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                       WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

                            MANLY P. HALL





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                              INTRODUCTION



   Astrology was one of the seven sacred sciences cultivated by the initiates 
of the ancient world. It was studied and practiced by all the great nations of 
antiquity. The origins of astrological speculation are entirely obscured by 
the night of time which preceded the dawn of history. There are traditions to 
the effect that the astrological science was perfected by magician-
philosophers of the Atlantean Period. One thing is evident, Astrology descends 
to this late day adorned with the discoveries and embellishments of a thousand 
cultures. The history of Astrology is indeed a history of human thought and 
aspiration. The readings for the planets as given in the cuneiform tablets of 
Sargon are still used by the astrologers of this generation. Only such 
modifications and changes have been made as the shifting foundations of 
cultural standards necessitated.

   Two distinctive schools of Astrology have been recognized from the 
beginning of the historical period. With thedecline of the late Atlantean and 
early Aryan preisthoods and the profaning of their mysteries, what are now 
called the sciences were separated from the parent body of religious 





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tradition. Astrology and medicine were the first to establish independent 
institutions. The priests of the state religions no longer exercised a 
monopoly over the prophetic and medicinal arts. Beginning with Hippocrates new 
orders of soothsayers and healers arose who were entirely ignorant of the 
fundamental unity, yes, identity of the spiritual and physical sciences.

   The division of essential learning into competitive, or at least non-
cooperative, fragments destroyed the synthesis of knowledge. Frustrated by 
division and discord, the whole structure of education broke into innumerable 
discordant parts. The science of medicine divided from its spiritual source 
deteriorated into the quackery and leechcraft of the Dark Ages, a condition of 
affairs so sorry that the Hermetic physican Paracelsus was moved to say, 
"Fortunate is the man whose physician does not kill him." Astrology was 
likewise corrupted into horoscope mongering. Divorced from its divine purpose 
it dreifted along, performing a halfhearted and pointless work which consisted 
for the most part of the bleating forth of dire predictions and the 
compounding of planetary salves against the itch.

   A small group of enlightened and educated men preserved the esoteric 
secrets of medicine and astrology through those superstition ridden centuries 
we now call the Middle Ages. Of such mental stature were the Rosicrucians who 
honored Paracelsus as one of the chief of their "mind." Through Paracelsus and 






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the Rosie Cross the spiritual secrets of nature were restored to the chief 
place among the ends of learning. Knowledge was interpreted mystically and the 
profane sciences were reflected as merely the outward forms of inward 
mysteries. The secrets of mystical interpretation were concealed from the 
vulgar and given only to those who yearned after things which are of the 
spirit. THE MYSTCIAL DIVINITY of Dionysius the Arepagite became the textbook 
of an ever increasing number of devout and God-loving men and women who saw in 
all outer forms and institutions the shadows and sembalnces of inner truth.

   The modern world which sacrificed so much for the right to think has grown 
wise in its own conceit. Educators have ignored those spiritual values which 
constitute the priceless ingredients in the chemical compound we call 
civilization. Material science has become a proud institution--an assemblage 
of pedagogues and demagogues. There is no place for mysticism in the canons of 
the overschooled. Hypnotized by the strange fascination which matter exercised 
over the materialist, modern savants ignored the soul, that invisible reality 
upon which the illusions of the whole world hang.

   It was Lord Bacon who said, "A little knowledge in clineth men's minds 
towards atheism, but greatness of knowledge bringeth men's minds back again to 
God." This wonderful quotation expresses the tempo of the modern age. A 
disillusioned world saddened over the failure of material things is crying out 







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again for those mystical truths which alone explain and satisfy. The return of 
mysticism brings with it a new interest in astrology and healing.

   Mysticism brings with it a new standard of interpretation. To live up to 
the exacting demands of a mystical interpretation all branches of learning 
must be purified and restated. To the mystic, astrology is not merely 
prediciton or even giving of advice, it is a key to spiritual truths to be 
approached philosophically, to be studied for its own sake.

   Although science has classified, tabulated, and named all the parts and 
functions of the body, it cannot describe or explain what man is, where he 
came from, why he is here, or where he is going. In the presence of ignorance 
concerning these vital subjects, it is difficult to appreciate an elaborate 
learning in secondary matters.

