Copyright, 1917

By Halcyon Book Concern

Halcyon, California

PREFACE
Occultism as a Science of life-forces, gives a key
to the art of right living in accord with the Divine and
Natural plan of evolution. That the Lessons of this
First Series may be a practical help to all who read
these pages is the earnest hope of the writer.
The Lessons were first printed in The Temple
Artisan, a monthly magazine published at Halcyon,
California, and have now been issued in booklet form
because of the many requests for them, impossible of
fulfillment otherwise.
 To emphasize important points, if possible, with
mantramic effect, some words and sentences in the
Lessons have been purposefully put in a style and
printed form designed to vitalize the mental
impression of the reader.
Arcane truths are never acquired by thinking
along lines of established precedent. Striking out
boldly from the much trodden paths of accepted
beliefs, the earnest student must blaze new trails in the
Wonderland of Universal Nature, spiritual and
material, always relating, however, each newly
discovered truth to the Unity of the All in One and the
One in All.
 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS

He who would know the origin and destiny of

things; who would win the power to measure in his
consciousness the infinitely great by the infinitely
small, the infinitely small by the •nfinitely great; who
would know the basic principles of his relations,
spiritually and materially, to the Cosmic Whole and to
all his other selves and parts, mineral, vegetable,
animal, human and superhuman; who would know the
Law of his interdependence with all life; such an one is
a seeker after Occult Knowledge—and for all such,
these Lessons are intended
 CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1.
THE MEANING OF OCCULTISM.
The Infinite mirrored in the finite, 2. Matter is
materialized or crystalized Spirit, 2. Primordial
Eternal Substance, 2. There is but one Force, 2.
Atomic and molecular bodies, 2. The occult forces in
metals, 2. Planes in metals corresponding to the
physical, astral and spiritual bodies of man, 2.
Composition of atoms: Electricity, Light or God, 3.
The Cosmos is built by Number, 3. God is within the
atoms, 3. Our unity in the Ultimate, 4. The scientific
basis of the Brotherhood of Man. 4.
CHAPTER 11.
THE CELLULAR MAN.
Each cell an entity, 5. The physical body is the God
of the cell, 5. Difference between the amoeba and
man, 6. The functions of cells, 6. Description of a
cell, 7. Health and disease dependent on cells,
8. The ego of the cell. 8.
CHAPTER 111.
SEVEN-FOLD CORRESPONDENCES OF
CELL.
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The seven principles of the egg-cell, 9. Plate I.

Diagram of cell, 10. Chlorophyl, the mental center of
plants, 12. Center of desire in cells, 13. Etheric spaces
in cells. 13. All from one Divine Cell, 14. Our Spiritual
basis in the Christos—-the Central Sun. 14. The
Radiant Center—the Christos, 14. In the Radiant
Center all life in common, 14. All in one and one in
All, 14.
CHAPTER IV.
VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE MAN.
Matter and Spirit opposite poles of Universal
Substance, 15. The Body of the Heavenly Man, 16.
Qualities are used in building soul structure, 16. T Ile
unity of spirit and matter, and their disappearance as
such when unified, 18. Radium and the Higher Mind,
18, Plate Il Showing Radium Rays, 19. The Alpha,
Beta and Gamma rays of Radium. 20.
CHAPTER V.
THE NATURE OF 'I'HE SOUL.
The Real Self of All, 22. Color— the soul of metals,
22. The light within the atoms, 24. The outer form and
the inner light, 24. The incandescence of the soul, 24.
A Master of Light defined, 24. Conscious im-
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mortality inherent in soul structure, 25. Light—a
building material, 25.
CHAPTER VI.
SPIRIT AND MATTER.
Interpenetration of Matter and Spirit, 26. Symbol of
two interlaced triangles , 26. The mystery of fire, 28.
Material and spiritual fires, 28. The One Element, 29.
Radium and the One Element, 29. Atomic instability
of Radium, 29. Ethical applications of scientific truths,
29.
CHAPTER WII.
THE ROOT CONSCIOUSNESS OF MAN.
Man a God in essence, 30. The Spirit belongs to all;
the soul to the many, 30. The body, the antithesis of
the all, 30. Translation of personality, and the
overcoming of the limitations of matter as in the case
of Jesus after the crucifixion, 31. Cosmical Legislative
Bodies, 31. Brain, heart, and solar plexus centers, 31.
The Crucified Ego, 33.
CHAPTER Vlll.
THE PITUITARY BODY.
Location and description of, 34. The ductless
glands, 34. Doorways of Life, 36. Pituitary Body and
 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS
Pineal Gland; points of contact between the outer man
and the Spiritual Self, 36. Seat of mental

principle in man, 36. The Energizer of Will, 37. The

Cause of all changes in Nature, 37. Functions of the
Pituitary Body, 37. The front lobe detects impurities in
the blood by the sense of smell, 38. Disease resisting
forces depend upon action of the Pituitary Body,
38. Physiology and psychology of Pituitary Body, 38.
CHAPTER IX.
PITUITARY BODY AND PINEAL GLAND.
Vacuoles and Ventricles, 40. Spaces in cell
correspond to Ventricles of the brain center •and canal
of spinal cord, 40. Mystery of the inner breath, 40.
Plate Ill. The Brain, 41. The third Ventricle and the
Infundibulum, 42. Anatomy of Pineal Gland, 42.
Influence of Pineal Gland on sex function, 43. Atrophy
(wasting) of Pineal Gland at puberty, 43. Sexual
function inhibited when Pineal Gland is active, as prior
to puberty, 45. Earlier sex ripening results when Pineal
Gland function is inhibited either normally or
abnormally, 43. The Brain centers of vision, 44. The
Optic Thalami, 42. Spiritual functions of Pituitary and
Pineal Glands,46.
CHAPTER X.
 CONTENTS
THE BRAIN, A SYNTHETIC CENTER.
The Brain is androgynous—male-female, 49. The
Brain and the Third Root Race, 49. Akasic and
magnetic energy within the cranium is the atmosphere
of the Third Root Race, 49. Creation of mental images
by brain entity, 50. A Third Sex, 50. The highest
spiritual ideations must be male-female, positive-
negative, 51. The Divine Marriage, 51. Use of the
fiery emanations of the blood by the Pituitary and
Pineal Gland, 52. The cause of psychic vision, 52
Cause of spiritual clairvoyance, 52. The union of the
fires of the Pituitary and Pineal Glands unify the Sixth
and Seventh senses 52. The Marriage of Matter and
Spirit; Venus and Hermes; Love and Wisdom, 52.
CHAPTER Xl.
REINCARNATION.
Natural thought is heaven born, 54. Reincarnation
of cells in the Body-Cosmos, 55. Humanity—a state of
consciousness, 57. Nothing is lost by death 58. No
place to lose it in, 58. We work with God building the
he.avens as well as the earth, 58.
CHAPTER Xll.
THE SEVEN HARMONIES.
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The Seven Heavens or states of consciousness, 59.
The Heavens of the body are the seven cavities of the
brain, 59. This is an etheric magnetic realm in which
the astral self contacts the material brain, 60.
x
Thoughts, disires, health, and disease, 60. Why high
thoughts and desires spiritualize, and low thoughts
and desires, materialize the body and influence our
well being, 60. The Inner building-light, 61. Effect of
thoughts and desires on the etheric substance of the
chamber of Harmonies, 61. Men, angels, gods and
devils bound together in the One Life, 62. Man and
God being perfected by the perfection of his cells, 62.
The etheric substances of the Seven Harmonies is the
real link between the Self of matter and the Self of
spirit, 62. CHAPTER Xlll.
TEN BASIC TRUTHS.
Every part, organ and tissue in man has its celes tial
correspondence in the Heavenly Man—God,65. Man,
thus being an image of God, 65. Enumeration of basic
truths, 65.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE MYSTERY OF THE HEART.
Origin and development of the blood vessels and
the heart, 69. Development of the embryo corresponds
to the development of the Cosmos, 70. The Inner
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Breath, 70. The breath of life breathed into the rupic
spaces of the cell, 70. How worlds and creatures come
into ex-istence, 71. Analagous Spheres or Spaces
within the earth transmitting terrestrial desire force,
71. Blood—the vehicle of breath and desire, 71. Traits
and tendencies stored up in the kamic creative cell.
72.
CHAPTER XV.
SPIRITUAL CORRESPONDENCES
OF THE HEART.
The heart of our Solar system beats once every
eleven years, 73. The Auric Heart, 73. The Kingdom
within, 74. Within the within—the Source of All, 74.
The Sanctuary, 74. Center of Spiritual, psychological
and kamic consciousness, 75. The Heart, the center of
spiritual consciousness, 76. The Heart —a Central
Sun, 76. The heart is a doorway through which
Infinite love and compassion may flow, 76. How to
read Nature's cosmic Book of Knowledge and
Wisdom, 77.
 The Heart of God is the container of the divine in
all things and creatures, and therefore of the divine in
thee. ——3rgtn Auntttatn

