kerning

http://www.academia.edu/33373168/Carl_Kellner_on_Yoga

https://archive.org/stream/manshighestpurpo032199mbp/manshighestpurpo032199mbp_djvu.txt

Kerning exercises:
Murmuring or silent repetition of short sentences or words
Breathing exercises
Concentration on different parts of the body, especially certain mystical centres
The imaginative spelling of the repeated letters and words within these parts of the
body.
The aim of this practice: The divine ,,inner word” should permeate and transform the
human body.
Through these practices the ,,divine inner word“ should permeate and transform the human
body. They triggered a revision of the role of embodiment within Habsburgian occultism.
Whereas in the Theosophical Society the aim of spiritual practice was the separation of the
astral body from the physical body, astral projection now became the ,,worst kind of
schizophrenia“ as Gustav Meyrink said. He took this insight from Mailénder. “If the only
thing I had learnt from this man was that the body must be included in the transformation of
the person through yoga, he would have earned my lifelong gratitude for that insight
alone."20 And Karel Weinfurter pointed out:
Master Kerning ceaselessly points to the fact that god is present within the whole
body. Ninety-nine per cent of the occultists and theosophists believe that human
mystical development starts within the soul. This view is one of the greatest mistakes
of modern occult literature. Exactly the opposite is true. Mystical blossoming first
happens within the body, taking place in the form of body sensations that nobody
knows who has not experienced them and who did not enter the mystical path."21
The Kerning exercises thus paved the way for conceiving yoga as a practice that uses
breathing exercises and postures to create certain proprioceptive sensations that transform
the whole human being and lead to a liberating experience of ultimate reality and
immortality.