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 TREE OF LIFE 
 
 An Expose of Physical Regenesis 
 on &e Three-fold Plane of Bodily, 
 Chemical and Spiritual Operation. 
 
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 DR. GEORGE W. CAREY 
 
 Author of Textbooks on 
 <TThe Chemistry of Life 
 
 Published by 
 
 DR. GEORGE W. CAREY 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal., U.S.A. 
 1917 
 
CopyrigKted 1917 
 by 
 
 DR. GEORGE W. CAREY 
 
 Los Angeles 
 
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INTRODUCTION 
 
 WHAT JEHOVAH, EVE, DAVID AND JOHN SAY 
 
 "And Jehovah God commanded the man saying, 
 Of every tree in the garden thou mayest freely eat: 
 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, 
 thou shalt not eat of it, for the day that thou eatest 
 thereof, thou shalt surely die. 
 
 "And the woman said unto the serpent, 'Of the 
 fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat: but of 
 the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the 
 garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither 
 shall ye touch it, lest ye die." Gen. 1:16. 
 
 "And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams 
 of water, 
 
 "That bringeth forth its fruit in its Season, whose 
 leaf also does not wither, 
 
 "And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." David 
 in Psalm I. 
 
 "And on this side of the river and on that was the 
 tree of life bearing twelve manner of fruits, yielding 
 its fruit every month: And the leaves of the tree 
 were for the healing of the Nations." John the 
 Revelator, Chapt. 22. 
 
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PART ONE : 
 
 Wonders and Possibilities of the 
 Human Body 
 
 HE human race has been asleep, and has 
 dreamed that property and money are 
 the true wealth of a nation, sacrificing 
 men, women and children to the chimer- 
 ical idea that danced in visionary splen- 
 dor through their brains. The result of this is to be 
 seen in the uneasiness that prevails everywhere. But 
 humanity is waking up, slowly but surely and begin- 
 ning to realize that it, itself, is the most precious 
 thing on earth. 
 
 The old-established statement that the individuals 
 that make up the race are imperfect is no more true 
 than that a pile of lumber is imperfect, that is to be 
 afterward reformed or built into a house. As it is 
 the carpenter's business to take the lumber, which is 
 perfect as material, and build the house, so it is the 
 legitimate work of spiritual man to take the perfect 
 material everywhere present and build, by the perfect 
 law of chemistry and mathematics, the perfected, har- 
 monious human being, and with this material, employ 
 the same law to build up society collectively. 
 
 It is a well-known physiological fact that the blood 
 is the basic material of which the human body is con- 
 tinually builded. As is the blood, so is the body; as 
 is the body, so is the brain; as is the brain, so is the 
 quality of thought. As a man is builded, so thinks he. 
 According to the views of students of modern al- 
 
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 chemy, the Bible both the Old and New Testaments 
 are symbolical writings, based primarily upon this 
 very process of body building. The word Alchemy 
 really means Fleshology. It is derived from Chem, 
 an ancient Egyptian word, meaning flesh. The word 
 Egypt also means flesh, or anatomy. 
 
 Alchemy, however, in its broader scope, means the 
 science of solar rays. Gold may be traced to the Sun's 
 rays. The word gold means solar essence. The 
 transmutation of gold does not mean the process of 
 making gold, but does mean the process of changing 
 gold, solar rays, into all manner of materialized 
 forms, vegetable, mineral, etc. The ancient alchem- 
 ist studied the process of Nature in her operations 
 from the volatile to the fixed, the fluid to the solid, 
 the essence to the substance, or the abstract to the 
 concrete, all of which may be summed up in the 
 changing of spirit into matter. In reality, the alchem- 
 ist did not try to do anything. He simply tried to 
 search out nature's processes in order that he might 
 comprehend her marvelous operations. 
 
 To be sure, language was used that to us seems 
 symbolical and often contradictory, but it was not so 
 intended, nor so at all in reality. We speak in sym- 
 bols. If a man is in delirium, caused by alcohol in his 
 brain-cells, we say he has "snakes in his boots." Of 
 course, no one supposes that the words are to be 
 taken literally. Yet if our civilization should be 
 wiped out, and our literature translated after four 
 or five thousand years, those who read our history 
 might be puzzled to know what was meant by "snakes 
 in his boots." 
 
 Again, it has been believed by most people that the 
 
 words, "transmutation of base metals into gold," 
 
 used by alchemists, referred to making gold. But a 
 
 careful study of the Hebrew Cosmogony, and the 
 
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 Kabala, will reveal the fact that the alchemist al- 
 ways referred to solar rays when he used the word 
 gold. "Base metals," simply means matter, or basic. 
 The dissolving, or disintegration of matter, the com- 
 bustian of wood or coal, seemed as wonderful to 
 these philosophers as the growth of wood or the 
 formation of coal or stone. So, the transmutation 
 of base metals into gold simply meant the process of 
 changing the fixed into the volatile, or the demate- 
 rialization of matter, either by heat or chemical 
 process. 
 
 It is believed by modern students of alchemy that 
 the books of the Old and New Testaments are a col- 
 lection of alchemical and astrological writings, deal- 
 ing entirely with the wonderful operation of areial 
 elements (Spirit) in the human body, so fearfully 
 and wonderfully made. The same authority is given 
 for the statements, "Know ye not that your bodies 
 are the temple of the living God" and "Come unto 
 Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will 
 give ye rest." According to the method of reading 
 the numerical value of letters by the Kabala, M and 
 E figure B, when united. Our B is from the Hebrew 
 Beth, meaning a house or temple the temple of the 
 soul the body. Thus by coming into the realization 
 that the body is really the Father's House, temple of 
 God, the soul secures peace and contentment or rest. 
 
 The human body is composed of perfect principles, 
 gases, minerals, molecules, or atoms ; but these build- 
 ers of flesh and bone are not always properly ad- 
 justed. The planks or bricks used in building houses 
 may be endlessly diversified in arrangement, and yet 
 be perfect material. 
 
 Solomon's temple is an allegory of man's temple 
 the human organism. This house is built (always 
 being built) "without sound of saw or hammer." 
 
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 The real Ego manifests in a house, beth, church, 
 or temple i. e., Soul-of-Man's Temple. 
 
 The solar (soular) plexus is the great central Sun 
 or dynamo on which the Subconscious Mind (another 
 name for God) operates and causes the concept of 
 individual consciousness. The brain of man is the 
 Son of God, the mediator (medium) between the 
 central dynamo and the Cosmic Ocean of Space. 
 Thus digestion or combustion of food, circulation of 
 blood, inbreathing the breath of life (aerial ele- 
 ments) , is carried on by the co-operation of the Holy 
 Trinity; God, the solar plexus; the Son, the brain; 
 and the Holy (whole) Spirit, or air. 
 
 No wonder that the seers and alchemists of old 
 declared that "Your bodies are the temple of the 
 living God" and "The kingdom of Heaven is within 
 you." But man, blinded by selfishness, searches here 
 and there, scours the heavens with his telescope, digs 
 deep into earth, and dives into ocean's depths, in a 
 vain search for the Elixir of Life that may be found 
 between the soles of his feet and the crown of his 
 head. Really our human body is a miracle of mech- 
 anism. No work of man can compare with it in 
 accuracy of its process and the simplicity of its laws. 
 
 At maturity, the human skeleton contains about 
 165 bones, so delicately and perfectly adjusted that 
 science has despaired of ever imitating it. The mus- 
 cles are about 500 in number; length of alimentary 
 canal, 32 feet; amount of blood in average adult, 30 
 pounds, or one-fifth the weight of the body; the heart 
 is six inches in length and four inches in diameter, 
 and beats seventy times per minute, 4200 times per 
 hour, 100,800 per day, 36,720,000 per year. At 
 each beat, two and one-half ounces of blood are 
 thrown out of it, 175 ounces per minute, 656 pounds 
 per hour, or about eight tons per day. 
 
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 All the blood in the body passes through the heart 
 every three minutes; and during seventy years it 
 lifts 270,000,000 tons of blood. 
 
 The lungs contain about one gallon of air at their 
 usual degree of inflation. We breathe, on an aver- 
 age, 1200 breaths per hour; inhale 600 gallons of 
 air, or 24,000 gallons daily. 
 
 The aggregate surface of air-cells of the lungs ex- 
 ceed 20,000 square inches, an area nearly equal to 
 that of a room twelve feet square. The average 
 weight of the brain of an adult is three pounds, eight 
 ounces; the average female brain, two pounds, four 
 ounces. The convolutions of a woman's brain cells 
 and tissues are finer and more delicate in fibre and 
 mechanism, which evidently accounts for the intuition 
 of women. It would appear that the difference in the 
 convolutions and fineness of tissue in brain matter is 
 responsible for the degrees of consciousness called 
 reason and intuition. 
 
 The nerves are all connected with the brain di- 
 rectly, or by the spinal marrow, but nerves receive 
 their sustenance from the blood, and their motive 
 power from the solar plexus dynamo. The nerves, 
 together with the branches and minute ramifications, 
 probably exceed ten millions in numbers. 
 
 The skin is composed of three layers, and varies 
 from one-eighth to one-quarter of an inch in thick- 
 ness. The average area of skin is estimated to be 
 about 2000 square inches. The atmospheric pres- 
 sure, being fourteen pounds to the square inch, a per- 
 son of medium size is subject to a pressure of 40,000 
 pounds. Each square inch of skin contains 3500 
 sweat tubes, or perspiratory pores (each of which 
 may be likened to a little drain tile) one-fourth of an 
 inch in length, making an aggregate length of the 
 
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 entire surface of the body 201,166 feet, or a tube for 
 draining the body nearly forty miles in length. 
 
 Our body takes in an average of five and a half 
 pounds of food and drink each day, which amounts 
 to one ton of solid and liquid nourishment annually, 
 so that in seventy years a man eats and drinks 1000 
 times his own weight. 
 
 There is not known in all the realms of architec- 
 ture or mechanics one little device which is not found 
 in the human organism. The pulley, the lever, the 
 inclined plane, the hinge, the "universal joint," tubes 
 and trap-doors ; the scissors, grind-stone, whip, arch, 
 girders, filters, valves, bellows, pump, camera, and 
 Aeolian harp; and irrigation plant, telegraph and 
 telephone systems all these and a hundred other 
 devices which man thinks he has invented, but which 
 have only been telegraphed to the brain from the 
 Solar Plexus (cosmic centre) and crudely copied or 
 manifested on the objective canvas. 
 
 No arch ever made by man is as perfect as the arch 
 formed by the upper ends of the two legs and the 
 pelvis to support the weight of the trunk. No palace 
 or cathedral ever built has been provided with such 
 a perfect system of arches and girders. 
 
 No waterway on earth is so complete, so commo- 
 dious, or so populous as that wonderful river of life, 
 the "Stream of Blood." The violin, the trumpet, 
 the harp, the grand organ, and all the other musical 
 instruments, are mere counterfeits of the human 
 voice. 
 