   The initiates of antiquity were concerned primarily with man in his 
universal or cosmic aspect. Before a person can live well he must orient 
himself, he must know in part at least the plan of living. With this knowledge 
he can then cooperate with "the plan," and the philosophic life recommended by 
Pythagoras is merely to know the truth and to live it.

   Scientists looking for the cause of those energies which motivate and 
sustain the world have decided by a process of elimination that these causes 
must lie in a subjective structure of the universe, the invisible sphere of 





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vibrations. So the modern fancy is to ascribe to vibration all that cannot be 
explained in any other way. The moment we acknowledge the universe to be 
sustained by an invisible energy which manifests through the law of vibration, 
physics becomes superphysics, physiology becomes psychology, and astronomy 
becomes astrology. Astrology is nothing more nor less than the study of the 
heavenly bodies in the terms of the energies which radiate from them rather 
than merely an examination of their appearance and construction.

   The original Rosicrucians held to a theory generally discarded by men of 
science and now known as the microcosmic theory. Paracelsus was the most 
prominent exponent of this concept of universal order and relationship. He 
said, "As there are stars in the heavnes, so there are stars within man, for 
there is nothing in the universe which has not its equivalent in the 
microcosm." (the human body). In another place Paraclesus says, "Man derives 
his spirit from the constellations (fixed stars), his soul from the planets, 
and his body from the elements."

   It is quite impossible for the most highly trained scientist to examine 
with any adequate appreciation of values the whole infinite diffusion of the 
cosmos with its island galaxies and incomprehensible vistas of immeasurable 
space. Yet the whole of the pageantry of worlds is evidently dominated by all-
sufficient laws. Man himself is more compact though possibly in other ways 





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hardly less difficult to analyze. The cells in the body of man are as 
countless as the stars of heaven. Countless races of living things, species, 
types, and genera are evolving in the flesh, muscle, bone and sinew of man's 
corporeal constitution. The dignity of the microcosm gives the scientist some 
sense of the sublimity of the macrocosm. By the use of astrology it is 
possible to discover the interplay of celestial forces between the macrocosm 
and the microcosm. The centers in the physical body through which the sidereal 
energies enter were discovered and classified by the ancient Greeks, 
Egyptians, Hindus, and Chinese. There is great opportunity for work in 
examining not only the physical body itself but the auras which extand from 
the body forming a splendid garment of cosmic light.

   The last few years have witnessed exceptional progress in that branch of 
medical science which is called endocrinology or the study of the structure 
and function of the ductless glands with research into therapeutic methods of 
treating derangements thereof. These glands are now accepted as the regulators 
of the physical function, the governors and directors of bodily strucutre, 
profoundly significant not only in their physical reactions, but also their 
effect upon mentality, emotion, sensory reflexes, and the so-called spiritual 
or metaphysical functions. Nearly all endocrinologists admit that the pineal 
gland is the most difficult to underatdn and the most difficult to treat. It 
can now generally be reached only by treating the other glands over which it 





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acts in the capacity of generalissimo. The physical functions of the glands 
are now fairly well classified but there will unquestionably be much revision 
of the present opinions. Physicians are willing to admit that the function of 
the glands does not end merely with their effect upon the body but scientists 
are not prepared to make any pronouncements beyond the field of material 
reaction.

   It is especially significant therefore that through a combination of 
clairvoyance and astrology it is possible to examine the ductless glands and 
discover the metaphysical elements in their functioning. The modern 
clairvoyant uses the same method for his work as was used by the initiate 
priests of the ancient world, and like those older adepts he makes 
contributions to the sum of knowledge which are only discoverable to the 
materialist after centuries of ponderous experimentation.

   The work which follows is a spiritual record of the function of the 
pituitary body and pineal gland. I feel that the researches carried on by Mrs. 
Max Heindel are a definite contribution to the subject of endocrinology that 
should be preserved for the use of all students of medicine and the occult 
sciences.

