Section 17

The record states that when Jesus was born he was "Put in swaddling clothes," or covered. The mineral salts in the medulla oblongata, through which the pineal and pituitary fluids flow on the way down the Ida and Pingala nerves, carry enough of the mineral salts to form the crust or seed that protects the "Precious Oint- ment" that is finally released when the seed goes over the crossed Ida and Pingala, at Golgotha. Hence, "Father remove this cup (cover) from me."
Again, the "mantle that fell on Elisha" was this same cup or swaddling cloth that is represented by "As I go so will I come again." Who? This same Jesus, or "Elisha— Elijah.
"I am the resurrection and the life."
Moses represents the seed, also, found in an ark.
"To Abraham and his seed was the promise given, and to thy seed, which is Christ." — Paul.
"Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
"And they said, Some say that thou are John the Bap- tist, some Elias, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets" — i.e., resurrected seeds.
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OM MANI PADME HUM
The Jewel in the Lotus
The lotus flower is the cerebrum, whose convolutions or petals receive all vibrations from without and are transmitted to the mechanism within, there to be trans- lated into terms of the senses. Dew-drops from the boundless sea of the Virgin Mary, the tender mother, glisten on its perfumed petals, while they reflect the golden glory of the spiritual sun.
Countless thousands of these wondrous petals lie tightly closed in the cerebrum of the average person. Sad to relate, there are many, many people in whom the lotus petals have atrophied, died and decayed. Then the asy- lum or the institution for the feeble minded claims them.
The Optic within the Thalamus is the heart, the fair jewel within the lotus bud. It is the stone the builders rejected.
The spinal cord is the stem of the lotus, a filament from which reaches down into the slime of the asphalt bed.
The Kundalini fire within the sacred plexus is the Bride of the Lot-us, Lot's wife who looked back and became a pillar of salt.
As the dark and slimy bed conceals the quintessence of richness which fertilizes the lotus, and causes it to bud, so the vibrations from the sun above impinge upon this wonderful bud, and the force from above and the force from beneath, meeting in that wondrous heart of the lotus, causes all those beautiful petals to unfold, and lo ! its heart lies bare to the universe.
And thus in you and I, when that quintessence of rich- ness is kept within the body — when it is not "wasted in riotous living" — ascends the spinal cord, rising ever higher and higher until at last it reaches the heart of the lotus, the optic thalamus, vivifying it, revealing it, a glow- ing, scintillating jewel reflecting the light of the Logos Himself and its petals wide open to receive vibrations which translate into the music of the spheres — and once again a lotus has bloomed.
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When a human lotus blooms it is said that all nature thrills with gladness and thanksgiving.
THE HUMAN AUTOMOBILE
Man never invented anything. There is no new thing.
Within the "Fearfully and wonderfully made" human machine are the vestigial multiple forms conceived in the Infinite Mind, the prototypes of all things; and when the "Spirit in man," the Ego, receives understanding from the "wisdom of the Almighty," it operates on the canvas of life before it, the plane of expression and form, shapes machines, and the factories of a transient commercialism which serve their day like a child's toy, then go into the discard and disappear. One day the coach and four-in- hand, the next day the locomotive. Then man springs upon an automobile and drives it until the axles blaze and the spaces shrivel behind him.
Tomorrow he leaves earth behind and climbs the etheric terraces, peering into the unknown as if searching for the portals of some Celestial City.
The cerebellum is the chauffeur's seat, the pineal gland the lever, the cerebrum the gasoline tank (woe be to him who is out of oil), the solar plexus is the speedometer, and the spinal cord is the passageway from the oil tank.
The individual can run his automobile carefully, wisely, at just the right speed, and with common sense. He can lose control and try to climb a telegraph pole, or go over an embankment. If he or she is a careful driver and looks to the well-being of his machine, he would be care- ful to have his steering gear in perfect order. If he found his machine had a hole in the gas tank and that the gas was being wasted, he would hasten to have it repaired. Does he ever even think of the oil tank in his own body?
THE HUMAN THERMOMETER
The spinal cord may be likened to a thermometer. The lower part of the vertebrae, the Dead Sea, or the Lake of Asphaltum (Cauda Equina) is the congealed mercury or quicksilver, which may be refined (melted) or raised by heat.
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When seeds have been saved so that that body becomes purified, the rate of its vibration has been changed, and at the proper time the wonderful Kundalini, the serpent fire, is released and rises to the top of the cord, going into the head and out through the door of Brahm — which is between the sutures. The mercury thus rises to the 33rd degree and goes over the top, reaching the shade or shadow of the Most High; 3 times 3 equals 9; thus 90 degrees in the shade.
