please rewrite the text In Scripture we are told that God made man in his own image. It is so stated not only in the Christian
Bible but also in the holy writings of nearly all enlightened people. The Jewish patriarchs taught that
the human body was the microcosm, or little cosmos, made in the image of the macrocosm, or the
great cosmos. This analogy between the finite and the infinite is said to be one of the keys by the aid
of which the secrets of Holy Writ are unlocked. There is no doubt that the Old Testament is a
physiological and anatomical textbook to those capable of reading it from a scientific viewpoint. The
functions of the human body, the attributes of the human mind, and the qualities of the human soul,
have been personified by the wise men of the ancient world, and a great drama has been built around
their relationships to themselves and to each other. To the great Egyptian demigod, Hermes, the
human race owes its concept of the law of analogy. The great Hermetic axiom was: That which is
above is like unto that which is below, and that which is below is like unto that which is above.
The religions of the ancient world were all based upon nature-worship, which in a degenerated form
has survived to our own clay as phallicism. The worship of the parts and functions of the human body
began in the later Lemurian period. During the Atlantean epoch this religion gave place to sunworship, but the new faith incorporated into it: doctrines many of the rituals and symbols of the
previous belief. The building of temples in the form of the human body is a custom common to all
peoples. The Tabernacle of the Jews, the great Egyptian Temple of Karnak, the religious structures of
the Hawaiian priests, and the Christian churches laid out in the form of the cross, are examples of this
practice. If the human body were laid out with the arms spread in the shape of any of these buildings,
it would be found that the high altar would occupy the same relative position in the building that the
brain occupies in the human body.
All the priests of the ancient world were anatomists. They recognized that all the functions of nature
were reproduced in miniature in the human body. They therefore used man as the textbook, teaching
their disciples that to understand man was to understand the universe. These wise men believed that
every star in the heavens, every element in the earth, and every function in nature, was represented
by a corresponding center, pole, or activity within the human body.
This correlation between nature without and the nature of man within, which was concealed from the
multitudes, formed the secret teachings of the ancient priestcraft. Religion in Atlantis and Egypt was
taken much more seriously than it is today. It was the very life of these peoples. The priests had
complete control over the millions of ignorant men and women who had been taught since childhood
that these robed and bearded patriarchs were direct messengers from God; and it was believed that
any disobedience to the commands of the priests would bring down upon the offenders head the
wrath of the Almighty. The temple depended for its maintenance upon its secret wisdom, which gave
its priests control over certain powers of nature and made them vastly superior in wisdom and
understanding to the laity whom they controlled.