134 OCCULT PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH & HEALING
gradually elevated. People grow more altruistic and
Christ-like in proportion to their use of the non-
inebriating stimulant, and therefore the temperance
movement is one of the most powerful factors to
hasten the coming of Christ.
It is evident that evolutionary progress is elevating
the lower kingdoms as well as humanity. The animals,
particularly the domesticated species, are nearing
individualization, and their withdrawal from
manifestation has already commenced. As a result it
will in time be impossible to obtain flesh food. Then
the death knell of “King Alcohol” will have struck, for
only flesh eaters crave liquor.
In the meantime plant life is growing more
sentient. The lateral limbs of trees produce more
abundantly than do vertical branches because in plants,
as in us, consciousness results from the antagonistic
activities of the desire and vital currents. Lateral limbs
are swept through their entire length by desire currents
which circle our planet and which act so powerfully in
the horizontal animal spines. The desire currents rouse
the sleeping plant life in the lateral limbs to a higher
degree of consciousness than is the case with the
vertical branches, which are traversed lengthwise by
vital currents radiating from the center of the Earth.
Thus, in time, the plants will also become too sensitive
as food and another source must be sought.
Today, we have considerable ability in working
with the chemical mineral substances; we mold them
into houses, ships, and all outer things which evidence
our civilization. We are masters of the mineralsoutside
our body, but powerless to assimilate and use them
inside our system to build our organs until the plant