This little book by the Theosophic author G.S. Arundale is a masterpiece on the subject. Despite its occasional delving into Theosophic doctrines, it is one of the few books on Kundalini, the Serpent Fire, from an experiential perspective. Kundalini is an important subject and this work may prove a valuable source to the I student and the general reader, who should carefully study the matter from every perspective before attempting to arouse this potent inner force.

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EXPLANATION : This book is emphatically not a guide to the awakening of kundalini. On the other land, there is an aura encircling all rightful experiments and experiences, which can he conveyed even through the medium of print. This aura not only clears the outlook of the earnest student of the, hut also helps to raise his consciousness to the more rarefied levels where the Eternal dwells less veiled by the shadows of time I. THE NATURE OF KUNDALINI : Glimpses of Kundalini in action are vouchsafed the student who is content to watch and not to grasp Let the descriptions be read lightly, not with the mind but with the intuition. Thus, however fantastic they may seem, yd the reader will perceive that they are fantastic not because they are untrue but because they are too true II. THE UNIVERSE-KLNDALINI AND CENTRES : Is then-a Kundalini chain linking the constituent elements of our own solar system, and another chain linking together the various solar systems? Surely so, and speculation is no less interesting as to the nature of the centres of a solar system and as to their vivification by Cosmic Kundalini To understand this tremendous vista it is necessary to learn how to arouse and direct Kundalini lo the various centres of the vehicles of a human being. III. THE DANGERS OF KUMDALIM : Can the brain stand the pressure? This and the sex danger are, perhaps, the principal questions with regard to the arousing of Kundalini. Extreme circumspection is vital, far the Serpent-fire does not discriminate. It consumes. It lends to flow along the lines of least resistance, and sometimes such lines may lead downwards and not upwards, with indescribably disastrous effect IV. KUINDALINI ACTIVE EVERYWHERE : Wherever then' is life, there is Kundalini more or less awake and awakening. Hut the conscious direction and handling of its power is another mailer altogether. One of the effects, of Kundalini is the intensification of the sense of Unity. A breaker-down of barriers between the various layers and stales of' consciousness. Kundalini is also the breaker of barriers between the individual himself and the larger Self' without. V. THE DEVELOPMENT OF KUNDALINI : In the beginnings of this process dizziness is noticeable, which is perhaps the physical expression of a new relativity, of a new adjustment, other worlds than the physical beginning to be open to a gaze winch the individual has not yet learned to control. Sensitiveness is enormously increased, making the individual a kind of sensitive plate upon which, for example, people in the outer world imprint themselves, so that in a flash he knows their natures, especially the high lights of quality and the low lights of defect. VI. SUN-KUNDALINI AND EARTH-KUNDALINI : The heart of the earth is one pole of Kundalini, the Sun is the other. Now the awakening of Kundalini is tantamount to making oneself the Rod between the two. In one sense one ever is a Rod, but the Rod is not yet alive, awake. It is asleep or dreaming, and the Fire itself slumbers. To awaken Kundalini is to fan the Fire into a consuming flame, burning, purifying, energizing, making conscious contact with the Universal Fire VII. THE HIGH PURPOSE OF KUNDALINI : Whether in fact clairvoyance, etc., arises or not, though in course of time it will, is of far less importance than the definite establishment of the higher consciousnesso Buddhic and later Nirvanicoin the waking consciousness, which is the high purpose of the arousing of Kundalini. This means an extraordinary vivification of Intuitionpure knowledge undistorted by the personal equation. One even feels inclined to tell some of one's friends, if they ask, quite frankly what they need VIII : CENTRES AND FUNCTIONS OF KUNDALINI : It seems as if Kundalini tan be sent forth from any centre though preferably from the solar : plexus centre or from the centre between the eyebrows. We thus begin to realise that the great centres of the body are the main distributors of force, It is not a mailer of eyes or hands or feel, but of centres IX. THE INDIVIDUALITY OF KUNDALINI : In some mysterious way Kundalini remains for even individual to its recipient, however much I may always be inseparable from tin Universal Fire whence it issues forth. In some mysterious way it partakes of the nature of the Permanent Atom, cannot disintegrate, and forms the eternal I-ire of the evolving individuality X. THE MUSIC OF KUNDALINI : Kundalini is music a well as colour it is a throbbing majesty a sound and a rainbow of colour, Kundalini sings with the voice of all that lives In the singing is heard the voice of the Unity Life, and in the colours is felt the War of Life. XI. ACCOUNT OF AN EXPERIENCE : The student finds himself on a stream of Kundalini, and moves on the stream towards time beginnings so far as this particular evolution is concerned. He moves back and hack and back, until he finds himself strangely immersed in the majestic profundities of the opening of a new era of life.