                                                               --Manly P. Hall 





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                               CONTENTS 

                                                                     PAGE 

Introduction by Manly P. Hall...........................................3 

CHAPTER I 
   Polarian Epoch......................................................13

CHAPTER II
   The Garden of Eden..................................................19

CHAPTER III
   Two Ductless Glands.................................................23

CHAPTER IV
   The Spinal Gas......................................................28 





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               DIAGRAM: THE DUCTLESS GLANDS AND THEIR RULERS 

                        Adrenal Glands--Jupiter
                              Spleen--Sun
                             Thymus--Venus
                           Thyroid--Mercury
                           Pituitary--Uranus
                            Pineal--Neptune



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                    ASTROLOGY AND THE DUCTLESS GLANDS 


                                 CHAPTER I 

                              POLARIAN EPOCH 




   So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; 
male and female created he them.--Genesis 1:27. 



   In the study of the origin of man and his prehistoric state we are 
constantly stumbling against unexplained mysteries and especially when we read 
from the materialistic viewpoint in the Old Testament, which is the most 
wonderful history of man. We are then forced to scale the most formidable 
rocks of doubt. When we read between the lines, however, or view the past with 
an open mind then this book of Genesis is a mine filled with gems of the 
rarest kind.

   In THE ROSICRUCIAN COSMO-CONCEPTION we are taught that the world is divided 
into seven different states of consciousness. Beginning with the densest we 
have the physical matter of which man's physical body is made. Although it may 
not be visible to the physical senses yet we know and have positive proof that 
there is something within and about us of a subtle nature, finer than our 
physical yet interpenetrating it, which we cannot see even though we feel it. 
Electricity is a force which man can feel but cannot see. He knows that the 
atmosphere exists yet he cannot see it. And so we may sense and know that this 
subtle rarified life exists. We view the storm and we feel its force. We can 
see the raindrops as they descend to earth, and we are told by the scientists 
that this rain is drawn up by evaporation, causing the mositure in the clouds. 
We know that the wind blows; we feel its refreshing influence. Science has a 
reason for all these changes and explains these atmospheric phenomena from 
materialistic investigations.

   The occultist explains these phenomena from the higher or spiritual 
viewpoint by telling the scientists that the great invisible regions from 
which the winds come are peopled with higher intelligences and that great 
spirits control the elements; that they have beings who carry out their 
orders; for instance, the spirit of water has its workers, the undines; the 
spirit controlling the winds works through the sylphs. So we have the elements 
which man must recognize as existing, all with their invisible leaders and 
workers who exist in God's great universe, as well as poor materialistic man 
who denies everything which he cannot see with his physical eyes, and who when 
he is asked to explain these great mysteries cannot do so.

   Now, as stated before, THE ROSICRUCIAN COSMO-CONCEPTION recognizes seven 
different worlds. What shall we call them? Not matter, for we can only 
recognize as matter what man can see with his physical sight. But there are 
six higher states of consciousness; let us call them by the names which were 
given to Max Heindel by the great beings who saw fit to entrust him with this 





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knowledge: the physical world, the desire world, the world of thought, the 
world of life spirit, the world of virgin spirits, and the world of God. Now, 
these are only names and they do not explain the conditions of these different 
states. Let us take for illustration a teakettle filled with water. if we 
place this kettle of water upon a cake of ice the water will become hardened 
and in a little while we hall have ice. But let us place this same teakettle 
of ice on ahot stove and in a short time the ice melts and we have steam which 
disappears into the atmosphere and is lost to the visible sight. Where has it 
gone? Some place where the incredulous eyes of the materialist cannot follow, 
but the occultist can trace it. He knows that nothing in God's universe is 
lost.

