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The Pineal Gland: The Eye of the Gods

This sixteen-page extract lifts Chapter XVI, The Pineal Gland, from Manly P. Hall's Man, the Grand Symbol of the Mysteries, and stands as the most concentrated thing Hall wrote on occult anatomy. Hall begins with the gland itself, its pine-cone shape, its appearance in the fifth week of embryonic life, its growth to full size by age twelve, then reads that anatomy against the symbols the ancient world actually left: the cone on Ani's wig in the Egyptian Book of the Dead that puzzled Wallis Budge, the whirring plaything of the child Bacchus, the thyrsus of the Greek Mysteries with its pine-crown mapping spine, plexuses and pneumogastric nerve. The chapter sets the classical anatomists beside the moderns, quotes Deschanel's generation and the reptilian parietal eye researchers of Hall's era, and arrives at the esoteric teaching: the true third eye is invisible to ordinary sight, visible to the clairvoyant as an aura pulsating around the gland, the organ H. P. Blavatsky named as the physical seat of perception. A tight, learned meditation on the one organ the old adepts wrote about most, presented exactly as the source text has it.

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