Anatomy of man

 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 five. There are seven visible openings and five concealed openings in the human body. One of the Greek philosophers told his disciples to remember distinctly that there were six openings leading into the human brain but only one leading out of the human head, and that one led from the stomach. Therefore they were to listen twice (once with each ear) look twice (once with each eye) sense twice (once with each nostril) but to speak only once, and that what they spoke would come from the stomach and the brain. The advice still holds good. The Hebrews used the human head as a favorite symbol to express the divine attributes, calling it the Great Face. The two eyes were correlated to the Father, for they were organs of consciousness; the two nostrils to the Son, because they were organs of sense and also vehicles for Prana, the life force in the ether. The mouth was used to symbolize the Holy Spirit, the one who sent forth the spoken word and formed the world. The seven vowels to which the mouth gave birth were the seven spirits before the throne; also the vials and trumpets of Revelation. They went forth as the army of tire voice to create in the seven worlds, and all nature resulted from their creative power. Few realize die magnificent symbolism concealed within the human head, and how it has been used in Scriptural writings.