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“(Gad) A troop shall overcome him, but he shall overcome at last.”

—Genesis XLIX.

IN order to obtain facts, it is absolutely essential first to trace to their origin the meanings of the words used in expressing the problem under consideration. Therefore, their etymology must be studied. This is the infallible key by means of which knowledge of anything may be obtained.

In his book, The Study of Words, Richard Chenevix Trench, D.D., quotes the following from an unmentioned writer: “In a language like ours, where so many words are derived from other languages, there are few modes of instruction more useful or more amusing than that of accustoming young people to seek for the etymology or primary meaning of the words they use. There are cases in which more knowledge of more value may be conveyed by the history of a word than by the history of a campaign.” To make the foregoing statement more emphatic we would add that accurate information is unobtainable otherwise.

Mr. Trench even more sympathetically states: “Many a single word also is itself a concentrated poem, having stories of poetical thought and imagery laid up in it. Examine it and it will be found to rest on some deep analogy of things natural and things spiritual, bringing those to illustrate and to give an abiding form and body to these. For certainly in itself there is no study which may be made at once more instructive and entertaining than the study of the use, origin, and distinction of words.”

Elsewhere in his book he deplores the lack of interest in that which is worth while, at the same time analyzing the word “pastime.”

He says, “The world, out of its own use of this word, renders judgment against itself. For it is concerned with amusements and pleasures which do not really satisfy the mind and fill it with the sense of an abiding and satisfying joy; they serve only, as this word confesses, to pass away the time, to prevent it from hanging, an intolerable burden, on man's hands; all which they can do at the best is to prevent men from discovering and attending to their own internal poverty and dissatisfaction and want.”

So important is this subject that one more quotation from his invaluable book must be made. He says: “I shall urge on you something different, namely, that not in books only, but often in words contemplated singly, there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination, laid up—that from these, lessons of infinite worth may be derived, if only our attention is aroused to their existence. I shall urge on you how well it will repay you to study the words which you are in the habit of using or of meeting, be they such as relate to highest spiritual things, or our common words of the shop and market, and of all the familiar intercourse of life. It will indeed repay you far better than you can easily believe. I am sure that, for many a young man, his first discovery of the fact that words are living powers, are the vesture, yea, even of the body, which thoughts weave for themselves, has been like the dropping of scales from his eyes, like the acquiring of another sense, or the introduction into a new world; he is never able to cease wondering at the moral marvels that surround him on every side, and ever reveal themselves more and more to his gaze.”

The above statements are true. A New World verily appears to the student of words—the world of Knowledge. For words, as well as letters and numbers, are the containers and the expressions of definite values. The reason—satisfying information given herein has been obtained by the study of words.

Because the sun rises in the east, bringing with it light and heat, it has from time immemorial been termed the creator, and each nation and people has had its own revered, yet intimate name for this giver of life.

There are two periods in a year when the days and nights are of equal lengths, and they are termed equinoxes. The first, occuring on March twenty-first, is the Spring equinox; exactly six months later we have the Fall equinox.

The Sun, then, crossing the equinoctial line, or equator, on the twenty-first of March, is said to bring the first day of Spring, for there is an awakening, a spring-ing up and therefore a resurrection of all Nature. Indeed, very, very few realize anything at all of the sacred out-pouring, a flood-tide of heavenly power, of spiritual electricity which charges not only the earth but all human beings who are able to receive it. Each human being is a battery, an aggregation of cells, and the law governing its charging is exactly the same as that with which electricians are familiar. It must have the necessary material to attract electricity, the proper kind and the right quantity. A knowledge of the cell-salts, such as is contained in Schuessler's Biochemistry, solves the problem.

Few are so dull as to escape entirely the glamour and glory of the days when the first faint misty green appears, when mating birds fly hither and thither, and virgin earth prepares to pour out her bountiful gifts that man may be fed from her bosom.

But what does it mean to those who sense its approach and to whom its arrival brings keenest joy and a deep and abiding satisfaction? They are being resurrected, for their minds are actually expanding under the influence of that same God-power; the brain substance is being acted on by Cosmic Electricity outpoured from the cerebrum of the Grand Man.

This is the time, then, to begin one's labors, for the charged battery must begin to work—to be utilized. Would that humanity could realize this mighty fact! But human batteries are functioning poorly, the currents are weak, the cells actually corroded. The great reservoir of unlimited electrical power is ever present in the universe—Spirit is never deficient. The trouble lies only in the human battery. It can not contact what it has no power to attract. This is the mysterious chemical secret that has been hidden from man by his own ignorance, and it is this secret which this chapter will reveal, for it is Kali phos which is the casket that holds this priceless gem.