The sunlight of heaven fell on the brink of a Nezv

Morning—and the Angel in the clod azvoke.
—qr Artisan

CHAPTER 1.
The Meaning of Occultism.
By Occultism is meant a knowledge of the
finer forces of Nature. The finer forces of
nature are those not generally perceptible to
the outer Five Senses of man. But there is no
sharp line between the inner, finer forces, and
the outer, grosser forces. Likewise between
the outer material senses and the inner
spiritual senses. These merge graudally one
into the 0th ere
The outer material forces manifest when
outer conditions are made for that purpose.
The inner spiritual forces manifest when
inner astral or spiritual conditions are made
on inner planes. The outer, however, is
dependent on the inner as the Material
Universe is dependent on the Spiritual
Universe. The outer is a reflection of the
inner.
Steam, Electricity, Magnetism, Chemical
Action, Gravitation, Light and Sound are
outer, perceptible forces based on inner
causes.
Thought, Will, Desire, Love, Vital Mag-
•ÖC€iJLTiSM
netism and so on, are occult forces, not
perceptible to the five senses save by their
effects. As with the man so with the Universe as
a whole. The Infinite is mirrored in the Finite.
What we call matter is materialized or
crystallized spiritual substance—that is, the
 -FOR BEGINNERS
one primordial eternal substance in a lower
rate of vibration. Likewise, there is but one
Force. The higher differentiations of this one
force are the finer occult forces of life, simply
having a high rate of vibration in spiritual
substance. The exterior forces are lower rates
of vibration in the same substance. There is
no such thing as vibration in itself.
Something must vibrate. Atomic and
Molecular Bodies.
In gross matter, occult forces and potencies
reside which are unlocked as proper
conditions are made. These powers may
manifest on one plane or another. Gold,
silver, lead, iron are material substances, in
mass, not having any occult properties. But
as we delve and uncover the soul of these
metals we meet and know the occult finer
forces inherent in them. In mass substance
they correspond to the Physical Body. In
their molecular nature they correspond to the
Astral Body. In their ATOMIC NATURE to
the Spiritual Body.
 THE .MEANING OF OCCULTISM 3
More and more wonderful are the forces
liberåted as we approach the atomic nature of
matter, from the lowest Inorganic to the
highest Organic. In the ultimate the organic
and inorganic are one. The atoms of both are
composed of pure ELECTRICITY, or
LIGHT, or GOD, call it what name you will.
Science calls the units composing this Deific
substance Electrons. A certain number of
Electrons grouped together will form the
metallic elementals, the occult basis of a metal
as gold; another number of silver, iron,
oxygen, hydrogen, etc. The Cosmos is built by
Number dividing Time in perfect MEASURE.
This is the Song of Life and Being.
As above, so below; as within, so without;
as in the beginning, so at the end.
God is Within the Atoms.
The human body as a mass of cells does
not manifest any occult properties. It is
simply organic matter. But the cells make
man more than the rocks which are non-
cellular. The cells are lives.----Within the
 -FOR BEGINNERS
cells are molecules. This is the lower astral
man. Within the molecules are atoms. This is
the spiritual man. Within the atoms is God—
Light--—the ultimate.
Within the Ultimate we are one with all crea-
4 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS
tures, mineral, vegetable, men, or Gods.
There is but one God, but one Life, but one
Ultimate, and we are THAT.
In THAT reside all Sound, Number, Color,
and Form—Eternal and Infinite. Creation is
the utterance of these Forces in infinite
variety, combination, quality and form, from
rush light to blazing suns, from infusoria to
God.
This lesson is designed to show the
fundamental and identical basis of matter and
spirit and all life in the one life however
diverse the multitudinous manifestations of
the same may be in time and space. By
analogy it therefore also shows the occult and
scientific basis of the Brotherhood of Man
and all creatures as one in the Eternal Father-
Mother-Brotherhood of god.
The next lesson will deal with the occultism
of the Physical Body.
CHAPTER 11.
The Cellular Man.
The Physical Body is the Cellular Man.
Each grade of matter composing the body
 from marrow to bone, tendon, muscle, fat,
blood and nerve tissue is made up of billions
of microscopic cells. Each cell is an entity
having its life cycle from birth to death and
possessing consciousness and memory, as
well as function —its life work. The
collective consciousness of all the cells of
the body is the consciousness of the physical
man, thus enabling the physical body to
perform all its diverse functions. In other
words, we can say that the whole physical
body is to each cell of the same, what God is
to man. In the physical body each cell lives,
moves and has its being. In the universal
ManGod we live, move and have our Being.
Complete identification of consciousness
with the Greater Being is possible when
complete correlation is made by any one Unit
with the inner light—life of all Units. Then
the one becomes the All.
What is the cell? From mud puddle to man
is the history of the evolution of the cell, and
we still have histological evidence of living
examples of all the stages passed through.
Scoop a handful of muddy water from the
6 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS
nearest mud puddle, or ditch, and place a drop
of same under a high power microscope, by
careful observation we soon separate from
other objects a small irregularly rounded
object, and as we watch, we note its form
changing more or less and that it has the
power to move by protruding a part of itself
and then drawing the other part after. It is
almost transparent but we note clearly
defined, the limiting membrane or outer cell
wall and inner nucleus. This object we are
observing is called the Amoeba—a one-celled
creature. What is the difference between this
amoeba and physical man? The amoeba is
made up of one cell; physical man is made up
of billions of cells.
The Function of Cells.
Physical man has millions of muscle and
bone cells to help him move from place to
place. He also has millions of other kinds of
cells to digest his food; millions of others to
aid the circulation of the fluids in his body;
millions of others to receive and transmit his
nervous
 THE CELLULAR MAN 7
forces; millions of others to generate his kind;
millions of others to think with. In the case of
the amoeba, it has but one cell to do all this
with. But it does all these things singly, in
that lesser degree, one cell working alone as
compared to countless numbers operating
together. For the amoeba has a nervous,
muscular, circulatory, reproductive,
digestive, seceretory and execretory systems
—but these are all combined in one cell. It is
like thinking of the heart and lungs of man
digesting his• food, or of breathing with the
stomach, or of all the functions of the body
now done by many specialized cells, being
done by any one of them. Description of a
Cell.
A cell many be defined as a microscopic mass
of matter called Protoplasm enclosing another
smaller mass of matter called the Nucleus. In the
egg '•,ve have a visible example of the
constitution of a cell. The shell is the outer
limiting membrane; the white of the egg is the
protoplasm; the yolk is the nucleus. Likewise
every microscopic cell is made up of outer
8 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS
limiting membrane, fluid contents of protoplasm,
and the nucleus. In some lower forms of life the
nucleus may be absent. The highly evolved nerve
cells have a nucleus within the nucleus,
called the nucleolus. Protoplasm is a very
complex body, but is made. up mainly of
albumenoid material. Granules are frequently
present in the protoplasm; also small cavities
full of fluid, which appear and disappear and
change their position from time to time.
Health or Disease Dependent on
Cells.

The Nucleus is the centre of the formative

activity of the cell. It is the vehicle of the Ego
of the cell. The cell itself is the seat of
Nutrition and Function. Thus Health and
Disease are terms referring, not to the body as
a whole, but to the cells of which it consists.
The Physical Body is the correspondence of
the Spiritual Body. To know the physical
body we must know the nature of the cells.
Future lessons will show this, and how Unity,
Co-operation and Brotherhood depend upon
the minute units getting together as the cells
do to form an organ, or as the planets do to
form the solar system, before larger Celestial
or Terrestrial advancement is possible. There
are no little things.
The next lesson will show particularly the
occult correspondence and the Seven-fold
Division of the Cell.

CHAPTER 111.
The Seven-fold Correspondences of the Cell.
The cell, we have defined as a microscopic
mass of matter called Protoplasm enclosing
another smaller mass of matter called the
Nucleus. We have also shown that in highly
evolved cells another nucleus called a nucleolus
is visible within the larger nucleus.
The cell is a minute Cosmos in itself and must
obey the laws of universal correspondence and
thus have represented in it the seven planes of
being. Let us now trace this correspondence and
Seven-fold division of the Cell.
Starting from without we have:
1. The Cell Wall, corresponding to
the Physical Body.
10 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS
2. The inner lining of the cell,
corresponding to the lower Astral Body.
3, The Protoplasm, corresponding to the
Vital Principle—Prana.
4. Granules in this Protoplasm corresponding
to Kama Manas, the Lower Mind.

Plate 1.
DIAGRAM OF A CELL
Showing: (1) cell wall; (2) inner lining; (.3)
protoplasmic contents; (4) granules distributed
throughout protoplasm; (5) spaces or vacuoles in
protoplasm: (6) the nucleus; (7) within the nucleus,
the nucleolus containing the radiant center, the point
of contact with Atma.
CORRESPONDENCES OF CELL 11
5. Spaces in this Protoplasm corresponding to
Kama Rupa, Lower Desires.
6. Nucleus, corresponding to the Higher
Manas, or Mind.
7. Nucleolus, corresponding to the Buddhic
principle. A radiant Centre in the nucleolus
called the Centresome by some biologists, is
the point of contact for Atma, which,
however, is no principle as all are included in
It.
Applying these same correspondences to a
visible cell that we are all familiar with may
make it plainer. The egg is a single cell. We
find in it correspondingly:
1. The outer shell.
An inner layer on this shell.
3. The white of the egg.
4. Granules in this white.
12 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS
5. Spaces in it, if examined closely.