 Man has tried in vain to duplicate the hinges of 
 knee, elbow, fingers and toes, although they are a 
 part of his own body. 
 
 Another marvel of the human body is the self- 
 regulation process by which nature keeps the temper- 
 ature in health at 98 degrees. Whether in India, 
 
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 with the temperature at 130 degrees, or in the arctic 
 regions, where the records show 120 degrees below 
 the freezing point, the temperature of the body re- 
 mains the same, practically steady at 98 degrees, 
 despite the extreme to which it is subjected. 
 
 It was said that "all roads lead to Rome." Mod- 
 ern science has discovered that all roads of real 
 knowledge lead to the human body. The human 
 body is an epitome of the universe; and when man 
 turns the mighty searchings of reason and investiga- 
 tion within that he has so long used without the 
 New Heaven and Earth will appear. 
 
 While it is true that flesh is made by a precipita- 
 tion of blood, it is not true that blood is made from 
 food. The inorganic or cell-salts contained in food 
 are set free by the process of combustion or diges- 
 tion, and carried into the circulation through the deli- 
 cate absorbent tubes of the mucous membrance of 
 stomach and intestines. Air, or Spirit, breathed into 
 the lungs, enters the arteries (air carriers) and chem- 
 ically unites with the mineral base, and by a wonder- 
 ful transformation creates flesh, bone, hair, nails, and 
 all the fluids of the body. 
 
 On the rock (Peter or Petra, meaning stone) of 
 the mineral salts is the human structure built, and the 
 grave, stomach, or hell shall not prevail against it. 
 The minerals in the body do not disintegrate or rot 
 in the grave. 
 
 The fats, albumen, fibrine, etc., that compose the 
 organic part of food, are burned up in the process of 
 digestion and transposed into energy or force to run 
 the human battery. Blood is made from air ; thus all 
 nations that dwell on earth are of one blood, for all 
 breathe one air. The best food is the food that burns 
 up quickest and easiest; that is, with the least friction 
 in ths human furnace. 
 
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 The sexual functions of man and woman ; the holy 
 operation of creative energy manifested in male and 
 female ; the formation of life germs in ovum and sex 
 fluids; the Divine Procedure of the "word made 
 flesh" and the mysteries of conception and birth are 
 the despair of science. 
 
 "Know ye not that your bodies are the temple of 
 the living God?" for "God breathed into man the 
 breath of life." 
 
 In the words of Epictitus, "Unhappy man, thou 
 bearest a god about with thee, and knowest it not." 
 
 Walt Whitman sings : 
 
 "I loaf and invite my soul; I lean and loaf at my 
 ease, observing a spear of summer grass. Clear and 
 sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is 
 not my soul." 
 
 "Welcome every organ and attribute of me, and of 
 any man hearty and clean, not an inch, not a particle 
 of an inch, is vile, and none shall be less familiar than 
 the rest." 
 
 "Divine am I, inside and out, and I make holy 
 whatever I touch or am touched from." 
 
 "I say no man has ever yet been half devout 
 enough; none has ever yet adored or worshipped half 
 enough ; none has begun to think how divine he him- 
 self is, and how certain the future is." 
 
 The vagus nerve, so named because of its wander- 
 ing (vagrant) branches, is the greatest marvel of the 
 human organism. Grief depresses the circulation, 
 through the vagus, a condition of malnutrition fol- 
 lows, and tuberculosis, often of the hasty type, fol- 
 lows. 
 
 The roots of the vagus nerve are in the medulla 
 oblongata, at the base of the small brain or cerebel- 
 lum, and explains why death follows the severing of 
 
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 the medulla. It controls the heart action, and if a 
 drug such as aconite be administered, even in small 
 doses, its effect upon this nerve is shown in slowing 
 the action of the heart and decreasing the blood pres- 
 sure. In larger doses it paralyzes the ends of the 
 vagus in the heart, so that the pulse becomes sud- 
 denly very rapid and at the same time irregular. 
 Branches of the vagus nerve reach the heart, lungs, 
 stomach, liver and kidneys. 
 
 Worry brings on kidney disease, but it is the vagus 
 nerve, and especially that branch running to the kid- 
 neys which under undue excitement or worry, or 
 strain, brings about the paralysis of the kidneys in 
 the performance of their functions. 
 
 When we say that a man's heart sinks within him 
 for fear or apprehension, it is shown by the effect of 
 this nerve upon the heart action. If his heart beats 
 high with hopes, or he sighs for relief, it is the vagus 
 nerve that has conducted the mental state to the heart 
 and accelerated its action or caused that spasmodic 
 action of the lungs which we call a sigh. 
 
 The nerves of the human body constitute the "Tree 
 of Life," with its leaves of healing. The flowing 
 waters of the Rivers of Life are the veins and arte- 
 ries through which sweep the red, magnetic currents 
 of Love of Spirit made visible. 
 
 Acids and alkalis acting, 
 
 Proceeding and acting again, 
 Operating, transmuting, fomenting, 
 
 In throes and spasms of pain 
 Uniting, reacting, atoning, 
 
 Like souls passing under the rod 
 Some people call it Chemistry, 
 
 Others call it GOD. 
 
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 Behold the divine telegraph system, the million 
 nerve wires running throughout the wondrous tem- 
 ple, the temple not made with hands, the temple 
 made u without sound of saw or hammer." View the 
 Central Sun of the human system the Solar Plexus 
 vibrating life abundantly. 
 
 Around this dynamo of God, you may see the 
 Beasts that worship before the Throne day and night 
 saying, "Holy, holy, art Thou, Lord God Almighty." 
 The Beasts are the twelve plexuses of nerve centers, 
 telegraph stations, like unto the twelve zodiacal signs 
 that join hands in a fraternal circle across the gulf of 
 space. 
 
 Aviation, liquified air, deep breathing for physical 
 development and the healing of divers diseases rule 
 the day. In every brain there are dormant cells, 
 waiting for the "coming" of the bridegroom, the 
 vibration of the air age (the Christ) that will resur- 
 rect them. 
 
 Everywhere we have evidence of the awakening of 
 dormant brain cells. Much, if not all, of spiritual 
 phenomena, multiple personality, mental telepathy, 
 and kindred manifestations, are explainable upon the 
 hypothesis of the possibility of awakening and bring- 
 ing into use of dormant brain cells. 
 
 The eye is hardly less wonderful, being a perfect 
 photographer's camera. The retina is the dry plate 
 on which are focused all objects by means of the crys- 
 talline lens. The cavity behind this lens is the shut- 
 ter. The eyelid is the drop shuttle. The draping of 
 the optical dark room is the only black membrane in 
 the entire body. This miniature camera is self-focus- 
 ing, self-loading and self-developing, and takes mil- 
 lions of pictures every day in colors and enlarged to 
 life size. 
 
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 Charts have been prepared marvelous charts 
 which go to show that the eye has 729 distinct expres- 
 sions conveying us many distinct shades of meaning. 
 
 The power of color perception is overwhelming. 
 To perceive red the retina of the eye must receive 
 395,000 vibrations in a second; for violet it must 
 respond to 790,000,000. In our waking moments 
 our eyes are bombarded every minute by at least 
 600,000,000 vibrations. 
 
 The ear is a colossal mystery, and the phenomenon 
 of sound is a secret only recorded in the Holy of 
 Holies of the Infinite Mind. And what is mind? 
 We know absolutely nothing about it. Some believe 
 that mind is the product of the chemical operation of 
 matter, viz. : the atoms or materials that compose 
 the human body. These persons contend that all 
 electrons are particles of pure Intelligence and know 
 what to do. Others hold to the theory that universal 
 Mind (whatever it may be) forms a body from some 
 material, they know not what, and then plays upon 
 it or operates through it. 
 
 Visions of beauty and splendor, 
 
 Forms of a long-lost race, 
 Sounds and faces and voices 
 
 From the fourth dimension of space ; 
 And on through the universe boundless, 
 
 Our thoughts go, lightning-shod ; 
 Some call it Imagination, 
 
 And others call it God ! 
 
 We wonder and adore in the presence of that puls- 
 ing orb, the heart. Tons of the water of life made 
 red by the Chemistry of Love sweep through this 
 central throne every day, and flow on to enrich the 
 Edenic Garden until its waste places shall bloom and 
 blossom as the rose. 
 
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 Take my hand and go with me to the home of the 
 Soul that wonderful brain. Can you count the 
 whirling, electric, vibrating cells ? No, not until you 
 can count the sand grain on the ocean's shore. These 
 rainbow-hued cells are the keys that the fingers of the 
 soul strike to play its part in the Symphony of the 
 Spheres. 
 
 At last we have seen the "Travail of the Soul and 
 are satisfied." No more temples of the Magi now, 
 but instead the Temple of the Ego, the glorious 
 human Beth. At least we have found the true church 
 of God, the human body. In this body, or church, 
 spirit operates like some wizard chemist or electri- 
 cian. No more searching through India's jungles or 
 scaling the Himalayan heights in search for a mas- 
 ter a mahatma or ancient priest dwelling in some 
 mysterious cave where occult rites and ceremonies 
 are supposed to reveal the wisdom of the past. But 
 instead, you have found the Kingdom of the Real 
 within the Temple that needs no outer Sun by day nor 
 Moon nor Stars by night to lighten it. And then the 
 enraptured Soul becomes conscious that the stone has 
 been rolled away from the door of material concept 
 where it has slept, and it now hears the voice of the 
 Father within saying, "Let there be light!" and feels 
 the freedom that comes with knowing that Being is 
 one. 
 
 And now, man, the Ego, also realizes the meaning 
 of the u Day of Judgment." It realizes that Judg- 
 ment means understanding, hence the ability to judge. 
 Man then judges correctly, for he sees the Wisdom 
 of Infinite Life in all men, in all things, all events, 
 and all environments. Thus does the new birth take 
 place, and the Kingdom of Harmony reigns now. 
 
 Man must realize, however, that he is the creator 
 or builder of his own body, and that he is responsible 
 
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 for every moment of its building, and every hour of 
 its care. He alone can select and put together the 
 materials provided by the universe for its construc- 
 tion. Man has been able to scale the heavens, to 
 measure the distances between the stars and plane- 
 tary bodies, and to analyze the component parts of 
 suns and worlds, yet he cannot eat without making 
 himself ill ; he can foretell eclipses and tides for years 
 in advance, but cannot look far enough ahead in his 
 own affairs to say when he may be brought down with 
 la grippe, or to calculate accurately the end of any 
 bodily ill that may afflict him. When he finds out 
 what he really is, and how much he has always had 
 to do in the making of himself what he is, he will 
 be ready to grasp some idea of the wonderful possi- 
 bilities of every human soul and body, and will know 
 how completely and entirely is every man his own 
 savior. Just so long as he denies his own powers, 
 and looks outside of himself for salvation from pres- 
 ent or future ills, he is indeed a lost creature. If the 
 race is to be redeemed, it must come as the result of 
 thought followed by action. If the race is to think 
 differently than at present, it must have new bodies 
 with new brains. Man must be born again. 
 