The terrific impetus back of all natural phenomena at this time is the reason that this period of the year is termed Spring. The rabbit is one of the symbols of Spring and of Easter, as it jumps or springs in moving about. The story of the universe and of man has been brought down through the ages under many forms, among these being animal symbols. Those born at this time of the year usually walk with a springing step.

At this season we find the Sun actually springing or climbing up into the heavens until it reaches its highest point, that of the Summer solstice. This is the longest day of the year. The Sun is said to be at its greatest declination, resting, as it were, before going on its journey, but pausing to accomplish something special. The date is approximately June twenty-first.

Six months later we have the Winter solstice, when the sun reaches its lowest point, and on December twenty-first, approximately, again appears to rest. The Summer solstice is, therefore, ninety degrees away from the Spring equinox, and the same number of degrees from the Fall equinox; while the Winter solstice is ninety degrees from both the Spring and Fall equinoxes. These facts are very important to remember and must become fixed in the mind, as these four points constitute the cardinal cross of Nature and of the human body as well. The signs having to do with these points of the cross are Aries, Cancer. Libra and Capricorn.

Signs that are ninety degrees away from each other are said to be square. This is also an important point to fix in the mind in order to read one's chart correctly. The word square is used for the same reason that both practical and theoretical Masons employ it. When understood, the problem of squaring one's circle is solved; for the four signs of one's cross form four squares. In making the bodily correction represented by each square one automatically eliminates the cross, and squares the circle. This constitutes the great work.

Truly, this is the cross upon which each one is crucified.

And most emphatically is it a cross of matter, a chemical cross. The story of each one's individual cross will be given in a forthcoming book on The Biochemic System of Body Building and Astro-Chemical Analysis.

The Spring equinox, therefore, is the return or springing up of creative energy, while the Fall equinox is. the falling or going down, the decreasing or diminishing of the power of the sun or energy. Autumn is derived from the Latin audits meaning enriched, thus bringing out the idea of harvest time, the gathering in of the increase of the year.

The out-pouring time of Nature takes place in what is termed the first month of the astrological year, which begins March twenty-first, and lasts until April twenty-first. During this time the sun is transiting or passing through the constellation of Aries, the Lamb or Ram of the zodiac. It is really termed the April month or sign, as it covers two weeks of the latter and only one of the former.

The process going on during this period in Nature and in man is again brought to our attention by the interpretation of the word April. It is derived from the Latin aperio and means to uncover, to lay bare, to expose to view, therefore to open, to render accessible. Thus the great creative power of Nature is rendered accessible at this time, which is not only a time but a certain definite place in Nature and in man's body.

From time immemorial the signs of the zodiac have been allocated with the parts of the human body. Whatever other interpretations were given, the physiological application came first.

Astrology deals with the body (anatomy) of the Grand Man (the universe) and by analogy, with the body of man. This is a fact that has for the most part been lost sight of, because the mighty science of the macrocosm and the microcosm has been perverted into fortune telling. No wonder so few are interested in it; no wonder so many laugh at and deride it, for they have good reason to. Astrologers, so-called, are for the most part not working for or with Uranus. However, the number of those who are doing so is slowly and surely increasing.

One of the oldest and most common forms in which the signs of the zodiac have been brought down through the ages is in the figure of man, with the glyph of Aries and a gamboling or up-springing Lamb above his head. On the right, from the neck, a line or arrow points to a reclining bull and the symbol of Taurus; on the left from the shoulder is a pointer to two seated children and the symbol of Gemini, and so on to the two fish crossed underneath the feet. The latter gives us the story of the Cross and the religion or scientific story of the fishermen, irrefutable evidence of the one purpose of astrology, which is to give mankind complete information relative to the process, chemical and physiological, whereby perfection and illumination may be attained.

From an understanding, then, of the word Aries, the first or head sign of the zodiac, we obtain its physiological allocation. It is of Latin derivation and means ram. The Latin lexicon also gives battering-ram, prop or beam as other derivatives, all having the same basic idea. The ram, as an animal, is known to butt or bat with its head, when engaged in conflict. But the word ram comes to us from the Sanskrit, and means high. Ram in a Hindu name is evidence that one bearing it is of high caste.

The top of the head is the highest part of the body, and man differentiates himself from an animal by elevating his head, or walking upright. In Hebrew, the top of the head is named calvary, for its literal meaning is bare skull. It is truly the place of ascension.

There are many references in the Scriptures to lofty elevations. One says: “Look toward the holy mountain from whence cometh thy help.” As the Bible and all ancient and sacred writings are physiological, the above quotation refers to the upper brain or cerebrum, in which is the marvelous All-Seeing Eye, or center of understanding.

