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                            OCCULT PRINCIPLES OF
                             HEALTH AND HEALING

                                     by

                                 MAX HEINDEL
                                 [1865-1919]


                AUTHOR OF "THE ROSICRUCIAN COSMO-CONCEPTION"
            "THE ROSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY IN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS"
                       "ANCIENT AND MODERN INITIATION"
                      "SIMPLIFIED SCIENTIFIC ASTROLOGY"
                         "THE ROSICRUCIAN MYSTERIES"
                         "TEACHINGS OF AN INITIATE"
                       "THE MESSAGE OF THE STARS" ETC.



                         THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP
                                MT. ECCLESIA
                                P.O. BOX 713
                      OCEANSIDE, CALIFORNIA, 92054, USA





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                                  FOREWORD

   This compilation of material concerning the health and healing of the hu-
man  organism as considered from the occult viewpoint affords  those  inter-
ested  in attaining and maintaining health a treasure chest of valuable  in-
formation.   Max  Heindel,  a trained clairvoyant and  investigator  of  the
super-physical worlds, devoted much time and effort to ascertaining the real
causes  of physical and mental disorders as revealed in the realm of  cause,
the higher or superphysical planes,  and this volume contains the fruits  of
his labor.   It embodies some of the most priceless truths in regard to  the
origin, functions, and proper care of the vehicles of man to be found on the
printed page,  and those concerned with the true art of healing will find it
an indispensable addition to their libraries.

   Christ admonished His disciples:  "Preach the Gospel, and heal the sick."
Maintaining health,  when once gained or regained,  requires a knowledge  of
"the Gospel," or laws of God, and it is therefore in the light of both parts
of  the command of the Great Teacher that this book is dedicated to the  af-
flicted of humanity.   May the contents of its pages,  permeated as they are
with the love and compassionate understanding of the mystic heart of the au-
thor,  be  the means of bringing new solace and relief to  countless  aching
hearts and suffering bodies,  as well as speed the day for the generation of
more perfect human vehicles.


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                                  CONTENTS

Foreword ..........................................................iii


                        PART I--MAN AND HIS VEHICLES

Chapter I
   The Dense Body...................................................11
         Introduction...............................................11
         Evolution..................................................12
         The Brain and Nervous Systems..............................19
         The Blood..................................................22
         The Ductless Glands........................................30
         The Lymphatic System.......................................39

Chapter II
   The Vital Body...................................................41
         Evolution and General Purpose..............................41
         The Ethers and Their Functions.............................42

Chapter III
   The Desire Body and the Mind.....................................48

                              PART II - DISEASE

Chapter IV
   General Causes of Disease........................................55
         Introduction...............................................55
         Causes of Mental Disabilities..............................57
         Causes of Physical Disabilities............................61

Chapter V
   Specific Causes of Disease.......................................65
         Insanity...................................................65
         Mediumship.................................................68
         Obsession..................................................69


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         Hysteria, Epilepsy, Tuberculosis, and Cancer...............78
         Impairment of Vision.......................................79

         Shell Shock................................................82
         Sclerosis or Hardening of Arteries.........................85

Chapter VI
   Heredity and Disease.............................................87

CHAPTER VII
   Effects of Alcohol and Tobacco...................................90

                             PART III--HEALING

Chapter VIII
   Origin and Development of Healing................................97
   Curing vs. Healing ..............................................99

Chapter ix
   The Rosicrucian Fellowship Method of Healing....................102
         Why Rosicrucians Heal.....................................102
         The Invisible Helpers.....................................105
         The Spiritual Panacea.....................................109

Chapter X
   The Science of Nutrition........................................111
         General Principles........................................111
         Reasons for a Vegetarian Diet.............................123
         Necessity for an Attractive, Balanced Diet................131
         The Role of Stimulants in Evolution.......................133
         Fasting as a Means of Healing and a Factor in Soul Growth.135
         Health Value of Indigestible Foods........................137
         Results of Eating Too Frequently..........................141

Chapter XI
   Astrology as an Aid to Healing..................................143
         Astrological Basis for Healing............................143


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         Laws of Compatability and Systemic  Receptibility.........148
         Influence of the Moon in Healing..........................152
         Planetary Polarities......................................154

Chapter XII
   The Therapeutic Basis of Light, Color, and Sound................160

Chapter XIII
   Sleep and Health................................................167
         The Value of Sleep........................................167
         How to Treat Disease During Sleep.........................169
         The Effect of Hypnotic Sleep..............................170
         Protective Influence......................................172

Chapter XIV
   Mind and Healing................................................174
         The True Cause of Contagion...............................174
         Power of Thought..........................................178

Chapter XV
   Dangers of Excessive Bathing....................................181

Chapter XVI
   Transfusion of Blood............................................185

Chapter XVII
   Effects of Removal of Physical Organ............................188
         Removal of Tonsils........................................190

Chapter XVIII
   Form of Healing to Use..........................................192
         Introduction..............................................192
         Taking Medicine...........................................193
         Laying on of Hands........................................193
         Vaccination and Antitoxin.................................195


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Chapter XIX
   The Scope of Healing............................................199
         The Law of Destiny........................................199
         Relation of Spirituality to Health........................202
         Nervousness Helped by Exercises...........................203

Chapter XX
   On Conducting Healing Centers...................................204
         General Suggestions.......................................204
         Advice to Healers.........................................206
         Healing Service Inaugurated...............................208

                        PART IV--"THERE IS NO DEATH"

Chapter XXI
   The Real Nature of Death........................................213

Chapter XXII
   Effects of Suicide..............................................217

Chapter XXIII
   Causes of Death During Infancy..................................219

Chapter XXIV
   Proper Care of the Deceased.....................................222

Chapter XXV

   How to Help Those Who Have Passed On ...........................228

Index .............................................................233

                                   PLATES

Max Heindel................................................Frontspiece
Rosicrucian Fellowship Healing Temple ..............................iv

The Healing Christ..................................................96


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                                   PART I

                            MAN AND HIS VEHICLES




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                         OCCULT PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH

                                 AND HEALING


                                  CHAPTER I


                               THE DENSE BODY


INTRODUCTION:

   Occult science teaches that man is a complex being who possesses:

   (1)  A DENSE BODY,  which is the visible instrument he uses here in  this
world to fetch and carry; the body we ordinarily think of as the whole man.

   (2)  A VITAL BODY,  which is made of ether and pervades the visible  body
as  ether permeates all other forms, except that human beings  specialize  a
greater amount of the universal ether than other forms.   That ethereal body
is our instrument for specializing the vital energy of the Sun.

   (3)  A DESIRE BODY,  which is our emotional nature.   This finer  vehicle
pervades both the vital and dense bodies.   It is seen by clairvoyant vision
to extend about sixteen inches outside our visible body, which is located in
the center of this ovoid cloud as the yolk is in the center of the egg.

   (4)  THE MIND, which is a mirror, reflecting the outer world and enabling
the Ego to transmit its commands as thought and word, also to compel action.

   The Ego is the threefold Spirit which uses these vehicles to gather expe-
rience in the school of life.


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EVOLUTION:

   The dense body was the first vehicle built and has therefore an  enormous
period  of evolution back of it.   It is in its fourth stage of  development
and has now reached a great and marvelous degree of efficiency.  It will, in
time,  reach  perfection,  but even at present it is the best  organized  of
man's  vehicles.   It is a wonderfully constructed instrument and should  be
recognized as such by everyone pretending to have any knowledge of the  con-
stitution of man.

   The  germ  of the dense body was given by the Lords of Flame  during  the
first Revolution of the Saturn Period,  the first of the Seven Great Days of
Manifestation according to the Rosicrucian Teachings.   This germ was  some-
what  developed  during the remainder of the first  six  Revolutions,  being
given  the capacity for developing the sense organs,  particularly the  ear.
Therefore, the ear is the most highly developed organ we possess.

   In the first half of the Saturn Revolution of the Sun Period,  the second
of the Seven Great Days of Manifestation,  the Lords of Flame were concerned
with  certain improvements to be made upon the germ of the dense  body.   It
became  necessary to change the germ in such a way as to allow of  interpen-
etration by a vital body,  also capability of evolving glands and an alimen-
tary canal.  This was done by the joint action of the Lords of Flame and the
Lords of Wisdom.