THE PNEUMOGASTRIC OR VAGUS NERVE OR TREE AND HOLY GHOST
This wonderful nerve is the largest bundle of nerve fibers in the body. It is truly a Tree of Life, and its branches distribute the Holy Breath, essence, or Ghost, to lungs and solar plexus.
The breath, speaking from the natural body, is the air breathed into the lungs via the branches of trachea (Greek for rough), commonly termed wind-pipe.
For further information about the breath or air see "Turning water into wine." But the office of the pneu- mogastric tree is to conduct and properly distribute the "Holy Ghost/' the highly refined substance, a first potency of the breath that "God breathed into man."
When this breath is breathed into the body, about the age of twelve, and unites with the two different potencies of creative "substance" that descends from the "Most High," via the pineal gland, Joseph (or increase), and also through the pituitary gland, Mar-y (pure fluid-water) that have descended the two wonder nerves, extensions of pineal gland and pituitary body, one on each side of the spinal cord, and cross this great Strait between the 12th dorsal vertebra, "in Egypt where our Lord was also crucified"; thence united, they go up to the semi- lunar ganglio, a little space (see chart), thence into the manger in Bethlehem. Here the Divine Drama is en- acted and "Jesus is conceived of the Holy Ghost" — the whole breath, coming down the pneumogastric tree or nerve.
Pneumo means breath.
Breath in Greek is ghost.
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THE SON OF MAN
"Know ye not that the Son of man hath power in earth to forgive sins?"
Who is the Son of man?
"The seed (or word) is the Son of man."
Again, Revelation 19:13 — "And his name is called the WORD OF GOD."
REGENERATION
"Ye who have followed (disciple is a follower) me in the regeneration. "Read entire chapter of Matthew 19.
"Sell or exchange what thou hast and give to the poor."
Return one-tenth of the descending substance to the poor pineal gland, the central eye and the upper brain that is slowly but surely wasting away — therefore get- ting poorer every day. Matt. 19.
How can this poverty be prevented? See Matt. 19. "With man (carnal or Adam — of earth, earthy), it is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
How shall we come in touch with God and realize our power — i.e., to be perfect, even as our Father in heaven is perfect?
Answer: "When ye pray for anything, know that ye have it now."
This means that we recognize that all things exist now and that the upper brain, the Most High, the great reser- voir of "enduring substance" (Paul) will give to the Ego, who resides in the cerebellum (see chart), whatso- ever it asks, because the Ego RECOGNIZED the reality of the "Secret place of the MOST HIGH."
There are four brains in the human body. The cere- brum, the cerebellum, the medulla oblongata, and the solar plexus.
The Pingala nerve corresponds to the right sympathetic system; the Ida, to the left sympathetic system.
Sushumna passes from the terminus of the spinal cord to the top of the cranium.
"The spino-olivary fasciculus is a small tract, triangular in section, which runs on the surface of the cord and just lateral to the anterior roots of the spinal nerves. This is connected with the Dorsal Spino-cerebellar Fasciculus.
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The latter conveys non-sensory sympathetic impulses re- ceived from the viscera. In the dorsal part of this nerve is a small strand of fibers called the spinal vestibular tract which rises in the lumbar-sacral region of the cord." — Santee. We can easily see the connection between these nerves. The olivary of course has to do with the dis- tribution of the oil and we know that the sacral ganglion is connected with the genitals.
"Fibers of the cerebrum concerned with the higher psy- chic functions of the brain become medullated gradually, year after year, keeping pace with the mental develop- ment, and the process of medullation is not completed until late in life." — Kaes.
There is a central canal within the spinal cord. That which is within this canal is of a substance more like steam or gas than anything else.
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"AS A MAN THINKETH IN HIS HEART SO IS HE"
THOUGHT is the creative power in the universe. Universal intelligence, operating as thought, sprang forth, "Spirit-sandalled and shod," at the appointed time and in the appointed place, and Lo ! the planet earth, man's sorrowful star, became manifest.
Earth is man's sorrowful star for the reason that only by means of trouble and pain does humanity learn its lessons.
Spirit, manifesting on earth, uses earth as a negative pole, in order that the personality may grow. The min- eral, vegetable and animal kingdoms use earth in much the same way. The earth is one plane of manifestation.
How can a man think in his heart?
The organ that divides blood was called by the ancients "dividing pump" — not heart. The real heart is the cere- bellum and was so named by the Greeks and is the seat of thought.
Madame Blavatsky says, in the Secret Doctrine, that the cerebellum contains all, being the seat of intelligence.
The thinker, the individual or "man who never dies," has his home, therefore, in the cerebellum, under the shadow of the Almighty.
Read what the writer of the 91st Psalm has to say about this: "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Al- mighty."
