Section 4

He says, "The rose is made from the universal sub- stance," or "The rose is universal substance, in a certain rate of activity." Thanks! Blessed be the chemist! Universal — one verse — one substance — no other substance — God is the rose, or the smile we call a rose — God is again manifested in the great Eternal IT, for which there is no other name.
Job did not say, "I see the thoughts of God," nor did he say, "I can fathom the mind of God." The plan can- not be seen; but that which is planned — a planet — can be seen. One may see the substance of God without under- standing the mind of God.
Let us hear Emerson on this stupendous, glorious theme :
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"The great idea baffles wit; Language falters under it; It leaves the learned in the lurch — Nor art, nor power, nor toil can find The measure of the Eternal Mind, Nor hymn, nor prayer, nor church."
O thou ever-present Divine Mind and Substance ! We now fully realize our oneness with thee, and bathe and revel in thy glory. The mighty Angel of Reality has torn the veil of illusion, and we see the celestial City of Truth with wide-open gates and the white light of Eternal Love forever upon its streets.
O thou, in the shadow of sickness and trial, "Take up thy bed and walk; thy sins be forgiven thee."
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SARA AND ABRAM
(Sarah or Saria) (Abraham)
WHY was the letter "H" added to Sara and Abram? Heth (cheth) is the 8th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and means "a field," something per- ceived, or that can be cultivated — in short, spiritual per- ception.
In the story of Sarah and Abraham we find the marvel- ous truth that age imposes no limit or barrier to the birth of the "Incorruptible Seed" (Peter) for it is eternal life.
Sara, at the age of ninety, is told by an angel that she will give birth to a child. Abram, at the age of one hun- dred, received information that he would be the father of an offspring.
Immediately following these revelations, the letter UH" was added to both names. See 16th and 17th chap- ters of Genesis.
Abraham and Sarah now find Isaac, which in Hebrew means laughter or happiness.
"Thy seed shall be as the sands of the sea."
"Unto Abraham and his seed was the promise given; and unto thy seed, which is Christ" — Paul.
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Noah, David, Solomon, Isaiah, etc., etc., are not historical characters. Pontius Pilate, Darius, Pharaoh, Herod, are names of ruling offices, or functions, not certain individuals, no dates being given to any so-called transaction in the Scriptures, or to any of Paul's Epistles, nor to the Acts of the Apostles.
Pilate means "Dart; javelin; a giving up; death."
Pontius means "Sea; the open sea." "Marine."
He-rod means "Heroic."
Pharaoh, "Rulership."
Darius, "Coercer, conservator" (see presidency, judge- ship, etc.) .
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THE WORD OF GOD
4iTN the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God." — John, 1st Chapter.
"W. O. R. D." This combination of letters does not mean, in its first and original sense, voice, sound or speech. Physiologically speaking, it means a precious substance. Therefore, as mankind must be "placed on their feet" physically before the same condition can exist mentally and spiritually, we must get down to fundamentals, and give the physiological meaning of W. O. R. D.
The Hebrew alphabet consists of 22 letters, each letter having a concrete meaning. In the formation of Hebrew characters, letters were chosen, which, when combined, indicated plainly every phase of that idea which they wished to express.
Let us now take W. O. R. D., dissect it, and understand the meaning of each letter.
There is no letter "W" in the Hebrew alphabet. That which they used to designate our letter "W" was VV (double V), which is also used in our modern French. Its meaning is "hook." The arm and legs are the hooks of the body.
VV, then, or double V, is the 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and the characters which they used to express that letter, were written thus: TZADDI, almost unpro- nouncable. This letter is also, as we write it, the eight- eenth in our alphabet. Its number has a great significance. As the ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, "Teth," rep- resents the equilibrium of the father and mother — the perfect balance of the male and female, or positive and negative forces, as manifested in the perfected or com- pleted human being, so the eighteenth letter, Tzaddi, or double V (VV), is the representation of the fall of spirit toward the material world — or the material body and its
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passions. In astronomy it corresponds with the zodiacal sign, Aquarius.
As the sixth letter of the alphabet, Vav, expresses the struggle between the passions and conscience, the antagon- ism of ideas, so the eighteenth letter, VV, which is three times six or 666, represents the "beast" which we read of in Revelation, the Adam man. On the mental plane we use the expression He Phren, for this number, the lower mind, the material mind. In astronomy the affinity of this letter (6) is the bull (Taurus). Mankind, living wholly on the material plane, is hence a beast — a beast physically, mentally and emotionally. Animal on three planes. Thus in the Tarot we find that 18 represents "Antagonism."
