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258 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
Many
conditions of health are included in those of
exercise and freedom, which I may not have room to
specify so much at length. All that can give happiness
to man, promotes his health ; all that can give health,
promotes his happiness. Everywhere
ciprocal action, based upon the simplest laws.
there is this re
" Evils
to man, and evils to man only, are sins against God."
God can ask nothing of man but what is for his happi
ness ; whatever promotes the happiness of man is,
therefore, pleasing to God. "Therefore, whether ye
eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of
God."
Health demands, as its necessary conditions, then,
such parentage, birth, and blood, as shall secure a good,
sound, well-developed constitution—"a sound mind in a
sound body." It demands a pure and natural nutrition,
or the observance of the laws of diet. It demands a
pure air, or an observance of the laws of respiration.
It demands the regular performance of all the organic
and animal functions, secretions, excretions, and all mus
cular, nervous, intellectual, moral, and passional activi
ties, which I have included in the law of exercise. It
demands for the whole skin the cleanliness of daily ablu
tion, without which its functions are not well performed.
It demands a temperature neither so warm as to de
bilitate, nor so cold as to chill and stupefy ; and for this
purpose the clothing must be such as comfort requires,
without impeding motion, aeration, or perspiration.
OF CLOTHING.
Dress, with many persons, and with all who are truly
developed, is an art and a passion. Aside from comfort