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its physical chains, the nerve-wires, and from the 

 restrictions of the physical senses. The same prin- 

 cipal is employed in wireless telegraphy I 



The pineal gland is the " Divine Eye," and it 

 is now recognized by scientists as " a vestigial 

 structure representing an unpaired eye " ; that is, 

 the "third eye." Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes 

 described this mysterious organ as a small mineral 

 deposit of grape-like masses of crystalline matter 

 in the core of the brain, " in the part where Des 

 Cartes placed the soul." Quantities of nerve fiber 

 pass through the organ, and it is of interest to the 

 student of the Tattvas to learn that of its two sorts 

 of cells, those of sharp, irregular form contain 

 granules of yellow or orange pigment. The mac- 

 rocosmic correspondence of this gland is with 

 Aries, and consciousness is there enthroned. 



The structure of the pituitary body is almost 

 identical with that of the pineal gland, yet no slight- 

 est connection can be traced between the two cen- 

 ters by anatomists. Mme. Blavatsky is my auth- 

 ority, however, for stating that the connection be- 

 tween them is physiological as well as spiritual. 

 Her assertions concerning their importance were 

 corroborated in 1903 by the discoveries of Dr. 

 Sajous, of Philadelphia, who announced the 

 " startling theory that one of the least studied 

 glands [the pituitary body] is the most important 

 of the millions in the human body." After four- 