   In  the first or Saturn Revolution of the Moon Period,  the third of  the
Seven Great Days of Manifestation,  the Lords of Wisdom cooperated with  the
Lords of Individuality to reconstruct the germ of the dense body.  This germ
had  unfolded embryonic sense organs, digestive organs, glands, etc. and was


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interpenetrated by a budding vital body.   Of course,  it was not solid  and
visible as it is now,  yet in a crude sort of way it was somewhat organized.
In the Moon Period it was necessary to reconstruct it and make it capable of
being interpenetrated by a desire body,  and also capable of evolving a ner-
vous system,  muscle,  cartilage,  and a rudimentary skeleton.   This recon-
struction  was the work of the Saturn Revolution of the Moon Period.   These
Moon beings were not so purely germinal as in the previous periods.   To the
trained  clairvoyant they appear suspended by strings in the  atmosphere  of
the fire-fog,  as the embryo hangs from the placenta by the umbilical  cord.
Currents,  which provided some sort of nourishment,  flowed in and out  from
the atmosphere through those cords.

   When  the Earth came out of chaos, at the beginning of the Earth  period,
it  was at first in the dark red stage known as the Polarian  Epoch.   There
humanity  first  evolved a DENSE BODY,  the germ of which was given  by  the
lords of Flame during the First Revolution of the Saturn Period.  It was not
then at all like our present vehicle, of course.   When the condition of the
Earth became fiery,  as in the Hyperborean Epoch,  the VITAL BODY was  added
and man became plant-like,  that is to say,  he had the same vehicles as our
plants have today, and also a similar consciousness, or rather, unconscious-
ness, to that which we have in dreamless sleep when the DENSE and VITAL bod-
ies are left upon the bed.

   At that time, in the Hyperborean Epoch, the body of man was like an enor-
mous gas bag,  floating outside the fiery Earth, and it threw off plant-like


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spores,  which then grew and were used by other incoming entities.   At that
time man was double sexed, a hermaphrodite.

   In the Lemurian Epoch,  when the Earth had somewhat cooled and islands of
crust had begun to form amid boiling seas, then also man's body had somewhat
solidified and had become more like the body we see today.   It was apelike,
a short trunk with enormous arms and limbs,  the heels projecting  backward,
and almost no head--at least the upper part of the head was nearly  entirely
wanting.   Man  lived  in the atmosphere of steam  which  occultists  called
fire-fog,  and had no lungs,  but breathed by means of tubes.   He  had  the
gill-like apparatus still present in the human embryo while passing  through
the  stage of antenatal life corresponding to that epoch.   He had no  warm,
red  blood,  for  at that stage there was no individual Spirit.   He  had  a
bladder-like  organ inside,  which he inflated with heated air to  help  him
leap  enormous chasms when volcanic eruptions destroyed the land upon  which
he was living.  From the back of his head there projected an organ which has
now drawn into the head and is called by anatomists the PINEAL GLAND, or the
third eye,  although it was never an eye,  but a localized organ of feeling.
The body was then devoid of feeling, but when man came too close to a volca-
nic  crater,  the heat was registered by this organ to warn him away  before
his body was destroyed.

   At  that time the body had already so far solidified that it  was  impos-
sible for man to continue to propagate by spores,  and it was necessary that
he should evolve an organ of thought, a brain.   The creative force which we
now use to build railways,  steamships, etc.,  in the outer world,  was then
used inwardly for  the  building of organs.  Like all forces it was positive


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and negative.   One pole was turned upward to build the brain,  leaving  the
other  pole  available for the creation of another body.   Thus man  was  no
longer  a  complete creative unit.   Each possessed only half  the  creative
force, and it was therefore necessary for him to seek his complement outside
himself.

   In  the latter part of the Lemurian Epoch the form of man was  yet  quite
plastic.   The skeleton had formed, but man himself had great power in mold-
ing the flesh of his own body, and that of the animals about him.

   At this time, when he was born, man could hear and feel,  but his percep-
tion of light came later.   The Lemurian had no eyes.   He had two sensitive
spots which were affected by the light of the sun as it shone dimly  through
the  fiery atmosphere of ancient Lemuria,  but it was not until  nearly  the
close of the Atlantean Epoch that he had sight as we have it today.

   His  language consisted of sounds like those of Nature.   The sighing  of
the  wind  in  the immense forests which grew in great  luxuriance  in  that
super-tropical climate,  the rippling of the brook,  the howling of the tem-
pest,  the thunder of the waterfall, the roar of the volcano--all these were
to him voices of the Gods from whom he knew himself to have descended.

   Of the birth of his body he knew nothing.   He could not SEE either it or
anything else, but he did PERCEIVE his fellow beings.  It was,  however,  an
inner perception,  like our perception of persons and things in dreams,  but
with this very important difference, that his dream-perception was clear and
rational.

   But  when "their eyes were opened"  (as told in the story of the  "Fall")
and  their  consciousness  was  directed  outward  towards  the facts of the


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physical World,  conditions were altered.  Propagation was directed,  not by
Angels,  but  by  man,  who was ignorant of the operation  of  the  Sun- and
Moon-forces.   His consciousness became focused in the Physical  World,  al-
though things did not appear to his vision with clearly defined outlines un-
til  the latter part of the Atlantean Epoch.   Still he came by  degrees  to
know  death  because  of the break made in his  consciousness  when  it  was
shifted to the higher worlds at death and back to the Physical World at  re-
birth.

   However,  what has been said about the enlightenment of the Lemurians ap-
plies to only a minor portion of those who lived in the latter part of  that
epoch,  and who became the seed for the seven Atlantean Races.   The greater
part of the Lemurians were animal-like and the FORMS inhabited by them  have
degenerated into the savages and anthropoids of the present day.

   In the Atlantean Epoch, which followed the Lemurian, man was very differ-
ent from anything existent on Earth at the present time.  He had a head, but
scarcely any forehead, his brain had no frontal development; the head sloped
almost abruptly back from a point just above the eyes.  As compared with our
present humanity, he was a giant; his arms and legs were much longer in pro-
portion to his body than ours.   Instead of walking,  he progressed by a se-
ries of flying leaps, not unlike those of the kangaroo. He  had small blink-
ing eyes and his hair was round in section.   The  latter peculiarity, if no
other,  distinguishes the descendants of  the  Atlantean  Races  who  remain
with us at the present time.   Their hair  was  straight, glossy,  black and
round in section.  That of the Aryan, though it may differ in color,  is al-


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ways OVAL in section.  The ears of the Atlantean  sat much farther back upon
the head than do those of the Aryan.

   The higher vehicles of the early Atlanteans were not drawn into a concen-
tric position in relation to the dense body,  as are ours.   The Spirit  was
not quite an indwelling Spirit;  it was partially outside,  therefore  could
not control its vehicles with as great facility as though it dwelt  entirely
inside.   The head of the vital body was outside of and held a position  far
above  the physical head.   There is a point between the eyebrows and  about
half an inch below the surface of the skin,  which has a corresponding point
in the vital body.  When these two points come into correspondence,  as they
do in man today, they form the seat of the indwelling Spirit in the man.

   On account of the distance between these two points, the Atlantean's pow-
ers of perception or vision was much keener in the inner worlds than in  the
dense Physical World,  obscured by its atmosphere of thick,  heavy fog.   In
the fullness of time, however, the atmosphere slowly became clearer;  at the
same time,  the point spoken of in the vital body came closer and closer  to
the  corresponding point in the dense body, being united to it in  the  last
third of the Atlantean Epoch.

   The Rmoahals were the first of the Atlantean Races.   They had but little
memory and that little was connected with sensations.   They remembered col-
ors and tones,  and thus to some extent they evolved Feeling.   With  memory
came to the Atlanteans the rudiments of a language.  They  evolved words and


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no  longer made use of mere sounds, as did the Lemurians,  giving  names  to
things.

   The Tlavatlis were the second Atlantean Race.  Already they began to feel
their worth as separate human beings.   They became ambitious;  the demanded
that their works be remembered.   Memory became a factor in the life of  the
community.  Thus began ancestor worship.