 Modern physiologists know that our bodies are 
 completely made over every year, by the throwing 
 off of worn-out cells and the formation of new ones, 
 that is going on every minute. Nature will take care 
 of the making-over process, but we are responsible 
 for the plan of reconstruction. Man must learn to 
 run the machinery of his body with the same mathe- 
 matical accuracy as he now displays in control of an 
 engine or automobile, before he can lay claim to his 
 divine heritage and proclaim himself master of his 
 own. 
 
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 The law of life is not a separate agent working 
 independently of mankind and separate from indi- 
 vidual life. Man himself is a phase of the great law 
 in operation. When he once fully awakens to the 
 universal co-operation of the attributes and thoughts 
 through which the great dynamis operates or pro- 
 ceeds, he the Ego one of the expressions of infin- 
 ity, will be enabled to free himself from the seeming 
 environments of matter, and thus realizing his 
 power, will assert his dominion over all he has been 
 an agent in creating. And he has indeed assisted in 
 creating manifesting all that is. Being a thought, 
 an outbreathing of universal spirit, he is co-eternal 
 with it. 
 
 In material concept, we do not begin to realize the 
 extent of our wisdom. When we awaken to spirit, 
 consciousness knowledge that we are egos that have 
 bodies or temples, and not bodies that have souls, 
 or spirits, we see the object or reason of all symbols 
 or manifestation, and begin to realize our own power 
 over all created things. 
 
 And in this Aquarian age, great changes in nature's 
 laws will be speedily brought to pass, and great 
 changes in the affairs of humanity will result. The 
 laws of vibration will be mastered, and through their 
 operation material manifestations will be shaped and 
 moulded to man's will. It is only a matter of time 
 when all the necessities of life will be produced 
 directly from the elements of the air. 
 
 It is well known by chemists that all manner of 
 fruits, grains and vegetables are produced directly 
 from the elements in air, and not from soil. The 
 earth, of course, serves as a negative pole and 
 furnishes the mineral salts of lime, magnesium, iron, 
 potassium, sodium and silica, which act as carriers 
 of water, oil, fibrin, sugar,etc., and thus build up the 
 
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 plant; but oil, sugar, albumin, etc., are formed by a 
 precipitation or condensation of principles in air, and 
 not from soil. This is a fact abundantly proved. 
 Mr. Berthelot, a scientist of France, Tesla, the Aus- 
 trian wizard, and our own Edison have long held 
 that food can be produced by a synthetic process 
 from its elements artificially. 
 
 Some six or seven extracts, as well as coloring 
 material, are now being manufactured in this man- 
 ner. Madder is made almost exclusively by this 
 process now. 
 
 Sugar has recently been made in the laboratory 
 from glycerin, which Professor Berthelot first made 
 direct from synthetic alcohol. Commerce has now 
 taken up the question; and an invention has been 
 patented by which sugar is to be made upon a com- 
 mercial scale, from two gases, at something like 1 
 cent per pound. M. Berthelot declares he has not 
 the slightest doubt that sugar will eventually be man- 
 ufactured on a large scale synthetically, and that the 
 culture of sugar cane and beet root will be aband- 
 oned, because they have ceased to pay. 
 
 The chemical advantages promised by M. Berthe- 
 lot to future generations are marvelous. He cites 
 the case of alzarin, a compound whose synthetic man- 
 ufacture by chemists has destroyed a great agricul- 
 tural industry. It is the essential commercial prin- 
 ciple of the madder root, which was once used in dye- 
 ing. The chemists have now succeeded in making 
 pure indigo direct from its elements, and it will soon 
 be a commercial product. Then the indigo fields, like 
 the madder fields, will be abandoned, industrial lab- 
 oratories having usurped their place. 
 
 Biochemists long ago advanced the theory that ani- 
 mal tissue is formed from the air inhaled, and not 
 from food. The food, of course, serves its purpose ; 
 
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 it acts as the negative pole, as does the earth to plant 
 and vegetable life, and also furnishes the inorganic 
 salts, the workers that carry on the chemistry of life, 
 setting free magnetism, heat and electric forces by 
 disintegration and fermentation of the organic por- 
 tions of the food. 
 
 But air, in passing through the various avenues 
 and complex structure of the human organism, 
 changes, condenses, solidifies, until it is finally depos- 
 ited as flesh and bone. From this established scien- 
 tific truth, it appears that, by constructing a set of 
 tubes, pumps, etc., resembling the circulatory system, 
 as well as the lung cells of the human mechanism, 
 which is a chemical laboratory, where the chemistry 
 of spirit is ever at work, changing the one essence of 
 spirit substance to blood, flesh and bone, air may be 
 changed into an albuminous pabulum, which may be 
 again changed into the special kind of food required 
 by adding the proper flavor, which may also be pro- 
 duced direct from the air. 
 
 There does not seem to be any reason why this sub- 
 stance, the basis of all food or vegetable growth, can- 
 not, by proper process, be made into material for 
 clothing. Wool, cotton, flax, silks, etc., are all pro- 
 duced from the universal elements through the slow, 
 laborious and costly process of animal or vegetable 
 growth. Why not produce them direct? 
 
 Those who believe in a time of peace on earth, a 
 millennial reign, certainly do not think that our pres- 
 ent mode of producing food will continue during that 
 age. Slaughter of animals, and fruit, grain or vege- 
 table raising leave small time for men and women to 
 enjoy a condition foretold by all the seers and proph- 
 ets. But under the new way of producing food and 
 clothing, the millennium is possible. 
 
 And thus will the problem of subsistence be 
 
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 solved. No more monopoly of nature's bounties. 
 An exchange of service will be the coin of the world 
 instead of certain metals difficult to obtain. 
 
 A realization of this vision, or theory, that will for 
 awhile be called visionary by most people, will mean 
 Eden restored. The Earth will be allowed to return 
 to its natural state. We will cease to eat animals 
 birds and fishes. Many people have wondered why, 
 during the last few years fruit pests have multiplied 
 so alarmingly, and why cows are almost universally 
 diseased and so much attention given to meat, milk, 
 and butter products by Boards of Health, etc. There 
 is surely a reason. The One Life, Supreme In- 
 telligence, or Divine Wisdom, that holds the worlds 
 of space in their appointed orbits, surely knows all 
 about the affairs of earth. When a new dispensation 
 is about to be ushered in, old things begin to pass 
 away. 
 
 All labor, preparing food and clothing, as now 
 carried on, will cease, and the people, in govern- 
 mental or collective capacity, will manufacture and 
 distribute all manner of food and clothing free. Ma- 
 chinery for the production of everything necessary 
 for man's material wants will be simple and easily 
 manipulated. One-twentieth of the able-bodied popu- 
 lation, working one or two hours a day, and shift- 
 ing every week, or day, for that matter, with others, 
 will produce an abundant supply. Neither droughts 
 nor floods nor winter's snow can affect the supply. 
 It can be made in Klondyke or the Tropics. Gar- 
 ments may be worn for a few days and then burned, 
 and laundry work cease. Cooking will be reduced to 
 a minimum. No preparing vegetables, fruit or crack- 
 ing nuts; no making butter, or preserving meats. 
 Men will not have to devote their lives to the endless 
 grind of food production, nor women to cooking, 
 
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 dish-washing, sewing, and laundry-work. Garments 
 of beautiful design and finest texture will be made by 
 machines invented for the purpose, ready for wear. 
 
 A dream, you say? I cannot admit that in the 
 fact of the indisputable evidence already produced: 
 but what if it were, at present, but the dream it may 
 appear to the one who hears of its methods of opera- 
 tion for the first time? Do dreams ever come true? 
 Yea, verily? All concrete facts are materialized 
 dreams. 
 
 An Egyptian King dreamed, and the Pyramids of 
 Cheops mass and miracle his vision. The Pyramids 
 are encyclopedic of physical science and astral lore. 
 The science of numbers, weights, measures, geometry 
 astronomy, astrology, and all the deeper mysteries 
 of the human body and soul are embodied in these 
 incomparable monuments. 
 
 A dream of an ancient alchemist solidified in stone, 
 and the awful sphinx sat down in Egypt's sand to gaze 
 into eternity. 
 
 Columbus dreamed, and a white-sailed ship turned 
 its prow west and west. On unchartered seas, with 
 an eternity of water ahead, he remembered his dream, 
 and answered "Sail on!" to the discouraged mate, 
 until he landed on the unknown shores of a most 
 wonderful new world. 
 
 Michael Angelo dreamed a thousand dreams and 
 sleeping marble awoke and smiled. Hudson and Ful- 
 ton dreamed, and steamboats "run over and under 
 the seas." 
 
 The Pilgrim Fathers dreamed and America, the 
 "marvel of nations" banners the skies with the stars 
 and stripes. Marcus Whitman and Lewis and Clarke 
 dreamed long and hard and the bones of oxen and 
 men and women and babies made a bridge over the 
 
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 desert sands and the mountain gorges to the shores 
 of the Sundown Sea, and now the Pullman cars come 
 safely over. Morse and Marconi and Edison 
 dreamed strange wild dreams and concentrated in- 
 telligence springs from carbon-crucible and says to 
 earth's boundaries, "Lo; here am I." 
 
 Vibration of etheric substance 
 
 Causing light through regions of space, 
 A girdle of something enfolding 
 
 And binding together the race 
 And words without wires transmitted, 
 
 Aerial-winged, spirit-sandalled and shod: 
 Some call it electricity, 
 
 And others call it God! 
 
 A mechanic dreamed, and sprang upon his auto- 
 mobile, and drove it till the axles blazed and the 
 spaces shriveled behind him. Men of high strung 
 airy brains dreamed wondrous dreams, and .now 
 the eagle's highway and the open road to men li? 
 parallel. 
 
 A musician dreamed a sweet, harmonious dream, 
 and forth from a throat of brass and discs of carbon 
 directed by a million tiny fingers of steel, came the 
 entrancing notes that had run riot through the sing- 
 er's brain. 
 
 So let us dream on, men and women, of the day 
 of rest that is already dawning in the heavens. No 
 wonder that Paul said: "Now, brethren, are we the 
 Sons of God, but it doth not yet appear what we 
 shall be as such. The morning light of that glad 
 day now purples the mountains of faith and hope with 
 its rays of glory. 
 
 And when Man is once fully alive to his own heri- 
 tage, realizing the wonders and possibilities of his 
 
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own body, and to provide for its needs, he will assert 
 the divine right within him to be an Ego, a soul, in 
 command of its own temple, and the environments of 
 that temple, and will rejoice in the revealed truth of 
 his own divinity that alone can make him free. 
 
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PART TWO 
 The Bridge of Life 
 
 "A noiseless, patient spider, 
 
 I mark'd, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated; 
 
 Mark'd how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding, 
 
 It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself; 
 
 Ever unreeling them ever tirelessly speeding them. 
 
