Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... when the Akasha happens to be predominant, the Akashic portion with its characteristic figures will flow along and to the tip of the thumb, while the Vayu portion goes along the first finger, the Tejas along the middle one, the Apas along the ring finger, and the Prithivi along the little finger, these fractions re-combining again into one current as they flow back to the wrist; and similarly with the other four series. This peculiarity gives the Indian occultist the power of knowing--by the variations and splitting of the pulse vibrations, in combination with the finger auras--which of the Tatwas is affected in a disease. While in the Tatwic emanations can be traced even the idiosyncracies of the nation or race to which a person belongs, they also indicate the state of health, and, in ladies, certain physiological conditions. In fact, every disease, nay every disturbance, is clearly shown in various parts of the patient's aura. In connection with this fact, Rama Prasad and other Hindu psychologists reveal the great secret of occult medicine, when they say that every disease is only a disturbance of the Tatwas; and this brings them to connect the colors of a disease with those of the medicinal substance that can cure it. To act on a disease, the aura of the medicine must be--both in its Tatwic colors and geometrical figures--as nearly homeopathic as possible to the colors and figures in the patient's aura that are characteristic of the disease. Therefore there can be no doubt that the efforts of the medicine of the future will be directed to the study of all auras and especially to the comparison between those of the remedy and of the patient. However, this question opens such new and unsuspected speculations of immense interest to...