   The Toltecs were the third Atlantean Race.  They inaugurated Monarchy and
Hereditary Succession,  originating the custom of honoring men for the deeds
done by their ancestors.   Experience came to be highly valued,  and  memory
was developed to a very great degree.

   In  the  middle third of Atlantis we find the beginning of  separate  na-
tions.   In the time the Kings became intoxicated with power,  and began  to
use their power corruptly,  for selfish ends and personal aggrandizement in-
stead of for the common good.

   The Original Turanians were the fourth Atlantean Race.   They were  espe-
cially  vile  in their abominable selfishness,  erecting temples  where  the
Kings were worshiped as Gods.

   The  Original  Semites  were the fifth and most important  of  the  seven
Atlantean  Races,  because in them we find the first germ of the  corrective
quality  of  thought.   Therefore  the  Original  Semitic  Race  became  the
"seed-race"  for the seven races of the Aryan Epoch.  They were the first to
discover that "brain"  is superior to "brawn."  During the existence of this
race, the atmosphere of Atlantic commenced to clear definitely, and the pre-
viously mentioned point in the vital body came into  correspondence with its


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companion point in the dense body.   The combination of events gave man  the
ability  to see objects clearly with sharp,  well-defined contours;  but  it
also resulted in loss of the sight pertaining to the inner worlds.

   The  Akkadians were the sixth and the Mongolians were the seventh of  the
Atlantean  Races.   They evolved the faculty of thought still  farther,  but
followed lines of reasoning which deviated more and more from the main trend
of  the developing life.   As the heavy fogs of Atlantis condensed more  and
more,  the increasing quantity of water gradually inundated that  continent,
destroying  the  greater part of the population and the evidences  of  their
civilization.

   Central  Asia was the cradle of the Aryan Races,  who descended from  the
original Semites.  Thence have the different races gone out.  It is unneces-
sary to describe them here,  as historical researches have sufficiently  re-
vealed their main features.

THE BRAIN AND NERVOUS SYSTEMS:

   In the Saturn Revolution of the Earth period the dense body was given the
ability to form a brain and become a vehicle for the germ of mind which  was
to  be added later.   The impulse was given to building the frontal part  of
the brain.   The brain and the nervous systems are the highest expression of
the desire body.  They call up pictures of the outside world,  but in mental
image-making,  the  blood brings the material for the  pictures;  therefore,
when thought is active the blood flows to the head.

   In  man the brain is the link between the Spirit and the  outside  world.
He can know nothing of the outside world except through  the  medium  of the


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brain.   The sense organs are merely carriers to the brain of  impacts  from
without  and  the brain is the instrument which interprets  and  coordinates
those impacts.   The Spirit,  aided by the Angels, built the brain to gather
knowledge  of the Physical World.   When the Ego entered into possession  of
its  vehicles it became necessary to use part of the creative force for  the
building  of a brain and larynx.   The Lucifers are the instigators  of  all
mental activity,  by means of the part of the sex force that is carried  up-
ward for work in the brain.   Thus did the evolving entity obtain brain con-
sciousness of the outside world at the cost of half its creative power.

   Physiologists  note that certain areas of the brain are devoted  to  par-
ticular  thought activities,  and phrenologists have carried this branch  of
science still farther.   Now,  it is known that thought breaks down and  de-
stroys nerve tissues.  This and all other waste of the body,  is replaced by
the  blood.   When,  through the development of the heart into  a  voluntary
muscle,  the circulation of the blood finally passes under the absolute con-
trol  of the unifying Life Spirit it will then be within the power  of  that
Spirit to withhold the blood from those areas of the mind devoted to selfish
purposes.   As a result, those particular thought centers will gradually at-
rophy.

   Brain-knowledge,  with its concomitant selfishness, was bought by man  at
the cost of the power to create from himself alone.  He bought his free will
at the cost of pain and death;  but when man learns to use his intellect for
the good of humanity,  he will gain spiritual power over life,  and in addi-
tion, will be guided by an innate knowledge as much higher than the  present


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brain-consciousness as that is higher than the lowest animal  consciousness.
The brain is, at best, only an indirect way of gaining knowledge and will be
superseded by direct touch with the Wisdom of Nature, which man, without any
cooperation, will then be able to use for the creation of new bodies.

   In the Moon Period it was necessary to reconstruct the dense body to make
it capable of being interpenetrated by a desire body,  and  also capable  of
evolving a nervous system,  muscle, cartilage,  and a rudimentary  skeleton.
This  reconstruction was the work of the Saturn Revolution of the  Moon  Pe-
riod.

   The  reconstruction  of the dense body in the Saturn  Revolution  of  the
Earth Period gave the first impulse to the incipient division in the nervous
system which has since become apparent in its subdivisions:   the  voluntary
and the sympathetic.   The latter was the only one provided for in the  Moon
Period.   The voluntary nervous system (which has transformed the dense body
from a mere automaton acting under stimuli from without, to an extraordinary
adaptable  instrument capable of being guided and controlled by an Ego  from
within) was not added until the present Earth Period.

   When the division of the Sun,  Moon, and Earth took place,  in the  early
part    of   the   Lemurian   Epoch,   the   more   advanced   portion    of
humanity-in-the-making  experienced  a division of the desire  body  into  a
higher  and a lower part.   The reset of humanity did likewise in the  early
part of the Atlantean Epoch.   This higher part of the desire body became  a
sort  of  animal  soul.  It  built  the cerebrospinal nervous system and the


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voluntary muscles, by that means controlling the lower part of the threefold
body until the link of mind was given.

   Part of the involuntary muscular system is controlled by the  sympathetic
nervous system.

   The seat of the Human Spirit is primarily in the pineal gland and second-
arily in the brain and the cerebrospinal nervous system,  which controls the
voluntary muscles.

THE BLOOD:

   The study of the blood is very deep, far-reaching,  and of supreme impor-
tance  from whatever viewpoint we analyze it.   Lucifer was decidedly  right
when  he  said  that  "blood is a most peculiar  essence."   It  builds  the
physical  body from the time the seed atom is deposited in the ovum till  he
rupture of the silver cord ends material existence, being one of the highest
products  of the vital body and the carrier of nourishment to every part  of
the body.   It is the direct vehicle of the Ego, having injected into it ev-
ery thought, feeling or emotion transmitted to the lungs.

   In infancy,  and up to the fourteenth year,  the red marrow-bones do  not
make  all  the blood corpuscles.   Most of them are supplied by  the  thymus
gland,  which is largest in the foetus and gradually diminishes as the indi-
vidual blood-making faculty develops in the growing child.  The thymus gland
contains, as it were, a supply of blood corpuscles given by the parents, and
consequently the child, which draws its blood from that source, does not re-
alize its individuality.   Not until the blood is made by the child does  it
think of itself as "I," and when the  thymus gland disappears, at the age of


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fourteen, the "I" feeling reaches its full expression, for then the blood is
made and dominated entirely by the Ego.   The following will make clear  the
idea and its logic:

   It will be remembered that assimilation and growth depend upon the forces
working along the positive pole of the vital body's chemical ether.  That is
set free at the seventh year,  together with the balance of the vital  body.
Only  the chemical ether is fully ripe at that time;  the other  parts  need
more  ripening.   At the fourteenth year the life ether of the  vital  body,
which has to do with propagation,  is fully ripe.   In the period from seven
to fourteen years of age the excessive assimilation has stored an amount  of
fore  which goes to the sex organs and is ready at the time the desire  body
is set free.

   This  force of sex is stored in the blood during the third of  the  seven
year periods and in that time the light ether,  which is the avenue for  the
blood heat, is developed and controls the heart, so that the body is neither
too hot nor too cold.   In early childhood the blood very often rises to  an
abnormal  temperature.   During the period of excessive growth,  it is  fre-
quently the reverse, but in the hot-headed, unrestrained youth,  passion and
temper very often drive the Ego out by overheating the blood.   We very  ap-
propriately  call this an ebullition or boiling over of temper and  describe
the effect as causing the person to "lose his head,"  or become incapable of
thought.   That is exactly what happens when passion, rage,  or temper over-
heats the blood,  thus drawing the Ego outside the bodies.   The Ego is out-
side  of  its  vehicles  and they are running as much, bereft of the guiding


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influence of thought,  part of the work of which is to act as a brake on im-
pulse.   Only  the man who keeps cool and does not allow excess of  heat  to
drive him out can think properly.

