Chapter 3- Philosophy: 2

Commentary:

The food we consume can readily inspire within us an expression of temperament characteristic of its own taste sensation.

Although each individual displays predominant characteristics of just one of the four of these temperaments, we do experience the conditions of all four, pronounced not by our outer personality necessarily, but regarded within.

The very temperamental nature of the substance of the food does speak to us and encourages within us the elemental persuasions thereof:

• SANGUINE: enlivened heavenly forces
• CHOLERIC: enlivened will forces
• PHLEGMATIC: subdued, containing forces
• MELANCHOLIC: contemplative soul searching

Ordinarily we mix our influences - sometimes all four may be represented at any given meal - but for the purpose of this exercise we are coming to know the experience with a heightened definition which will markedly work upon us.

This is a safe way for an individual to manifest and experience differing perspectives, all true to himself, yet from four very different approaches. If he alternates a sweet meal with a savoury, a sharp with that of a watery, (and so it goes) he becomes willingly conversant in diversity, he begins to define well and make further comparisons.

Philosophy begins in reason, reason begins in actuality - actuality (in this instance) is brought to us via our sensing of it.

The nutritive substances we assimilate nourish us, stimulate us, and become in us.

After one week of these observances the student will come to a mixed meal with a greater awareness than before of that which it comprises. Taste itself will be furthered.

Seven days - no more than once in two months - and if repeated, place the week into a differing phase of moon cycle from the previous, as each of the temperaments are affected uniquely in these varying days as well as their placing in relation to the seasons.