Man’s Higher Consciousness

by Hilton Hotema

  It was said that after influenza epidemics, as that of 1918-19, a three-fold increase in cancer of the eyes was found. Dr. L. A. Lane rose up and said:

  “Not a few patients date the beginning of tumor from an attack of influenza, pneumonia, or a severe cold.”

  All these disorders, including the cancerous conditions that follow as a sequela, are the evil work of polluted air and the drug poisons which are used to treat the patients.

  SMOKE, SOOT, TAR, ACID, GAS

  Soot is a mixture of carbon, ash, tar, sulphuric acid and other poisonous gases. In the industrial cities the soot-fall amounts to hundreds of tons per square mile a year. This soot-deposit contains as much as several percent of tarry matter and 20 to 30 percent of carbon. Both substances are active in the aging process of hardening the body and stiffening the joints.

  The constant fall of soot covers everything. The interior walls of the lungs become coated with the tar and carbon, making breathing hard and preventing the passage of oxygen into the blood.

  H. B. Meller, of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, said:

  “When it is known that one takes about 30 cubic inches of air into one’s lungs in each inhalation, or about seven times the weight of food and water consumed, it can be understood why more people are weakened, devitalized and poisoned by the pollution in the air they suck into their lungs, than by all the ingredients in the food they eat and the water they drink.”

  Man longs for health and spends much money trying to gain it, yet with every breath he fills his lungs and blood with the Agents of Death. No one living in the cities can escape it.

  Scientific investigation shows that city air is a poisonous mixture of industrial fumes, such as carbon monoxide, sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, hydrocyanic acid, benzene, methane, sulphur, and other deadly chemicals too numerous to mention.

  Sulphuric acid gas is heavier than air, and hangs like a death-pall in and over the cities. This gas is so corrosive that in certain sections the fumes eat clothing hung on wash lines. It eats ulcers in the skin, it consumes the lungs of those who breathe it.

  Dr. Darlington says:

  “The products of combustion irritate the eyes, ears, nose, throat, the respiratory tract, the bronchial tubes, and the gastro-intestinal areas. In the lungs the carbon particles accumulate and become imbedded in the air cells, and in time the lungs change from natural pink to black.”

  As these poisons filter into the blood through the lungs, the body must take vigorous measures to eliminate them to save life. One of these is through the skin by means of a heavy rash called smallpox. If people knew this and would give smallpox patients fresh air, they would soon recover.

  Professor Godfrey Rodriguez, in his work on air termed “The Key To Life,” wrote:

  “The most forceful proof of the power of air was demonstrated in London in 1912, when 150 smallpox patients were taken into a field because the hospital was on fire. They had to spend three days and nights exposed to all sorts of weather, but they breathed good air and all recovered.

  “In Glasgow, Scotland, in 1914, when ventilation was introduced in a certain block of buildings, in eight years thereafter only four cases of typhus occurred, in contrast to 107 cases in the same block of buildings in a single previous year.”

  Of course some people are not pleased to have such information leak out to the public.

  TOBACCO SMOKE

  The U.S.A. in this generation has developed into a tobacco-saturated nation, thanks to the diligent work of the tobacco trust, which uses the doctors to promote the sale of its products.

  The doctors live in glass-houses and cannot afford to throw stones. They have studied the toxicology of poisons and know the evils of using tobacco for chewing or smoking. They cannot warn the public of the poisons contained in tobacco, because medical art considers the more virulent poisons as the best remedies.

  Nicotine is an alkaloid and a narcotic. It is deadly dangerous. Just two drops of it will kill a man; 8 drops will kill a horse, and 50 milligrams will kill a 20 pound dog. It takes 1,000 milligrams to make one gram and 30 grams to make one ounce.

  There are 150 to 400 milligrams of nicotine in three ounces of tobacco, and a smoker takes almost three milligrams of nicotine into his body every time he smokes one average cigarette. That is enough to kill a man instantly if fill taken at one dose; and it kills the smoker by inches because the repeated small doses of nicotine are cumulative.

  The poisons found in a chemical analysis of tobacco are as follows:

  “Nicotine, carbon monoxide, nictinuine, carbon dioxide, ammonia, methane, methylamine, hydrogen-sulphide, furfural, pyrrole, pyridine, picoline, lutidine, colloidine, formaldehyde, carbolic acid, prussic acid and arsenic.”

  Chemical analysis shows that a cigarette contains:

  “Furfural, acrolein, diethylene, glycol, nicotine, pyridine, ammonia, carbolic acid, carbon monoxide, and a host of tarry substances.”

  The press of September 4th, 1947, reported Dr. A. C. Ivey, Vice President of the University of Illinois, as saying:

  “A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day, in ten years inhales eight quarts of carcinogenic tar substances into his lungs that are sufficient to produce cancer.

  “As the inhaled tar substances enter the lungs, the first damage is done to the delicate air cells and their lining membrane. Non-smokers do not escape. They inhale tobacco smoke with every breath almost everywhere in the nation. Every public building, bus and train are filled today with tobacco smoke, including most of the hospitals, and with every breath one takes cancer-causing tar into the body.”