   As  proof of the assertion that the Ego cannot work in the body when  the
blood is either too hot or too cold we will call attention to the well-known
fact that excessive heat makes one sleepy, and,  if carried beyond a certain
point, it drives the Ego out, leaving the body unconscious.  It is only when
the blood is at or near the normal temperature that the Ego can use it as  a
vehicle of consciousness.

   The  burnish  blush of shame is an evidence of the manner  in  which  the
blood  is  driven  to the head, thus overheating the  brain  and  paralyzing
thought.   Fear is a state when the Ego wants to barricade  himself  against
some outside danger.  He then drives the blood to the center and grows pale,
because  the blood has left the periphery of the body,  and has  lost  heat,
thus paralyzing thought. In fever the excess of heat causes delirium.

   The full-blooded person,  the the blood is not too hot, is active in body
and mind, while the anemic person is sleepy.  In one the Ego has better con-
trol;  in the other, less.  When the Ego wants to think it drives blood,  at
the proper heat,  to the brain.   When a heavy meal centers the activity  of
the Ego upon the digestive tract, the man cannot think; he is sleepy.

   The  old Norsemen and the Scots recognized that the Ego is in the  blood.
No  stranger  could become associated with them as a relative until  he  had
"mixed blood" with them and thus become one of them.


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   In the descendants of the patriarchal families--Adam,  Methuselah,  etc.,
the  blood which coursed through their veins contained the pictures  of  all
that had happened to their different ancestors, and these pictures were con-
stantly  before the inner vision of each one as they had no outer vision  at
that time.   At the present time the blood of each individual contains  only
the pictures of his own individual experiences and the subconscious mind has
access to them.  Up to the time that marriage outside of the family was com-
menced  individuals were ruled by a Family Spirit (Angel) which entered  the
blood by means of the air inspired,  and helped each Ego to control its  ve-
hicles.  When marriage outside the family began, Egos had arrived at a point
in the evolution of self-consciousness where they could depend on self,  and
where   they   were  to  ease  being  God-guided   automatons   and   become
self-governing individuals.   The greater the mixture of blood the less  the
indwelling  Ego  can be influenced by the Race or Family  Spirits.   Unmixed
blood gave us ancestral assistance when we needed it.  Mixed blood makes for
independence of outside help.  A God (creator) must be independent.

   The heat of the blood is the vantage ground of the Ego,  and the  Lucifer
Spirits  from Mars aid in maintaining this heat by dissolving iron,  a  Mars
metal, in our blood to attract oxygen, a solar element.

   The  proper heat for the real expression of the Ego is not present  until
the mind is born from the macrocosmic Concrete Mind,  when the individual is
about twenty-one years old.   Statutory law also recognizes this as the ear-
liest age when the man is deemed fit to exercise a franchise.


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   In the lower order of animals blood is fluid and nucleated.   The nuclei,
enters  of  life,  are the vantage ground of a Group Spirit.   It  regulates
their vital processes and guides them through the nuclei.   During the early
part  of the gestatory period the blood of the foetus is also  nucleated  by
the life of the mother, and she regulates the process of body building,  but
as soon as the incoming Ego enters the mothers body,  it commences to assert
its individuality and resists formation of nucleated blood cells.   The  old
cells gradually disappear,  so that when the silver cord is tied at the time
of  quickening and the Ego is drawn into its body,  all nuclei  have  disap-
peared, and it is absolute autocrat of its new vehicle, a heritage more pre-
cious  than any other earthly possession;  and when properly used it is  our
means  of generating soul power and laying up treasure in heaven.   When  we
abandon  this  vehicle to Spirit controls,  we seriously hinder  our  higher
evolution and commit a great sin.

   Thus the blood is the particular vehicle of the Ego,  and as in the  past
aeons of development we have crystallized matter in order to form our  dense
body,  so also it is destined that now we must etherealize our  vehicles  in
order that we may lift ourselves and the world out of the realms of  materi-
ality and into the spiritual.   Naturally, therefore,  the Ego aims first to
make  the blood gaseous,  and to the spiritual sight,  this red  unnucleated
blood is not a fluid,  but a gas.   It is no argument against this assertion
that  the  moment we prick our skin the blood comes out as  a  liquid.   The
moment we open up the try-cock of a steam boiler the gas also condenses into
a liquid, but if we make  a  model steam engine of glass and look at the way


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steam  works there we shall see only the piston move backward  and  forward,
driven by an invisible agent,  LIVE STEAM, and similarly,  as the live steam
direct from the boiler is invisible, and gaseous,  so also the LIVE BLOOD in
the  human  body is a gas,  and the higher the state of development  of  any
given Ego, the more ethereal is it able to make the blood.

   When,  by the vital processes,  food has reached the  highest  alchemical
state,  the process of condensation begins and the blood-gas is formed  into
tissue in the various organs to replace what has been wasted or destroyed by
the  activities of the body.   The spleen is the gateway of the vital  body;
there the solar force which abounds in the surrounding atmosphere enters  in
a constraint stream,  to aid us in the vital processes,  and there also  the
war  between  the  desire body and the vital body is  waged  most  fiercely.
Thoughts of worry, fear, and anger interfere with the process of evaporation
in the spleen,  a speck of plasm is the result,  and this is at once  seized
upon  by  a  thought elemental which forms a  nucleus  and  embodies  itself
therein.   Then it commences to live a life of destruction,  colaescing with
other waste products and decaying elements wherever formed,  making the body
a  charnel house instead of the temple of in indwelling living  Spirit.   We
may  therefore say EVERY WHITE CORPUSCLE WHICH HAS BEEN TAKEN BY AN  OUTSIDE
ENTITY IS TO THE EGO A LOST OPPORTUNITY.   The more of these lost opportuni-
ties there are in the body,  the less is the body under control of the  Ego,
therefore  we find them present in larger numbers in all diseases than  when
the person is in health.  It may also be said that the person of jovial good
nature or one who is devoutly  religious and has an absolute faith and trust


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in divine providence and love, will register many less lost opportunities or
white corpuscles than those who are always worrying and fretting.

   So it is that the blood is the only part of the body really course.   The
measure in which we control all blood depends upon the Ego's ability to  ex-
press itself through the body.   It is only through the red corpuscles  that
the  Ego  is able to work.   Whenever we allow ourselves to be  negative  we
manufacture  white  corpuscles,  which  are  not,  as  we  have  seen,  "the
policement of the system," as science now thinks, but destroyers.

   When  the blood courses through the arteries which are deep in the  body,
it  is a gas,  as has been shown;  but loss of heat near the surface of  the
body  causes  it to partially condense,  and in that substance  the  Ego  is
learning to form mineral crystals.   Science has lately found that the blood
of  different people has different crystals,  so that it is possible now  to
the tell the blood of a negro from the blood of a white man;  but there will
come a day when they will know a still greater difference; for just as there
is a difference in the crystals formed by the different races,  so there  is
also a difference in the crystals formed by each individual man.

   Looking at the matter from another angle, we may note that when blood  is
beaten with a stick it separates into three distinct substances:   the serum
or  water-like substance which comes under Cancer ruled by the  Moon  (Lunar
Hierarchy); the red coloring matter which is the Martian substance generated
under  Scorpio;  and  most  important  of all, the fibrin, or stringy matter


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which is under the third of the watery signs, Pisces.  When the skeleton was
outside our flesh,  consciousness was dull as in the crustacea.   By getting
outside the bony structure we have gained a much higher grade of  conscious-
ness,  and by spiritualizing this inner skeleton through the medium  of  the
blood,  we extract the essence of all we have learned in the past epochs and
transform  it to usable soul power in the Jupiter Period.   To interfere  in
this work is a crime against the soul.

   Since  woman has the positive vital body,  she matures earlier  than  the
male,  and the parts which remain plant-like, such as the hair,  grow longer
and more luxuriant.   Naturally positive vital body will generate more blood
than the negative vital body possessed by the male, hence we have in woman a
greater blood pressure,  which it is necessary to relieve by the  periodical
flow, and when that eases at the climacteric period there is a second growth
in woman, particularly well expressed in the saying, "fat and forty."