Placing the two V's togther, one over the other, they represent the two arms and the two legs of the wwregen- erated man, as the upper V or triangle points downward. In the regenerated man the hands are folded together over the head in adoration of divinity, and thus the apex points upward. In the lower triangle the same change takes place, the forces hitherto misused, going downward and outward are sent upward and returned to the "Holy of Holies," the triangle becomes closed at the bottom and opened upward.
The letter "W," then, or VV, represents the earthly or Adam man, the material body and the lower mind.
The letter "O," the sixteenth letter of the alphabet, written Ayin, in Hebrew, has somewhat the same mean- ing as the first letter, but in a deeper sense alludes to a material building, an operation in the visible and material world. "The materialization of God, the Holy Spirit, the entrance of the Holy Spirit into the visible world," the Tarot tells us. Since God, One, is individual or undivided and undifferentiated, to manifest in the material plane, God or THAT must divide, must become two halves of the circle, must manifest as positive and negative, male and female, electricity and magnetism. From this we deduce the expression, "dual power" or "dual operation" — "dual force." In astronomy this is represented by the sign Capricorn. These dual forces, operating within us,
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thus become the Goat, which "Bears away the sins of the world" (circle-material body).
In the average human being, this dual power is not operating in harmony. The action is unequal. If these two currents operated in harmony in the human body, the regenerated man would be manifested, the flesh would have become the WORD itself.
The letter "R" is the twentieth letter, written "Resh," and the symbolism of this letter is most wonderful. It represents the head of man and is, therefore, associated with the idea of original and determined movement. It is the sign of motion itself, good, or bad, and expresses the renewal of things with regard to their innate power of motion. It corresponds to Saturn. uResh" also sym- bols rest. A ship may rest on water that is in motion.
The description of the inner meaning of this letter, in the Tarot, throws a flood of light upon it as used in its present position in W.O.R.D., as it has a deep esoteric significance. To quote : UA tomb opens in the earth, and a man, woman and child issue from it; their hands are joined in sign of adoration. How can the reawakening of nature under the influence of the WORD, be better expressed? We must admire the way in which the sym- bol answers to the corresponding Hebrew hieroglyphic."
Comment on the above quotation is scarcely necessary, yet for the convenience of those not yet able to figure it out for themselves, let it be said, that the tomb, cave or manger, is the birth place of the seed, the WORD, the "Son of man" which redeems the Adam man, IF NOT INTERFERED WITH. "Under the influence of the Word" indeed, is the carnal man, "dead in trespass and sin," reborn to a new life.
The letter "D," the fourth in the Hebrew alphabet, as also in ours, is written "Daleth," and means the womb, or door, mouth. It denotes abundance springing from di- vision. "Thus Daleth expresses a creation made by a being: according to divine laws. It expresses domination of spirit over matter. The Tarot thus wonderfully inter- prets its meaning: "In the Divine, Reflex of the Father, it is the will. In the Human, Reflex of Adam, it is power.
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In the Natural, Reflex of Natura naturans, it is the uni- versal creative fluid, the soul of the Universe. In astron- omy its affinity is Jupiter."
Summing this up we can see that the letter "D" stands for the solar plexus in the human body, as it is the reflec- tion of the true sun (the Father), and the source of all things.
W.O.R.D., then, means this: The creation, according to divine laws, from the universal creative fluid, in the tomb, cave or manger of the earth (solar plexus) , of that PERFECT ONE (SEED, fish, fruit, Jesus) Vishnu, Joshua, Moses, Horus, etc., etc., which has the power to spiritualize — regenerate the Adam man, so that he be- comes the "Lord God from heaven" — the WORD MADE FLESH." uAnd the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." — John 1 :14.
We realize, then, that word does not refer to speech. The Hebrew letter which signifies speech is Phe, the seventeenth letter. It refers to the force which dispenses the essence of life, which gives it the means of perpetually renewing its creations after destruction. We can speak destructively and we have the power to speak construc- tively.
The two letters "O" and "R" combined are used to specify a precious substance, originally referred to as "gold," for the ancients realized that the sun's rays, which they called "golden," precipitated in the human body and formed creative substance.
The Bible tells us that "Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word (or seed), that proceedeth out of the mouth of God," proving that, in order to truly live, we must save the precious substance. In anatomy, the passage way undernearth the sutures which leads down into the thalamus, is the mouth of God, for it is from the cerebrum, the upper brain, that the most wonderful "gift" to the human body comes. This represents the unseen "mouth." The visible mouth is the solar plexus.
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the entire body consists of brain substance — in fact, it looks like an elongated brain. The upper brain, or Father- Mother substance, is what furnishes the material from which the body is made. Verily it is the Alpha, the beginning. Degenerates, and people living in excesses, have become greatly deficient in this precious material, and the whole appearance of the body testifies to the dese- cration of the temple.