   Man, who is God's most perfected work, is composed of every element found 
in these seven great worlds. Man as we find him today with his wonderfully 
developed and complex mind and body was not made, as many misread the first 
chapter of Genesis, out of clay and in one day, but his present stage is the 
outcome of ages and ages of growth. We follow him as he enters the arena of 
life as a virgin spirit, a thought, a spark from the divine Father, hurled 
into space with a force such as God alone can send. This thought-form has its 
birth in a world of virgin spirits where the divine flame commences its long 
pilgrimage through matter, gathering the material from each world, denser and 
denser, working its way through the mineral, the vegetable, the animal, and 





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then into the human stage. Within this divine spark are enfolded all the 
potentialities of the divine Father. As a thought of a building which is 
generated by a man gradually takes form within his mind, and as he puts his 
plans upon paper and straightway procures material wherewith the building is 
to be erected, so was God's thought, the spark which was to become man, also 
made manifest, and we find it today expressing in a body for which David 
praised God in the 139th Psalm, saying, "I will praise thee; for I am 
fearfully and wondefully made." Paracelsus says, "The physical body itself is 
the greatest of mysteries because in it are contained in a condensed, 
solidified, and corporeal state the very essences which go to make up the 
substance of the spiritual man, and this is the secret of the Philosopher's 
Stone."

   There are mysteries within this human temple which man is unable to solve 
(which have baffled material science), and for the solution of which many 
lives have been sacrificed, both of the human and the animal kingdom. The 
vivisectors have jeopardized their very souls in their effort to solve these 
mysteries. Animals have been put through the most excruciating suffering by 
science in its endeavor to wrest these secrets from God. But material science 
can go just so far when it finds itself against a wall which its instruments 
and its scientific minds cannot penetrate and it is helpless. There is but one 
tool, which it cannot or will not recognize, and which alone will penetrate or 
break through, and that is THE HUMAN SPIRIT. The trained seer alone has access 






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to the higher regions which, unfortunately, the materialist, because he cannot 
be given material proff, will not recognize. We must, however, give him credit 
for having accomplished wonders in his struggle to master and understand human 
ills. Materia medica has accomplished wonderful things.

   There are two forces in nature which man recognizes and which he 
acknowledges as existing in every atom--the positive force (male), and the 
negative force (female). We find them in the metals which man is utilizing to 
generate his electricity, the copper, zinc, etc. In the plant we also find the 
same elements. The very tiniest atom in man's body is charged with these two 
forces. They are playing through his body, without the blending of which he 
could not hold the particles together. Although man, with a male body, may 
express the positive physical, yet his negative vital body helps to hold the 
positive physical particles together. Likewise, the woman expressing in the 
negative female body is balanced by a positive vital body.

   The various forms and developments of man's body during antenatal life are 
recapitulations of his development during involution. In the Polarian Epoch 
his body was globular similar to the ovum, and also of a gelatinous substance. 
There was at the beginning but one organ which protruded from the top of his 
bag-like form. This organ was eyes, ears, in fact it was the nucleus through 
which the rest of the body was built, also the medium through which man 
received his life from the Father. This organ is today called the pineal 





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gland--epiphysis. Man's energies at that time were, like those of the foetus, 
directed inward to build future otgans, and as the prenatal life of the 
physical body of today is directed and helped by the mother, so was man 
assisted during his involutionary period by the Divine Hierarchies. He was in 
direct touch with the higher realms and not yet conscious of his physical 
environment. In the meantime, eyes, ears, and various organs were taking shape 
within this ovoid body, while the pineal gland, which is at present such a 
mystery to medical science, was its only means of communication with the outer 
world. This organ was much larger than it is today, and from its cone-shaped 
top there protruded a long, transparent, flexible tentacle which aided in 
locomotion and in feeling, and this appendage may yet be seen on the small end 
of the pineal gland. It has the appearance of a small piece of skin, the 
function of which will be taken up in another chapter.





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                               CHAPTER II 

                           THE GARDEN OF EDEN 



   Man's evolution and development up to the present time is divided into five 
periods or epochs by the Rosicrucian teachings. We have described his bodily 
development during the Polarian Epoch, and we will now make a study of it 
during the next period, the Hyperborean Epoch. In the former man was mineral-
like, in the latter he developed a vital body and was plant-like. In the third 
period, the Lemurian Epoch, he developed a desire body and became animal-like. 
The earth had already become encrusted and hardened in some places, and the 
atmosphere was dense and foglike. Man then lived in the densest vegetation to 
protect himself from the intense heat, while his body had grown to a giant-
like size--long arms and hands, massive jaws, but no forehead, the top of the 
head being very close to where the eyebrows are today. The skeleton had 
partially formed but was yet of a soft cartilaginous nature; man was not yet 
able to walk upright. The blood, which had heretofore been cold, now received 
iton and developed red corpuscles, which in turn hardened the bodily 
structure, making it possible for man to walk upright.





