For mind and body alike there is no purgative like pranayama, no purgative like pranayama. [he repeats this several times to emphasise the point, like] yea, for mind and body alike there is no purgative, no purgative [etc] like pranayama...
Emphatically. Emphatically. Emphatically. It is impossible to combine pranayama properly performed with emotional thought. [note: he means the primitive 2nd-circuit mammal emotional-territorial thinking, as in the 8-circuit model of consciousness and the terminology of RAW and Dr Leary.] It should be resorted to immediately, at all times during life, when calm is threatened.
6.3.05
What it was that Crowley wrote about pranayama
