The Kalpaka India’s only Psychic and Spiritual Review May 1924

Systems of philosophy can.broadly be divided into two groups:— those that explain the phenomenal or the actual in the light of the noumenon or the transcendental and those that explain the noumenon in the light of the phen195"196 THE KALPARA nienal. [...] The inability or failure on the part of one system' to offer satisfactory explanations of some phenomena of life whether physical mental or spiritual is often the butt of ridicule and the target of scathing attacks for other systems; and notwithstanding the fact that this is mutual and of frequent occurrence the-mays of the universe is in the supposed invulnerability of each syste in the eyes o [...] What a battery is to electricity and the -practical aplication of electricity to human service that the brain is to the mind and the mind is to the spirit. [...] The brain provides 'a means of deductively (from the potential subjective sphere of the ego) and inductively (from the active objective plane of the ego) perceiving and receving thoughts which fit into the warp and woof of the soul's needs. [...] There is a very pleasing scent coming out of the mouth and the breath and the excretions bacome limited in quantity 3210 THE KALPAKA The life of Yoga is a life of perfect self-restraint and regularity.