 "And you, O my soul, where you stand, 
 
 Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of space, 
 
 Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing seeking the spheres, to 
 
 connect them; 
 Till the bridge you will need, be form'd till the ductile 
 
 anchor hold ; 
 Till the gossamer thread you fling, catch somewhere, O my soul." 
 
 WALT WHITMAN 
 
 HE statement by Holy Writ that "man 
 is conceived in sin and brought forth in 
 iniquity" has a threefold meaning, viz., 
 chemical, physiological, and astrological. 
 The translation from the Hebrew text as 
 given is crude and misleading. The real meaning in 
 the original is, that the human embryo remains nine 
 months in the female laboratory, thus falling short 
 three months of completing a solar year, or soul year. 
 Twelve represents a complete circle. 
 
 The word sin comes from Schin, the 21st letter of 
 the Hebrew alphabet, and means to fall short of com- 
 pleteness or understanding. In the Tarot symbol, S, 
 or Sin, is represented by the "Blind Fool," one lack- 
 ing in wisdom. "Brought forth in iniquity" is merely 
 a repetition of the words "born in sin." Iniquity and 
 inequity, or unequal, mean the same. The ancient 
 
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 Hebrews called Moon, Sin, because it gave light onty 
 part of the time. 
 
 To acquire wisdom that will enable the Ego in flesh 
 to build a bridge across the three-month gap, or space 
 between the point of conception and birth, is the one 
 real problem that confronts Soul on the material 
 plane of expression. The alchemists, seers, and as- 
 trolbgians of all ages have wrestled with this problem 
 in their ceaseless endeavors to unravel the great mys- 
 tery of man's dominion over flesh. Whether it be the 
 chemist seeking new compounds, the physiologist 
 searching and testing the fluids of the fearfully and 
 wonderfully made body of man, or the alchemist 
 probing for the Elixir of Life the Ichor of the Gods 
 or the astrologian pulling and adjusting the etheric 
 wires that criss-cross the spaces in an earnest desire 
 to make good and sane the statement "The wise man 
 rules his stars," all, all are seeking to span the aw- 
 ful space that yawns between the neophyte and the 
 Promised Land of immortality in the body, where 
 "in my flesh I shall see God," and when and where 
 he can truly say with the regenerated Job, "I have 
 heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine 
 eye seeth thee." Man must work out his own salva- 
 tion. 
 
 The bridge to be built across the three-months 
 space must have a mineral base or rock foundation. 
 u Thou are Peter (petra, stone, or mineral), on thee 
 will I build my church," etc. Church is from the sec- 
 ond Hebrew letter, Beth, a house, temple, or church. 
 The human body is a house, temple, or church for 
 Soul. "Know ye not that your bodies are the tem- 
 ple (church)'of God?" 
 
 There are twelve inorganic mineral cell-salts in the 
 human body, and these minerals (stones in the tem- 
 ple) correspond in vibration to the twelve signs of 
 
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 the Zodiac. During the nine months of gestation the 
 embryo receives and appropriates the creative ener- 
 gies of nine of these salts, leaving three to be supplied 
 after the parting of the umbilical cord. Take for ex- 
 ample a native born February 22nd, with the Sun's 
 entry into Pisces: The embryo having begun its jour- 
 ney at the gate of Gemini and negotiated the nine 
 gestatory signs, his blood vibration at birth is thus 
 deficient in the qualities of Pisces, Aries and Taurus, 
 as also in the chemical dynamics of phosphate of iron, 
 phosphate of potassium, and sulphate of sodium 
 the mineral bases respectively of the signs of this un- 
 completed quadrant. In so far as his circulatory sys- 
 tem may receive these needed builders, health will 
 be balanced and life prolonged. 
 
 The chemical union of these cell-salts with organic 
 matter, such as oil, fibrin, albumen, etc., forms the 
 various tissues of the body, and administers to the 
 physiological needs as represented by the Bridge, that 
 the multiple cells may respond more harmoniously 
 and completely to the magic touch of the # Divine en- 
 ergy, just as the tones of a musical instrument are 
 made the more melodious through a properly skilled 
 manipulation. And as bridge-building in a mechani- 
 cal sense depends upon the plans and specifications 
 of a competent civil engineer, so does the Bridge of 
 Life depend upon the astrologian to chart and com- 
 pass the way. 
 
 Our diagram indicates at a glance the chemical 
 formulae that appertain respectively to the zodiacal 
 divisions, but to give a clearer conception as regards 
 their specific qualities and physiological action in re- 
 lation to the various signs, reference may be had to 
 the following compend : 
 
 ARIES : From the teachings of the Chemistry of 
 
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 Life we find that the basis of brain or nerve fluid is a 
 certain mineral salt known as potassium phosphate, 
 or Kali Phos. 
 
 The Phosphate of Potash. 
 
 Synonyms : Potassium Phosphate, Kali Phosphori- 
 cum, Potassii Phosphas. 
 
 Formula : K 2 HPO 4 . 
 
 It may be prepared by mixing aqueous phosphoric 
 acid with a sufficient quantity of potash, hydrate or 
 carbonate, until the reaction is slightly alkaline and 
 evaporating. Triturate to 3d or 6th X. 
 
 This salt is the great builder of the positive brain 
 cells. Kali phos. unijtes with albumen and by some 
 subtle alchemy transmutes it and forms gray brain 
 matter. 
 
 When the chemical possibilities of this brain build- 
 er are fully understood insane asylums will go out of 
 fashion. 
 
 Man has been deficient in understanding because 
 his brain receiver did not vibrate to certain subtle in- 
 fluences ; the dynamic cells in the gray matter of nerve 
 were not finely attuned and did not respond hence 
 sin, or falling short of understanding. 
 
 TAURUS: Sulphate of Soda. 
 
 Synonyms: Natrum Sulphate, Sodium Sulphuri- 
 cum, Sodae or Sodii Sulphas, Glauber's Salts. 
 
 Formula Na 2 (SO 4 10H 2 O). 
 
 May be obtained by the action of Sulphuric acid 
 on sodium chloride (common salt). 
 
 This cell-salt is found in the intercellular fluids, 
 liver and pancreas. Its principal work is to regulate 
 the supply of water in the human organism. 
 
 The blood becomes overcharged with water, either 
 from the oxidation of organic matter or from inhal- 
 
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 ing air that contains more aqueous vapor (water) 
 than is required to produce normal blood. This con- 
 dition of air is liable to prevail whenever the tem- 
 perature is above 70 degrees. 
 
 One molecule of nat. sulph. has the power (chem- 
 ical intelligence) to take up and carry away two mole- 
 cules, or twice its bulk of water. The blood does not 
 become overcharged with water from water taken 
 into the stomach, but from the water lifted by expan- 
 sion caused by heat above 70 degrees and held in the 
 air and thus breathed into the arteries through the 
 lungs. By the above we see that there is more work 
 for this salt in hot weather than during cold weather. 
 So-called malaria, Latin for bad air, is due to a lack 
 of this tissue salt. Water lifted from swamps or clear 
 streams or lakes by the action of the sun's heat is the 
 same ; for heat does not evaporate and lift poisonous 
 disintegrating organic matter from a swamp or 
 marsh, but the water only. 
 
 GEMINI : The Chloride of Potash, or Potassium. 
 
 Synonyms: Potassium chloride, Kali Muriaticum, 
 Kali Chloratum, Kali Chloridum, Potassi Chloridum. 
 
 Formula: K Cl. 
 
 This salt must not be confused with the chlorate of 
 potash, a poison, chemical formula K Clo 3 . 
 
 Chloride of potash may be obtained by neutraliz- 
 ing pure aqueous hydrochloric acid with pure potas- 
 sium carbonate or hydrate. 
 
 The cell-salt kali muriaticum (Potassium chlo- 
 ride) is the mineral worker of blood that forms fib- 
 rin and properly diffuses it through the tissues of the 
 body. 
 
 Kali mur molecules are principal agents used in 
 the chemistry of life to build fibrin into the human 
 organism. The skin that covers the face contains 
 
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 the lines and angles that give expression and thus dif- 
 ferentiate one person from another. 
 
 In venous blood fibrin amounts to three in one 
 thousand parts; when the molecules of Kali mur fall 
 below the standard in the blood fibrin thickens, caus- 
 ing what is known as pleurisy, pneumonia, catarrh, 
 diphtheria, etc. When the circulation fails to throw 
 out the thickened fibrin via the glands or mucous 
 membrane, it may stop the action of the heart. Em- 
 bolus is a Latin word meaning little lump, or balls ; 
 therefore to die of embolus, or "heart failure" gen- 
 erally means that the heart's action was stopped by 
 little lumps of fibrin clogging the auricles and ven- 
 tricles of the heart. 
 
 When the blood contains the proper amount of 
 kali mur, fibrin is functional and the symptoms re- 
 ferred to above do not manifest. 
 
 CANCER : Fluoride of Lime. 
 
 Synonyms : Calcaria Flurica, Calcium Fluoride. 
 
 Chemical Formula : CaF 2 . 
 
 This salt is formed by the union of lime and fluo- 
 rine. 
 
 The inorganic salts are the workers, controlled 
 and directed by infinite intelligence, that performs the 
 ceaseless miracle of creation or formation. 
 
 Biologists and physiologists have searched long 
 and patiently for a solution to the mystery of the dif- 
 ferentiation of material forms. 
 
 No ordinary test can detect any difference in the 
 ovum of fish, reptile, bird, beast or man. Chemical 
 analysis reveals the same mineral salts, carbon, oil, 
 fibrine, albumen, sugar, etc., in the life cell, or ovum 
 in the blood, tissue, hair, or bone of the multiple and 
 varied expression of life in material forms. 
 
 The chemistry of life answers the "Riddle of the 
 
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 Sphinx," and writes above the temple door of inves- 
 tigation: "Let there be light." There is no such 
 thing as dead or inert. All is life. A crystal is an 
 aggregation of living organism. The base of all 
 material manifestation is mineral. "Out of the dust 
 (ashes or mineral) of earth physical man is made." 
 
 The twelve mineral salts of lime, iron, potash, so- 
 dium, silica and magnesium are the foundation stones 
 of every visible form of animal or vegetable. No 
 two forms of the different species of animals have 
 the same combination of this "rock foundation," but 
 all have some of the same minerals. 
 
 It is quite as important for a student of Biochem- 
 istry to understand the process by which certain cell- 
 salts operate to supply a deficiency as it is to know 
 what a particular symptom calls for. 
 
 Elastic fibre, the chief organic substance in rubber, 
 is formed by a chemical union of the fluoride of lime 
 with albumen, oil, etc. Therefore, we find this salt 
 dominant in the elastic fibre of the body, in the 
 enamel of teeth and connective tissue. 
 
