Found -by some grace- what looks like a wonderful reading experience for anyone with an interest in water fasting, and/or true restoration of the body.

Some say -and I tend to agree- that the "old books" are the only ones worth reading.

This might be very helpful to some who find the 'fact' of a lengthy (or even a short)water fast too difficult to surmount. Might also be a help to those who are very focussed on the (losing)weight aspect of water fasting.


THE

EMANATION
BODY



JULIA SETON, M. D.



Published by

JULIA SETON, M. D.

Los Angeles, Cal.

1918

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CHAPTER V

Rules for Fasting

The rules for fasting are very simple. Just stop
eating. Eat one meal every other day for a period
of ten days; then eat two meals a day, night and
morning. There is no one in the world who needs
three meals a day. This fast for ten days (one meal
every other day) should be taken once a month for
three months. At the end of three months eat just
as your appetite dictates for three months ; then take
up the emanation fast again for three months.

This method will prevent the abnormal overload-
ing of the body, and keep the emanation law upper-
most. During the fast, the one meal taken every
other day should be taken at noon. At this meal a
mixed diet should be selected. Eat a little of every-
thing and drink all the water you want, and with
the meal, if desired. Eat slowly and fletcherize
the food. Any discomfort after eating indicates that
the food has been eaten too hastily.

During the whole fasting period plenty of fresh
water must be taken, and at all times during the fast
breathe, exercise, walk, dance, swim, climb moun-
tains, ride horseback do something. The only direct
road to death is Inaction. Keep the body moving.
The flesh that is moved must eliminate. There is

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only one cause for disease Congestion only one
cure Circulation and without breath and action,
circulation is impossible.

It is never a question of what to eat at the f aster's
one meal a day; eat of whatever is desired; it is
only important that it shall not be a single diet. Pass
in selection the whole orbit of diet. Nature says:
"All that My Father hath is Mine, give to me."

A diet containing a liberal mixture of all the ordi-
nary foodstuffs is the normal one; pandering, of
course, now and then, to individual likes and pref-
erences.

When the appetite has become abnormal it should
be forced to obey the will. Usually what one thinks
will kill him, will cure him. The normal stomach
will accept any sort of food. If the stomach objects
to anything, fast until hunger makes even the most
obnoxious thing look good ; then it need not be eaten.
Choose some good, self-satisfying food, but the work
of reconstruction is done when one has come to where
he can eat of anything.

Dyspepsia is an obsession brought into the intel-
ligence of the flesh by a disordered mind. Fasting
along the lines laid down is a permanent cure.

Why do we eat one meal every other day? Because
by this method we keep up the normal action of the
gastro-intestinal tract, while we give a chance for
the destruction of all the effete matter in the blood

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current without disturbing the blood corpuscles in
their normal action.

A long fast depletes the cells themselves, but this
meal every other day sustains them in a stimulation
which keeps them up to normal throughout the whole
ten days of elimination, never affecting the nuclei
of the cell.

At the end of ten days one can begin to eat as
he pleases without gastro-intestinal distress, and at
no time does he have a long building-up process. The
life cells are emanating and building a new body all
the while the old tissues are being torn away, and
at the end of a year, with interrupted fasts, he can
find himself living, moving in a body of flesh made
entirely of emanation substance, with a perfectly
normal ensheathment of food cells.

Through this body he comes into possession of the
transcendental powers of the flesh, and stands out
as a symbol of human intelligence, with will enough
to set for himself a super-human law, and through
this higher understanding he brings to the world
the revelations of his new kingdom of consciousness.
He has conquered weariness; he has conquered dis-
ease, conquered age, and is lord of every action of
his body.


nice way to read it:
http://www.archive.org/stream/emanationbody00setorich#page/n3/mode/2up




\I strongly recommend reading the whole book, in order to properly contextualize the "emanation fast"