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The Human Harp (Page 509) Every human passion, every thought and quality, is
indicated in this Aura by corresponding colours and shades of colour, and certain of
these are sensed and felt rather than perceived. The best of such Psychics, as
shown by Galton, can also perceive colours produced by the vibrations of musical
instruments, every note suggesting a different colour. As a string vibrates and gives
forth an audible note, so the nerves of the human body vibrate and thrill in
correspondence with various emotions under the general impulse of the circulating
vitality of Pranâ, thus producing undulations in the psychic Aura of the person which
result in chromatic effects.
The human nervous system as a whole, then, may be regarded as an Æolian Harp,
responding to the impact of the vital force, which is no abstraction, but a dynamic
reality, and manifests the subtlest shades of the individual character in colour
phenomena. If these nerve vibrations are made intense enough and brought into
vibratory relation with an astral element, the result is—sound. How, then, can anyone
doubt the relation between the microcosmic and macrocosmic forces
And now that I have shown that the Tântric works as explained by Râma Prâsad,
and other Yoga treatises of the same character which have appeared from time to
time in Theosophical journals—for note well that those of true Râja Yoga are never
published—tend to Black Magic and are most dangerous to take for guides in selftraining,
I hope that students will be on their guard.
For, considering that no two authorities up to the present day agree as to the real
location of the Chakras and Padmas in the body, and, seeing that the colours of the
Tattvas as given are reversed, e.g.:
(a) Ãkâsha is made black or colourless, whereas, corresponding, to Manas, it is
indigo;
(b) Vâyu is made blue, whereas, corresponding to the lower Manas, it is green.
(c) Ãpas is made white, whereas, corresponding to the Astral Body, it is violet, with a
silver, moonlike white substratum;
Tejas, red, is the only colour given correctly—from such considerations, I say, it is
easy to see that these disagreements are dangerous blinds.
Further, the practice of the Five Breaths results in deadly injury, both physiologically
and psychically, as already shown. It is indeed that which it is called, Prânâyâma, or
the death of the breath, for it results, for the practiser, in death—in moral death
always, and in physical death very frequently.
On Exoteric “Blinds” and “The Death of the Soul”
(Page 510) As a corollary to this, and before going into still more abstruse teachings, I
must redeem the promise already given. I have to illustrate by tenets you already
know, the awful doctrine of personal annihilation. Banish from your minds all that you
have hitherto read in such works as Esoteric Buddhism, and thought you understood,
of such hypotheses as the eighth sphere and the moon, and that man shares a
common ancestor with the ape. Even the details occasionally given out by myself in
the Theosophist and Lucifer were nothing like the whole truth, but only broad general
ideas, hardly touched upon in their details. Certain passages, however, give out
hints, especially my foot-notes on articles translated from Êliphas Lévi’s Letters on
Magic. [See “Stray Thoughts on Death and Satan” in the Theosophist, vol. iii, No.1:
also “Fragments of Occult Truth,” vols.iii, and iv.]
Nevertheless, personal immortality is conditional, for there are such things as
“soulless men,” a teaching barely mentioned, although it is spoken of even in Isis
Unveiled; † [Op. cit. ii.368. et seq.] and there is an Avîchi, rightly called Hell, though it
has no connection with, or similitude to, the good Christian’s Hell, either
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