 A lack of salt in proper amount causes relaxed con- 
 dition of muscular tissue, falling of the womb and 
 varicose veins. Sometimes there is a non-functional 
 combination of this salt with oil and albumen which 
 forms a solid deposit, causing swelling of stony hard- 
 ness ; it is a sort of incomplete fibre with other lime 
 salts and vitiated fluids of the body. 
 
 LEO : Phosphate of Magnesia. 
 
 Synonyms : Magnesium Phosphorica. 
 
 Formula : MgHOPOJ (H 2 O) . 
 
 This cell-salt may be made by mixing Phosphate of 
 Soda with Sulphate of Magnesia. This salt is found 
 chiefly in the white fibres of nerves and muscles. The 
 tissues of nerves and muscles are composed of many 
 very fine threads or strands of different colors, each 
 
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 acting as a special telegraph wire, each one having a 
 certain conductile power or quality, special chemical 
 affinity for, certain organic substances, oil or albu- 
 men, through and by which the organism is material- 
 ized and the process or operations of life are carried 
 on. The imagination might easily conceive the idea 
 that these delicate infinitesimal fibres are strings of 
 the Human Harp, and that molecular minerals are 
 the fingers of infinite Energy striking notes of some 
 Divine Anthem. 
 
 The white fibres of nerves and muscles need the 
 dynamic action of Magnesia Phosphate especially to 
 keep them in proper tune, or function, for by its 
 chemical action on albumen the special fluid for white 
 nerve or muscle fibre is formed. When the supply 
 of this salt falls below the standard, cramps, sharp 
 shooting pains or some spasmodic condition prevails. 
 Such symptoms are simply calls of nature for more 
 magnesia. 
 
 The impulsive traits of Leo people are symboled 
 In the pulse, which is a reflex of heart throbs. 
 
 The phosphate of magnesia, in biochemic thera- 
 peutics, is the remedy for all spasmodic impulsive 
 symptoms. This salt supplies the deficient worker 
 or builder in such cases and thus restores normal con- 
 ditions. A lack of muscular force, or nerve vigor, 
 indicates a disturbance in the operation of the heart 
 cell-salt, magnesia phosphate, which gives the "Lion's 
 spring," or impulse. 
 
 VIRGO: Sulphate of Potash. 
 
 Synonyms : Potassium Sulphate, Kali Sulphos, Po- 
 tassae Sulphos, Kali Sulphate. 
 
 Formula : K 2 SO 4 . 
 
 The miscroscope reveals the fact that, when the 
 tody is in health, little jets of steam are constantly 
 .escaping from the seven million pores of the skin. 
 
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 The human body is a furnace and steam engine. The 
 stomach and bowels burn food by chemical operation 
 as truly as the furnace of a locomotive consumes by 
 combustion. In the case of the locomotive the burn- 
 ing of coal furnishes force which vibrates water and 
 causes an expansion (rate of motion) that we name 
 steam. 
 
 The average area of skin is estimated to be about 
 2,000 square inches. The atmospheric pressure be- 
 ing fourteen pounds to the square inch, a person of 
 medium size is subject to a pressure of 40,000 
 pounds. 
 
 Each square inch of skin contains 3500 sweat tubes 
 or perspiratory pores (each of which may be likened 
 to a little drain tile) one-fourth of an inch in length, 
 making an aggregate length of the entire surface of 
 the body 201,166 feet, or a tile draining for the body 
 nearly forty miles in length. 
 
 All tangible elements are the effects of certain 
 rates of motion on the intangible and unseen ele- 
 ments. Nitrogen gas is mineral in solution, or ulti- 
 mate potency. 
 
 Oil is made by the union of the sulphate of potas- 
 sium (potash) with albuminoids and aerial elements. 
 
 The first element that is disturbed in the organism 
 of those born in the celestial sign Virgo is oil; this 
 break in the function of oils shows a deficiency in 
 potassium sulphate, known in pharmacy as kali sulph. 
 
 Virgo is represented in the human body by the 
 stomach and bowels, the laboratory in which food is 
 consumed as fuel to set free the minerals, in order 
 that they may enter the blood through the mucous 
 membrane absorbents. 
 
 The letter X in Hebrew is Samech or Stomach. X 
 or cross, means crucifixion, or charge, transmutation. 
 
 LIBRA : Phosphate of Soda. 
 
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 Synonyms: Natrum Phosphate, Sodium Phos- 
 phate, Phosphos Natricus, Sodae Phosphate. 
 
 Formula: Na 2 HPO 4 ;12H 2 O. 
 
 This alkaline cell-salt is made from bone ash or by 
 neutralizing orthophosphoric acid with carbonate of 
 sodium. 
 
 Sodium, or natrum, phosphate holds the balance 
 between acids and normal fluids of the human body. 
 
 Acid is organic and can be chemically split into 
 two or more elements, thus destroying the formula 
 that makes the chemical rate of motion called acid. 
 
 Acid conditions are not due to an excess of acid in 
 the blood, bile or gastric fluids. Supply the alkaline 
 salt sodium phosphate, and acid will chemically 
 change to normal fluids. 
 
 A certain amount of acid is necessary, and always 
 present in the blood, nerve, stomach and liver fluids. 
 The apparent excess of acid is nearly always due to a 
 deficiency in the alkaline, salt. 
 
 Acid, in alchemical lore, is represented as Satan 
 (Saturn), while sodium phosphate symbolizes Christ 
 (Venus). An absence of the Christ principle gives 
 license to Satan to run riot in the Holy Temple. The 
 Advent of Christ drives the thief out with a whip of 
 thongs. Reference to temple in the figurative lan- 
 guage of Bible and New Testament always symbols 
 the human organism. "Know ye not that your bodies 
 are the Temple of the living God?" 
 
 Solomon's temple is an allegory of the physical 
 body of man and woman. Soul of man's temple 
 the house, church, Beth or temple made without 
 sound of "saw or hammer." 
 
 Hate, envy, criticism, jealousy, competition, selfish- 
 ness, war, suicide and murder are largely caused by 
 acid conditions of the blood producing changes upon 
 which Soul plays "Divine Harmonies" or "fantastic 
 
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 tricks before high heaven," according to the arrange- 
 ment of chemical molecules in the wondrous labora- 
 tory of the soul. 
 
 Without a proper balance of the alkaline salt, the 
 agent of peace and love, man is fit for "treason, strat- 
 agem and spoils." 
 
 SCORPIO : Sulphate of Lime. 
 
 Synonyms: Calcium Sulphate, Calcarea Sulphate, 
 Calc Sulphos, Gypsum, Plaster of Paris. 
 
 Formula : CaSo 4 . 
 
 This salt can be obtained by precipitating a solu- 
 tion of chloride of lime with dilute sulphuric acid. 
 
 SAGITTARIUS : The mineral or cell-salt of blood 
 corresponding to Sagittarius is Silica. 
 
 Synonyms: Silica, Silic, Oxide, White Pebble or 
 Common Quartz. Chemical abbreviation, Si. 
 
 Made by fusing crude silica with carbonate of 
 soda; dissolve the residue, filter, and precipitate by 
 hydrochloric acid. 
 
 This product must be triturated as per biochemic 
 process before using internally. 
 
 This salt is the surgeon of the human organism. 
 Silica is found in hair, skin, nails, periosteum, the 
 membrane covering and protecting bone, the nerve 
 sheath, called neurilemma, and a trace is found in 
 bone tissue. The surgical qualities of silica lie in the 
 fact that its particles are sharp cornered. A piece of 
 quartz is a sample of the finer particles. Reduce silica 
 to an inpalpable powder and the microscope reveals 
 the fact that the molecules are still pointed and jag- 
 ged like a large piece of quartz rock. In all cases 
 where it becomes necessary that decaying organic 
 matter be discharged from any part of the body by 
 the process of suppuration, these sharp-pointed par- 
 ticles are pushed by the marvellous intelligence that 
 operates without ceasing, day and night, in the won- 
 
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 drous human Beth, and like a lancet cut a passage to 
 the surface for the discharge of pus. Nowhere in all 
 the records of physiology or biological research can 
 anything be found more wonderful than the chemical 
 and mechanical operation of this Divine artisan. 
 
 The Centaur of mythology is known in the "Cir- 
 cles of Beasts that worship before the Lord (Sun) 
 day and night," as Sagittarius, the Archer, with 
 drawn bow. Arrow heads are composed of fiint, de- 
 carbonized white pebble or quartz. Thus we see why 
 silica is the special birth salt of all born in the Sagit- 
 tarius sign. 
 
 CAPICORN : Phosphate of Lime. 
 
 Synonyms: Calcerea Phosphoricum, Calcium Phos- 
 phate. 
 
 Formula: Ca 3 Po 4 . 
 
 Phosphoric acid dropped in lime water precipitates 
 this salt. 
 
 Circle means Sacrifice, according to the Cabala, the 
 straight line bending to form a circle. Thus we find 
 twelve zodiacal signs sacrificing to the sun. Twelve 
 months sacrifice for a solar year. Twelve functions 
 of man's body sacrifice for the temple, Beth, or 
 "Church of God" the human house of flesh. Twelve 
 minerals known as cell-salts sacrifice by operation 
 and combining to build tissue. The dynamic force 
 of these vitalized workmen constitutes the chemical 
 affinities the positive and negative poles of mineral 
 expression. The Cabalistic numerical value of the 
 letters g, o, a, t, add up 12. 
 
 AQUARIUS : Sodium Chloride. 
 
 Synonyms: Natrum Muriaticum, Sodii Chlorid- 
 ium, Chloruretum, Chloruretum of Sodicum, Com- 
 mon table salt. Must be triturated up to 3d decimal 
 before it can be taken up by mucous membrane ab- 
 sorbants and carried into the circulation. 
 
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 Formula: NaCe. 
 
 Air contains 78 per cent of nitrogen gas, believed 
 by scientists to be mineral in ultimate potency. Min- 
 erals are formed by the precipitation of nitrogen 
 gas. Differentiation is attained by the proportion of 
 oxygen and aqueous vapor (hydrogen) that unites 
 with nitrogen. 
 
 A combination of sodium and chlorine forms the 
 mineral known as common salt. This mineral ab- 
 sorbs water. The circulation or distribution of water 
 in the human organism is due to the chemical action 
 of the molecules of sodium chloride. 
 
 Aquarius is known as "The Water Bearer." So- 
 dium chloride, known also as natrum muriaticum, is 
 also a bearer of water, and chemically corresponds 
 with the zodiacal angle of Aquarius. 
 
 PISCES: Phosphate of Iron. 
 
 Synonyms: Ferrum Phosphate, Ferri Phosphas. 
 
 Formula: Fe 3 (PO 4 ) 2 . 
 
 Phosphate of iron may be prepared by mixing so- 
 dium phosphate with sulphate of iron. The salt pre- 
 cipitated by this union is filtered, washed, dried and 
 rubbed to a powder. 
 
 The iron phosphate should not be used below the 
 sixth (decimal trituration), as large doses of iron, 
 as in tinctures, have a bad effect on the mucous lining 
 of the stomach, injure the teeth and utterly fail to 
 supply iron to the blood where it is needed to carry 
 oxygen, the life giver. 
 
