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Caduceus
The soul and mind have an Involution period and an Evolution cycle. In the Involution or downgoing of mind energy, symbolized as a serpent descending the Tree of Life into sense function, through matter, there are many limitations, restrictions, difficulties and pains. These constitute the 'Curse' to the energy fields involved, and are imposed by necessity. They are the bonds of Involution, in the very nature of things, to become aware through resistance and sensations of pleasure and of pain.
This process must be understood before man can evolve and climb the ladder of ascent back to Soul Consciousness and to the Father's House from whence he came. The return of the Prodigal Son is the path of Evolution, and is an individual as well as a collective process. WOMEN, AS WELL AS MEN, have the same right and footing in both processes, and no mention of any distinction is made anywhere, except in Involution, where the female principle is represented as matter, the matrix for the formation of living beings, which binds the soul in matter. Thus Eve becomes the Mother of all living beings,
The nervous system of man resembles a tree, upside down. The brain is the root, the spinal cord the trunk, and the rest the branches; hanging down. For the illustration, see chart No. 12 in "THE WIRELESS ANATOMY OF MAN".
At the top of this 'tree', in the brain, is the Tree of Life itself; the supersonic current, which lights up the pineal gland, as a Christmas tree. And that is the true symbol of the Christmas tree, the evergreen tree and its fruit, the cone, which is the symbol of illumination (the pineal gland function). The symbol of Santa Claus is that of the "Giver of Life", descending the chimney (the spinal column) and bringing the gifts of life to the hearth fire (the generative principle), the other tree of knowledge of good and evil. Without these gifts of life, (as generation in) cattle, grains, fruits, and even man himself could not survive. But it is also the great water wheel which keeps the soul bound to this continual round of births and deaths, the process and phenomenon of all Nature. Life lives on life, and more is born; forms live on forms, and more are created.
WHAT IS THE KUNDALINI, so much talked about? This is the fiery energy current of the mind substance, as the incarnating desire essence. It flows down the central axis of the Caduceus, or, in the Kabbalistic [kabalistic] Tree of Life, from 'Kether' [Keter] the crown, to 'Yesod', the foundation of Life's Tree in matter and in generation of things living. This is illustrated in chart No. 11 in "THE WIRELESS ANATOMY OF MAN".
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