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Man: Grand Symbol of the Mysteries
by Manly P. Hall
Topics
Preface
List of Illustrations
Restating the Theory of Education
Physics and metaphysics
Primary religious tenets
The miracles of Apollonius
Reconciliation of science and mysticism
Sir Oliver Lodge on science
Environment and heredity
The secret of the Golden Age
The destiny of man
Occult Foundations of Science
Ancient learning versus modern learning
Pythagoras a prodigy of erudition
Numa Pompilius, King of Rome
Democritus, the laughing philosopher
Albertus Magnus, scientist and theologian
Paracelsus, the Luther of physicians
Jan Baptista van Helmont, the Descartes of medicine
Sir Francis Bacon, the Instaurator of all knowledge
Roger Bacon, the alchemist
Hippocrates on astrology
The Mystery of the Three Worlds
The Macrocosm and the Microcosm
The God of the learned
The philosophic manikin
The Great Man of The Zohar
The race of the Androgynes
The future state of man
The Pythagorean Universe
The universe an ensouled animal
The Rosicrucian anatomy of Robert Fludd
The Macrocosm and the Microcosm
The doctrine of monads
The Celestial Man and the terrestial man
The Logos of Cesariano
The crucifixion mythos
The descent of the soul
Philo Judaeus on the number 7
The zodiac in the human body
Planetary rulerships in man
The Symbolism of the World Egg
Leonardo da Vinci on the human heart
The egg-born gods
The theology of the Orphics
Castor and Pollux
The Egg of the philosophers
The Egg of Brahma
Persian Mysticism
Typhon, the Ark and the Deluge
Myths of the Druids
The auric egg
Introduction to Occult Embryology
The Spermists and the Ovists
The physical origin of man
The ontogeny of Paracelsus
Universal generation
The spiritual mystery of birth
The process of "quickening"
Imagination and prenatal influence
The universal vision of the cabalist
The Story of the Cell
Fertilization of the ovum
Mitosis, the segmentation of cells
The seven gods in the cell
Robert Fludd's analysis of the World Cell
The parts of the embryo
The womb of Meru
The Garden of Eden
The Incarnations of Vishnu
Vishnu, the Universal Soul
Brahmanic Anthropology
The endocrine chain and rudimentary organs
Fins and feet
The appendix
The seven months' child
The coming of the perfect man
The Brain and the Release of the Soul
The gate of the gods
Calvary, the brain lotus
Andrew Jackson Davis on the process of death
Plutarch on the generation of man
The adepts
The Heavenly Adam
The inner organs of the brain
The mystery of the Pyramids
The Ventricles and the Brain Dew
Cavities in the brain
The ventricular harmony
The word "spirit"
Common sense
The cerebrospinal fluid
The sweat of the gods
The golden apples of the Hesperides
Ambrosia, the drink of the gods
The dew of the sages
The Heart, the Seat of Life
The great vital principle
Boehme on the human heart
The pulse-point
The seven chambers of the heart
Mohammed's night journey to heaven
Descartes' explanation of the circulation of the blood
Experiments with the heart of a snake
The drum of Shiva
The Blood, the Universal Proteus
Ceremony of the Eucharist
The arterial tree
Blood as a vapor
The mystery of Lucifer
The blood of the gods
Blood Consciousness
A Masonic mystery
The subconscious mind
Eliphas Levi on the blood
The Spinal Column and the World Tree
The backbone of Osiris
The sixth ventricle
The World Tree
Mount Saokant
The Polar Axis
The ridge-pole of Shamballa
Animal electricity and magnetism
The planets and zodiac along the spine
Kundalini and the Sympathetic Nervous System
Shiva's lute
Ida and Pingala
The Sushumna Nadi
The Queen of Sheba
The action of Kundalini
The seven chakras
A word of warning
Raja Yoga
The Solar Plexus and the Pneumogastric Nerve
The elemental worlds in the body
Clairvoyance versus psychism
The gods of Old Mexico
Mediumship
Prometheus, the Titan
The pathway of the soul
The golden tube
The Pineal Gland, the Eye of the God
Eyes that cannot see
The Cyclops
The crown of the Double Egypt
Janus, the two-faced god
An ancient faculty
Decartes on the pineal gland
The soul crystals
The All-Seeing Eye
The Endocrine Chain and Bodily Equilibrium
Malfunctioning of the pineal gland
The pituitary, the gland of persistent effort
The thyroid, the regulator
The thymus, the social gland
The liver, the bodily clearing-house
Notes on the cerebellum
The spleen, the vitality gland
The adrenals, the glands of "cash" karma
Planetary relationships of the endocrine system
Sight, the Most Excellent of the Senses
The Epicureans on the function of the optic nerve
Leonardo da Vinci on the process of sight
The Evil Eye
The eyes, according to Plato
Sight and the stimulation of soul qualities
Osiris and Argus
Lessons from amoeba
Swami Vivikananda on the problem of sight
The solar system in the eye
The future of the optical equipment
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