6. The yolk.
7. Within the yolk, by aid of the
microscope, the Germinal Vesicle. Within this
Germinal Vesicle, the Germinal Spot.
Most of these principles mentioned are self-
evident. A few may need explanation. The
inner lining of the cell corresponds to the
lower vital astral body. It is a condensation of
the vital principle, the protoplasm, and
chemically shows the same matter, but it takes
a form which gives the model form to the
outer membrane. In the case of the egg,
calcareous matter is deposited on the outerside
of this inner membrane. The inner lining or
membrane however, comes first.
Chlorophyl, the Mental Centre of Plants.
The Granules corresponding to the lower
mentality are centres of tremendous activity.
This activity may be progressive or
retrogressive. Retrogressive changes in these
granules will cause the cell to become
abnormal, unhealthy and diseased.
Progressive changes keep the cell functioning
naturally promoting its own growth as well
as the growth and development of the
organism of which it is a part. For instance,
in vegetable cells, these granules contain
chlorophyll, which is the green coloring
matter of all plants, and it is this chlorophyll
which in the presence of sunlight
decomposes the carbonic acid gas which the
plant breathes in through its leaves (lungs)
and fixes the carbon of this gas as a part of
the woody structure of the plant—and so
builds it up. The correspondence to the action
of the lower mind is here exact. The lower
mind reaches out and appropriates what it
needs, and rejects what it does not need. It
always seeks to build itself
CORRESPONDENCES OF CELL 13
up. The same with the granules of the animal
cell. The lower mind, granule, of say a liver
cell will take from the blood stream what it
needs and reject all else; functioning
normally it builds itself and its organ.
The Centre of Desire in Cells.
14 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS
The clear spaces called vacuoles in the
protoplasm of the cell correspond to the
Kama Rupa, the Lower Desire principle. The
spaces may be empty or contain a • watery
fluid. The etheric or magnetic desire-life of
the cell acts through these spaces, driving the
cell to act through the desire energy
transmitted. These spaces in the cell
correspond to the ventricles of the brain and
the central canal of the s:-jinal cord through
which the etheric, astral m.nn, receives and
transmits impulses. These spaces or
ventricles have to do with the mystery of the
inner breath.
Some may deny these great functions the
granule, and spaces, the lower mind and
desire vehicle of the cell, but it is true and
biologists will demonstrate it in the near
future. What the writer here gives is based on
the exact laws of correspondence which inner
knowledge confirms.
 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS

The Universe, with all its worlds and

creatures, is an organism, and emanated,
differentiated from one primordial cell, just as
the chicken emanates—differentiates from the
one primordial cell, the egg. In the case of the
chick we have this one cell, differentiating
into many cells forming various organs and
tissues, until we have a multicellular animal
born from one cell. It is the same with the
birth of a human being—all of our various
cells making up our many organs
having .been produced by the division of one
cell—the ovum or egg of mortal woman. As
with the human, so with the Divine, as with
the cell so with the cosmos. All proceeds from
the One and to the One all must return. Our
fundamental spiritual basis is in the Central
Sun, the Christos—who is the radiant Point
contacting the Nucleolus (the spiritual self)
and giving life, energy and creative purpose
to all the differentiated parts. Cut off this
Radiant Centre and the egg, the cell, the man,
the cosmos would shrivel up and disappear. In
the Radiant Point all beings have their life in
common. In that point or plane we are all of
16 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS

one blood, (life) as St. Paul says and there we

find the occult basis of the law of Universal
Brotherhood—ALL IN ONE AND ONE IN
ALL.
CHAPTER IV.
Visible and Invisible Man.
In the last two lessons we have dealt
particularly and strongly with the Physical
Man and the Physical Universe. This for a
good reason. We cannot understand spirit
without understanding matter. We cannot
understand matter without understanding
spirit. One is the perfect reflection and
correspondence of the other. Both matter and
spirit are opposite poles of the same Universal
Substance. Every electrical battery has two
poles. We could not understand the nature of
that battery by studying one of its poles and
refusing to recognize the other. Some teachers
who lack synthetic consciousness tell their
pupils to ignore matter and simply study spirit.
Others say to ignore spirit and study matter.
There must result a lack of soul balance in
such teachings and its students, beating the
mental air with the one wing of matter, or the
one wing of spirit, simply move around
perpetually in a limited circle and get—
nowhere.
As physical beings we must know ourselves.
As spiritual beings we must know ourselves.
Some day we must stand in a physical body and
be CONSCIOUS of the seven planes from the
lowest to the highest. Otherwise no Mastery is
possible. Hence the importance of the physical.
The Universal laws of Correspondence will
demonstrate spirit to us—as we understand the
laws of matter. The same laws of
Correspondence demonstrate matter to the
spiritual man as he understands the laws of his
realm.
The visible Universe is the Body of the
Heavenly Man. The terrestrial man is an
epitome of this Heavenly Universal Man, as
the drop of water from the ocean is an
epitome of the ocean with all its elements.
The visible Heavenly Man is the material
pole of the invisible Spiritual Divine Man,
called God in its totality. Correspondingly,
18 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS

the material body of man is the external

physical counterpart of forces and qualities
which are the real substances composing the
Soul Man. For Faith, Hope, Charity,
Sympathy, Compassion, Justice, and so on,
are in reality, spiritual grades of matter which
are used in the building of soul, as hydrogen,
oxygen, iron, potassium, sodium, lime, are
used in building the physical body.
 VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE MAN

The PQlarity of Matter and Spirit.

When Universal, Primordial Substance
manifests polarity, it differentiates into matter
and spirit. When a drop of water manifests
polarity, it differentiates into hydrogen and
oxygen. A great force of affinity draws
hydrogen and oxygen to chemically mingle
and form water. Correspondingly, Spirit and
Matter generate tremendous activities in
seeking reunion. This great universal DESIRE
for Unity engenders ceaseless drawing and
pushing forces on all planes, and is the real
cause of all motion and phenomena of life and
nature in the cosmos. As Hydrogen and
Oxygel disappear as such in the drop of water,
so Spirit and Matter disappear as such when
Unified one in the other. Infinite balance is
gained in eternal Unity. All are reunited in the
One.
Radium and the Higher Mind.
The physical bodies of the race are in
process of transmutation. The Divine Light
20 BEGINNERS
has been materialized into the baser metals of
the body and these must be raised and brought
back to spiritual expression. We find a good
illustration of this in the metal radium. This
wonderful element is now known to
materialize into a number of different
elements until it is
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now suspected by scientists that the metal

lead is its final de-gradation or materialized
expression on this plane. Here, we have an
example of the lowering of the vibration of
higher qualities and forces until a dense
material status is reached.
In occult correspondence, lead is related to
the lower personal mind. If lead is the lowest
materialized expression of radium, then
radium is the higher pole of lead, and must
thus be the grade of substance of which the
Higher Mentality is composed, or, we might
say must be the Higher Mind Itself—
therefore, probably explaining where the light
of the Higher Mind comes from. The analogy
between Radium and the Higher Mind is
 VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE MAN 21
exact. Both are inexhaustible sources of
radiation and illumination, and must draw
power directly from Universal Mind. This
same law applies to all the other elements and
metals of which the physical body is
composed. All have their higher
correspondences, and on that higher plane are
Qualities, Forces and Colors—the Soul,
Light, or Spirit of the materialized aspect.
Plate Il shows the three distinct rays called
Alpha, Beta and Gamma which emanate from
Radium. Each ray possesses different
properties. The diagram shows the way in
which
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MAGNET

Plate 11.
Showing separation of radium rays by a
magnetic field
OCCULTISM FOR
 VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE MAN 23
these different rays are affected by the action of a
magnet.
The Alpha rays are deviated from the
magnet. The Beta rays are attracted toward
the magnet.
The Gamma rays are not deviated at all
under the influence of the magnet.
The Radium in the illustration is supposed
to be at the bottom of a hole in å heavy block
of lead. If of suffcient thickness, lead does
not permit any of the rays to pass through its
substance.
The Alpha rays are believed to consist of
particles of electrical matter incredibly small
that travel at the rates of thousands of miles a
second. The Alpha rays are positively
charged.
The Beta rays consist of particles of matter
much smaller than the Alpha rays being
about 1-1000 the size of a hydrogen atom
and travel at a velocity of 20,000 miles a
second, carrying a charge of negative
electricity.
The Gamma rays are not deflected by a
magnet but travel in straight divergent lines
24 BEGINNERS
from the point from which they radiate. They
are highly penetrating, more so than either
the Alpha or Beta rays. The Gamma rays do
not consist of material particles but are of the
same nature as the X-Ray, and are therefore
supposed to be a form of motion. The
velocity of the Gamma rays is that of light,
namely, 186,440 miles a second. The almost
incredible velocities of these rays would
indicate that Radium is a substance which
belongs to an inner and higher state of
consciousness. A point must be reached
finally where rapidity of motion and
vibration would finally transcend space and
time and come to absolute motion and rest in
Infinite Deific Consciousness. The student
may exercise intuition in seeking more
analogies between Radium and the Higher
Mind and the Spiritual Self.
There is but one Force, one Element from
which all proceed, and to which all must
return. In understanding this great law, we
learn the origin and destiny of men and
things, the underlying Unity of all things in
essence. And this Unity gives the scientific
 VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE MAN 25
basis of the Universal Brotherhood of all
Creation.
 CHAPTER V.
The Nature of the Soul.

The study of occultism then, is the search for

hidden causes that move to action in the hearts of
people, worlds and things. These innermost causes
within causes are the motive power which keep the
Great Wheel of Being and NonBeing ever
revolving. If we come to know the real self of
anything, a blade of grass, a stone on the roadside,
a piece of metal, the real self or essence within the
innermost within of animal, man, or god, we know
the Real Self of All—or Diety. In the Infinitely
Great we perceive the Infinitely Small. In the
smallest atom is mirrored the Infinitely Great.
In these lessons the endeavor is made to reveal
the unknown by the known, the invisible by the
visible on the Law of Revelation through
correspondences innately arising in
consciousness. Keeping our feet—understanding
—on the ground, therefore, we proceed.
Color—The Soul of Metals.
The Sun is a Radiating Centre of Light and
THE NATURE OF THE SOUL
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Life because its substance is in a state of
Incandescence, which means, a high rate of
vibration. If we place a bar of iron in the fire, it
soon becomes hot to the touch. The iron is now
in a higher rate of vibration than before we put
it in the fire. If we leave it in the fire long
enough, the iron bar glows with a dull light, but
if the fire is hot enough after a time the iron bar
becomes brighter and brighter, and finally
reaches a state of incandescence where it
radiates light. If the heat is carried still higher,
the iron would burn and liberate its essential
colors or color. These colors are called, by
science, the Spectrum of the metal. The
liberation of this color spectrum, the soul of
the metal, means it has reached a very high rate
of vibration, a rate of motion where it is no
longer able to keep a form in manifestation on
the outer plane save in terms of light.
As with iron, so with any other metal or
element. All can be reduced finally to light
and color. Now, in the sun, it is known that all
the metals and elements we know of on earth
are present, but not as iron, lead, gold,
hydrogen, oxygen, etc., but in a state of Color
or Light which is the spirit of the metals or
elements. In the elements in the sun, all this
light and life and energy is actual. In these
same ele-
24 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS
ments as they exist on earth today that light
and energy is latent. That light is there but
within the atoms unable to radiate through the
dense outer body or form of the metal because
its vibrations have become lowered, and it is
now too dense.
The Outer Form and the Inner Light.
The outer form, as such, must be lost to
attain this high state of incandescence where
the soul and spirit can radiate its light and life
directly. Thus, in the case of our human
forms, that light and energy is within us but
cannot radiate until the vibrations of the outer
form are raised sufficiently high, and when so
raised we lose our form as we now understand
it and we do not like that, as these stagnant
dense outef forms are precious to most of us.
The pure incandescence of the soul, however,
cannot shine through these dense veils of
matter save as we refine, sublime and raise
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them. And this explains the difference
between the Sun and the earth and other
planets. And it explains the difference
between a Master of Light and an ordinary
human being. A Master of Light has raised his
outer bodily principles to the point where the
real light within himself, which Light is his
Real Self shines forth. And it is
THE NATURE OF THE SOUL
this Light which "lighteth every man into the
world"; this Light which is the ' 'Way, the
Truth and the Life"; this Light of the Infinite
Spirit of Light which is organized line by line,
element by element, point by point, quality by
quality, into a soul structure or form built on a
Divine plan, and which soul structure thus
becomes a centre of CONSCIOUS
IMMORTALITY because it is built up on that
inner plane where Light itself is the only
building material. And as that Light contains
within itself all colors and possible shades of
color, so it can be made to express in that
organized soul structure, all possible shades
of forces and qualities according to the plan
on which the Spiritual Will of the Inner Self
has builded. Thus, as we differ in personal
characteristics, so we differ in soul
characteristics as each soul will manifests a
glory peculiar to itself.
CHAPTER VI.
Spirit and Matter.