Man can become regenerated, and thus save his soul, which is sown in corruption, so that it may be raised in corruption.
We can compare speech with the operations of the processes of the planets. "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handiwork.
"Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge.
"There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard."
The heavens, or the planets in the heavens, have their own particular influence, operation or speech, upon this planet of ours. We admit that the moon rules the tides, that without the sun we could not live, so why deny the influence of the other planets.
Thus we see, from the foregoing, that word, and voice or speech are two entirely different things, and that John meant the precious creative substance when he spoke of the "WORD."
"Now this is the parable. The SEED IS THE WORD OF GOD:f— Luke 8:11.
"Seed, word" and "God," are all synonyms of one and the same thing — the wonderful creative substance, the universal esse, from which all things are brought forth, and in which all things are. The Scriptures, or allegories and parables of the Bible, are the only writings that give us information as to what the Word of God is. There- fore, in this book, we will quote what is written there in regard to it.
Seed is the cause, the nucleus of everything, therefore a seed is "the beginning" In the beginning was the WORD."
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The fluid, oil, or marrow which flows down the spinal cord, comes from the upper brain, the Creator or Father, the "Most High," and is known in physiology as ovum, or generative seed — that life essence which creates the human form of corruptible flesh. In the Greek, from which the New Testament was translated, this marrow is called Christ, which is the Greek word for oil.
When this oil is refined, transmuted, lifted up, raised, it becomes so highly vitalized that it regenerates the body and "overcomes" the last enemy, death.
How can it be lifted up?
By lifting up the "Son of man," the seed, the word, the savior. The oil (Christ) in the spinal cord, is the salt which is mentioned in the Bible, and the savior is the seed, or Jesus.
The salt and the savior both come from the same source — the same place — the Father — the upper brain. In the Bible allegory the seed, Jesus, is made to say, "Without my Father I can do nothing." The material from the Father which forms the seed, has gone through a different process from that which forms the oil. The chemical formula of the oil is J.O.H.N., and Jesus was baptized or anointed of John, not by John, as it is incor- rectly quoted. (See article on OIL).
If we lift up or raise the oil in the spinal cord, by the power of the seed, by saving it, it must be a physiological and chemical operation within the body of each of us.
Such is the case.
There is no mystery, no marvel in all the universe that is greater than man himself. "Man know thyself" con- fronts us, down through the ages, but only a few have paid attention to the voice of the Delphic oracle — only a few have looked within.
There is a wonderful "Strait and narrow way," a real strait, not straight, which extends from the upper brain, the cerebrum, to the end of the spinal cord, otherwise named Jordan, in the Bible. We find that the meaning of this in Hebrew is, descender or "River of God." The "Strait and narrow way is, indeed, the River of God, for it leads to the Father — the Most High — the upper brain.
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As the Jordan empties into the Dead Sea, so the spinal cord terminates in that section of the anatomy, which is designated, in the medical terminolgy as Sodom. Josephus refers to the region as the "Lake of Sodom," and in other writings we find it referred to as the "Sea of Lot," and "Lake Asphaltus."
The student of symbology can easily see thdt it is the slimy pool from which springs up the lotus, whose flower of a thousand petals blooms forth, reflecting in its golden heart the image of its creator.
The wonderful pneumogastric nerve, rising in the floor or the fourth ventricle of the head, and connected with the cerebellum, crosses the spinal cord, or Jordan, at the base of the Skull Golgotha, and sends numerous branches to throat, lungs, heart and stomach, terminating in a plexus under the latter organ, which is named the androgynous brain, the stomach brain, or solar plexus. This wonderful nerve has six different physical functions, in addition to the deeply esoteric office of being the channel for the Holy Breath, or Holy Ghost, without which there would be no conception of the Holy Child, the WORD.
In Bible terminology the solar plexus also means man- ger, cave, Bethlehem, for it is in the centre of this plexus of nerves that we find the thimble-shaped cavity or de- pression from which issues forth the redeemer of the Adam man. In a dual sense it is the "house of bread," as it is the place where the divine bread or seed is formed, and it lies directly back of the house of material bread, the stomach. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every WORD (seed) that cometh from the mouth of God." Jesus was born in Bethlehem, and this word means in Hebrew "house (Beth) of bread (lehem)." See how wonderfully the Hebrew words expressed the true mean- ing of the hidden truth. "I am the bread of life."
In the central part of the head is the wonderful cham- ber or bed, called the "thalamus." Santee's Anatomy of the Brain and Spinal Cord" describes it thus: "It is the great ganglion of the inter-brain. The thalamus is an important sensory relay station. Its medial part is con- cerned with smell and its lateral part with common sensa-