please rewrite the text and enhance it In the middle of the brain and surrounded by the convolutions is the third ventricle, a vaulted chamber
of initiation. Around it sit three kings, three great centers of life and power - the pituitary body, the
pineal gland, and the optic thalamus. In this chamber also is a small gritty seed which is undoubtedly
connected with the king’s coffer in the Great Pyramid. The third ventricle is supposed to be the seat of
the soul, and the aura radiating from the heads of saints and sages is said to represent the golden
glow pouring from this third ventricle.
Between the eyes and just above the root of the nose is a spreading in the frontal bone of the skull
which is called the frontal sinus. The slight bulge caused by the spreading of this bone is known to
phrenology as the seat of individuality. It is here that the jewels are placed on the foreheads of the
Buddhas, and it is also from this point that the serpent rose from the crown of the ancient Egyptians.
Several of the Mystery Schools teach that this is the seat of Jehovah in the human body. While his
function is through the generative system, his center of consciousness as a part of the spirit of man is
supposed to be located in a sea of blue ether called the veil of Isis, in the center of the frontal sinus.
When clairvoyantly studying the body of man that little point always shows up as a black dot and
cannot be analyzed.
The Palatine hill of the ancients, upon which were built the temples of Jupiter and Juno, also has its
place in the human body. The palate bone is a sort of hill-shaped structure, and right above it are the
orbital cavities containing the two eyes, which are the Jupiter and Juno of the ancient world.
The cross, of course, represents the human body. The upper limb of it is the head of man rising above
the horizontal line of his outstretched arms. As already stated, the great churches and cathedrals of
the world have been built in the form of a cross, and contain (where the head should be) the altar
upon which are burning lighted candles. These candles are symbolic of spiritual sense centers in the
brain, while the custom of placing a rose window over the altar suggests the soft place in the top of
the skull. The skull - the upper room - is the sanctum sanctorum of the Masonic Temple, and to it only
the pure can aspire.
The winged bone, which medical science knows as the sphenoid, is the Egyptian scarab carrying in
its claws the pituitary body and also bearing aloft the gleaming spark of immortality located in the
frontal sinus.
We are told in ancient mythologies that the gods came down from heaven and walked with men,
instructing them in the arts and sciences. In a similar way the godlike powers in man descend from
the heaven world of his brain to carry on the work of constructing and reconstructing natural
substances. We are told that in the ultimate of evolution man’s body will slowly be dissolved back
again into the brain (which was its origin) until nothing remains but seven globular centers radiating
seven perfect sense perceptions, which are the spirits before the throne and the saviors which he is
bringing into the world to redeem it through the seven periods of his growth.
Man is an inverted plant, gaining his nourishment from the sun as the plant does from the earth. As
the life of the plant ascends its stem to nourish its leaves and branches, so the life of man (rooted in
the brain) descends to produce the same result. This life descending is symbolized as the world
saviors who come down into the world to die for men. Later these lives are returned again to the
brain, where they glorify man before all the worlds of creation. So much for the story of the brain. Now
let us consider the next of man’s marvelous parts, namely, the spinal column.