 One red blood corpuscle does not exceed the one 
 hundred and twenty millionth of a cubic inch. There 
 are more than three million such cells in one drop of 
 blood, and these cells carry the iron in the blood. 
 How necessary, then, to administer the salts of iron 
 to hungry cells in the most minute molecular form. 
 
 Each one of the twelve inorganic salts has its own 
 
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 sphere of function and curative action. Thus we 
 find the phosphate of iron molecularly deficient in all 
 fevers and inflammatory symptoms. 
 
 Health depends on a proper amount of iron phos- 
 phate in the blood, for the molecules of this salt have 
 chemical affinity for oxygen and carry it to all parts 
 of the organism. When these oxygen carriers are 
 deficient, the circulation is increased in order to con- 
 duct a sufficient amount of oxygen to the extremities 
 with the diminished quantity of iron, exactly as seven 
 men must move faster to do the work of ten. This 
 increased rate of motion of the blood is changed to 
 heat, caused by friction, otherwise known as the 
 "conservation of energy." 
 
 This heat, or increase in the temperature of blood, 
 has been named fever, from the Latin word fervere, 
 meaning "To boil out." 
 
 The writer fails to see any relevancy between the 
 word fever and a deficiency in iron phosphate mole- 
 cules in the blood. From Hippocrates to Koch you 
 will not find a true definition of fever outside of the 
 Biochemic theory. 
 
 It is not simply the heat that causes distress in a 
 fever patient, but it is the lack of oxygen in the blood 
 due to a deficiency in iron, the carrier of oxygen. 
 
 The feet are the foundation of the body. Iron is 
 the foundation of blood. Most diseases of Pisces 
 people commence with symptoms indicating a defici- 
 ency of iron molecules in the blood; hence it is infer- 
 red that those born between the dates of February 
 19 and March 21 use more iron than do those born 
 in other signs. 
 
 Iron is known as the magnetic mineral, due to the 
 fact that it attracts oxygen. Pisces people possess 
 great magnetic force "in their hands and make the 
 best magnetic healers. 
 
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 The astronomer, by the unerring law of mathe- 
 matics applied to space, proportion, and the so far 
 discovered wheels and cogs of the uni-machine, can 
 tell where a certain planet must be located, before the 
 telescope has verified the prediction. So the astro- 
 biochemist knows there must of necessity be a blood 
 mineral and tissue builder to correspond with each of 
 the duodenary segments that constitute the circle of 
 the Zodiac. 
 
 Not through quarantine, nor disinfectants, nor 
 boards of health, will man reach the long-sought 
 plane of physical well-being; nor by denials of disease 
 will bodily regeneration be wrought; nor by dieting 
 or fasting or "Fletcherizing" or suggesting, will the 
 Elixir of Life and the Philosopher's Stone be found. 
 The Mercury of the Sages and the "hidden manna" 
 are not constituents of health foods. Victims of salt 
 baths and massages are bald before their time, and 
 the alcohol, steam and Turkish bath fiends die young. 
 Only when man's body is made chemically perfect 
 will the mind be able perfectly to express itself. 
 
 And the secret of this chemical perfectionment is 
 the sum total of the requirements involved in this 
 zodiacal Bridge. The rock Peter, or Petra must 
 be perfectly formed before the etheric wires which 
 span the gulf between birth forward to the sidereal 
 point of conception can vibrate in such harmony as to 
 sustain the traveller on this "magical bridge of three 
 piers," or the three zodiacal signs through which the 
 material body must successfully function before it 
 may hope to lift the veil of Isis. 
 
 The Bridge of Life, a symbol of physical regene- 
 sis, has been exploited in song, drama, and story. 
 Paracelsus, Pythagoras, Lycurgus, Valentin, Wag- 
 ner, and a long and unbroken line of the Illuminati, 
 from time immemorial have chanted their epics in 
 
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 unison with this u riddle of the Sphinx," across the 
 scroll of which is written, "Solve me, or die." 
 
 Of all the multiple adepts or masters that have 
 kept the lights burning above the Three Piers of the 
 magical Bridge, none has more clearly and beauti- 
 fully written thereof than did the great astrologian 
 poet, Isaiah : 
 
 "Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and 
 the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall 
 the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the 
 dumb shall sing; for in the widerness shall waters 
 break out, and streams in the desert. And the glow- 
 ing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground 
 springs of water; in the habitation of jackals, where 
 they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. And 
 a highway shall be there, and a way and it shall be 
 called, The Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not 
 pass over it, but it shall be for the redeemed ; the way- 
 faring men, yea fools, shall not err therein." 
 
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PART THREE 
 Optic Thalmus 
 
 HE inner eye "the eye behind the eye" 
 just above and attached to the pineal 
 gland by delicate electric wires, is called 
 Optic Thalmus, and means "Light, or 
 Eye of the Chamber." 
 
 In the Greek, it means "The Light of the World," 
 "The Candlestick," "Wise Virgins," "The Temple 
 Needs no Light of the Sun," "If Thine Eye be 
 Single, Thy Whole Body shall be Full of Light," and 
 other texts in the New Testament refer to the single 
 eye or Optic Thalmus. 
 
 Let us now search for the oil that feeds this won- 
 derful lamp, the All-Seeing Eye. 
 
 Christ Jesus is made to say "I am the Light of the 
 World." The word "world" comes from whirl," to 
 turn as a wheel, to gyrate. 
 
 The human body is a certain rate of activity, 
 motion or whirl, i. e. world, and the light of the 
 world and the temple that needs no light of sun or 
 moon refer to the body "Temple of God," when 
 there is "oil in the lamp." 
 
 Error is not sanctified by age. It behooves every 
 lover of truth to cast aside prejudice and dogma and 
 find truth. 
 
 Until we know the meaning of the words "Jesus" 
 and "Christ" we will not understand the bible, which 
 was written in Greek and Hebrew and translated 
 and retranslated to suit the whims and ignorance of 
 
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 priests and charlatans all down through the centuries. 
 
 Constantine, a beast in human form, who mur- 
 dered his mother and boiled his wife in oil, was the 
 chief factor in the orthodox translation of the so- 
 called King James bible. 
 
 Constantine was told by the priests of his time that 
 there was no forgiveness of crimes like those that he 
 was guilty of, and so this Roman Emperor devised 
 the plan of salvation, in order that the blood of the 
 innocent Jesus (or Christ) might save him from 
 eternal damnation. An easy way out for this mon- 
 ster, and all the other blood-smeared tyrants, Kings, 
 Emperors and Napoleons of finance, competition and 
 war, from Pharaoh to the present day rulers whose 
 thrones and scepters lie scattered and broken along 
 the Highway of Nations (1917). 
 
 "Here the Vassal and the King, side by side, lie 
 withering. Here the sword and scepter rust. "Earth 
 to Earth, and dust to dust." 
 
 The word Jesus is from Ichtus, Greek for fish. 
 The word "Christ" means a substance of oil con- 
 sistency, an ointment or smear. Varnish or paints 
 are used to preserve or save wood or paper or cloth 
 hence they become Saviors. 
 
 At about the age of twelve, Jesus was found in 
 the temple arguing with the doctors or teachers. The 
 word "doctor" is from Latin "docere," to teach. 
 
 Now read carefully: Every month in the life of 
 every man or woman, when the moon is in the sign 
 that the sun was in at the birth of the individual, 
 there is a psycho-physical seed or "Son of Man" 
 born near the Solar Plexus or the pneumo-gastric 
 plexus which, in the ancient text, was called the 
 "House of Bread," "The Tree of Life," etc. 
 
 Bethlehem is from Beth, a house, and helm, bread. 
 "Cast thy bread upon the waters and it shall return 
 
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 to thee after many days." Waters are the blood and 
 nerve fluids of the body which carry the fish on its 
 "Divine Journey" to regenerate, save and redeem 
 man. Nazareth means to cook. Nazarene means 
 cooked. Cook means to prepare. Any materialized 
 thing is bread, Nazareth, mass, maso, or dough. 
 Thus the Catholic Mass. Also Maso-n. It will now 
 be made plain why the Masons and Catholics are not 
 in agreement, for our letter N is an abbreviation of 
 the 14th letter of the Hebrew Alphabet, Nun, a 
 fish. By adding N to Maso, the riddle of cooked 
 or prepared fish was made so plain that the priest- 
 hood strenuously objected, and thus developed fric- 
 tion between the church and Masonry. 
 
 The disciples were fishermen. The early Chris- 
 tians used a fish as their secret symbol. Money to 
 pay taxes was taken from the mouth of a fish. Bread 
 and fish were increased until 12 baskets full were 
 left, &c. God prepared a fish to swallow Jonah. 
 Jonah means dove. Dove means peace the germ 
 descending from the gray matter of the brain (See 
 baptism of John). The storm means sex desire. 
 The life seed was thus saved. "He that is born of 
 God cannot sin (or fall short of knowledge) for his 
 seed (fish) remaineth in him." John. The age of 
 puberty is about 12. Up to that age, a child does not 
 understand moral responsibility. "The first born" 
 means the first seed or fish. Pharaoh, sex desire, 
 always tries to destroy the first born. When Jesus 
 was born in Bethlehem, he went (at the age of 12) 
 up the pneumo-gastric nerve, which crosses the 
 medulla oblongata at its junction with the spinal cord 
 at the head of the "River of Jordan," the marrow 
 or nerve fluid of the spinal cord (See illustration 
 in Physiological Charts) and enters the cerebellum, 
 the temple. This is the temple where the moral seed 
 
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 argued with the purely animal cells to change their 
 rate of vibration to moral and spiritual concept. 
 Later this seed (Jesus) drove those who bought 
 and sold ("Even as you and I") with a whip of 
 thongs out of the temple. We must all give up the 
 animal life or suffer the same fate. 
 
 Before we explain the baptism in Jordan and the 
 christening and the crucifixion, &c, let us briefly ex- 
 plain Moses, Joshua, Nile, Pharaoh and the children 
 of Israel. 
 
 Egypt means the dark lower part of the body. 
 That part of the body below the Solar Plexus is 
 Egypt, or the Kingdom of Earth. All above the 
 center, constitutes the Kingdom of Heaven. ("The 
 Kingdom of Heaven is within you.") The Manger, 
 or Bethlehem, is the center, or the balance. 
 
 Nile, Moses and Pharaoh's daughter, all refer to 
 generation. (See overflow of Nile). It rises in 
 mountains of the moon. Moses means "drawn from 
 the water." Fish are drawn from water. "There 
 are two fishes in our sea" Vaughn. See Sign of 
 Pisces, two fishes. 
 
 Joshua the Son of Nun. Nun is Hebrew for fish. 
 
 Moses was the physical or generative fish. 
 
 Moses' laws were on the physical plane. 
 
