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 and clap thrice over the head, and by snapping the fingers at ten different directions secure immunity from them.

Next utter the mantra Ram, sprinkle water all around, and suppose this water as a. wall of fire. Place the hands on the lap with palms upwards. Let the priest in imagination identify himself with the animal spirit (jivat-ma) abiding in man's breast in the form of the tapering flame of a lamp, unite it with (Kulakundalini) the material Goddess, seated in (muladhara) the stamina of the body (the Coccyx?) and conduct it by means of the Susamna nerve through the six spheres within the body named, Manipura, Svadhisthana, Muladhara, Anahata, Visuddha, and Ajnana, upwards to the Divine Spirit, residing in the pericarp of a thousand-petalled lotus, bent downwards from the cranium, and join them together. Then meditate the 24 essences in nature as concentrated in the amalgam, viz., the five cardinal elements, earth, water, fire, air, and space, the five external organs of sense the nose, the tongue, the eyes, the skin and the ears, with their objects, i, e, scent,taste, form, touch, and sound, the five organs of action viz. the mouth, the feet and hands, the pudendum, and the organ, and all forms, whether material, mental, or intellectual, with