   The  impulses  of the desire body drive the blood through the  system  at
varying rates of speed,  according to the strength of the emotions.   Woman,
having  an excess of blood,  works under much higher pressure than man,  and
while this pressure is relieved by the periodical flow, there are times when
it is necessary to have an extra outlet; then the tears of woman,  which are
WHITE BLEEDING,  act as a safety valve to remove the excessive fluid.   Men,
although they may have as strong emotions as women,  are not given to  tears
because they have no more blood than they can comfortably use.


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   The blood is now differently constituted from what it was in the  earlier
ages of human evolution.   The Christ Spirit was seen at the Baptism to  de-
scent upon Jesus'  body.   Jesus himself, the Spirit, left that body and was
given a mission to serve the churches while his body was being used for  di-
rect  teaching by the Christ,  and his blood was being prepared as  an  OPEN
SESAME to the Kingdom of God.

   When anyone is killed, the Venus blood with its impurities clings closely
to  the flesh,  and therefore the arterial blood which flows  is  distinctly
leaner  than it would otherwise be.  Being etherealized by the great  Christ
Spirit,  the  cleansed  blood of Jesus overflowed the  world,  purified  the
Etheric  Region  of selfishness to a great extent,  and gave  man  a  better
chance to draw to himself materials which will allow him to form  altruistic
purposes and desires.
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THE DUCTLESS GLANDS:

   It  is well known to the esoteric astrologer that the human body  has  an
immense period of evolution behind it and that this splendid organism is the
result of a slow process of gradual upbuilding which is still continuing and
will make each generation better than the previous until in some far distant
future  it shall have reached a stage of completion of which we cannot  even
dream.  It is also understood by the deeper students that in addition to the
physical body man has finer vehicles which are not yet seen by the great ma-
jority  of human beings,  though all have within them latent a  sixth  sense
whereby they will in time cognize these finer sheaths of the soul.

   The  occultist  speaks of these finer vehicles as the vital body, made of


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ether,  and the desire body,  made of desire stuff,  the material whence  we
draw our feelings and emotions,  and with the addition of the SHEATH OF MIND
and  the  physical body these complete what may be  termed  the  personality
which  is  the evanescent part distinct from the immortal Spirit  that  uses
these vehicles for its expression.  These finer vehicles interpenetrate  the
dense physical body as air permeates water and have particular dominion over
certain parts thereof, because the physical body itself is a crystallization
of these finer vehicles in the same manner and upon the same principle  that
the  soft fluids of a snail's body gradually crystallize into the  hard  and
flinty shell which it carries upon its back.   For the purpose of this  dis-
sertation  we may say broadly that the softer parts of our bodies  which  we
commonly call flesh may be divided into two kinds, glands and muscles.

   The vital body was started in the Sun Period.   Crystallization from that
time on it that vehicle has developed what we now call  glands  and  to this
day they and  the  blood  are  the  special manifestations of the vital body
within the physical vehicle. Therefore, the glands as a whole may be said to
be under the rule of the life-giving Sun and the great benefic, Jupiter.  It
is the function of the  vital  body  to  build  and  restore the tone of the
muscles when  tense and tired by the work imposed upon them by the  restless
desire body, which was started in the Moon Period. The muscles are therefore
ruled by the wandering Moon, which is the present  vantage  point of the An-
gels, the humanity of the Moon period,  and  by  the impulsive and turbulent



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Mars, where the so-called "Fallen Angels," the Lucifer Spirits, dwell.  That
is to say, as a whole,  for the student must carefully note that  individual
glands  and particular  groups  of  muscles are under the rulership of other
planets  as well.   It  is  as when we say that all who live in  the  United
States  of America are citizens of that country, but some are subject to the
laws  of California, others to those of Maine, etc.

   We know the Hermetic Axiom, "As above, so below," which is the master key
to all mysteries,  and as there are upon the Earth,  the macrocosm,  a great
many  undiscovered places,  so also in the microcosm of the body do we  find
unknown countries that are a closed book to the scientific explorers.  Chief
among them has been a small group of the so-called "ductless glands,"  seven
in number, namely:

   The Pituitary Body, ruled by Uranus.
   The Pineal Gland, ruled by Neptune.
   The Thyroid Gland, ruled by Mercury.
   The Thymus Gland, ruled by Venus.
   The Spleen, ruled by the Sun.
   The two Adrenals, ruled by Jupiter.

   They have a great and particular interest for occultists, and they may be
termed in a certain sense "the seven roses" upon the Cross of the body,  for
they are intimately connected with the occult development of humanity.  Four
of them,  the thymus gland,  the spleen,  and the two adrenals are connected
with  the  personality.   The pituitary body and the pineal gland  are  par-
ticularly  correlated with the spiritual side of our nature and the  thyroid
gland forms the link between.  The astrological rulership is as follows:


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   The  spleen is the entrance gate of the solar forces specialized by  each
human  being  and circulated through the body as the  vital  fluid,  without
which no being can live.  This organ is therefore governed by the Sun.   The
two adrenals are under the rulership of Jupiter, the great benefic,  and ex-
ert a calming, quieting and soothing effect when the emotional activities of
the Moon and Mars or Saturn have destroyed the poise.   When the obstructive
hand  of Saturn has awakened the melancholy emotions and laid its  restraint
upon  the heart,  the adrenals'  secretions are carried by the blood to  the
heart and act as a powerful stimulant in its effort to keep up the  circula-
tion,  while the jovial optimism struggles against the saturnine worries  or
against the impulse of Mars, which stirs the desire body into turbulent emo-
tions of anger,  rendering the muscles tense and trembling,  dissipating the
energy of the system.   Then the secretion of the adrenals comes to the res-
cue,  releasing  the glycogen of the liver in a more abundant  measure  than
usual  to  cope with the emergency until the equipoise has  been  again  at-
tained,  and similarly during whatever other stress or strain.   It was  the
knowledge of this occult fact that prompted the ancient astrologers to place
the kidneys under the rulership of Libra, the Balance, and in order to avoid
confusion of ideas we may say that the kidneys themselves play an  important
part  in the nutrition of the body, being under the rulership of Venus,  the
Lady of Libra.  However, Jupiter governs the adrenals, with which we are now
particularly engaged.

   Both Venus and her higher octave, Uranus,  govern the functions of nutri-
tion  and  growth,  but  in  different  ways  and  for  different  purposes.


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Therefore Venus rules the thymus gland,  which is the link between the  par-
ents and the child until the latter has reached puberty.   This gland is lo-
cated  immediately  behind the sternum or breast bone.   It  is  largest  in
antenatal  life and through childhood while growth is excessive  and  rapid.
During  that time the vital body of the child does its most effective  work,
for the child is not then subject to the passions and emotions generated  by
the  desire body after that comes to birth at or about the fourteenth  year.
But  during the years of growth the child cannot manufacture the  red  blood
corpuscles as does the adult,  for the unborn,  unorganized desire body does
not  then act as an avenue for the martian forces which assimilate the  iron
from the food and transmute it into hemoglobin.  To compensate for this lack
there is stored in the thymus gland a spiritual essence drawn from the  par-
ents,  and with this essence provided by their love the child is able to ac-
complish the alchemistry of blood temporarily until its desire body  becomes
dynamically  active.   Then the thymus gland atrophies and the  child  draws
from its own desire body the necessary martian force.  From that time, under
normal conditions,  Uranus,  the octave of Venus, and ruler of the pituitary
body, takes charge of the function of growth and assimilation in the follow-
ing manner.

   It is well known that all things,  our food included,  radiate from them-
selves continuously small particles which given an index of the thing whence
they emanate, its quality included.  Thus when we lift the food to our mouth
a  number of these invisible particles enter the nose and by  excitation  of
the olfactory tract convey to us a knowledge whether the  food  we are about


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to take is suitable for this purpose or not,  the sense of smell warning  us
to discard such foods as have a noxious odor,  etc.   But besides those par-
ticles which attract or repel us from food by their action on the  olfactory
tract through the sense of smell, there are others which penetrate the sphe-
noid bone, impinge upon the pituitary body and start the uranian alchemistry
by which a secretion is formed and injected into the blood.   This  furthers
assimilation  through the chemical ether, thus affecting the  normal  growth
and well-being of the human body through life.   Sometimes this Uranian  in-
fluence  of  the pituitary body is eccentric and therefore  responsible  for
strange and abnormal growths which produce the unfortunate freaks of  Nature
we occasionally meet.