  Tobacco smoke is a cloud of tiny particles of exceedingly fine carbon—dust coating in the air. He who inhales that smoke-laden air will in time have a coating of carbon on the interior surface of his lungs, which prevents poisonous gases of the blood from being eliminated, and prevents the vitalizing gases of the air from passing into the blood.

  Dr. A. H. Roffo made a special study of the matter and found that the carcinogenic action of tobacco tar upon the human body is more active and death-causing than coal tar. He found that benzopyrene, one of the constituents of tobacco abundantly produced by tobacco smoke, is a very virulent carcinogen. In his report he said:

  “Due to the prevalence of smoking, although tobacco tar enters our bodies in tremendous volume, yet almost the entire population of the world is kept in ignorance by the tobacco manufacturers regarding the dangerous nature of the tar.”

  The students of a pharmacology class took the tobacco from two cigarettes and boiled it in a little water for a few minutes. They placed two drops of the brew on a cat’s tongue, and within two minutes it was in convulsions. Another drop was placed on the cat’s tongue and it quickly expired.

  Tobacco poison strikes first at the brain, causing mental confusion, giddiness, faulty memory, and general deterioration of the intellectual faculties.

  Tobacco poison constricts the arteries, causing blood pressure to rise and making the function of the heart more difficult. The constriction of the blood vessels reduces blood supply to the cells, and may cause cramps in certain muscles. The condition sometimes becomes so serious that finally gangrene of the extremities develops.

  A test showed that a habitual smoker raised his blood pressure 25 points in 20 minutes by smoking three cigarettes, and it required an hour for it to return to normal.

  CORONARY THROMBOSIS

  A serious condition may develop in the small arteries which supply the heart muscles, and coronary disorders strike man in his prime, causing cramps around the heart that may imperil life within a few minutes.

  Of a recent survey of 150 victims of coronary thrombosis, 94 percent were smokers. The remaining six percent had quit smoking only a short time before death.

  The press of August 7th, 1945, stated that U. S. Senator Hiram W. Johnson, long a leading light in California politics, died in a coma the day before, the cause of death being “thrombosis of a cerebr
al artery.”

  H. Wells, publisher of Health Culture, stated that he had tried to find a case of coronary thrombosis in which the victim was not subjected to the effects of tobacco smoke, and failed to find one. He wrote:

  “Two women I knew died recently of this trouble, and their husbands were both heavy smokers. The rooms they occupied were filled with tobacco smoke. The women might as well have been smokers so far as the effects of the smoke on them were concerned.

  “One man I knew was begged by his relatives to stop smoking, and by his wife in particular. He had an attack of coronary thrombosis and died.”—Health Culture.

  SCIENCE EDITOR DIES OF “HEART ATTACK

  The press on May 3rd, 1952, reported the death of Howard W. Blakeslee, age 72, “of heart attack.” He “was stricken at his home in Port Washington, New York, “with coronary thrombosis.”

  For a quarter of a century, according to the account, the decedent had been—”Associated Press Science Editor and a pioneer in making science clear to the layman.”

  How did he do it when scientists are so confused and puzzled about the Universe and its laws that their theories change overnight.

  The report stated that Blakeslee was “a co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1937” and of “numerous other honors for his reporting in the field of science.” Years of reporting and learning, continues the account, led him to this conclusion:

  “Science has given us more of everything, including more opportunity to develop morally and spiritually.”

  The real facts are that science has done nothing to develop man spiritually, from which it appears that Blakeslee did not understand what the term “spiritually” means.

  Science has done its utmost to obstruct spiritual development, and claims that materialism includes and encompasses everything, while spiritualism is only a heathenish superstition.

  G. K. Chesterton saw the matter correctly when he wrote:

  “Man is the creature that progress professes to improve....There has certainly been a rapid series of inventions; and, in one sense, the activity is marvelous and the rapidity might well look like magic. But it has been a rapidity in things going stale; a rush downhill to the flat and dreary world of the prosaic; a haste of marvelous things to lose their marvelous character; a deluge of wonders to destroy wonder.

  “This may be the improvement of machinery, but it cannot possibly be the improvement of man. And since it is not the improvement of man, it cannot possibly be progress.”

  CIGARETTE CONSUMPTION

  Since 1910 the consumption of cigarettes has increased nearly 500 percent, with a corresponding increase in ailments caused by tobacco poison. In May 1951 the tax collected by the State of Florida on cigarette sales amounted to $1,338,000.00.

  In the forty-eight States of the Union, on that basis, the tax on cigarette sales in one month would amount to $64,224,000.00. That is the rate the people of the U.S.A. spend money each month for just one method of poisoning their bodies, destroying their health and shortening their lives.

  Dr. John A. Killian, head of the department of biochemistry of the Post Graduate Medical School of New York, found that smoking definitely increases the content of carbon monoxide gas in the blood. His investigation showed that with every puff of a cigarette, a portion of carbon monoxide, a deadly poison, enters the blood through the lungs.