The brain of man is the organ of mind. If the latter functions well, he is helped and all is well, for he helps himself by doing that which brings about the best result. There are also many statements in this same book calling our attention to the Eye Single and the All-Seeing Eye, also the Candle of the Lord and the Imperishable Sacred Lamp.

Each nation and people has had its own name for that period of the year when the Sun passes through the sign of the Ram. The Egyptians termed it the God Amen-Menthu, the Lamb of Gad, which “taketh away the sins of the world,” Gad being one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

The sun in the sign of the Ram was looked on by the ancients as the God Aries. The Lamb of the Mysteries of Atys; the Lamb of the Festival of Cybele; the White Lamb of the Trojans; the Redemption of the Lost Sheep; The Golden Fleece of Jason and the Argonauts; the Lord of Hosts. As Aries represents the Vernal or Spring equinox, when the Sun crosses the line from Pisces, the sign of the Fishes, into the sign of the Ram, it is, as Dr. Wakeman Ryno says, “crucified or crossified on the equinoctial line which constitutes the redemption of earth, a saving power; the ice and cold winter disappear, water flows, the buds and blossoms start, and the earth is rejuvenated—the sin of cold winter is taken away.”

Allocating this with the cerebro-spinal system, with which Aries deals, an outpouring of energy takes place, flowing downward into the form to rebuild and rejuvenate it. This is exactly what occurs in the body of the Grand Man. It was termed “the sign of Baal Gad by the ancients, or Lord of Felicity, because he presided over the happiest and most prosperous time of the year.”

The word Gad is derived from the Hebrew, and the word sun from the Coptic, according to Dr. Taylor, and both mean the same thing, “God or Gad, being the never-translated name in the ancient Tsabaism, or star-worship of the constellation of the Ram, or Lamb of God, the Rama, the Great, the Elevated,” and thus corresponding to the human head.

The Greek word Thebes means head. There was an old city by that name, the capital of Ancient Egypt. It was the seat of marvelous learning and the greatest art, and was said to have been destroyed by Alexander. This part of the human anatomy, the cerebrum, is, indeed, the storehouse of man, but it is the super-conscious and not the subconscious, as has been so long erroneously taught.

By studying the sacred and secret writings of all nations and peoples, one realizes that Easter was not new to the Piscean Age, nor to the supposed dawn of the Christian religion, but belongs to all time and to all peoples, for it signifies both a cosmic and a microcosmic process, literally a renewal of life. An understanding of this fact, constituting, as it does, a logical and wholly natural explanation, is one of the first steps necessary to an entirely new viewpoint of the Bible.

Realization of this eliminates all controversy which at the present time is becoming more and more pronounced. Bishops and ministers alike are unable to give logical and satisfactory elucidation of the Scriptures, and this has largely constituted the reason so many people remain away from church. Humanity is beginning to think for itself, for this is the age of knowing, not blind belief.

Thus we find from the foregoing the meaning of the opening month of the year, in man as well as in Nature. We find there is a perfect system of analysis, synthesis and allocation which links up space, time, activity, and mankind, yes, even the most secret part of the body. And, as Dr. Wakeman Ryno says: “What silly trash this would be (quoting from Daniel 7:9) taken exactly as it reads; what a beautiful illustration it becomes when taken as an astronomical allegory of the Sun and Moon in their passage through the constellation of Aries the Ram as the opener of the growing months of the year after the winter; ‘the judgment was set (the equinox—equal) the books were opened’—(the Spring).”

Let us now consider another science, that particular branch of physiology which is termed embryology. Here we at once find a perfect allocation with Nature's work in the Spring. The cerebro-spinal system is the first part of the organism developed and from it the whole form materializes. The cerebrum and cord constitute most truly The Tree of Life, for they bear or produce the rest of the body. The cerebro-spinal system has, as ancient Sanskrit writings inform us, “its roots in heaven and its branches in the earth.”

The cerebrum is man's potential or embryological heaven, his heave-N, for his work is to perfect this heaved-up place. The letter N is the key to the secret process. In Hebrew it literally means Jesus.

This statement constitutes the subject matter of another book, God-Man, the Word Made Flesh, soon to be re-published with much additional information. It is, however, impossible to leave earnest searchers for truth without some satisfaction, and for the enlightenment of such the explanation is: Jesus is a germ of life, a psycho-physical germ-cell, just as real, definite and tangible as any other physical germ, although more ethereal and delicate,—the fruit, progeny and product of a chemically perfect, therefore a highly refined and purified body. An imperfect and impure body can not produce or create this perfect thing. As the Bible states, in Job 14:4: “Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.”

