THE CHAKRAS

All these wheels are perpetually rotating, and into the hub or open mouth of each a force from the higher world is always flowing: a manifestation of the life-stream issuing from the Second Aspect of the Solar Logos, which we call the primary force. That force is sevenfold in its nature, and all its forms operate in each of these centres, although one of them in each case usually predominates over the others. Without this inrush of energy the physical body could not exist. Therefore the centres are in operation in everyone, although in the undeveloped person they are usually in comparatively sluggish motion, just forming the necessary vortex for the force, and no more. In a more evolved man they may be glowing and pulsating with living light, so that an enormously greater amount of energy passes through them, with the result that there are additional faculties and possibilities open to the man.

THE FORM OF THE VORTICES

This divine energy which pours into each centre from without sets up at right angles to itself (that is to say, in the surface of the etheric double) secondary forces in undulatory circular motion, just as a bar-magnet thrust into an induction coil

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• The Spleen chakra is not indicated in the Indian books; its place is taken by a centre called the Svâdhishthâna one's own abode, situated in the neighbourhood of the generative organs, to which the same six petals are assigned. From our point of view the arousing of such a centre would be regarded as a misfortune, as there are serious dangers connected with it. In the Egyptian scheme of development elaborate precautions were taken to prevent any such awakening (See The Hidden Life in Freemasonry, p. 123).

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A color diagram depicts the Root Chakra, also known as the Muladhara. It appears as a circular vortex divided into four quadrants. The colors consist of rotating washes of red, orange, and pale yellow. The image is contained within a double-line border on a gray square background.