Symbol of Spirit and Matter.

Matter and spirit are not separate one from
the other but interpenetrate—one reflecting
the other just as ice is steam crystallized and
steam is ice etherealized. Thus, two interlaced
triangles is the perfect symbol of spirit and
matter in manifestation. The spiritual triangle
with apex up draws the fires of life upward.
The material triangle with apex down draws
the fires downward. One is the inversion of
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the other. This is not merely symbolic truth,
but an Actual Fact and is the real basic
SPIRIT AND MATTER
cause of the action and interaction of all
forces in and around us. The sun draws the
earth and the earth forces to itself, seeking to
reduce them to its own terms, and the earth
draws the light and life of the sun to itself
with the same purpose. That part of a plant
above ground draws the earth and water
forces upward, that portion, the root, beneath
ground, draws the air and light down, both
parts building and growing as a result of this
interchange. The root could not exist merely
as a root, but must have its higher self above
ground in order to be in manifestation at all.
The same law is everywhere in evidence.
As human beings for example, the spirit
within us seeks to refine and spiritualize the
material body and its surroundings to its own
terms of beauty and perfection. On the other
hand, the material self seeks naturally to
become and to express in itself, and • in its
surroundings the light, the beauty, grandeur
and proportions of its higher self in terms of
matter. We say it seeks to do this and
sometime in the evolution of humanity the
correspondence will be perfectly externalized,
but in the warfare of forces, this may seem to
be delayed in particular instances, unless we
look comprehensively. We must take
humanity as a whole to see how sure-
28 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS
ly and steadily this process has been going on
through the ages.
The Mystery of Fire.
GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE. The
Universe is burning up. Everything is Ablaze.
()ur very bodies are ablaze, being consumed
in the mighty Fire of the All-Fire—God. It is
this Fire which is the cause of all motion in
the cosmos. It makes the sap to flow, the heart
to beat, and worlds to roll in space. By the
same fact as fire reduces all things to itself, so
it is seen how inevitable that all things and
beings must finally be brought back into the
One Flame. This central Divine Fire and
Divine Light are the same. It has many
expressions on many planes. There are
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material Fires and spiritual Fires. Fire is the
greatest of scientific mysteries. No one has
ever explained this tremendous power of
affinity between elements which in the uniting
creates fire. The process is known but not the
WHY of the fact.
The physical fire is the material body of a
spiritual fire, a material ray of light is the
outer body of a spiritual ray or entity of light
As the vibrations of the physical plane are rair
even physical fire will be raised to a higher
spiritual expression. There will be
 SPIRIT AND MATTER
more light to it and less smoke, more radiance
and less destructive force. Matter is
materialized spirit, and spirit is etherealized
matter. So as we understand the constitution of
one, we understand the other.
The One Element.
Chemistry has formulated some seventy
elements composing the matter of the physical
plane. Occultism says there is but One
element. Afodern science is coming around to
this view mainly through the study of the
mysterious element, radium. Madame Curie
regards it as MATTER IN A STATE OF
ATOMIC INSTABILITY. In other words it
approaches the One element of occultism
before the same has sent out any elemental
differentiations. Radium has many different
rays of force, some of which actually
materialize in other elements like helium. The
further study of radium will reveal its kinship
to astral and mental matter and also prove it to
be very close to the BASIC ONE ELEMENT
of Occultism.
 THE 35
Ethically applied, a knowledge of these truths
must show the kinship of all souls In The One
Soul. And this great fact is the root of the
mighty truth in the Brotherhood of Man, and
the Fatherhood of our collective Higher Selves
—or God.
CHAPTER Vll.
The Root Consciousness of Man.

Man is a God in Essence. A devil is a god

inverted. A devil or evil forces can however, only
invert divine forces on the outer coarser planes of
life. The Spirit belongs to All—animals, men,
angels, God. The Soul belongs to the many,
gouped in clusters, constellations, rays and
hierarchies and each group expressing different
degrees of spiritual consciousness. The Body
belongs to the one personality, the antithesis of the
All.
On the plane of spirit all di-verse elements
meet and become uni-versal in force and
quality. On the plane of personality all
universal qualities become divergent, so that
any one personality can but express a modicum
of that universal which is its root. As the
personality is lifted up however, redeemed in
terms of spirit, it gains the power to utter more
and more of its Universal Root Consciousness,
until the time comes when it, the personality
can no longer keep form on this outer plane
because of
ROOT CONSCIOUSNESS OF MAN
the great cosmical energies flowing through it.
-It is then translated and in a body of finer
forces functions on other planes, as in the case
of Jesus after his crucifixion. Then the
limitations of matter are overcome and the
Will and Consciousness deal with the Many,
with worlds and races and all the titanic
powers back of evolving life. This is real
Mastery, the actual ability, with height and
depth of consciousness to administer nature's
laws—yes, even to make Nature's laws in
conjunction with those Cosmical Legislative
Bodies which preside over the destinies of
manifested Life.
Brain, Heart, and Solar Plexus Centres.
The physical man is built after the pattern of
the cosmical man. He is a Unity in his Brain, a
 THE 37
Duality in His Brain and Heart, and a Trinity
in his Brain, Heart, and Solar Plexus Centre.
The Brain belongs to all parts of the body; in
the brain is summed up the finality of every
part of the body. The Heart Centre (which
includes the Pneuma, the lungs,) belongs to
the Many grouped in organs expressing
various qualities and functions. Yet Heart and
Brain are intimately related and interrrelated,
as are Soul and Spirit.
The Body, the personality is represented by
32 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS
the Solar Plexus Centre for it is here that
personal form is created and personal, kamic
desires and qualities have their origin. This
Solar Plexus Centre belongs to the personality
and stands apart from the heart and brain yet
dependent upon both. Yet its tendency is to
pull away from all that heart and brain, or soul
and spirit stand for, for it, the solar plexus-self
is the lower unredeemed self, the vehicle, or
chariot, in which the inner self rides, drawn
into experience by the steed forces of the lower
nature which must be controlled by the Higher
lest the lines of forces become tangled and
inverted and progress be stayed.
The brain is the realm where the elemental
Regents reside who rule the body and its
forces. It is the Plane of Heaven from a
physical standpoint. Here matter is refined and
sublimed and is more responsive and alive than
in any outer region. The Solar Plexus
abdominal region is where gross matter is
being regenerated. Here are the Hells of the
body also—the plane of putrefaction—the
region where matter is disintegrated and when
made fit raised to a higher status—even sent
into the higher realms, the upper heavens of
the brain for higher use.
The brain is made up of two main parts
called the right and left hemispheres. The right
side
ROOT CONSCIOUSNESS OF MAN
of the brain governs the left side of the body;
the left side of the brain the right side of the
body. If the left side of the body should be
paralyzed, it indicates that the right side of the
brain is affected and vice versa. This is
 THE 39
because the fibres from both sides cross near
the base of the brain.
The Crucified Ego..
The Ego has his seat of power back of the
brain in the astral world, but he is connected
with, and works through the brain— is in fact
incarnated in the brain during a life period. The
Ego is held to matter by the iron nails of
Desire, and we have in the brain a symbol of
Calvary, the place of a Skull where the lines of
life (nerve fibres) form the Cross and where
the incarnating Ego is crucified in matter
between two thieves, the Lower Self who
would drag him down and the Higher Self who
would draw him up. When the Ego triumphs
he draws the lower self into higher realms, by
process of transmutation, and both lower and
higher are with him in Paradise.
The next lesson will deal particularly with
the occult functions of the Pineal Gland and
the Pituitary Body.
CHAPTER VIIL

The Pituitary Body.