When that little one, that leaven which shall “leaven the whole lump” or body of man, is at last created in the manger (or solar plexus), it follows a path planned for it. It enters the Jordan, and ascends by this River of God to the cerebrum via certain glands. Then, indeed, will N have been added to the brain, which, as the poet Milton has said, “Is its own place and in itself can make a hell of heaven, a heaven of hell.”

The roots of the Tree of Life are three nerves which ascend from the fructified germ cell. These later on form five, and constitute the outline of the five ventricles of the brain. The optic thalami is the matrix from which the roots branch out and upward, and it is also the center from which springs the spinal cord, that sacred Euphrates (River of God), which goes down to water the earth. From it, buddings form on either side, and thus the right and left sympathetic nerves grow, constituting the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Much more can be written on the above subject, but it will be fully considered in the book God-Man, the Word Made Flesh. The above statements serve to prove, however, that astrology and physiology are inseparable, and that in the former we will eventually find every physiological mystery revealed.

Aries, then, relates to the cerebrum and cord, which constitute the Father, the Most High, the Creator or Progenitor of the body, otherwise God and the River of God. “And a river went out of Eden.” Therefore the head may be termed truly the Fountain-Head of Life. In the New Testament the River Jordan is the same as the Euphrates, and means descender, for the River of God does come down from above, our physiological heaven.

Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament, deals with the creation of man's body. The first chapter has to do with the formation of the animal cell or lowest form of life, the amœba or germ cell, without which no human or other form is created. It does not refer to the actual animals themselves. In the light of this explanation the second chapter is logical and not contradictory, for the animals (animal cells) are brought together into man. Man's body is an aggregate of animal cells.

“There is a spirit in man, and the inspiration (inbreathing) of the Almighty giveth it understanding.” Differentiation between forms in the different kingdoms of Nature depends on breath. The plant breathes and polarizes itself as the plant. The animal breathes, and its breath takes on a certain vibration, thus polarizing it as the animal or negative breath (ani-mal).

But the breath of man is polarized as that of a human being, and as he was formed in the likeness and image of God, he possesses something more than the animal. As the rate of vibration of the cells of his body increases in proportion to the result of purification and obedience to God's laws of right living, he no longer desires, but inspiration takes its place.

Space can not be given in this chapter to go into detail relative to the discovery I have recently made that the Erotes are the keres of life in man. However, this much must be said: the name given to the upper brain or cerebrum contains the secret of life, for cere is kere in Greek, and it is to the literature and sculpture of that classic race we must turn for indisputable information relative to the source of life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To prove that the Hindus know of a Tree of Life we find in their literature the following: “The fruit and sap of the Tree of Life bestows immortality.” Among the most ancient traditions of the Hindus is that of the Tree of Life called Soma in Sanskrit, the juice of which imparts immortality. Their legend of Elysium or Paradise says: “In the sacred mountain Meru, which is perpetually clothed in the golden rays of the sun, and whose lofty summit reaches into heaven, no sinful man can exist. It is guarded by a dreadful dragon. It is adorned with many celestial plants and trees, and is watered by four rivers which thence separate and flow to the four chief directions.” These rivers correspond in number to those given in Genesis.

When all students realize that mind can not function without a brain, and the latter is not formed unless the necessary material is present it will at last be understood that both Spirit and matter are absolutely necessary in order to accomplish healing.

The word healing has not been understood, for it means to be made whole, perfect, entire. We may be helped in many ways and by many things, but to be healed means that all the work necessary for perfection has been completed. The mechanic gets busy with the machine that is not running properly, removes old parts, and puts in new. The human body is the only machine which has the power to rebuild itself daily, and will do so when the needed material is supplied. There are many more references in Sacred Writings to manna, dew, honey, nectar and ambrosia, food of the gods, elixir of life, sacred Soma juice, Amritam or amrita, all referring to the creative esse or brain substance.

Eliphas Levi, in his work on Transcendental Magic, says: “The human head is formed upon the model of the celestial spheres; it attracts and radiates, and in the conception of a child this is what is first formed and first manifests. Hence the head is subject in an absolute manner to astral influence, and evidences its several attractions by its diverse protuberances. The final word of phrenology is to be found, therefore, in scientific and purified astrology.”

We find much in the above quotation—that Aries, the upper brain, is a celestial sphere, that it corresponds to heaven and is therefore man's heaven. The Scriptures substantiate this by saying, “The kingdom of heaven is within you.” Therefore, within Aries are all of the lights, planets or rates of vibration, in other words gods or ruling powers. And it is these which link up with, receive vibrations from, and are affected by, the planets or heavenly bodies without. If the vibrations set up in the head are too slow, because of chemical deficiencies, and therefore unable to respond to those perfect etheric waves from the celestial head or head of the Grand man, then symptoms arise which are the visible manifestation of inharmony and dis-ease.

