There is such a thing as earthly suffocation.
This is what the Wise call the atmospheric condition
produced by heavy spatial currents, which,
intensified by subterranean fires and by human insanity,
cause unbearable depression.
People may attribute these conditions to sunspots
or to the passing of comets,
but external events could hardly cause such unbearable tension.
Even the subterranean fires themselves
are not capable of penetrating the planet so completely
without the cooperation of man.
People feel this depression.
They become possessed by a nervous madness,
but cannot distinguish its cause.
Many attribute it to epidemics, or to new forms of disease,
but they overlook the main cause—their own behavior.
Thus the earthly suffocation builds up,
and sensitive hearts are deeply affected by it.
Even physical suffocation is felt, and the heart is depressed.
Extra care should be taken of the heart.
There is consolation in the fact that such tension cannot last for long.
It must dissolve into the currents of prana,
or else it will cause cataclysms.
But sometimes even a cataclysm is better than this deadly suffocation!
The Wise know of this suffocation.
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