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No. 7 shows the opposite, and portrays emotional repression, such as starvation of the love nature, for example, with a corresponding lowering of the physical vitality. No. 8 is included in order to complete the catalogue of possible super-physical causes of ill-health, and it will be seen that, although the flow from the ego is good down to the emotional level, it is inhibited at the etheric, and points to a deliberate interference with or abuse of the vital functions, such as overasceticism, or, in the case of No. 5, by over-athleticism, or similar forms of physical excess. This diagram shows clearly the importance of the golden mean in all things, and more particularly in health, and the necessity for a full and perfect expression of all the human faculties through the mental, emotional, etheric and physical bodies. If this is achieved, man will attain to as perfect physical health as his karma will permit; he will pass through the successive stages of his evolution with a minimum of suffering and delay, and so be free to turn his attention towards the unfolding of his higher and more spiritual powers of consciousness.