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   We have now reached the period of man's development recorded in the second 
chapter of Genesis where the Lord gave Adam an helpmate, at the separation of 
the sexes. Heretofore man was hermaphrodite; but now we have arrived at the 
time mentioned in the story in the Bible of Adam and Eve when they were turned 
out of the Garden of Eden for their sins. The change in sex was not 
accomplished in a day as some may read from the Book of Genesis, but was 
accomplished slowly and be degrees. As the earth became more cyrstallized, 
man's evolution kept up with this change, and it became necessary that the Ego 
draw within the body in order to control it. To accomplish this it was 
necessary that a brain and larynx be added, and for this purpose man was 
required to sacrifice one-half of his creative force. He then became an 
individualized, thinking entity, a creator, and he was then able to begin his 
work with the minerals.

   Man was at that time unconscious of the change in sex and was also 
unconscious of his outer surroundings, for his eyes had not yet been opened. 
Similar to the deep-water fish or the mole, he had no need of these organs, 
for the atmosphere was too dense and foggy. However, after the earth was 
thrown off from the central sun, the light which had theretofore been from 
within came from without; nature always supplies every need, hence man's eyes 
began slowly to develop. As the brain was growing by stages, likewise other 
organs which connected with the brain were built as man's development 
demanded.




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   As the sexes separated and man outwardly expressed one of the sexes only, 
the pineal gland, which in the Polarian, Hyperborean, and the early part of 
the Lemurain Epochs, protruded from the top of the head, now drew within the 
skull.

   There is another tiny organ within the brain of man, the pituitary body, 
which has had much to do with his development, both mentally and physically, 
and which is as important as the epiphysis, the pineal gland. The pituitary 
body or hypophysis is very necessary to man's life and development; it appears 
in the foetus in the fourth week.

   We may trace the development of man's body through all its stages from the 
very beginning up to that of its present wonderful mechanism in the life of 
the foetus; we first see it as a tiny speck of gelatinous matter, attracted to 
another speck of the opposite vibration. These are positive and negative. We 
follow the embryo through its development as it assumes the bag-like shape 
which is its first attempt at form as described in the preceding chapter, the 
globular, gelatinous form of the Polarian Epoch. This small embryonic sac has 
within it all the potentialities of the present perfected body with the two 
polarities, the positive and negative, the male and female, the pineal gland 
and the pituitary body. We follow this human embryo through its growth and 
changes, which, as in the case of prehistoric man, passes through the mineral-
like stage, the plant stage, then the reptile stage with its well marked tail 





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which at the ninth week disappears. Following this is the animal stage with 
its doglike face, with only a spot which later will become the eyes, ears, et 
cetera. At one stage of its development the pineal gland protrudes through the 
bag-like sac, and then the little form passes through the stage of the 
hermaphrodite as in the Hyperborean Epoch when no distinction of sex is shown 
outwardly. And so we may follow the evolution of man's body by the changes in 
the prenatal growth of the child in its mother's womb.






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                              CHAPTER III 

                         TWO DUCTLESS GLANDS 




   The pineal gland and pituitary body are two organs which have not had to 
undergo extensive changes to bring them up to their present stage. These 
organs were both present in the bag-shaped body during the Polarian Epoch. 
Similar to the bud which contains both the stamen and pistil within its ovoid 
shape, thew pineal gland and the pituitary body are the nuclei of the positive 
and negative forces by means of which our physical growth has developed.

   These tiny organs were larger in primitive man than at present, and through 
them the creative hierarchies termed in the Rosicrucian Philosophy the Lords 





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of Form, have been able to assist the Ego to build its body and bring it up to 
its present state of perfection.

