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The Occult Anatomy of Man

Manly P. Hall's early essay, presented here in a public-domain digital edition, compresses the central teaching of the esoteric anatomists into six short parts. The first establishes the principle: the human body as microcosm, the temple built to its proportions from the tabernacle to Karnak, the altar where the brain rests, and the law of analogy that Hermes gave the ancient world. Part two describes the three worlds and the anatomy that spans them; part three follows the spinal column, the ladder of thirty-three segments the ancients called the serpent and the wand, with the Hindu canals Ida, Pingala and Sushumna read through the Greeks' caduceus, and the serpent fire of Kundalini coiled at its base. The remaining parts descend to the infernal worlds below the diaphragm, unfold occult embryology, and close with occult masonry, the body itself as the unfinished temple. Hall's prose is at its most vivid here, moving from scripture to anatomy to myth in a few paragraphs. A perfect short companion to his larger works, and a classic statement of the doctrine that man is the textbook.

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