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With this knowledge of internal force and external power, we can apply ourselves more efficiently in our daily living. Our ancestors learned to use trees for building houses and other things. In the same way, man can learn to use the unseen life force to live a more fulfilling life.

Chapter 3: Theory and Philosophy behind the art of ch'i kung

China is one of the oldest nations in the world. She is the cradle of a very ancient civilization; older, perhaps, than the civilizations that grew up in Egype, Babylonia, and Assyria; and also, these ancient cultures passed away long before the birth of Christ while China continues to grow and flourish.

It is not known who the first Chinese were, or where they came from. They were not the original inhabitants of the area which became China. Some believe that the Chinese originated in the rich basin of the Euphrates, the mother of all races. They migrated eastward to the Shansi province in the Yellow River Valley around the 23rd century, B.C. Like the Chaldeans and the Israelites, they were a pastoral people. But after the Chinese had wrested possession of the land from the aboriginal tribes, they became an agricultural people.