Not only does the shape of the head bear evidence of this, as Eliphas Levi states, but everything representing the present status of the individual is indelibly etched upon the subtle cere-brum or brain esse. For the Spirit brings with it the photographic plate of its existence in its former physical body as it impregnates with its Spirit the ova which is at the same time being impregnated by the animal spermatozoa.

It is to be hoped that there will be astrologers who will appreciate Mr. Levi's statement relative to “a scientific and purified astrology,” for it deals with the mind and body of man.

A study of the word cere-brum gives us the following: cere means wax, and from the same root we have the word cere-al or seed. The letter Beth in Hebrew means womb or matrix of creation. The rest of the word is a Latin neuter ending, signifying that the word has a neuter meaning. Truly is the cerebral substance of a neutral nature, as it contains or consists of all things. The English explanation of the word wax used as a verb means to assume, by degrees, a specified state or condition, and this is true of the brain as an organ.

Wax is a substance secreted from the abdominal rings of bees, and possesses properties which render it a most convenient medium for preparing figures and models. It melts at low heat and takes the minutest impressions. It sets and hardens at such temperature that no ordinary climatic changes affect its form, even when cast in thin laminæ. Thus we see why the brain substance is termed wax-like, for electricity, that needle of thought or Spirit, must have a subtle substance upon which to etch its patterns, otherwise termed convolutions.

In the Sanskrit literature, Brahmarandhra is Spirit or the bee. Therefore the wax of the brain substance is the excretion of that Spiritual Bee, and truly is it filled with what the Bee produces, the Honey of Life. This links up directly with the Bible statement in reference to “the land flowing with milk and honey,” and to which those who obey God's laws are promised a safe return, a veritable return to the Garden of Eden within one's self.

The word cere-al deals with seed, which is a wax-like glutenous substance, and the source of all life. In Greek mythology the goddess (female refers to substance or material) Ceres was the daughter (product) of Saturn and Ops (meaning the sower of seed and the earth in which seed is planted), and thus refers to the process of production, or, as Greek literature informs us, to agriculture, which means to till a field.

The Bible states that, “man purchases a field (body) with thirty pieces of silver,” and the same idea was brought out by the ancients in their statements relative to the heavenly bull (the sun in Taurus) plowing the earth. The Adam man (Taurus) signifies Spirit cabined and confined in an animal body (bull), which latter plows the earth blindly in rage, or yoked to reason (Aries) cultivates the soil (mineral elements) and thus re-creates himself. In doing this the Adam man is eliminated and only one manifests—God-man.

In order to link up chemically with the sign Aries, we must again repeat that it is, astrologically, the first of the three fire signs. Therefore it has to do with the first manifestation or appearance of life, Spirit confined within the physical vehicle, and especially in a particular part, its own house. Here it is possible for it to perform its own particular task.

Aries, then, is the house of God, or the Spirit in man. It houses or contains the brain, the organ of thought.

If the mind is able to function clearly it will throw light on every subject—it will illuminate and thus reveal all things to man. The only material which is so chemically constituted that it has the power to produce light or fire, is Kali phos, or potassium phosphate. It produces the highest rate of vibration of any of the twelve basic mineral elements of the body.

Here it must be explained why there are not sixteen considered. The four additional, which are oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon are not minerals. Their presence in the body depends entirely on the presence of the twelve minerals. For instance, we do not consider oxygen, for its presence in the body depends entirely on the Ferrum or iron content of the blood. This wonderful magnetic salt is the chemical attractor of oxygen and is its only means of entering the body. It is equally true that the quantity of oxygen one is able to inspire depends wholly on the amount of iron in the blood stream. Therefore, it is unnecessary to consider this gas as a constituent of the body, for it will take care of itself when the blood is supplied with iron.

Let us return, then, to our consideration of this most wonderful material, Kali phos. It is the mater-ial or mother (mater is Latin for mother) of light, for it contacts and links up with the invisible fire in Nature, and actually harnesses it within the human body. As it produces a higher rate of vibration than any other salt, it is proof that the physical body can respond with safety to no higher rate.

Therefore, if the body is subjected to the vibrations of radium or those of X-ray, the cells of the body receiving them will be burned. As it has been stated by physicians that this ray will kill living cancer cells it is absolutely true that it will also destroy healthy cells by burning. It is well known that scientists who spend their lives experimenting with both radium and X-rays are very low in vitality and, in many instances, suffer from cancer. Their own cells have been burned, and putrify after burning.