 The Pituitary Body is a small reddish gray mass
occupying the Sella turcica—a saddleshaped
depression of the Sphenoid bone of the skull. The
Sphenoid bone is a wedge-shaped bone placed
across the base of the skull near the middle and it
enters into the formation of the cavity of the
cranium, as well as the bony structure of the eye-
sockets and the nasal regions. So much for the
location of this important body—and the location
has its significance. It is about one-half inch
broad, one-quarter inch long, and one-quarter inch
high. It is formed of two distinct parts called lobes
which are united. The anterior lobe is bean shaped
and the posterior more rounded. The Pituitary
Body or gland is so called from its being
erroneously supposed to discharge pituita (slime)
into the nostrils.
The Ductless Glands.
Physiologically, the Pituitary Body is classed
 THE PITUITARY BODY 41
with the Vascular or Ductless glands of the body. In
Kirke's Physiology, vascular glands are defined as
follows: The materials separated from the blood by the
ordinary process of secretion in glands, are always
discharged from the organ in which they formed, and
are either straightway expelled from the body (as in the
case of the kidneys), or, if they are again received into
the blood, it is only after they have been altered from
the original condition, as in the case of the saliva and
bile. There appears, however, to be a modification of
the process of secretion, in which certain materials are
abstracted from the blood, undergo some change, •and
are added to the lymph or restored to the blood without
being previously discharged from the secreting organ
or made use of for any secondary purpose. The bodies
in which this modified form of secretion takes place
are usually described as Vascular Glands or glands
without ducts, and include the Spleen, the Thymus,
and Thyroid Glands, the Suprarenal Capsules of the
kidneys, the Pineal Gland and Pituitary 1 Body, and the
Tonsils." Kirk further adds: The opinion that the
vascular glands serve for the Higher
 Organization of the blood is supported by their being
especially active in the discharge of their functions
during foetal life
OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS
and childhood, when for the development and growth of the
body, the most abundant supply of highly organized blood
is necessary.
Ductless Glands-—Doorways of Life.
Let us remember that the blood is a stream of life for
—Prana—on the physical plane, the spiritual root
which is ATMA. If this be so, then the vascular orga
such as the Spleen, Pituitary Body, Pineal gland, et
would be intermediaries—doorways—so to spe
between Physical Life differentiated as Prana coursing
the blood stream, and Spiritual Life, the highes
synthetical expression of which is ATMA. The Pituita
Body and Pineal gland therefore, being placed in t
brain, would under certain conditions of developme
serve as points of contact between the brain consciousne
of the Outer Man, and the higher consciousness of t
Spiritual Self. And as the Spiritual Self is ONE with
Spiritual Selves, such conscious contact between the tw
planes would illumine and unveil the mysteries of GO
 THE PITUITARY BODY 43
and MAN on all the planes of Being, both Finite and
Infinite.
Seat of the Mental Principle in Man.
Occultly, the Pituitary Body is the seat of
Manas—the Mental principle. Manas, how-
ever, has its higher and lower aspect or division, and
we find this represented in the two lobes of the
tuitary Body; the anterior and larger lobe functions the
wer mentality, and the posterior smaller lobe the higher
inciple of intellection. Through the Pituitary Body, as
e seat of Manas, the Will is Energized—both higher and
wer Will according to the status of evolution the
dividual is in. Manas ener gizing Will is the great
inciple of Selection and Discrimination operating
erywhere in the Universe. It is the cause of all changes
nature, organic and inorganic, from birth, growth and
ssolution. Cosmically, it is Fohat, the great Universal
ill or drawing and driving power of the Universe—the
use of all motion in worlds or atoms.
Functions of the Pituitary Body.
This Manasic principle of Selection, having its seat in
the Pituitary Body, is active in every part, organ, and
cell of our bodies. Certain reported discoveries by Dr.
C. E. de M. Sajours, of Philadelphia, editor of the
"Monthly Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine," bear out
this Selective function of the Pituitary Body. He found
that its removal stopped all organic function. Also that
it governs every blood-making
38 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS

organ that produces secretion. The front lobe he disco

contained an organ that detected impurities in the bloo
the sense of smell. The rear lobe governed glands such a
kidneys, lungs, etc. In fact the whole array of dis
resisting forces in the body depends upon the Pituitary B
When disease in any form occurs, the Pituitary
regulates the secretions and causes the proper orga
increase or decrease its work, to throw out into the
stream the proper chemical elements for overcomin
disease and so restoring the balance of health in all parts
It is also thought that premature old age is the result
of some disease of the Pituitary BodYQ Acromegaly is
a disease characterized by enormous enlargements of
the joints producing giants and giantesses. Most of the
giants of modern times have had this disease and it is a
result of a definite disease of the Pituitary Body. The
query naturally arises: were the normal giants of olden
times produced as a result of certain evolutionary
changes in the Pituitary Body?
Physiologically then, the Pituitary Body is the
Mentality of the Organic Functions. Psychologically,
 THE PITUITARY BODY 45
when its forces interact with those of the Pineal Gland„
the highest power of Spir-
Vision and Cognition is awakened and the Relations of All
Things and Creatures to the Creator made Manifest on any
or all planes of Being.
In the next Lesson the Pituitary Body will be
considered in connection more particularly with the
Pineal Gland.
 CHAPTER rx.
Pituitary Body and Pineal Gland.
The Pituitary Body being an organ through which the
pure Manasic (Mental) essence functions as shown in
the preceding lesson, let us now inquire as to its
relations with the Pineal Gland.
Vacuoles and Ventricles.
In Chapter Ill certain Vacuoles or clear spaces as
found in a cell were referred to, and the statement made
that the etheric or magnetic-desire life of the cell acts
through these spaces driving the cell to act through the
desire energy transmitted. Also, "These spaces in the
cell correspond to the Ventricles of the brain and the
Central Canal of the Spinal Cord through which the
etheric astral man receives and transmits impulses.
These spaces or ventricles have to do with the myster
of the Inner Breath.
There are a number of spaces in the brain called
Ventricles. One of these is known as the Third Ventricle.
This Third Ventricle is directly connected with the Pituitary
Body in
 PlateIll. THEBRAIN. Showinglocationofpinealandpituitaryglandsand
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、
48 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS
front, and with the Pineal Gland behind.
Plate No. Ill shows very clearly the relative
positions of the Pituitary Body, the Pineal
Gland and the Third Ventricle. In this plate it
will be noted that the Pituitary Body is attached
to the front extremity of the Infundibulum, and
the Infundibulum it will be seen by the plate
projects into the Third Ventricle. The word
Infundibulum means a funnel, which is exactly
what this organ is—a hollow conical process, as
defined by anatomy. The plate will also show
how the broad end of the "Funnel" projects into
the Third Ventricle, all of which is significant.
A canal passes through the Pituitary Body
which connects it with the Infundibulum.
Anatomy of the Pineal Gland.
The Pineal Body or Gland is a reddish body
about the size of a small cherry stone, and is
named from its supposed resemblance to a
fircone.
It also has a Central Cavity. As said, it is
connected with the posterior part of the Third
Ventricle projecting backwards and downwards
between the superior pair of Corpora
Quadrigemina. The Corpora Quadrigemina are
 PITUITARY BODY AND PINEAL GLAND 49
the Centres of Sight and this close contact of
the Pineal Gland to. these Centres has great
significance. The Corpora Quadrigemina being
of course the Centre of outer sight and the
Pineal Gland the great Centre of inner sight for
the Thinker dwelling in his marvelous City of
Seven Gates—that is, the seven orifices in the
head through which that Thinker contacts the
outer world.
Influence of Pineal Gland on Sex Function.
PHYSIOLOGICALLY the latest scientific
data on the Pineal gland is corroborative of the
creative function of this mysterious organ.
From most careful investigation and
experimentation, men notable in the field of
science, find as follows :
I—The pineal gland undergoes a normal
physiologic atrophy (wasting) at the time of
puberty. When physiologically active therefore
SEXUAL FUNCTIONING IS INHIBITED.
When the gland is not funct;oning so ac as
after puberty, SEXUAL FUNCTION
ASSERTS ITSELF.
2—1n cases of tumor of this gland occurring
before puberty, and which would inhibit the
50 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS
action of the gland, it has been noted that in the
child so affected, there was marked mental
precocity, increase of weight with overgrowth
of body, and earlier sexual ripening.
3—This has been confirmed by experiments on
animals. Removal of the pineal gland in animals
like guinea pigs, etc., shows a hastened
development of sexual organs and earlier breeding
than is normal with such animals.
The above purely scientific deductions based
on observed facts are intensely interesting. With
the decline of the sexual function with old age
there is likely to be a resumption of the activity
of this gland. However, the facts shown above
would point to one general basic conclusion,
namely, that with the atrophy of this gland at
puberty, creative energy functioning in the
pineal gland shifts to the sex organs hitherto
dormant. In other words, from the upper • pole
to the lower. The higher pole is regained
through the awakening of the higher activity of
the Pituitary Body which indraws the lower
creative energy into itself and under right
condition correlates those forces with the pineal
gland arousing it again to active functioning,
 PITUITARY BODY AND PINEAL GLAND 51
either temporarily or indefinitely, as the case
may be. This means real spiritual development.
The Brain Centre of Vision.
The correspondence to any organ of seeing in
the body would be the Power to see resident in
some part of the brain—and the same with all
organs in the gamut of the senses. Thus the
Corpora Quadrigemina is the Centre of the
Power of Seeing—in other words the power of
the personal Ego working through that Centre
to Visualize Color Vibrations—-or rates of
vibration in terms of color. The Visualization of
color vibrations is the Power of Vision—for
vision is the Sensing of Color or shades of color
no matter how subtle or fine, or coarse or
intermixed. Any substance that is perfectly
colorless is invisible.
The Optic Thalami.
The Pineal Gland is attached at its base by
two nerve cords which connect it to the Optic
Thalami. And what are the Optic Thalami
According to the most advanced physiologists, '
' they are the organs for the reception and
condensation of the most sensitive and sensorial
incitations from the periphery of the body
52 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS
(according to Occultism from the periphery of
the Auric Egg or Envelope), which is our point
of communication with the Higher, Universal
Planes." The Pineal Gland bears the same
relationship to the Optic Thalami in terms of
sensation, as it bears to the Corpora
Quadrigemina in terms of Sight. In other words,
the Optic Thalami are the Centre for outer
feeling of sensation, while the Pineal Gland is
the organ for Inner Spiritual Feeling or
Sensation.
Spiritual runctiong of Pituitary and Pineal
Glands.
As the Pituitary Body corresponds to the
Manasic or Mental principle, so the Pineal
Gland corresponds to the Intuitive Principle.
It may be fitting here to quote the teachings
of H. P. Blavatzky on the interaction between
the Pituitary Body and the Pineal Gland. This
teaching was first given out under pledges of
secrecy but has since been made public. She
says :
" When a man is in his normal conditions, an
adept can see the golden aura pulsating in both
centres, like the pulsations of the heart which
 PITUITARY BODY AND PINEAL GLAND 53
never cease throughout life. This motion,
however, under the abnormal condition of effort
to develop clairvoyant faculties, becomes
intensified, and the aura takes on a stronger
vibratory or swinging action. The arc of the
pulsations of the Pituitary Body mounts
upward, more and more, until just as when the
electric current strikes some solid object, the
current finally strikes the Pineal Gland, and the
dormant organ is awakened and set all glowing
with the pure Akasic Fire. This is the psycho-
physiological illustration of two organs on the
physical plane, which are respectively the
concrete symbols of the metaphysical concepts
called Manas and Buddhi. The latter in order to
become conscious on this plane, needs the more
differentiated fire of Manas but once the Sixth
Sense has awakened the Seventh, the light
which radiates from this Seventh Sense
illumines the fields of infinitude. For a brief
space of time man becomes omniscient; the
Past and Future, Space and Time, disappear and
become for him, the Present. If an Adept, he
will store the knowledge he thus gains in his
physical memory, and nothing save the crime of
54 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS
indulging in Black Magic, can obliterate the
remembrance of it. If only a Chela, portions
alone of the whole truth will impress
themselves on his memory, and he will have to
repeat the process for years, never allowing a
speck of impurity to stain him mentally or
physically, before he becomes a fully initiated
Adept.
The next lesson will deal more particularly
with the creative aspect of the Pineal Gland and
the Pituitary Body.
 THE BRAIN A SYNTHETIC 55
CHAPTER X.
The Brain, a Synthetic Centre.
In a preceding lesson it was pointed out'
that in the brain is summed up the finality of
every part of the body." In other words, that
the brain is the SYNTHESIS of the body. Or
to put it another way—every organ and tissue
of the physical outside of the brain is both an
extension and a correspondence of some
Centre in the brain.
The Ego seated on his Throne of Reason
and Intuition sends out his rays of
consciousness through nerves ramifying in
every part of the organism. These nerves on
an inner plane are conscious currents of life
force. On this plane they have materialized
into lines of sensitive matter, capable of
receiving and conveying all degrees of
vibrations concerned with the bodily senses.
These nerves and nerve centers being currents
of conscious energy projected by the Ego or
Inner Self, have by processes of nutrition,
growth and transformation, built up other
tissues such as bone, muscles, arteries, etc.,
giv-
CENTRE
ing the Inner Self greater power of expression
and experience in matter.
The body is thus a differentiation of the
brain, part for part, and tissue for tissue. In
consummating this differentiation into an
outer body in this age and on this plane the
brain sacrifices a part of itself—its Other Self
in fact— for the brain is Androgynous—
male-female— and we know that so far as the
physical body is concerned we are born either
male or female.
The Brain and the Third Root Race.
The Secret Doctrine refers to the astral
Third Root Race as a race of globular beings
—malefemale creating by a process of Will
and ideation called Kriyashakti. The brain of
man is t!.e correspondence of this Third Root
race indrawn within the cranium—which is a
sphere filled, not only with brain matter, but
also with Akasic and magnetic energy
corresponding to the atmosphere, so to speak,
 THE BRAIN A SYNTHETIC 57
of the Third Root Race. The brain still creates
by the power of will or Kriyatshakti. From
the magnetic astral matter within its reach it
creates all mental forms, ideas and thoughts
—all of which are the creations—offspring on
the astral, mental plane of this brain entity
living within the Akasic sphere of the skull
chamber—the Cave of the Mind.
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The power to create mental images and

