The True Man
It is necessary to be always alert for any message coming from the Nous atom; and there is an old hermetic saying, “Be alert for your Master’s voice as he is alert for yours.”
When we can respond to the Innermost we can remedy past ills, live deeper and nobler lives, and become initiated into the Lesser Mysteries.
Increased blood pressure accounts for abnormal appetites and desires and stimulates our lower natures to greater activities, and opposes our entry to our inner worlds. This pressure destroys the nerves that cause the cells of the brain to open and shut. As we breathe, these nerves open the cells to the energy passing through the body, and if they are shut through abnormal pressure from sudden exertion this increases the lower centres to a greater alertness and activity and shuts off the inner worlds from the student and prevents him from receiving their instructions.
We must therefore use a method whereby we can shut off the influences of our lower nature. In the heart there is a small valve that opens and shuts off interruptions from the lower seats of consciousness. Later we slowly realise that the Innermost uses a system of irrigation canals through which flow the beautiful substance that will fertilise our growth and understanding of our own possessions.
We not only breathe with our lungs but every brain cell is furnished with what we analyse as lung passages that collect atoms to impress us with their intelligence.
In the left ventricle of the heart rests the principal atom: that minute model the physical body must eventually conform to in its progress. This is a spinning body living within its own atmosphere and is called the Master Builder; for it has charge over all the constructive principles of our physical body. Like a general in command it has armies of atomic builders and engineers that carry out its directions. These are the Aspiring atoms who seek the Innermost as we do. This Master Builder has its staff of overseers who often sacrifice their own attainments for those beneath them in development.
Our first practice is to attract the notice of this Master Builder or Nous atom by the use of these Aspiring atoms that attune us to their intelligence.
The physical organism is like a foreign country to these willing atoms whose task is to attune it to its greater spiritual possibilities.
The Master Builder rests in the purest blood of the heart in absolute authority over the atoms that obey it. This blood-stream can exert pressure on these workers and thus stimulate them to greater activity. Increased pressure demands greater endurance from them as the body must be repaired regardless of the labourer’s desires.
These myriad workers—whom we neither heed nor help—are often discouraged and seemingly helpless through our excesses in stimulants and labour. The student can encourage them every morning by this exercise: take a deep breath, stand upon the soles of the feet, pat the tip of the liver—the Robin Goodfellow of the Yogi—and send love and encouragement whilst doing so. The nerve centre at this spot is vitalised by our thought and love; for there lies the seat of the imagination, and a healthy imagination makes a healthy body.
These atoms respect an honest mind; for dishonesty in our dealings inflicts disorder in their atmosphere and they avoid us if possible. Thus only pure aspiration can contact us to their consciousness. They also bring the influences of the Innermost to our illusioned minds imprisoned in the mirages of this world.
We only become aware of our own atomic workers—who labour unceasingly upon the growths of our nervous system—when entering our interior planes. When we realise this we should give them love and encouragement.
If we wish to govern ourselves and analyse our conditions we must pass the barriers separating us from our own sovereignty and this illusion world; for we cannot expect the Innermost to promote the growths of our minds until we seek unity with It.
Each section of the body belongs to its individual atomic vibration, and we must analyse them in our practice as they collect within the nasal passage. We then call upon those atoms that instruct us and they will assist us by giving us the quality of balance.
As we inhale, a door seems to slowly open within us and we feel drawn into another sphere. In time this breathing will be controlled by the Innermost. When this occurs we shall then know for the first time the meaning of rhythmic breathing, and sense that other Being within us who takes charge and who gives us an alertness and perception never felt before. This is the borderland of our individual universe.
Within our nervous system lies a second set of nerves that respond to a greater wave-length. When we aspire we pass from the first into the second, and there collect atoms of a different nature. We also awaken currents of dynamic power that open to the secluded centres and prepare us for admission into our real world of being where atomic substances give us energy and intelligence.