84 OCCULT PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH & HEALING
everyone who fell, and if so, why. Under old time
conditions this would have been difficult, but the
advent of the flying machine claims many victims. It
was therefore easy to ascertain the fact that when a
falling body has attained a certain velocity, the higher
ethers leave the dense body and the falling man
becomes insensible. As the body reaches the ground, it
is mangled, but the poor man may regain
consciousness when the ether has reorganized itself.
He will then begin to suffer from the physical
consequences of the fall. If the fall continues after the
higher ethers have left, the increased velocity
dislodges the lower ethers and the silver cord is all that
remains attached to the body. This is ruptured at the
moment of impact with the ground and the seed atom
passes on to the breaking point, where it is held in the
usual way.
From these facts we came to the conclusion that it
is the normal air pressure which holds the vital body
within the dense. When we move with an abnormal
velocity, the pressure is removed from some parts of
the body and a partial vacuum formed, with the further
result that the ethers leave the body and flow into this
vacuum. The two higher ethers, which are most loosely
bound, are the first to disappear and leave the man
senseless after they have produced the panorama of life
in a flash. Then if the fall continues to increase the air
pressure in front of the body and the vacuum behind,
the more closely bound lower ethers are also forced
out and the body is dead before it reaches the ground.
When a large projectile passes through the air, it
creates a vacuum behind it by the enormous velocity
wherewith it moves, and if the person is within this