thought forms on the inner plane is analogous
to the power of creating physical forms on the
material plane of sex, and involves the same
corresponding modus operandi. In the brain
sphere, however, we have an organism
undifferentiated as to sex functions—or the
male-female in one;—and so its ideation
progeny are SELF-BORN—within its own
organism without outside contact, as must be
the case on the lower differentiated plane of
the body outside of this Akasic brain sphere.
A Third sex.
That part of the organism outside of the
skull cavity is differentiated mental or brain
substance, and in the process of extension and
differentiation into these bodily organs and
tissues, the male-female, positive-negative,
brain entity sacrifices and loses one of its
poles or corresponding sex parts outside of its
native sphere; that is, such sex part is not
represented in that outer body or is
represented so latently as to be overwhelmed
by the other active sex part. So we have the
two sexes in manifestation in the outer bodies
of the Race in this age, and if we could
imagine these bodies themselves again
differentiating on a still more outer plane, a
lower or third or fourth sex would come into
CEN'I'RE

existence—and so on as the differentiation

proceeded outward. As we go in, the sexes
are indrawn and all differentiation disappears
more and more, until the TWO IN ONE
disappear as such and there obtains a THIRD
SPIRITUAL SEX so utterly different from all
of our ideas of sex that is designated by the
term SEXLESS.
The spiritual, mental and psychic creations
of musicians, artists, poets, scientists, and
 THE BRAIN A SYNTHETIC 59
inventors show the high creative functions of
the brain and the higher and more spiritual
these creations, the more perfect the action
and interaction between the Pineal Gland and
Pituitary Body and co-ordinating parts. This
is because the Pineal Gland, the Pituitary
Body and their appendages correspond to the
lower sex pole—the male and female
generative organs of the physical body. The
highest spiritual ideation is male-female,
positive-negative in quality whether it be
music, art, poetry, aspiration, prayer or desire.
Take away one pole and there remains a one-
winged imperfect something.
The Divine Marriage.
Such organs as the liver, spleen, kidneys, etc.,
receive gT0SS matter and substances from the
52 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS

blood stream and transform and transmute the

same according to the function of said organ,
but such psychic organs as the Pituitary Body
and Pineal Glands receive only the FIERY
EMANATION or AURA of the blood and
make spiritual use of the same in its
functioning.
 Molecular motions in the Pituitary Body cause
psychic vision, but such motion. may be caused
by many things, even by outer irritation as by
pressing the eyeballs causing flashes of light
because the Pituitary Body is connected with the
optic centre as has been pointed out. Fevers and
disease, drunkenness, etc., may also cause
disorderly motions in the Pituitary Body giving
rise to hallucinations.
Molecular motions in the Pineal Gland
cause Spiritual Clairvoyance but to make this
Clairvoyance illumine the fields of the
Universal, the fires of the Pituitary Body must
unite with the fires of the Pineal Gland, and
this union means that the Sixth and Seventh
Senses have become as one, or in other words
that the individual consciousness is so
indrawn that the Magnetic Sphere of Manas
—the highest Mentality, and Buddhi—the
highest Spiritual sense are conjoined. This is
the highest Yoga, the DIVINE MARRIAGE
OF MATTER AND SPIRIT, or of LOVE
AND WISDOM. Hermes,
 THE BRAIN A SYNTHETIC 61
CEN'FRE

or Wisdom, is now united with Love—Venus

or Aphrodite, and on the psycho-physical
plane there results an entity of perfect
balance-—the Divine Hermaphrodite, or the
Androgyne.
In studying these lessons the essential
Unity of all Life should ever be borne in
mind. The correspondences made should be
applied everywhere and to everything for any
process operating in the human body also
operates in the cosmos, in a world, as well as
in a cell or atom. The birth of a human being
or a thought is analagous to the birth of a
world or a universe. All forces operate from
within outward whether they be creative
forces or otherwise. Hidden causes should be
searched for in the Heart or Centre of all
things.
CHAPTER Xl.
Reincarnation.
In these lessons the occultism of the brain
will not be overshadowed by the occultism of
the heart and the inner spiritual centres, but as
the brain differentiates and materializes in
more understandable terms, the inner forces
and fires, the effort in these lessons is to give
the student a practical basis to start from and
hence to better understand the functions and
correspondences of the inner, or auric centres.
In other words by passing through the brain,
spiritual forces are materialized and become
intellectual forces or thought, but the seat of
the process is in the spiritual nature however
inverted or perverted the thought may have
become by evil or abnormal desires and will.
Pure natural thought is heaven born, being
the regenerated essence of the universal finer
forces working through the bodily organs and
cells and finally reaching through the fiery
emanation of the blood, the brain centres and
reflected and cognized there as Thought crea-
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REINCARNATION
tions. In other words, through the microcosm,
Man, cosmical forces play and interplay.
Univenal impersonal forces correlate with the
personal cells and organs and are given color,
quality and character by the personal or
microcosmic will of man as a whole or by the
collective minute cellular beings of which he
is made up. As man has actually or potentially
represented in him all the forces of the
Cosmos, so each cell in man has in it all the
forces of the man in its degree, from the
physical to the highest mental and spiritual.
Reincarnation of Cells in the Body Cosmos

