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nected with the astral plane and are similarly used with astral forces. The middle fingers, the fire-symbol, the apex of the pyramid of the hand, are similarly used with mental forces. The fourth fingers the air-symbol, are similarly used with buddhic forces. The little fingers, the most powerful in the subtle worlds, are the akasha-symbol, and are similarly used with atmic forces. The other organs of the body are the other poles of the magnet of the body : thumbs and heart; index fingers and head; middle fingerष्ठ and the point of juncture of the occipital and parietal sutures; the fourth fingers and the sukshma sharira ; the little fingers and the creative organ. These are the positive and negative poles of the magnet we call the body; either may be positive, either negative, according to the object aimed at, but they work together.
From other stand-points, these dispositions may be regarded as having on the one hand, an inhibitory, or, on the other, a stimulative effect on the physical or subtler function of the organs concerned, according to the purpose in view in the subsequent meditation or practice.
To the western world these correspondences may seem fantastic and superstitious; to the eastern world, in which the faint tradition of the Great Science lingers, they Bound as echoes of a mightier age, when Gods and Men walked familiarly together in the Hidden ways