Potassium must be used as a healing agent instead, in all three of its forms or combinations, namely, Kali phos, Kali mur, and Kali sulph, together with its opposite pole salt, Ferrum or iron. Thus there will be plenty of oxygen for the fire of purification to consume.

In the study of practical chemistry, we find that when some of this potassium salt is thrown on water, it instantly generates such a powerful electrical current that the hydrogen is separated from the oxygen, takes fire and burns with its characteristic violet flame in the released oxygen. Thus the two gases hydrogen and oxygen disappear. They have returned into the invisible, having been chemically released. If the imagination is active, it is easy to picture in the mind's eye (the optic thalamus) the inverse operation, the process whereby the Great Chemist and Architect of the Universe invisibly unites or forges the two gases, oxygen and hydrogen, and precipitates them in the form of water. The unification is done by electricity, the hidden fire.

Greek mythology tells us of the mighty Vulcan who forges the thunderbolts. Indeed, that literature is a compilation of scientific facts relative to nature and man, transmitted to us in beautiful and poetic language. The Bible contains the same facts but in noble and stately prose. Truly there is only one story of importance, the story of the process whereby humanity may ascend from the depths to the heights—perfection.

Potassium is a soft, brilliant, bluish-white metal melting at sixty-two and five-tenths degrees to a liquid resembling mercury. In astrology Mercury is “the Messenger of the Gods” or ruling powers. Therefore we see how applicable the comparison is, for potassium is truly the food by which the gods, or gray matter, are nourished.

The sensory nerves are the wires connected with the great generator of electrical energy, the cerebrum, the house of God or Aries. These ramify throughout the entire body, supplying electricity whereby all of its work is done.

It is important to remember, that not only does this electrical system run the body, but it is actually the subtle substance with which thinking is done. For electricity is both energy and substance, although unseen by our eyes, which are incapable of responding to this high rate of vibration as yet.

As potassium is a carrier of fire, perhaps it will be well to explain, at this point, what this research work has revealed relative to carbon-monoxide poison. Since the advent of the automobile a new cause of death has been added to the many already tabulated, and the newspapers frequently state that so-and-so was found dead in his car, the motor running and the garage doors closed, thus shutting out the purifying oxygen. As chemistry states, potassium has a tendency to unite directly with carbon-monoxide to produce a dangerously explosive body. It is my belief therefore that the sensory cells of the brain expand violently and thus burst, causing death.

The spectrum of potassium is characterized by two sharply defined lines, one in the red and the other in violet. The wave length of the former is 0.0007680, and that of the latter 0.0004095. As red-violet or true magenta is the color of Aries, the above is conclusive proof that the potassium of Aries and the iron of Pisces forge together the closing links in the zodiacal circle of life. (See article on allocation of color with the zodiac elsewhere in this book).

In Sir Thomas Vaughan's works (sixteenth century) translated by A. E. Waite, the earnest student will find a mine of mineral wealth. He says: “Within this fantastic circle (the head) stands a Lamp, and it typifies the Light of Nature. This is the Secret Candle of God, which He hath tinned in the elements: it burns and is not seen, for it shines in a dark place. Every natural body is a kind of black lantern; it carries this Candle within it, but the light appears not; it is eclipsed with the grossness of matter. The effects of this light are apparent in all things; but the Light itself is denied, or else not followed. This Light or Fire is nowhere to be found in such abundance and purity as in that subject which the Arabians call Halicali, from Hali (Summum) and Calop (Bonum); but the Latin authors write it Sal Alkali.

“This substance is the catholic (universal) receptacle of Spirits. It is blessed and impregnated with light from above, and was therefore styled by the magicians ‘a sealed house, full of light and divinity.’”

In Arabic, potassium is given as Al-gali, from which the word alkali is derived. Studying the word, al-kali we find it means, literally, Father (al or el in Hebrew means God or father) and Kali, a Sanskrit word for fire. In the Vedic, an older form of the word means mother. Thus the true interpretation of alkali is father-mother, or positive and negative combined or harmonized, therefore a neutral substance. Indeed it is a chemical fact that it is alkaline.

Vaughan refers to the above as “mineral doctrine,” which is very unique and absolutely true. We will be well on our way in the study of the chemistry of the body when we begin to realize that this is, indeed, a most necessary doctrine and must be religiously followed.

Again Vaughan says: “For in Genesis he hath discovered many particulars, and especially those secrets which have most relation to this Art. For instance, he hath discovered the minera of man, or that substance out of which man and all of his fellow-creatures were made.” He elsewhere mentions the sperm of the world, as the first essence, which allocates perfectly with the first explanation herein of the brain substance, from the word cere-brum, or seed substance. Sperm means seed. Hali-Cali (potassium) is also termed “the casket which holds the Light, and links us up with God and Nature.”