In the physical body are millions of cells

dying constantly with each movement of the
body, each beat of the heart, each voluntary or
involuntary act of the organism. When a cell
entity so dies, the same corresponding process
must happen to its various principles as
happens in the case of the man as a whole
dying. The various principles are separated,
the lower physical part yields up its forces for
giving energy to the body. The higher
principles, as the mental and spiritual, rise to
 -FOR BEGINNERS
the proper planes—the mental aspect or force
of the cell passing in the aura of the blood
stream to the mental centres, thereby
furnishing material for
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mental operations. The spiritual aspects or

forces of the dead cell pass into the higher or
lower creative centres or heavens of the body,
and are there used for the highest purposes and
economy of the Microcosm, Man. The lower
unregenerated elements of the cell enter the
bloodstream but are withdrawn from the same
by the proper excreting organs and sent into
the hells of the body for regeneration or
elimination in the lower intestinal and urinary
tracts of the organism.
Millions of cells are also being born
constantly in the organisms and these are again
ensouled by the streams of spiritual Egos sent
forth from the higher plane of the brain which
has in the meantime received force and power
from the spiritual and mental cells ascending
to it and has also imparted to the same a
tremendous dynamic mental and spiritual
power until surcharged they are eager to rush
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forth' again seeking experience in lower
material embodiment and thereby give up the
surcharged life they have received from
contact with the higher planes of
consciousness transmitting in this way some of
the energy of the higher planes to the lower
and so helping to raise the vibrations of the
lower by ceaselessly incarnating and
reincarnating, until the whole body has
received
REINCARNATION
the greatest possible development for that
cycle of manifestation.
So much for the reincarnation of the cell. As
above so below, as with the cell, so with man.
What happens after death and the function of
death, or that change man calls death, is made
apparent by this explanation and
correspondence.
Humanity—a State of Consciousness.
Bear in mind, however, that with the
spiritual principles or soul of the cell, so with
the Soul of Man, its heaven is not a place, but
a state of consciousness. Yet that state or plane
of consciousness in the case of the cell would
 -FOR BEGINNERS
be with. in the Cosmos, so to speak, of the
man. So the heavenly plane of consciousness
of man is within the Cosmos of Humanity in
its higher states. So that as in the case of the
cell when it dies, its powers, energy and
usefulness are not lost, but its principles
separate and go to their corresponding lokas or
centres; likewise, when a human being dies, he
or she, does not go outside of the aura or
cosmos of humanity—but humanity as a
whole state of consciousness in reality, the
various forces and principles of a human being
on death pass into appropriate spheres and add
power to that sphere, and in
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due time, owing to the fixed laws of action

and reaction, of centripetal or centrifugal
forces, which govern spirit as well as matter,
those discarnated forces of the mind, Soul and
spirit, are again reassembled on the lower
planes of manifestation. So that when a man
dies if he be a genius, a master of art, of
music, poetry, of science or invention, or a
great soul from a Saviour down, he does not
die out of the aura of humanity, but his powers
are still alive and vitalize that humanity as
much and even more than before, though those
powers may not be so concentrated as before,
though any other unit of the race on this plane
may draw upon those powers, mental or
spiritual, according to their ability to so draw.
Thus nothing is lost by the death of any one or
anything, because there is no place for it to be
lost in.
As the cells of the body on dying add power
and glory to the higher realms whence their
spiritual forces ascend, so on dying we also
help to make the Heaven of Humanity greater
68 FOR BEGINNERS
and more glorious by adding our spiritual
essence to it in jewels of Light, Truth and
Beauty, to the extent that we have fashioned
such in our incarnation. In other words, our
divine birthright is to work with God building
the heavens as well as the earth.
CHAPTER Xll.
The Seven Harmonies.

In the last lesson it was stated that the

Heaven of the Cell, as in the case of man, was
a state of consciousness and not a place. As
there are SEVEN HEAVENS or higher states
of consciousness which it is possible for the
soul of man to enter, so are there seven
heavens or states of consciousness into which
or rather with which the spiritual
consciousness of the cell may be identified.
These heavens in the case of the cell entity are
the seven cavities of the brain connecting with
the central cavity running all the length of the
spinal cord. These cavities are termed in
occultism the SEVEN HARMONIES. These
chambers may be graded from above down as
follows:
 1. The Cavity of the Pineal Gland.
2. The Cavity of the Pituitary Body.
3. The Third Ventricle.
4. The Fourth Ventricle.
5 and 6. The two lateral Ventricles.
7. The Cavity of the skull itself—the total of
all the other cavities.
All of the Cavities and Ventricles of the
brain
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are connected by intercommunicating

channels or canals, one with the other, and
with the Central Canal of the Spinal Cord
which as said runs the entire length of the
Cord to the base of the spine. Here then, we
have in the physical body, enclosed within it,
an ethereal magnetic realm in which the astral
self contacts the brain and spinal centres and
in which etheric realm the finer forces play
and interplay.
Thoughts, Desires, Health and Disease.
Every desire, thought and feeling had by a
human being, arouses a vibration in the brain
70 FOR BEGINNERS
cavity or sphere which corresponds to that
desire or thought in terms of quality and kind.
The highest spiritual desires and aspirations of
which man is capable and which is beyond
mere self •arouses into activity the high force
and essence in the pineal gland.
The lower desires and impulses in man
arouse corresponding forces in the cavities
situated nearer the base of the brain where the
merely vital and more animal centres are
located. If. gross desires and thoughts are the
rule, gross forces are energized in these lower
spheres and these forces pass downward into
the Central Canal and circulate by absorption
in all parts of the body, materializing the body
the more
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THE SEVEN HARMONIES
and rendering it grosser and more animal and
finally causing by direct impact and reflection,
diseases, which in their essential nature
correspond with the desire or thought forces
which are the real inner cause of such diseases.
In other words, the natural Harmony of one or
more of the Spheres of Harmony has been
disturbed and may even cause physical disease
if it has gone far enough, in order to restore by
pain and sacrifice the harmony due to the fixed
inexorable law that the outer must in time
adjust itself to the inner, the material to the
spiritual, no matter what the cost or suffering
may be—as INFINITE GOOD must be greater
than finite evil.
The Inner Building Light.
In terms of sight, the pure natural color of
the etheric substance in any one of these inner
Chambers of Harmony glows brighter and
clearer, as the desires, thoughts and actions of
the individual become more unselfish and
universal. On the other hand, if selfishness
and animality dominate, the pure natural color
of the inner etheric substance, becomes
 72 FOR BEGINNERS
gradually filled with dark or black centres,
each centre marking some individual selfish
desire, thought or act, of the lower self. Truly
important is
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the eternal fact, that ALL LIFE IS ONE LIFE,

that Men and Angels, God and Devils are bound
together in the ONE SUPREME LIFE; and that,
as Gods and Angels can brighten the earth, so
can men and devils dim the splendor of the
heavens in some degree by evil done, or
desired.
The UNIVERSAL DIETY is being
perfected by the perfection of its individual
and minute parts called atoms, molecules,
cells, men, angels and worlds. So man is being
perfected by the perfection of his minute parts,
and each thought, desire and act has a
constructive or destructive power on his inner
immortal body either building in accordance
with the DIVINE plan or tearing down what
has been built up in proportion to the amount
of downward energy exerted. God is still
building the heavens and the earth, and we
were with Him and of Him in the beginning as
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WE ARE NOW, no matter what embodiment
we may have had or on what plane of action
we may have functioned.
The Link Between the Self of Matter and
Spirit. The etheric substance of the SEVEN
HARMONIES is the real link between the
spiritual and material selves of man. On this
sensitive substance, the Higher Self reflects its
messages, visions, and impressions, which are
then re-
THE SEVEN HARMONIES
ceived by the brain cells and centres.
Correspondingly, this sensitive substance
receives impressions and vibrations from the
lower self, which in this way may invoke
(pray) the help of the higher forces, or may, as
has been pointed out, if the desires are of evil
nature, pollute and darken the pure sensitive
ether of these Inner Chambers of
Consciousness.
The interdependence of all Substance, Force
and Consciousness must ever be kept in mind
by the student of life.
 CHAPTER Xlll.
Ten Basic Truths.