 Joshua's laws were spiritual. Joshua means "God 
 of Salvation," and salvation comes from saliva or 
 salivation. Sal is salt which Saves. "If the salt 
 loses its Savor" i. e. Savior, wherewith shall it be 
 salted?" Saliva saves the body by digesting (or 
 preparing) the food. Saliva is a smear or ointment, 
 and so Joshua compares with Christ as Moses com- 
 pares with Jesus. Moses died on Mt. Nebo. Nebo 
 means understanding. Joshua took the place left 
 vacant by the death of Moses. Jesus was baptized 
 of John in Jordan the fluids, the Christ substance 
 
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 of the spinal cord, and became, "my beloved Son in 
 whom I am well pleased." There is no J in the 
 Greek or Hebrew alphabets, therefore, the word 
 "John" I O H N meaning "Soul" or "fluids of the 
 body" and not the Ego or Spiritual Man. So when 
 the body dies, the fluids die thus man loses his soul 
 when he loses his body. To prevent the loss of soul 
 and flesh is the mission of the Son, or Seed, of God, 
 or the Son of man. 
 
 There are two very small nerves that extend up 
 from Solar Plexus, cross at base of brain and unite 
 at the Optic Thalmus, the eye of the chamber. These 
 nerves, or delicate wires, are called Adi and Pingali. 
 After the seed or fish has been Christed, if it is 
 retained and not wasted in sexual desire, it goes up 
 to "Golgotha," the place of the skull, and crosses 
 the wires, then remains three days in the tomb or the 
 three chambers of the Pineal gland, then it enters the 
 Optic Thalmus and "giveth light to all that are in 
 the house," that is, the beth or body, all the twelve 
 functions represented by the twelve disciples the 
 twelve signs of the Zodiac. 
 
 But the question will be asked What or where is 
 the source or origin of this seed or redeeming Son? 
 We answer: Ether, Spirit or God. Names mean 
 nothing. 
 
 Esse, Universal intelligence, or It may be used. 
 It breathes into man the breath of life. This elixir 
 is carried through lungs into arteries, or air carriers, 
 where it unites with the inorganic cell-salts, material- 
 izes (cooked), and forms granules, and is then 
 deposited as flesh and bone. 
 
 The study of Astrology, Biology and Biochem- 
 istry, added to Physiology, will lead one into the 
 great Alchemical laboratory of the "Fearfully and 
 
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 wonderfully" made human temple the temple made 
 without sound of saw or hammer. 
 
 Before the Neophyte can fully realize the power 
 of the Optic Thalmus, the Divine Eye within his own 
 brain, he must understand the meaning of Or espe- 
 cially in its relation to Word and Jordan. 
 
 Jordan (not Jordan) is the word in the original 
 text. I is framed from lod the 10th letter of the 
 Hebrew Alphabet, and means "hand," or that which 
 creates. Or is gold, not metal, but the "precious 
 substance" the seed. Dan is Hebrew for Judge, 
 therefore the Creative Power, operating through the 
 precious substance, produces Judgment, or the man 
 of good judgment. 
 
 The upper brain is the reservoir of this Or and is 
 the gray matter or "Precious Ointment" of Christ. 
 
 "In the beginning was the Word and the Word 
 was God/ All things were (or is) created by it," &c. 
 
 The upper brain is the Word, and it furnishes all 
 that man contains, or is. Jesus was not a Savior 
 until he was Christed of lohn in the Jordan. Then 
 he became the "Beloved Son." 
 
 Why was the baptism necessary? Because there 
 are two fish. One was Jesus, the Carpenter, the man; 
 the other, the Christed Jesus the Son of God. The 
 Christ substance gave the electric or magnetic power 
 to the seed to cross the nerves at Golgotha without 
 disintegrating or dying. 
 
 To crucify, means to add to or increase a thousand 
 fold. When electric wires are crossed, they set on 
 fire all inflammable substances near them. When the 
 Christed seed crossed the nerve at Golgotha, the veil 
 of the temple was rent and there was an earthquake, 
 and the dead came forth, i. e. the generative cells 
 of the body were quickened or regenerated. 
 
 The crucifixion or crossing of the life seed gives 
 
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 power to vibrate the pineal gland at a rate that 
 causes the Optic Thalmus to fill the "whole body 
 with light," and send its vibration out along the optic 
 nerve to the physical eye, and thus heal the blind. 
 
 Let us hark back to the Nile : Pharaoh means a 
 ruler or a tyrant or sex desire. Israel means blood, 
 children of Israel, molecules of the blood. 
 
 "Moses lifted up the serpent," &c. Moses, the 
 first born, the seed, desired to regenerate the blood 
 and lead it to the promised land, thus he lifted up 
 sex desire, here symboled as the serpent (See the 
 temptation of the Adam and Eve.) ... So 
 shall the "Son of Man be lifted up," &c, &c. that 
 is put on the cross in order to reach the pineal gland. 
 1 'If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me," 
 I will draw all other seed unto me. Study the ety- 
 mology of "men." 
 
 The tree in the midst of the garden bore fruit 
 every month and its leaves were healing. 
 
 The Commandment to not eat of the fruit of this 
 tree was not (is not) heeded by the race, and death 
 is the result. 
 
 The serpent said "Eat, thou shalt not die," but 
 sex desire was a liar from the beginning. 
 
 A noted Professor of Greek, in one of our Uni- 
 versities, says that the translation of many New Test- 
 ament texts from Greek are radically wrong. For 
 instance, "He that saveth his life, shall lose it, and 
 he that loseth his life, for my sake, shall find it," 
 should read: "He that saveth his seed life shall 
 loosen it (set it free), and he that loosens it, shall 
 find it," which means that this "Bread cast upon the 
 waters" shall redeem him. 
 
 Galilee means a circle of water the fluids of the 
 body. Jesus walking on the water is a symbol of 
 the seed, or fish, on its journey. Peter, from petra 
 
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 (stone) is a symbol of physical or material thought 
 which was rescued by the fish, Savior. 
 
 The Optic Thalmus is called "The Lamb of God 
 that taketh away the sins of the world" 
 
 Sin is from the Hebrew letter Schin, meaning to 
 fall short of knowledge. Sin does not mean wrong 
 or crime, but one may commit a crime or do wrong 
 through lack of knowledge. Paul said: "I die daily" 
 . . . . "I am the chief of sinners." Revela- 
 tions: "And the lamp thereof is the Lamb." The 
 word, "Lamb," ends with B, which means a house or 
 body of some kind. Now, the optic, or central single 
 eye, is a body, like the outer eye ball; therefore, a 
 beth. This is called lamb by the ancient poet. 
 
 Lamp ending with P, which means speech or 
 sending forth or radiating, and is from Pe, the 8th 
 letter of the Hebrew Alphabet, and was used to 
 express light, or knowledge, emanating or going 
 forth from this eye or "Lamb of God." 
 
 "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." 
 
 The cerebellum is heart shaped, and in the Greek 
 is known as the heart. The organ that divides blood 
 was called the "Dividing Pump." The seat of 
 thought is the Cerebellum. Our thoughts shape our 
 lives. If we think continually below the solar plexus 
 in the Kingdom of the Earth; if we dwell in thoughts 
 of material pleasures, we become animal and mate- 
 rialistic. If we really desire the Kingdom of Heaven, 
 we must think of the process that will enable us to 
 realize it. 
 
 When Jesus was born, they put him in "swadling 
 clothes." Now the psychic germ (fish) is composed 
 of the concentrated essence of life, and is covered by 
 a gossamer capsule for protection. If this swadling 
 cloth is broken, the "precious ointment" is lost, i. e. 
 it disintegrates and corrupts the blood. 
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 In order to save this germ of life, man must 
 remember, that as a man thinketh, so is he. While 
 men must abstain entirely from sexual contact, he 
 must also realize that "He who looketh on a woman 
 to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her 
 in his heart" 
 
 By constant prayer do we attain the Kingdom. 
 
 Envy, hatred, ambition, covetousness, will destroy 
 the capsule that contains the seed, and thus corrupt 
 the blood as surely as sexual contact. Alcohol in 
 all its deceptive forms is the arch foe to this life-seed, 
 and seeks by every means known to the enemy of 
 man, to destroy it. "No drunkard shall inherit the 
 Kingdom of Heaven," because alcohol destroys the 
 redeeming substance that enables man to understand 
 or think in his heart the thoughts of the Spirit. Alco- 
 hol cuts the capsule that holds the Esse, born every 
 month in Bethlehem. Alcohol eats the fruit of the 
 tree of life. 
 
 Gluttony is another enemy to regeneration. All 
 excess of food, all that is not burnt up in the furnace 
 the stomach and intestinal tract all that is not 
 properly digested ferments and produces acid which 
 develops alcohol. 
 
 Auto intoxication is common among those who 
 overeat. Most every one overeats. 
 
 The furnace, stomach and digestive tract, becomes 
 a distillery, when the surplus food ferments ; and thus 
 becomes Babylon, the home of unclean birds and 
 beasts which pander to carnal mind. 
 
 Here we have the reason why sickness was consid- 
 ered Sin by the ancients: "To heal the sick and 
 cast out devils" is the mission of the seed. "He 
 that is born of God cannot sin, or be sick, for his 
 seed remaineth in him." "The blood of Christ 
 cleanseth from all sin"; therefore from all disease. 
 
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 Here is the physiological explanation : When the 
 Christed substance, the ointment from the river Jor- 
 dan,, the oil in the spinal cord, reaches the pineal 
 gland, it vibrates to a rate that causes new blood 
 the new wine. This is the blood of Christ that heals 
 all infirmities. Unless, so-called, Christians repent 
 of their sins, the doom of the church is at hand; 
 "Mene, mene teckel upharsin" is written on the wall. 
 
 Here are the words that define a Christian: 
 "These signs shall follow those who believe; they 
 shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. 
 They shall cast out devils and raise the dead. All 
 the things that I do, ye shall do, and greater things 
 shall ye do." 
 
 If there be one Christian on Earth today, let him 
 stand forth and prove himself worthy. "He that 
 overcometh, I will give to eat of the fruit of the tree 
 of life." To overcome a habit is to cease to do it. 
 When the earthly man is controlled by the spiritual 
 man the Lord God he ceases to eat of the fruit, 
 that is, waste it. This fruit is then carried up to the 
 brain and "Eaten in the Father's Kingdom." "And 
 the last enemy to be overcome is death." We 
 overcome death by ceasing to die, and in no other 
 way. "He that believeth in me, shall not perish." 
 Those who die are sinners, and, therefore, are not 
 Christians, for Christ Jesus was (is) without sin. 
 "The wages of Sin is death." "Repent, forsake evil, 
 take up thy Cross, call upon the Lord and He will 
 abundantly pardon." "And the ransomed of the 
 Lord shall return and come to Zion." 
 