Sufficient proof has been given thus far, in these pages, that potassium is a most subtle substance of very high vibration, capable of holding within itself the fire of life, electricity, prana, or Spirit. Reviewing the information relative to the astrological interpretation of Aries and its definite relation to the cerebro-spinal system, we see that Dr. Carey's allocation of Kali phos to the zodiacal sign Aries has been indubitably proved.

Well may the wondrous cerebral substance be termed Proteus, for it truly is the Ancient of Days. In Greek mythology Proteus was a many-formed deity. Being composed of everything, he could revert back to anything, take any shape he wished, just as by chemical or electrical vibration all chemical substances will eventually be found to revert back to one.

The word protoplasm is derived from the same root word as Proteus. If any one doubts that Kali phos or potassium phosphate is the chief substance in the gray nerve cells let him read the information furnished by any dictionary, encyclopædia or work on the physical body. Perhaps it will be well to explain what is said relative to protoplasm:

Proto, meaning first, and plasm, meaning form, is the name for the viscous (sticky or glutinous) material of a vegetable or animal cell. Please be advised that the word glutinous is derived from the same root as gluten, a nutritious substance; a proteid; the sticky, albuminous part of wheat (ceres) flour.” It is, therefore, seed, a more or less granulated substance that forms the principal portion of an animal or vegetable cell.

“Protoplasm was previously termed sarcode, or flesh. The protoplasm of most cells appears under the high power of the microscope as a network (spongioplasm or reticulum) containing a more fluid substance (hyaloplasm) in its meshes. Chemically it is a mixture of eighty to eighty-five per cent water, and fifteen to twenty per cent solids (chiefly proteids), with small quantities of fat, albumoses, globulins, and peptones.

“It also contains small quantities of carbohydrates like glycogen, inosite, and mineral salts, especially those of potassium, which cause it to yield an alkaline reaction. Protoplasm has been called by Huxley, owing to its presence in all organized bodies, ‘the physical basis of life,’ and some have held that its phenomena show that the difference between organized and unorganized cells is simply complexity of chemical constitution. It is therefore a highly complex substance regarded as a mixture of different chemical substances.

“Protoplasm is contractile and irritable and reproduces by self-division.”

The above statement that protoplasm is contractile is absolute proof of the presence of Magnesium phos, the moving or motor salt, Calcium fluoride, the builder of elasticity, and Potassium phosphate, the electrical salt. We are here informed positively that the chief salt is potassium, for electricity, spirit, or the fire of life must ensoul all matter.

In Gray's Anatomy we find that the soft, jelly-like material termed cytoplasm found in the nucleated mass of protoplasm contains, among other things, mineral salts; “chief among which are the phosphates and chlorides of potassium, sodium, and calcium.” (1924 Edition).

Scientists have for some time known the above facts, and there is no longer any reason or excuse why the medical profession en masse should not adopt and utilize henceforth the findings of Dr. William Schuessler relative to Biochemistry—the “inorganic system.” The opinions of so many dietitians, naturopaths and others, that the mineral tablets or cell-salts used to supply blood deficiencies can not enter the blood or be utilized, are absolutely untrue, and would not be uttered if these salts were faithfully and conscientiously tested for one year.

In the first place, those making such a statement as this, for instance—“the salts are inorganic, and the body can use only what is organic,” show their ignorance of the interpretation and derivation of words, for organic does not mean that a mineral is changed, but that several have been combined with fluidic materials. They can not be changed, even by fire. Another fact not recognized is that the chemist is able to pulverize or triturate them into as fine particles as they are found in plants. Think how much it means, when one uses the chemical term Kali, to know that it is the same in Latin and German, and is thus traced directly to the Sanskrit. Thousands of Hindus worship the goddess Kali as the most powerful deity in Nature—Fire—which is at the same time the Creator, the Preserver, and the Destroyer. Fire creates, it preserves, and yet it can destroy.

Most scientists agree that there can be no life without potassium, and at least we realize that it is the visible means whereby life is manifested. It is indeed Proteus.

Since potassium feeds the gray matter of the brain, it at one and the same time nourishes the Spirit in that brain. Sir Thomas Vaughan says: “Be ye transmuted from dead stones into living philosophical stones, a conversion of body into spirit, and spirit into body, from corruption into a perfect mode, wherein the body would be preserved continually. The medicine is, however, in heaven itself and not to be found elsewhere, yet not meaning thereby that it is remote in place or time, but rather in that center which, being within us—is a center that can be found everywhere.”

