Theos-Talk Archives (December 1997 Message tt00046)

Is not breathing exercises like someone doing body building or weight lifting?
I have not done either breathing, body buildingor weight lifting. So I
don't understand anything important about breathing exercises.

mkr

At 10:47 AM 12/13/97 +1100, b888 wrote:
>Born in South Africa. In early youth he travelled to Nepal, and after his
>return was admitted to the Scottish bar, and later the English bar. His
>father was the Chief -justice of Ceylon.
>His first work A journey into Katmandu (1852). He also travelled in Russia.
>He next became private secretary to the Governor -general of Canada, whom
>he later accompanied on his special embassy to China.
>In 1861, while acting as Charge d Affaires in Japan, he was severely
>wounded by assassins, and consequently resigned his post. From 1865 to 1867
>he sat in the English parliament.
>Sometime in the 1860s this son of rich and titled parents bumped into
>T.L.Harris. Oliphant nicely dressed looking every part the dandy was
>confronted by Harris, who boasted "I could make a man of you!"
>In 1867 he sacrificed his position, his prospects, politics, and every
>personal possession to join the Harris community.
>This Harris organisation was called "The Use", because you were required to
>do anything it might have a use for.
>He was put to work Gurdjieff style, doing Augean tasks, digging ditches,
>dawn till dusk. He was made to peddle food on trains that stopped at the
>local station.
>Now Harris was in possession of some secret breathing exercises, which he
>had promised to teach Laurence. Understandably, LO got quite sick of all
>this humiliating hard work and pleaded with Harris to teach him. Harris
>refused, and told him more hard work was required.
>After a couple of years Harris relented and taught Oliphant the mysteries
>of the breath, which had a profound effect on him. Oliphant asked why it
>was that he had not been taught earlier, before all the manual labour.
>Harris replied " They would have been of no use to you."
>Now a prophet in his own right he finally settled at Haifa in Palestine.
>Oliphant was personally acquainted with H.P.B. and Olcott.
>He wrote two remarkable books Sympneumata and Scientific Religion, which
>describe his revelations.
>He was married to the granddaughter of Robert Owen (the social reformer and
>spiritualist).
>C.G. Harisson cites him as source, particularly in relation to H.P.B.'s
>occult imprisonment.
>T.L.Harris may have been a member of the H. B. of L. and consequently also
>knew something about what was afoot.
>Bruce