In these lessons, while much has been

pointed out as showing the occult, psychic,
and spiritual correspondences of the brain and
its centres, volumes more could be written if
the scope of these lessons permitted finer
particularizing. The main object is to indicate
to the thoughtful student, the fact and the
working of the laws of correspondence, and
the interaction of forces between higher and
lower planes, in consequence. Once this
fundamental truth is realized, the mind and
intuition will make its own deductions and so
arrive at truth without any such lessons as
these, or books or teachers of any kind. Then
every fact of knowledge in nature and in life,
in general and in details, all the
commonplaces as well as the big things are
seen and estimated from another standpoint,
from interior angles of spiritual vision and the
value of every truth measured truly in all its
relations and inter-relations.
We will now leave the brain and take up an-
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TEN BASIC TRUTHS
other field of study. We have seen that man is
an epitome of the cosmos. Every part, organ
and tissue in him has its celestial
correspondences in the Heavenly Man—God,
—man being thus literally an image of God—
the collective creative forces of the Universe
entitized as the ALL-BEING. The drop of
water from the ocean contains all the elements
that are in that ocean, even to the germ of life
itself.
Before proceeding to the occultism of the
Heart, the other pole of the Brain, a few basic
general truths should be pointed out and kept
in mind.
I—God is the highest spiritual essence of
Light, Life and Love.
2—This Light, Life and Love—all one thing —
is PRIMORDIAL SUBSTANCE ITSELF, out of
which the Universe, worlds, men and all things
have been created.
3—This Primordial substance does not
possess Intelligence or Wisdom or Knowledge
or Power, but IS Intelligence, Wisdom,
Knowledge and Power as well as all the
spiritual qualities such as Faith, Justice,
Compassion, etc.
4—Being these qualities themselves, in
whatever form this primordial substance
manifests, IT KNOWS HOW TO ACT, what
to do, whether manifesting in a planet, an
insect, a blade of
66 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS
grass or a man. According to the key-note of its
form, it will be moved to appropriate action, for
knowledge, light, intelligence—god—light, life
and love—is at the root of its being.
5—This Primordial Substance manifests in
an infinitude of forms, the sum total making
up the whole universe. These forms whether
of worlds or of men are merely materialized
aspects of some ray or quality inherent in this
Primordial Substance or God—and thus each
form manifested is for the time being, a
materialized spiritual force or quality. That
this spiritual force may become inverted and
so be evil in its action does not contradict the
above statement.
6—While each form has its dominant note
and quality, yet it has all the notes or qualities
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of life latent or expressed, so that it has the
possibility of calling as much of God out as
any other form, as it gains the power to utter
the Light within itself. This applies to men, an
gels, worlds, animals, trees, or blades of grass.
7—Man is thus an epitome of God. In time
when all his qualities are perfectly expressed,
he will perfectly express God and thus be God
—One with God—all Life, Light and Love.
8—Every thing in Nature expresses some
quality or character of God,—trees, flowers,
 TEN BASIC 'FRUTHS
stars, insects, men and animals.
9—Being made in the image of God, each
part and organ of man, expresses or represents
some character or quality of God— or
Primordial Light, Life and Love.
10—As each part and organ of man draws
in purity upon, and assimilates the forces and
qualities flowing naturally into it from the
Inner Source, it becomes clearer, purer, more
beautiful and noble in appearance and
function, whether this be the body as a whole
or some part like the eye, ears, nose, mouth,
hands, feet, etc., for by this assimilation these
parts have drawn upon the SOURCE OF ITS
REAL LIFE —ITS HIGHER DIVINER
SELF, which IS all Purity, Beauty, Health,
Truth and Light. But if these forces be drawn
upon selfishly and with motives of impurity,
the corresponding organs and parts become
distorted, ugly and unhealthy. as selfishness
and impurity invert Divine and Natural forces.
From this standpoint we will take up the
Occultism of the Heart in the next lesson.
 CHAPTER XIV.
The Mystery of the Heart.
The Mystery of the Heart on the lower
planes is the mystery of the Kama Rupa (the
forces of desire which brings the body into
manifestation). The Mystery of the Heart on
the higher planes is the mystery of the Sixth
or Buddhic Principle, the Spiritual Heart,
which transcends all Form but brings the
spiritual bodies or principles into
manifestation, from out the synthetic Atmic
Plane.
The student is referred to Chapter Ill of this
series, on the correspondences of the Cell. It is
there stated that the Spaces in the protoplasm
of the Cell correspond to Kama Rupa, the
body of Lower Desires. It is necessary to bear
this point in mind in order to understand the
origin of the Heart from its beginning on the
physical plane, thus also showing its
connection with the inner spheres.
 It was also stated that these Spaces or
Vacuoles have to do with the mystery of the
inner Breath.
THE MYSTERY OF THE HEART 69
The embryological origin of the Heart and
the blood vessels are practically the same, the
blood vessels of the body are in fact
extensions of the heart as an organ, so that the
heart in that sense is all over the body, having
its ramifications in every part of its organic
world.
The Science of Histology is the study of the
microscopic anatomy and development of
cells and tissues of the body. Authorities on
this science thus describe the origin and
development of the Blood Vessels and the
Heart.
Vacuoles—Spaces, are formed within the
cell, and as they increase they run together,
and a cavity filled with fluid is thus produced
in the interior of the cell, while blood cells are
formed within this cavity." Many cells so
modified are joined together and thus blood
vessels are wrought in the ovum, the creative
cell, almost at once on impregnation. Again in
regard to the origin of the Heart, histology
says: The origin of the heart itself is in some
respects similar to that of the vessels, insofar
that it is by the vacuolated formation (the
blending of the spaces in the cells) that the
cavity of the Heart originates. We also learn
that in mammals, which includes man, in
fishes having body structure, and some birds,
the heart ' 'has at first the remarkable form of
two tubes separated
 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS
70

to some distance from each other, and the

formation of the single cavity of the heart is
due to the gradual approximation of these
tubes and their coalescence into one by the
union and subsequent disappearance of their
adjacent primitive walls." This first formation
of two tubular elemental heart centres
indicates a polarity and differentiation in the
development of this organ which polarity is
however overcome by the blending of the two
poles later on. As the history of the
development of the embryo is the history of
the development of the Cosmos and of Man
this would indicate that in the past; in perhaps
the earlier kingdoms or races of life in its
elemental forms on some astral plane, the heart
centres were differentiated into two opposite
forces, positive and negative, which, however,
are now blended into one force with
corresponding greater power of Unity and
Life.
The Inner Breath.
The Kama Rupa centre being a congeries of
elemental desire forces whose FUNCTION IS
TO THROW MATTER INTO FORM, the
Kama Rupa Centres, the Spaces in the Cell
before mentioned, may be regarded as an
opening between the physical and astral world
into which the inner pranic breath of life is
breathed creating thus a vortex of life forces in
that cell THE MYSTERY OF THE HEART
71
and throwing its protoplasm and ma#er into a
form consistent with, and. corresponding to the
desire elements seeking outward embodiment.
Thus worlds and creatures come into ex-
istence from within. The same processes apply
to suns, worlds, and systems of worlds. The
hollow Spaces or Spheres within the earth
transmit the corresponding Desire or
KamaPranic forces, which, with irresistible
might throw terrestial substance into order and
form and transmit to all parts of the earth
organism, the creative and regenerating
currents from within, urging the earth and all
on and in it to evolve accordingly.
Blood—the Vehicle of Breath and Desire.
The Blood itself with iron its base, red of
col. or, and being so intimately a part of this
 OCCULTISM FOR BEGINNERS
Kama Rupa Centre which brings the Heart and
blood vessels into form, becomes naturally the
ve. hicle to receive the inner Pranic Breath. It
is thus literally the vehicle of the vital essence
and as it absorbs the forces of the Kama Rupic
Centre in which are stored all the desires and
tendencies of the entity seeking embodiment, it
can -be seen how naturally the blood transmits
hereditary traits and tendencies stored up in the
Kamic Spaces of the Creative Cell. It is
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now acknowledged by the highest authorities

that hereditary tendencies, including health
and disease tendencies, are stored up in the
blood stream, and that the structural deficiency
of body or organ is secondary. In hereditary
mental diseases, the brain structure may be
perfect, but the blood has been modified in
some way by Kama Pranic forces operating in
the blood and therefore the source of the
disease i: on the physical plane in the blood.
The next lesson will take up the more
spiritual correspondences of the Heart.
 CHAPTER XV.
Spiritual Correspondences of the Heart.
The human heart beats in the average person
about 72 times per minute. The Sun which is
the heart of our solar system beats once in
eleven years. Back of every physical form
there must be a spiritual centre corresponding
in force, power and function to that outer form,
organ or tissue. Therefore the spiritual heart of
man is his auric heart which sends currents of
spiritual blood—forces— throughout his entire
auric being, which includes the physical—
which might be considered as the lowest part,
the dregs so to speak or the material
precipitation chemically speaking, of the
incompatible or unspiritual elements in the
auric body and which, as yet, remain insoluble
—will not be blended and unified with the
spiritual body. The regeneration and
spiritualizing of these lower elements is the
work of experience in material incarnations—
and makes such incarnalions a necessity.
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The Kingdom Within.
Bone, muscle, and nerves are the crystallized
aspect of spiritual forces and qualities in the
aura, just as the crystallized cube of gold
thrown down in a chemical solution is the
materialized aspect of a perfected and very
high spiritual quality of life on higher planes—
existing not in form but as a QUALITY in
Diety Itself. For every material sun in the
universe, there must be a connecting and
corresponding spiritual or Central Sun. For
every material heart, there must be the spiritual
centre or heart corresponding. For every line
of force or matter in the cosmos there must be
the corresponding inner force—which is the
real basis of the outer line. Everything has its
real basis within, and the source of energy, the
motive power, the power that makes the
universe, the macrocosom or the microcosom
go, that makes the Great Wheel of life forever
revolve, IS WITHIN. And within that is
another within and so on until the Deific
essence itself is reached as the Source of All.
In studying the mystery of the heart, therefore,
we must bear all this in mind.
The Sanctuary.
 The Heart is the centre of Spiritual Con-
SPIRITUAL CORRESPONDENCES 75
sciousness; the Head is the centre of
Psychointellectual Consciousness, and the
Navel or Solar Plexus is the centre of Kamic
Consciousness. The consciousness of the body
is the collective consciousness of all the cells
of the body except the heart, because the heart
is a centre of Spiritual Consciousness. It is the
Sanctuary of the Divine Spark—the God
within thé heart is a spot which is the
last to die, a spot marked by a tiny violet light;
that is the seat of life, the centre of all,
Brahma; the first spot that lives in the foetus,
and the last that dies." All the organs and
tissues are nourished from the heart, but the
heart is self nourishing. It also has its own
independent brain (nerve ganglia) and under
proper condition will continue to beat even
after being removed from the body.
All great deep spiritual emotional feelings
arise, and are felt in, the heart, but this great
spiritual consciousness residing in the Heart,
the Divine within cannot be guided by a
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person, nor its energy be directed by him until
he is completely united with Buddhi-Manas.
Until then this Heart consciousness guides the
person —if it can. H. P. Blavatsky has said on
this point: "Anyone who can reach up to, and
receive at will, the promptings of this spiritual
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consciousness must be at one with Manas—

that is must have attained Adeptship. But the
Higher Manas cannot directly guide the
ordinary man; it must act through the lower
Manas, and reach the lower Consciousness.
The effort however should be continually
made to centre the Consciousness in the Heart,
and to listen for the promptings of the Spiritual
Consciousness, for though success be far off a
beginning must be made, and the path opened
up. ' ' The Heart—A Central Sun.
The heart is the symbol and the Truth of
Centralization. It is the analogue of the Central
Sun. It is Paradise guarded by the Flaming
Sword—the Spiritual Will and Consciousness
from which flow its four rivers of life (blood)
—to be distributed to every -part of the
organism.
 The Heart is the real Centre of life, light and
love—God. The brain has power to take these
divine forces and weave them into patterns of
beauty or distort them into images of darkness
and evil—so man can build in accord with a
divine plan or otherwise but the force
wherewith he must build is primarily pure
from the heart, and it is a doorway through
which the forces of Infinite Love and
compassion may
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and motive.
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point or fact or truth in the outer universe it is
possible to find the corresponding spiritual truth
and fact; and that every spiritual quality and
force has naturally its material aspect, form or
embodiment. That once these fundamentals are
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