   But  besides being responsible for the spiritual impulses which  generate
the  before-mentioned  physical manifestations of  growth,  Uranus,  working
through the pituitary body,  is also responsible for the spiritual phases of
growth which aid awakened man in his efforts to penetrate the veil into  the
invisible worlds.  In this work it is, however, associated with Neptune, the
ruler of the pineal gland,  and it will therefore be necessary,  in order to
properly elucidate, that we study the functions of the thyroid gland,  ruled
by  Mercury,  and of the pineal gland which is under the domination  of  his
higher octave, Neptune, simultaneously.

   That the thyroid gland is under the rule of Mercury,  the planet of  rea-
son,  is  readily realized when we understand the effect  which  the  degen-
eration  of  this  gland  has  upon  the  mind,  as shown in the diseases of


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of Cretinism and Myxedema.  The secretions of this gland are as necessary to
the proper functioning of the mind as ether is to the transmission of  elec-
tricity,  that  is to say,  upon the physical plane of existence  where  the
brain  transmutes thought into action.   Contact with and expression in  the
invisible  worlds depends upon the functional ability of the  pineal  gland,
which  is altogether spiritual and is therefore ruled by the octave of  Mer-
cury,  Neptune,  the planet of spirituality,  which operates in  conjunction
with the pituitary body ruled by Uranus.

   Scientists have wasted much time in speculation upon the nature and func-
tion  of these two little bodies,  the pituitary body and the pineal  gland,
but without avail,  and principally because,  as Mephistopheles says so sar-
castically to the young man who wants to study science under Faust:

   "WHO E'ER WOULD KNOW AND TREAT OF AUGHT ALIVE
    SEEKS FIRST THE LIVING SPIRIT THENCE TO DRIVE;
    THEN ARE THE LIFELESS FRAGMENTS IN HIS HAND;
    HE LACKS, ALAS!  THE VITAL SPIRIT BAND."

   No  one can really and truly observe the physiological functions  of  any
organ  under such conditions as exist in the laboratory,  on  the  operating
table,  or in the dissection or vivisection chamber.   To arrive at  an  ad-
equate understanding one must necessarily see these organs exercising  their
physiological  functions IN THE LIVING BODY,  and that can only be  done  by
means of spiritual sight.  There are a number of organs which are either at-
rophying  or developing;  the former show the path we have already  traveled
during  our  past  evolution,  the  latter  are finger posts, indicating our


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future  development.   But there is still another class of organs which  are
neither degenerating nor evolving;  they are simply dormant (spiritually) at
the present time.  Physiologists believe that the pituitary body and the pi-
neal  gland are atrophying because they find these organs more developed  in
some of the lower classes of life,  such as worms,  but as a matter of  fact
they  are wrong in their ideas.   Some have also suspected that  the  pineal
gland  is in some way connected with the mind,  because it contains  certain
crystals after death,  and the quantity was much less in those who were men-
tally  defective  than in people of normal mentality.   This  conclusion  is
right,  but the Seer knows that the spinal canal of the living is not filled
with  FLUID;  that the blood is not LIQUID,  and that these organs  have  no
crystals in them when the body is alive.

   These assertions are made with full knowledge of the fact that the  blood
and  the  spinal essence are liquid when drawn out of the  body,  living  or
dead,  and  the contents of the pituitary body and the pineal  gland  APPEAR
crystalline when the brain is dissected. However,  the reason is similar  to
that  which causes steam drawn from a steam boiler to  condense  immediately
upon  contact with the atmosphere,  and molten metal drawn from a  smelter's
furnace to crystallize immediately upon withdrawal therefrom.

   All these substances are purely spiritual essences when inside the  body;
they are then ethereal and the substance in the pineal gland,  when seen  by
the spiritual sight,  appears as LIGHT.   Furthermore,  when one Seer  looks
upon  the  pineal gland of another who is then also exercising his spiritual


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faculties,  this light is of a most intense brilliancy and of an iridescence
similar to but transcending in beauty the most wonderful play of the  North-
ern Lights,  the AURORA BOREALIS.   It may also be said that the function of
this  organ seems to have changed in the course of human evolution.   During
the earlier epochs of our present stay upon the Earth, when man's body was a
large,  baggy thing into which the Spirit had not yet entered, but was there
only as an overshadowing presence,  there was an opening in the top and  the
pineal gland was within it.   It was then an organ of orientation,  giving a
sense  of direction.   As the human body condensed, it became less and  less
able to endure the intense heat which prevailed during that time and the pi-
neal  gland gave warning when the body was brought too near one of the  many
raters  and active volcanoes which were then erupting the thin Earth  crust,
thus  enabling the Spirit to guide it away from these dangerous places.   It
was an organ of direction which operated by feeling,  but feeling has  since
been distributed over the skin of the whole body.   This is an indication to
the  occultist  that some day the senses of hearing and sight will  also  be
similarly distributed so that we shall both see and hear with our whole body
and thus become still more sensitive in those respects than we are now.

   Since  then the pineal gland the pituitary body have  become  temporarily
dormant (spiritually) to make man oblivious to the invisible world while  he
learns the lessons afforded by the material world.   The pituitary body  has
manifested  the Uranian influence sporadically in abnormal physical  growth,
producing  freaks  and monstrosities of various kinds, while Neptune working


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also  abnormally through the pineal gland, has been responsible for the  ab-
normal spiritual growth of medicine men, witches, and mediums of Spirit con-
trols.   When  they  are awakened to normal activities  these  two  ductless
glands will open the door to the inner worlds in a sane and safe manner, but
in the meantime the thyroid gland, ruled by Mercury,  the  planet of reason,
holds the secretion necessary to give the brain balance.

   In the future the ductless glands are destined to play a prominent  role;
their development will accelerate evolution greatly,  for their effects  are
mainly mental and spiritual.   We are now nearing the Aquarian Age;  the Sun
is  therefore  beginning to transmit the highly intellectual  vibrations  of
this sign which accounts for the intuitions,  premonitions,  and  telepathic
transmission  now so prevalent.   In the final analysis these phenomena  are
due  to the awakening of the pituitary body,  ruled by Uranus,  the lord  of
Aquarius, and every passing year will make them more manifest.

THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM:

   The Lymphatic System is tubular and somewhat closely associated with  the
capillaries  which connect the Venus and arterial circulations,  terminating
the  large veins near the heart.   The lymph which flows along  its  channel
passes out one way, viz:  toward the center of circulation,  the heart.   It
is considered a system of small sewers for the body,  simply because it col-
lects  the dish water of the tissues after they have all been bathed in  the
lymph  which  it  carries.  If  you  think  of  the tubes as drainage canals


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depleting  the tissues of the wash water,  you may think of these  lymphatic
glands as locks along the course of the channels at which the flow of  lymph
must stop and be filtered on its way to the Venus blood stream.

   The  glands are located in the bends of the elbows,  in the arm pits,  in
the popliteal spaces,  in the groins, thickly scattered throughout the ante-
rior part of the neck (the part in front of the cervical vertebrae),  in the
abdomen  between the folds of the mesentery which suspends the small  intes-
tines to the backbone, and in the chest between the lungs,  this space being
known as the mediastinum.

   Every  one of the lymphatic vessels passes through one or more  of  these
glands on its way to its destination in the veins.   The lymph cells are the
only cells in the body that possess no cell wall;  they move about like jel-
lyfish  in water.   When inflammation attacks the human body in any  of  its
types, the lymph is more responsible, for all poisonous liquids pass at once
into the lymphatic channels.

   The glands are likely to be sickly, owing to the poisonous nature of  the
lymph  which filters through them.   The lymphatic system is threefold:   it
collects lymph from the tissues, chyle from the intestines after it has been
manufactured  in  the process of digestion, and by means  of  the  lymphatic
glands  manufactures  lymph cells which are identical with the  white  blood
corpuscles.


