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Comments on Reprint of Chart No. 11 from Book III
This is an exact presentation of a normal figure on a simple platform of a square, to keep the heels exactly in line and square with a vertical gravity line.
Such a background reveals much at a glance to a trained eye. It indicates the proportion of individual polarity parts to the whole structure and to gravity pull. The three horizontal lines tell much of the three bases of the entire structure:
1 - The line across the shoulders as the superior base or level of action for arms and neck, and its relation to the other lines of balance and support below.
2 - The sacral base line, or a line straight through the center of the sacral articulation shown here, supports the structure above and should be parallel with the two other horizontal lines.
This line is a vital structural line, tied up with the function of the motor impulses of the watery essence of the pelvis, as described in detail in book III and mentioned in the other books.[1]
3 - The third horizontal line is the one below the buttocks which are important muscular centers of tone and energy of vital force. The buttocks express the sensory action and tone of the individual's over-all vital reserve. (The positive pole of this same vital inherited reserve energy is expressed in the lower lobes of the ears.)
When one buttock is lower than the other, it can be due to a sacral tilt laterally, if the tone of the muscles is good. But if the buttocks are relaxed and merely hang, there is not enough vital force for normal reaction and such cases respond slowly to correction. However, if only one buttock is relaxed below the level of the other in better tone, then a better and quicker response is possible through corrective POLARITY BALANCING, which may improve the over-all picture of the body.
4 - The central vertical line is the upright of the spine, which must be in line. Externally, it is of structural importance. Centrally, it is of the greatest vital importance to all function through the finest essence in the body, which flows in the center of the spinal cord called "Shushumna" [Sushumna].
The essences of the psychological energies and the physiological ones have their meeting ground here. (See page 5 of book I). The vertical line represents the one river of life, flowing out of Paradise, which splits into four rivers of energy in the body, and waters and supplies it just as the rivers do the earth. This is the neuter [neutral] energy of the etheric essence which flows in the center of the body in its circuit from the head to the thumbs of the hands and the two great toes of the feet. Like the thumb as one member opposes four fingers and supports them in all action and skill, so does this one central current support all the other currents in the body. It is explained by Nature in our own hands, if we can but read it there.
5 - The two diagonal lines which go across the back, explain much in diagnosis and relationship, as shown in chart No.4 of this book. The crossing point is directly over the space between the second and third lumbar vertebrae, which is the exact center of weight and balance in the body when placed on a scale.
It is only when these lines balance that they cross in the center between the second and third
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1 Book 2, Chart 1, Book 2, Chart 55, Book 2, Chart 62, et al.
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