In the form of oil we find that potassium sulphate permeates all parts of the body. The marrow of the bones is thickened oil or fat stored there to feed and preserve them. Each and every cell in the body is surrounded by and bathed in an oily, salty fluid for the same purpose. Potassium, in the form of potassium chloride or Kali mur, spins threads of fibrin or flesh fibers. Therefore all tissue, ligaments, structure of all the organs, glands, skin, etc., are made of it. Then wise Mother Nature adds to some of these fibers a large proportion of potassium phosphate to form electrical wires through which positive currents may pass and thus enable physiological processes to go on. Potassium, in all of its combinations, is then a conveyor or medium of life or fire; for fire is life, and life is Spirit.

In his book. The Biochemic System of Medicine, Dr. Carey says: “The gray matter of the brain is controlled entirely by the inorganic cell-salt, potassium phosphate. This salt unites with albumin, and by the addition of oxygen creates nerve fluid, or the gray matter of the brain. Of course, there is a trace of other salts and organic matter in nerve fluid, but potassium phosphate is the chief factor, and has the power within itself to attract, by its own law of affinity, all things (Proteus) needed to manufacture the elixir of life.” And we know that this esse (the substance of being) actually creates the child in utero.

He further says: “Therefore, when nervous symptoms arise due to the fact that the nerve-fluid has been exhausted from any cause, the phosphate of potassium is the only true remedy, because nothing else can possibly supply the deficiency. The ills from too rapidly consuming the gray matter of the brain can not be overestimated, and if all who are inclined to nervous disorders would carry Kali phos with them, in tablet form, a large amount of sickness and suffering would be prevented. Let the overworked business man take it and go home good-tempered. Let the weary wife, nerves unstrung from attending to sick children or entertaining company, take it and note how quickly the equilibrium will be restored and calm and reason assert her throne. We find this potassium salt largely predominates in nerve fluid, and that a deficiency produces well-defined symptoms. The beginning and end of the matter is to supply the lacking principle, and in molecular form, exactly as nature furnishes it in vegetables, fruits, and grain. To supply deficiencies—this is the only law of cure.”

There is one point which must be thoroughly understood, and, in order that it may be, it will be referred to in each of these twelve chapters, as follows:

The principle involved in this method is that of body building. Many reasons combine to make the body unable to obtain a sufficient supply of the twelve inorganic salts. Therefore supplementing the moderate diet of natural food, simply prepared, with the different kinds of salts which each individual requires day after day, month after month, and year after year, is the actual method by which disease is eliminated and the blood kept well nourished. In this way there is never any deficiency.

Most people seem unable to understand this, and so cease taking the salts when symptoms no longer appear. The salts are taken not to cure symptoms, but to build up such a good body that symptoms can not arise. A person takes food every day, and seems really to understand that the body must have nutriment. One does not say, “I ate yesterday and so I won't need food again for a long time.” People like to eat too well ever to think of saying that, but they soon forget their mineral salts when no symptom or pain is present to remind them. Taking them in a desultory way is merely patching up instead of daily building a new body automatically. This is the basic plan for physical regeneration. “Be ye perfect, as your Father in heaven is perfect.”

Among the many outstanding symptoms which deficiency in potassium phosphate causes are: Extreme nervousness, insanity, paralysis, hysteria, fainting, mental and physical exhaustion, strange fancies and forebodings, softening of the brain and spinal cord, nervous headache, hungry feeling after eating food, etc. The writer, however, does not deal with symptoms, but furnishes the individual plan whereby the body may be entirely made over.

This plan is founded on the natural zodiac, wherein the planets are placed in the degrees of the signs in which they were at a person's birth. Allocating the mineral salts with these signs will give the correct analysis and indicate the tendencies to deficiencies. This being known, one can then give a list of the symptoms, mental as well as physical, which may at any time tend to appear, until the blood is more nearly supplied with the needed salts. And as Shakespeare so truly said:

“And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,

And then from hour to hour we rot and rot,

And thereby hangs the tale.”

If our chemical needs are supplied we will ripen, physically and spiritually, but continued deficiencies in “the dust of the earth,” result in the other unattractive and undesirable condition.

In The Gospel of Buddha we read the following: “But to satisfy the necessities of life is not evil. To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom and keep our minds strong and clear.” Truly does Kali phos, or phosphate of potassium feed this lamp.

And from the same ancient source, the Sanskrit, we obtain the following physiological information: “The living brain is constituted of gross sensible material (Mahabhuta) infused with prana. Its material has been worked up so as to constitute a suitable vehicle for the expression of consciousness in the form of mind—Antahkarana.” (From Serpent Power, p. 127). Potassium phosphate is the vehicle of consciousness.