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                                 CHAPTER II

                               THE VITAL BODY

EVOLUTION AND GENERAL PURPOSE:

   The vital body is the second oldest of our vehicles,  having its original
germ given by the Lords of Wisdom in the Sun period.   In the Sun Revolution
of  the Moon Period it was modified to render it capable of being  interpen-
etrated by a desire body,  also of accommodating itself to the nervous  sys-
tem, muscle, skeleton, etc.

   During  the Sun Revolution of the Earth Period the vital body was  recon-
structed  to accommodate the germinal mind.  It was fashioned at  this  time
more  in the likeness of the dense body,  its organization at present  being
next to the dense body in efficiency.

   Further reconstruction was done in the Hyperborean Epoch of the Earth Pe-
riod  when the Lords of Form appeared,  with the Angels,  and clothed  man's
dense form, then a baggy-shaped object, with a vital body.

   The  dense  body  is  built into the matrix  of  the  vital  body  during
antenatal life,  and with one exception,  it is an exact copy,  molecule for
molecule, of the vital body.  All through life the vital body is the builder
and restorer of the dense form, its tendency being to soften,  as well as to
build.  Its  chief  expression  is  the  blood  and  the  glands,  also  the


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sympathetic nervous system, having gained ingress into the stronghold of the
desire body when it began to develop the heart into a voluntary muscle.

   It interpenetrates the dense body and extends beyond its periphery  about
an  inch and a half.   In texture the vital body may be crudely compared  to
one of those picture frames made of hundreds of little pieces of wood  which
interlock and present innumerable points to the observer.  The points of the
vital  body enter into the hollow centers of the dense atoms,  imbuing  them
with vital force that sets them vibrating at a rate higher than that of  the
mineral of the Earth which is not thus accelerated and ensouled.

THE ETHERS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS:

   When we analyze the human being, we find that in him all four ethers (the
chemical,  life,  light and reflecting ethers) are dynamically active in the
highly  organized vital body.   By means of the activities of  the  chemical
ether he is able to assimilate food and to grow;  the forces at work in  the
life  ether  enable him to propagate his species;  the forces in  the  light
ether  supply the dense body with heat, work on the nervous system  and  the
muscles,  thus opening the doors of communication with the outside world  by
way  of the senses;  and the reflecting ether enables the Spirit to  control
its vehicles by means of thought.  This ether also stores past experience as
memory.

   The chemical and life ethers form a matrix for our physical bodies.  Each
molecule of the physical body is embedded in a meshwork of ether which  per-
meates and infuses it with life.  Through these ethers the bodily functions,
such as respiration, etc., are carried on, and the density  and  consistency


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of these matrices of ether determine the state of health.

   The  atoms  of the chemical and life ethers gathered around  the  nuclear
seed atom located in the solar plexus are shaped like prisms.   They are all
located in such a manner that when the solar energy enters our body  through
the spleen, the refracted ray is red.  This is the color of the creative as-
pect of the Trinity, namely, Jehovah, the Holy Spirit,  who rules Luna,  the
planet of fecundation.   Therefore the vital fluid from the Sun which enters
the  human body by way of the spleen becomes tinged with a pale rose  color,
often noted by Seers when it courses along the nerves as electricity does in
the wires of an electric system.  Thus charged, the chemical and life ethers
are the avenues of assimilation which preserve the individual, and of fecun-
dation which perpetuates the race.

   During life each prismatic vital atom penetrates a physical atom and  vi-
brates  it.   To form a picture of this combination,  imagine a  pear-shaped
wire basket having walls of spirally curved wire running obliquely from pole
to pole.  This is the physical atom; it is shaped nearly like our Earth, and
the prismatic vital atom is inserted from the top,  which is widest and cor-
responds to the north pole of our Earth.   Thus the point of the prism  pen-
etrates the physical atom at the narrowest point,  which corresponds to  the
south  pole of the Earth,  and the whole resembles a top swinging,  swaying,
and vibrating.  In this manner our body is made alive and capable of motion.

   The light and reflecting ethers are avenues of consciousness and  memory.
They  are  somewhat  attenuated  in  the average individual and have not yet


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yet taken definite form; they interpenetrate the atom as air interpenetrates
a sponge, and they form a slight auric atmosphere outside each atom.

   It  has been determined by physical science that the atoms in  our  dense
body  are  constantly changing so that all the material which  composes  our
present vehicle at this moment will have disappeared in a few years,  but it
is  common  knowledge that scars and other blemishes  perpetuate  themselves
from childhood to old age.   The reason for this is that the prismatic ether
atoms  which compose our vital body remain unchanged from the cradle to  the
grave.   They are always in the same relative position--that is to say,  the
prismatic ether atoms which vibrate the physical atoms in the toes or in the
fingers  do not get to the hands,  legs, or any other part of the body,  but
remain in exactly the same place where they were placed in the beginning.  A
lesion of the physical atoms involves a similar impression on the  prismatic
ether atoms.   The new physical matter molded over them continues to take on
shape and texture similar to those which originally obtained.

   The foregoing remarks apply only to the prismatic atoms which  correspond
to solids and liquids in the Physical World,  because they assume a  certain
definite  shape which they preserve.   But in addition each human  being  at
this stage of evolution has a certain amount of light and reflecting  ether,
which are the vehicles of sense perception and memory,  intermingled in  his
vital body.  We may say that the light ether corresponds to the gases of our
Physical  World;  perhaps the best description that can be given of the  re-
flecting ether is to call it hyper-etheric.  It  is a vacuous substance of a


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bluish color resembling in appearance the blue core of a gas flame.   It ap-
pears transparent and seems to reveal everything that is within it, but nev-
ertheless it hides all the secrets of nature and humanity.   In it is  found
one record of the memory of Nature.  The light and reflecting ethers are  of
an exactly opposite nature to that of the stationary prismatic ether  atoms.
They are volatile and migratory.   However much or little a man possesses of
this material,  it is an accretion, a fruitage, derived from his experiences
in life.   Inside the body it mingles with the blood stream and when it  has
grown by service and sacrifice in life's school so that it can no longer  be
contained  within the body it is seen on the outside as a soul body of  gold
and blue.

   Blue shows the highest type of spirituality,  therefore it is smallest in
volume  and  may be compared to the blue core of the gas  flame,  while  the
golden  hue forms the larger part and corresponds to the yellow light  which
surrounds the core in the gas ring.  The blue color does not appear  outside
the  dense body save in the very greatest of saints--only yellow is  usually
observable there.   At death this part of the vital body is etched into  the
desire body with the life panorama which it contains.   The quintessence  of
all  our life experience is then eventually impressed upon the seed atom  as
conscience or virtue which urges us to avoid evil and to do good in a coming
life.  Thus the quality of the seed atom is altered from life to life.   The
quintessence of good extracted from the migratory part of the vital body  in
one life determines the quality of the prismatic  stationary  ether atoms in


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the next life.   The highest in one life becomes the lowest in the next  and
thus we gradually climb the ladder of evolution towards divinity.

   From the foregoing it will be evident that the vital body is a vehicle of
habit;  all parents know that during the first seven years of childhood when
this  vehicle is in course of gestation that children form one  habit  after
another.  Repetition is the keynote of the vital body and habits depend upon
repetition.   It is different with the desire body,  the vehicle of feelings
and emotions which are always changing from moment to moment;  though it has
been said that the ether which forms our soul body is in constant motion and
mingles  with the blood stream,  that motion is relatively slow compared  to
the  rapidity of the current of the desire body;  we may say that the  ether
moves like a snail compared with light.

   When  the  Ego is on its way to rebirth through the  Region  of  Concrete
Thought,  the Desire World,  and the Etheric Region,  it gathers  a  certain
amount of material from each.  The quality of this material is determined by
the  seed  atom,  on the principle that like attracts  like.   The  quantity
depends  upon the amount of matter required by the archetype built  by  our-
selves  in the second Heaven.   From the quantity of prismatic  ether  atoms
that  are appropriated by a certain Spirit,  the Recording Angels and  their
agents  build an etheric form which is then plead in the mother's  womb  and
gradually clothed with physical matter which then forms the visible body  of
the new born child.