   

                           THE PITUITARY BODY 



   The pituitary body was so named by medical science because it was formerly 
thought that the pituite or mucus  of the nose came from this body. This idea, 
however, has been discarded, and although medical science affirms that the 
real functions of the pituitary body are speculative, still in the past few 
years it has gained much knowledge which is no longer speculative. This galnd 
is situated in a saddle shpaed depression of the sphenoid bone, between the 
eyes and directly back of the root of the nose, and at the junction of the two 
optic nerves. It is impossible to give its size, as it changes with age, 
termperament, and the morals of the person. Gray describes it as a meeting 
place in the life of the primitive embryo of the hypoblast, which is the 
innermost layer; the epiblast, the outermost layer, which later develops into 
the nervous system and the skin; and the mesoblast, which is the middle layer. 
Within these three layers are contained all the germinal organs of the body 
which are in formation. Consequently the pituitary body is directly associated 
with man's past, present, and future growth and development, for from these 
three primitive layes within the embryo, the body with its senses, brain, 
nervous system, and vital organs is developed, and the pituitary body is the 







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central station through which all growth is directed. But the pineal gland is 
the real power behind it all, the formation of which we will take up later.

   The pituitary is a small oval body, consisting of two lobes, the anterior 
or glandular portion, and the posteriror or nerve portion, each having its 
separate function, also varying in color. The anterior lobe is of a yellowish 
gray substance intermingled with pink, while the posterior lobe is darker. 
Medical science has in the past few years made some noteworthy investigations; 
it claims that the pituitary body is smaller in man than in woman and that its 
size increases rapidly between birth and puberty; that the anterior lobe has 
control over the bony structure of the skeleton, while the posterior lobe has 
rule over the circulation and the fluids of the body. The latter regulates the 
assimilation of carbohydrates and other foods; renal secretions, body 
temperature, et cetera.

   One of our students who is a doctor stated in a letter to the writer that 
that he would not think of leaving his office to attend an obstetrical case 
without having pituitary extract in his case, which when used at the proper 
time reduces labor pain from one to four hours. This extract, however, in 
improper hands is a two-edged sword.

   The pituitary gland is connected directly with and has rule over the outer 
sheath of the brain and spinal column, th dura mater. This sheath embodies the 






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great protective mother principle. It covers the brain and spinal cord, 
protecting them from outer impacts and also feeding the blood vessels and 
nerves.



                            THE PINEAL GLAND 



   The pineal gland is a tiny cone-shaped body varying in size according to 
the mental and spiritual status of the person. It is named after the pine 
cone, which it resembles in appearance. It is larger in a child than in an 
adult and larger in females than in males. Its functions are almost unknown to 
science. Some claim that it has direct rule over the generative organs and the 
brain. Extracts of it when injected into the ciruclation produce a slight 
dilation of the blood vessels. It is large at birth and is fully developed at 
puberty. Its structural evolution begins at the age of seven years. Dana and 
Berkeley in their investigations found this organ small and lacking in 
substance in children who were backward mentally. Science has also been able 
to connect this gland with the functions of the interstitial gland and of the 
brain, but these conclusions are only speculative.

   The pineal gland is held in place by the pia mater, a thin membrane or 
sheath surrounding the brain and spinal column, from which the entire central 
nervous system is fed, and from which many little nerve roots branch off 
between the spinal vertebrae. The dura mater is the outermost sheath while the 
pia mater is the innermost. The pineal gland has the appearance of a small 






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male organ and rests upon what is termed by science the quadrigeminae, four 
rounded eminences placed in two pairs. The two lower ones are called the 
buttocks, the two upper the testes, and the tiny pineal gland rests in the 
center of them. The pituitary body is connected with the dura mater, the 
mother principle, on the anteriror side of the third ventricle. The pineal 
gland, the male or positive organ, is connected with the pia mater and is 
located at the posterior end of the third ventricle; consequently this tiny 
cavity or ventricle is of great importance to man as we shall see later.






