7. Modern and Ancient Spiritual Exercises

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The basic laws of speech which are to be seen, for instance, in the pentameter[^1] and hexameter[^2] as used in ancient Greece, point back to what had once long before been an experience of the breathing process. An experience which transported man from the world in which he was living between birth and death into a world of spirit and soul.

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