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{FN39-3} Matthew 4:4.  Man’s body battery is not sustained by gross food (bread) alone, but by the vibratory cosmic energy (word, or Aum).  The invisible power flows into the human body through the gate of the medulla oblongata.  This sixth bodily center is located at the back of the neck at the top of the five spinal CHAKRAS (Sanskrit for “wheels” or centers of radiating force).  The medulla is the principal entrance for the body’s supply of universal life force (Aum), and is directly connected with man’s power of will, concentrated in the seventh or Christ Consciousness center (KUTASTHA) in the third eye between the eyebrows.  Cosmic energy is then stored up in the brain as a reservoir of infinite potentialities, poetically mentioned in the Vedas as the “thousand-petaled lotus of light.”  The Bible invariably refers to Aum as the “Holy Ghost” or invisible life force which divinely upholds all creation.  “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?"-I Corinthians 6:19.

{FN39-4} During the hours preceding my arrival, Therese had already passed through many visions of the closing days in Christ’s life.  Her entrancement usually starts with scenes of the events which followed the Last Supper.  Her visions end with Jesus’ death on the cross or, occasionally, with his entombment.

{FN39-5} Therese has survived the Nazi persecution, and is still present in Konnersreuth, according to 1945 American news dispatches from Germany.

{FN39-6} A passage in Eusebius relates an interesting encounter between Socrates and a Hindu sage.  The passage runs:  “Aristoxenus, the musician, tells the following story about the Indians.  One of these men met Socrates at Athens, and asked him what was the scope of his philosophy.  ‘An inquiry into human phenomena,’ replied Socrates.  At this the Indian burst out laughing.  ’How can a man inquire into human phenomena,’ he said, ’when he is ignorant of divine ones?’” The Aristoxenus mentioned was a pupil of Aristotle, and a noted writer on harmonics.  His date is 330 B.C.

CHAPTER:  40

I RETURN TO INDIA

Gratefully I was inhaling the blessed air of India.  Our boat rajputana docked on August 22, 1935 in the huge harbor of Bombay.  Even this, my first day off the ship, was a foretaste of the year ahead-twelve months of ceaseless activity.  Friends had gathered at the dock with garlands and greetings; soon, at our suite in the Taj Mahal Hotel, there was a stream of reporters and photographers.

Bombay was a city new to me; I found it energetically modern, with many innovations from the West.  Palms line the spacious boulevards; magnificent state structures vie for interest with ancient temples.  Very little time was given to sight-seeing, however; I was impatient, eager to see my beloved guru and other dear ones.  Consigning the Ford to a baggage car, our party was soon speeding eastward by train toward Calcutta. {FN40-1}