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                              CHAPTER IV 

                            THE SPINAL GAS 




   According to the Rosicrucian teachings the blood is a gas and not a liquid 
as affirmed by science. When the spinal column is observed by one with the 
spiritual sight developed, the spinal gas appears like a thin stream of light, 
the color of which differs according to the temperament and morals of the man. 
In the sensual man this spinal fire is a dull brick red, intermingled with a 
slight coloring of blue. As his aspirations rise and his love for others is 
awakened, this color becomes clearer, and the blue light with a slight 
coloring of pink is drawn upward. When one observes the spinal gas of the 
spiritually awakened man, who has purified his mind and body by high ideals 
and by a life of service, especially if observed while he is in meditation or 
prayer, there is seen a most wonderful sight. The spinal fire is of a most 
ethereal blue which is difficult to describe; the nearest color to it would be 
that of a blue gas flame with the softest tint of pink and yellow playing 
through it. From the lower part of the sacral to the upper part of the lumbar 
region the colors are still slightly clouded with red, but as the spinal gas 







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rises upward, it becomes purer and more transparent. This spinal fire during 
meditation and prayer becomes more active, coursing more swiftly through thr 
spine, and as it touches the spinal nerves, it emits a tiny spark at the 
beginning of each until it reaches the medulla oblongata, which seems to act 
as a transformer or separating station, where the color makes a change, the 
darker or murky colors again descending while the lighter and purified gas is 
drawn upward.

   There is a sieve-like enclosure at the lower end of the fourth ventricle, 
which is connected with the medulla oblongata. In the latter this gas 
seemingly goes through a purifying process; thence it passes through the 
fourth ventricle into the third, where it passes through a golden furnace-like 
glow. It is then absorbed by the pineal gland.

   The color of this flame, however, is different in an adult who is earthly, 
filled with passions and desires, whose body is fed on the flesh of 
slaughtered animals, and which is steeped in tobacco, liquor, et cetera. This 
man's spinal gas is of a murky rose color and has a tendency to cling to the 
lower part of the spinal column. It is with considerable effort that such a 
man may draw some of this gas to the brain for use in mental work; and its 
color is not the clear blue of that of the man with high aspirations.

   The pineal gland of the sensual man who dissipates his vital fluids is very 
small, while in the child and the adult who lives a chaste life this organ is 
large. 





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   Water when brought to a certain heat is turned into steam and may evaporate 
into the air, leaving a tiny residue of crystallized sediment in the kettle. 
Conversely, the blood while in the body is a gas, but when it comes in contact 
with the air, it condenses and becomes a liquid. Now hos is it possible under 
similar conditions for science to investigate with its material instruments 
and clearly understand the functions of two such vital organs as the pineal 
gland and the pituitary body, whose inaccessibility makes it almost impossible 
to remove them without changing their shape?

   When the man with the developed faculty of spiritual sight, however, 
investigates their physiological functions, he does not need to remove the 
organs but turns his X-ray sight upon them and observes their action.



                        SPIRITUAL OBSERVATION 



   The writer has been privileged while under the direction of the Teacher to 
watch these two higher ductless glands in action. The time and opportunity 
were ideally prepared, and a living person was the subject. Both organs were 
much enlarged which gave marvelous clearness to our observations.

   Let us observe this subject, a woman in spiritual meditation, one who has 
been living a pure and chaste life with high aspirations, and whose food for 
years has consisted of fruit, vegetables, and cereals. The pituitary body, 
through which these aspirations are first registered, is much enlarged. The 






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posterior lobe is turned backward with its funnel shaped neck enlarged with a 
mouth opening at the end. From this open mouth exudes gas of a soft rose 
color, slightly intermingled with yellow and blue of the pale shades. The 
spinal column is filled with a pale blue ether, intermingled with soft pink 
and yellow. After this gas leaves the medulla oblongata and enters the pineal 
gland, it is of a wonderful blue color such as one sees clinging to the 
mountains after sundown. The pineal gland is enlarged with the point of the 
cone leaning forward toward the pituitary body. The tiny appendage of skin at 
the end of the former, which was emntioned in a previous chapter, is elongated 
and emits a small flame similar to the blue flame of a gas jet. These two 
organs vibrate at a most rapid rate and lean toward each other over the third 
ventricle. This ventricle is an oblong cavity lying between the optic thalami. 
When the life of the apsirant has been pure, the ventricle appears to the 
occultist like a tiny furnace with a golden glow. From this the vitality of 
the body is drawn.