Secret (secretion, oil or ointment) place of the Most High — is that place where the secretion of oil or ointment is found. In the Bible we see so many references to oil- anointing, secret, secretions, etc.
This plainly shows that the place of the Most High is the cerebrum, that portion of the anatomy of man whence comes the oil or ointment — the precious substance that
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fructifies the brain of man and causes it to develop ; it is that which nourishes the brain.
The abiding place of the Ego is "Under the shadow of the Almighty/' since the cerebrum extends entirely over and around it.
And again the Psalmist says :
"He will cover thee with his pinions and under his wings shalt thou take refuge."
The feathery convolutions which are plainly shown in the upper brain may be well compared to the feathers of a bird. The "Voice of the Silence" speaks of the Ego resting "Under the wings of the Great Bird."
The upper brain is composed of highly specialized sub- stance. It is a reservoir of God's creative compounds. It is that God-making material — the Kingdom of Heaven wherein all is found.
"Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven and all things shall be added unto you."
"The Kingdom of Heaven is within you."
Heaven means "heaved up" — a high place.
The cerebrum is, then, the kingdom of heaven, for it is within us. By seeking it we draw from it the precious oil or ointment which shall nourish the brain and therefore cause it to grow and expand.
Certain parts of the brain cells are dormant. They are in a certain slow rate of motion or activity, and, therefore, answer to vibrations of their kind.
Let us suppose, for example, that little cell in the brain is composed of spirallae, spirals of nerves, seven sets of which can be seen by the trained occultist.
In a person of low intelligence only three or four of these spirallae will be found to be active, while the man who is already working along the line of regeneration — living the life of self-sacrifice, will show five and six in active operation.
The higher and more lofty the quality of the thought, the finer or higher the vibration. Just as the vibration of the ether strikes upon the tympanum of the ear and pro- duces sound — so are the spirallae of the brain cells oper- ated upon by the fingers of the heavenly man, when the Kingdom is sought.
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Thought, then, is a vibration, and as a man thinks so does he vibrate his brain cells.
How many people really think?
The war has done more to wake people up and set them to thinking than anything else ever could have done. It has started that process in many people — it has forced them to think.
Thought is a particular development of ideas, some- thing entirely apart from the "hit-or-miss," "ramshackle" process which was supposed to be thought.
Let us begin to think; let us choose the material from which we shall build our temples — the temple of the "Liv- ing God."
The process that the average man calls thought is not consecutive thinking. God hasten the day when people will realize that all that is, has been or will be, is the re- sult of thought.
Thought is both creative and destructive.
Not only are we making our bodies now, but we are making those which we shall wear in the future.
By the future I mean when the individual is reincar- nated.
A great thinker has said : "Know this mighty fact, the soul is but the fruitage of thought tinctured and tarnished with the emotions, passions and desires of the flesh."
First, as regards the physical body. Thought selects the food by which the body is nourished. The cells of the body are being constantly destroyed and rebuilt. The purest food possible to obtain will construct a pure body. Vegetables, fruits and grains are of much finer construc- tion than flesh, and hence can vibrate to much higher rates of motion.
Flesh is decaying animal matter and is detrimental to the highest development of man. Much flesh eating thor- oughly coarsens the body, and the marks of his calling are stamped on the face of the butcher.
Another example is that of a man who drinks. Alco- hol brings about exactly the same result. The body can- not respond to any of the higher vibrations.
Just as surely as the note you strike on the piano must produce a certain tone, just so surely will your body
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answer to the same rate of vibration around it that it vibrates to in itself.
The high cost of flesh food during the war has been a blessing in disguise, for it was the only means whereby people could be brought to realize that they could still live if they never ate meat. Then, after a time, they will begin to realize that they can enjoy much better health without it.
If you wished to do a fine, delicate piece of work, you would not use coarse or unwieldy instruments in doing it.
Just as true is it that the vehicle of the spirit — Solo- mon's Temple — must be delicately and finely constructed.
The body must be kept scrupulously clean and be given sufficient exercise.
If your body is not satisfactory to you, it is because you have indulged in thoughts that have marred its con- struction.
It is never too late to do something toward the recon- struction and regeneration of the body.
Start NOW.
The physical man is made up of twelve divisions, i. e.f bone man, muscular man, nerve man, etc. These are all constructed with a certain cell salt or mineral as a base for each man or division of the body, see "Relation of the Mineral Salts of the Blood to the Signs of the Zodiac."
Each cell of the body is a living, throbbing intelligence. Each cell actually reaches out and grasps from out the water of life — that living stream of blood that is the life of the body — just the material it needs in its construction.
"The quality of the force called into action in any king- dom determines the quality of the offspring."