e brain is the organ of thought alone, is
a very old crudity. It contains every human emotion and passion,
which we may stimulate in the impressible, or suspend instantly
by a slight pressure on the brain. There is no intense exercise
of any of the emotions or passions without a corresponding
warmth and tension in the portion of the brain to which they
belong, the development and activity of which determine their
power. The will and life are not _identical_, as Dr. H.
suggests, for if they were, we should not have these two words
with different meanings. If will is an attribute of life, that
does not constitute _identity_. The speculations of Rosicrucians
are of no authority in science. The divine love or influence is
in direct relation to the brain, the central organ of the soul,
and not to a muscular structure of the body, which is far below
the brain in rank. It would be just as reasonable to affirm that
courage belongs only to the muscles. That illuminating love
which Dr. H. ascribes to the heart, belongs to the upper region
of the brain, and is never found when that region lacks
development, or is in a cold, torpid condition. I deny entirely
that these mystic theories are the product of true, spiritual
perception. They arise from the fact that the thoracic region
sympathizes with the seat of true love and will in the brain.
This secondary effect has been felt and realized by those to
whom the functions of the brain were unknown. Spiritual
perception, now guided by the spirit of investigation, discovers
the whole truth--that all human faculties and impulses belong to
the brain, but have a secondary influence on the localities of
the body to which SARCOGNOMY shows their relations.]

If we believe in one great spiritual cause of all, and conceive of it
as the great spiritual Sun of the universe (of which our terrestrial
sun is merely an image or reflection), we find that spiritual man (the
image of God) can be nothing else but an individual ray of that
spiritual sun, shining into matter, becoming polarized and forming a
centre of life in the developing human foetus, and causing this
foetus to grow in a living form of human shape, according to the
conditions presented to it by the maternal organism, and when it is
born, and becomes conscious, the illusion of self is created within
that individual form. Besides t