Few people realize that they are composed of mineral, plant, and animal elements. The bones are literally minerals, hair is a plant nourished by waves of vital ether pouring out through the skin, while within every individual are thousands of little wiggling, creeping, crawling things that make each of us a zoo all by ourselves. The ancient Scandinavians, realizing this, wrote many legends about the little creatures that live in man. A famous statue of Father Nile shows him covered over with tiny human figures representing the attributes and functions of man. Man is a great study, but we make very little use of our textbook. The Scriptures of all nations are filled with anatomical references to cities and places that have no existence outside of man himself. The twelve gates of the Holy City are the twelve apertures in the human body. Like the twelve Masters of Wisdom and the twelve great schools of philosophy, these apertures are divided into two divisions of seven and fi...
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