   The pineal gland as already stated, has the appearance of a tiny male 
organ, while the pituitary body with its open mouth is similar to the female 
organ. So we may see that science, which is trying to prove that these organs 
are directly connected with the functions of the brain and the generative 
organs, is right. They have direct influence upon man from the two ends of the 
spinal cord, for does not the sex pervert in time become a degenerate? 







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Conservation of the vital fluids and a chaste life strengthen the brain, and 
these two ductless glands become enlarged, but in the sensualist they atrophy. 
Science is correct in its assertion that these organs are larger in children 
and women than in men, even men who live a pure life.


                        ASTROLOGICALLY DISCERNED 



   In an endeavor to further prove the above assertions astrologically, the 
writer has compared the horoscopes of patients who have been in touch with the 
Healing Department at Headquarters. She found ten horoscopes of young men and 
women who were afflicted with epilepsy. Four of these patients were found with 
the Moon in conjunction with Neptune in the sign of Taurus. This sign has rule 
over the throat and also indirectly over the generative organs. Here again we 
find, as Max Heindel has said, that Neptune is the higher octave of Mercury 
and not of Venus as some astrologers calim, for this planet, which has rule 
over the pineal gland, also has rule over the brain and the spiritual 
faculties. Two patients out of these ten have Neptune square to the Moon, 
while one has Neptune in conjunction with Mars and another Neptune in 
opposition to Saturn. In all of these cases we found that they had formed the 
secret habit of sex abuse during childhood, which had wasted the vital fluids 
necessary in building the brain, and there was a mental deficiency bordering 
upon idiocy. If the doctors could have opened the brains of these patients to 






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examine the glands, they would have found them diseased according to the 
planetary afflictions, which might have taken the form of atrophy, tumor, or 
in the case of the pineal gland, inflammation.

   Astrologers in the past have made the claim that Uranus was the higher 
octave of Mercury, and had rule over the higher mental qualities, and that 
Neptune was the higher octave of Venus. At the same time they have admitted 
that an afflicted Uranus in the angles caused separations in marriage, and 
that a square or conjunction of Uranus and Venus in a woman's horoscope would 
attract undue attention from the opposite sex, thereby endangering her 
morality. Uranus has always been associated with licentiousness and laxity in 
morals, and illicit love affairs, while Neptune has been connected with secret 
orders, deceptions, and frauds. The writer has wondered why these two higher 
spiritual planets were reversed by the astrologers when they represent 
opposite characteristics. Spiritual investigation shows the higher octaves to 
be as follows: Neptune, ruler of the pineal gland, is the higher octave of 
Mercury; Uranus, ruler of the pituitary body, is the higher octave of Venus.

   The drunkard when under the influecne of liquor has an over-stimulation of 
the pituitary body which causes reeling, hilarious conditions. This gland 
regulates the emotional nature and the circulation of the blood. Being ruled 
by Uranus, the higher octave of Venus, the ruler of music, the pituitary body 






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is influenced by music and harmony which set it into vibration. The morphine 
or cocaine inebriate receives his stimulus through the pineal gland.



                                REJUVENATION 



   We have read much in the papers about rejuvenation through the grafting of 
animal glands into man to restore his youth. Should this be carried to any 
great extent, the next generation would be liable to have many degenerate 
children and the institutions would be filled with mental perverts. The 
animals from which these glands are taken, the goat and monkey, multiply very 
rapidly, and naturally there would be a degenerating effect upon the man who 
is foolish enough to permit this grafting to be done upon his body. 
Furthermore, this rejuvenation is for a short time only. If the man continues 
to live the life of the senses, he will soon dissipate this new energy, which 
will have to be replenished from time to time.

   There is but one fountain of youth, one elixir of life, and that is our 
food and our thoughts. If we live a pure and simple life of unselfishness, 
eating lightly of vegetables and fruit, keeping close watch over our desires, 
then we need not sacrifice the life of the animal to replenish our wasted 
energy. Ponce de Leon sought the fountain of perpetual youth in far-off lands, 
while he had two tiny cups within his own brain which, if he had only paid the 
price of making an exchange of the worldly life of the senses for a spiritual 
life of purity, would have given him the elixir of life.





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