Supreme Intelligence equipped the body, in its physical beginning, with all the structures that it would ever need under all reasonable circumstances.
It was made perfect and complete. But it seems that man has strayed even farther from the true path of life than was ever anticipated by an omniscient Creator.
Modern man has the rudimentary breast of the female. In some cases they are functional, and such men can nurse babies, as shown by Clements in his Science of Regeneration.
He also shows that the male glands of generation appear in rudimentary form in woman, and vice versa. These rudimentary structures represent changes that have occurred in the body through the ages because of changed conditions.
As a Breatharian, man had all the organs, both functional and functionless, developed and undeveloped, that he would ever need as he drifted down the stream of degeneration.
He fell from the plane of perfection by becoming a drinker of fluid and a consumer of food, thus creating unnatural wants and desires that have dragged him down to misery and despair. He had become extinct but for the prevision of an omniscient Creator, who provided him with rudimentary structures for just such emergencies.
As the rudimentary organs were needed and commanded into use by new conditions, new environment, and new habits, they responded to the command and developed to a functional degree. Thus the body changed instead of dying.
Huxley and Darwin declared that the rudimentary organs in men and women are the remains of structures that have been better developed in an earlier state of human existence. They are the anatomical remains of what has been, and are used by modern biologists in tracing lines of descent with modification, and in determining probable ancestry.
Huxley said,
“Either rudimentary or vestigial organs are of no use, in which case they should have disappeared; or they are of use, in which case they are arguments for ‘telegony,’ which means that they are of past and future service or purpose” (Anatomy of Invertebrates, P. 68).
Darwin made a deep study of this matter and he wrote:
“Any complex organ in a rudimentary state is direct evidence of its once having been functional, and in order to discover the many transitional grades through which it has passed, we must look to very ancient forms which have long since become extinct.
“Rudimentary organs of now trifling importance, have probably been of high importance to an early progenitor, and after being perfected in a former period, have been transmitted in a more or less changed condition by modified descendants, until of slight or no use.
“In all species, or varieties, correlated variations play an important role, so that when any part has been modified or changed, other parts have necessarily been similarly affected or modified—and so viewing it, Nature may be said to have taken pains to reveal her scheme of modification by means of rudimentary organs, embryological and homologous structures, but we are too blind to understand the true meaning of them” (Variation of Species, pp. 14, 147, 178).
In Lesson No. 7 appears the story of a woman who is working back to Breatharianism. She said,
“I have passed the eating stage and could not eat even if I desired, as my digestive apparatus has changed considerably, and is now unable to handle any fibre at all.”
Because it has no work to do, this woman’s alimentary tract is shrinking back to its original rudimentary state as it was before man began to eat.
In the beginning the alimentary tract was rudimentary, as are the mammary glands now on man’s breast, and it reverts to its original condition when man, by not eating, gives it a chance to change back.
These are some of the changes in the body to which Carrel referred but failed to describe. For the body, it is either change or perish. It is either adaptation or expiration. So the body meets the emergencies by making the necessary changes. But Carrel was too materialistic to use his Mind and find within the kingdom of God (Luke 17:21) the facts he needed to aid him in discovering and describing how and in what ways the body had changed.
The body, being subject to changes, can change in practically all directions to meet many emergencies and survive, even the changes that decrease its efficiency and diminish its duration.
The body can change to meet adverse conditions, and it can also change to meet favorable conditions. These changes are possible because of organic and functional changes within the body. As the organs change, their functions must change to a corresponding degree.
To describe these changes definitely and in detail would require observations covering thousands of years.
Some surprising changes can occur in one generation. As where a man turns into a woman and vice versa.
If a man can change to a woman so completely as to become the mother of a baby, or a woman can change to a man and become the father of a child, as Clements shows in his Science of Regeneration, then it should not seem so surprising or impossible that a breatharian can change to a gluttarian and vice versa.
As a man becomes a woman, as sexual changes occur because of organic and functional changes taking place within the body, so a breatharian becomes a gluttarian for the same reason.
The sex glands of a body of 9 or 10 years of age are in a rudimentary stage as a rule and not competent to function in a productive degree. But as they are commanded into use by the boy’s habits, they respond and he becomes competent to produce offspring.
The press of July 15th 1951, reported the case of a ten-year-old girl in Picayune, Mississippi, who gave birth to a seven pound son. The doctor said the baby was “perfectly normal.”
When similar reports come out of India, we in the U.S.A. think it is terrible. When it occurs in our own country, it is winked at and forgotten. Prejudice is a powerful influence.
LESSON NO. 6—MAN’S NATURAL HOME
It stuns a man to tell him eating is not natural. Most men never heard of people who live without eating.
We show in our work, “The NUTRITIONAL MYTH,” that eating is an acquired habit, like smoking. The sensation of hunger rises from certain stimulation of the alimentary tract. “Appetite comes with eating.”