   Only  a small portion of the ether appropriated by a certain Ego is  thus
used,  and  the  remainder of the child's vital body, or rather the material


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from which that vehicle will eventually be made,  is thus outside the  dense
body.   For that reason the vital body of a child protrudes much farther be-
yond the periphery of the dense body than does that of an adult.  During the
period of growth this store of ether atoms is drawn upon to vitalize the ac-
cretions within the body until,  at the time when the adult age is  reached,
the  vital body protrudes only from one to one and a half inches beyond  the
periphery of the dense body.

   The Western Wisdom School teaches as its fundamental maxim that "all  oc-
cult  development begins with the vital body."   The part of the vital  body
formed of the two higher ethers,  the light ether and the reflecting  ether,
is what we may term the SOUL BODY; that is to say, it is more closely linked
with  the  desire body and the mind and also more amenable to  the  Spirit's
touch  than are the two lower ethers.  It is the vehicle of  intellect,  and
responsible for all that makes man, man.  Our observations, our aspirations,
our character,  etc.,  are due to the work of the Spirit in these two higher
ethers,  which become more or less luminous according to the nature  of  our
character and habits.  Also, as the dense body assimilates particles of food
and thus gains in flesh,  so the two higher ethers assimilate our good deeds
during  life and thus grow in volume as well.   According to our  doings  in
this present life we thus increase or decrease that which we brought with us
at birth.  This is the reason the Western Wisdom Teaching says that ALL MYS-
TIC DEVELOPMENT BEGINS WITH THE VITAL BODY.


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                                 CHAPTER III

                        THE DESIRE BODY AND THE MIND

   In the third Revolution of the Moon Period the Lords of Individuality ra-
diated  from  themselves the substance which they  helped  the  unconscious,
evolving  man  to appropriate and build into a germinal desire  body.   They
also helped him to incorporate this germinal desire body in the compound vi-
tal body and dense body which he already possessed.   This work was  carried
on all through the third and fourth Revolutions of the Moon Period.

   The antagonistic "lower will"  or will of the body,  is an expression  of
the  higher  part of the desire body.  When division of the Sun,  Moon,  and
Earth took place, in the early part of the Lemurian Epoch, the more advanced
portion of humanity-in-the-making experienced a division of the desire  body
into  a higher and a lower part.   The rest of humanity did likewise in  the
early part of the Atlantean Epoch.

   This  higher  part of the desire body became a sort of animal  soul.   It
build  the cerebrospinal nervous system and the voluntary muscles,  by  that
means  controlling  the lower part of the threefold body until the  link  of
mind was given.   Then the mind "coalesced"  with the animal soul and became
co-regent.

   During  the life of man his desire body is not shaped like his dense  and
vital bodies.  After  death  it  assumes that shape.  During life it has the


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appearance of a luminous ovoid which, in waking hours,  completely surrounds
the  dense body,  as the albumen does the yolk of an egg.   It extends  from
twelve  to sixteen inches beyond the dense body in the ordinary  individual.
The matter in the human desire body is composed of material from the  Desire
World and is in incessant motion of inconceivable rapidity.   There is in it
no settled place for any particle, as in the dense body.  The matter that is
at the head one moment may be at the feet in the next and back again.  There
are  no  organs in the desire body,  as in the dense and vital  bodies,  but
there are centers of perception, which, when active, appear as vortices, al-
ways remaining in the same relative position to the dense body.   In the ma-
jority  of people they are mere eddies and are of no use as centers of  per-
ception.   They  may  be awakened in all,  however,  but  different  methods
produce different results.   The desire body is rooted in the liver,  and is
born at about the fourteenth year in the being.

   In the involuntary clairvoyant developed along improper,  negative lines,
these vortices turn from right to left, or in the opposite direction to  the
hands of a clock--counter-clockwise.

   In  the desire body of the properly trained voluntary  clairvoyant,  they
turn in the same direction as the hands of a clock--clockwise,  glowing with
exceeding splendor,  far surpassing the brilliant luminosity of the ordinary
desire  body.   These centers furnish him with means for the  perception  of
things in the Desire World and he sees, and investigates as he wills,  while
the  person  whose  centers  turn  counter-clockwise is like a mirror, which


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reflects what passes before it.

   In a far distant future man's desire body will become as definitely orga-
nized  as  are the vital and dense bodies.   When that stage is  reached  we
shall all have the power to function in the desire body as we now do in  the
dense body.

THE MIND:

   In  the  Atlantean Epoch of the Earth Period the Lords of  Mind  radiated
from themselves into our being the nucleus of material from which we are now
seeking to build an organized mind.   It was given to man to give purpose to
action,  but as the Ego was exceedingly weak and the desire  nature  strong,
the nascent mind coalesced with the desire body;  the faculty of Cunning re-
sulted  and was the cause of all the wickedness of the middle third  of  the
Atlantean Epoch.

   The mind, being the last of man's vehicles built, is not yet even a body.
It  is simply a link,  a sheath for the use of the Ego as a focusing  point.
It  is however,  the most important instrument possessed by the Spirit,  and
its special instrument in the work of creation.   We,  ourselves,  as  Egos,
function directly in the subtle substance of the Region of Abstract Thought,
which  we  have  specialized within the periphery of  our  individual  aura.
Thence  we view the impressions made by the outer world upon the vital  body
through the senses, together with the feeling and emotions generated by them
in the desire body, mirrored in the mind.

   From these mental images we form our conclusions, in the substance of the


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Region  of Abstract Thought,  concerning the subjects with which they  deal.
These  conclusions  are  ideas.   By the power of will we  project  an  idea
through the mind, where it takes concrete shape as a thought form by drawing
mind stuff around itself from the Region of Concrete Thought.  The image may
be projected in one of three directions:

   (1)    It  may  be projected against the desire body in  an  endeavor  to
arouse feeling which will lead to immediate action.

   (2)   Where no immediate action is called for by the mental images of im-
pacts  from  without,  these may be projected directly upon  the  reflecting
ether, together with the thoughts  occasioned by  them,  to  be used at some
future time.

   (3)   It may be projected toward another mind to act as a suggestion,  to
carry information,  etc.  When the work designed for such a thought form has
been  accomplished,  or its energy expended in vain attempts to achieve  its
object,  it gravitates back to its creator,  bearing with it  the  indelible
record of its journey.

   At our present stage of evolution we say that the mind is born at the age
of  twenty-one,  but the prime of mentality is not reached until  about  the
forty-ninth year.

   The mind is the focusing medium whereby the ideas wrought by the imagina-
tion of the Spirit are projected upon the material universe.  First they are
thought  forms  only,  but when the desire to realize  the  imagined  possi-
bilities has set the man to work in the Physical World,  they become what we
call concrete "realities."


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   At the present time,  however,  the mind is not focused in a way that en-
ables  it to give a clear and true picture of what the Spirit imagines.   It
is not one-pointed.  It gives misty and clouded pictures.   Hence the neces-
sity  of  experiment to show the inadequacies of the first  conception,  and
bring about new imaginings and ideas until the image produced by the  Spirit
in mental substance has been reproduced in physical substance.

   At  the best,  we are able to shape through the mind only such images  as
have to do with Form, because the human mind was not started until the Earth
Period,  and therefore is now in its form, or "mineral" stage,  hence in our
operations we are confined to forms,  to minerals.   We can imagine ways and
means of working with the mineral forms of the three lower kingdoms, but can
do little or nothing with living bodies.   We may indeed graft living branch
to living tree, or living part of animal or man to other living part, but it
is not life with which we are working; it is form only.   We are making dif-
ferent conditions,  but the life which already inhabited the form  continues
to do so.  To work with life is beyond man's power until his mind has become
alive.

   In  the Jupiter Period the mind will be vivified to some extent  and  man
can them imagine forms which will LIVE AND GROW, LIKE PLANTS.

   In the Venus Period, when his mind has acquired "Feeling,"  he can create
living, growing, and FEELING things.

   When he reaches perfection,  at the end of the Vulcan Period,  he will be
able to "imagine" into existence creatures that will live, grow,  feel,  and
THINK.


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