available to the public,
especially since there is more variety in cine film than any
other. The Belgian firm of Gaevert manufactured the film in
collaboration with the Agfa company whose 35-mm camera
was one of the earliest on the market, and it took twelve
frames to a roll, so we must have been amongst the earliest
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