An advanced scholar writes that there was not an Ascent of Man but a Descent of Man, and this theory is supported by ancient records and legends.
Man did not spring from the slime of the sea nor from a worm in the ground, as science claims. He came from another planet or star, travelling to this planet in a space ship, now called “flying saucers,” several of which have been seen since 1947, and some have landed on earth and dead men have been found in them.
This man did not eat, but subsisted on cosmic elements. He was a Breatharian, and assimilated sunshine and cosmic rays from the atmosphere of the earth to which he had come, and acclimatized himself to its atmosphere and his new environment.
In that distant age man dwelt in high places where air is purest and highly charged with ozone and cosmic rays. This cosmic substance he inhaled, and it was termed the Breath of Life. By it his body was animated and sustained. In the high altitude the weather was perpetually cool, but his powerful vitality kept him comfortable.
In that day, according to legend, man had a life-span of nearly a hundred thousand years. He did not know somatic death according to Bagget Irand, who said:
“During that time it was common to find men and women who were thousands of years old. In fact, they did not know (somatic) death. They passed from one accomplishment to a higher attainment of life and its reality. They accepted Life’s true source, and it released to them its boundless treasures in a never-ending stream of abundance.”—Life & Teachings of the Masters of the Far East, Volume II.
Long ages pass and the time came when man decided to use pure rain water. So he added liquid to his sustaining substance. This man was blonde in complexion, had sparkling blue eyes that resembled the color of the sky and hair of golden yellow that resembled the sunshine.
The ancient Greeks had a tradition of the Hyperboreans who dwelt in the mountains i
n a land of perpetual sunshine and ate only fruit, but originally, like the gods from whom they descended, subsisted on air and sunshine. They were never ill and the duration of their life was a thousand years. The word Hyperborean means beyond or in the mountains.
Man’s traditional “Fall” occurred when he migrated to lower levels, where he found fruit growing and ate thereof—an event symbolized by eating the apple.
Only after man descended to the low regions of the tropics, where he found fruit growing in abundance, did he become a consumer of food and darker in color.
ALTITUDE IS BENEFICIAL
Science shows that climate and altitude govern man. Each race harmonizes with its environment. In the high, cool regions, in the warmer middle regions, in the low hot regions, the type of people differ, but in each region they are basically similar.
According to climate, altitude and the condition of the air, so is man. By these he is ruled, his constitution formed, and his habits shaped.
Regardless of where or how man lives, his body is basically composed of and sustained by cosmic rays, either directly or indirectly, in the form of minerals condensed from the rays after they strike the earth’s atmosphere. It is for this reason that in high altitudes, where cosmic rays are stronger, the air contains more minerals to sustain the body, making it easier to subsist on cosmic rays at high altitudes than in low regions.
In low, warm regions people are languid, listless, of low vitality and poor health generally, regardless of how they live or the kind or amount of food they eat.
The air of such regions lacks freshness and vigor; it contains too much carbon dioxide and too little oxygen and ozone. Also, the humid decomposing humus in the soil emits odors of acid decay that further weaken the body and shorten its duration.
The worst air, speaking generally, is the stagnant, stifling, warm air in low regions of the temperate and tropic zones. In the latter region occurs the lowest human degeneration, and in some of these regions the average life-span is surprisingly short.
Languor, listlessness, weakness, and poor health come when the body cells are saturated with acids that disturb their mineral balance. They lack the capacity to receive and register cosmic radiations properly. When the mineral deficiency advances far enough, the organic radio fails to function on the life level, and that state is termed physical death.
LESSON NO. 7—SHE EATS NOTHING
In regard to eating Judith C. Churchill wrote:
“When you overeat one day, you are hungrier the next. Huge meals stretch your stomach and throw your appetite out of proportion. Conversely, the less you eat the less you want...After you become used to smaller food intake, you may wonder how you have previously eaten so much.”—Readers Digest.
What man has done man can always do. There is an ancient tradition to the effect that the first men did not eat, and a London lady is trying to prove it on herself.
The London Sunday Chronicle of June 17th 1951, carried a picture of Mrs. Barbara Moore Pataleewa, of London, with her story that her “diet” consists of air, sunshine and an occasional glass of water. The account states:
“A woman of 50 who looks like she was only 30 claimed yesterday that she hates food, has beaten old age and expects to live at least 150 years. She has set out to do it by giving up eating.
“Twenty years ago she ate three normal meals a day. Slowly for 12 years she reduced her eating until she was keeping fit on one meal a day of grass, chickweed, clover, dandelion, and an occasional glass of fruit juice.
“Five years ago she switched entirely to juices and raw tomatoes, oranges, grasses and herbs. Now she drinks nothing but a glass of water flavored with a few drops of lemon juice to kill the taste of chlorine.”
(NOTE—Killing the taste of the chlorine in the water does not remove that poisonous substance from the water, and in time the cumulative effects of the poison will appear in some ailment if she continues drinking that kind of water.—Klamonti.)
