The Zodiac and the Salts of Salvation. George W. Carey

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СКАЧАТЬ skull is the Cup of Life and contains the Essence of Life, and we find much information in ancient writings relative to it. In Ha Idra Rabba Quadisha, or The Greater Holy Assembly, we find many statements. In fact the entire work deals intimately with it. From it the following have been selected as examples: “Therefore He carved out (that is, hollowed out) a space which He might flow in,” meaning that the Creator formed the skull, a bowl, in which precipitated Spirit might accumulate, thus creating the cerebrum or high brain.

      Again: “The Absolute desire within himself to create the essence of light.” The word essence is derived from the Latin verb esse, which means to be. Therefore essence means the substance of being, or the material necessary for existence. Light means life and also Spirit, for the latter produces both light and life. A deficiency in any of these means deficiency in all.

      The great majority of people in the world have sufficient Spirit to keep them going for only a few years. Spirit or Father works with mother or material. One must equal the other for perfection to exist.

      In Chapter IV we read: “Concerning the Dew or Moisture of the Brain, of the Ancient One, or Macroprosophus: And from that skull distilleth a Dew upon him which is external, and filleth His head daily.” “And from that Dew which floweth down from his head, the dead are raised up in the world to come.” “Concerning which is written, Cant. V:2: My head is filled with dew.” “And by that Dew are nourished the holy supernal ones.” “And this is the manna which is prepared for the just in the world to come.”

      What an astounding mass of information we have here. We find that macroprosophus is the ancient name for the cerebrum, the spiritual brain, the actual Father or Creator. Also that Dew is a very old term for brain substance, and a very fitting one, since dew is a moist precipitation from above, found on the earth or ground. The words “and filleth His head daily” link up directly with the Bible statement in John 6:58: “I am the living bread which cometh down from Heaven.” And again: “Give us this day our daily bread.” As the earth (mother) attracts the dew or Spirit, so each person is responsible for the creation of his or her own bread. Chemistry alone explains this, which we will consider later.

      And how wonderful the promise accompanying the following: “And from that dew which floweth down (into the body) from His head the dead are raised to life in the world to come.”

      World means the body, the earth world below the heaven world, in other words, the skull and the torso. This explains why we have deteriorated through the years. We have been really dying daily instead of becoming more alive. There has been insufficient dew or brain esse to feed the body—not enough “daily bread.” This means both physical and spiritual starvation. The body is in itself a graveyard, because it contains so many dead bodies—corpuscles.

      We are also given another word having the same meaning—manna, for its interpretation in the Hebrew language is man making. The manna, or heavenly bread, forms man and also feeds him.

      Please read the following until it is indelibly etched upon your mind: The brain or cerebrum is the first and most important gland in the body. The essence it creates flows through all the glands, but each gland consecutively differentiates its fluid. It is of a neuter or neutral nature when first formed, and would continue to be so if mankind did not take from it—or rob it. We object to having some of our possessions stolen from us by thieves, but never dream that the worst thief is the one who robs himself of his most precious treasure—the golden essence of life. This is, indeed, the treasure that we are commanded to “lay up in heaven.”

      To any who become impatient for the chemical allocation, let me say with all kindness that it can never be understood unless all the foregoing statements are linked up with it indissolubly. It is the hidden or esoteric which alone throws light on the exoteric.

      Of the optic thalamus the Kabbala informs us: “Therefore it is called the open eye, the holy eye, the excellent eye, the eye of Providence, the eye which sleepeth not, neither slumber-eth, the eye which is the guardian of all things, the eye which is the subsistence of all things.”

      Do we not say “Yes, I see” when we understand or get a point? Truly we are spiritually blind when we cognize but little. And who is to blame? None but ourselves.

      The organ referred to above, the optic thalamus, occupies the central portion of Aries, or the third ventricle—to be correct, the middle decan (ten degrees). While the sign as a whole is ruled by Mars (energy) it has a co-ruler, the Sun. Thus the Sun is exalted in Aries, meaning that, at last, the inner sun, or thalamus, is receiving what has been so long kept from it. The Lord is now truly receiving the bread and wine for the supper in the upper chamber.

      How much the well-being of the lower brain or cerebellum depends on the cerebrum is also explained in the Greater Holy Assembly (which in itself refers to the upper brain, the place where All Things, Essence, are assembled): “Since there is not subsistence in the inferior brain except by the preservation of the superior brain,”—cerebrum. We must here quote from Malachi, third chapter, eighth verse: “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.”

      As the general interpretation of money is that which serves as a common medium of exchange or measure of value in trade, we find its figurative origin in the brain substance of man. It is in very truth his most precious treasure, the mental rule or medium by which he measures values and makes exchanges in his earthly (bodily) dealings. It is truly the coin of the realm.

      This is further borne out by the ancient interpretation of Mercury, interpreted as mind, and physiologically as brain and nerves. From its root we obtain the word merchandise. Mercury is said to rule trade, for trading is done by means of merchandise or money. The brain substance is the merchandise or money which, continually laid up or restored, becomes an ever increasing asset which actually produces for us more than compound interest. But if the principal is drawn on constantly, through sexual excesses or other forms of depletion, there is no possible means by which any interest can accrue. Conservation indeed makes for efficiency. In ancient days an image of Mercury was placed at the cross-roads to point the way for travelers. Mental treasures are the only ones incapable of being stolen by any but ourselves. The mind travels, and is supported on all its journeys by the money it possesses.

      In their sculptures the Greeks have left to posterity much that is invaluable. The caduceus borne aloft by the hand of Mercury is used today as the symbol of healing by the American and British medical corps, but who can say how many of its members have even the faintest conception of its real meaning.

      The word caduceus is derived from the verb cado, meaning TO FALL. Therefore the whole story of the FALL and RISE of man is contained in it, for the winged pole represents the cerebro-spinal system; the pole, the spine, and the two wings are the two hemispheres of the brain or the Tree of Life, while the two serpents twined around it are the right and left sympathetic systems, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and also the two thieves.

      The motor system represented by these nerves, in its present deficient and hence imperfect condition, has deteriorated and been perverted into an e-motional system. And this is the condition of humanity in general. E-motion means a waste of motion, a lack of conservation. All unnecessary motion constitutes waste, and when the nervous system is so depleted that there is no control over it, one is said to be uncontrolled or carried away by emotion. Where perfection exists no emotion will manifest, and by this is not meant spasmodic control, but harmony. One does not need to exclaim, to weep, to shout or to jump about to express what one thinks—but the eyes and face can express deep sympathy and understanding.

      To prove that the Hindus know of a Tree of Life we find in their literature the following: “The fruit and sap of the Tree of Life bestows immortality.” Among the most ancient traditions of the Hindus is that of the Tree of Life called Soma СКАЧАТЬ