This work examines "The chakras" - from the Sanskrit word meaning the wheel - which are centres of energy and part of a greater network of subtle energies pervading the body. It explains what the chakras are and how a knowledge of chakras energy leads to a road of enlightenment. The landscape of subtle energies; approaching the gates; the key to the chakras; the gateway of earth, moon, sun, winds, time and space, liberation, and the void; the temple of the lotus; the seven places.