 When the sexual functions are used for the propa- 
 gation of human bodies, there is no condemnation 
 or sin. Motherhood is holy, pure, divine. But 
 motherhood forced, is crime. Unwilling mother- 
 hood has created the spirit of war and murder and 
 
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 has well nigh destroyed the race. Sexual union for 
 pleasure alone is the broad road that leads to death. 
 "And there shall be no more Curse" Revelation. 
 The word "Curse" has no reference to an oath. 
 Curse means friction, to grind. The statement, 
 "Then Peter began to curse and swear" . . . 
 And immediately the cock crew," when understood 
 physiologically, fully explains the meaning of curse. 
 
 Sexual commerce for the birth of children where 
 the parents sacrifice themselves for their offsprings' 
 sake, or total abstinence, is written with a pen of 
 flame on all the pages of ancient Scriptures and 
 modern biology. 
 
 "And I saw a woman clothed with the Sun, having 
 the Moon under her feet and twelve stars upon her 
 head." The Sun is the "Son of Man," the product 
 of her own body saved and lifted up. The Moon 
 refers to the generative life. Twelve stars are the 
 twelve functions, typified by twelve zodiacal signs, 
 which she has mastered through physical regen- 
 eration. 
 
 Miss Ruth Le Prade, the woman poet of the New 
 Time, sings of the Kingdom as follows : 
 
 "I am a woman free. My song 
 Flows from my soul with pure and joyful strength. 
 It shall be heard through all the noise of things 
 A song of joy where songs of joy were not. 
 My sister singers, singing in the past, 
 Sang songs of melody but not of joy 
 For woman's name was Sorrow, and the slave 
 Is never joyful, tho he smiles. 
 
 "I am a woman free. Too long 
 I was held captive in the dust. Too long 
 
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 My soul was surfeited with toil or ease 
 And rotted as the plaything of a slave. 
 I am a woman free at last 
 After the crumbling centuries of time. 
 Free to achieve and understand; 
 Free to become and live. 
 
 I am a woman free. With face 
 Turned toward the sun, I am advancing 
 Toward love that is not lust, 
 Toward work that is not pain, 
 Toward home which is the world, 
 Toward motherhood which is not forced, 
 And toward the man who also must be free. 
 
 With face turned toward the sun, 
 
 Strong and radiant-limbed, 
 
 I advance, singing, 
 
 And my song is as free 
 
 As the soul from which it flows. 
 
 I advance toward that which is, but was not; 
 
 I, the free woman, advance singing, 
 
 And with face turned toward the sun. 
 
 Let Ignorance and Tyranny 
 
 Tremble at the sound of my feet. 
 
 "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet and 
 pray to thy Father in secret, and he shall reward 
 thee openly." 
 
 The word Secret is derived from Secretions. The 
 upper brain, the Cerebrum, contains the secretions, 
 gray matter, creative, or that creates, builds and sup- 
 plies all life-force of the human temple. Soul of 
 Man's (Solomon's temple). Hence God, the Crea- 
 tor, dwells in you. The cerebrum is his throne. 
 Prayer or desires expressed by man in the cerebellum 
 for righteousness, is answered in the cerebrum. Thus 
 
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 by prayer to God within, and in no other way, can 
 man overcome the adversary or the "carnal mind 
 which is at enmity to God." 
 
 Let us now consider the Virgin Mary. 
 Virgin, pure. Mar-y, or mare, water. Virgin 
 Mary, pure water. Pure Sea. Pure Ether or spirit. 
 Fish come out of the water. The water, or fluids, 
 of the body give birth to the seed, or fish. 
 
 The Virgin Mary is not mentioned in the Allegory 
 after the ascension of the Christed Jesus the re- 
 deemed fish. Each person, male or female, must 
 "work out their own salvation" 
 
 All so-called sex reform, that tolerates union of 
 sexes, may be answered by : 
 "There is a way that 
 Seemeth right to man 
 The end of which is death." 
 "In my Kingdom there is no marrying nor 
 
 giving in marriage, 
 But they are as the 
 Angels in Heaven." 
 
 Eden, good dwelling place, and Promised Land, 
 mean the same. The children, molecules, of Israel, 
 blood, crossed the Jordan in order to reach Eden. 
 
 Jordan is the spinal cord, and the pneumo-gastric 
 nerve crosses, at the junction of this cord, with the 
 body known as Medulla oblongata, and thus connects 
 with the cerebellum, which is the anteroom or Eden 
 the head the "Thalmus" or chamber that con- 
 tains the "Single Eye," the pineal gland and upper 
 brain or cerebellum. 
 
 Eden's garden is the human body. 
 The solar (center) plexus, with the pneumo- 
 gastric plexus and its branches, is the "Tree of Life." 
 The pneumo-gastric nerve is also called vagus 
 
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 nerve, beacuse its branches wander. Vagrant, wan- 
 dering, is from vagus, to wander. 
 
 "A river went out of Eden to water the garden, 
 and from thence it was parted and became four 
 heads. The name of the first is Pishon; the second, 
 Gihon; the third, Hiddekel; the fourth, Euphrates. 
 The river is saliva. Pishon is the urine; Gihon is 
 the intestinal tract; Hiddekel is the blood; Euphrates 
 the nerve fluids, especially the creative. 
 
 Abram and Sara, or Sarai, had the letter H added 
 to their names when the angel appeared to them and 
 gave instructions. See Gen. 16, 17 and 18. H is 
 from Heth, the eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, 
 and means a field or a vision. The meaning of Heth 
 (H) is given in the Jewish Kaballa and Tarot card 
 symbols as "Spiritual Perception" field, or vision. 
 
 Sarah gave birth to Isaac after this regeneration. 
 Isaac means laughter, a symbol of happiness; so the 
 story is a symbol of physical regeneration. 
 
 The story of Job is evidently a fable. The letters 
 I. O. B. (No J in Hebrew alphabet) figures up, 
 numerically, 19, which means "resplendent light." 
 
 Regeneration develops the optic thalmus, or single 
 eye, by furnishing the oil necessary to light the cham- 
 ber or Eden. "And the temple needs no light of 
 Sun, Moon or Stars," &c. 
 
 Job, on the generative plane, his experience in the 
 Kingdom of Earth, suffered great trials, tribulations 
 and disease; and while he argued much about God 
 and kept his faith, he failed to comprehend. 
 
 But after he became regenerated, he exclaimed: 
 "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, 
 but now mine eye seeth thee." Notice mine eye, 
 not eyes. 
 
 So here we have another proof that regeneration 
 opens the Optic Thalmus the eye behind the eyes. 
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 And now in closing: 
 
 No page of the wonders of the human body the 
 temple of the living God is more divinely scientific 
 than the parable that follows: 
 
 "The foolish man built his house on the sand 
 And the rain washed it away." 
 "The wise man built his house on a rock 
 And it stood the storms, for it was builded upon 
 a rock." 
 
 The Bible is a compilation of astronomical, physi- 
 ological and anatomical symbols, allegories and par- 
 ables. 
 
 In the technical terms of modern chemistry and 
 physiology, the above text is explained as follows : 
 Sand and cement form rock or stone. Sand alone, 
 without some medium cement is unstable, simply 
 "shifting sand." 
 
 The Pineal gland, the dynamo that runs the organ- 
 ism of man, is composed of sand plus a cement, an 
 ointment, a smear, found, as has been explained, in 
 large quantity in the spinal cord, also, to some extent, 
 in all parts of the body. When this cement is wasted, 
 as the Prodigal Son wasted his substance in riotous 
 living, there being a deficiency of this precious oil, 
 the pineal gland becomes brittle, and does not vibrate 
 at a rate that vitalizes the blood and tissue at the 
 health and strength rate, and the house, beth or 
 body, falls. 
 
 In the common slang of the hour, we say: "He 
 lacks the sand" or "grit." 
 
 The mineral salts of blood were called sand or salt 
 by Hebrews. The cell-salts that are found in the 
 pineal gland are chiefly potassium phosphate, the 
 base of the gray matter of the brain; but all of the 
 
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 12 inorganic salts are represented. In Revelations, 
 the pineal gland is called "The white stone/' In 
 Biochemistry, the phosphate of potassium is given as 
 the birth-salts of Aries people. 
 
 Those who build their house upon a rock are they 
 who conserve the substance that unites with the sand 
 cell-salts and thus forms the rock upon which a 
 body may be built that will be free from sin and 
 sickness. 
 
 The mission of Jesus, the Christ, was to triumph 
 over death and the grave, over matter, and trans- 
 mute his body, and be able, also, to materialize at 
 will. He not only succeeded in doing this, but stated 
 most emphatically that all the things that he did, we 
 may do also. 
 
 Did he proclaim the truth? 
 Answer thou of little faith! 
 "Rock of Ages cleft for me, 
 Let me hide myself in thee." 
 
 And the Christ Substance shall create the cement 
 that completes the rock surface of the bridge that 
 crosses the three-span gulf between the shores of 
 conception and birth. Thus "Shall Mortal put on 
 immortality" and the last enemy, death, shall be 
 
 overcome." 
 
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 T seemed to me that it was noon of a 
 perfect day, and that I was wide awake. 
 I stood upon a mountain top in Southern 
 California and looked out to the West. 
 I saw the clean page of the Balboa Sea. 
 Catalina Island reflected its hills and crags in the 
 curling mists that rose and twisted about like things 
 alive, and the mirage grew and spread until I fancied 
 that the new Jerusalem was descending out of the 
 Heavens. 
 
 Eastward the Sierra Madre peaks lightly veiled 
 their heads with mist and fleecy clouds, as if to gently 
 subdue their ineffable glory. I saw the clean-trunked 
 eucalypti, the pendant pepper boughs and the orange 
 groves. A shuttle-throated mocking bird was pouring 
 liquid melody into the ears of Deity, and I asked 
 aloud, "Is not this immortality? Am I not im- 
 mortal?" 
 
 And then a voice, sweet as the voice of the Infinite 
 Mother, came out of the everywhere, and I heard 
 the words, "Yes! you are immortal. You stood in 
 the rush of Divine Splendor when God said: 'Let 
 there be light.' You heard the morning stars chant 
 the Epic of Creation. You saw the first procession 
 of the Constellations. You saw Orion light his clus- 
 tering lamp out in the wilderness of the southern 
 skies. You saw Arcturus rise from the unknown sea 
 of silence, and sentinel the Northern Pole. You saw 
 the first rushing, blazing Comet emerge from the 
 awful realms of boundless space, sweep across meas- 
 
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 front the glad intelligence that the rule of law is 
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 'O'er the ruins smile 
 And light thy torch again 
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 Then I heard the bugles all sing truce along the 
 iron front of war. I saw the battle flags furled. 
 Soldiers were transformed into men. They returned 
 to homes, shops, the fields, the orchards and gardens. 
 Children laughed and women loved. The headsman 
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 Grass grew over the battle trenches, flowers bloomed 
 over deserted forts, vines clambered over arsenals 
 and dreadnaughts rusted in the harbors. Earth was 
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 With the "Eye behind the eyes," "I saw the Holy 
 City beside the tideless Sea" and I heard the Angels 
 striking all their harps of gold. 
 
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