These warriors saw the Brotherhood's physical skills as an end, and brought disharmony to the group and its relations with others. Even within the Brotherhood, young students took up the study of Do but failed to understand the relationship between philosophy and physical prowess. Tools encouraged people to focus on only the things they could touch and forget that there was ever anything else material goods became a goal and replaced the natural fulfillment of personal accomplishment. The earliest artificers brought the first vestiges of technology to humanity, thus turning people from their relationship with the immaterial world and strengthening the barrier between the physical and the spiritual realms. As the world fractured and people took up dissonant paths, conflict came in several forms to the Brotherhood. Martial arts and exercises perfected the body while rigorous disciplines, chants and prayers cleansed the mind.
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The balance between mind and body, motion and stillness, was disturbed, and the ones who would become Akashic Brothers retreated into mountains, caves and forests to continue their study of balance through Do.
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As the earth turned and more people came to live near the All, the All fractured and became dissonant. The first Akashics learned their skill in Do from Dragon and Phoenix, and they disciplined their bodies and their minds through the balance of movement and stillness. Background The philosophical and historic roots of the Akashic Brotherhood lie in the beginning times when all people lived in harmony. The Brotherhood uses simple tools - exercise, meditation, practice and study - to refine the simple man into a brother of knowledge. By honing the body, the Brothers make, a temple for the mind with the refined mind comes understanding of the spirit.
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From these philosophical roots came the Akashic Brotherhood. When the individual does not resist the universe but moves within, he embraces his nature. When the mind and body come into harmony, the soul follows. Identity, division and conflict are illusions. AKASHIC BROTHERHOOD Mind, body and spirit are all part of the larger whole of the person, just as the person is part of the larger whole of the universe.