Q. The nose?

A. That which transcends the nose, and has the power of smelling.

Q. What are the organs of action?

A. The organ of speech (vach), hands, feet, &c.

Q. What is vach?

A. That which transcends speech, in which speech resides, and which is located in eight different centres* and has the power of speech.

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* The secret commentaries say seven;  for it does not separate the lips
into the “upper” and “nether” lips.   And, it adds to the seven centres
the seven passages in the head connected with, and affected by, vach—­
namely, the mouth, the two eyes, the two nostrils and the two ears. 
“The left ear, eye and nostril being the messengers of the right side of
the head;  the right ear, eye and nostril, those of the left side.”   Now
this is purely scientific.   The latest discoveries and conclusions of
modern physiology have shown that the power or the faculty of human
speech is located in the third frontal cavity of the left hemisphere of
the brain.   On the other hand, it is a well known fact that the nerve
tissues inter-cross each other (decussate) in the brain in such a way
that the motions of our left extremities are governed by the right
hemisphere, while the motions of our right limbs are subject to the left
hemisphere of the brain.
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Q. What are the eight centres?

A. Breast, throat, head, upper and nether lips, palate ligature (fraenum), binding the tongue to the lower jaw and tongue.

Q. What is the organ of the hands?

A. That which transcends the hands, on which the palms depend, and which has the power of giving and taking.... (The other organs are similarly described.)

Q. What is the antahkarana? *

A. Manas, buddhi, chitta and ahankara form it.  The seat of the manas is the root of the throat, of buddhi the face, of chitta the umbilicus, and of ahankara the breast.  The functions of these four components of antahkarana are respectively doubt, certainty, retention and egotism.

Q. How are the five vital airs,** beginning with prana, named?

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* A flood of light will be thrown on the text by the note of a learned
occultist, who says:—­“Antahkarana is the path of communication between
soul and body, entirely disconnected with the former, existing with,
belonging to, and dying with the body.”  This path is well traced in the
text.

** These vitals airs and sub-airs are forces which harmonize the interior man with his surroundings, by adjusting the relations of the body to external objects.  They are the five allotropic modifications of life. -------