  Dr. C. Barber was reported in the press of September 23rd, 1927, as declaring before the American Association of Medico-Physical Research at Chicago, that 60 percent of the babies born of smoking mothers die before they are two years old. In part, he said:

  “What we breathe has much more to do with the action of the ductless glands, the functions of the organs, the nutrition of the body, and the development of the nerve system than what we eat and drink. When people breathe smoke-laden air, it leads to degeneration of the heart, liver, and other organs and glands” (N.Y. Times, September 23rd, 1927.)”

  The Aero Medical Association of the U.S.A. was told that carbon monoxide gas from burning cigarettes injures the sight of pilots in the Air Force. The doctors who made the investigation reported that inhaling the smoke of three cigarettes causes the loss of vision, which occurs at an altitude of about 8,000 feet.

  KING GEORGE VI

  The King of England was in bad health. The great doctors of London examined him and said he was suffering from structural changes of the lungs.”

  Without rhyme or reason the tissues of the lungs insisted on changing and causing the King misery. The great doctors rose to the occasion and decided to show the unruly lungs a trick. So on September 23rd, 1951, they cut out one lung, or most of it, and cast it into the garbage can. Unless the remaining lung takes a hint and becomes obedient, it will get the same dose—and the grave will get the King’s body.

  (PUBLISHERS NOTE—this was written by Klamonti shortly after this operation and time has shown his statement to be true.)

  Poisoned air is no respecter of persons, caring not whether you are priest or pagan, king or common herd. For years we have written about the dangers of poisoned air, which in this age fills every city, home and hospital.

  As the poisoned air comes in contact with the air organs, the natural result is damage to the lung structure in the form of degeneration. The degeneration in lung tissue the doctors term “structural changes.” That is exactly what it is.

  What they fail to realize is that “structural changes do not occur without cause, and that cause is not removed by cutting out the lungs.

  Had the doctors known about poisoned air and the damage it does to the body, they would have advised the King to go and live in the country, far away from the tobacco smoke, factory soot, motor car fumes, carbon monoxide gas and poisonous acids found in all city air. Then the forces of the body had repaired the lungs and in due time the King would have felt like a new man.

  CHANGE YOUR WORLD

  In Lesson No. 12, under DANGER OF ABRUPT CHANGES, you are warned of the danger involved in attempting to change too suddenly from one mode of living to another. Sudden shocks must generally be avoided. The body must have time to adjust itself to new conditions. But this does not apply to a change from bad to good air. Such change can be made any time, and life is often saved by making the change quickly.

  With these facts in mind, you will understand that if a 100 percent Breatharian suddenly walked into the poisoned air of our civilization, a few breaths of it would cause him to fall unconscious, because his body would not be adjusted by years of endurance to tolerate the poison.

  Then he would be hustled to a hospital, with its stale, polluted air, where he would be scientifically polished off in the “oxygen tent” and prepared for the cemetery.

  We must recognize cosmic law in our desire for improvement or be disappointed with the body’s reaction. It would be dangerous for one to strive for the perfect state of Breatharianism while living the conventional course in the poisoned air of our civilization.

  You cannot safely change to perfection from imperfection without first changing the environment in which you live and labor. You cannot keep what you have and have what you want. The Law of Compensation exacts a price for every privilege.

  The environment which has made you the degenerate that you are, is the artificial, poisoned environment of civilization, in which conditions are such, says Carrel, “as to render life itself impossible.”

  If you are not satisfied with your present state of physical, moral and mental degeneracy and desire to improve, you should remember that you cannot safely change yourself without changing the world in which you live.

  LESSON NO. 27—THE COMMON COLD

  “Science Given Fund to Find A Cold Cure,—Baltimore, January 10th (A.P.)—A gift of $195,000.00 to John Hopkins University for the study of the origin and possible cure of common colds’ was announced today. The gift, to be known as ‘the John J. Abel Fund,’ was made by the chemical foundation.”—Daily press of January 11th, 1928.

  Nearly a quarter o
f a century ago that announcement appeared in the daily press. Today knowledge as to “the origin and possible cure of common colds” is right where it was then.

  To show how little is known of the common cold, a certain doctor, writing on the subject, in Nature’s Path in 1945, said:

  “According to the best treatise of orthodox therapy, medical science does not yet know what a cold is nor how it originates. It has been designated as one of Nature’s great mysteries.

  “The common cold is a provision of Nature devised to conserve our energy and vitality. In reality, it is one of Nature’s most widely bestowed blessings....The common cold aids the body.”

  This doctor, with many others, believes that the mucus expelled during a cold represents waste that has accumulated in the body. So he regards a cold as a purging process.

  This doctor would smile if told that the common cold is the first definite signal of the body’s intelligence to warn the victim that polluted air is flowing through his nose into his lungs. He never heard that before.

  When this doctor was a little child, the common cold was the first warning signal that he had started down the well-traveled road of degeneration that leads to an early grave.

  DEGENERATIVE PROCESS

  The-degenerative process begins in the seed, but we will follow it from time of birth.

  To you a baby is born, and you are happy. You begin to plan its future and want to see it grow into a fine man or woman.

  You have not been taught that your home and your environment are saturated with polluted air, and that a flag containing Cross Bones and Skull should be flown in the center of every city to warn its inhabitants that they live and labor in a sea of poison.