“She says, ‘There is much more in sunlight and air than can be seen by the naked eye or by scientific instruments. The secret is to find the way to absorb that extra—that cosmic radiation—and turn it into food; that is what I have done.’
Every year she goes to Switzerland for the purer air and climbs the mountains on a diet of water from the streams. ‘You see,’ she explains, ‘my body cells and blood have undergone a complete change in composition. I am impervious to heat, cold, hunger or fatigue.’ She continues:
“Winter or summer, even in Switzerland, I wear nothing but a short sleeved jumper and skirt. In cold weather people stare at me. But while they shiver in furs, I am warm. I am as strong as any man, and need only four or five hours’ sleep for mental relaxation. Because I have no toxins in my system, I am never ill.
“‘I had to advance gradually from vegetarianism to uncooked fruit and then to liquid food. Now I am struggling towards Cosmic Food. I have passed the eating stage and could not eat even if I desired, as my digestive apparatus has changed considerably and is now unable to handle any fibre at all.’
“‘Instead of thinking that my normal physical life will end in ten years, I am growing younger. With patience anyone can do the same. The tragedy is that eating is considered one of the pleasures of life. To stop eating is to experience discomfort while the body is adjusting itself to the new course. I now find the very smell of food disgusting’.”
Vegetarians find the smell of flesh (meat) disgusting. If they have been vegetarians long enough, to eat flesh would make them sick. We know by this and other experience that when the Breatharian first attempted to eat, it made him ill, as the first cigarette makes the youth ill. Eating still makes man ill while fasting restores health.
The statement that this woman is comfortable while thinly clad in cold weather while others shiver in furs, proves the correctness of the ancient tradition that ancient man dwelt in high regions where the weather was perpetually cool, but was kept comfortable by his powerful vitality.
She says that her body cells and blood have undergone a complete change in composition, making her impervious to heat, cold, hunger or fatigue. She further says that her digestive tract has changed considerably and is now unable to handle any fibre at all.
SURVIVAL IS NATURE’S GOAL
The great Carrel devotes an entire chapter to the subject of Adaptive Functions in his work Man The Unknown, stating that the body seems to mold itself on events, and “instead of wearing out, it changes” (P. 192). He continues:
“Our organs always improvise means of meeting every new situation; and these means are such that they tend to give us a maximum duration. The physiological processes always incline in the direction leading to the longest survival of the individual.”
We have an example of some of these changes occurring in the body of this woman. Her alimentary tract is shrinking to its original rudimentary state as it was before man began to eat.
In the beginning the alimentary tract was rudimentary, as are the mammary glands now on man’s breast, and it reverts to its original size when man gives it a chance by not eating.
This woman is proving in her experiment that it is regular, under proper care, for the body to regenerate and return to its original perfect state. As degeneration is a fact, regeneration is a possibility.
BREATHARIANISM TO GLUTTARIANISM
As a Breatharian, man’s alimentary tract was rudimentary and his lung capacity was much larger than now. The lungs decreased in size as eating forced the development of the alimentary tract and reduced the capacity of the air organs, because eating reduced the body’s need for “cosmic food.”
From its original state of Breatharianism, the body has gradually changed thru the ages and declined to its present state of Gluttarianism. The Body has changed from a Superior Entity that was made to subsist of Cosmic Substance to an Inferior Entity that subsists largely on the gross products of materialistic substances.
The body never wears out, as is claimed. It changes say
s Carrel. The change to which Carrel refers is the natural way that the body sinks into degeneration from misuse and abuse, which includes bad environment and all of man’s bad habits.
As the body sinks in degeneration, its vitality is rendered too weak to fight to the death against dangerous and destructive conditions. Instead of going down in sudden death, the existence of the suffering body is prolonged.
It is a “change” under the Law of Vital Adjustment by which man escapes from early death for days of misery that are pitiful for the sufferer.
As the body changes to adapt itself to the downward course, it must also change to adapt itself to the upward course, as shown in the case of this woman.
As the body sinks in degeneration under abuse, so will it rise in regeneration under proper care.
BURIED SIX MONTHS AND LIVES
The body is so plastic that it readily yields to man’s desires and practices, whether good or bad. This is shown by the Yogis of the East who are reputed to have achieved almost unbelievable powers, by concentrated exercises and by systematic control of breathing.
Man’s body is composed of soft, alterable substances, susceptible of surprising changes in function, making it last longer than if made of steel. Not only does the body last, but it ceaselessly overcomes the difficulties and dangers of its environment and of man’s bad habits.
The press of July 26th 1942, carried the account of a Yogi of India, a novice, who had established a record by living in a state of suspended animation for six months in a grave, without food or drink.
When he emerged from the grave, at Benares, his clothes were said to have been worn away and his body covered with white ants. By rigid body discipline he was said to have forced his beard to stop growing, and his whiskers were no longer than when he was interred.
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